The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1901-04-17

Il bHd Iney always go BACK to the red
wine sooner or later. Any man, near
IL. will swear off when he's IN love,
but when he's in love and can't swear
of. he is in a very bad way. And
/ they went on to point out at some
length how the subject of discussion
might end up all at once ia a general
collapse, to which finish the air of the
country was "a yorab bic. or. on the other
! hand. might last to a green old age
1 rank and the retired list. { You can't
most always tell. S declared one, but.
so far as I'm concerned, I should like
to see him die off early enough for
Miss Cunningham to get over it and
i forget all about it. z
said Macintosh. had rather see.
/ him cured.
/ on" observed the captain with adj
miration must have been drawing
| on the post Sunday school library.
| Come off z
/ Whereat all the contrariness of Mae.
/ Intosh's nature was reused. 4 would"
/ he Insisted. Then an idea seemed to
/ strike him. And I'll bet. z he added.
&
Angels have trod there" they assur-
led him. but it would be picturesque
| to see you rush in. And. by way of in
| centive. we'll bet you hundred to ten
/ that you won t. =
Macintosh took it. and two months
| was set as the limit of time in which
he might show the finished article
Provided. always he stipulated.
that the G. o. will give me another
hunting leave inside of a week.
| This the commandant. the matter
being presented to him. agreed to do.
So Macintosh told Barclay Of certain
magnificent hunting grounds he had
/ discovered on the last tripsand worked
on his ina gination and his sportsman
ship. and they started off together on
horseback. with their bedding wrap
ped in rubber ponchos and provisions
on led horse. Macintosh did not
want private or any one else along.
/ Barclay. being in a state Of new and
/ keen repentance. abstained from taking
a fash along. but Macintosh did not
believe in foolhardy heroism of that
Their Wayeled across an all but inter
minable waste of chaparral. The first
day out Barclay drank water. The
second day he grew drawn and gray,
his hand shook, and bis mouth CULVER
ed; bis eyes We're very bad. But be
stood it in silence until they halted at
noon under mesquite bush. Then
Barclay gave a great groan; it was so
nearly a sob that Macintosh shudder-
ed. He asked What the trouble was,
but be knew very we'll.
I'D give my eternal sonl-if ] haye
RI already for a drink" be Said. Z
don't believe | can stand it, old fellow;
let's go back =. !. ,-y---~
But Macintosh refused. He had
come out to be gone eight days. and he.
was going to stay out. You're two
days from the post. anyway" he
/ reasoned, aand you'd either be dead or
/ oyer5it before you got back
So Barclay had no choice but to keep
on. Macintosh said nothing about the
TASKS in the sad lebags. He was keep
Ing those for possibly more urgent
use.
At nightfall they came to a settle
! ment in a gulch between two bare foot
hills. It was: q deserted settlement, of
/ mining origin. to judge from forsak-
en- shaft or two. and if it had ever had
d name It was as forgotten now as had
| probably been the pony whose skeleton
| the legs still hobbled lay across the
/ entrance of the one street. which ran
along the bottom Of the gully and was
! lined on either side by a dozen or more
shacks.
can put up in one Of those houses
i tonight" Macintosh said cheerfully. /
did when / was here a few days ago
Barclay. who was in a very bad state
by now and whose nerves were agoniz-
i ing, looked dubious and said that he
would prefer to sleep outside under a
4 poncho, as they had done the night be-
fore. The places are probably alive
4 with centipeds or skunks or some
thing. he complained
Macintosh had a career of falsehood
opening before him for the night in any
case. so he entered ecurageously upon
it now. He said that the house he had
gohe into had been sing ularly free from
anything Of the sort that it had been
very comfor1a BILE and that roof where
you could get it was individually bet
ter than the stars. So they cooked
. their supper and hobbled their stock,
and when the moon rose they took
4 their bedding rolls and went into the
4 shack. which appeared to be IN the
best state Of repair and which had in
4 the towns lifetime been its most flour
4 fishing saloen.
Macintosh lit candle and set It on
what remained Of the bar. If Barclay
had been in condition to notice any.
thing besides his own woes. be would
hav seen that NJ acIntosh's face was
i white and his looks anxious. But he
only unWrapped the poncho with shak.