The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1901-02-26


dead" replied Baptiste. THAT fell he
SCOT tree. TO time, an Sand'son he kill
for soor, he dead whatever. He try SCOT
me, but | stan him off an come quick
tell police, fell y
March him in to the major" said
Hetherngton to constable.
Before the major Baptiste's harangue, I
boiled down. read: Shot at 10 o'clock t
on the Missoula trail. about IS miles |
from Golden"
What was the man like who did the
shooting?" asked the major.
Tall fell wit long neck was the
graphic description this query brought
forth.
Indian, breed or white man?" asked
the major.
Don't know. Me t'ink he white.
Tall fell; tam long neck. That fell he
got Whisk'. Sand'son stuff. too, you
bet. Fo'. five t'ousan he get in APP
par'o'
WHO'S tall, with a long neck?" ask
ed the major shortly, turning to the
sergeant major, who was standing in
front Of his desk
81 will find out. sir" replied the lat
ter. saluting as he passed out.
"That long Englishman. Anvil SAINT
| ley. has /; neck like an eagle, and Con-
1 stable Grady says that he's been work
i in the racket to beat two of a kind
lately, sir was the sergeant majors
graphic report when he lined up in
! front of the desk again.
LET Sergeant, Hetherington take two
| constables and rations for two days
and get after this devil before his
tracks get cold. Commence at the
body. Send it back to Golden. Tell
Corporal Ball to look up this Santley
outfit in town. If he's got the stuff,
he'll have it cached somewhere about"
That was the beginning, all in one
day. the dead body lying out on the
! silent trail so stiff and cold, with the
glazed eyes staring straight up into the
mountain blue of the smiling sky, and
the hurrying of men in brown jackets
and dark. tight fitting. yellow striped
pants, as they saddled and btted the
strong limbed bay horses which We're
to gallop and gallop after-the wind.
+. Sergeant Hetherington and his mer-'
ry men picked up the tracks the tall
man told Blazer they would find and
followed them for many goodly mile,
which time thereof the tall man with
the long neck was working his way
along the mountain side to the ford.
Many miles beyond Dan Stlart's place
the tracks vanished. Perhaps some
air hor h;
feet and led him across country.
Corporal" Ball was the official rec
ognition of Mr.. Balls efficiency, but
"Lanky" Bali was the goddess form of
i expression his lathlike superstructure
provoked among the fellows.
i '!Lanky" Ball was more fortunate
than the sergeant; he discovered some
thing.
Twenty four hours after he started
out he discovered that he could not find
the man With the neck like an eagle
Anvil Santley-therefore he had sdisap
peared, had lit out, had hit the trail
had packed his outfit and busted
These We're the bits of local colored
knowledge he picked up.
1t was from Nanny Nolan, who
kept restaurant in a big tent ana
sold whisky on the side, that he found
out about Santley. "He got steered w
agen skin game upto Dan Stuarts, anG
they corralled his last remittance from
home. It's about time he did get out
for they had him stone broke. But liz
was a gentleman all the same" sail
nanny as she stood with her hand:
on her fat hips and looked up and dow
the corporal's ungainly figure.
Looks as though he'd done thu
trick said the major when Corpora
Ball made his report.
Hes got a good start and will like
/ ly head for the second crossingon TIL
Columbia and work his way down int
Montana. There's rough town at TIL
crossing, and he's dead sure to hea
for that"
, And then because the sergeant wa
' away with two men and because TIL
: whisky men and the gamblers an
4 those who were cussed simply becaus
t they couldn't help it needed muc
v guidance in their daily life and b.
!. cause the post was always short {
s men anyway the major had to put
q special constable on with "Lanky' Ba
I 70 60 after Santley.
you'll need good man, a rustler, I
u lelp you take this Englishman, for he
S husky chap" said the major "Who'
d fou get?"
u Bulldog Carneys the man, sir
II eplied Corporal Ball.
u Get him." commanded the officer.
e "Lanky" Ball found Carney aftt
a ouch tribulouss search; found him
n NANNY Nolans. found him amid Il
glamour of many IN lamps, the smoi
% from which mings.sl with the odorfe
h Gus steam of frying pork and filed Il
lie big tent with sofL summeriike haze
I Looked at from tsNme angles Carnt
re was inst the man ~ go after the Stay
a of Whisky" SanQcrson He was
le big. powerful man. as big as the OF
they were after. He could hand
ne Pearl" his big revolver with de
terity that commanded universal /
spect. Long since he had filed aN';
Al, the sights, and when it was necessa
to to place several bullets in a limit