The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1901-12-27

stead quarter-section or two on
their line Of ditch for a beginning,
and pull down few iniunetions on
them If they try to cross. I'm far
enough past qualifying and going
into court for you, but l can be your
consulting attorney while l last"
He shook his head again, rs one
whose mind Is made up 'Tt wouldn'b
do any good. There isn't ghost Of
y show for us in any legal fight. 1t
would be your bit of money and mine
against millions"
Kilgore took the short-barreled
rifle from its sling under his saddle
dap and ficked the dust from it with
his soft hat. He had a trick Of look
ing tired and sleepy upon occasion,
and at such times, as [ afterward
learned, those who knew him best
watched his pistol-hand
Back yonder in the Tennessee
hills, wher' 1 come f'om," he said,
ether was wunst o feller fon the
north at lowed he was a-goin' TO
build him a ho-tell on the mounting
and run a railroad up TO It. Nobody
never said q blame word ag'inst it,
as 1 ever hearn, but somehow
mother. he got sorter tired and won
out after awhile and quit; and ther'
amt no ho-tei mr. no railroad on that
ther' mounting yit"
We both filed in the inferential
blanks in the parable, and when Kill
gore had disappeared in the direction
Of the corral, said, iestingly:
"Theres an idea for you. If legal
means, fall you can mobilize your
cowboy army and drive them out by
main strength and awl<wardness."
Macpherson laughed good-natured-
ly. eff you were half as vindictivs
as you talk, you'd be a holy terror.
But I'm not going TO fight. At first,
/ thought / should-with the Win
chesters, il IT came to that
but they've been figuring around so
long that I've had a chance to think
It overland to change my mind"
I have pathetically acute memory
for details, and IL occurred to me
just then that he had spoken of the
school-mistres as a peacemalSer.
"Has Miss Sanborn forbidden it?"
Il
He was singularly embarrassed, for
q man who had made me more or
less his fdus Achates since our col
lege days in the smfly dormitory,
"You are taking good deal more
for granted about Miss Sanborn-
than the facts warrant" he protest
ed "Of course, She is interested on
the side Of peace, i'm a general way;
but"
"But yor would have me believe
that she has no personal interest in
the matter. I haven't the pleasure of
her acquaintance, but if that be the
case, I'll venture to say that she is
not very discerning young woman"
Now when you would sweat out the
secrets, sentimental or otherwise, OF
any son of Adam, there is no su-
dorifc like a little abuse well rubbed
in. Macphsrsou's reply told me what
] wanted to Know, and more.
"Say; you mustn't talk that way
about her, old man. / can't listen tc
it, you know. She is all that's good
and pure and sweet and rm--that s.
10 say, ="
II would have been needlessly
cruel to let him go on stumbling
about in the limited vocabulary o
the lover at bay So | said;
'.Don't stultify yourself, my deai
hoy; bring her to me that I MAJ
bless you both before ] go hence an'
be no more"
"Confound it all you win go oi
taking too much for granted" h,
broke in. missing the Predetermined
pathos in the last phrase. Can
you understand? She is Miss San
born TO me yet, and I'm Mr. Mac
pheTson' to her. That's the plail
truth Of it,"
"All in good time, Angus, my boy
can understand that there are mile
stones, even in Lovers Lane. An
] can also understand that il Mis-
Sanborn is or the side Of submission
i can't incite you to rebellion. !
that the fact?"
'If you win put it that way.
Bhan't fight, at any rate"
There the matter came to I'll
ground Of It's own weight, and / too
up the field-glass TO train il upon an
other miniature whirlwind of dus
homing across the valley.
"That's Dan Connolly" said Mar
pherson, when the dust-ol5ud parte
IN the midst.
'How can you tell, at this dii
tance?"
"By the way he rides. He was
trooper in her uaiestJ's Heay
Dragons before he migrated and b.
came a cow-puncher. and he jockey
in his stirrups to this good day He
lo.-what's thatY'
II sounded like the fan of plan
upon plank, but ! was enough OF
sportsman 70 recognize the crack
q heavy rife. Thereupon ensued
quiclcmoving and stirring tablea
The horse Of the approaching rang