Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1902-07-25

God knows where she is now.
wouldn't care about all this scrape |
am in if it were not for her sake. God
knows lady, I wouldn't harm hair on
your head, let alone these innocent
little children. The three women de-
clare positively that as Tracy spoke Of
his mother the tears stood in his eyes
and for the first time the bravado in
his manner left him.
| A silence followed Tracy's words
To relieve the tension, Miss Baker
said after pause Of q few moments: !:
"Mr. Tracy, why do you wear a
monstache?"
"Why" questioned Tracy. "Why
do you ask?"
Because don't like to see a man
with moustache," said the girl.
"Have you razor around here?"
rejoined Tracy, quick as a flash.
From that moment until his departure
the murderer and the three women
were engaged in repartee much of the
time.
After Tracy had sat on the trunk
for while he put his rifle in one cor.
ner OF the room. He asked the wo.
men to excuse him for a second and
going to the kitchen washed himself.
He gave himself good scrubbing. As
the murderer was thus engaged he
noticed Anderson and Immediately
led him to the back porch.
"Sit there till l tell you to move"
said the convict.
Mrs. Gerrells began preparing a
meal. Tracy, after he had washed,
helped her. He went outside and cut
the kindling, carried water from the
spring and made himself generally
useful. When he went out for the
water the special train from Renton
with the deputies on board came rush.
ing past. Tracy had just time to
duck into the bushes.
Tracy waited until the train passed
before emerging from cover. The
cars stopped about q mile up the
track and then returned to a quarter
OF mile below the Gerrells residence.
Deputies left the train at each place
and apparently cut Off Tracy's escape.
Tracy watched the train return from
the front window.
"They Ia Il on red.haired reporte
when they went up the track" he said
to Miss Baker, who was standing be-
side him. IL can always spot the
newspaper men. When am running
from the posse if / happen to look
around there is always = reporter
about mile in advance of the rest,
with q camera under one arm and a
big bunch OF note paper in the other.
am fleeing from the interviewers,
you know" he continued, laughing
heartily. "I am sorry but I, can't
waste the timc."
What's your address," Tracy asked
Miss Baker. She refused to tell him.
"Teh me and l will 60 down town
tonight and rob jewelry store for
you," he said. ais there anything you
would especially like" He then
joked Miss Baker about ring she had
on her left hand, she retorted and the
fun was fast and furious when they all
sat down to dinner. Tracy went to
the rear porch and led Anderson in.
The two men sat on one side OF the
table and the women on the other.
The children sat at the ends.
i Tracy made himself generally useful
again. He ate very little but was as
iduous in HE attention to the women
and children.
i "This is just like home," he de.
clared, You don't know how much I
am enjoying your society"
"You spoiled our berry.picking ex-
petition" complained Miss Baker.
i "Well," said Tracy, "we'll all 60
berry-picking in little while, if you
like. I'll help you"
"But we will be late in getting back
home to Seattle" objected Mrs. Nc
Kinney.
"That's all right" said Tracy gal
lantly, +" I will steal the best buggy in
the whole neighborhood and drive you
home"
II After much good natured chsff be-
tween Tracy and Miss Baker and Mrs.
Mckinney, Tracy picked up an old
paper and read OF the Underwood case.
"Now, there is a man who, in my
opinion, is one of the biggest towards
in the State" said Tracy. ITO go
and kill little innocent baby! Why,
hanging is too good for Underwood.
He should be shown no mercy. Some
} OF the papers say that Tracy is a cow
ard, but they don't know me. kill
men. / never harmed q woman or q
child in my whole life.
"But Tracy" said Miss Baker, "you
shot Merrill 10 the back"
"That is unjust" exclaimed the
, murderer. "The papers have the
, wrong story. When the newspaper
, men come around to interview you
about my visit, tell them for me that
killed Merrill without treachery. He
was a mean.spirited sort of q man
, When we quarreled and decided to
, fight, I was willing to be square.
always fight square. But l knew him