Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1902-03-24
KIT OR re LII ?

Carrot Jim had been up on the range
for six months, and when he came
down the old Oregon trail with 1000
cattle he was as thin as 4 rail and
homesick With that awful homesick-
ness which a man feels Who hasn't Il
home. He was i'll sight of PRISON when
his pony went down and. falling OIL
him, fractured his leg. When they
got him in town. they took him to the
hotel and proceeded to mend him.
Thought you was just in time to 60
to the weddir' Jim,' said some one
"What weduin':' asked Jim. glad to
speak and save himself from grooming.
"The weddin' UP at Lees
"At Lees cried the sick man. sit
ting up. (Which girl is goin' to he
married-Kit Or Nell:"
Don't know
Carrot jim got up on his elbow and
looked over the crowd.
"What mans here that will do Il
service for mc:' he asked. That it was
not Il trifiins service which he was
about to ask was apparent from his
manner. His face was strained and
white with physical pain, but in his
eyes was look such as physical pain
cannot give.
II guess I'm your man." young Hig-
gins said. coming around from behind
the big base burner whats the job?"
He was strapping young Irishman,
with round blue eyes, and Carrot Jim
got him out of a stampede on the range
the year before. Every one had for
gotten it except Higgins himself. "Its
a little SLOW he said apologetically.
80 I'll be glad to git out of here. What
do you want me to dor
Carrot Jim saw everything black be-
fore him. and his voice as he spoke
sounded far off and like the voice of
another man. but he managed to say:
ride to Lee'S-now, now, now! Git
back before the weddin' and let me
know whether it's Kit or Nell"
'Well:' said young Higgins "Well:"
"Well" cried Carrot Jim, gesticulat-
ing violently with his fingers like u
man in the wheat pit, "if it's Nell. come
back here and let me know, and I'll
set 'em NY for the hull crowd, and if
it's Kit-w;iy. if it's Kit
''Then." said young Higgins, compre-
hending. probably you'd rather not
zee me at all"
Don't be a fool, jim" said the hotel
clerk. IF a weddin' is on, it can't be
stopped. There's storm comm up.
l wouldn't want anybody l was con-
sarned about goin' far today"
But Carrot Jim turned frantic eyes
on young Higgins, and Higgins nodded
to Jim and went out.
1t was eighteen miles up to Lees.
and the road lay IN the open country.
1t ran in fact the length of q treeless
mesa, and the pulveriZed dust Of the
highway. poisoned with alkali. was a
torture to the nostrils, binding to the
eyes, agOniZiig to the throat. Higgins
got cayuse. because they have the
souls Of Indians in them and will 90
their journey no matter what comes
BY and by there was yellow Whirl
OF dust all about him, and the little
cayuse was blown out of the road, and
then suddenly the wind seemed blow
Ing from the heart of Glacier bay, and
there was an awful iciness that seemed
to freeze his heart and great swirls of
yellow sand going up to heaven-splen-
did moving spirals wonderful to see
and noise as of great angry waters.
though there were no waters.
But the cayuse, mind you, had the
soul Of an Indian in him and would
60 to his journeys end, no matter what
came. So he put his nose to the ground
and stood there With bis rigid leg9