The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-24

the swinging green shutters 70 Set iooh
same. He had just got outside the green
shutters when the droning Of Silver Threads
Among the Gold suddenly ceased right in
the middle Of the tune.
THE player OF the hand organ was
leaning on the contrapton TO- balance
it on It's supporting stick, ana he had a
straight bead with both guns on the upper
works OF Bradley's massive frame. -,
You can call Heaven t. witness with
both O. them tamale handlers o your'n
Jack. said the day marshal who had been
providing the music that sounded so strange
few Of Alcalele in this yere camp myself
twixt sun-up an shutdown, an -
Mick didn't finish that. because Bra lee
dead alcohol floating around In his ner'y
cells. instead Of poking his hands up, as
he had been courteously directed to. went
after both Of his guns-Jack was over-Proud
Of his quickness on the draw.
Mick broke both. Of Jacks forearms
as Bradley was in the act Of getting his
guns cut. They had to take down one OF
Ramons green shutters, and Tour OF .he
boys toted Jack down the street to the Office
OF The young man with the probe ,.o,,r .asv
groove for Nick for quite some time after
This until one day Walt Mayhem, the
foreman Of bunch OF shafts to the south
Of the camp, got a letter from one OF ms
Eastern wives tnat loucneu Hlin VII Wv
raw. Walt jumped the reservation, so to
speak. over the receipt OF that letter, and
Walt was sure-enough heyon when he
got busy with the dreanings Of the coils.
"Two hours after he'd come in from the
claims and descended on the camp he was
jumping on his hat in the middle OF the
street. with both guns out, and yelling that
the flock of grizzlies that had the nerve
to tackle him would have to have their
claws ground to razor edge with alligator
teeth out Of their jaws with his naked hands;
4Then Walt constituted himself sort OF
a battery of light artillery parked at the
head Of the street, for he took up his posi-
ton on the sand mound from which Jack
Bradley had proclaimed himself the heap
Navajo and swept the thoroughfare with
both Of his guns every time he saw careless
or unsuspecting man emerge from grog-
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on the mound, and he was informing the
baking breeze that was blowing that he,
Walter Mayhew, ESQ, was a gray desert
wolf that preferred to lap strongly i'm
pregnated alkali water to SLIPPING the cool.
when pair OF knobbed and frcckled hands
holding a couple Of blue steel guns and
cowlicky red head, all belonging to a man
lying close to the edge Of the roof Of the
Morning Star honkatonk-Nick had got
INTO IUe place. lIOIIl tIle oIiu
to the roof seen by Some OF us sitting
in the barber shop across the street We
were waiting for Walt to 60 away from that
mound. before ventu'ing out onto the
street"
roof and overlooking Waits mound. was
pretty good and secure one.
a'Oh. Walt Nick called down softly to
the painting Mayhem.
Walt looked up with an expression OF
had heard the voice, and, shading his eyes
with his hand, he saw Nicks hands and
head.
Don't want T. shatter you all up none,
Walt remarked Halpin. in a kindly tone:
but what want t know is, air you a-goin
70. r TI reply. Mr.. Mayhem announced that
he was a double-fanged nd-moccasion
and that the pizen was biln' In him, at the
same time snatching for his weapons.
Mayhem over with flesh wounds in both OF
his thighs, and then he sprang through the
roof scuttle, raced down the steps, and
when he got to. Mayhem, Walt was sitting
on the mound, feeling of his wounds, with
his gums lying alongside him.
Nick picked the guns up and tucked
them into his belt, and we helped Walt into,
the barber shop. The young fellow with
the NJ D. shingle said that no bones were
broken or touched, and that Walt would
be able to poke around his bunch Of shafts
inside OF month or 30.
"The last stunt that Halpin did before
turning in his badge wasn't so bad. either.
A tinhorn Phoenix gambler with flyer faro
offensive man, while partly drunk. After
doing this the gambler folded up his phony
apparatus and announced that he was going
to take the night coach out Of town, and that
to him would be fertilizing the soil Of Arizona
before sundown-pretty caloric talk, that,
for murderous phony gambler to be I'M
limbering in such place as Tombstone
was at that time.
st one who had it rugged up and intended to
see to it that the gambler didn't get out Of
Tombstone so easily, but Nick Halpin called
them off and requested them not to butt into
his work. There was a sergeant Of cavalry
on leave from one Of the posts Pache or
at that time Nick shaved on his red beard,
leaving only his long. sunburned musta che.
"Then he dressed himself in the cavalry
sergeant's uniform. Then, t9ckin,g his
geants campaign hat. Nick walked right
into the Bright and Early saloon, in the ack
room Of which the gambler had entrenched
himself
Howl replied the gambler, not recog-
nizing Halpin, as nobody not in the know
would have recognized him in that ma keup.
Nice weather overhead-s'p osin' you
point that way? said Halpin,
-Halpin didn't want to kill the man
he grieved good deal over the three men
he had absolutely been compelled TO kill
in defence of his own life while acting as
Tombstone's day marshal. But the gambler
instantly recognized Halpin when Nick
flashed his guns and got the sudden double
bead on him.
"The gambler knew that he had a swell
chance to he forced to step of barrel II
he permitted himself to be stuck up by the
marshal. and the thought Of that put some
in picking one OF his guns from the table
in front OF him TO Craze Nick's left arm
with the ball. and then Nick had to push
him over with ball square between the
eyes.
when Halpin handed in his badge
shortly after that he had record such as
no marshal of bad camp had ever achieved
in this country. He had served for two
years as the daylight peace preserver of
the worst camp on this continent. and he
had never been stuck up at the point Of
gun, nor had any of them ever come any
where near getting the bulge on him. His
finish came when he got the bug that there
was gold in that mirage on the other side
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