The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-10-25
SECTION FOUR.

'It was there 7 set man with the heart OF
Christ and the patience And he was honest. When
he rested midday the backs the horses
that they. too might rest. He paid $50
weight for their fodder, and more. He used his
bed to blanket their backs when they rubbed raw.
Other let the saddles holes the size of
buckets Other men when the shoes cave out let
them their hOofs down 10 the bleeding stUmps.
He spent his last dollar for horseshoe nails know
this because slept in the bed and ate from the
one pot and became blood brothers where men lost
their grip of things and die disappearing God. He
was never too tired to ease strap or tighten cinch.
often there were tears his eyes when looked
on all that waste of misery. At passage in the
rocks. where the brutes upreared hindlegged and
stretched their foreegs upward like cats clear the
wall, the way piled with carcasses where they
had topped back And mere he stood. in the stencil
of he'll, with a CHEEKY word and a hand the rump
at the right time. till the string passed by. And when
one begged he blocked the tran tii II was clear agln
nor did the man live who crowded him at such time.
at the end of the trail man who had killed fifty
own-mountain cayuses from eastern Oregon
Five thousand he offered and were broke, but we
rehehloered the poison grass or INC summit ana me
passage in the rocks and the man who my broth
spoke word. but divided the cayuses into two
uncheshls IN the one ana NINE In the other-and ne
looked at and understood each other. So he
drove mine to the one side and drove his to the
other, and we took with rifles and shot them
TO the last, one, while the man who had killed fifty
horses cursed us till his throat cracked But that
man. with whom welded misunderstanding on the
Dead Horse trail"
sneering the while. completed the climax for him.
Uri nodded ard said II am glad YOU understand"
terness strong in his face again.
Go ahead, but hurry
UTri Bran rose to his feet.
u have had faith in God all the days Of my life.
believe He loves justice. believe He is looking
down upon now. choosing between us. 7 believe
He wants to work His viii through my right arm
and let Him speak His own judgment
Fortunes heart leaped at the words He did not
know much concerning Urls God, but he believed i'm
since the night he down the beach and across the
snow But there is only one gun" he objected.
I'VE win fire turn about Uri replied, at the same
time throwing out the cylinder of the other mans Colt
and examining it.
Fortunes blood warming 10 the game and he
drew the deck from his pocket as Uri nodded. Surely
returning he cut for deal and he thrilled when
he found the deal was his He shuf1ed and dealt.
their hands Urls bare Of trumps. while he held
deuce. The outside seemed very to him
they stepped off the fifty PAGES
IF God withhOlds His hand and YOU drop me. the
dogs and outfit are yours. You'll find bin Of sale.
already made out in my pocket Cri explained fac
For+inc sbool- Vision of The slI1 eb7irr- ON tho
ocean from his eyes and took aim. was very care
full Twice he lowered the spring breeze shook the
pines But the rbird time Inc dropped on one knee.
grpped the revolver steadily both hands.
Uu whirled half about, threw up his arms. swayed
wildly for a moment and sank into the snow But
would have whiried.
When Uri. mastering the flesh and struggling to
his feet beckoned for the weEpon Fortune minded
to fire again. But he thrust the icea from him.
and if ne tricked he would have pay for it
afterward. No. he would play fair. Besides Uri
long enough draw bead
And where is your God now2" he tainted, as he
gave the wounded the revolver.
And Uri answered: God has not yet spoken. Pre-
pare that He speak,
Fortune faced him. but twisted his chest sideways
in order present less surface. Uri tOttered
drunkenly but waited too, for the moments calm be-
tween the CatSpaws. The revolver was very heavy
and he doubted, like Fortune, because Of it's weight
But Ne held it. arm extended, forward and down At
the instant Fortunes left breast and the sight flashed
into line with his he pulled the trigger Fortune
did not Whirl, but gay San Francisco dimned and
faded. and the sunbriEht turned black and
blacber he breathed his as rnaledicon the chance
he had misplayed
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