The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-12-11

AA1AOn > DlGdSL VIII HIS THU.
The man from the Pecos country
looked up quietly into Durnin'1 face.
Who are you? he asked Durnin. L
don't know you
1t YVES true that Allison had never
seen Durnin before. but there isn't any
doubt that he knew who the marshal
was when he saw the gun pointing his
way.
.Durnin's my name said the mar
shal. You're Clay Allison. I've heard
a heap about YOU, and the last thing
/ heard was this thing about your pro-
posin' t lead me aroun' tn public
square o Durango by these tabs at
the side O. my head So that YOU won't
think, in case anythin' happens, that
you got tn worst of it. l want [
tel you that I've had you under the
gun, from behind that p'tition, for the
last half hour. But I'm givin' you
chance now. Was them remarks o
yours, made down yonderl in tn Pc
COS. c'retly quoted2'
Well replied Clay. cooliy splitting
at crack in the floor. YOU can't be-
lieVe all you hear podner, but. since
you show signs O. bein some inquisi-
tive
DisaImed the Marshal.
Like the dab of CATS nav AL
hson reached over and caught the
wrist OF Durnin's hand that held the
gun. man of a bulls strength. he
ieapeo over the table and twisted that
wrist OF Durnin's until the marshal
had TO drop the gun to the floor and
gasp With pain. Allison kicked the
gun into a corner, and snatched the
other gun out OF the marshaTs belt.
Durnin was completely disarned and
at the mercy of the man from the Pc
cos.
AS ! was sayin.' went on Allison.
continuing the sentence that he had
begun before putting Durnin aft mis-
mercy, since you show signs o. bein'
some lnquisitive. wy. yes. / did saw
mat l was a-goin' t. lead you aroun'
Durango by tn ears a few. an that's
jest what I'm a-goiH' t DO.
Ihen Allison put his knee in the
Shat or the helpless maTshaTs back.
grabbed him from behind by both
ears kneed him forward and out of
the saloon. and in that way he prod
dea Marshal Sam Durnin. a bad man
himself, all over the streets of Du-
range, while the camp looked oil and
sald nothing, the affair being plainly
none of the camps business. =
The edge was all against CLAW Al
lison IN that incident, but ne had made
the NIKE to Durango to transact a GER
tam OF of business that he had on his
mind, and he wasn't deferred from
transacting that piece Of business he
cause he couldn't see any chance for
MN 10 get shade the best OF the sit
ua non he took lOng-shotter's punt
'hat ne might be able to get by and
; WItch me dlce when the marshal had
MN under the gun that way. and it
was only his quickness and luck that
pulled him through. But he didn't con
Sluer those clements but just went
ahead and won out when the odds were
way against him. The d;sgraced mar
shall drilled out of Durango before the
next daylight, unable TO STAY along
and face the shame of the thing that.
Gay Allison had put on him Allison
went back to the Pecos country after
nhlsning the Job he bad started our
OF ana only a year aftervard met
so meaSley and OnneTy a death as
railing from freighter's six-mule
wagon and having the wheels pass over
his head.
carp and Masterson.
! was present. too. once when a very
Wen Known bad man of the southwest
w yatt carp, no less. deliberately and
recklesSly gave 50 noted a killer as
Bat Masterson the edge on him i'm the
heat OF an extreme soreness against
Aasterson, who was then the marshal
Of Dodge
mere were a number OF the Earn
ooyS. and one Of them. Virgil. upon
ne occasion of visit to Dodge. had !
1een told by MaSterson that that sec
non was too far north for any of the
tarps, and recommended Virgil Earn
o get back to the cactus country quick I
md sudden. Masterson. IN fact en- 1
orced this recommendation at the point !
u one of his guns. and Virgil didn't !
zee any~Sense in arguing against that /
ilnd OF persuasion So he ducked out /
u Dodge, but when he got down to I
Arizona he told his brother Wyatt. the |
l4rueSt nut Of that eraggy family, how |
'laslerson had given him the hot-fOot 7
ut OF Dodge.
Wyatt rode right up to Dodge 10 see
dasterson about it. Wyatt Earn had I
lever met Bat Masterson. but he had 1
III kinds of contempt and scorn for the
harSnal or Dodge. as he had for any
nan who did all of his Strengthening i'm
ne name Of the law. He looked upon
ny man who got behind the screen Of
ne laws authority to do his gun fight
ne as a piece Of paste. and il was for
he purpose of expressing this opinion
o Bat MastersOn that he hurried IN 10
Dodge
As soon as Wyatt carp got into
Dodge he made hurried inquiry as to
where he'd be able TO find Masterson.
nd somebody told him that Bat was
taying seven-up in the back room of
'ack Wingate's hotel bar carp liked
or Wingate's like a button drummer
laking for an early morning train.
carp clomped into Wingate's bar
nd asked the barkeep which Of the
Wo seVen-up players AT the table was
iasterson. The barkeep nodded in the
ERECTION Of the marshal Earp got
yer 10 the seVen-up table ia a couple
strides He gave the table a bang
nth his fist that made the cards dance
nd he stuck his face within four
lches of Masterson's.
You're a law-murderin' son of \
oyote, Masterson,' carp said 10 the
larshal of Dodge. and for two bits and
poncho I'd take them law guns away
rom you and run 'em down your
1roat'
'Masterson, who never was a first
ater in his businesS-and / know
'oked clustered. He didn't know Earn
ut he saw that the man who was tax
ig 10 him was the real thing.
And III give you this much the !
est of it, at that you squaw's dog
aid carp
Then he deliberately pulled both
1ns from his belt. slammed them down
p the table beside Bat Masterson. the
Hing marshal of Dodge, and stepped
We PAGES back from the table. feeling |
his knife.
Far from wanting an edge. Earn |
as deliberately giving the edge to the
IAN VINO at that time had the record
~ his quickness on the trigger and !
le number of his killings.
But Masterson caved-it wasn't The
rst nor the last time thar he caved
Their.
. oh. behave he said ,,aai,l,. a,nh Z