The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-07-17

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still wearing his In1un-tamef " p
laughing with Opal, and maybe hold
ms. her hand on the front porch'
was one of the greatest strains l ever
experienced. -
"Rut il all came to an end. End
ed quick too. One Sunday Thornton
| took opal for a ride in his buckooard'
| and when Keno Christy saw them go
over the hill he got took all of q sud
democracy drunk. guess you'd call
| II Anyway he hooked up his buck
skin horse to the new cart that
he got for Opal grabbed his six shooter
and went after them a-whoopins ana
| a-hying.
meanwhile Thornton and Opal had
picked up what bugs and lizards they
wanted and was coming home quiet
and peaceful-like. letting the horses
take their time. when they heard the
clatter of Keno's cart. The next minute
he swung around the point of the hill
and come straight at them, swinging
his gun and yelling. the buckskin on
the keen Jump. 1t was Keno's OBJ
| vious intentions to shoot the pug
hunter up, ana the chances was good
for a killing, Thornton being petrified
with surprise-or worse, He just mad
sense enough left to pull his team up
against the Dahk OF Inv 6ioeS ~
give Keno the outside.
but Opal tumbled TO the playing
in a holy minute. She just slipped
in front of Thornton and held out her
hands to stop the bullets. ] tell you
Opal Is a Thoroughbred, all right.
when 1t comes to troubled She stood
up there waving her little hands and
Keno got so ratified he just naturally
lost track of Thornton. couldn't see
| =, all ftf o
shawls and things. and the fist thing
he knew It was too late. His Off wheel
hit the hub of the blackboard, the buck
skin jumped over the grade and Keno
went a rip-ramming down the hill
through a regular cactus garden OF
niger heads and prickly pears. drop
ping his pistol on the way and end
ing up in a mesquite tree.
well, sir. this Bughouse Jimmy
, sure had a screw loose somewhere
or else he was dead game sport we
never did rightly savvy his line OF
thought. Anyway, as soon as he come
r | to and see Keno in trouble down be-
low there he jumped up and made
a break to rescue him, but Opal says
! No. and says 1t quick. While they
( were argufying Keno crawled out OF
: the mesquite and cast one glance vi
/. land see Thronton struggling to get
i at him. That was enough for Keno
I Christy--he just drifted down the
!. gulch and was never seen no more.
:. opal never looked to see where hi
: went, She just grabbed those lines
q away from Jimmy. put the bud to then
q horses and come a smoking back tow
/ ard home with her hair straight Out
: behind. She'd been looking for cris
p Is like that for month and WASH
: taking any chances. Some of the boyi
: went down later and got the horses
q out but Keno was gone He had
. bunch that Bughouse Jimmy was aftel
/. him into a kind of running jim jams
,. superinduced by strong drink, o
course He was that scared of Bug
d house that he hid out in the hills TO
: weeks long after Jimmy had gon
I ayaw.
4 yes, Jimmy went away, all right
!. we never knew exactly why. If he wa
scared he never showed 1t, and hi
. chances with opal was never better
Just bughouse. | guess, "A hunting 70
beetles and snakes. I s'pect he write
TO Opal once in a while, but she shut
files her own mail and never let's OF
oh, sure, she's had lots of fellows o
the string since then. but she gets
little lonely sometimes, all the SAM
see her ont catching butterflies ono
b in a while. and them times she look
awful sweet and wlstful like. But
guess he'll never come back. Only b
good, pardner, because she's kindt
lonely-and you look like him in til
face"