New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-08-20

But JEFF went back TO his place on Double
Mountain Creek. and the memories OF men IN
the West being short. the death OF old Jefferson
Dexter was a thing forgotten in a week But
the young one didn't forget. And perhaps
Walker did not. for the pride OF a man who kills
and IS not tried. or who IS tried and acquitted.
Is something strange to see. He glories In his
strength and his quickness, and takes up attt-
,udes in the little world In which he shines
And quiet men said 10 themselves that Windy
Walker would not die in bed But the trouble
Is that quiet men do not kill unless they are
obliged 70. and some men who looked Walker
IN the ewes with a savage challenge found him
'' oath 10 take offence.
Il put I'D with mighty lot now" said Walker;
a man with my record should I want peace
he still held his own at the American House.
where the trouble with old Dexter had begun.
and he lost A few dollars regularly to the gam
blers who ran the faro and keno tables. They
sneered at him. but found him paying streak
In bad times. If he gassed little they let him
gas And the citizens of the city endured him
There were some quiet men who did not TAXI
who wondered when his end would come For
Bill Davies said thing two 10 friends OF his
"The bow hez a right TO kill him.. said Bill
and the right TO get the drop unseen. He's
boyr'
In mostly by night. and no one knew or MS
being there at all. He used 10 tie I'd the o!d
rfnto outside the town and come IN quietly. he
mostly Law about the empty town lots that
were at the back of the American House ana
the Green Front. the chief saloons In CoLoraoo-
81 The gambling saloons of both houses were
az the back and the windows looked uDon 3
waste of old boots, old kerosene cans ana empty
tomato cans But the blinds were usu~S 1i 49,
In such city" even though law ana oroeF
were gradually and with great difficulty estan-
fishing themselves. there were many VINO had
deeply rooted objection to standing III a orIsut
light visible TO those who were In carkness
There was never any knowing who might De
outside. .-,z. c,,-,+,r,,o.
he heard the voices of men he knew. Bill Davies
was In there at least once Wees. tLs a, ne t
simon Keats. to whose store his fathers oodS n q
been taken; for simon though a [esteCt t! pi I
storezeeper by day. had passion Tor faro Whlch
boomed after sundown And sometimes il' ne
heard Walker. But the WINDOW was s'Aut anu
- 49, YER as il happened September opened
,ritb a bIaze of heat that the most hardened
VA - falt THE sky was brass. and the
wind that came UP out of the Gun growing
hotter on the fat farmlands OF lower IeXaS
might have come from the pit The hgh
pIateaus across which the Texas PACING Ra!l-
nod runs we're burning, stock died OF drouth;
the prairie was fired by the cinders or locomo-
tives. In the city, sunk between sandnllis' IAe
heat was intense and the nerves OF men save
way They came out only at night and then
the saloon filed.
hem taking three days in town. By gosh, II $
hot sam don't you reckon IL might De a tribe
cooler il that window was open
The bartender. down whose face the moist
urs ran In streams admitted that the expert
ment might be worth trying
Though whether it's better here or outside or
in he'll can't say he answered
Who's afraid of hell in this weather. asked
Windy Walker Grossly. Open the window.
sam and let me have John Collins. I've
thirst on me as If prairie fire was ragin' down
my throat. I dunno what foolishness brought
men 10 Texas.
Sam went TO the window and pulled up the
blind By a curious instinct. for il was hardly
conscious: Walker and two or three others
moved out of the direct line between II and the
big lamp that lighted the room. But BIZ
Davies moved further than any one. Then Sam
opened the window top and bottom and pulled
the blind down asaip But it had been NJ lonS