The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-02-05

Aroused, he freed his feet of the
webs and forced some feeling into the
prisoned one From his pocket he took
his lunch until now forgotten and
silently tossed half to his fellow pris-
oner. The camp robber darted onto
a piece of meat in the air and flew
SquaWking 10 a limb Black Jack
swore at the bird in profane amuse-
ment. Sullivan redivided his piece OF
FORK and threw IL over. The rObbeT
protested, raked il in. and tossed it
back Sullivan ate his own share. but
this piece of meat he put back into his
pocket.
Black Jack looked at him. say.
pardner. you're a man The fires of
life. rekindled. famed up anew in the
desperate.
I will get loose" he snarled with
set teeth as he tore frightfully at the
snow packed around his waist
Try this; my hands are too stir 10
Use it said Sullivan, as he threw his
watch to Black Jack
"Ah. "A regular snow pillow" grunted
! the other as he sprung open the lid
| with his teeth and began To Scrape-
Sa-ay,'-the yell rang up the Pass
here's my knife
Buried tight in the snow was the
I knife-life itself-within easy reach.
Yet frozen fast. Sullivan did not an
Swer, but waited. Just then Black
Jacks hands dropped the watch. 1t
vanished along his leg into the black
hole that held him, and then family
clnked on a stone under the lOg-jam-
! With curse the lifelong criminal
| clawed viciously at the snow with scar
| let fingers. Ten minutes of bloody
scratching cleared the handle and hilt
% the heavy bowie. and Black Jack 5
head and shoulders arose triumphant,
his cory right hand flOurishtnS the
priceless steel. The light from that
blade flashed TO the very top of Ber-
thoud Sullivan writher TO keep warm
The shadows were growing longer
now Another two hours the sun
would be down. and thci" lives would
90 out like candles Black Jack ripped,
| jabbed strained and from his burrow
hurled ice. snow and sDiintered wood
Iron against water with men for
stakes In thirty minutes Re was free
all but his feet. Both ankles were helu
| between two logs; one thick as ms
wrist the other 4 mere pole Hack
slice split In five minutes more Black
Jack sweating and GREATNESS, crdWled
painfully from the hole. He tried to
stand but tOtterCd and fell as II on
stills He rubbed he pounded. he
| rolled and twisted his numbed calves
and feet: the thick. black blood turned
: bright and throbbed again Black Jack
stood erect. danced sorely. and except
/ for his skinless fingers and a scalp
/ " ound now stanched with frozen
/ master of bloody hair. he was as well
| a. ever. The bruised shoulder was UNI
needed. A -lusterless snowflake
dropped weakly at the mans feet He
| stepped on it as he picked up the knife
! and clamored over the snow to the
carrier.
sullivan looked at Black Jack Sulli-
vans lips were without motion. but II
| his ewes was the look of a paw-faSt
! grizzly The desperate seated himself
! on a broken spruce branch not six fee1
from Sullivan rested his hands on his
! knees and thought. He stared at tbs
carrier Here was a man Who tWS
hours before he had tried to XIII. who II
| turn stood ready to kill him. who hac
even started him at the muzzle of his
six-shooter on that short. sure road t.
a living death-the penitentiary for life
Leave him there-Why not2 No crime
he had not put him there. What if il
were a crime? Who would know AnC
what if they did, In the spriug-per-
haps not for years-they would find the
! skeleton. and feshless jaws say little
Dig him out-then what2 Was il not Il
set free a messenger sure to start al