The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-03-19
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house and made him sit down on the
wooden steps. The tears were rolling
down his face, and / felt too sorry for
him to say word. They say a girl al
ways love bad manZnot that Bill
was really bad, you know-only UnfOr-
tunate that he should have complicated
his biennial bust with a quarrel with
jackson. When ne saw pa prancing
toward us he begged like mad for the
pistol 10 kill himself with; and / almost
felt like giving it to him when he talked
about wearing stripes and perhaps be
ing sent up for years. But felt sure /
could handle pa: and. anyway. Bill was
sort OF my dog, you know, and l wasn't
going to let anybody hurt him. But 1
mad tough time with pa. Pa is such
stickier for law and order. Wanted
TO take him off to the county seat and
lay a felony charge against him. He
badnt been deputy sheriff very long.
Then Bill MADE il worse by saving It
was all about a woman-never men
tioning that / was the woman, and
jackson had said something.
Wen, BIZ was such a gentleman that
he wouldn't bring my name into it.
Said woman like that, till l wondered
pa didn't burst
1t was then ! felt what training
can 90 Tor man-With pa. / mean;
and how wise / had been to always
Keep the upper hand of him. He was
was positively pTejudiced against him
and for a time it looked as though
l was nowhere i'm the scrimmage- And
thlnk he was cut up. too. about my
liking Bill SO well, for. of course
tdldnt l tell yOu?) Bill was Just silly
about me-always had been since All
sue gave him that chicken tamaIe on
the doorStep-wOTe things next his
heart and all that, and thought any
thing sacred ! had ever touched. The
Whole ranch is nf n
Bill you know. Well as I
said pa was awful. He paced up and
down ike royal Nubian lion. while
/. with my heart in my mouth did it
tie Spangles i'm the wild beasts cage.
Little Spangles won out. of course
though once or twice il was a pretty
close call. But at last pa quoted down
and went off. quite mild. 10 find Mr..
jackson. But he didn't find Mr..
jackson Nobody ever has. He disap-
peared like an orange under con
Jurer's hat All that's left of Mr.. Jack
son IS upstairs in two trunks and a
debit balance of $l13 on the payroll.
L think he must have changed his name
ana quit the country. If YOU had ever
been up against Bill l guess you'd have
done IL. too. Anyway. peace descended
like a beautiful dream, and Bill stayed
DdEO foreman instead of going into the
Jute business at San Quentin prison. I
dare say he might never really have
got there. but he might have, you
know, and he didn't want to try.
That's all more than a year old now.
and Bill has never been on a tear
since. He says it was all my running
out at him and looking down his pis-
tOl. but I tell him il was the scare he
got from pa It wasn't as though he
really liked 1t. you knOW-drinkinG. I
mean-but sometimes he'd come to
place where he simply couldn't so on.
and was 50 hopeless and desperate and
miserable-- That was his last bien-
NAL bust. for now. of course. he has
got something to live for and it's all
different. ard he's become one of the
little saints of the Y NJ c A They
say he's the pinkest thing in the room
when he gets up and does solemn
warning, though I think it's rather fine
Of him. don't you? And the fun of it
* that nc runs a boxing class there.
too. and punches their little heads off
afterward. oh. Bills a great boy. and
they're going to make him president
Oh, dear, when once / get
started talking about Bill never seem
to know when to Stop, Why do you
look so grave. captain? Aren't you
pleased %
- have something to say about Bill,
too he returned slowly.
His early life and his early SCTapes.'
she said. and how you don't believe
IT will LAST There isn't much about
BIZ don't already know-his being
sent away from England. and how
Il am out here to take him back,
said the captain.
He won't go easy" said the girl
I am not 50 sure" said the captain
circumstances have altered. / don't
sec very well how he can refuse. I've
the family. I mean. are delighted to
hear that he has retrieved himself and
risen superior to the boyish foHies that
threatened to enEulf him. Let me eX-
press to YOU our deep sense Of obliga-
fion-our Sratitudc Tor your evident
kindness to him at time when he
needed IT most
81 don't think I care to receive the
family gratitude" she answered COOlly.
What did they ever do for Bill but
give him the cold shoulder from the
time ne was left an orphan at 122 Sent
him to F,tou and oxford as prepare
tory step to giving him a thousand
pounds and telling him to scoot. You
can imagine how well equipped he was
10 strike out for himself. Couldn't even
spell English till ! got after him with
a sDeller. and had to work nights be
fore he could write a page without at
least six sChooIboy mistakes. The only
thing he really knew was 'Paradist
Lost which had been Crammed into
him for the army. He must have found
il nice and USefull'
He WAS given his chance said the
captain. ''and like many another he
wouldn't take it lie was put into
good regiment and received an allow
a0Ca that with economy, would nave
amply sufiiced TO let him hold his head
M. Then ne went the pace and was
forgiven. Then he went the pace again,
and wasn't. He has no right to COM
plain"
"Oh. but he doesn't she exclaimed.
hastily Il wouldn't have yon think
tia. for anything"
But YOU seem TO do. it for him.
said the captain.
4 don't suppose my opinion matters
PARTICULARLY"
We'll, it was enough to bring me
from England" said the captain
What you think or don't think he $
suddenly become of great importance
to many people
Don't you think il is about time To
tell me Why she asked. You have
limited and limited till ] feel like a per-
son in a detective story-and 1 no
AsOoner seem to touch something but
Nou continue it in the next number
"Did--Bill-ever tell you OF his first
cousin, Lord Tranton?"
only that he held down the title
and was the dead image Of the post
master at Las Vegas. Never passes
there but he says Look at that tai
low faced. wall-eyed, old 80