The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1905-12-27

| ever heard tell. The citizens tharOf
consists mainly of coyotes and noun
tain lions, with few rattlers thrown
In just to make things neighborly.
This we're waving his hand TO
ward the arid wastes which night was
making more desolate--'is summer
resort. with modern Improvements.
compared to IT,"
Mary screwed her courage TO a still,
more desperate point and inquired II
Mr. OAK knew family named Yellett
living In Lost Trail
Never heard OF no family living
there excepting the bluff at family life
maintained by the wild beasts before
referred to- See here, miss, / amt
maxim no play to inquire into your af-
fairs, but you amt thinkIn' o. visitin'
Lost Trail, be Your
Perhaps" said Mary family. and
then she. too, talked ''goo-goo" to the
baby.
All that long and never to be forgot
ten night the stage lurched through the
darkness with Mary Carmichael the
solitary passenger. The fat lady had
warned Johnnie OAK that he was OH no
account to replenish Chugg's flask IL he
had the wherewithal for replenishment
on the premises. Johnnie, hurt to the
quick by the unjust suspicion that he
could fail SO signally In his duty to
lady. not only refused to replenish the
flask, but threatened Chugg with con
-ditiOnai vengeance In the event of &C.
cident Detailing the stage. II was with
n partially sobered and much threat
ened stage driver, therefore, that Mary
continued her journey after the supper
at johnnie Dax's, but the knowledge Of
It brought scant reinsurance, and It Is
doubtful IL the red stage ever harbored
any one more wakeful than the pale,
tired girl who watched all the changes
from dark to dawn at the stage win
dow.
The hoofs Of the horses beat the
night away ae regularly a. the ticking
Of a clock. II grew darker as the night
wore on and sometimes coyote would
yelp from the fringe Of willows that
bordered a creek In way that made
Mary recall tales Of banshees And
once. when the first pale streak OF
dawn trembled I'm the east and the
mountains looked like jagged rocks,
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on,v eli huad,o, 4, -. ~ nt,
for ,b,n.s 80 hooona a,,nstoa n,' 60
Cbugr was hshay,no In ,o.t ~
emnlorv man,or no arora ,,a,,,,,
an outomatop and annoront,v no
hooked no longer an the ,r,ohtn,ro,,
wh,o II was bottied zinc. or twica
he had annlied his eve IN tho mana thot
separa ted him from his messenger and
asked questions relative 10 her com.
fort, but Mary was too utterly defect.
ed to reply In more than monosyllabIes
As they crept along the sun dried finn
bers of the stage creaked and groaned
in seeming protest at wearing its life
away In endless journeyings over this
desert waste, then settled down into
one of those maddeningly monotonous
relterations to which certain inanimate
things are given in seasons OF nervous
tension. This time 1t was. "All the
worlds -creak-screech-a
the worlds stage-creak -screechw
over and over till Mary found herself
fast succumbing to the hypnotic effect
OF the constant repetition.