Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-21

use of my being thar, while the rest of my
tribe is in hell? I dreamt last night I was
in hell, carrying water to feed it to my
wolves; couldn't get a drop for myself
never drop
Curly, I've got to save you'll must-I
SHALL" She laughed at him You. Do you
remember me at Holy Crawss when l
punched cows for Chalkeye? 1 might ha'
been thar still but for YOU
What on earth do you mean?"
Jim, / met up with yo' mother and I
didn't want to be bad any more when I
seen her.
"She thought the world of you"
The poor child broke out laughing. "Oh,
shucksE' Then her face went bitter. She
said she loved me, eh?"
She said 1 was beastly little cad COM
college she held you up for a holy ex-
ample, and rubbed my nose in it. She was
right-but how | cursed your
Curly laughed faint and lay back moan
ing, for the sun had come hot from the
clouds, and she was burning with pain.
so yo mother claimed she loved me- Well
I know BETTER
why didn't you stay with her, Curly?'
i seen her face when she waited for
you to come home-you, Jim, and she look
ed sure hungry. What was I to her. when
she seen her own son a-comng? I waited
to see you, Jim; jest had to see you cause
you was pizen to me- Then ! went aWay
cause ia have killed you if I'd seen you
any mo-"
Where did you go?"
'Whar l belong-back to the wolf pack
What had l to do with a home and a
mother. with shelter, and Hvin' safe, and
bein loved? I'm only wolf with bounty
on my hide. to be hunted down and shot"
And you--a girI.'
mo, mistaken
Jim paved out, and grabbed her small
brown hand You came back" he whis-
pered.
Il came back to see If that Ryan was
pni in to tIyinn
l came to see you die
And saved my lire!'
II reckon" says Curly, II amt quite re-
sponsibIe any ways, for my life-'cause In,
only mistake-jest mistake 1 feels one
way, and acts the contrary; | whirl In to
Kill, and has TO rescue; aims to hate-and
instead of that L"
WHAT"
Robbers Roost got a III book on
etiquette what tells you how ladies and
gentlemen had ought to act in heaps big
difficulties. 1t shorely worries me to know
whether I'm a lady or a gentleman. but
it's mighty comfortin' the way that book
Is wrote. ! done broke all my wolves outer
that book to set up on their tails and act
pretty. Now, If I had the book I'd know
how I'd ought to act IL regard to you-aII."
Jim looked mighty SO emn, being naturally
about as humorous as funeral; Am L
nothing to your he asked, feeling hurt;
our she just opened one eye at him, smii-
ing, and said nothing
Presently the pain got so bad that she
began to roll from side to side, scrat chins
with her free hand at the face of the rock
overhead
Cant do something" says Jim. Its
awful to sit and watch that pain. 1 must
do something.
IF you climb to the top of this rock,
she said between her teeth, you'd see La
Soledad. My fathers thar
TN run"
why rum She snatched a small round
looking glass out of the breast of her shirt
You've only to get the sun on this glass
and flash the light three times upon La
| Soledad. The man on lookout will see the
| FASH
Give me the glass, then.
| mo"
why not?"
| DO you know what 1t means, Jim, if
| you flash that signaI?'
Rescue for you
| And for you, Jim. 1t means that you
| quit bein' an honest man; 1t means shame;
i it means death. Us outlaws don't die III
| our beds. Jim
Give me the glass"
No, jim. Some time soon, when you
and me Is riding with the outfit, or camped
/ at our stronghold the army Is goin' to
| come up agin' us-pony soldiers, and walk
a-heaps, and twice guns, to take our water
| holes, to drive away our remuda, to block
| our escape trails. to close In on us. Our
| fires are goin to be put out. our corpses left
| to the coyotes and the eagles"
Give me that glaSs!"