The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1906-02-07

throat
They'd he women Of no judgment,
then" she said. with conviction.
Jlm's heed was tilted back. resting IN
the palm of his hand. His profile.
sharpened by anxiety, more than sug-
gested his quarter strain OF Sioux
blood. lie might almost have been oil
Chief Flying Hawk himself as he 10 *;
! cd steadily ut the woman who hal
been young girl and reckless when
he had been boygnnd reckless, wii)
had paid her womans penalty anG
come into her womans kingdom, who
had made man of him by the mys-
terry. of her motherhood and who had
uncomplainingly gone with him into
| the wilderness and become an alien
and an outclst.
These things unnamed him as the
| sight oe the gallows and the rope for
his hanging could not have done
! Shielding himself with an affected
rUuglmcsa. 10 asked:
WHAT the matter with you? Pte
! been drinking Ike a bensf of an Ia
dian and sou give me coffee instead
! o. n tongue Iaahing.''
he ca'O" lml all gone out OF la'
farc. $40 "a ed the words:
Jim. drcarc1 it lust night The
came for you."
| Sic go cr.d 1t the recollection.
"Dld they gct mc?" he asked. Thee
was ~ surprise in his tone. He spoke
as on" who knew tho answer
Yes, tho children saw The noise
woke them"
you mustn't let 'em see when they
come. They've right TO fair start
We didn't get it. old girl"
"The children gave it to us and she
faced him
Yes, yes, but we want them TO have
1t from the start like good folks
They looked into each others eyes.
The memory of dead and gone mad
ness twinkled there moment. then
! each remembered:
you must hurry Jim. You haven't
moment TO lose. dreamed it was
to be tonight they'll come tonight!'
The games all up. old girl. IL l had
month | couldn't get away. Morri
sons been looking for me over TO the
Owl Creek range. He's back. stevens
told me yesterday. He'll be heading
here soon. The price on my head is Il
strain on friendship"
Have the shccpmen gone back on
you?"
Yes. curse them! \ thousand dol
lars Is big money, and they've had
hard luck"
"Thcy deserve it. | hope every herd
In the Stntc dies of scab."
There wasn't scabhy sheep in our
bunch. What sight they were, load.
cd with tallow. There wasn't one of
them that couldn't have wcathcred a
! blizzard. They could have lived on
their own tallow for a month"
She tried to divert his attention from
his lost flock. When he began to tall,
about them the despair of his loss
drove him to drink. She was ground
between the millstones OF his going or
staying. If he stayed they would come
for him, If lie went they would appre
bend him before he was ten miles from
| the house
Jim, we got to think. If there's n
chance IN thousand that you can get
away you got to take II. If there amt
the children mustn't know. We got to
think II out"
There amt chance In II thousand
old girl. There amt ore in n million
They're clrcl!ng round In the hills out
here now, waitin' for me. like buzz
yards waltin' for the eyes of n dyin'
| horse"
She rocked. herself. and the clutching
fingers left white marks on her face,
5ut the eyes that met his glittered
fearless:
Then there amt nothing left but to
face II like Il MANI
THAT'S all there be-" He might have
been giving an opinion on IA matter In
which he had no interest
"Then there amt no use in our hav-
ing any more talk about it?''
"'Taint just what you'd call an
agreeable subject" he answered, with
sinister humor of the frontlersman
who has learned to make crony of
death.
She was tempted to kiss him--they
were not given to demonstrations, this
pair-then decided It were kinder TO
him, less suggestive of what they an
ticipated, not TO deviate from their I'M
demonstrative marital routine.
DO you want your breakfast nowT
Il guess YOU might bring 1t along"
And for the same reason that she re
Trained from kissing him she repressed
desire to wiring the neck of young
broiler and cook II for his breakfast,
remembering that she had heard they
gave folks pretty much what they
wanted when they wouldn't want II
long. So jim got his usual breakfast
of bacon, uncooked canned tomatoes,
soda biscuit and coffee. She sat with
him while he ate, but they spoke no
more of them" or of how soon they
might be expected. She told him that
young Jim had pretended that morn
ing that he had cactus thorn in his
foot so that he might have n niece of