The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-10-27


way to- be hung, I'll kiss hin-not till
then, said the young lady brightly.
rms delightful witticism suited the
paternal humor, and Mr. Clay smiled;
but, nevertheless, ME frowned a mo-
ment afterwards.
But this yer hoss-thief got away
arter all, and that's boss of a differ
ent color" he said grimIy.
Salomy Jane put down her knife and
fork. This was certainly a new and
different phase of the situation. She
had never thought of it before, and,
strangely enough, for the first time she
became interested in the man. Got
away = she repeated. Did they let
him Off"
Not MUCH" said her father briefly
Slipped his cords, and going down
the grade pulled up short, just like a
yaquero asin a lassOed Dull, almost
draggin the man leadin' him off his
boss, and then skyuted UP the grade.
For that matter, on that boss o. Judge
Boompointer'S he mout have dragged
the whole posse of 'em down on their
knees eff he liked, Starved 'em right,
too. Instead of stringin' him up afore
the door, or shootin' him on sight, they
must allow to take him down afore the
nun committee for an example, 'Ex-
ample be bowed There's example
beknOwnst slap onter ar man hanged to
tree and plugged full of holes. That's
an example, and he knows what it
means. Wot more do we want? But
then those Vigilantes is allus clingin'
and hangin' onter some mere scrap O.
the law they're pretendin' to despise.
1t makes me sick! Why, when Jake
Myers shot your ole Aunt Viney's sec
ond husband, and / laid in wait for
qfta1xVo I'd in
low, did l tie him to his boss and fetch
him down to your Aunt Viney's cabin
for an example before I plugged him?
MOI" in deep disgust. mo, Why, |
just meandered through the wood.
careless-like, till he comes out, and 1
just rode UP to him, and 1 said
But Salomy Jane had heard her ia
theirs story before. Even ones dear
est relatives are apt to become tire
she interrupted; but this yer man
this hoss-thief-did he get clean away
without gettin' hurt at alp"
He did, and unless he's fool enough
to sell the boss he kin keep away, too
So We see, We can't ladle out purp stuff
| about dying stranger to RUDE. He
won't swaller it,
"AH the same, dad" returned the
| girl cheerfully Il reckon to say it, and
say more; I'll tell him that eff he man
! ages to get away too, I'll marry him
there! But We don't ketch Rube
| takin' any such risks in gettin
ketched, or in gettin' away arteri"
Madison Clay smiled grimly, pushed
| back his chair, rose, dropped a per-
functory kiss on his daughter,s. laifi
and, taking his shotgun from the cor
ner, departed on a peaceful Samaritan
mission to cow who had dropped
calf in the far pasture. Inclined as
he was to Reuben's wooing from his
eligibility as to property. he was con-
scious that he was sadly deficient in
certain qualities inherent in the Clay
| family. 1t certainly would be a kind
of mesaliiance.
Left to herself, Salomy Jane stared
a long while at the coffee-pot. and
then called the two squaws who as
| sisted her in her household duties, to
| clear away the things while she went
up to her own room to make her bed
Here she was confronted with a posi-
| BILE prospect of that prOverbial bed she
might be making in her wilfullness,
| and on which she must lie in the pho
| tograph of a somewhat serious young
man of refined features-Reuben Wa
! ters-stuck in her window frame Sa-
| lomy Jane smiled over her last with
| cism regarding him and enjoyed it.
| like your true humOrist,N and then
| catching sight of her own handsome
face in the little mirror, smiled aGain.
But wasn't it funny about that horse
! thief getting off after all? Good Lordy,
Fancy Reuben hearing he was alive
and going round with that kiss of hers
set on his lips, She laughed again. a.
little more abstractedly. And he had
returned It like a man. holding her
| tight and almost breathless, and he 60
| ing to be hung the next minute! Sa-
| lomy Jane had been kissed at other
| times, by force, chance or stratagen.
In certain ingenious forfeit game
of the locality known as I'm a-pin-
in, many had ''pined" for "sweet
kiss" from Salomy Jane which she
! had yielded in a sense of honor and
fair play. She had never been kissed
like this before-she would never
| again; and yet the man was alivei
And behold, she could see in the mirror
| that she was blushing,
She should hardly know him again.
A young man with very bright eyes. a
| flushed and sunburnt cheek. a kind Of
fixed look in the face, and no beard :;
no, none that she could feel Yet he
was not at all like Reuben, not a bit.
She took Reuben's picture from the
| window. and laid it on her workbox.
And TO think she did not even know
this young mans name, That was
queer. To be kissed by a man whom
she might never know, OF course he
knew hers. She wondered if he re-
membered it and her But of course
he was so glad to get off with his life
| that he never thought of anything
else. Yet she did not give more than
four or five minutes to these specu-
lations; and, Ike q sensible girl,
| thought of something else, Once
again, however. in opening the closet,
she found the brown holland gown she
| had worn on the day before thought
! it very unbecoming. and regretted that
she had not worn her best gown ON her
visit TO Red Petes cottage. On such
an occasion she really might have been
more impressive.
When her father came home that
night she asked him the news No,
they had not captured the = second
horse-thief. who was still at large.
Judge Bcompointer talked of invoking
the aid of the despised law. 1t re-
manned. then, to sec whether the
horse-thief was fool enough TO try 10
get rid of the animal. Red Pete's
body had been delivered to his widow
Perhaps it would be only neighborly
/ for Salomy Jane to ride over to The
funeral Sut Salomy Jane did not
take 10 the suggestion kindly, nor yet
did she explain to her father that, as
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