The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1907-11-03


~ then up at the crenelated
mountains, black against the sky. lie
drank the cool air bur1lened with its
taints of the sea, while the blood OF
his boyhood leaped within him.
ooh, it's fne-tne,' he murmured,
sand this is my country-my country,
after ALL Dex. It's III my veins. this
hunger for the north. / grow. | ex-
pand."
Careful YOU don't bust warned
Dextry. i've seen men get plumb
drunk on mountain air. Don't expand
too strong in one spot He went
back abruptly to his pipe, its villain
Gus fumes promptly averting any
danger of the airs too tonic quality.
Cad, what Il smudge," shifted the
younger man. You ought to be in
quarantine"
I'D ruther smell like q man than
talk like q Kid You desecrate the
hour of meditation with rhapsodies on
nature when your aesthetics amt
honed up to the beauties of good to-
bacco.'
The other laughed. initiating his deep
chest. In the gloom he stretched his
muscles restlessly, as though an ex-
cess of vigor filled him.
They We're lounging upon the dock,
while before them lay the Santa
Maria ready for her midnight sailing.
Behind slept Unalaska, quaint, am
tique and Russian, resting amid the
fogs of Bering sea. Where week
before mild eyed natives had dried
their cod among the old bronze can
non now a frenZie1 horde of gold
seekers paused in their rush to the
new IL Dorado. They had come like
a locust cloud. thousands strong, set
Ting on the edge of the Smoky sea,
waiting the going of the ice that
barred them from their golden fleece
from Nome the new, where men
found fortune in night.
The messy hills back of the village
were ridged with graves of those who
had died on the out trip the fall be-
fore when a plague had gripped the
land, but what of that? Gold glittefed
in the sands so said the survivors
Therefore men came in armies. Glen
lister and Dextry had left Nome the
autumn previous, the young man raw
ing with fever. Now they returned to
their own land.
"This air whets every animal instinct
in me-" Glenister broke out again.
away from the cities | turn savage.
feel the old primitive passions, the
fret for fighting"
"Mebbe you'H have chance"
allow soy
"Well, it's this way. I met Mexico
. Mullins this mornin'. You mind old
Mexico. don't you-the Teller that re-
located Discovery claim on Anvil
creek last SUMNER
''You don't mean that tinhorn' the
boys were going TO lynch for claim
Jumping
Identical, Remember me tellin' yon
about good turn l done him once
{. down Guadalupe way2"
:. "Greaser shooting scrape, wasn't ftT'
yep. Well, / noticed first off that
he's gettin' fat--high livin' fat, too, all
in one spot, like he was playin' both
ends agin the center. Also he wore
Efmon's fit to handle with ice. tongs. )
Says I. loolxin' at his side elevation.
whats accented your middle syllable
so strong Mexieo:'
Prosperity, politics an the Wal
dorf -Astorier,' says he. 1t seems Mex
hadn't forgot old days. lie claws me
into a corner an says, Bill. I'm goin'
to pay you back for that Moralez DEAL
1T amt comm to me- says /.
s'That's bygone-'
Listen here says he, an, seem he
was in earnest. let him run on.
How much do you value that claim
O. yourn att?
lizard tellin',' says I. IF she holds
out like she run last fall. there'd ought
to be million clear in her.
How much IL you clean up this
summer
Bout four hundred thousand, with
luck
'Biii,' says he. there's hell a-pop-
PIN, an you've got to watch that
ground like you'd watch a rattlesnakA
Don't never leave 'em get grip on it
or you're down an out
"He was SO plumb in earnest it
scared me up, cause Mexico amt q
gabby man.
What do you mean? says I.
can't tell you nothin' more. I'm
putin string on my own neck sayin'
this much xpa'fe square man, Bill.
an I'm gambler, but you saved my
life oncet. an Tewoaldn't steer you
wrong For Gods sake, don't let 'em
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