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

it's Gods truth I saw it on the hand
bin agin tree. Take him, and I'll
set away afoot. Take him. It's the
only thing l can do for you, and /
know it don't half pay for what you
did. Take it; your father can get a
reward for you, if you can't"
Such were the ethics of this strange
locality that neither the man who
made the offer nor the girl to whom it
was made was struck by anything that
seemed illogical or indicate, or 1T all
inconsistent with justice or the horse
Theirs real conversion. Salomy Jane
nevertheless dissented, from another
and weaker reason.
Il don't want your boss, though !
reckon dad might; but you're Just
starvin'- III get suthin'." She turned
towards the house.
say you'll take the boss first" he
said, STasDing her hand. AT the touch
she felt herself coloring and struggled
expecting perhaps another kiss. But
he dropped her hand. She turned
again with sauey gesture, said,
''Hor on; III come right back" and
slipped away, the mere shadow of a
coy and flying nymph in the moonlight,
until she reached the house
Here she not only procured food and
whisky. but added a long dust-cOat
and hat of her fathers to her burden.
They would serve as a disguise for
him and hide that heroic figure, which
she thought everybody must now know
as she did. Then she reio!ae1 him
breathlessly But he put the food and
whisky aside.
Listen" he said; I've turned the
boss into your corral. You'll find him
there in the morning, and no one will
know but that he got lost and joined
the other bosses"
'Tn manage to get away" he said
in low voice, "ef-ef-'
EFF what?'' she said tremblingly.
EFF you'll put the heart in me again
as you did," he gasped.
She tried to laugh-to move away
She could do neither. Suddenly he
caught her in his arms, with a long
kiss. which she returned again and
again. Then they stood embraced as
they had embraced two days before
but no longer the same. For the cool
lazy Salomy Jane had been trans
formed into another wOman-a pas
sionate, clinging savage. Perhaps
something of her fathers blood had
| surged within her at that supreme mo-
ment. The man stood erect and de-
termined.
"WOt's your name?" she whispered
quickly. 1t was a wOman's quickest
way of defining her feelings.
Dart"
Eyer first name?"
Jack"
Let me go now, Jack. Lie low in
the woods till tomorrow sunup. II
come again
He released her. Yet she fingered
a moment Put on those things, -
she said, with a sudden happy flash OF
eyes and teeth. "and lie close till
| come" And then she sped away nome
+ But midway I'D the distance she felt
flitst9s'tFet sJfTs sioHefs and something
at her heartstrings seemed to be pull
ing her back. She stopped, turned and
glanced to where he had been standing
| Had she seen his then, she might have
returned. But he had disappeared
| She gave her first sigh, and then ran
| quickly again. 1t must be nearly ten
o'clock 1t was not very long tC
morning,
She was within few steps of her
| own door, when the sleeping woods
and silent air appeared to suddenly
awake with a sharp crack"
She stopped, paralyzed. Another
| crack" followed. that echoed over tC
| the far corral. She recalled heTseh
instantly and dashed off wildly To- the
1
As she ran she thought of one thing
only. He had been "dogged" by one
of his old pursuers and attacked. But
| there were two shots. and he was I'M
armed. Suddenly she remembered that
| she had left her fathers gun standing
| a gainst the tree where they were talk
| ing. Thank GOdi she may again have
saved him. She ran to the tree; tho
gun was gone. She ran hither and
| thither, dreading at every step to fai
upon his lifeless body. A new thought
struck her; she ran to the corral. The
horse was not therel He must have
been able to regain it, and escaped, af.
ter the shots had been fired. She drew
a long breath of relief. but it was
caught up N an apprehension of alarm
Her father, awakened from his sleel
by the Shots was hurriedly approach
ing her.
whats up now, Salomy Jane9" h
demanded excitedly.
''Nothin'." said the girl with an ef
fort ''Nothin', at least, that 1 car
find" She was usually truthful be
cause fearless. and a lie stuck in he
throat; but she was no longer fearless
thinking of him. 81 wasn't abed: 81
I ran out as soon as I heard the shot
| fred she answered in return to hi
curious gaze.
"And you've hid my gun some
where where it can't be found" h
said reproachfully EFF it was tina
| sneak Larrabee, and he fired then
shots to lure me out, he might 'iav
potted me, without a show, a dozel
times in the last five minutes"
She had not thought since of he
fathers enemy! 1t might indeed haY
been he who had attacked Jack. Eu
she made a quick point of the sugges
ton. Run in, dad, run in and find tn
gun; you've got no show out her
without it, She seized him by tn
shoulders from behind, shielding hin
from the woods, and hurried him, hal
expostulating, half struggling, 10 tn
house.
But there no gun was to be found
II. was strange; it must have been mis-
laid in some corner, Was he sure h
had not left it in the barn? But n
matter now. The danger was over
the I.arrabee trick had failed; he mus
go to bed now, and in the mOrnin
they would make q search together
At the same time she had inwardly re
solved TO rise before HIM and make an
other search of the wood. and perhap
fearful joy as she recalled her prom
ise,-fnd Jack alive and well, await
ing her.
Salomy Jane slept little that night
nor did her father. But towards morn
ing he fell into a tired mans slumbe
until The sun was well uD the horizon
Far different was it with his daughter