The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1908-06-12

O'clock sharp in the Westinghouse"
he said.
Louise was looking white and mis-
cradle.
You are not contemplating running
away, are you?" asked Gordon. This
is unusual weather-realIy."
She looked at him with a pitiful
smile
Il should like to he strong and
brave agl ,Gt ring and cauable-like
Mary. You don't believe it. do you?
It's true, though. But / can't I'm
weak and homesick and cold ought
not to have come. | am not the kind.
You said it. You know. | am going
home just as soon as this court is
over. | mean it,
There was no mistaking that Cor
don bowed his head. His face was
white. 1t had come sooner than he
had thought.
All the records of the work yester-
day had been burned. There was moth
ing to do but begin at the beginning
again. 1t was disCouragng. unnter-
esting. But it had to be done. Dale
refused positively to adjourn. The
iurymen were all here. So the little
frame church was bargained for. If
the tire-bugs had thought TO postpone
evcnts-to gain timely last nights
work. they would find themselves very
greatly mistaken. The church was
long and narrow like a country school
house. and rather roomy considering
the size of the town. II had precise
WindOWS-also like country school
hOuse-fOur on the west side, through
which the fine snow was drifting, four
opposite. The storm kept few at
home with the exception of the people
from across the river. There were
enough staying in the town to fill the
room to its utmost limits. Standing
room was at Il premium. The entry
was crowded. Men not able to get in
| plOughed back through the cutting
wind and snow only to return present.
| ly to see if the situation had changed
| any during their brief absence. So
| all the work of yesterday was gone
over again.
So close was the pack of people that
| the fire roaring in the big stove in the
| middle Of the room was allowed to
| sink in smoudcring quiet The heavy
air had been unbearable else, The
| snow that had been brought in on
| tramping feet lay in little melted
| pools on the rough flooring. Men for
| got to eat peanuts and women forgot
| to chew their gum-eXccpt one or Two
extremely nervous ones whose jaws
moved the faster under the stimulus
| of hysteria. Jesse Black was telling
| his story.
Along toward the lst of last July,
took hike out into the Indian coun-
| try to buy few head O cattle. l
trade considerable with the half
breeds around Grow creek and Lower
Brule. They're always for sellin' and
| if it comes to II show down never hag-
| gle much about the lucre-it all goes
for snake juice anyway. Well, landed
at John Yellow VOLTS shanty along
about noon and found there was 9TH
! ers ahead of me. yellow Wolf always
was Il popular cuss. There was Char
| lie Nightbrd, Pete Monroe, Jesse Big
! Cloud and two or three others whose
mugs | did not happen to be onto.
/ After our feed, We ali strOlled out to
| the corral. yellow Wolf said he had
| bought a likely little bunch from some
/ English feller who was skipping the
( cOuntry-starvod out and hOmesick-
/ and hadn't put EN- on the range yet.
| He said J Il was the English feller's
/ brand. | didn't suspicion no under
hand dealins. yellow VOLTS Away
treated me white before. so | bar
/ gained for this here chap and three or
/ four others and then pulled out for
/ home driving the bunch. They fed at
( home for spell and then | decided to
put EN- on the range. On the way |
/ fell in with Billy Brown here. He
was dead set on havin' the lot to fill in
/ the chinks of the two car loads he was
shippin', so | up and lets him have
/ EN-. | showed him this here bill-o-
sale from yellow Wolf and made him
I out one from me. and that was all
there was to it. He rode to Velpen
and | turned on my trail"
(To Be Continued)