The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-10-22

If not poor Dick, could hold his own In
mental and artistic perception with the
brightest. most cultured of Harvard
graduates.
At the end of the year she came back
home to await Dicks return from tho
wilds of Mexico. There was great
anxiety about his safety, for Geronimo.
attacked by Crook in the Apache
stronghold of the Tonic Basin, had es-
capped to the mountains of northwest
ern Mexico with his band of fierce
C~hiricahuas.
Now Dick Lane had not been heard
from in this region. When he neither &
made appearance nor sent a message
upon the day appointed for his return,
his brother, Bud, was for setting out
instantly to find him, and rescue him
II he were in difficulties.
Then 1t was that Echo Allen discoy-k
cred the true nature of her affection
for her lover. that it was sisterly re-
gard, differing only in degree, but not 3
in kind, from that which she felt for
his brother. She Joined with Polly In
opposing Buds going, urging his reclS-s
l~essness as u reason. you are certain, +.
to be killed. she said, and I cannon
lose you both" Jack Payson, for
whom Bud was working, then came
forward and offered to accompany hiei,
and keep him within bounds. Again
there was a revelation of her heart to 4
Echo. and one hat terrified her WITH
a sense of disloyalty. 1t was Jack she
really loved, noble, chivairic, wonder
full Jack Payson, whom, with a South
ern girls intensity of feeling. she had
unconsciously come to regard as her &
standard of all that makes for man
hood. Plausible objections could nots'
be urged against his sacrificing him
self for his friend. With an irresistible
impulse she cast herself upon his breast
and said: II cannot bear to see you
60"
Payson gently ~disengaged her arms.
st must, Echo. 1t is what Dick
would do for me If I We're in his place"
However, while Payson and Bud were
preparing for their departure, Buck
Mckee appeared in tho region and re-
ported that Dick Lane had been killed
by the Apaches. He told with on
vincing details how he had met Lane
as each was returning from a success
full prospecting trip in the Ghost Range,
and how they had sum their differ
ences in standing together against an
htNoth oA tiit dtIi LIE
Dicks bravery. relating how, severely
wounded, he had stood off the savages
TO enable himself to escape.
When he handed over Dicks watch
to Echo-for he had learned on his re-
turn hat she was betrothed TO Lane
as a last token from her lover, no
doubt remained in the kinds of his
hearers of the truth of his story, and
paNyron ora Bud 7 ana uar rs nm fhaip
%purposed expedition.
The owner of Swreetwater Ranch,
while accepting McKee's account, could
not wholly forget the half breeds for
mer evil reputation. and was reser we'd
in his reception of the advances of the
eX-rustler who was anxious to curry
favor. Warm-hearted, inlpulsive Bud,
however, whose fraternal loyalty hal
increased under his bereavement TO
the supreme passion OF life. took the
i~nsinuating half-breed into the aching
vacancy made by his brothers death.
The two became boon companions, to
the great detriment of the II
mans morals. Mckee had plenty OF
money, which he spent literally. gam
bling and ~carousing In company with
Bud. Polly was wild with indignation
at her sweetheart's desertion. n saw
agely upbraided him for his conduct
whenever they met, which, as may be ?
inferred, grew less and less frequently.
In revenge she made advances to an
cnther man who had long flowed her.
from afar."
This was William Henry Harrison
Hoover, sheriff of the county. known 2
as slim Hoover by the humorous
propensity OF men on the range to give
nicknames on the principle of cons
~traries, for he was the latest man in
Pinal county. Slim was one OF those
fleshy men who have nerves of steel
and muscles of iron. A round, boyisa !.
face, twinkling blue eyes, and flaming
red hair gave him an appearance or .
innocence entirely at variance with his
personality. A vein of sentiment made
him all the more lovable. His asso-
cia~tes-ranchers, men of the plains, SOL
diers and the owners and frequenters
of the frontier barroom-respected him
greatly.
"He's square as Slim wal the best
recommendation ever given Of a man
in that region.
Pinal county settlers had made Slim
sheriff term after term because he was
the one citizen supremacy fitted for the
place. He had ridden the range and
busted" broncos before election. After
1t he hunted wrongdosrs. Right was
right and wrong was wrong to him..
There was no shading in the meaning.
All he asked of men was to ride fast,
shoot straight and deal squarely in any
game. He admitted that murdsr.2
DEMONSTRATING and branding another
mans calves were subjects for the un-
written law. But in his code this law :
meant death only after a fair trial,
with ~neighbors for q jury. He was
not 5crupulous that a judge should be
present. His duties We're ended when
he brought in his prisoner.
Hoover's rule had been marked By
the tanning of bad men in Florence. ani
a truce declared in the guerrilla war;
fare between the cattlemen and the
sheepmen on the range,
Sims seemingly superfuous flesh
was really of great advantage to him.
it served rs q mask for his remarkable
abilities. and so 'uiled the out
laws with whom he had to deal into
a false sense OF superiority and secur-
ity.
Slow and lethargic in his ordinary
movements. In an emergency he Was
quick as a panther. never failing to set
the drop on his man.