The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1908-10-22

here to settle with hlm-.a aaa \
| nodded | understood I,
lunds credit was good at ths y Y.
store owned by Sam Iov - ~, sle
was the bogeyman thai g.. w
partner out of the way. ~
She used to sit on ~.
anda next Buttan singb's vs y
wlstaria blossom hangs like has
OF grapes, and every time uaae
wondered why she didn't hn pass
that old, toothless murderer, Sbs,a
at me from between the fows s
Wondering--there were onlv -
whites up here then. Then u.
when that old devil was knoe SIs
with too many pipes. she som
mond snake wriggle up under a.
anda boards, and she gave lt.' NJ
OF fear just as | was passing Cs a'
was in the store, but | flung fra ~
at him after ! killed it, ana 1 y
screaming down the track leay,s.
with her and that doped hoy n
Lee. She laughed when chased Z
just a delicious, little, Aufv ~
and that yellow pig snored On Z
f1oor- | ought to have killed him /.
the law doesn't work at a CALM
this way.
Then | acted the fool. took n I
terest in that little child Just bec,,.
there was no one round here but n
scum of Asia. You think If w,s,,
my job, but it was. It's white M
1cb to look after child no m.r.
what her color. and that den wan,
the place for her. | went alony n,
that for five months, perhans I,
Sometimes | thought that Chez loo.,,
at me curiously, but | didn't care h
him. Then | Determined to 90 souIb,
again, and the night before left N
came down to the hut and begged Il.
to take her in the schooner down {,
far as Cairns. Of course was a fafl
Everybody tell this story to think
the same, but they didn't know thai
pock-marked Chinaman. They didn't
know what kind OF a quarter this va
at that time, and they didn't kncs
that child. I'm white man--at leas,
| was one then.
Il was working for Tatsu Caro-, and
| was using his schooner That lias
kid was going to meet me down at tn
point, but | changed my mind and
slipped up to the store when that pI
was in his dope dream, and told her 4
meet me at high tide in the mangrou
trees up the creek. Chez was snOl
ing behind the canvas, but afterward
| fancied | heard him chuckle.
1T was dark when Tatsu and
pulled up to the mangroves, | sa'
something white in near the left ban
and | called out, but she didn't al
swer. called again and again
then we pulled in closer and say
She was strapped by the ankles 70
thick limb, her hand hanging dow
wards, and the tide was gurgllr
round her shoulders like as II It vi
pleased with the job Chez left
That's the story. | swore by the mel
DRY of my mother that | would aYenl
the death of that little kid, and |
holding out. She was nothing 70
she was just a little child wom'
up in this spot alone. Yes, I'm wa
ing for Chez. He'll come back son
day. and we'll have a reckoning
The locusts had finished their sol
night was blotting out the red glow
the waters, and the white gum lle
STOOD up bare and ghostly. Veflu
rose, shook himself, and walked on
wards the beach.
Five months afterwards v
speaking to Kuttan Soo the HUI
horse dealer, in the main street
Gains, when a mounted trooper, v
a w'ite prisoner handcutfed 70
s.lrrup iron, rode slowly along ool
thing familiar about the ampu'a'
legs of the trousers made me M
eyes to the face of the shaekied y
and a look of recognition hasl
across it. A tongue hurriedly ihO
ened the dry lips, and the priso'
half turned towards me
Il got him. he yelled, triumphAh'
Il got Chee-Chee Lee /.
Murder" whispered kuttan !
He knitted a Chinaman AT Rea ~
! yesterday"