The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1908-04-29
GREEN-EYE'S SECOND SIGHT
BY LEO CRANE
(Copyright.)

ight.)
said sternly; you're my wife now,
and you don't go back to training
tigers-no, not even q near-sighted
one."
David lived firm in this decision.
Krantz grunted disdainfully and went
about moping. Milly thought she
should be allowed to decide the mat
ter, and in the light of her pride,
David's position was the first unpleas-
ant exhibition of mans vanity of own
ership.
Then Green-eye arrived. He was in
no agreeable mood. Gaunt. fierce from
wound which had partially crippled
one of his hind legs, the brute slouched
about his box, and occasionally tore
at it's heavy timbers.
Then the pride of Milly Krantz grew
beyond restraint. Without consulting
the obdurate David, she limited to old
Krantz that she was ready. There
was no reason to fear Green.eye and
she was not afraid.
and selected morning. Green-eye's
cage was wheeled to the larger den.
The animal was sluggish and did not
relish the transfer. Now Krantz stood
by the door, ready to pass her up in
to the cage. He had cautioned her to
take heavy chair, an aid that might
be required, and she carried one of
those tough whips to bring back to
Green-eye a lapsing memory of anoth-
er masterful woman whose tempera-
ment had been so like his own.
David would not have suspected
this little drama-would never have
understood why Milly entered the
i-ger's den against his wishes-had it
not been for Firefly, the jumping horse.
On the previous day Firefy had given
evidences of being off feed, and David
arose early to see that a soft mash
was given the animal Not finding a
stableman close at hand, he had mixed
the feed himself and was going in with
1t to the horse tent when the clank
OF bar against the steel of the big
cage caught his ear. Wondering who
was in that quarter so early, David
slipped into the big tent-at that very
moment old Krantz swung Milly into
the tigers den.
David stood completely paralyzed
with fearing dread in those first few
moments. Silent, unable to cry out,
he stood with the bucket of bran in his
hand, staring at the slip of a woman.
his wife, in the great cage. Green-eye
did not at once move from his posi-
ton on the floor, and as her entrance
had been without noise, it was the
first rustic of her silken skirt that
told the beast of her presence.
David moved nearer, now afraid to
speak for fear of disconcerting her.
She must act for herself. At the first
hiss of the whip, swiftly Green-eeye
lifted to his feet in movement of
sluggish grace. Then, slowly, he
turned his head. and the big green
eyes stared in all that intensity which
is cruel, bestial. David saw there
was menace in the beasts pose. and
his face went white; Krantz saw. too:
worst of all, Milly saw. Her eyes were
lined with the tigers. She seemed un.
able to move or to speak. Her face
was drawn and set and pale. Her
eyes stared fxedly into those CLEAN.
ing orbs.
Green-eye uttered a snarl-this
broke the spell. His bound across the
den's center was not quicker than her
pitiful cry. She threw forward the
chair, lost her grip of it, and stag
gered aside to the door, screaming:
He can see-He can SECT"
There had been no waver. no hesita.
ton in the spring. The limping leg
handicapped him, and he fell en-.
tangled by the four prodding legs of
the chair. Then instantly he was
blind again with Firefy's bucket of
mash in his eyes. David's toss was &C.
curate and vicious. The brute rolled
frantically over the floor of the den.
Wrecktng the chair with frenzied |
strokes. biting, snarling, wiping at his
eyes. Then he sprang at the bars, a |
1ideous, glazing thing There was a
wick of hatred burning in each of the
green eyes.
Milly, white and quivering, flung
herself into David's arms.
"Oh, David! David" she cried,
him, "he can see!"
1t was old Krantz who grunted and
'hoofed, and snorted in German irasci.
'ility at the wild idea of her fear,
Life in the open will Go it, Krantz
aid David.
See! ach Colt! what couldt make
lin see when he aindt no eyes? You
'eept still aboudt this seeing, Milly!
lou loose the nerve, yes. See! couldt
le see these last two, three years?
<o-Haaa! Well blind is blind, aindt
t."
And Krantz, stolid, unreasoning
about the stake wagon until
e found an ash club He tested if.
grunting.
They found Krantz at the bottom of
reen-eye's cage several mornings
ater. 1t had been a good club: but
there was no bandage.