Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1909-07-31


beautiful trail. One OF the party
crossed the Goose river at American
fork. and Brill Young and Reed fol-
lowed him. Four came through the
Mission mountains; that is cinch and
they are In the Cache-and IL they get
out IL is our fault personally. Ed. and
not the Lords"
Williams Cache lies in the form OF
great horn. with a narrow entrance
at the lower end known as the Door.
and rock assure at the upper end
leading into Canadian pass; but this
fissure is so narrow that a man with
rifle could withstand a regiment. For
100 miles east and west rise the gran
lite walls OF the Mission range, broken
nowhere save by the formation known
as the Cache. Even this does not pen
crate the range; il is a pocket. and
Rms not over halfway into IL and out
again. But no man really knows the
Cache: the most that may be said Is
that the main valley is known, and it
is known as the toughest mountain
assure between the Spanish sinks and
the Mantrap country. Williams Cache
lies between walls 1000 feet high. and
within il is a small labyrinth of can
yons. A generation ago. when Medi-
cine Bend for one winter was the
terminus OF the overland railroad. vigil
lantes mercilessly cleaned out the
town, and the few outlaws that es-
capped the shotgun and the moose at
Medicine Bend found refuge ia far
away and unknown mountain gorge
once named by French trappers the
Cache. Years after these outcasts had
come to infest it came one desperate
more ferocious than all that had gone
before. He made a frontier retreat OF
the Cache. and left TO # the legacy OF
his evil name. Williams Since his
! day IL has served. as It served before.
for the haunt of outlawed men. No
honest man lives in Williams Cache.
and few men OF any sort live there
long. since their lives are lives Of VIC
lence; neither the law nor a woman
| crosses Deep creek. But from the day
OF Williams TO this day the Cache has
had its ruler. and when Whispering
smith rode with little party through
the Door into the Cache the morning
after the murder in Mission valley ne
sent an envoy TO Rebstock. whose sue
cess as cattle thief had brought its
inevitable penalty. IL had made
| RebstOck a man Of consequence and
of property and a man subject TO the
anxieties and snnoyances OF such re-
sponsibility.
Sitting once In the Three Horses
at Medicine Bend. Rebstock had talked
with Whispering Smith. Il used TO
have a good time.' he growled. When
| ! was rustiing a little bunch OF steers.
| just small bunch all by myself. and
| hadn't q cent Ia the world. no place TO
sleep and nothing 20 eat. had a good
| time. Now have TO keep my money
in the bank; that amt pleasant-you
know that Every man that brings a
bunch OF cattle across Deep creek has
stole 'em, and expects me 10 buy 'em
or lend him money. I'm busy with in
spectors all the time. deviling with
| brands. standing OF the Stock associa.
tion and all kinds OF trouble I've got
| too many COWS. too much money. I'm
afraid somebody will shoot me II 20
10 sleep, or poison me IL 1 take a
| drink. Whispering Smith. Ia like 10
give you a halfinterest in my. bust
ness. That's on tkS square. You're a
young man. and handy; IL wouldn't
cost you cent. and you can have half
OF the whole shootingmatch II you'll
| cross Deep creek and help me run the
| gang" Such was Rebstock free from
| anxiety and in a confidential moment.
Under pressure he was. like all men.
different.
Whispering Smith had acquaintance
even in the Cache. and after a little
careful reconnOitering he found Grip
| pled-up thief driving a mich COW
| down the Cache, who was willing TO
take message 10 the boss.
Whispering Smith gave his instruc-
tons explicitly. facing the messenger.
as the two sat in their saddles. with
an importunate eye. Say TO Rebstock
exactly these words" he insisted.
This is from Whispering Smith.
want Du Sang. He killed a friend or
mine last night at Mission Springs. /
happened to be near there and know
he rode in last night He can't get
out; the Canadian is plugged. l won't
stand for the killing. and il is Du Sang
or a cleanup in the Cache all around.
and then I'll get Du Sang anyway. Re
! CARDS"
Riding circumspectly in and about
the entrance to the Cache, the party
waited an hour for an answer When
the answer came. il was unsatfsfac-
tory. Rebstock declined to appear
upon so trivial a matter. and Whisper
ing Smith refused to specify a further
grievance. More parley and stronger
messages were necessary TO stir the
Deep creek monarch, but at last he
sent word asking Whispering Smith TO
come 20 his cabin accompanied only
by Kennedy.
| The two railroad men rode up the
canyon together And now l will
show you a lean and hungry thief
/ grown monstrous and misery, Far
rell," said Whispering Smith.
| At the head of a short pocket be-
tween two sheer granite walls they saw
Rebstock's weather-beaten cabin, and
he stood In front of ii smoking He
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