The Washington herald., 1909-05-23

an eager light flashed in his eye-and h,
GredI
The Dane Iurched forward and fell upor
his face.
Fauon gazed steadily fer a moment
upon lis fallen companion. Then h
quietly set down his gun and blew tbs
smoke from the barrel With open mouth
and wide eyes Little Jean stared upor
the PROSTATE nan.
Jensen. cried Fauon at length
you've gone and spilled my whisky"
Jensen lay very still 4 dark red oozs
came from his temple. and you could
have heard the spilled whisky trickl!ng IL
the quiet about him.
Blast your hide. jensen cried Falior
again; Il say you've gone and spilled my
whisky"
He walked careIessly over 70 where tbs
Dane lay and gazed upon him medita.
lively
Ny God. FaIon-" gasped the French.
man. You didn't 81 20 do It. did you
Tell me you didn't so to do It! Swea,
that you didn't 90 TO do it,
Fallon turned a quizzical face upor
the other. Getting a bellyache ovei
facts. are you. little man? What's the
use? He's dead. amt he? It's fact
amt it2 A bit brutal. mebbe; but some
facts have a way Of being brutal No,
didn't go 70 do It. Never took q hne
bead in my life than I took, on that tir
cup. No, I. I didn't go to co IT."
Swear IL by the Holy Virgin" urged
Jean
Fallon laughed nervously, turned or hi:
heel. and went of toward camp, singing
with a strong Irish accent q snatch OF g
rollicking voyager's ditty that happened
70 come into his head:
As ] Weuc on ny WAY
I E,et Thrce riders fair;
One was tai ard cae was short
And one had yellow hair
With TIA a lay and Ira IA lol
Blue CTS and yellow hair.
Thrce riders TeTy fair.
And Jet there was but one:
TIE one with Al exc of the color of the sky
Ard hair Of the eoo- OF tie Sun
With a tra IA lay and TIA Ia lol
Hair the color Of the Sun.
And when he reached camp he forth
WITH set about 10 get very drunk. Blu
out where the shadows Of the night deep
ened Little Jean sObbed as he struggled
with the arid, rocky soil. trying TO make
a hole big enough for friend and toe
deep for the coyotes.
IN the middle OF the night the French
man came into camp and found FalloH
both drunk and jolly.
I say. jean bawled Fallon. slappine
his companion on the back and reelins
Iuxuriously all over the place; that was
a clean shot. wasn't It? Dang me, II 4
wasn't Ho. no. no. Have q drink. ehi
Right IN the middle of the temple, He
he. he, Right in the middle, Haw. haw
hawi But didn't he make a long. dean
timber corpse. though? Eh, Jean? Long
est. leanest, iinlberest-
But Jean fed from the place and spent
the night in the dark, pacing up and
down and thinking
What should be done2 What should be
zone with FaIlon-this monstrous coward
this hideous liar-this loathsome betray-
er OF faith, Shoot him down Ike mad
wolf? All. but a rife ball is kind and
carries sudden sleep with it,
Up and down. up and down in the dark
ness paced little Jean. thinking. The in
fiammable temperament Of his fathers
was ig1lited- He was not now merely 3
little man 5e was the spirit OF his ract
incaTnate-
What should be done with this monster
called FallOn2 Why-hunt him down like
wild beast Drive him naked into the
arid hills! Was not this the legacy Of the
Dane-this right of retributiOn2 Had ne
not wllied his rife and his ammunitior
to Jeal2 For what2 For retribution. He
would drive Fallon naked into the barren
hills. He would drive him eastward with
the gun OF the Dane. naked TO the blister
ing sun Of the desert,
Up and down. up and down paced Lit.
tie Jean. thinking. until the stars blinkee
out and the face OF the heavens went