The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-09-12

slack and the cattle poor, and the COM
mon tongue is busy with the ways Of
my brother? I have never asked "a
vOrs, nor expected favOTs, nor help, nor
advice. You have seen how We live;
and now CO.
81 propose" he said doggedly, "to
serve YOU"
He took the bucket up from where
she had set it and did the work she had
begun. When the trough was filed, he
/ came back. The girl made dim figure
by the we'll. Tell me-" he said, where
/ your brother is"
Il do not know where my brother is. "
Tell me where to look fo~ him."
He waited i'm vain for an answer, IN
happy i'm his perpleXity and desire to
help and the attitude Of Virginia. You
are a beautiful girl" he said. with the
lnowledGe Of a thousand things that /
have not, and I cannot think YOU blind
10 the CIeanest impulse that ever
] brought a man to you. I might have
: come to YOU as a sutton. and surely
men have done that. You must under
stand my coming. And now that
/ I have seen you, d whole inheritance of
misunderstanding, and all Tho things
that separate us shall not from
doing what l can. stl.I going
away now" he said. Please direct me
to your brother"
Without an answer, she left him then,
and went into the house. Perplexed, he
stood waiting for her to return.
He waited there by the we'll quite in
/ vain. The cattle ClamOred. chickens
CLICKED sleepily, an unfriendly dog
/ came out of the gathering dark and
suuffed of his knees. Still Nelson
I thought she would come
/ A lob -F,y
house. He made a step forward, stopped
and turned about. Then he went back
/ to his horses and a squirt Of anger
] Quickened him. But the pique was mo-
/ mentary. There We're things he did not
understand. Nirginia's attitude was be-
/ yund his explaining. But at least he
| would return.
Before Battles place which all the
/ world knows to be the principal saloon
/ of HUmmingbiTd Cand therefore the To-
Gus of life and expenditure for the
/ Buckskin valley and beyond, Nelson
/ paused before entering. Besides his bar
/ his twelve games of chance and his or
/ chestTa and cantatrices operating from
a small stage at the rear of the estab-
/ Eshment Battle maintains a lunch
counter of repute Nelson's horses were
mUnchinE their grain at a corral, and
Nelson proposed a beefsteak for him
+ self.
Yet he paused before entering. utter
T ly baffled with a problem so removed
from meat and drink and John Battles
department store saloon that il seemed
a deseCratiOn to take it in with him.
When he passed the doors finally it was
in a mind still perplexed and harried.
/ a stir peTvaded the interior of the place.
But standing just inside the swing doors
/ Nelson looked upon it all without inter
/ est
A man occupying a chair behind the
bar rose suddenly with a cry Of recog-
milton. Hello he shouted, and reached
out a hand
For reply Nelson drew his revolver
and laid it in the outstretched palm.
partly in respect TO section $50 Of the
Criminal Code of Arizona, which directs
travellers to deposit their weapons with
I'm half an hour Of entering town, and
mainly because he did not like John
Battle, and wished to point the fact
'NOure-areu't YOU Billy Nelson ."
said the worthy.
- am Nelson. That is true"
well now, where have you been all
these years."
Mining, mainly" said Nelson, NOV
ing on.
Battle put the revolver back of his
cash register and hurried around to the
front, taking Nelson by the elbow. You
know I'm mighty glad 10 see the boys,
the old-time boys, like you. I says to
myself the minute you come i'm. that's
Billy Nelson. and not changed a mite
since-lemme see-eleven-twelVe years
ago when YOU was cow-punching for
ThadWaite i'm the valley here, and won
the bTOnChO-bustiug contest i'm Coco
nin0. I've often used you as an exam
pie Of one of our real, seIf-made bows:
and so you are
Battle" said Nelson aUstereIy. It
can't get it out of my mind that eleven
years ago You shOrt-changed me out Of
ten dollars"
oh. come now" cried Battle. that
amt true" But ne changed the sub
iCCt with a "Whatll YOU have. Biliy2'
and motioued for one Of his walters.
Thank YOU. no. l came i'm TO get
something To- eat
Come right with me. then. George
he called TO a cook who held forth with
q couple Of assistants at a far end Of
the great room. this is Nr. Billy Nell
son. Treat him right And make out
the hin to me. do you hear2"
Hang it all said Nelson, cant you
let me buy my own food p"
Not tonight Battle replied smooth
~ 81 want you to make yourself at
home Just excuse me for a moment.
TIL be back"
Nelson ate his meat sullenly. More