The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-11-07
CONTINUED from last Sunday

Il saw a 1ellOW killed IndC way AT
Holy Cross" interpolated the trader.
"'Hello!' / say. Watts de matterT
An den l see something bout i'm dat
look familiar. Hees face she's all
swell up an bleedin' lax raw meat"
The Frenchman curled his upper lip
back from his teeth and shook his
head at the remembrance.
"Jesu, OATS 'orrible sight! Dem fly
Is drive i'm crazee. Hees nose an ears
is look lax holes in beeg red sponge,
an bees aye are close up tight"
"He dtl before you got him in.
didn't hef
Eyes. He was good IA too"
81 guess you been purity glad for
havin' Necia home again, ehY ven
tured Poleon after awhile, unable to
avoid any longer the subject upper
most in his mind.
Eyes. I'm glad she's through with
her schooling"
"She's gettin' purity beeg gal now"
That's right"
by an by she's goin' marry on
some feller-w'atY"
II suppose SC. She amt the kind to
stay single"
"Ha! OATS right too. Mebbe you
don care IL she does get marry, eh?"
"Not if she gets a man that will
treat her right"
"Waal, wal! Dere's no trouble
bout dat" exclaimed Doret f~ervently.
"No man watts Twin could treat her
bad. She's too good an too purity for
have bad husban'."
"She is, Is she?" Gale turned On
him with a strange glare in his eyes.
''Them's the kind that get the he dev-
Ills. There's something about a good
girl that attracts a bad man, particu-
larly If she's pretty, and 1t goes dou-
BILE too. The good men get the hellions.
A fellow can't get 81 tough but what
he can catch a good woman, and a de-
cent man usually draws a critter that
looks like a sled and acts like a timber
welt"
,"Necia wouldn't marry on no bad
man." SAID Doret positively.
Neither man had yer spoken thus
openly to the other about Necia be-
fore, and, although their language was
Indirect, each knew the others
thought. But there was no time for
further talk now, for the others were
close upon them. AS they came into
view Gale exclaimed:
well, If Lee hasn't brought Run
MON along"
"Humph" grunted Doret. Il dom
tink much of dat feller."
The three new arrivals dropped
down upon the moss to rest, for the
I'D trail was heavy. Lee vas the first
to speak.
did you get away without bein'
SEEM he ask ed.
Sure" answered Gale. "Poleon has
been here two hours"
"That'e'e.sed. l don't want nobody
tsggiu along"
Ruunion 'Foiunteered nothing except
oarhs IL ta fnolquitoes and at his pack
STRAPS, which we're new and cut him
already. IL 40 explanation Of his
ETasence as offered, neither the trad
e. acr l. ct made any comment then,
bNt 1t ne Ont later, when the old
miner led far enough behind the
othsf her conversation possible,
.NfFou ided to lake in another one,
eh?' Gele asked Lee.
}.It wasn't e1actly my doin's," re-
lplied he MINER. stark asked me to
let Runnio- leone long. bein' as he
had CUB naked him, and he seemed
80 sgt on Ct Mat ] addressed. You
see, les he irst cha nee l eve had tc
pay lin back f8r a tayor he done me
in the Cassiar coantry- There's plenty
Of lane TO 20 arc9nd'
1t was Lees AFFAIR, thought the trad
er, and be might tell whom he liked,
so he said 10 more, but fell to study
Ing the back Of tie man next in front,
who ~nappeoed to be Stark, observing
every move an trick Of him and dur
ing the frequent paases making a point
Of listening ano catching him guard.
edly.
All through the afternoon the five
men wound up the valley, following
n another's footsteps, emerging from
somber thickets Of fir to founder
across wide pastures Of "nigger heads"
that wabbled and wriggled and bowed
beneath their feet until, at cost of
much effort and profanity, they gained
the firmer footing Of the forest. At
one point Stark, hot and irritable, re-
marked:
There must be a shorter cut than
this, LeeT
II reckon there is," the miner re-
piled, 'fbut I've always had a pack to
carry, 30 l chose level ground rather
than climb the divides"
"S'pose dose people at camp hear
bout dis strike an beat US in?' sug.
gested Poleon.
ut wouldn't be easy going for them
after they got there" Stark said sour
ly. II for one wouldn't stand for It,"
"Nor l." agreed Runnion.
II don't see how you'd help your.
SELF" the trader remarked. zone
mans got as good a right as another
II guess I'd help myself. all right
Stark laughed significantly, as did
D.~~fn r-ho aIIa1,