Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1909-02-16

IL hunted up Buck Mckee at his
4 4 favorite gambling joint and in
q white heat of Indignation informed
him in detail of everything that had
passed between Payson and himself.
At once Mckee Inferred that the writ
err Of the letter was none other than
Dick Lane Realizing that Payson
was already informed of his villainy
and that in very short time Dick
Lane himself would make his appear
ance on the Sweetwater. the half
while he yet retained the confidence of
Bud.
Bud" he said, 81 know the man
who is sendin' the money to Payson
It's Dick, yer brother"
But" stammered Bud, his brain
whirling, "but If that's so you lied
about the Apaches killing him-and
you why. you-must have been the
renegade, the devil who tortured pros
pectors."
"Why, Bud, Dick never wrote all
that dime novel nonsense about the
man who stood by him lowell, not
the very last, fer Dick has managed
somehow to pull through Probably
he wuz saved by the rurales that
wuz chasin the band that rounded US
I'D. No; it's Payson, Jack Payson, that
made up that pack Nv lies jes' to keep
you away from me. the man that wu2
last with Dick. an so may get on to
Jacks game an block it."
"Game! What game?" asked Bud
bewildered.
why. you told me 1t yerself-tc
marry Dicks girl an live on Dicks
hard earned money"
but Dick borrowed the three thou
sand Of Jack" objected Bud.
"Well, the dollars he borrowed have
all gone, hain't they? And the money
he's sendin' back Dick dug out Nv the
ground by hard work, didn't he
Leastaways, Payson hadn't ort to us'
the money to rope in Dicks girl. i
ort to be KEEP from him, anyhow TIL
Dick comes on the ground his own self
That d hold up the weddin', all right
If know Josephine. 1t d be easy tt
steer her into refusin to let Echo g.
into mortgiged home
Simple minded Bud readily accepted
the willy half breeds explanations ant
surmises and fell into the trap he wa
preparing. This was to hold up tn
express agent and rob him of the mon
ey Payson was expecting, on securing
which it was Mckee's intention to fle
49,
: to denounce him. To ascertain JUS
when the money came into the agent
hands and to act as cover in the roll
berry itself an accomplice was needed
For this purpose no man In all tn
Sweetwater region was better adapte
than Bud Lane Frank and friendl
with every one, he would be truste
by the most suspicious and caution
official in Pinal county. The fact tn,
he had chosen Buck Mckee as an u
sociate had already gone far to r
habilitate this former bad man"
Under cover Of this friendship Mex,
hoped to escape suspicion of any XIII
In the homicide he contemplated.
For it was murder-foul unprovokt
murder-that was in the black soul
the half breed. He intended to
eliminate Bud SO deeply as to put
beyond all thought that he would co
TESS.
- Young Lane, passionately lcs.,I to b
g brother, was ready for anything tn
would delay Paysons marriage
Echo Allen Together with the wi
a joy that sprang up in his heart at t
- thought that his brother was ali
was intwined violent hatred again
his former employer. In the fierce II
bulence within his soul, generated
the meeting Of these great emotion
he was impelled to enter upon a m
debauch, in which Mckee abetted a
joined him.
= Filling up on bad whisky. they re
through the streets of Florence y,