The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-07-04

is fairly educated and highly inteln- /.
gent capable in every way, daring to 4
the limit. and. in a way. fascinating; it |
Is no wonder he has a following. But
his following is divided into two classes; !
The men that know all the secrets, and
the men that dOn't-men like RebstOck
and Du Sang, and men like your cousin
and hundred or so sports in Medicine
Bend, who see only the glamour of Sin
clair's pace. Your cousin sympathizes
with Sinclair when he doesn't actually
side with him. All this has helped TO
turn Sinclair's head, and this is exact
ly the situation you and McCloud and
1 and lot of others are UP against.
they don't know all this, but l know
IT, and now you know it. Let me tell
you something that comes close to
home. You have a cowboy on the ranch
named Karg-he is called Flat Nose.
karg was d railroad man. He is cat
tle-thief a train-robber, a murderer,
and spy. I should not tell you this if
you were not game to the last drop of
your blood. But I think l know you
better than you know yourself, though
you never saw me until last night. Karg
Is Stnclair's spy at your ranch, and you
must never feel it or know it; but he
Is there to keep your cousins sympathy
with Sinclair, and to lure your cousin
MS way. And karg Will try to Kill
George McClOud every time he sets foot
on this ranch, remember that"
Then Mr.. McCloud ought not TO be
here. I don't want him to stay if ne is
in danger exclaimed Dicksie.
But 1 do want him to come here as
if it mattered nothing, and I shall try
to take care Of him. ] have a man
among your own men. a cowboy named
Wickwire. who viii be watching Karg,
and who is Just as quick, and Karg,
not knowing he was watched, would be
taken Unawares. If Wickwire goes else
where to work some one else viii take
his place here. KaTg is not on the
ranch now; he is up north, hunting up
some of your steers that were run off
last month by his own CrOnies. Now do
you think / am giving you confidence"
She looked at him steadily. IF I can
only deserve it all" In the distance she
heard the calling of the men at the
river borne on the wind. The shock of
what had been told her, the strangeness
of the night and Of the scene, left her
calm Fear had given way to response
bility, and Dicksie seemed to know her
self.
You have nothing whatever to do to
deserve it but keep your own counsel.
But listen a moment IOHger-for this is
what I have been leading up to-" he
said. Marion will get a message to-
morrow, a message from Sinclair ask
ing her to come to see him at his ranch
house before she goes back. I don't
know what he wants-but she is his
wife. He has treated her UNANIMOUSLY;
that is why she will not live with him
and does not speak of him. But you
know how strange a woman is-or per-
haps you don't; she doesn't always
cease to care for a man when she ceases
to trust him. I am not in Marion's
confidence, Miss Dicksie. She is an
other mans wife. I cannot tell how she
feels toward him; 1 know she has often
tried to reclaim him from his deviltry.
She may try again, that is, she may, for
one reason or another, go to him as he
asks, l could not interfere, if I would
1 have no right TO if I could, and 1 will
not Now this is what I'm trying to
get up the courage to ask you. Should
you dare to go with her to Sinclair's
ranch if she decides to go TO him?'
Certainly I should dare"
After all you know?"
After all 1 know-why not?"
Then in case she does go and YOU go
with her, you will know nothing what
ever about anything, of course, unless
you get the story from her. What :
fear is that which possibly may come
of their interview. He may try to kill
her-dOn't be frightened. He will not
succeed If you can only make sure he
doesn't lead her away on horseback
from the ranch-hOuse or get her alone in
a room. She has few friends Il re-
spect and honor her because she and
grew up as children together in the
same little town in Wisconsin. I knew
her folks, all of them, and I've promised
them-yOU knOw-tO have a kind of care
of her"
Il think I know"
He looked seif-conscious even at her
tone of understanding. Il need not try
to deceive you; your instinct would be
poor if it did not tell you more than I
ought to. He came along and turned
her head. You need fear nothing for
yourself in going with her, and nothing
for her If you can cover Just those two