The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-08-01
CHAPTER XXXIV.
WIckwIre.

McCloud and Dicksie met them at
the porch door. Marion, unperved,
went directly to her room. whispering
Smith stopped to speak to Dicksie and
McClOud interposed. Bob Scott tele-
phoned the Office just now he had a man
from Oroville who wanted to see you
right away, Gordon" said he. I told
him to send him over here. It is Wick
wire"
"Wickwire," repeated Whispering
Smith. 'Wickwire has no business
here that I know Of; no doubt it is
something I ought to know of. And,
by the way, you ought TO see this
man." he said, turning again to Dick
sic. If McCloud tells the story right,
Wickwire is a sort of protege Of yours,
Miss Dicksie. though neither Of you
seems to have known it. He is the
tramp cowboy who was smashed up in
the wreck at Smoky creek. He is not a
bad man, but whisky, you know,
beats some decent men," A footstep
fell on the porch. There he comes now,
1 reckon. Shall I let him in a minute? %
oh. I should like to see him. He
has been at the ranch at different
times, you know
Smith opened the door and, stepping
out on the porch, talked with the new
in. DiCksie had seated herself on the
sofa, McCloud stood in the doorway of
the dining room, and Whispering
Smith laid one arm on the table as he
sat down beside 1t with his face above
the dark shade of the lamp. Before him
stood WiCkWire. The half light threw
him up tail and dark, but it showed the
heavy shock of black hair falling over
his forehead, and the broad, thin face
Of a mountain man.
He has just been telling me that
SeagrUe IS loose" Whispering Smith ex-
planned, pleasantly. who turned the
trick, Wickwire?"
Sheriff Coon and a deputy jailer
started with Seagrue for Medicine
Bend this morning. Coming through
Horse Eye canyon, Murray Sinclair and
Barney RebstOck got a clean drop on
them, took Seagrue, and they all rode
off together. They didn't make any
bones about IT, either Their gang
has got lots Of friends over there, you
know They rode into Atlantic City
and stayed over an hour. Coon tracked
them there and got up a posse of six
men. The three were standing in front
of the bank when the sheriff rode into
town. Sinclair and Seagrue got on their
horses and started off. Rebstock went
DdCk TO get alOll6f Qllllk. W neQ ne
came out Of the saloon he gave the
posse a gun-fight all by himself, and
wounded two men and made his get
away"
whispering Smith shook his head,
and his hand fell on the table with a
I tired laugh. Barney Rebstock," he
murmured. of all men, Coward. skate.
fiuer-iu, Barney RebstoCk-staIe-b beer
man. sneak, barnyard thief, Hit two
men, He turned to MCCloud. What
( kind of q wizard is Murray Sinclair
| What sort of red-b1oOd toxin does he
! throw into his gang TO draw out a
| spirit like that? Murray Sinclair be
/ longs to a race of empire builders. BY
! heavens, il Is pitiful a man like that
/ should be out Of a job, England Nc
/ Cloud, needs him. And here he is hold
/ ing up trains on the mountain divis-
[ ion"
They are all up at OrOville with the
/ Williams Cache gang. celebrating" con-
! tinued Wickwire.
Whispering Smith looked at the cow
/ boy. "Wickwire. you made good ride
and ] thank YOU. You are all right
I This is the young lady and this is the
man who had you sent to the hospital
from Smoky creek" he added. rising.