New-York tribune., 1909-08-08
Callous interruption OF a
Good Story That Never
Was Finished.
CHAPTER ~.

The Man from the West elevated his heels 10
comfortable angle and expounded his views
ITS these four-Aushers' lie said. that make
me tired. ] met "a tennis player in a brokers' Of
nce On Golddeld that had Beas Wright beat Nor
mon block for the championship in a chalk talk On
the stock hoard Laid OFF the Newport courts and
took five straight sets in ten minutes actual play
ing time. with time Tor drinks And the only
original wild animal caught IN the JUnges of Nina
has his lair up end Of the Nee AstOr bar
lie has eight notcles on his gun and The sights
flee Of and captured Apache Kid with his own
hands The first time out
But Il was automobiles talking about,
and thai reminds me of Hubert Hubert was a LAD
from the widest part Of Indiana Doc Hart dis
covered him and brought him out 10 Nevada, where
Doc and Bob Gregg were running the Lodi mines.
Gregg being the resident manager and Doc picking
Up adventurous strangers back East 10 nj the
bags.
Il starts out from camp one day with my httl.
gray ;eam 10 hit The railroad Lunng. calculat-
3s 10 make 81 in two days. but going 10y Lodi Nal
ley the chance that Gregg would be Going up
I'm his automobile. and ] might shift over 10 the
and save ny team the trip. Sure enough wien
] passes the turn off to Lodi mines. hears that
Gregg and Doc Hart are taking party up 10 the
railroad. and ] drives slow 10 Jet en- overtake me
I'm about four miles down the road. when hears
toot and pulls out 10 one side. The car comes
alone. Gregg and Doc gives me the high sign. and
changes vehic,os. Gregg and Doc is IN front, and
that They calls Mister which means TO discern
inR mind jlat he has taken large block Of stock
and gliS Hubert
"Huoert is surc bad one He wears olive
cyab khaki suit like army uniform. and a
cartridge belt. And he has a Cat beited him
that fair weighs him down. Every time he shifts
ms scat which Is some frequent. due TO the rocks
in the road. he las lit his gun with both hands
and move il around He keeps a sharp watch all
the time he's telling what bad he is for
i.ff.r 8.
Jackrabht. and he takes five shots 1T H. II takes
him twenty minutes to pet loaded up again, and
then he turns loose three more shots at another
rabbit that doesn't understand the game and be-
gins 70 hustle at the irst crack and keeps right on
moving.
After the second rabbit crosses the range Gregg
settles down To "a steady pace on good stretch
OF road, and uothina happens for a while. except
Hubert little mouoloSue. The running is hne
and desert roads can't be beat when they are good
Gregg lets out d INK from Time 10 time and we
are taking the grade 10 Petrhed Springs AT
forty-ue clip The ozone straightens few
kinks out OF Hubert spirits, which has been kind
Of warped by the jaclTabbB episodes. and he
folds some experiences about automobile racing
back East
1T seems that Hubert IS crack driver, and I
begins To wonder why haven't -IIs iaetll- iu
the papers none 10 speak Of Some OF his expert
enoss has been plumb thrilling. lac h. suIe iJ4au-
olo, the daredevil driver. Tie Is just hradug iuto
another OF these blood cutdng expositions, when
We shoots fy PetTihed Springs and prepares for the
drop 10 Lunlng the Leap OF Death.
"PcWnod Springs is right top the noun
tain, and beginning about a hundred yards beyond
Il is twelye-nlilc hin. with "a per cent grade
running down 10 Luning. Gregg is usually care
ful driver, but ho has been listening 10 the Wild
escapades Of Hubert, until the sporting blood has
mantled 10 his brow. and he leaves the springs a
mere blur on the rockbOund landscape and plunges
over the brow Of the hill-ike Madomo.ss lt ...zz
be Gee looping the fearful loop
II was the day before the race, Hubert is say
ing, and I giving the ear her last tT-Out She
was siK-cylinder ninety, stripped 10 The iunning
gear
And just then tie front end ~ the .ar drops
thirty degrees and leaves standing up. with our
lesl L. the small Of GTe.G ana DOC Hayts DAc1s,