The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1910-12-01

ing IN 10 his comrades bed
side the following morning,
lin instructed 10 pay you a
| kiss" i.aniers bandaged head spun
on .the pillow He had but one girl In
| his mind
"Wh whoT' he demanded
! Ennis threw his head hack and
laughed mine times out of ten when
u fellow Is asked. win you take II now
or wait til you get itT he's wise 10
take IL now II I'm any Judge
should say you'd better wait Till you
can get ii, which may be in less than
week"
Ennis, II you can quit being an
ass long enough to tell me what you
mean and where you've been III thank
you. II you can't | wish you'd get
out Ugashp," concluded Bob. with
I 2se into Apache and the pillow.
well. II probably isn't just the kiss
you were thinking of-no more was
I when | got it-but. Robert, my son
ard fellow soldier, It's my recorded
conviction that the most enviable
member OF the regiment this day of
our Lord Is your twin trooper friend
Rawdon. | saw him off on his we'd
ding tour, and he didn't have on your
clothes"
Lanler's head popped up In an in
slant. the one visible eye all eager in
terest Where were they married?
When did they get or? Was Lowndes
thereY" were the questions that few
from his lips.
Arena. on No. G. Don't know"
was the categorical answer RAW
don brought the parson out from
Omaha. and the Osborns gave her
away. or Lowndes I've seen nothing
since the night you staked him at
Laramie. and what I've heard of him
you refused TO listen TO. or that cal
low specimen of the effete and ultra
refined Back Bay district you've long
since had my opinion, He's too good
and gentle for this western world of
ours. Bob. and he and his shuddering
klnsfolk suffer too much by contami
nation
"oh. shut up. dad! His people did
wire him that his mother was desper-
ately ill They merely wanted TO get
him away from the campaign. He'd
been gambling. the pesky little fool.
with some OF the Rawhide crowd, was
all OUT OF cash and dared not tell his
That's all there was TO IL.
A. k.,sI
perhaps he had, since
Ra wdon had enough 20 marry on.
Lowudes owed him ten times what he 4
owed me, ! reckon"
To them. thus engrossed in confden- |
.ial chat. there suddenly entered the /
wo doctors. "Rlack Bin, the inspector (
had given notice that he must needs /
have speech with the culprit. IL that 4
blistered and unprincipled 4
Young man were in condition TO see
him. BLACK Bilf' and his host had
been having a night of II. Button was
n high tettle over the amazingly truth
rul and unlocked for articles In the
Mail aud as eager 10 know aud re-
ward their author as he had been 10
ipprehend and punish the earlier de
ractor. Button had begun to "wab-
DE" as BIN expressed II, In his spleen
against I.8nier until so suddenly
'braced" by the truculent stand of
Captain Snaflle, whose half drunken
words the previous night were by this
ime known all over the post
The matter was now in the hands OF
Colonel Riggs, however, and il was his
% determine what further action TO
AXE. SnatIle had named as his witness
Sergeant Fitzroy, Private Kelly twho.
hough drunk on duty. had not been
70 drunk. said Snatiie and Fitzroy, that
le could not recognize an officer when
le saw HIM. and the third witness, 10
he amaze OF Barker and the derision