New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-29
OF COURSE, SHE HAS A GUN
If Josephine Had Not Been
on Hand the Tenderfoot
Would Have Been
Gored to Death.

musical quality Of her voice.
She seldom smiles, this young woman,
snd the look OF quiet calm i'm her ewes
seems 10 speak Of some tragedy in her
past life. She is woman with single
purpose is Josephine Rauiston. twenty
year-old daughter Of Jack" Raulston.
wealthy rancher OF Sheridan. Wyo. and
she has sworn 10 stay here in the East
until her grim purpose is accomplished
Three years ago. when Josephine was
seventeen years old and the pet Of her
fathers big ranch IN the Far West. a
man came into her life. Not that the
gil Of the plains had not been brought
UP with men. From the time she was able
10 toddle from her mothers knee she had
been one OF the boys" among the rough
staggering cow punchers on Jack"
Raulston's cattle range.
But then came the man. He vas differ
emf from the happy go-lucky cowboys
with whom Josephine had been associated
since her babyhood. He was good TO look
upon she thought, and he always dressed
in the latest Eastern style His man
ners were winning and he seemed TO have
I'll the polish which tho COW punchers ON
Ter fathers ranch lacked. And then. too,
Josephine had been the means Of saving
his life when they met FOR the first time
And that had always seemed TO cast
halo about him in her eyes.
She Meets the Man.
Il vas one torrid. scorching day when
ihe daughter Of the rsncher was riding
Ter bronco Bess from her home 10
me private school she attended. twenty
miles over the rolling plains, that she
came lace 10 face with him.
As she rode, singing in her happiness
The girls attention was suddenly arrest
81 BY a sullen. measured roar. increasing
IN volume at every moment. She knew
the meaning Of It, and she spuTred her
pony into a canter, then into a hca1long
gallop. Then. at a turn In the winding
prairie road she saw man leaning idly
against a waysidc bOwlder He was look
ing downward. rs though in earnest
thought. and IL he had heard the sound
which had brought a sudden realization
Of danger 20 the girl lie gave no heed 20
t.
Josephine Raulston swung from The
saddle and ran toward the stranger. She
warned him to escape while there was yc.
time; that a wandering herd 81 range
catte was on the stampede ana would
tample everything in its patti.
Even then the man seemed not 20 real
.zc his danger lie attempted to iol'"
with the ranch girl. and the sound Of
beating hoofs was nearer now. iutcr-
Spcrsed with the angry believing Of mad
doncd long Horned steers. Josephine
knew then that IL was too late Tor th"
stranger TO escape from the rush OF the
stampeded cattle. There was only ono
ding loft for her 10 do, and she did not
hesitate
She leaped back into hor saddle and
galloped off across the plain. in the di-
rcction Of the approaching cattle The
only way 10 prevent the well dressed
stranger from being mussed was to head
OF the stampede. and that is what the
gil on the bronco did. She rode fear
lessly into the midst Of the believing,
t-amplirs herd. narrowly missing being
sored herself by the sharp horns, and
when II was all over, she found the man
wing by tho roadside white and motion
less His left lcg had been broken by
NyinC hoof and ne was helpless. but she
had saved his life.
Rescuer's Name a Secret
Leaving him there. Josephine rode back
10 her home and summoned aid for the
man. He was carried 70 the nearest
point where medical attendance could
be procured and there the girl left him
She wouldn't tell him her name in spite
Of his plcadings and expressions Of graft
tude.
Six months later young man strobe
across the yard OF Jack" Raulston's
ranch house and knocked on the door
Raulston himself greeted the stranger
and asked him what ne would have. The
man asked him IL he could be introduced
10 his daughter, whose voice he had often
heard rs she sang on her rides across the
plains.
Ia his abrupt Western manner Rauls-
ton demanded OF the stranger what his
purpose was In meeting the child and
who he was. Then the man told him
how his life had been saved six months
before by Josephine Raulstor and how
he had been trying ever stree L. meet
her and thank her.
The ranchers heart was won. He had
not heard of his daughters exploit and
he invited the stranger in and sum
moned his daughter. Josephine and the
man whose life she had saved were then
formally introduced. The man came often
after that, whenever he had an oppor-
tunity on his travels as a representative
Of an Eastern business house, and before
many months he and Josephine were en-
gagged.
The COW puuchers ~" the ran"n. 3'-
though they had not warmed TO the man
from the East, set about TO make gaia
occasion of the day when Josephine
Raulston should be married. They saved
up their hard earned dollars and pooled
them and bought what they thought was
a BETTING present for the daughter OF
their boss
Then one day. a week before the wed
ding, the polite stranger disappeared. no
word came TO the girl. nor TO the father
and mother. The cowboys, WIN Hlui
INJURED threats. started statewide huh'
for him. He could not be found.
Josephine Leaves Home.
Josephine RaulstOn bore her sorro"
quietly, She kept her own counsei ana
mapped out her own course OF action. Ile'
parents were worried seeing how meI""-
choly their daughter had become p"'
their sympathy seemed 10 be OF no com
fort 10 the girl. One morning they avon
10 ind Josephine had left her nome i''"'
was about a year ago.
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