The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-12-09
A Homely Mans
Romance
BY CORA HATHoRN SYKES

| Murl MINUS WHO Ntiy hVhNiy ""h
He had red hair, was freckled, several
teeth were gone and his beard stood
out from his face like brlstles. Krebbs
was fifty-hve yenrs old and as unro'
mantle person as could be imagined.
He had been stage driver all his life,
and now that the railroads had elbowed
the stageconch or the main lines OF
travel Mart was handling the reins In
the Yellowstone park, driving parties
of visitors there. One day some young
ladies were occupying the next seat
back OF the driver, one pretty miss OF
eighteen sitting beside him. she was
trying TO get Mart's experiences Of wild
western life out OF him.
s'Are there any romanccs among these
episodes Of yours, Mr.. Krebbs?" she
! asked.
81 don't know what episodes Is" he
replied. but II by romances you mean
love there's one love story, but that's
the only one so far as ] knows"
do tell It," came from all the girls
at once, Mart began by sundry instruc-
lions TO his horses, eased the coach on
down grade by putting his foot on
the brake hemmed several times and
told his story:
This park when was younker was
part of the western wilderness, but
they called 1t what they call IL now,
and onct in awhile there was a party
visitin' ii. I'd been driyin' coach be-
tween Denver and Georgetown but
had gravitated over yere. The Ute In
dams was yere In them days, and they
was friendly to the whites, but the
friendship Of redskins means nothin'
dom between them as a tribe and
the whites. 1t don't take In small af-
fairs
"Waal, one day / was slouchin'
around lookin' for good place where
there was water to stay awhile when |
| heered the crack of rifle. / was |
In holler and / couldn't see nothin' /
and / didn't know which direction 1t |
was comm from. but as there was a |
road just beyond the rise on my right |
| kind o. thort there was somepin goin' /
VIZ III tuul uiltGltDlt. ttilA w luit
o. the way and crawled up the rest till /
| stuck this ugly mug o mine-I was
almost as ugly then as am however
the ridge.
what i saw was this: A party of
visitors was ridin' in three seated
wagon-three on seat-and three Utes
was maxim road agents of themselves,
calculatin to do little civilized plum
derin They had stopped the wagon
by the shot had heard, and the party
in the wagon was handin' out their
valuables. There wasn't one of 'em
armed, and they hadn't no business
drivin' there without perfection. They
had been told there wasn't no danger,
and mostly there want.
Il was only one man with one rife.
though | had plenty of ammunition. /,
didn't. feel like interferln so long as
the redskins acted Christian-like and
didn't do nothfn' moren rob. But when
they'd got all the cash there was in
the party and found there wasn't
much Of II after oil one Of 'em saw
mighty purity young gal, and | heard
him ask her to be his squaw. ! know'd
Just enough of their lingo to under
stand what he meant, but none o. them :
IN the wagon did The red devil took I
hold o. the gal and pulled her out O. .
he wagon. She was skeered purity i
ligh to death. When they got her In =
he road they was takin' her off into h
he forest when / calc'lated 1t was time y
o interfere. was layin' on my stom- i
ok with my rifle before me, hayin' a Y
perfect aim with rest sent BAH 5
nto the skull of the red man that was a
,inin for matrimony and dropped him
His two pals In about one second a
lad got their eyes on a bit o. smoke :,
ailin' Off from where was and know'd p
where the shot come from, but they !,
idn't know who had fired ii or how II
many there was of me. / didn't give s.
I'm time to make plans, / let fly an
Their lump O. lead, though by this time
he two live Indians was maxim for AZ
rees. and | only winged one o. 'em q
he other took the wounded man and 81
elped him away / sent another ball m
fter 'em SOS to discourage 'em from dt
omin' back. l waited awhile, reckon g
1 they might. but hearin' nothin' o. la
IN | went down and Joined the party to
THE raskil killed had most o. the IN
under on him, and that was saved.
ut the principal thing saved was the
al. When she got II through her :.
cad what I'd done she jist wabbled by
p to me and throwed her arms about re-
y neck and collapsed"
How interestingr exclaimed the
ri beside the narrator. Il thought
ed get to the love part after awhile"
id another. do go on cried a ,