The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1913-05-07
CHAPTER VIII.

~ n tinge of romance, discern
tZ1E able in the deep, haunting
WI eyes of Mariedetta, the
| TNB maid, but it offered an op
| -IZylIj portunity for financial ad-
- vancement-as, for instance
the purchase of Willie's watch. This
timepiece cost the trainer twenty-one
dollars, and he sold it to Speed for
double the amount, believing in the
luck of even numbers. Nor did young
| Speed allow his trainers efforts to
cease here, for in every portable time
piece on the ranch he recognized a
menace, and not until Lawrence had
cornered the market and the whole
collection was safely locked in his
trunk did he breathe easily. This re-
quired two days, during which the
young people at the ranch enjoyed
themselves thoroughly. They were
halycon days for the Yale man, for
Fresno was universally agreeable, and
seemed resigned to the fact that
Helen should prefer his rivals COM
pany to his own.
AS for Glass, he recounted tales of
Mariedetta's capitulation to his en-
ployer, and wheezed merrily over the
discontinue of the Mexican girls for
mer admirers.
"She's a swell little DAME" he con-
fided to Speed one afternoon, as they
lounged luxuriously in the shade at
their customary resting place. yes,
and Im-aces with her, too" They had
set out for their daily run, and were
now contesting for the seven-up SUI
premacy OF the Catskill mountains. AL
ready Glass had been declared the I'M
disputed champion of the Atlantic
coast, while Speed on the day previous
had wrested from him the champion
ship of the Mississippi valley.
But Mariedetta is dark" said the
college man, as he cut the cards. "She
is almost a mulatto."
Nav! She's no dinge. She's an
Aztec, an them Aztec's is swell peo-
pie. Say, she can play guitar like
barber!"
Miss Blake told me she was in love
with Carara."
Glass grunted contemptuously. 1--WE
got il on that insurrecto four ways.
Why, Pm learning to talk Spanish my
self. If he gets lossy, I'll cross one
over his bow" The trainer made a
vicious jab at an imaginary Mexican.
He amt got a good wallop in him.
81 thought cowboys was tough guys"
continued Glass, but it's a mistake.
That little Willie, for instance, is a
lamb. He packs that Mauser for pro-
lection. He's afraid some farmer will
walk up and poke his eye out with a
corn-cob. One copper with a night
stick could stampede the whole out
fit. But they're all right, at that"
he acknowledged, magnanimously.
They're a nice bunch of fellers when
you know how to take EN-"
"The flies are awful today" Speed
complained. "They bite my legs"
I'll bring out a bath robe tomor-
row, and Wen hide it in the bushes. l
wish there was some place to keep
this beer COOL" Glass shifted some
bottles to a point where the sunlight
did not strike them.
"Im getting tired of training, Lar
ry." acknowledged the young man,
with yawn. ut takes so much time"
Glass shook his head in sympathy.
Seems like we'd ought to hear from
Covington," said he.
Hes on his way, no doubt Isn't 1t
time to go back to the ranch?"
Glass consulted his watch. mo, we
for the rubber"
II was Berkeley Fresno who retreat
ed cautiously from the shelter of
thicket hundred yards up the arroyo
and started briskly homeward, con-
graduating himself upon the impulse
that had decided him to follow the
training partners upon their daily rou-
tine. He made directly for the corral.
(Which don't consider there's no
consideration comm to him what
ever" said Willie that evening. "He
amt acted on the level"
Nov, see here" objected Slower.
nc may NC just WHAT NC Cidlin6 ne 10
Simply because he don't go skally-
hootin' around in the hot sun amt no
sign he can't run"
what about them empty beer
bottles?" demanded Willie. mo fell
Ter can train on that stuff. went out
there myself and seen 'em. There was
dozen"
"Mebbe Glass drank ii. What
claim is this: We Amt got no proof.
Fresno is stuck on Miss Blake, and
he's a knocker."
Then let's git some proof. and
dam quick"
Isl. Senores." agreed Carara, who
had been an interested listener.
Il agree with you. but We got to be
careful"