The Alaska citizen., 1913-11-10

..lE" huuIhir. the deputy sheriff er Nsatagino county. best shot in -E# .-5.r loved hy the good. hated 'Hr naa mounted on Nemesis. q
 as-a error by day and night to --.-lgrrs lifted n the saddle, gun in ..-a held alot' and swore by all t.4r Is holy thu>ly I'll get my nm tr #j~ iu th~ attempt. so helu
 r..-luE very unusual was evi. ..reN aa 'Le apis the green spring. ..... .ara-. of Nature: for it was t.- -a.rsl.- usv .o 20 wordless aft. er art man wanted and get him. Gar5ias ara Billie Doughty was n mu.b Ike york for your ornery e.stH# te undertake t. As rule aasvarado~s dit bat fight shy of the zHa:E'.
 t#a EaratN vas no ornery out. z4# Take hlm every which way he Nt- 'NeeH4oual And yet knowing h. Has wanted. and wanted bad JoTk had lodged the sheriff for months kept 10 the hills nor come ".aa nof by hts home town. In fact .a aad broken a leg trying 10 get ##.t, likewise i sl eated the knee john. hlz famous sorrel. Wild Fire sG8He aa him and he tn. champion s##t q California. Accidents will #=.H tue lucky dog with nine =sss= That time clinging 10 the .es-e as II reeained is feet. he had =a- awe wish f, given the sheriff sa -j51 ridden boldly into town, lad h msrlf fixed ID and faded into Far fled air The nigh and near d3@'of had botrhed the job so much so .h5t Ia,k Raraty's left leg stuck ae night angles when he was na horseback. and made him conspic- 4as- ar IS < prismatic glass could ,=- H.m
 i-2t-~it Ji' bdTdlH edTleSS lack kaew well why the sheriff
 ~ affsr him. he was unconscious IT, ayer having done anything 70 ae>arNa wha, Mendocino county to
 @ag declared to he too god for H# \ far exchange is no robbery. He Ead taken only what he honestly thoueht sa he his sinner he owned ug 10 being He had done those things whoh he ought not to have done. aHf he had left undone those g linn. Criminal? No, Of poy. ae'z- neither morc nor less. had he
 -nilty.
 ' verim .. circumstances over l==A |. had no control was Fear .a-S lack A one fell swoop he r- r1 appendix and $2,o0o Looking .iNe one buck had cost him no less .4aa 15o bucks. A city sport had hot him and then turned tail and t.e. for icar life. The doctors, having relieved him of lead and gold slhe Jeff him feeling more like two eir- in rhe mud than 30 cents. Fin H.. his Nay of living was passing 1lGrr tHe framp-tramp-tramp of Civ .liza'5Dn civilization with d capital a' ~H"famento. Fearless Jack was t -tmior horse Nrangler of the Uni ter5 .} of Outdoors, Cattle country. # master of the arts of bronco-bust, ."s and rope-throwing
 Had he not been poor man the aenHS would never have been thus hunting for him. He could have look o5 tho sheriff, the world, in the tacr and grinned care free. 'Tis eojnlessness that makes towards of us all
 Aai now Fearless Jack Baraty must needs look about him like a craFen-born and To- one day there against the sky his Nemesis. which in happ er days himself had broken and presented to the deputy-as a free gift. not a brbe.
 Next instant Wild Fire was burn ing up the trail, its masters left lee stuck out gamely. Jack waste,. Ho time looking behind Instinct told him that the sheriff had sighted the human quarry; that the man. hunt was fairly -unfairly-on Bill $ Doughty meant business. A quick getaway, like that of a jackrabbit was the hunted ones chance. Ne mesis, as none knew better than he was an all-day horse, and it was now high II on. Before dark Wild Fire would fade, die. Though by no means quarter horse" it had not half the staying powers Of the sheriff's well-named mount.
 How they rode from midday to dusk, how the chase seemed ended dozen times in the quarry's es- Cabe, only to begin again; how sher- iff kept gaining, depending. not main ly on sight, like greyhound, ncr smell like harrier but on some subtler sense, an instinct terrible in it's infallibiity. needs but little tell ing. Time and again, hid by some brush, Jack drew rein and breath, a free breath, as he thought, only to see. on nPapinp frnm his hiding