The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-08-19

! -. Vancement-aS, for instance
the purchase of Willie's watch. This
tlmepiece cost the trainer twenty-one
| dollars, and he sold 1t 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
eornered the market and the whole
collection was safely locked IN his
trunk did he breathe easily This re-
CURED 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-
pioyer, and wheezed merrily over the
discontinue of The Mexican girls for.
mer admirers
She's swell little dame,'' he con-
hded to Speed one afternoon, as they
iounged luxuriously in the shade at
their customary resting place. Eyes.
and I'm 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
bad 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 mulatto"
Nav! She's no dinge. She's an
Aztec, an them Aztec's is swell peo-
ple Say, she can play guitar like
barberi"
Miss Blake told me she was in love
with Carara.'
Glass grunted contemptuously 1--WE
got 1t on that insurrecto four ways.
why I'm 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
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 md poke his eye out with a !
corn-cob. One copper with a night
stick could stampede the whole out
RIIf trn oil %
ne acknowledged, magnanimously. |
They're q nice bunch of fellers when
you know how to take EN-
THE flies are awful today" Speed
"They bite my legs
I'll bring out bath robe tomorc
row, and wen hide it in the bushes. /
wish there was some place to keep
his beer cool" Glass shifted some
bottles to point where the sunlight
lid not strike them.
I'm getting tired of training. Lar
"" acknowledged the young man,
With a yawn. at takes so much time"
Glass shook his head in sympathy.
Seems like we'd ought to hear from !
yovington," said he
He's on his way, no doubt Isn't 1t
line to go back to the ranch?" Il
Glass consulted his watch. "No, we j
int done but three miles. Here goes .
or the rubber"
1t was Berkeley Fresno who retreat /
ID cautiously from the shelter of a
hicket a hundred yards up the arroyo :
md started briskly homeward, con-
,ratulating himself upon the impulse
hat had decided him TO follow the
raining partners upon their daily rou- 6
inc. He made directly for the corral. {
Which ! don't consider there's no J
coniin' to him what
ver," said Willie that evening. "He a
int acted on the level" It
Now, see hers." objected Slower. t
be may Se jGss what he claims he is. ~