Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-09-09

lhe purchase of Willie's watch This
tinepiece 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
cornered 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
haiycOn days for the Yale man. for
Fresno was universally agreeable, ard
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 equalization to his EN-
Dioyer, and wheezed merrily over the
discontinue Of the Mexican girls for.
mer admirers.
She's a swell little DAME" he con
tided 70 Speed one afternoon, as they
lounged luxuriously In the shade at
1heir customary resting place. Yes,
and I'm aces with her, too" They had
set out for their daily run, and were
now contrasting 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
ole Say. she can play a guitar like
barberi"
Miss Blake told me she was in love
with Cerara."
Glass grunted contemptuously. I've
got il on that insurrecto tour ways.
Why. I'm learning to talk Spanish my
self IL he gets lossy, I'll cross one
over his bow" The trainer made
vicious jab at an imaginary Mexican
He amt got a good wallop in him.
Il thought cowboys was tough guys,
continued Glass, but it's a mistake.
That little Write. for instance. is
lamb. He packs that Mauser for pro-
lection. Hes afraid some farmer will
walk up and poke his eye out with a
coru-cob. One upper with night
stick could stampede the whole out
nit But they're all right, at that,
hs acknowledged, magnanimously.
They're a nice bunch of fellers when
y0u know how TO take EN-.
The flies are awful today" Speed
complained. They bite my legs"
I'm bring out a bath robe Jomor-
wish there was some place TO keep
this beer cool" Glass shifted some
bottles to a point where the sunlight
did not strike them.
I'm getting tired of training, Lar
IT," acknowledged the young man.
yith yawn. 1t takes so much time"
Glass shook his head in sympathy.
Seems like we'd ought to hear from
Coyington." said he,
Hes on his way, no doubt Isn't il
time to go back to the ranch?"
Glass consulted his watch NO. we
amt doue but three miles. Here goes
for the rubber"
Il was Berkeley Fresno who retreat
ed cautiously from the shelter of
ylicket hundred yards up the arroyo
and started briskly home ward, con
graduating himself upon the impulse
that had decided him TO follow the
training partners upon their daily rou-
iiue. de made directly for the corral.
Which ! don't consider there's no
consideration COMM 10 him what
ever" said Willie that evening. He
amt acted on the level"
Now. see here" objected Slower.
he may be just what he claims he is.