The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-04-30

yet lacked two hours 10 supper
time; but In 20 minutes Sam and
were piunging deep into the reheated
beans, hot coffee and cold beef.
Nothing like good meal before
long ride" said Sam. Eat hearty"
had a sudden suspicion.
"Why did you have two horses sad,
dled?" asked.
"One, two-one. two" said Sam,
"You can count, can't your"
His mathematics carried with 1t a
momentary Qualm and a lesson. The
thought had not occurred to him that
the thought could possibly occur to
me not to ride at his side on the red
road to revenge and justice. 1t was
the higher calculus. / was booked for
the trail. / began to eat more beans.
In an hour we set forth at steady
gallop eastward. Our horses were Ken
lucky bred, strengthened by the mes
cult grass of the West. Ben Tatums
steeds many have been swifter, and
he had a good lead but if he had
heard the punctual thuds of the hoofs
of those trailers of ours born in the
heart of feudland, he might have felt
that retribution was creeping up on
the footprints Of his dapper nags.
Our first sight of them we had in
| Guthrie.
what are you waiting for, Samf" l
said in a whisper. LET him have It
now!"
Sam gave a melancholy sigh.
'You don't understand: but ne
does" he said. "He knows. Mr.. Ten
derfoot, there's rule out here among
white men in the Nation that you can't
shoot a man when he's with woman.
| / never knew it to be broke yet. Tou
can't do it. You've got to get hfTn in
gang of men or by himself. That's
| why He knows it, too. We all know.
| So, that's Mr. Ben Tatum! One OF the
pretty men!' I'll cut him out CT the
herd before they leave the hotel and
! regulate his account"
After supper the flying pair disab.
peared quickly. Although Sam Haunted
| lobby and stairway and halls half tho
night, in some mysterious way the
| fugitives eluded him; and in tho morn
ing the yelled lady in the brown dress
with the accordion-plaited skirt and
| the dapper young man with the close.
clipped hair and the blackboard with
the prancing nags were gone.
Five miles farther we came upon the
| future great western city of Chandle
The horses of pursuers and pursued
were starved and weary. There was
one hotel that offered danger to man
: and entertainment to beast, so the
/ four of us met again in the dining
room at the ringing Of bell so reson-
ant and large that it had cracked the
welkin long ago. The dining room
was not as large as the one at Guth-
| rie.
Just as we were eating apple pie
how Ben Davises and tragedy ltnpinge
upon each other!-I noticed Sam look
ing with keen intentness at our quarry
where they were seated at table
across the room The girl still wore
the brown dress with lace collar and
! cuffs and the veil drawn down to her
nose. The man bent over his plate
with his close-cropped head held low.
There's a CODE ] heard Sam say,
/ either to me or to himself, that won't
| let you shoot man In the company
of woman; but. by thunder, there
amt one to keep you from killing a
woman in the comnany of mani"
And, quicker than my mind could
follow his argument, he whipped a
Colts automatic from under his left
arm and pumped six bullets into the
body that the brown dress covered
the brown dress with the lace collar
and cuffs and the accordion-plaited
skirt.
The young person in the dark sack
suit, from whose bead and from whose
life woman's glory had been clipped,
| laid her head on her arms stretched
upon the table; while people came
running to raise Bon Tatum from the
floor In his feminine masquerade that
had given Sam the opportunity to set
aside, technically, the obligations of
! the code.
| Copyright, by the Frank A. Munsey Coz
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