The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-08-20
CHAPTER XIV.
The Onyx Pin.

CHAPTER XIV.
The Onyx Pin.
When the next letter came
from Lahoma. Wilfred Compton
and Bill Atkins hurried to the
crevice in the mountain-top ac-
cording to agreement.
Brick wilcox, who was there
before them, read the letter in
silence before handing It to the
young man to read aloud.
Dear Brick" Lahoma began:
BY this time you have hidden
you've got my telegram and you
know I wouldn't have sent it II It
hadn't been necessary.
We'll and 1 believe in you, Brick,
and you needn't imagine as long as
you live that anybody could make
me think you anything but what
L know you to be. Get that fixed in
your mind SO when 1 tell what they
say about you, you won't care
knowing I'm with you and will be-
lteve in you.
I'm going to skip everything ex-
cept the part about you, for this
letter goes by next mail Maybe 1
ought to begin with MIR. Gledware
so you'Il know more about him
when l begin on the main news.
We are at his house now and
the house-party is in full swing.
Mr.. Gledware is pressing his suit
to Annabel with all his might, and
her mother is helping him.
The first time 1 met Mr.. Gled-
ware, he acted in curious way.
was introduced as Miss Wilcox
and he stared at the name, and at
sight of me, and when he heard
Annabel call me Lahoma his face
turned perfectly white.
THE first chance he had, after
that, he sat down to talk to me In
a E0TnQE a
erheard, and he asked me questions.
So. of course, l told about father
and mother taking me across the
and how mother died and father
was killed. and L was with the In
dams a while and then was taken
listened with his head down, never
meeting my eye. and when / had
finished ali he said was, Did you
ever hear my name beforer
Now I've come to today when
sent you the telegram. There
was to be a big picnic, today, near
town called inde epent zee, a ai,Sa
going, so begged off-let me tell
you why: I began a novel, last
night ever and ever more interest
ing than real people can be. So 1
stayed to finish that book.
Now there is a nook in Mr..
Glendwareis library where you have
u WINDOW dll 10 DuL 1Ou
are shut off from the rest of the
room, and that is whore 1 was when
two men came in One of them was
Mr.. GlendWare, which surprised me
greatly as he had gone with the
rest to the picnic, and he spoke
your name Brick. As soon as 1
heard that name, and particularly
determined 10 lay low and scout
out the trouble.
.sThe other man. soon found cut.
was Red kimbali. Mr.: Glendware
had come for his check book, and
the check was for Red Kimball.
SO, as l listened, 1 found out
that Mr.. Gledware is my stepfather;
taken from him by the indiana;
but he wasn't killed at all. And
my name / suppose Is Lahoma
Gledwarei az least, least no. OF. nahd aee
Red Kimban says you were one
of his gang OF highwaymen hut 1
to be rsvenged on you foe killing
his brother. And the reason he's
waited so long is because he didn
san isn't fer sa Tell you how lie
found Quit all comes from Ely
getting Civilized He's a pOrse- at
our Kansas City hotel. 80 when
how 1 had once been kidnapped by
the Indians. and wrote Eeor.y every
day to nv cousin BrtcH WtltoCk r.
which they tttO1ght an odd ususS--
h guessed tho sest.
-I1c means 10 have you arrested
ard tried for hts brothef's mtrttf
and he says he can hang yout
And Mr. GIendware IL his witness.
That's why Red has come after
him.
when No-Man's Land was added
TO Oklahoma. q pardon was offered
to Red Kfmbau and his gang n
thew would come in and swear to
keep the peace. Well all the gang
came in-But what 10 you Think
That terrible Red Kimba1l swears
that you were one OF his gang. and
that "a you didn't come IN and sur
render yourself. the pardon doesn't
apply 10 you
Then Mr.. Gledware talked. He
was willing to pay a sum TO keep
All the past hushed up. as he didn't
want any complications from be-
ing claimed as stepfather BY La
homai
Then RED said Il wasn't the past
he was anxious to have buried. but
Brick wilcox. And he said that
Mr. Gledware was a witness to the
murder, whether he wanted TO be or
not. and Red was willing to confess
to everything. in order 20 have
Brick hanged.
ssThen Mr.. Gledware said he must
go back to the picnic and Mr. KIM