Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1914-12-27


so the thing was over aud nothing
had happened How inadequate n all
seemed There was but a single re-
d'smluE feature they couldn't put
nm OF az least they hadn't ATuu}
/ nc had turned his team about and was
going ahead, dlsNuE ia his uTnips lu
no sense did 30 match up with mN
mental pictures of how such things
should fTunsplrc. Remembering the
heated words Of Hartman and the
agent had come 90 this place keyed
up 10 see tragedy, and there was none.
a group of men had talked dispas
slonalcly I'm The middle of a field
that was all
Yet somehow ] dimy know that D.
was not all. The things back OF tins
afternoons work did not match lLc
iIa'ncss Of the scenario. The far.s
would yet stand forth 90 coutrauIrt
themselves. out Of this flat COM
monplaco situation, tradoEy would YET
arise, felt though / could not see ll
II might be long way off, or Il might
break swiftly-hut Il would hroal.
mat / knew. And ] know now what
] did not Know then, that the begin
uinEs Of all tragedies are common
place.
A month passed before ] came again
TO Kicking Horse You visit KiCNuk
Horse only under the urge Of business.
II isn't exactly pleasure trip Hut
1I"Nestcins were ripe, and they raise
'IalesltlHs on the Okanogau.
The Etorokcepcr sat ON his front
porch as / came up from the auto
stage.
"Howdy" ! said cheerfully, hunting
q shady spot and inspecting myself
lie nodded and kept on within.
This attitude surprised me little. !
didn't know Hartman was given io
moods. Naturally my mind started at
once 10 locate the trouble.
suddenly asked, How our Sweuo
friend, Olat2" Unu tins moment
Olaf had been a forgotten quantity
I'm my mind Something suggested
him to me now, abruptly.
Hartman stopped whiting and
looked up.
Haven't You heard q"
"No,' ] said sobcrly. whats the
matter Did they put him OFF,"
Yes, they put him Off," ne said
indiftcronNy, and began to nu h.s
pipe.
"How did tba, ,nansga i9 Not t,
force. sYrcl,. he was tod lir. for tbgt 70
They went M night. vbcn ne WIS
down here looking for letter from
his Wife, he said iu a colorloss voice.
"Clarucc and the rest Of them
.movod everything out and nailed up
the house and barn"
And them"
And then the next morning Olaf
moved them an back again. said
Hartman, with sickIy grin al the
humor of IL.
"Wcll then It's all right after all,
! said reasSuringly. But Immediately
] looked at him and saw it wasn't
And so they went back and put
him or again, / heard myself say
ing, and knew all the time ] was
wrong.
Well ITS too bad but II couldn't
DE helped. He really wasn't entitled,
You know, under the law
'Oh, that isn't It, said Hartman,
ana a note OF despair was in his voice.
ou dldh thlnk II would end there,
uIu you re klled the IoIest ran
ger oIai klled clarence
s'ood very sun looking at Hart
man, ryIhB to grasp the import or
HtS "o'uS' ana uy ueerees Iheli sls
III 'ilg1nCe .l,, peVaIle very cIear.
ma 10 o"u' Iiahuseu 10 say
IioN ulu II Happch
1T didn't happen said the Harvard
graduate, III was foreordained. Clar-
ence went up to argue with him and
oIaf' OF course dIdn argue, Instead,
ne JUST LOOK the poy by me throat ana
SIahgied nm 10 death with ms hands;
ana then ne lore MN nearly all 10
pieces Hod. helped pick nm up.
nc hhuudeTtd an over AT the
lhoug " OF II. On knew solhethihg
"ouIu happeh! knew they couidh I
make MN understand fetE nat 3
inns country coming TO- anyhow
! .'i nad no answer 'l, Tor MN Al .i.at that
moment my WIS were not WORKING
aohk lhelf haulfaI groove. ! SIMPLY
~lood lheIe ana saw IN the oack or
my mlnd Two pictures, one a huge,
nIaHA -Iaoed man me coIoI or every
O!ihs IN slkht, SIihGlitg IN tne lhlauie
OF q Whea' hGia' delylng the Whoie
world IN behalt OF a place that MS
WIIe ana chlldfen mlsht CAL nome
inc "Jh'r fosS-cheeked poy out OF
whose eyes me wonder mas not yet
gone surviving WIN tle NaIor on yea
lot TO perform ms duty as someone
else had taught il to MIN, both
'aAght IN the ross OF the machihe ana
crushed nulchered 10 make a Ro-
man monday, Nhlle somewhere
driillng toward TINS vortex the waste
iands or the great American desert
over which men foughl, was a family
a wife and children, fun OF hope, COM
ing from Sweden.
Theyrc after him now II was
the coloIless voice or hartman Asalh.
Hes mp in the toothliis somewhere.
lies an outlaw, you see murderer,
They We just got TO get him now. And