The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-08-22

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Cries for Bill grew frantic.
Mizzoo, afraid to unlock the door,
stared at Wflfred in preplexity.
They have civilization on the
BRAIN" he muttered. THE old
times are past. | daresn't make
a move toward that lock"
Here they GOMEZ" Wilfred ex-
claimed. STEADY now, old Miz-
zoo-we've whipped packs of
wolves before today-coyotes
crazy with hunger-big gray loaf
ers in the rocks-eh, Mizzoo?"
But the mob. though chatting
with mad Impotence. did not ad-
vance. 1t was a single figure that
swept up the steps.
Lahoma!" Wflfred was at her
side. you here!"
Yes, I'm here" she returned
breathlessly, her face flaming
with excitement. I'm going to
talk to these people"
CHAPTER XXI.
/. Facing the Mob.
II was the first time Lahoma
had ever faced an audience larg-
er than that composed of Brick
and Bill.
The mob was awed by that
ligh in her eyes. They would not
proceed to violence while she
stood there facing them.
I'm a western GIRL" Lahoma
said at last, "and ever since
Brick Wilcox game me a home
when I had none, I've lived right
over yonder at the foot of the
mountains.
A.
about this case-will you be the
jury? Consider what kind of man
swore out that warrant against
Brick. And who's his chief wit
ness? You don't know Mr.. Gled-
ware. l do. You've heard he's a
rich and influential citizen in the
east. That's true. But I'm go
ing to tell you something to show
what he is-and what Brick Will
lock is.
One evening Brick came on a
deserted movers wagon. In there
he found a dead woman. He had
Q great curiosity to see her face,
so he began lifting the cloth that
covered her. He saw a pearl and
onyx pin at her throat. 1t looked
like one his mother used to wear.
So he dropped the cloth and never
looked at her face. And he dug a
grave in the sand, though she was
nothing to him, and buried her
never seeing her face-and COW
cred the spot with a great pyra-
mid of stones, and prayed for her
little girl was her little girl
the Indians had carried me away.
You'll say that was a little thing,
that anybody would have buried
the poor helpless body. Maybe
so. But about not looking at her
face-well, l don't know. It's
something you'll have to feel for
yourselves. nobody could explain
1T SO you'd see, IL you don't un-
derstand already"
The men stared at her, some
what bewildered. In some breasts,
q sense of something delicate, not
to be defined, was stirred.
zone day." Lahoma resumed,
"Brick saw a white man with
some Indians standing near that
grave. Years afterward Red
Feather explained. The white
man was Mr.. Gledware. After
Red Kimball's gang captured the
wagon train. Mr.. Gledware es-
capped, married Red Feathers
daughter and lived with the In
dams! he'd married Immediately,
Ito save his life, and the tribe sus-
Dected he meant to leave Indian
Territory at the first chance. Mr..
Gledware, great coward, decided
60 give a proof of good faith. He
told about the pearl and onyx pin
n. H. N.xI s~4wr 20
Red Flower. Red Feather would
not rob gravesi But he said he'd
take Mr.. Gledware to the place.
That's why the band was stand
Ing there when Brick wilcox
looked from the mountain top.
Mr.. Gledware dug mp the body.
The body of his wife-my moth
eri-the body whose face Brick
wilcox wouldn't look at, in its
helplessness of death. Mr.. Gled-
ware is the principal witness
against Brick. II you don't feel
what kind of man he is from what
I've said, nobody could explain II
10 you"
From several of the listeners
burst involuntary denunciations
of Gledware.
Then someone spoke loudly:
but who killed Red Kimball and
his pard and the stage-driver, If
Il wasn't Brick Willock?1
II think It was Red Feathers
hand. I'm witness to the fact that
Kimball agreed to bring Mr.. Gled-
ware the pearl and onyx pin on
condition that Mr.. Gledware APP
pear against Brick After Mr..
Gledware deserted Red Flower,
or rather after her death, Red
Feather carried that pin about
him: MIR. Gledware knew he'd
never give it mp alive. He was
always afraid the Indian would
find him-and at last he did find
him. But Red Kimball got the
pin-could that mean anything
Except that Kfmball discovered
the Indians hiding-place and
killed him. But for that, I'd