Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1914-01-02
CHAPTER WI.
The Roundup.

While made signal fires on the
top of the cliff, Mr.. Robber came to
find out from my wife why for
hadn't called to leave my card at the
South Cave He's picturesque, says
she. hair like a ravens wing. eyes
steeLblue, scarf indigo striped with
orange. shirt black silk. woolly snaps
out of Wild West show, gold and
silver fixings, Cheyenne saddle, car
bine of SOME foreign breed. or maybe
a Krag, manners At for a king, age
thirty-four, height six feet two inches,
chest only thirty-eight, and such sad
smile-all of this will be useful TO
the police.
He tried all he knew to get out Of
being photographed, which wisht I'd
been there, for 1t must have been
plumb comic, but we all submits when
Kate gets after us. That reminds me
that If he can't capture the camera
and plate, we're apt to be burnt out
by accident.
She led him on and made him talk
If his boss knew how much Kate has
down in her notebook, this guy with
the sad eyes would get kicked all
round the pasture. When / axed if
the robber made love to her, my wife
just laughed. and turned away, telling
me not to be fool; but the blush
came around her neck.
/ dunno. Perhaps it's my liver, so
I'm taking the only medicine | have,
which it tastes like liniment. Is it
liver. or am / getting to dislike this
person?
So happens, while | was writing.
Billy O'Flynn comes along with the
pack outfit on his way to Skyline. He
wanted to know why made them fires,
| so l explained l was making clearing
up thar for Hates spring chrysanthe-
NUNS. (She spelt that word, which
had me begged down to the hocks.)
1t may be liver, or my sQueam in
| famed. but my mind amt easy, and
the Skyline folk may think I'm only
joshing with them fires.
| can't leave Kate to ride for help,
| can't shift her, l can't send Billy to
the constable without breaking my
contract with the Skyline, and don't |
divulge nothin' to William O'Fiynn, |
Esquire, who talks to the moon rather |
than waste conversation.
If l make letter for Dale, and slip |
it into the pouch, Billy won't know. or
gossip if he happens to meet in with |
stray robbers. I'll get him up and
off by midnight to the Skyline, in
time for the>supper pies. and the boys
will be surging down to the ferry be- |
fore midnight. Now ! must make up
some lies to hasten Billy's timid foot |
steps along the path of duty.
III.
Billy FASTENED away at midnight to /
tell Dale that pigeons milk is selling
at eighty-four and three-fourths. He
believes that if he can get that secret |
intelligence to Iron in good time, he's !
to share the profits. Fact is. that
Irons late wife made him the laugil- |
ing-stock of the plains over some joke |
she put up on him connected with |
pigeons milk, so that Billy's share of i
the profits viii be delivered on the /
toe OF Dale's boot He's breaking rec
ords to make the Skyline quick.
Nothing happened this morning, ex-
cept Bull Durham, calling himself |
Brooke. He. the gent with the sad I
eyes, who came to make love to my
wife. He paid me one hundred dol
lars for pasturage. Then | axed him |
to stay to dinner, and Kate says she
never seen me so talkative. Bull |
found ous which weeks the Cariboo |
| stage carries specie. and how many
thousand dollars a month in amalgam |
comes down from the Skyline camp
He even dragged out of me that old |
Surly Brown, the miser, has fifteen
thousand dollars buried under the
| dirt floor of his cabin-which reminds
me that If Browns home becomes The /
scene of mining stampede, I'll have
to keep shy of his rifle. Yes, Bun
showed great gift OF faith. and got
both his photo and the negative TO
show there was no Ill feeling. I'm
pastoral. harmless, simple, raised for
a pet
Leaving Kate hid in ruined shack,
halfway to the ferry, was down by
eleven p. m. to the bank of the river.
hailing old man Brown. So soon as
he'd brung me acrost. sent him to
ride for all he was worth and collect
our constable. which cost me eighteen
dollars and horse. The money is
severe, but I'll get even on horse
trades
From midnight TO one a. M / put
in the time cuscing Dale: from then
till two a. m. selt that nobody loved
me; from two a. m. to half past,
was scheming to take the robbers
single-handed. At two thirty-five Dale
rolled up with nine men from Skyline.
mounted on Billy's ponies. besides
O'Flynn, and Ransome Pollock. who
Il 4. q. - J.