The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-08-22

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of cocktail they make along the P. R. R. all the
way from Scranton to Cincinnati-dry gin, French
vermouth, one squeeze of lime, and good dash
OF orange btters. If you're up that way. don't
fail to let try you. And. again. says l. I have
never yet went back On friend. I've stayed by
EN- when they had plenty, and when adversty's
overtaken me I've forsook EN-.
But l goes on. this is not exactly the
of friend Twelve dollars a month is only bow
ing-acquaintance money. And l do consider
brown beans and corn-bread the food of friend
ship. ! am poor man, says l, and have
widowed mother in Texarkana. You will find
Black Bill says I, lying asleep in this house on
a cot in the room to your right. He's the you
want, as know from his words and conversation
He was in way friend, l explains, and if
the l once was the entire product OF the
mines of Condola would not have tempted me to
betray him. But, says l, every week half of the
beans was wormy and not nigh enough wood in
camp.
Better go in careful, gentlemen says l. He
seems impatient at times, and when you think of
his late professional pursuits would look for
abrupt actions if he come upon sudden
so the whole posse unmounts and ties their
horses, and unlimbcrs their ammunition and equip
ments and tiptoes into the house And follows
like Dclilah when she set the Philip Stems on to
Samson.
THE leader of the posse shakes Ogden and
wakes him up And then he jumps up, and two
more OF the reward-hunters grab him. Ogden was
mighty tough with all his slinlness, and he gives en-,
neat singe-footed tussle against odds as ever
What does this mean, he says, after they
had him down.
You're scooped in, Mr.. Black Bill says the
captain. That's all
ats outrage says H. Ogden, madden yet.
at was says the peace-and- goodwill man.
The Katy wasn't bothering you and there's
law against monkeying with express packages
And he sits on H. Ogdens stomach and goes
through his pockets symptomatieally and careful.
"'I'll make you perspire for this says Ogden,
perspiring himself 4 can prove who I am
SO can L. says the captain, he draws from
H. Ogden's inside eoat-poeket handful of new
bills of the Second National Bank of Espnosa City.
Your regular engraved Tuesdays and Fridays visit
ins-card wouldn't have louder voice in proclaim
ing your indemnity than this here currency. You
get up now and prepare to go with US and ex.
patriate your sins
II. Ogden gets up and fixes his neckte. He
says after they have taken the money of
of him.
"'A well-greased idea says the sheriff captain,
adruirirp n slim off here Nd hr,,, 1tt1a
sheep-ranch where the hand of man is seldom,
heard. 1t was the slickest hde-out ever see says
the captain.
$50 of the goes to the shearing-pen
and hunts up the other herder, Mexican they carl
John Sallies and he saddles Ogden's horse, and the
sherfs all ride up close around him with their guns
in hand, ready to take their prisoner to town.
Before starting, Ogden puts the ranch in John
Saies' hands and gives him orders about the
shearins and where Craze the sheep, Just as if
he intended to be back in few days And couple
of hours afterward one Perciva Saint Clair an ex-
sheep-herder of the Rancho Chiquito might have
been seen. with hundred and nine dollars-wages
and blood-money-in his pocket, riding south
another horse belonging to said ranch"
The red-faced paused and listened. The
whistle of coming freight train sounded far away
among the low hills
The fat, seedy at his side shifted, and shook
his frowzy head slowly and disparagingly
What is it. Snipy?" asked the other Got the
blues again.
mo. l amt" said the seedy one shifting again.
But don't like your talk. You and me have been
friends, off and on, for fifteen year; and yet
knew or heard of you giving anybody up to the law
mot no one And here was man whose saleratus
you had ct and at whose table you had played
games of cards-if casino be so called. And
yet you inform him to the law and take money for
it. 1t never was like you, I say
"This H. Ogden" resumed the red-faced man.
through lawyer. proved himself free by alibis
and other legal termnalities, as so heard after
ward. He never suffered no harm. He did me