Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1915-01-16

Taxed vigilance. He STOOD mere SOS
slOly thirty seconds, then a sharp fu-
sillade Of clear reports barked out and
was shattered by the hills into a long
reVerberation. With hand ciasped
to lis chest, Purvy turned, walked to
the middle Of the floor, and fell.
The henchmen rushed to the open
sash. They leaped out and plunged
up the mountain. tempting the assas-
SIMS IRE. but the assassin was salts
ned. The mountain was again as
quiet as il had been at dawn Inside,
at the middle Of the store. Jesse Purvy
shifted his head against his daugh-
ters knee and said. as one stating an
j expected event.
Well they've got me"
An ordinary mountaineer would
nave been carried home to die in the
darkness OF dirty and windowless
shack. The long-suffering star Of Jesse
Puryy ordained otherwise. He might
go under or he might once more beat
his way back and out Of the quick
sands Of death. At all events. he would
hight for life to the last gasp.
Twenty miles away in the core Of
the wilderness, removed from a rail-
road by a score OF semi-perpendicular
miles, a fanatic had once decided to
found a school
Now faculty Of ten men taught
such as cared to come such things as
they cared TO learn Higher up the
hillside stood 2 smdll, but model hos
/ pitai, with modern operating table
/ and case Of surgical instruments.
which. it was said. the state could not
surpass
/ To this haven Jesse Purvy, the muir
der lord, was borne in a litter carried
on the shoulders OF his dependents.
Here, as his steadfast guardian star
! decreed. he found two prominent med
/ zeal visitors, who hurried him TO the
/ operating table Later he was re-
/ moved to white bed, with the June
! sparkle in his eyes, pleasantly modu-
lated through drawn blinds, and the
June rustic and bird chorus in his
ears-and his own thoughts in his
brain.
Conscious. but In great pain. Puryy
4 Occkoned Jim Asberry and Aaron Hol-
lis, his chiefs of bodyguard. to his bed
side and waved the nurse back out Of
hearing.
IF don't get we'll" he said feebly.
there's a job for you two boys.
reckon you know what it is?"
They nodded, and Asberry wills
! pered a name:
Samson South?"
Yes" Puryy spoke in a whisper;
| but the old vindictiveness was not
/ smothered. You got the old man, I
reckon you can manage the cub. II
you don't he'll get you both one day"
/ The two henchmen scowled.
'I1l git him tomorrer," g-owled AS
\ berry. Thar haint no sort of use
in a-waitin'"
mol" For an instant Purvy's voice
/ rose out Of its weakness to its old
/ staccato tone Of command, a tone
which brought obedience. IF / get
well have other plans. Never mind
what they are That's my business.
II l don't die, leave him alone. until
( give other orders.
IF I get we'll and Samson South is
! killed meanwhile I won't live long
either It would be my life for his.
Keep close to him. The minute you
I hear Of my death--get him He
paused again. then supplemented,
You two VIII find something mighty
interestn' in my Will"
1t was afternoon when Purvy
reached the hospital and, at nightfall
OF the same day. there arrived at his
stores entrance, on stumbling hard
ridden mules. several men. followed
/ by two tawny hounds whose long ears
Tapped over their lean jaws, and
whose ewes were listless and tired. but
whose black muzzles wrinkled and
shifted with that sensitive instinct
which follows the man scent The ex-
sheriffs family were instituting pro-
ceedings independent of the chiefs or
ders. The next morning this party
plunged into the mountain tangle and
beat the cover with the bloodhounds
/ in leash.
The two gentlefaced dogs picked
their way between the towering rho
dodendrons, the glistening laurels, the
/ feathery pine sprouts and the moss
| covered rocks. They went gingerly
and alertly on ungainly, cushioned
feet. Just as their masters were de-
spairing they came to place directly
over the store. where a branch had
been bent back and hitched to clear
the outlook and where boot heel
| had crushed the moss. There one of
them raised his nose high into the
air, opened his mouth. and let out
/ long, deep-chested bay of discovery.
! CHAPTER ~.
George Lescott had known hospital
7 90 hvnv1dc and Geu~paG He