The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1915-12-22
homo huf a hiding nlnce.

nome Dut hfd1ng place.
He did not question the justice OF
this sequel to his earlier life. No
doubt deeds of long ago. never pun.
ished. demanded n sacrifice. He hated
the agents of this justice not so much
because they threatened his liberty.
his life. us because they stepped in be.
tween himself and I.ahoma Always n
man Of eXredients. he now sought
/ some way Of frustrating justice. and
/ naturally his plans took the color of
| violence. Denied the savage joy of
+. killing Red Kimball-and he would
| have killed him with as little compunc.
! ton rs II he had been wolf-his
thoughts turned toward Gledware
Gledware was the only witness of
the decd for which the warrant de-
manded his arrest. Wilcox wished
many of his other deeds had been
prompted by imp Llses as generous as
those which had led to Kansas Kim.
balls death. Perhaps it was the irony
Of justice that he should be threatened
by the one act of bloodshed which had
saved Lahoma's life. If he must be
hanged or imprisoned because he had
not. like the rest Of the band, given
himself up for official pardon it was as
well to suffer from one deed as from
another But II would be better still,
as In the past. to escape all conse-
quences. Without Gledware they could
prove nothing
Would Gledware testify now that
Red Kimball, who had bought his tes-
timony with the death of the Indian.
no longer lived to exact payment?
Wilcox felt sure he would In the
first place. Glcdware had placed him
self on record as witness. hence
could hardly retreat: in the second
place, he would doubtless be anxious
to rid himself of the danger of ever
meeting Wilcox. whom his conscience
must have caused him to hate with the
hatred Of the man who wrongs his
benefactor
Wilcox transferred all his rage
against the dead enemy to the living.
He reminded himself how Gledware
had caused the death of Red Feather.
not in the heat of fury or in blind ter.
ror. but in cold blOoded bargaining
He meditated on Gledware's attitude
toward Lahoma He thought nothing
good of him. he magnifed the evil
That scene nj the grave of his wife
md Red Feathers account of how he
mad dug up the body for a mere pin of
pearl and onyX-ought such creature
% live to condemn him. to bring sor-
Dw on the stepdaughter he had basely
'efused to acknowledge?
To wait for the coming of the wit
ness would be TO lose an opportunity
that might never recur Wilcox would
90 to him. In doing so, he would not
only take Gledwarc by surprise, but
would leave the only ueighborhood in
which search would be made for him
self. Thus it came about that while the
envirous of the cove were being minute
ly examined Brick. riding his fastest
pony, WIS on the way to Kansas City.
He reached Kansas City without IN
naturally us product Of the west.
Had his appearance been twice as un.
couth, twice as wild, it would have
accorded all the better with western
that prevailed in this city,
fast forgetting that it had been Il west
ern outpost. At the hotel. whose situa.
ton he knew from Lahoma's letters,
he learned that Gledware was neither
there, nor at his home in the country.
The country house was closed up and.
in fact, there was rumor that it was
sold. or was about to be sold. One of |
the porters happened to know that
Gledware had gone for weeks diver.
sion down in the Ozarks. There were
a lake, clubhouse, a dancing hall, as
yet unopened. The season was too
early for the usual crowd at Ozark
lodge, but the warm wave that nearly
always came at this time of year had
prompted a sudden outing party which
might last no longer than the warm
wave.