The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-24
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 -Gua day, q long time after that, we was crossin' the desert again. We got put o6 q freight that time too. We FWas walkin' along when we found ny layin' beside the track. Red said hs xaauH dead, but was dyin'. We G3ve him some water. Then he kind C come to and wanted to drink it all. { 1od said No Then the guy got kind o& mnzv. He got up and grabbed Red. was scared
 ~ned, he passed nc the canteen and aln1d m to keep 1t sway from the guy toeauso more water would kill him. Theu tns guy went for Red. sHe's dy- ln, on hb feet said Red. It's his lnst lasA.' And hs tried to hold the Z ny Qu1et, talkin' decent to him all.the t1nne They was staggerin' around Ntan the guy ripped backward over { n rail. Els head hit on the other I'll. and Red fell on top of him. Any {. WY, the guy was dead" 'x; Walter Store shifted his position. {on<nin6 to Gaza at tho boys white face. leXea-go on,' he said quietly. < X ~Red was for searchin' the guy, but ' 6ays to como on before we got caught. Red. he iauehcd kind of queer and asked me, Caught at whatY x Then said I dunno, but was scared
 Anyway, he went through the dead GIg'b clothes and found some papers 4 md old lstters and little leather bag with . whole lot of gold dust in it-Red Ga1d Rebby $b0Or'
 Gold dustf
 # sUhuh! Then Red wns scared He buried the bag and the papers way \ ct in the sand and made q mark on 1he ties to find it by."
 2 ~D1d you Ind out the dead mans A 1arnor asked Stona. glancins curious !. 10 af thes boy es T
 Ar9ote We Just bent # for the .next X ntnf1pn. | was feeaiu' Hick. give out, Aond Rcd he lugyed me to the next M1kr tank He was pourtn' water on \ n whsn the limited come along and otopped, and she throwed the rose to ; - ned told nAs about 1t altar. Yc, WcuIdn't 60 back on . pal like that. Wuuld your
 s'No, don't know that should."
 That's msr' said tho boy. .-Thon thoy went to work and pinched us al D1xstow; said we killed the guy be- qnuso hig head was smashed in where z ~ hit tho rails They tried to make 1sd say that he robbed the guy altar kalin' him, but Red told everything, e8cept hs didz't tan about the letters and tho soid dust. They txied to make z mo aay t, but dassent. I knowed thay would Ax Rcd sure # did, and { V told mo not to tell about the gold f they dd pinch us."
 V Thy let you Go-aftef the police { examination. Then how e it that the ' authcf4ties arc altar you againr zzt's the bunch. 7 replied tho boy. Them guys out there knowed the dead Guy had mine or ledge or somethin' where he got the gold Nobody was WlDe Co where They told at the jail bow he used to come in once in awhile and send his dust to Los Angeles by z, tho express company. All them guys, z mo tho shex16 and tho station agent x and ell tho people in that town, ars z worhin' tzyin' to Ind out where the sold come from. They think because 8e1 andtms as txamps that they can < Unho ws tell and arrest us whenever thov lIka But evtn Red don't know, unIess itss in ths papers he hid in the iaad"
 'Ihat sounds no . pretty straight ateEy." saiA ets1e. 50 you intend to st1pk to this uaan nedr'
 ~Dure! WouId you quit him now when they're after him woEstT
 ~They VIII eet him finally" AMsbhy. But ned's pretty slick al Efe Cstaway. If thsy do pinch him sarnfn that's where cone in. I'm the enly witness and the only friend he's opt |"
 ~Of course. But dent you see, my boy. that your way of living is 50 much against you that you couldn't really
 help him? \ mans naked word Il :. worth just what his friends and neigh hors will allow him for it and no
 more"
 '.But ain't . guy got no rights in this oountryr
 Certainly he lns. But hs has tc prove that he 1s entitled to them by
 his way. of liying.~
 Then he's got to go to church and
 work and live decent or he don't get a square deal, hsyr
 ~Dut why shouldn't he do that nuchf
 Collie did not answer Instead, he 1nspected his questioner critically from head to foot "I guess you're right, [" : he said finally. I've heard folks talk { Ike that before. but never took nc stock They kind of said it because they knowed 1t. I guess you say it be eause you mean it"
 "Of course do," said Stone heartily
 ~Kell, here. comes my niece with the
 maH. See! Over there is Ell Camino 2 Real, running north. My ranch is up there in the hills. My foreman's name ls Wtlliams. If you should ask him
 for work believe he might give you so&nething to do l heard him say he pesdsd . man not lens ago"