The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-10-28
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Crum was nowhere In sight.
Then Dunn knew what he meant to
do. He crept back very softly to the
stable and loaded his rifle. He took
1t in his arms, carrying 1t as a mother
might her first born, and approached
the door again.
Mitchell held the girl in his arms
now, and she was struggling as he
tried to kiss her. Dunn, aiming delib-
erntely, was conscious of the open
door at the back of the shack, and a
clump of dwarf fir about a hundred
yards distant. Then he concentrated
his attention upon Mitchell. Carefully
he drew a bead on him so as to avoid
hitting the girl.
BangI
Mitchell leaped into the air, flung
out his arms, and pitched head fore
most. Dunn stepped into the shack.
There was no need to look more than
once at the dead face, or the blood
oozing from the heart.
Marie ran to Dunn, sobbing wildly.
you did right, the beast ~ she cried.
COuue Will me, Sulu Duhn.
They raced to the stables, and in a
moment he had freed the horses,
saddled them, and placed her on the
sergeant's. In another moment they
were galloping across the barrens. AT
the time Dunn was conscious of Won
dering where old Dufour and Crum
were. But a moment later they heard
shouts behind them. They galloped
frantically forward, anywhere, so long
us they could win free.
Crum was n man of resolution, and
Dunn knew that he would take up the
chase and never leave 1t. He reckOned
on the fact that Crum's horse was the
slowest of the three. The freshly fall
ing snow would hide their tracks IL
they could win the country across the
river bed, where q series of hummocks
swelled into the Big Lake mountains.
Far behind him Dunn heard u shout.
He turned and looked back as he rode.
Crum was standing at the door of the
stable, waving his arms to him
A few minutes later Dunn, looking
back, saw Crum mounted and in pur-
suit of them. a tiny figure upon a tiny
horse. They rode madly for the dip
toward the river.
1--WE must be careful" said Marie,
as they began the descent. 1.-THE rocks
are dangerous"
Even as she spoke her horse tripped
on n projecting bowlder, stumbled, and
flung her face downward upon the
hard hDH Of Tho frn1np cfpnorn nt1nn
leaped from his horse and kneeled be-
side her. She had been stunned by the
fall she opened her eyes and looked
about her half-conscious.
The horse scrambled to it's feet, ran
up the bank, and raced back toward
the stable, followed by Dunn's horse.
And Dunn, kneeling at Marie's side,
knew that chance had settled his par
ticular problem. And in the distance
Crum came IN %ineXorably.
Dunn shrugged his shoulders as one
| who has played his last card. He car.
ried the girl up to the top of the bank
| and waited for Crum, who came gal
Looping up IN his blown horse. He
flung himself to his feet, painting, like
\ his steed.
4 whats the matter with you, to play
K this crazy trick after killing hin? 2" he
shouted.
Dunn smiled. 81 guess you're right
Crum," he said. "Take the girl or
your saddle; I'll walk. You can trus
me-"
Crum, staring at him in apparen
perpleXity, lifted Marie to the saddl,
before him. She had fallen into
l swoon again. Then he rode slowl,
j back toward the cabin, with Dunn
walking a little distance in front o
him.
He turned his horse away when nea.
the stable, and went toward the littl,
patch of stunted trees that had strucl
4 upon Dunn's attention at the momen
when he raised his rifle. Dunn say
the motionless body of a man lyini
u hidden among them. 1t was Blacl
II Doe.
q How did you get him, DUNN? aske,
e Crum, dismounting and turning tn
Ie body over See! He had just fired
e You were in the nick of time"
The dead mans fingers wer
re clutched about the trigger; the riff
n had been discharged; over his hear
e, was a bullet wound.
N Dunn, unable to speak, accompanie
e. Crum back to the shack. Mitchell la
where he had fallen, and old Dufou
n was muttering in the corner, as if h
d did not understand.
"a "He got poor Mitchell a second be
fore you fired" said Crum. "Over tn
lie heart, too. SeeI'
a Dunn looked in horror now nike
ID with agitation. He saw that track G
d the bullet through the breast and on
IL under the rib. The missile lay upo
10 the floor beside the inert man. 1t wa
De a battered As, such as the Indians us'
is Dunn's bullet had been a 1903. And
had been Black Doe whom he ha
killed, not Mitchell.
Remembering Names.