Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-07

caught the same suspicion, for his fig
ure stiffened. Then Randall dropped
his hand
Very pretty" said Johnny coolly.
"How did you do that? 1 didn't catch
your motion"
From the sleeve" said Randall.
'Its difficult, but it's pretty, as you
say, and IL you learn to draw from the
sleeve I'll guarantee you'll get the
draw on your man every time"
"Show me-" said Johnny simply.
THAT gun of yours is too big. It's
n holster weapon. Here, take this"
He handed Johnny a beautifully bal
anced small revolver, engraved and
silver plated, with polished rosewood
handle. This he showed Johnny how
to stow away in the sleeve, how to
arrange it, how to grasp it and the ex-
act motion m snatching it away.
''It takes practice, lots of it and then
more Of it," said Randall. "It's worse
than useless unless you get it just
right. If you made a mistake at the
wrong time the other man would get
you sure"
"Where can get one of these" ask
ed Johnny.
Good" Randall approved his deci-
sion. "You see the necessity. You
can't. But a derringer is about as
good, and Jones has them for sale.
Now as for your holster gun. The
whole trick of quick drawing is to
t1,rnf fuh al, ri nd
drag the gun from the holster with one
forward sweep. Don't lift it up and
out. This way" He snapped his hand
past his hip and brought it away
armed.
pretty" repeated Johnny.
Don't waste much powder and bali
shooting at a mark" advised Randall
ut looks nice to cut out the ace Of
hearts at ten yards, but it doesn't mean
much. If you can shoot at all you can
shoot straight enough to h;t man at
close range. Practice the draw" He
turned to me. you'd better practice
too. Every mans got to take care of
himself these days. But you're not
due for trouble same as your friend is"
I'm obliged to you," said Johnny.
"You are not. Now it's up to you.
Judged you didn't know conditions
here, and 1 thought it only right to
warn you. There's lots of good fel-
lows in this camp, and some of the
hard cases are pretty good sort. Just
keep organized; that's all"
"Now, wonder who Danny Randall
is?" speculated Johnny after our Wis
itor had departed. He talked as
though we ought to know all about it.
I'm going to find out from the first fell
low get acquainted with"
Next morning we asked the Morenas
who was Danny Randall.
Gel diabolo," replied Morena shortly
and trudged obstinately away to his
work without vouchsafing further In
formation.
(Which is interesting, but Indefinite"
said Johnny.
The rest of the day and of several
days following, we spent In putting up
our tent, ditching it, arranging our
cooking affairs, building rough seats
and generally making ourselves COM
Portable. We stretched these things
to cover rs long space Of time as
possible, for we secretly dreaded fac
ing the resumption Of the old grind
and postponed 1t as long as we could.
A good deal of the time we spent at
Yank's bedside, generally sitting silent
and constrained. to the mutual discom-
fort of all three of us, / am sure. At
odd intervals we practiced conscien-
tlously and solemnly at the draw"
We would stand facing each other, the
nipples of our revolvers uncapped, and
would at the given word see who could
cover the other first. We took turns
at giving sthe word. At first we were