Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1917-04-19
Nan ST
Music
Mountain
By
FRANK II. SPEARMAN
Author Of WHISPERING SMITH
= tyr SYNOPSIS.
Copyright By Char es scribRers Sons,

CHAPTER lon Frontier day at Sleepy
Cat, Henry de Spain, gunman and train
master at Medicine Bend is beaten at
target shooting by Nan Morgan of Music
Mountain. Jeffries, division superinten-
dent, asks De Spain to take charge of the
Thief River stage line, but he refuses.
CHAPTER II-De Spain sees Nan dane
ing with Gale Morgan. is later derisively
pointed out to Nan on the street by Gale,
and Is moved to change his mind and &C
ceDt the stage line Job.
CHAPTER Hide Spain and Le1s-77z
ride to Calabasas inn and there meet
Gale Morgan with Deaf Sandusky a. i
SassOon, gunner and retainers o. the
Morgan clan. Morgan demands the dis
charge of a stage driver and De Spain re-
fuses. De Spain meets Nan but falls to
overcome her aversion to him.
CHAPTER IV-Sassoon knifes Elpaso,
the stage driver and escapes to Morgan's
gap, the stronghold of the Morgans. De
Spain, Lefever and Scott go in after him,
and De Spain brings out Sasson alone.
CHAPTER Vile meets Nan, who de-
lays him until nearly overtaken by the
Morgans, but lands his captive in jail
Logan pushed back his chair. AS he
turned his legs from under the table
to rise, a hand rested on his shoulder.
He looked up and saw the brown
face and feeble smile of Scott. Logan
with his nearest foot kicked Sandusky.
The big fellow looked up and around.
Either by chance or in following the
sound of the last voice, his glance fell
on De Spain. He scrutinized for a
suspicious instant the burning eyes and
the red mark low on the cheek. While
he did comprehension dawning on
him-his enormous hands, fOrsaking
the pile of chips with which both had
been for a moment busy, flattened out,
palms down, on the faro table. Logan
tried to rise. ScOtt's hand rested heay-
lily on him. "What's the row?" de-
manded Sandusky in the queer tone
Of a deaf man. Logan pointed at De
Spain. "That Medicine Bend duck
wants a fight"
with a man, Logan; not with a
cub retOrted De Spain, matching in
suit with insult.
Maybe | can do something for you"
interrupted Sandusky. His eyes ran
like Il flash around the table. He saw
how Lefeyer had pre-empted the best
place in the room. He looked up and
back at the man standing now at his
shoulder, and almost between Logan
and himself. 1t was the Indian, Scott.
SanduSky felt as his faculties cleared
and arranged themselves every in
slant, that there was no hurry what,
ever about lifting his hand; but he
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show of resistance, and he concluded
that for this occasion his tongue was
the best weapon. eff cam" he added
stif1ly, I'm at your service"
De Spain made no answer beyond
keeping his eyes on Sandusky's eyes.
Tension, Overhearing the last words,
aWOke to the situation and rose from
his case. He made his way through
the crowd around the disputants and
brusquely directed the dealer to close
the game. While Sandusky was cash
ing in, Tension took Logan aside. What
Tension said was not audible. but it
sutticed to quiet the little fellow. The
only thing further to be settled was as
to who should leave the room last
since neither party was willing to go
first. Tension, after a formal CON
ference with Lefever and Logan. of
fered to take SandusEy and Logan by
a private stairway to the billiard ROOM
while Lefever took De Spain and Scott
out by way of the main entrance. This
was arranged, and when the railroad
men reached the street rain had ceased
falling.
Scott warned De Spain to keep with
in doors, and De Spain promised to do
SO. But when they left him he start
ed out at once to see whether he could
not, by some happy chance, encounter
Nan.