The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1917-01-11
felt weak and had no desire to move.

~ WYNN W "a to u'oiit " tubNts
Where was he, anyway A strange,
Intangible sense OF time, distance, Of
something far behind weighed upon
him. lie thought he heard u step and
listened, but he felt tired, and present
ly his eyes closed and he fell into q
dozc.
Awakening from this, he saw Jennie
sitting beside him. In some way she
seemed to have changed. When he
spoke she gave n start and turned
eagerly TO him.
"Dunne!" she cried.
"Hello. How re you, Jennie, and
how am II" he said, finding 1t u little
difficult TO talk.
"Oh, Tn all right" she replied.
"And you've come to-your wounds
healed; but you've been sick. Fever,
l guess. ! did all ! could"
Duane saw now that the difference
In her was n Wilderness and tghtness
Of skin. n hollowness Of eye, IL look
OF strain.
Fever? How long have we been
here?" he asked.
She took some pebbles from the
crown OF his sombrero and counted
them.
mine. Nine days." she answered.
mine daysw he exclaimed, incredu-
lousy. But another look at her as
sured him that she meant what she
| said.
GLANDS men didn't come along
here1"
mo"
"Have you slept any"
"a little. Lately I couldn't keep
awake"
~ should think not. You've had q
time of II sitting here day and night
nursing me, watching for the outlaws.
Come, tell me oil about It."
"There's nothing much to tell" she
replied, simply. "We must have rid.
den forty miles that day we got away.
You bled all the time. Toward even
ing you lay on your horses neck.
When we came to this place you fell
out Of the saddle. I dragged you In
here and stopped your bleeding.
thou6h sou VIC lituh ilSitts but III
the morning I had a little hope. ]
had forgotten the horses. But luckily
they didn't stray far. l caught them
and kept them down in the gorge
When your wounds closed and you be.
gan to breathe stronger I thought you'd
get well quick. 1t was fever that pu,
you back. You raved a lot. and that
worried me, because / couldn't stot
you. Anybody trailing us could have
heard you n good ways. l don't know
whether I was scared most then oil
when you were quiet, and II was sc
dark and lonely anu still all around
Every day ! put u stone In your hat
"Jennie, you saved my life." said
Duane.
II don't know. Maybe. I did all
knew how to do" she replied. "You
saved mine-more than my life"
Their eyes met In n long gaze. and
then their hands In n close clasp.
"Jennie, we're going to get away
he said, with gladness. "Tll be well
In a few days. You don't know how
strong I am. Wen hide by day and
travel by night. I "a get you across
the river"
"And them" she asked.
sven find some honest rancher.'
"And them" she persisted.
"Why." he began, slowly, that's ms
far rs my thoughts eve got. II was
pretty hard. I tell you, to assure my
self so much. 1t means your safety
You'll tell your story. You'll be sen,
to go,re village or town and taken care
Of until n relative or friend Is notified
"And your" she inquired in a strange
voice.
Duane kept silence.
"What will you dor" she went on
"Jennie, I'll go back TO the brakes
I daren't show my face among re
spectacle people. I'm IN outlaw"
"You won't go back among these
terrible men? You. with your gentle
ness and sweetness-all that's gooS
about you? oh, Duane. don't-don'
gov"
~ can't go back TO the outlaws, n
least not BANDS band. No. I'll 81
alone. I'll lone-wolf 1t, rs they sa,
on the border. Never mind about me
Jennie"