Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-23

horse to ride" remarked De Spain,
stopping him near the river bridge.
Page pushed back the broken
brim of his hat and looked up. "You
wouldn't believe it," he said, impart-
ing cheerful confidence, but ten
years ago l had horses to lend to
every man tween here and Thief
river" He hooded towrd Sleepy Cat
with a wrecked smile, and by a dra-
matte chance the broken hat-brim
fell with the words: They've got
'em ALL"
Your falt, Bull"
SAY" Up went the broken brim,
and the whiskied face lighted with
a shakin smile you turned some
trick on that Calabasas crew-some
fight" Bull chuckled. ..
Bull, is old Duke Morgan a Re-
publican?
Bull looked surprised at the turn
of De Spain's question, but answered
in good faith: Duke votes most
any ticket that's again the railroad"
II ow about picking a couple of
good barnmen over in the gap,
BulI?" ...-'
What kind of job y got?"
Sc McAlpin the next time you're
over at Calabasas. How about that
girl that lives with Duke?"
Bulls face lighted. Mani! Say!
she's a little hummer!"
IL hear she's gone down to Thief
river, teaching school,"
Game by Dukes less'n three
hoursago. Seen her in the kitchen
maxim bread"
They're looking for a schoolteach-
er down there. anyway. Much sick
ness in the gap lately, Bull?"
"On'v sickness 1 knowed lately is
what you're responsible for y'self,"
retorted Bull with a grin, PITY y
Ten Years Ago l Had Horses to Lend
Every Man Tween Here and Thief
River.
left any chips at all from that Gala
basas job. et?'
"Se McAlpin, Bull, next time you're
over Calabasas way. Here"-De
Spain draw some currency from his
pocket and handed a bill to Page.
GO get your hair cut. Don't talk
too much-wear your whiskers long
and your tongue short"
"Right-o!"
You understand"
Take it from old Bu II Page, he's
t.
he knows his friends"
But remember this-you don't
know me. If anybody knows you for
a friend mine, you are no good
to me. See 2"
Bull was beyond expressing his
compreh ension in words alone. He
winked, nodded, and screwed his
face into a thousand wrinkles. De
Spain, wheeling. rode away, the old
man blinking first after him, and
then at the money in his hand. He
didn't profess to understand every
thing in the high country, but he
could still distinguish the principal
figures at the end of a banknote.
When he tramped to Calabasas
the next day to intedview sMcAlpin
he received more advice, with q
strong burr, about keeping his own
counsel. and a little expense money
to run him until an opening present.
ed itself on the pay roll.
But long before Bull Page reached
Calabasas that day De Spain had act
ed. When he left Bull at the bridge
he started for Calabasas, took supper
there, ordered a saddle horse for one
o'clock in the morning, went to his
room, slept soundly, and, shortly
after he was called, started for Music
mountain. He walked his horse into
the gap and rode straight for Duke
Morgan's fortress. Leaving the horse
under a heavy mountain pine close
TO the road De Spain walked care
fully but directly around the house
to the east side. The sky was cloudy
and the darkness almost complete.
He made his W ay as close as he
could to Mans window, and raised
the soft, grooming not of the desert
owl
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