Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-09-25
T Ii e ID ally
Short Story
III CLERK.
BY James BTainard

u
i Toomstone county. and | kep. store
There I sold 'em goods and trusted
en- when they hadn't no money, for
you kin trusJ two kinds O people
Itheu as Is honest and them as is al
open war with the rest % the world.
It's the middle classes that beats Won.
#There was one on en- the outlaws. /
mean-thst I didn't want around. for
he'd carried things too far and there
was price set on his head. THAT was
Dandy Jim Dandy Jms head was
worth 81 900 to any man that could
git the drop on him
One day d young woman came 10
fmy place and wanted 10 work in my
store
tola Ter I didnt want a woman
bur she said she'd work TOR her board
AMI after talkin 10 my wife about IL I
engaged her She could do most any
thing, but she was handiest about
keepin INV accounts She must a. been
2 schoolmarm, for one day she took
! account o. stock and figured mp ana
told me Gactly' what ] was wo1h
I never had bothered 70 take count
O. stock; seemed sort O usIess-ltke-
Wife and I had allus been pretty frg-
gal and I calculated in the rough that
+ 7 had somethpin over $4,000 / felt kin
+ der troubled when she said Twas Wota
/ just a leetle over $1,000
If could git Dandy Jim. I said 20
i her, and turn him in dead or alive I'd
be w0'th $4,000"
But they say Dandy Jim's hard
man to take she said.
maybe hell come around here some
day and III try it,"
How would you manage Itef
III I knowed he was a-comln ia
post some IN outside TO cover him.
/ Then if he got the drop on me I'd sig
! nal the outsider to shoot him
What kind of a signal would Tou
#eive3 He'd shoot YOU before you could
Ike any signs"
Well. he'd likely tell me to throw
/ up my hands, and that would be as
good Q signal as any"
sYour.re purity smart" she said 81
didn't give you credit for SO much
sense
One day the gal tole me that the
stock was 'gittln low and If she was
nae she'd sell the balance and 90 and
lay I'm q complete new outfit She was
SIGH q good business woman that did
whatever she said. and I got up a sale
and cleaned ont everything. 1t fetched
just 81 200 ia money. and with this
concluded to put in the now outfit. The
day before 7 went away I rode out 20
collect debt of $50 Z had a safe ln
which I KEEP the SD 200 on hand and
didn't IVORY about it, for none O. the
outlaws could open it, and u was roo
heavy to carry away The gal tcle me
night as well leave her the combine
- 49, 49, - 49, fC,-- Ft7s+ 80
THAT I doubted her honesty, bat that
some o. the outlaws might come along
and force her to open IT,
s5t- ~. - 80 ~ Cd
= ..l--.5-,, av.fr,li 15l-c. ~ r,7aef me
s.1[-bsftq mr., -, SAYS
anar1v Jfro-= here u-ajtirs for Won
rFf,.-,1,,f, p 600 ay7-J.at.= he coin
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..pa,.f-cr I'm In I'm I'D poo9 p shot
40 er--s7,,eo
v-ei 7 noeta7 her at q ggInaar usft
. r.aJa riaht where she could see the
man. then walked into the house
aua fhn room, where Dandy Tim was
s-zatffrr "FToygfv Tfr7 saws
s.fIov-tgvr says ne "Jin1 F." saws
..rharatz RI 90a offered for vo,, Reclsaa
rnieht as ven have it as any one
How vou coinf TO gin it7a he an
swPrs We'll there's two WAYS one
is dead and fine others aIive-yghfcH-
ever wav Won prefer" II prefer dead.
saws he. land consfderfn' i've got my
hand an mv gun. 7 thinks it's you
that's dead nm trouhle Won TO throw
an vaur hands err T docs that"
sa.z che dror's rn v-u epafpt r a0f
nal razfaF outside rr4e uin4er to shoot
van IL zror 30 7 rafza an arm r.