Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1917-05-17
G NAN Of 9
MUSIC MOUNTAIN
By frank II. SpedrmdN
Author Of Whispering Smith,


the night before. And now" She
hid her face against his shoulder. "Oh.
Henry. how l love you I'm 50
ashamed couldn't tell you II II weren't
night; I'll never look you in the face
again in the daytime"
And when he told her how little he
himself had had to do with. and how
little he knew about girls even frvm
boyhood, how she feigned not % De-
lieve, and believed him So rhsE
were two children raised IN Tie 1iass'e
of an hour 10 the supreme 1e1S,r lt
life and dizzy ross-ssr "a - summit
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me, Henry. o. : -sa1 e. s0s 1r-i~
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You mean. il a. 81 Ans yel-T-
afraid I liked 70 try - -h.-k you al
When you looked 60 ne I fe,t IS II
you could see right through me-
Condolences never came 10 an end.
And diplomacy came into its own al
most at once in De Snain's efforts 10
improve his relations with the impla-
cable Duke. The day came when Mans
uncle could be taken home. De Spain
sent to him a soft-spoken emisSary,
Bob Scott. offering TO provide a light
stage, with his compliments. for the
trip. The intractable mountaineer.
with his refusal to accept the olive
branch, blew Bob out of the room.
Nan was crushed by the result, but De
Spain was not to be dismayed.
Lefever came to him the day after
Nan had got her uncle home Henry"
he began without any preliminaries
there is one thing about your precipi-
tate ride up Music mountain that I
never got clear in my mind. After the
fight, your cartridge belt was hanging
up in the barn at Calabasas for two
weeks. You walked in TO us that morn
ing with your belt buckled on. You
told us you put it on before you came
upstairs. What? Oh, yes, l know.
Henry. But that belt wasn't hanging
downstairs with your coat earlier in
the evening. No, Henry, it wasnt-not
when 1 looked. Don't tell me such
things, BECAUSE don't know. Where
was the belt when you found it,"
Some distance from the coat. John.
1 admit that. I'll tell you: some one
had moved the belt. 1t was not where
l left it. l was hurried the morning
rode In, and l can't tell you just where
found it,"
Lefever never batted an eyelash. 81
know you can't, Henry. Because YOU
won't. That Scotch hybrid McAlpin
knows few things, too, that he won't
tell. All want to say is, you can
trust that man too far. He's got all
my recent salary. Every time Jeffries
raises my pay that hairy-pawed horse
doctor reduces it just so much month.
And he does it with one pack of fiftv-
two small cards that you could stick
into your vest pocket"
"McAlpin has wife and children to
support" suggested De Spain.
Don't think for a moment he does
It," returned Lefever vehementlv. 81
support his wife and children myself"
"You shouldn't play cards, John"
at was by playing cards that 1 To-
f,,et
game with your friend Bull Page. nv
the way. And say, that man blew
Into Calabasas one day here lately
with a twenty-dollar bill it's q fact
Now, where do you suppose he got
twenty dollars in one bill? I know
had it two hours after he got there.
and then in fifteen minutes that
blamed bullwhacker you pay thirty
two q week to took It away from me.
But | got SassoOn spotted. And where
do you suppose Split-lips is this min
ute?"
"Morgan's gap"
Quite so-and been there all the
time. Now. Bob has the old warrant
for hlm-the question is, how to get
him out"
De Spain reflected a moment before
replying: John, I'd let him alone just
for the present" he said at length.
Lefever's eyes bulged. LET Sassoon
aionep
Hell keep-for a while, anyway"
what do you mean?"
VI don't want to stir things up too
strong over that way just at the min
ute. john
"Why not?"
De Spain shuffled a little. "Well,
Jeffries thinks we might let things rest
TILL Duke Morgan and the others get
over some of their soreness"
Lefever astonished at the lndlffer-
ence of De Spain to the opportunity
OF naDDing SassOOn, while he could be
found, expostulated strongly. When
DE Spain persisted, Lefever, huffed,
confided to Bob Scott that when the
general manager got ready he could
catch Sassoon himself.
De Spain wanted for Mans sake. as
well as his own tO 600 what oouId ba