The Raymer enterprise. (New Raymer, Weld County, Colo.) 1910-19??, 1919-11-06
CHAPTER Iv-continusd.

b0Bj0eo, ! ha0 my Won0egful young
friend, b when I grew daily more At
fached found myself feeling drawn
10 him - ! can imagine q young IA
thar b drawn to . young soni and
sometimes I seemed to zee In his eyes
che suggestion Of q confdencs hs was
On the edge Of making me-a within
sical. pondering expression, - though
wondering whether he dare to tell me
or not.
what II II, Jackr I asked him for
once when, early In our acquaintance.
W had asked him what W. were to
call him. he had answered with .
laugh: "Oh. call me Jack-Jack Hark-
away. That II my name when 90
on adventures Tell mo your adven-
ture names. / don't want your prosaic
everyday Names" "WeIl,s I had ~
piled. entering into the lads humor,
my friend here Is Sir Francis Drake,
and !. well-rm Sir Henry Morgan"
what Is 1t. JackT l repeated.
But he shook his head.
Nor he replied. II like you ever
90 much-and l wish I could; but !
mustn't"
Somebody else's secret againr I
ventured.
"Yesi" And he added: This time
it, mine. too. But-some day per.
haps; who knowsf-" He broke OF
In boyish confusion.
AN right. dear Jack" said, patting
his shoulder. take your own time.
We're friends anyway"
"That we ara" responded the lad,
with q flne glow.
Il mustn't be too hard on Char
ne. for Charlie had another object In
his trip besides duck. As q certain
poet brutally puts 1t. he had anticipat-
"a also ''the hunting Of man." In ad-
Hilton. though It ID against the law Of
Nose Britannia islands, he had prom
I'D me q damingo Of two for decora-
I've purposes. However, flamingoes
nd Tobias alike kept out Of gunshot
md, - the week grew toward Its end,
phariie began 10 grow 4 little FESTIVE.
1T looks" he murmured one eve
ning. ~ we had completed our four
teenth meal Of roast duck, and were
Dusing over our after-duck cigars. ut
hooks a. II ! am mot going to have any
use for this"
II he had taken q paper from his peck.
&c It was q warrant with which he
had provided himself, empowering
lin 70 arrest the said Henry P. To-
BIAS. or the person passing under that
hame, on two counts: First. that Of se-
lltious practices. with intent to spread
reason among his majesty's subjects,
md, second that Of willful murder on
NE high seas.
Ia Charlie put the warrant back into
W pocket and gazed dIsgustedly
ARcfoss the creek. where the lovelIest Of
a gsung moons was rising behind a
fiese Of the homeless, barbaric brush.
There was never such a place in
ne world" he asserted. ITO hide in
. get lost in-or to starve in. I have
ften thought that Il would make the
nWt effective prison In the world"
NY The young moon rose and rose,
nile Charlie sat in the dusk Of our
hanty, like a meditative mountain,
lying nothing, the glowing end Of his
gar occasionally limiting at the cir
nmference of his face.
sTll get him. all the same,s he said
PRESENTLY. coming out Of q sort Of
lance. In which, as understood la.
\ ., his mind had been making a geo
faphical survey Of our neighborhood,
going up and down every creek and
eorner on q radius Of fifty miles.
Az So we sought on. respective cots |;
1t I had scarcely begun to undress
Vhen a foolish accident for which
as responsible happened. an acci-
mt that might have had serious con.