The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1919-09-04


yonr durn pay dirt. wherever il Ia. IL W
do YOU no good When this gets out ana
see n does no white man viii take drink
YOU. You
The phrase that followed stung Lish TO n
ness. Between them the pent-up hate OF
winter burst the thin crust and roared
flame lish struck, swift and hard, and
blow landing fair, staggered Dow and cut
further injurious speech. Instantly Llsh
lowed up his advantage. lie struck again,
catching his dazed partner 10y the throat
crooking his leg behind him, threw him heav
falling upon him and choking him TIL his
protuded and his tongue lolled out ike
dogs.
For the time being he was beside hims
blind with rage. i'm the grip of a homicidal ma
which seized and shook him even as he sell
and shook Dow. But in a moment this pass
and his finger relaxed. He got to his feet s
ing down at the PROSTATE man.
Dow drawing the grateful air into his lun
glared back, his eyeS deadly. He sat up.
you OUTSIDE me- he croaked from his co
stricted throat but YOU won't get away W
it, give YOU fair walnin' Archie Lishl
YOU or me One of us stays i'm these here hill
Il could kill YOU if ! wanted to- said Lif
Then YOU better do IT," snared Dow.
the first chance get I'm gon' to kill your
With a sudden. swift lnge, before Lish rel
lied his purpose. he possessed himself of
rifle, which lay on the ground yard away, j
brought the muzzle TO bear on his partner hel|
Maintaining the alignment Of the barrel, he ~
TO his feet.
Nov" he said, I'm fix YOU plenty
Coin to shoot me-are YOU! said Lish
might have expected IT,
Sure you mght-when YOU started TO hog
out on me-" Dow agreed. But amt goln
beef YOU cold I amt that kind You've doif
me dirt for months and held out on me
That's lie" Hsh lrteposed.
And pounded me and clicked me- Dow wen
on uuhccdiur. you're bigger and stronge
than me. but "a Gun will put US on level lo
amt got nothing ON me with gun, and ain
got nothing on YOU. So I'm goin' 10 give you
fair chance I'm gon up this here creek Jar a
/ can go IN half an hour 10y my watch ne
I'm qoin' 10 turn around and come back lookii
for YOU AZ the end of half AN hour you star
up il lookn for me- We shoot on sight. mat
fair. amt III"
cts fair" Iish acknowledged. but don
want
YOU'D better wantw narled Dow. Tn
goin' TO kin YOU il you don't kill me. Time start
now. At your watch"
lie turned his back squarcly on his partner
climbed up the bank and disappeared.
Archie lish. left alone looked AZ his watcf
Then he picked up his rifle made sure that tn
magazine was fun. looked at the rear sight I
see that IL was not accidentally elevated. ah'
filling his pipe. sat down to wait
Though his gun duel had been forced upo
him. NE would have done little TO avoid It. eve
If there had been a way, for his heart was bi'
ter against the partner who had added IN
weight of the last straw by the unjust accuse
ton. But there was no way. He knew Dow
his temper his determination. Dow would d
exactly as he had said And 30 he accepte
the situation philosophically. For half an hou
he sat, quietly smoking And at the end OF ina
time he Knocked out his pipe on the heel OF hi
boot lay down and drank from the creek, anc
climbing the bank, began TO walk cautiously w
stream.
Joe Dow. during the half hour. maintaine
an even, unhurried gait which covered almos
two miles, for the going was good and the cour
try fairly open
I've got a shade on him because I've JUS
come over the ground he reflected. IF ! w
in his place, I'd cache myself and wait II out
Like as not he'd get me that way But he neve
did copper no bets. lie always played EN- eleI
So he's due % lniun along about the way III
dom now. He's square enough not TO star
before times up The way to beat man
10 outguess him. So what I'll do, III hit IN
high spots for piece, and pick me good hi
Of cover and wait for him to slide along
Following this thoroughly murderous plar
he trotted swiftly for half a mile and then, find
ing spot where rocks and bushes afforded cor
ceament, niointed with fairly open view j
front, he sank into II 10 recover his wind.
I'm stay here" he muttered TO himself "He'
pretty near got TO pass one side of the othel
And when he does I'll sure get him."
Five minutes passed. then ten They grew
twenty, and Dow, peerng from his concealment
caught sight of moving object at the firing
of a patch of bushes something over hundre
yards away. Apparently It was low down. nea
the ground.
III it's him, he's crawlin' onto me-" said Do'
% himself FoXIern ] Thought. But then