The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-06-07
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amt that 30. war proapoctod
some, hut you know how hard IL ~
10 get any money into "A mine. no
matter what you've found fer pros.
poet got along somehow seems
like folks didn't use To poster so
much. the way they do today And
YOU know onCt | WIS just on the
point 81 starting out fer Arizony
with that old mincr. Top Haynes
do YOU suppose ia struck anything
n IA Of went down thcreT'
Nobody can say II you would or
you wouldn't" replied Wild. 'tuct
IN. you never got moro'n half
started
We'll. YOU see. this old Teller Pop
Haynes. he'd been down in Ari1ony
20 years before. and he said there
was lots ~ gold ont there In the
desert Well. We got team hooked
up. and a little -four and bacon. and
We did start I'll leave " TO
YOU. Wid. " We didn't We got a.
far rs Big SprinEa. on the railroad.
What did Wv hear then7 why. news
comes up FROM down In Arizony that
n railroad has went out into the
desert. and that them mines has
been discovered What's the use
then Ter us 20 start fer Artfony with
a wagon and team? Like enough all
the good stakes would be took up
before We could get there. Old Pop
and me. Nc just turned hack. allow.
Ing II was the scnsihlest thlnE 20
do"
And you been in around here
ever since."
Yes. str; yos. sir. that's what
been. Been around here ever since.
told you the country kind OF takes
a holt on a Teller. Amt 1t the TRUTH
Well. trapped a little since then
in the winters and killed elk for the
market some. like you know. and
like you know Some days ia make
three or four dollars day fishing
80 ut last when that swede. BiR
Aieck. so, run out OF the country. /
fell into his ranch. There Amt
better Ia the whole valley. Look az
that hay land. Wild. You got 10 nd
init that this here - one Of the best
places In Mcntany"
well. maybe q, Is said his
friend and ncighbos. ''Jsastwayr.
it's good enough to run like you
mean TO run a."
"fm agoing 20 nun her an right,
she's all under wirc--the Sw edo done
done that before ! bought his quit
claim. Can't no sheep get In on me
here. I'll bet you all my clothes
that I'll cut six hundred ton Of hay
this soaSon--ioastwRyH I would II my
horse haint hur, hisself IN the wirc
the other day Now. you figure up
what six hundred too Of hay comes
20 In the stack. at prices hay u
bringing now"
'-rroubl. n. your hay Amt In the
stack. Sim You'ii just abou, Gu,
has enough 20 buy yourself -four
that1r b. about all. II you worked
the plac~ right you'd make plenty
fer to
Fer 20 be human"
well. yes. that's about II. sim"
That's right hard--doing all your
own work outside and doing all your
own cooking and everything all the
time In your own house. just living
along 20 years one day after an.
other. NIL by your own self. and
nsver--nevcr-
His voice trniied off fain,iy. and
he left the sentence unfinished. wild
Gardner completed II for him.
And never having woman
around7-' said he.
Amt II the truth mld sim
Gage suddenly. His eyes ran fur.
lively around the room in which
they sat. taking In. withou, noting
or feeling. the unuttcrablc saualor
% the place.
Well" said hts friend after
time. rising. '1td be fine place TO
fetch a woman 20. wouldn't ~ But
now got to be- going--I got my
chores To do"
The sun WIS sinking now behind
the ranrc. and az he stood for n mo-
mcnt looking toward the west. he
might himself have been seen 10 b.
man OF some stature. rugged and
bronzed. with scores Of wrinkles on
his Ioathary cheeks
Sim Gage. the man who followed
him out and stood for a time In the
unsparing brilliance Of the evening
sunlight. did not compare too well
with his friend. He was a man Of
absolutely no presence. utterly hack.
ing attractiveness. Not so much
pudry Ms shapeleas: he had been
shapeiess originally. He SANK apollo.
getically into n lax posture. even as
he stood. Hts pale blue eyes lacked
fire. His hair. uneven. rnREed and
hay-colorrd. seemed dry. as tho hope.
lees. discouraged. done with life.
ringing out az II did in gray locks
under the edge OF the battered hat
he wore. He had been unshaven for
days, perhaps weeks, and his beard.
unreaped. showed divers colorS. as
Of field partially ripeninR here and
there. In general he WINS undecided.
unfinished.
His clothing was such as might
have been predicted for the owner
OF the nondoscrfpt bed resting on the
cabin floor. His neck. grimed. red
and wrinkled Ms that OF an ancient
turtle, rose above his bare brown
shoulders and his upper chest. like.
wise exposed.
He stood uncertainty now. his foot
turned over as he always stood.
there seeming never at any time any
determination or even animation
about him. And yet he longcd. ap.
parentiy. for some sort OF human
companionshlp.
"Some folks In too damn dirty"
said Wild Gardner to himself an he
pareed now aiouQ the edve of Tho