South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-06-05

~ III your pFedm Ole /.
There's $1,000 reward offered
says the captain, but it's for his cap
ture and conviction. There don't
seem 20 be no provision made for
an inforner
1t looks like Il might rain in
day or So says I. IN a tired way,
looking up at the cerulean blue sky.
II you know anything about the
! locality. disposition. or secretiveness
OF this here Black BILL says he. IN
a severe dialect. YOU are amiable 20
: the law in not reporting it.
I heard a fence rider say says
I. in a desultory kind OF voice. that
a Mexican told a cowboy named
Jake over at Pidgin's store on the
! Nueces that he heard that Black Bill
/ had been seen in Matamoras by a
lsheepman's cousin two weeks ago
Tell you what III do. Tight
/ Mouth says captain, after looking
me over for bargains. If you put Us
on so we can scoop Black Bill, I'll
pay you 500 out OF my own-out OF
our own-pockets. That's liberal
says he. You amt entitled TO any
thing. Now what do you say?'
Cash down now? ask.
The captain has sort OF discus
sion with his helpmates, and they all
produce the contents Of their pockets
for analysis. Out Of the general re-
suits they figured up S102.30 in cash
and $31 worth OF plug tobacco.
Come nearer. captain meeo.'
says 1, aud listen He so did
- am mighty poor and low
down in the world says l. i am
working for sl2 month trying 10
keep a lot OF animals together
whose only thought seems 10 be TO
get asunder. Although says 1, I
regard myself as some better than
the state OF South Dakota. it's a
come-dOwn TO a man who has here
tofore regarded sheep only in the
form OF chops. I'm pretty far re-
duced in the world on account Of
foiled ambitions and rum and a kind
OF a cocktail they make along the
p. r. r. all the way from Scranton
to Cincinnati-dry gin, French YER
mouth, one squeeze Of a lime, and a
good dash Of orange bitters. II
you're ever up that way don't fail
to let one try you. And. again.
says l. i have never yet went back
on friend. I've stayed by EN-
when they had plenty and when ad-
: versitys overtaken me, I've never
forsook EN-.
But. l goes on, this is not ex-
actly the case of a friend. Twelve
dollars a month is only bowling ac-
quaintance money And l do not
consider brown beans and corn
bread the food OF friendship. am
a poor man., says !, and have a
widowed mother in Texarkana. You
will find Black Bill says I. lying
asleep in this house on a cot in the
room 10 your right. He's the man
you want, as / know from his words
and conversation. He was in a way
a friend, 1 explains, and IL 1 was
the man ] once was the entire pro-
duct of the mines OF Gondola would
not have tempted me TO betray him.
But says /. every week half OF
the beans was wormy. and not nigh
enought wood in camp.
Better go in careful. gentlemen,
says l. He seems impatient at
times. and when you think Of his
late professional pursuits one would
look for abrupt actions if he was
come upon sudden
so the whole posse unmounts
! and ties their horses, and unlimbers
{ their ammunition and equipments
} and tiptOes into the house. And ]
follows. like Delilah when she set
: the Philip Stems on 10 Samson.
] The leader Of the posse shakes
ogden and wakes him up. And
then he jumps up. and two more OF
the reward hunters grab him. Ogden
was mighty tough with all his slim
ness, and he gives 'em as neat a
single-footed tussle against odds as ]
ever see.
I What does this mean?' he Gays
after they had him down.
e You're scooped in. Mr.. Black
D Bill. says the captain. That's all
e Its an outrage, says Il ogden
- madden yet
{ 1T was. says the peace-and.
' goodwill man. The Katy wasnt
/. bothering you. and there's a law
[ against monkeying with express
> packages
[ And he sits on II. Ogdens stom.
4 ach and goes through his pocket.
:, | symptomatically and careful.
= "Iu make you perspire for this,
= says ogden, perspiring some himself
;. 1 can prove who l am.
So can L, says the captain, al
he draws from II. Ogden's insid,
% coat-pocket a handful Of new bills o
= the Second National bank OF rs
> pinosa City. Your regular engraved
; Tuesdays-and-F Fridays visiting-carC
wouldn't have louder voice in pro
claiming your indemnity than thi