Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-01-25
"AnYone see him give II to you:


library and paid me-"
'In bills?"
"Yes-in twenties."
"For Gods sake. don't tell anybody
that" In q dozen jerky sentences the
owner of the Fiddleback told Flandrau
Of the suspicious of the sheriff.
Together they went in search OF
Luck. But though they looked for
him all day, he was not to be found.
The last that had been seen Of him
Luck was walking along the plaza
toward the hotel, not hundred and
fifty yards from the latter. A dozen
men had spoken to him In the distance
Of block. But he had net been seen
to reach his hotel. He had not called
for his room key. Somehow he had
vanished, and none could tell how OF
where.
To Bolt his disappearance was as
good as a confession Of guilt. He
searched Luck's room at the hotel
Among other things, he found an old
envelope with interesting data pen.
ciled on it.
Before nightfa1l the word was whis'
pered oil over Saguache that Luck
Cullison, pioneer cattleman and for.
mer sheriff, was suspected Of the W.
& S. express robbery and had fled to
save himself from arrest. At first men
marveled that one so we'll known and
so popular. one who had been so prom.
inent In affairs. could be suspected OF
such crime. but as they listened to
the evidence and saw 1t fall like
blocks of q building into place, the
conviction grew that he was the
masked bandit wanted by the sheriff.
Red-headed Bob Culison finished
making the diamond hitch and proudly
called his cousin Kate to inspect the
packhorse.
"You never saw the hitch thrown
better, Sis" he Dragged, boylike.
"Uncle Luck says l do it we'll as he
can."
Its fine. Bob" his cousin agreed,
with the proper enthusiasm In her
dark eyes. You'll have to teach me
how to do It one Of these days"
She was in q khaki riding skirt. and
she pulled herself to the saddle OF her
own horse. From this position she
raye him final instructions before leay.
ing.
It had teen on Wednesday morning
that LYcK Cullison disappeared from
the face OF lhe earth. Before twenty
four hours the gossip was being whls-
perGM In the most distant canons OF
Papago county. The riders Of the
Circle G knew it. hut none Of them
had yet told either Bob or Kate.
Now It was Friday morning and
Kate was beginning to wonder why
her father did not call her up. Could
1t be that Soapy Stone was pulling or
his train robbery at Tin Cup and her
father so busy that he could not take
time to ride to a telephone station?
She did not like to leave the ranch just
now, even for few hours. but other
business called her away. Sweeney
was holding down the fort at the Del
Orc against Fcndrick's sheepherders,
and his weekly supply. Of provisions
Ind to be taken 10 him. Since she
wanted to see with her own eyes how
things were getting along ut the canon,
she was taking the supplies in person.
She rode from sunlight into shadow
and from shadow to sunlight again,
winding along the hill trail that took
her toward the Del Orc. After hours
of travel she came TO the saddle from
which one locked down to the gap in
the canon walls that had been the COM
mon watering place of all mems cat.
tie, but now was homesteadcd by her
fathers She could sec the hut. the
fence line running parallel to the
stream on the other side. some grazing
cattle, Sweeney's horse in the corral.
The piteous bleating of Il lamb float
ed to her. Kate di$mountcd and made
her way toward the sound. A pathetic
little huddle of frightened life tried to
struggle free at her approach. The
slim leg of the lamb had become
wedged at the intersection Of several
rocks in such a way that it could not
be withdrawn.
Kate pulled the boulder away. and
released the prisoner. She took the
soft, woolly creature in her arms, and
examined the wounded limb, ull torn
and raw from its efforts to escape. A
wound, she recalled, ought TO be
washed with cold water and bound.
Returning to her horse, she put the lit
tie animal in front of the saddle and
continued on the trail that led down to
the river.
Sweeney came out from tho cabin
and hailed her. He was 4 squat, wealth
er-bcutcn man, who had ridden for her
father ever since she could remember
"What in Mexico you got there?" he
asked in surprise.
She explained the circumstances un-
der which she had found :he lamb.
"And what yon aiming to do with
it?"
"I'm going to tie up its leg and take
it across the river. Some Of thc G. +.