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

ful ueCkLeG. And MS race was calm
and his nose spectacles was kept
very shiny I saw once. IA MuscO-
gee. an outlaw hung for numbering
six men. VINO was a dead ringer for
him. But ! knew a preacher in
Arkansas that YOU would have taken
10 be his brother. 7 didn't care much
for him either way, what I wanted
was some fellowship and communion
with holy saints or lost sinners
anything sleepless would do.
Well. Saint Clair SAGE he lay
ing down the book he was reading.
j guess 30 must be pretty lonesome
for YOU az first And / don't deny
that it's monotonous for me. Are
YOU sure YOU corralled your sheep
so they won't stray OUT
They're shut up as tight as the
jury Of a millionaire murderer says
l. And I'll be back with them long
before they'll need their trained
nurse
so ogden digs UP a deck OF cards,
and we play casino. After five days
and nights OF my sheep-camp IL was
like a toot on Broadway When I
caught big casino I felt as excited
as III I had made a million in Trim
ity. And when n. O. loosened up a
Httle and told the story about the
lady I'm the Pullman car 1 laughed
FOR five minutes.
That showed what a comparative
thing life is. A man may see so
much that he'd be bored 10 turn his
head to look at a $4,000 600 fire or
Joe Weber or the Adriatic sea. But
let him herd sheep FOR a spell. and
youll see him splitting his ribs
laughing at 'Curfcw Shall Not Ring
Tonight. or really enjoying himself
playing cards with ladies.
"By-and-by ogden gets out a de-
canter of Bourbon, and then there
was a total eclipse OF sheep.
DO you remember reading in the
papers. about "A month ago says he,
about train hold-up on the NJ. K.
d To The express agent was shot
through the shoulder and about
| $4,000 in currency taken. And it's
said that only one man did the job.
Seems 10 me / do says 1 But
. .'"ANtA NAAAAAEr- ara fAfNtA ~ NANNAA AAAN e
don't linger long I'm the human Texas
mind. Did they overtake. overhaul.
seize. or lay hands upon the de-
spoiler?'
He escaped, says ogden. And
was just reading i'm a paper today
/ that the officers have tracked him
down into this part Of the country
/ IL seems the bills the rObber got
were all the first issue Of currency
to the Second National bank Of Es-
[ pinosa city. And so they've follow
ed the trail where they've been spent
and it leads this way.
ogden pours out some more Bour-
/ bon, and shOves me the bottle.
Il imagine says /. after ingurgi-
tating another modicum of the royal
booze that IL wouldn't be az all a
! disingenuous idea for a train-robber
TO run down into this part of the
country to hide for a spell. A sheep
ranch now says 1. would be the
finest kind Of a place. Who'd ever eX-
pect 20 ind such desperate charac-
/ ter among these song birds and NUT
tons and wild flowers? And. by the
way says /. kind of looking II. Og-
Y den over. was there any description
I mentioned Of this single handed ter.
ror? Was his lineaments or heigh
and thickness or teeth filings Ol
style Of habiiments set forth il
print?'
Why. no says ogden; they say
nobody got a good sight Of him be-
cause he wore a mask. But they
+ knew it was train-robber called
Black Bill. because he always WORK.
I alone and because ne dropped q
/ handkerchief i'm the express-car thar
! had his name on it.
All right says I I approve oil
/ Black Bits retreat to the sheep
ranges / guess they won't find him.
There's $1,000 reward for hi,
/ capture. says ogden.
"I don't need that kind O.
money says I. looking Mr.. Sheep
man straight in the eye. The 81.
a month YOU pay me is enough.
need a rest. and / can save up unit
I get enough 10 pay my fare 10 Tex
arlaua. where my widowed mothe
lives If Black Bill I goes on, look
/ ing significantly at ogden was {,
have come down this way-say.
month ago-and bought a lttl
sheep ranch and -'
stop. says ogden. getting on
of his chair and looking prett.
vicious DO you mean to insinu
late
Nothing SAYS I no insinua
tons. I'm stating a hypodermica
case. 7 say If Black Bill had CONS
down here and bought a sheep
ranch and hired me to Little-Boy
Blue 'em and treated me square AM
friendly as you've done. he'd neve
have anything 20 fear from me. 4
man is man. regardless Of an.
complications ne may have Will
sheep or railroad trains Now yo,
know where I stand
ogden looks black as camp-cof
fee for nine seconds, and then h,
laughs, amused.
'Youu do. Saint Clair saws he
/ ~ I was Black Bill I wouldn't br
afraid 90 trust YOU. Let's have
game or two of seven-up tonight
Ihat rs. or YOU don't mind playin.
with a train robber.
I've told YOU. says T. my mora
sentiments and there's no strings [,
en-
While I was shudlinS after tn,
first hand. I asks ogden. as if tn
idea was a kind of casually wher
he was from.
Oh. SAYS he. from the Missis
sippi valley
That's "a nice little place. says I
i've often stopped over there. Blu
didn't YOU find the sheets a littu
damp and the food poor? Now.
hail. says 7. from the Pacific slope
Ever nut uD there