New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1921-10-21

Look" She Urged-it Was One Of the
Charming Wiles of H~er-"Look at
My New Dress"
where YOU want me to GO, eff it's
TO Torment. Now tell me how II comes
that | find my people and their inc,
mics as thick as m'lasses in Il jug,
while we walk on"
When Dale returned to John More
lands cabin from having seen Babe
Llttleford safely TO her fathers door,
he found Major Bradley and BY Heck
waiting at the gate. Heck had some
important, bad news, he said.
Better not tell me about it, until
after supper" replied Dale. I'm as
hungry as you ever were, BY"
They went in to sit down to one of
the best meals Addle Moreland had
ever prepared. When they had fin
ished eating, John Moreland led the
way into the best room, where they
took chairs. The major produced
cigars. by Heck, swollen with a feel.
ing of greatness, lighted the wrong
end of his weed, faced Dale, and be.
gan to unburden his mind of its weight
of information.
"Well, Bill, old boy" he began-and
then stopped to wonder why his cigar
wouldn't smoke as well as the majors.
well, Bin, old boy" he went on final
ly. Henderson Golf, he's shore been
as busy as a one-armed man in a bum
blebee's nest. | CANT see, igod, what's
wrong with this here seegyar. He's
went and brung about twenty-five Tor.
reys from two places knowed as Jer-
us'lem cove and Hatton's hell, to help
work his mine when he gifts il. They're
all a-puttln' up with them Balls. The
Torreys Is part lnjun. Cherokee In.
Jun, and I've heered il said at they
was It's bad or wuss'n rattlesnnke
BROTH
Major Bradley blew a little cloud of
smoke upward. More of the game of
blum, perhaps" he suggested.
I'm inclined TO think So" thought.
fully said Dale. well, wen avoid
as long as We decently can;
and when we can no longer get around
ii. we'll call in as much of the law
as We can get. and meet it halfway.
Eth. Hayes?"
Sure" nodded the mining expert.
Dale vas on his way to the new
siding the following morning, when he
net Henderson Goff. Again Dale was
reminded of stories he had
heard and read OF Mississippi river
steamboat gamblers of the long ago.
.ioff stepped out of the trail, smiled
and spoke with apparent good humor.
Dale passed him without a word.
Then the shyster coal man called
,ut, Ready to sell yet?'
The Moreland Coal company's man.
Iger halted and faced about with a
pickering of his brows.
For a fair price, yes"
Just what would you call a fair
{
'Oh. somewhere between two and {
hree hundred thousand" promptly. /
Goff shifted. and the corners of his 4
Mouth came down.
You don't want much. You won't 4
it from met" a
Il don't want IL from you @
Dale turned and wen on. He was S
orry that he had stopped to talk with
be fellow. q
That afternoon he again met Goff q
l the trail. The bare sight of the O
made him very angry now. and r
Is right hand fell upon the butt of n
he big revolver on his hip. Goff was
bout TO sidestep in the %laurels, when {,
ale caught him roughly by the arm. d
See here" he said sharply, you've Il
bout tut your little swath. We've IN
nd enough of you. You can't get this a
at any price, and the sooner you II
t yourself out of this country the h
liter and safer it will be for you. ID
0 be plain, I'm pretty apt to thrash p
N the very next time I see o Now ri
owe on :"
Gof ven off laughing wickedly.
Oh, all right, Dale; go ahead and
lid the little road for me :" he said. Al
Late that night every sleeper in the q,
Hey of the Doe was awakened by a h,
eat rumbling explosion, which was Sc
lowed almost Immediately By an &C