American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1921-12-23

Il went out To the uHlh-sheu' anu
| hadn't been there a minute when
Bobby McIaurin came. asked him
how he knew where to find me. He
said:
~ thought YOU wouldn't care TO
stay here after doing what you did'
aud | wanted To sly good-hy, Bill He
always called me that, and II made
me feel like a man. Then l put my
bag down and took him by both shout
ders and told him this:
Look here, Bobby, I'm going to
give you some advice, and you take
II. You steal Pat and marry her. Steal
Pat and marry her II you have to live
In a hole In a hillside. You're MS good
us any Of them, and lots better than
most of them. You can work your way
TO n better salary. You see ! told
him, we get about What we deserve
In this world, Most of us don't deserve
much
III asked him II mother was badly
cut up. He said she was that she had
4. tainted. Dad swore aloud, he said,
i, there In church. | told Bobby good-by
, and got aboard the train without say
ing anything about where | was go
I ing-hut | didn't know myself where
I | was going, at the time.
"Now you've heard 1t. Every word
was truth. II youm trust me with the
i, coal, III make this land my land, your
; people my people. I'll suffer with you
q when you suffer, and be happy with
you when you're happy; ana when you
y fight, I'll fight with YOU"
The Moreland chief arose, and Bill
=. Dale arose. The hillman put out his
: hand, and Dale gripped it.
n believe in We, BILL" said John
Moreland. 'Fo, another thing, I've
= seed We fight. You can work the COAL
lie looked toward the closed inner
y door and called, "oh, Addie; you anc
!. the boys can come back now"
Out OF the night Il face appeared al
one OF the small windows, II was
NJ feminine face and handsome rather
than pretty. Two slender, sunburne'
US hands gripped the window-ledge nerv
IT ously. The face pressed closer to tn
glass, then disappeared. Soon after
ward the outer door OF the guest
room opened, and Ben Littleford'
daughter entered. Her skirts wer
dripping wet.
Mrs. Moreland arose and went {,
ward the young woman She kne'
that only something OF great impoI
lance could bring a LIttleford into he
home IN this fashion.
x "What's the matter, Bahef'
N Babe Littleford gave no attentio
to Mrs. Moreland. She went on
Bil Dale, walking softly on bare fee
"Black Adam is n-goin' to kill yc
III tonight, Bill Daie."
"A 'That so?" Dale's smile was rath'
IA grim. "How did YOU find that ou
. Miss Littleford7'
nj II found IL out, all right. AZ
M went of from the river this mornil
.l | made fun OF him and he patted q
M stock OF his rifle and said he'd git "
. through a window He was at o
IN house this %evenln' to help fix pal
NM gun, and when he left he started II
n way, a.goin' by the blowed-down syt
II more. | waded the river at Blue {
shoals 10 beat him here. thought y
"a might want to know about II, SOS
III tOU10 HtDDt NuNt OAiltI Ablhh NV ~
nal BILE o. maxim a funeral TO ye."
" She backed toward the door. }
eyes never leaving Dale's face. Anotl
second, and she was gone.
They were all on their feet nj
John Moreland gripped Dale's arm
Us "Over thar aside o. the chlmbl
nes Bill - he ordered, his native draw
the moment absent. "Out, Ado
mo honey Luke, bring my rife and I'm
on, Jump keen Gale, bring water q
n drownd this here fre"
IN II was done. Moreland took his
had and the repeater and went alone I
Iem the night.
into When some fifteen minutes
Inos passed, there came to Dale's ears
!. &, sound OF shooting. There were
,nse shots In such rapid succession that I
ya1 made almost a continuous roar. II
/. came echoes and reverberations,
then silence. Soon John Moreland
himself into the dark room.
His wife's voice was low and n
49,. with anxiety:
49,, what happened, JohDT"
A dull thud came through the III
ness as her husbands riie-butt str
IL. the floor.
% "This is what happened, Addie {:
I passed the cawner O the house
down that thar old Oxwhip 10
~" along. ! went acrsst the road and
IL the meadow, and thar ] seen A
" Ball a-comin'. ! hid, and when A
. ~ was about TO pass me, Jumped
and jerked his rife from him
eiore busted It ag'in q rock. Then u
hurch in and thrasbes him with the OK
OF II ontel he broke and run. And 'en
a here happened, Addie:
held ~ was n.watchin' TO see Of A
was had RELY went OF, when seed a
ana a-comln' toward me fast. tho
.es OF It was Ball. o course. 80 ! up
aurih, tells him 10 show me how fast he
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