Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1922-12-14


"I'Il be darned if believe any girl
can be hurt by a little sweet talk.
1t pleaSeS 'em.
Chop it," interrupted Bedding.
Here comes Nell now"
Dicks tingling ears took in the pat
tering of light footsteps, the rush of
someone running.
Here you are" cried sweet hap
py voice. Dad, the senorita is per-
rectly lovely. I've been peeping at
her. She sleeps like-like death.
She's SO white. Oh, hope she won't
be ill., How strange and sad, that
about herl Tell me more, Laddy.
You promised I'm dying to know.
Didn't you say the senorita had a
sweetheart"
"Shore 1 did"
as he the young man who came
with you?"
Nope. That fellows the one who
! saved the girl from Rojas." -
"Ah! Where is he, Laddy?
Hes in there asleep"
as he-nice, Laddy?"
"ShOre."
"What is he like?"
"Well, I'm not long acquainted,
never saw him by day, but was some
tolerable took with him. An Jim
here Jim says the young man can
have his gun an his boss"
"Wonderful! Laddy, what on
earth did this stranger do to win you
cowboys in just one night?"
"Tll shore have to tell you. Me an
Jim was watchin a game of cards in
the Del Sol saloon in Casita. That's
across the lire. We had aCQuaint-
ances-four fellows from the Cross
Bar outfit. where we worked a while
back. This Del Sol is a billiard hall,
saloon, restaurant, an the like. An
it was full of Greasers. Some Of
CamDo'S rebels were there drinlIn' an
playin' games Then pretty soon in
come ROias with some of his outfit.
They were packin guns an kept to
themselves off to one side.
"a little while afterward I seen a
fellow standin' in the restaurant
door. He was a young American
dressed in corduroys an boots, like a
| prOspectOr. He looked round the Sa-
loon. an when he spotted ROias ne
sOrta ierked up Then he pulled his
SLOUGH hat lOpsided an began to stag
ger down, down the steps First off |
made shore he was drunk. But | re-
membered he didn't seem drunk be-
fore. 1t was some queer. SO |
watched that young man.
"He rceled around the room like a
fellow who was drunkern lord.
Nobody but me seemed to notice him.
Then he began to stumble over pool
players an get his feet tangled up in
chairs an bump against tables. He
got some pretty hard looks. He came
round our way. an all of a sudden he
seen us cowboys. He gave another
start like the one when he first seen
ROiaS, then he made for us. | tipped
Jim off that somethin' was dom
Then this queer young man shot some
cool, polite words at me an Jim.
Gle was only bluffin' at bein' drunk
he meant to rush ROias, to start a
rough house. The bandit was after
girl. This girl was in the hotel, an
she was the sweetheart of a soldier
the young fellows friend. The hotel
was watched by Roias' guards, an the
! plan was to make fuss an get the
girl away in the excitement Well,
jim an me got a hint of our bein'
Americans-that cowboys generally
had q name for loyalty to women.
Then this amaZin Chap-you can't
imagine how scOrnful-said for me
an Jim to watch him.
"Before I could catch my breath an
fgger out what he meant by rush an
rough house he had Knocked over
table an crowded some Greaser half
off the map. Then, qulcker'n l can
tell you the young man dove at Ro-
| las. Like a mad steer on the ram
! page he charged Rojas an his men,
| The whole outfit went down-Smash
I figgered then what rush meant
The young fellow came up out Of the
pile with ROjas, an just like I'd sling
an empty sack along the floor he sent
! the bandit. But swift as that went
he was on top Of ROjas before the
chairs an tables had stopped rollin'.
II woke up then, an made for the
center of the room, Jim with me.
began to shoot out the lamps. jim
throwed his guns on the crazy rebels,
an | was afraid there'd be blood
spilled before l could get the room
dark. Bein' shore busy, | lost sight
of the young fellow for a second or
so, an when | got an eye free for him
seen Greaser about to knife him.
Think was considerable of the
Greaser by only shootin' his arm off.
Then | cracked the last lamp, an in
the hullabaloo me an Jim vamoosed
1--WE made tracks for our bosses an
packs, an was hittin' the San Felipe
road when we run right plumb into
the young man. Well, he said his
name was Gale-Dick Gale. The girl
| ,roc with him ca 70 mn vol. hut hnr