Gunnison news-champion., 1922-03-31
WI;h. very much worth whne.

With. very much worth whIle.
Also these same people Were saying
behind my back, Of course, but there
were always plenty Of them TO repeat
the saying 20 my faC.-that was
good stock gone to seed, would never
amount to a hill OF beans In aHythin.
that asked for initiative or IesOurce-
fgluess. Or primitive rough stuff Of any
sort: that was due to gO on d0llln-
myself up and playing sEIities TO the
end Of the pter-which would prob
abby stage Itself In an asylum fos the
fe-t-e-miutet. Also. again. at that
snme time which was SIX we.ks-or
six thousand ysars-aSo. was en-
gagged o. IISe'Is. with mighty liitls
prospect 81 marrying her. 60 be sure.
but With no thought OF marrying any
body else
And uoW looked around AT
the .AatDwy walls Of the grim old Gin
nHhar shaft house. looming darkly and
StII dripping. tick. tack. from their
early afternoon mud bath: felt my sOs
~ clothes stared across AZ Daddy
Hiram sitting backed NJ against the
hoist with his legs lnckknIfed and his
hands locked over his knees; II was q
grotssque pipe-drsam; there vas no
other name for It. broke out 10
laugh that was n below
"SI.lt il u S'annls." urged the old
man dryIy. Il allow you aIn't goIn
TO be close-fisiei enough TO keep a goo
joke all to yourself In no such ho,.
down a. thls"
-ill ny I said, and did II the best
knew how. giving him some idea ot
the life I had lived and its .arth
Wide. ahysmal dlG"rcnce from III. ex.
PerI~uc. - the past six weeks.
Silence 'or a time and then:
"Baok-learuju' and good clothes nnd
eatin with a nat fork r all right
StHuuIe hut they don't make the ma
mr. the woman; there's got to be som.
thin inside; somrthln' a heap bIggrr
than amp q them things"
Quite So" admitted.
Another silence aud at the end of
II the old philosopher again:
You been sort a. sore about ny
Jeanne, since yesterday She
been eatlH' your gran paws bread, liIr
me, and you thought, and thought,
that she might nt least We waited =
little spell Hfurv she run OF with Cha
Icy BulIertoH. Maybe we've been
juIup.u' ui things too sudden. Stannc
What made her ride way up yondrr
to GreHscr sldin' TO catch that train :!
And how come Charley Fullerton TO
murry her one day and be up herr
with h.s bunch o gunmcn by daybreak /
the mex m0rnln'T''
Has Jcnunic friends In Angels with
whom she could be stayingy' ! asked.
Not a single soul He'd a-had iu
leave her at the chink's hotel. and
that aIut no place for woman. mar
rird r t'otherwlse-"
But 'uppOsing they didn't go to
Angelsf-'
There mint no other place They
could 20 and let him get back. ms you
might say. IN the same day
Say II all, Daddy" | prompted.
There amt much TO say Stuuni..
hoy. 'CcptIu' what | said ufore. that
maybe we'd been jumpln' at things
sort q hliud-like. Jeannic's got heap
o scns,--if do say II as shouldn't
and the whole gce-rIpittIn' thing. as we
been putin II up, amt no more Ike
her than winters like dog-days
Having run the subject into a cor
ner we were both speechless for a lit
tie time and think II was almost With
sense Of relief that We sprang alert
when the dog. hitherto sleeping quietly
at our feet, jumped up and ran to hold
his nose at the threshold OF the door
opening upon the dump head