Gunnison news-champion., 1922-03-17

what's h.'lnE you"
"Nayb" there alu't uo;hln b!rin' me-:
maybe I'm just EettlH' sort q Old and
sEc"ry But It's thIsaway. Staunls.
SON. Ever since your granpav ra,e
ne thl, here watchln' job. and since /
heard tell hOw them Cripple Greek
sh'r'-curd artists socked II to him on
THIS 'luRahsr deal. been IooEln for
trouble hnlH't been easy about them
CUrpI" Greek hoItuPs nary a day
s.-or your Eran'paw told ne to stay
her" uai hold the FORT for him"
You Thought perhaps the original
owners might Try to grab the property
By ru-r"s'
Daddy Looked % al me from under
his tg-ay "yrnruas
i'rHrs 10 mo Ike you've got
mighty short memory. s.une way. Stan
ME. IIu'" y"u done rorE0, that bunch
o hu,a.es We saw caupln' out la Ante
l"p" -g'OL as Sc come along by there
a. r.a1n0as 'hIs moruin'T | didn't lIE.
the looks o that camp much at tn"
um" and liked u whole lot less
after We got here and found Charley
EuIIv-r"n rHu.H. LImself on the donr
step Mad" me sort o Pcrk up my
rnr-
but sec here. Daddy" thrust in.
II he, got my decd ur has destroyed
It. why"
Why DO has as good a right TO the
Hlnuuhar as the next Oh" tina; comes
Hl"nE .s aLH' you're splr iu say /
aIr't dlspurln you fur minute. But
ufuro be- can have %. he's got 10 take
70, ha.ur h-f And wv.yr got two nigh
'y g"md Ill' pieces Of artillery tina, saws
he's g"au' 10 have one joyful old time
aiuhlu IL: that is II you're Of til.
same mind that am"
by Jo'e. wanted TO put my arms
around ,hr old Spartan and hug him.
As I've said. there were ten or q dozen
men In that bunch we'd seen In the
guIch and hc was calmly proposing TO
stand up to them. as confidently as II
1t were an In the days work.
4 get you now. Daddy" said. and
Il there's light coming to US. your
rnIni is min" Wen give them the best
we've got"
thought the two old d-fashioncd guns
and Jcuulc's pistol promised poor
chance for an effective defense; but
Daddy Hiram proceeded to show me
that We had at least one other re
source. In the mine stores left behind
by the former operating company were
two boxes OF sixty percent dynamite
with fuse and caps, and Daddy pointed
out that there were good possibilities
wrapped up in the greasy brown.papcr
cartridges II the enemy should come
close enough to let us use them.
Il believe you had this all doped out
In advance, Daddy" / said. when he
had a neat little row of the cartridges
laid out on the floor. But surely you
didn't expect to hold out alone II those
sharks sent a crowd OF Jumpers in to
run you off7"
Me and Jeanie." he said simply.
Wed n done our level best and the
angels couldn't do no more than that"
Here, unless the old man was sadly
mistaken in his daughter. was another
and wholly unsuspecter side OF the blue
eyed maiden displayed for me. tried
TO Imagine Lisette helping her father,
or me. or any lone man. to defend be-
leaguered mine against an armed at
tack. II was so funny that shouted.
DO you mean to say that Jeanie would
shut herself up in here and load the
guns for you against a mob Of mine
jumpersT
He looked up with prideful sparkle
In his mild blue eyes.
You don't half know that little girl
o mine, yet, Stannie. son." he said
earnestly. And then: shes the only
boy ever had, you see and she hain't
had any mother since she can remem-
Der. Maybe hadn't ort to taught her
TO ride hawsses and shoot, and them
things; but 1t seemed like had to-"
You haven't made her one iota less
say. Then blurted out the thing that
had been weighing on me ever since
We had found Bullerton loafng on the
doorstep: DO you suppose they could
is there any way they could have
been married yesterday. DaddyT'
"Uh-huh; l reckon there was. They
might a gone on down to Angels.
There's justice O. the peace down
there"
1t still lacked a full hour of noon
when We got our preparations made
and were ready to stand 4 siege. Then
we waited, and waited some more and
after q while I began to grin. What
II we had stampeded ourselves need
lessly? After all, the men we had seen
In the deep gulch might really have
been tramps. and not Fullerton army.
Would the mining engineer, unprinci-
pied as he doubtless was, 60 to the
length Of trying to. cispossess Us by
force? The more l thought Of 1t, the
more unlikely 1t seemed.
r guess maybe we were scared Of
shadow, after all, Daddy" said.
"Builsrton has had time enough 70
bring m his army, II = has cue