The Adair County news., 1922-01-10
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Ehzn a few minutes, all told, Daddy
HE2m had stood aside, as 1 have said,
@zking the part of the interested spec
$x1sr. Now he remarked: "You can
2seE all your old. clothes, son, that we
zEzlHt seen the last o. Charley Butler
Esza. not by long chalk. You ricolIect
4 told you once he'd got a man, down
In enc o. the camps on the Saguache?
Yer, it was for a heap less than what
YRz done to him a few minutes ago.
3zt tets go eat
L passed through the cabin TO the
ssu kitchen and while l was kindling
"A fire In the stove 1 saw Daddy with
:zaa armful of hay and peck measure
~zE oats, tolling the little horse down
-seze path back to the cabin to disap-
FEzr with it in the direction of the
zuiich where the abandoned Little
~Hanie" claim lay. l had the coffee
sz-EEde and the bacon fried by the time
Gshe get back, and after we had eaten
~ fbiessomed out in an entirely new
j7ztse-that of commander in chief
This is mOvin' day, Stannie," he
.Easunced briefly. eff you'll dig up
szE the chuck and canned stuff you
-s=2 find and tote it over to the shaft
Esouse, I'll fetch the blankets and the
s-saokin' tins"
Z ebeyed blindly, and entirely with
mt prejudice to lively curiosity as
- -yhat this new move might mean.
TEh1le was emptying the kitchen and
Ezzntry the old man unearthed another
rife from the closet under the loft lad
e-=4er, and with it box of ammunition !;
and | observed that this second gun,
Ike the one he had carried on our
Espssgrimage of the night, looked as if
IL had been freshly oiled and rubbed
zp every day since it had left the fac
sz75ary.
XeuG have a lot of talking to do
lE1Sently," / warned him. You seem
I'D forget that you haven't yet told me
,=sxtat's biting YOU"
Maybe there amt nothin' bitin' me !:
maybe I'm just gettin' sort o. old and
9keery. But it's this-away, Stannie,
Sn: Ever since your gran'paw gave
a-ETe this here watchin' Job. and since I
ssEard tell how them Cripple Creek
=iis3-t-card artists sOcked It to him on
EsIAs sCfnnabar deal, | been IOOkin' for
ssroubie. / hain't been easy about them
SsfBple Greek -holdups nary a day
Ss1noe your gran'paw told me to stay
-ssssre and hold the fort for him."
You thought perhaps the original
izSssssess might try to grab the property
f1r Torce?''
BADLY looked up at me from under
ais 9'nshye eyebrows.
Years to me like you've got a
mighty short memory, SEINE way, STAN
nh Have you done forgot that bunch
N ss5zskfes we saw campin' out in Ante
zsslse gulch as we come along by there
vt eaaybreak this mOrnin'? didn't like
1-&hE Cooks o. that camp much at the
-SIIs<e; and 1 liked it a whole lot less
saf1ssr we got here and found Charley
3HA2erfon Sunnin' himself on the door
@IsA Made me sort O. perk up my
szzzaE
z7ut, see here, Daddy" l thrust in,
II hes got my deed, or has destroyed
" ~dg-"
Why, he has as good a right to the
~AseEsbar as the next one that comes
z8iss1s, Is what you're gOin' to say. l
zztEE sdisputin' you for a minute But
=aE6Hze ale can have it, he's got to take
q szin't he? And we've got two Nigh
T1gE&od h'f pieces of artillery that says
he's gOin' to have one joyful old time
s-z-Ezkin' 1t; that is, if you're of the
.Szzae mind that am"
6sF -Jeye! l wanted to put my arms
sxrzzzad the old Spartan and hug him
- - I've said, there were ten or a dozen
7n@z in that bunch we'd seen in the
EEsbzs, and he was calmly proposing to
-sfsEs0 up to them, as confidently as if
IL ESsce allsin the days work.
L get you now, Daddy" said, land
II dhere's a tight coming to us, your
Hzzsssi is mine, Well give them the best
we've got"
{ Thought the two old-fashiOned guns
: aCh .Jeanie's pistol promised a poor
S.h=znce for an effective defense; but
Daddy Hiram proceeded to show me
hat we had at least one other re-
.aSazEree. Ia the mine stores left behind
= ~ the former operating company were
ssgzzs boxes of -sixty-per-cent dynamite,
7SA0~1 use ana caps, and Daddy pointed
zn that there were good possibilities
wrapped lin the greasy brown-paper
''-zKsS1dges If the enemy should come
close enough to let us use them
Z believe you had this all dOped out
Ia advance, Daddy" I said, when he
haad a neat little row of the cartridges
lid out on the floor. But surely you
zMdn't expect to hold out alone if those
-=sS<arks sent crowd of jumpers in to
g11 you off"
Me and Jeanie," he said simply |
We'd "a done our level BEST and the
=sAgels couldn't do no more than that"
- Bere, unless the old man was sadly
ss4.4staRen in his daughter, was another
Ind wholly unsuspecter side of the blue
eyed maiden displayed for me. tried
-aS Imagine Lisette helping her father,
1sx me, or any lone man, to defend a be-