Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-03-13

CHAPTER 1
But why don't you do something.
Bill?" demanded Sam Prescotts
pretty daughter.
Bill Wingo looked at Miss Prescott
in injured establishment. do some
thing?" he repeated. What do you
want me to do?"
You make me tired, Bill. Here
you've got a claim and a little bunch
of cows. Instead of working like a
man you loaf like IA"
Like a loafer," he prompted.
bill, can't you understand that
| like you, and
YOU like me. You'll have to marry
me, I'm afraid, Sally Jane"
Il will, will 1? And you're afraid.
are you? You big, overgrown, lazy
lummox. 1 wouldn't marry you
ever"
81 know you mean we'll, Sally
Jane, and"
"And it's none of my business?
You're quite right, Bili-but can't
you see I'm talking for your own
good?"
sure, yes. My pa used to a
just like that before he'd go out be-
hind the corral with a ~breeching-
strap in one hand and my ear in the
other. | used to hurt most unpleas-
ant for two-three days after. Ola
times, old times. Now, / take it you
were never licked, Sally Jane. That
was a mistake. You should have
been What? You don't me n to
say you're going home? And we
were getting along SO nicely too.
Well, IL willful must. she must. I'll
hold your horse for you.
He watched her ride away along
the side of Linny's Hill.
The view from Linny's hill wac
all that could be desired. At the vase
Of the hill the Golden Bar-Hillsviile
trail led the eye westward to where
Golden Bar, a collection OF toy
houses, each one startlingly clear in
that rarehed atmosphere, SPRAYED
along the further bank of Wagon
jack River.
Crocker county, 400 miles long by
900 miles wide, bounded on the east
by the Wagonjack, ran well up into
the Medicine Mountains,
Political pickings in Croker were
consistently good. Croker laws,
provided the suspected person or
persons were friendly with the
county officials. were not admins
tered with undue severity. Coarse
work was never tolerated, naturally;
but IL n were judicious n a goou
icker one could travel far and
proitably. Crocker was as
GO, fertile ground for easy con-
sciences.
Bill Wingo watched the moving
pencil end that was Miss Prescott.
Another pencil end was riding the
same trail--away from Golden Bar.
Bill Wingo intently scrutinized the
wayfarer from Golden Bar side. :,
Looks like Jack Murray's sorrel,.
he mused. "If they stop, it's JACK.
The pencil ends drew together at
the lower end of the grove. 1hey
stopped.
mildly. II never did X that man.
Said the first pencil end to the sec.
ond pencil end, Hello, Sally jane
Morning. Jack" .
9Th ride along with you
"All right. At times I've known
Won to be amusing, Jack
He spurred alongside and turned
| I'm his saddle to stare at her.
us that all I'm good for--to help
| pass the time?" o,
what else is a a good for?
"Don't be so flip. Sally Jane. You
| KNOW He stopped short.
She waited a moment. Iheh'
| know what?" .
..You know I've been loving you
a long. long time he said aor4p..yi
I didn't want to tell you before l hau
somethfne to offer you besides my
! self. And now I've got something
| RATE Tuckleton has promised 10
make me sheriff."
~ thought the voters usually oe-
| cided such things" said she: -
He laughed cynically. mot IN
Cracker. Well, what do you say.
She looked at him coolly. what
I is this-a proposal aid
! "Don't you understand ne saia
earnestly. Don't you underslanI
that 1 love you, Sally Jane? And
want you" ~
| him. MA,
~ understand that you want me-,
sha toId him calmly. "Why not!
| Nv tyne appeals to your type, that's
ali. Appeals physically, l. mean.
You'd like to possess me. but you
| don't love me Jack Murray.
"I'm gonna marry you, ne per
sisted. borg
ba ninioned both her hands with ms
tight, swung his left arm round nea
woist and crushed her aspih
| against his chest. She rugsl
| hut he was a man, and strong. forc-
ing the back of the hand that Iun-
| fined her two hands under her onth,
he tilted her head up and pach,
wards. Once, twice ana again liz
| kissed her mouth" .,c
"There." he muttered, ~reieasinS
| her so abruptly that She almost zen
| ont Of the saddle and only saved herr
saif by catching the addle nor.
Nth both hands. "There. I've hearo
vou boasted that no man eVen
Sissed YOU. Well. you're kissed now
and YOU won't forget it in a hurry,
Had she had q gun, she wouat
| have shot the man. But she uio ~
have a gun-nor any other weapon.
She had even dropped her quif'
"oh!" she cried, striking her ns.s
,ocether. "Oh! l could Kill YOU!
You dog! You beast! Faugh.. heae
she wined her mouth with the pack
Of her hand and wiped her mana u"
u ". Here. stop crying" he directed
| stretching forth an arm anu ie""
| ing toward her.
At that she came alive with start,
ling audiences and with a iu,i
armed sweep scored his cheek with
| her finger nails from temple TO Jaw.
She snatched her horse o
;aXL .od few homeward at