White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1924-02-22
The Dude
Wrangler
Caroline Lockhart
Copyright, Doubleday. Page & Co
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anu he WOulu reap LHe DeueiL. IVA
ture was more wonderful than he had
realized, and he never before had ap-
preciated her. He always forgot the
heart breaking and back-breaking la
Dor when he stood as now, surveying
with glowing face the even great car
pet stretching out before him. In
such moments he found his compen-
sation for all he had gone through
since he arrived in Wyoming, and he
smiled pityingly as he thought Of the
people at The Colonial, rocking plac-
idly on the veranda.
did you ever see anything pref
tier?" Wallie demanded, his eyes
shining.
"Its all right" Pinkey murmured,
absently.
You're not looking" Wallie said,
sharply.
81 was watchin' them cattle"
II don't see any"
Pinkey pointed, but Wallie could
see nothing.
IF they got COWS on Mars, I'll bet
l could read the brands" Pinkey
boosted. Can you see them specks
movin' off yonder?"
Wallie admitted that he could not.
TITS cattle, and they act like some
body's drivin' EN-" Pinkey declared
positively Looks like it's too early
to be movin' 'em to the mountain"
His curiosity satisfied, he gave the
wheat his attention.
at looks fine, Wallie," he said with
much sincerity.
Wallie could not resist growing.
"You didn't think I'd last, did you?
Miss Spenceley didn't, either. She'll
be disappointed very likely when she
hears I've succeeded"
Don't cackle till you've laid youl
aig, Gentle Annie. When you've
threshed and sold your grain and got
your money in the bank, then I'll help
you. Well git drunk if l have to rob
a drugstore"
you're always putting a damper on
me. 1t was you who advised me to
go in for dry-farming," Wallie re-
minded him.
II fggered that if you lived through
year of it," Pinkey replied, candid
ly, "then almost anything else would
look like snap to you"
1t was plain that in spite of his
prospects Pinkey was not sanguine
but in this moment Of his exultation
failure seemed impossible to Wallie
In various small ways Candy had
tried to break him and had not sue
ceeded. Boise Bill had prophesied
that he would not "winter"-yet here
he was with every reason to believe
that he would also summer" Wallie
felt rather invincible as he reflected
upon it, and the aurora borealis did
not exceed in color the outlook his
fancy painted that evening.
cts eight-thirty," Pinkey limited
when I set up till all hours l over
sleep in. the morning"
Wallie came to earth reluctantly
again permitted himself the luxury OF
plying the folk of The Colonial, who
knew nothing of such rapturous mo-
ments in that stale, uneventful world
which was so remote and different
from the present that 1t was begin.
ming to seem like dream to him.
They had been asleep for an hour
or more possibly, when Pinkey nudg
ed Walle violently.
whats that huffin', do you reck-
on?"
Wallie awoke with start and list
ened
"Huffing" was the right word. Ly-
ing next to the logs, some large ami
NAL was breathing so heavily in Wal
lies ear that it sounded like bel
lows. He peered through a crack and
saw something that looked like mas
todon in the darkness Juggling at a
sack he had used for chinking. 1t
was not horse and was too large
for his Jersey. 1t flashed through his
mind that it might be roaming sill
ver-tip from the mountain.
Pinkey was out of the bunk at a
bound and around the corner of the
cabin, where his suspicious were in
stantly verified
Its BULL" he shouted.
thought it. Looks like a thousand
head Of cattle tramplin' down your
wheat-feld!"
Wallie turned sick. He could not
move for moment His air-castles
fell SO hard he could almost hear
them
do you think they've been in
long?"
Cant tell till daylight"
Wallie was now in the doorway and
he could make out innum cradle dark
shapes browsing contentedly in his
grain-field.
'Whatll we do?" he asked, de-,
spairingly.
"Do?" replied Pinkey, savagely,
tugging at his bootstraps. ."Pll send
one where dogs won't bite him with
every cartridge. Well run thousand
dollars worth of taller off the rest of
'em. Git into your clothes, Gentle An
ME, and we'll smoke EN- up proper"
II don't see how it could happen"
said Wallie, his voice trembling. "The
fence was good"
IF it had been 20 feet high 'twould
"a been all the same" Pinkey an.
swered. "Them cattle was drove in"
"You mean" Wallie's mouth op.