Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-06-12
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| you at face value till you turn out
to be no good.
Shell be much better off for hav.
Ing some work to do. She can help
me, and I'll give her her keep. Yes
I'll throw In some wearable clothes
and pair Of shoes that'll stand the
wear and tear of our streets"
II knew you were the right sort, .
meekly said Dinsdale, backing to the
door. "I'll be going"
"But amt / going to see you no
! more?" cried Lottie Carl, running to
| him and clutching his arm.
+! Dinsdale stared helplessly into her
/ thin face, then at the grim visage OF
| the widow. With unexpected human
! ity Mrs. Colt drew the girl to her side
and softly patted the chestnut hair.
To Dinsdale she said:
ION Sunday afternoon you can rap
If I'm here you can come as far as
this room and see your little friend.
If I'm out, you'll stay out. If mar
in this house bats single eyelash al
my new help, then God help him! Now
I'm busy, and Lottie Carl can pitch
in and help me-"
Dinsdale shook hands with the girl,
who turned away to hide her tears.
He was outside the door when she
seized his arm and fercely whispered /:
Don't ever kiss that woman"
Then she was back in the house be-
fore he could say word.
It was great relief to have the
responsibility of the girl shifted to
the capable Mrs. Colt. Mounting his
horse, he rode down the street unde-
cided as to where he should look for
lodging
For q man used to taking life as
1t came, along 1t was surprising that
Dinsdale should give SO much thought
to the selection Of boarding place.
Yet there were influences working
upon him which made his choice q
matter Of considerable strategic i'm
portance.
His cogitations ended with his rid
ing up the street and haltihg before
a sign that pleased his fancy I'M
mensely. It read:
BED ROCK HOTEL
PORK & BENES & COMMON DOINS
30 CENTS
CHICKEN FIXINS &. FLOUR DOINS
ONE DOLLAR
''Hurrah for -four doings,'" he soft
up applauded.
Entering the Bed Rock, he engaged
a room, paying week in advance
from his roll of greenbacks. Leaving
his rifle In the Office, he rode his tired
horse to Clark's livery stable, paid
IN greenbacks, and then set out afoot
for an examination Of the town.
Whenever he paused and listened
to men with time for gossip he found
there were two topics of general in
terest-the murder of Wild Bill and
the menace Of the Sioux.
"Jack Mccall was hired by some Of
the gamblers!" passionately charged
one man. "They was afraid my. pard
would be put In Office to make things
decent here. They hired Mccall to
do for him, then got him clear with
their snap miners meeting, and rushed
him out Of the hills SO he wouldn't
blab the truth. I only hope he rides
plump into hi, and finds them that
hired him all waiting for him."
That's a poor way to talk, Utter"
warned a bowlegged fellow with two
guns in his belt. "If the gamblers can
work that game which / don't believe
then they're strong enough to muzzle
you"
"An I ask, Bandy' Allen, Is that
they come face on when they try to
muzzle me-" was the hot reply. you're
pretty thick with some of them; tell
them what I'm saying. hope Nc
Call rides straight into hi"
Had Colorado Charley"-as Utter
was generally called-possessed pro-
phetic vision his mind would have been
more at rest; for he would have
looked down the months, less than a
year Of them, and seen the murderer
riding to expiate his crime on Yank-
ton scaffold, executed by the United
States authorities.
The next circle of men where Dins-
dale loitered were discussing the
chances Of an Indian invasion, and
loudly demanding of one another the
reason for the soldiers failure to
come. One citizen announced that the
bodies of three whites had been found
that very morning up Whitewood creek
These isolated killings had been so
frequent as to become commonplace
Through the open door Of the L x.
Observation-Disclosures,