Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-01-30

c0Otueeu OtuT hUeHV"' "'sAA w.
head tossed back and her eyes wide
with merrimens, she began to-iaagh
"Qh, she gaspsd- ...Oh. Henry did
you ever hear Of such a joke? Bob
| Wells, Bob--out with Posse--so
catch,me"
I'm admh it's, q Joke" said the
Wreck. chesrfully.
Why. It's q perfect scream!
might have known we were In the
same county it's so terribly big But
never even thought about 1t And
now he's got the sheriff-Bob Wells
She passed into another spasm OF
Laughter while the Wreck watched
Any time they wanted to laugh about
Bob Wells the Wreck was willing
listener
| Il start out for a trousseaus and l
| get turned into a hotd.up man, and
I'm chased-by Bob Wells
| Its. great" he affirmed. solemnly
Then he saw that another change
was eouatns She@~as getting con
troll Of herself and the laughter was
fading There was questioning
slook in her eyes. achieving Of her
! Under lip
/ ''fIm tia rather embarrassing
al that she said slowly i don't
know tbs, h's % fanny after all II
compiica,es things Bob Wells Is an
awfuily good sheriff When he goes
after people he's, perfect blood
hound. He got murderer last year
that nobody eVer dreamed he could
get And " he should ever ind
f-us--"
She broke OF and plunged ln;o nm.
other period OF rejection Presently
she was frown,ng. and the Wreck
saw, that she was clenching her ssts
I Henry Williams. she said stand
I ing up and facing him don't like
II, i don't like isiona bit Bob Wells
'Ifhasnt got any business to he chasing
Eme"
The Wreck had never teen able 70
make anything nut of women and
now he knew that he never would
CHAPTER x
/ The Wreck Flights
! GALLf did NOT get hef eh'''i''"S
sorted out and classified In an
orderly manner fnr the rest OF
the day They insisted on mixing
themselves up they refused 70 stay
where she tried TO put them Or'ii
narily she vas OF temperament
quite serene and ohedlent to her will
except. Of course. when the Wreck
cha rxed into Il like a.ff!sky steer.
Even on those occasions her drpar
ture from a normal calm was brief
ana largely superficial But the news
that Sheriff Bob Wells was gnina out
with a posse upset her po,sc il
struck deeper and affected her in 20
many different ways that she se'"'"d
20 be spinning like v iEa
in whiri"ipd
4 She laughed she was ".., he
was scnrn!',' b. "'a' go 9
was !ncredulous. she was alarmed
all these and other moods took pos
session of her. one giving way to
lanother only to come hack and re.
peat Itself after while. so that the
final result was To leave her in very
uncertain state Of mind
! II did not help her that the Wreck
| seemed to be singularly unmoted by
the news He treated 1t as il It were
a matter Of small. consequence But
! Sally was not In The habit OF steady
ing herself by leaning on Henry Viii.
| lams she could only account for his
/ calnness by a,trihuiing il TO fail.
ure to realize the situation He did
not know what II meant to have a
| Montana sheriff and posse hard on
his. heels. but Sally did
| Even at that, she did not believe
! they would he caught Surely, she
/ told herself. there would be way out
OF things, II was not pursuit and
possible capture that disturbed her
and awakened every aosurdiy con
flictlng emotion that lay within her.
it was the fact that Bob Wells was
the instrument OF the law That
Jared her in most illogical but
| effective fashion Any other sheriff
might do his duty without protest
from Sally but Bob We'is--why did
he go and run for sheriff anyhow
He had plenty OF other things to
keep him busy If he had not hustled
around and got himself elected
sheriff he could have ridden over to
the railroad with her and she would
have been Gin the train long ago 1t
was fool trick for him TO get into
po,itir.> thought Sally