Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-02-20
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trio young easterner. Is driving sally
Morgan from her fathers .rancn 70
gasoline. At the point of gun the
Wreck takes Ave gallons from. a
Later they are held captive at a
ansn along the Way WAITS saiy
for cook. They discover that MT.
Underwood. the owner Of. the ranch,
was in the car which they held PIP.
Underwood notifies Sheriff Bob
robbery. Sally meets young Chester
Underwood and rides off with him,
The Wreck accidentally drops some
dishes in the kitchen and Timothy.
the Underwood chauffeur, smokers.
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
"Huh?" demanded the Wreck.
Comes out OF your wages.
guess" observed Timothy. II bet
you must bust quite a lot"
The Wreck placed the remainder
Of the dishes on the table and Sc.
lected the top one.
I'm going to bust more," he said.
AS Timothy lodged the dish he
uttered a yell of surprise. 1t hit the
wall just behind his chair. A second
one was not so well aimed, for It
went through a window. But Tim
othy did not wait for any improve
flent in the marksma rship. 1!ss
i,c.'cd !or ,i.e door. which ne reac:i.:u
while the fourth dish was in The air.
1t crashed against the jamb and
most of the places fell outside.
Ttc Wreck surveyed the marks
ii his achievement. shrugged his
shoulders, lifted the pile Of dishes
from the table. and resumed his jour
ney to the pantry.
Damn that Underwood pup" he
said.
Timothy had not personally figured
In the matter at all, so far as the
Wreck was concerned. He was mere
~ symbol.
Late in Ire afternoon the Wreck
went for walk. His impulse was
to take the trail that led back into
the hills; it was in that direction
Sally and Chester had ridden. But
he sternly compelled himself to fol-
low the wheel tracks that went to-
ward the main road Let her stay
out riding as long as she liked: it
was no affair of his.
He did not pay much attention
to the trail. His mind was concen-
trated on the problem of where
Charley McSwcen had hidden the
wheel of the fiivver. In odd hours
he had been searching furtively. but
without the least satisfactory result.
The Givver was locked in e. shed, into
which he could have easily broken:
hut he knew that 1t was useless to
search there Charley would not nave
made things quite so simple az that.
The wheel WIS somewhere else, and
1t would be time enough TO break into
the shed when he located it. Several
times he considered the advisability
of trying 10 thrash the truth out Of
Charley, but Sally always vetoed the
project. She had respect for his
prowess, but she was by no means
sure that he could whip everybody
on the rench. Even IL he did, there
was no &C. '.,inty that Charley would
tell. s.
He WIS still walking slowly, his
eyes staring at the ground. when
drumming sound caught his ears.
Instinctively. he paused to listen.
Horses. They were coming nearer,
too. Probably Sally and Chester had
been circling around through the
hills, he thought. Well, If that was
the case, he had no desire to meet
them. He did not want Sally to get
the notion in her head that he was
eavesdropping or that he had the
lcas. interest in anything that she
did. So he stepped of the trail.
There were clumps Of young
s.r-uce on every hand, and he moved
around behind one Of them, where
he could not be readily SEEN. The
t" "eats continued to grow louder,
"a Wreck. crouching, peered