Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1930-10-11
INSTALLMENT SIX

head and shoulders ABOVE
him, Carl felt a sharp resent
ment at his order that he leave
the plantation that night. In
spite of the giants hard words
the youth answered boldly:
I'm not going anywhere!
With a quickness surprising in one
of his bulk, Bozo seized Carl in his
enormous grasp, shaking him fierce
". Carl felt his senses leaving him.
~ show you you CANT fool with
me-" the drunken Bogo muttered as
he lifted him slowly above his head,
Suddenly his great body went rigid.
A cool voice at his back spoke.
LET Carl down-and let him down
easy, big boy, otherwise 1 blow your
hack out with his yere six shooter!
The giant felt the hard pressure
In the small of his back but more
than that he feared The lashins
keenness in the other mans voice
Slowly he set Carl down, then eie-
waited both of his hands. Hotshots
voice came again criSply.
Now hightail!"
Without a backward look Bogo
plunged into the woods, and Tor
brief moment they could hear his
great bulk crashing through the
heavy underbrush.
"Whew!" Carl breathed in deep
relief. Il thought was poner'
surel"
boy, amt you got no sense
a-tall?" Carl's friend scolded. "What
you want to buck up to that gorlla
like that for? Why, he was gonna
bust yo haid against tree!"
"Seems Ike I did act foollshly,"
Carl confessed sheepishly. But
that big guy got my goat telling me
to leave this place. I'm going TO
Ieave snnn hut wouldn't let him
run me away"
They moved away toward the small
cabin where they lived. l DION
know you had gun, Hotshot," Carl
said as they made their way out OF
the woods But I'm sure glad you
did"
Hotshot gurgled joyously. boy,
at warn't no Sho' huff gun" ne
chortled. THAT was only a stick l
poked into that big guys back"
II.
The sun poured down its herce
heat in a white brilliance that maze
Carps eyes ache. AS he watched the
slow-moying, bent figures craving
between the snowy rows OF cotton
he wondered at their hardwood, their
imperviousness to the heat.
The great, snow-white field stretch
cd in front of him, and had it not
been so hot, he could easily have
compared it to a winter snow scene
in Chicago. The cotton, free OF the
dreaded boil weevil and favored by
the weather, was almost shoulder
high. 1t burst it's confines ana
flooded out richly from the enclosing
bolls with lavish opulence.
Carl lOuISeQ Ill VIC OOuDVAUA
of a huge Slated cotton wagon winch
was in the process of being hlleo'
Before him sat the tripod under
which hung the cotton scales. He
was grateful that he was not one OF
those dark figures out under the IN
tense sun, and during PERIOD
when none of the pickers came up
to have their pickipgs weighed ne
fell to thinking Of Chicago and his
future.
A Fair Weather" Friend
He had not yet heard from Anton
Bigal the banker. He had written
him several weeks previously, telling
him of his plight and asking about
the position which the latter had
promised, but no word had come.
"Fair weather friend" the youth
told himself contemptuously. How
ever, Bigal or no Bigal, he would re-
turn to Chicago and show them
what he could do. He would find a
position somewhere, and then he'd
forget all about this experience
which was holding him enchanted
on this lonely Louisiana plantation
He laughed to himself at the
thought of how he would tell OF