Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1931-07-30

and bonnet were cry made and very
modish. From Denver. Sabra thought.
or Kansas City. or even Chicago.
| Sabra further decided that the man
| beside her, who looked old enough to
be her father. must be, after ALL her
/ husband. II was In the way he spoke
| to her. gazed at her. touched her.
Yancey had pointed him out one day.
She remembered his name because It
had amused her at the time. Waltz.
Evergreen Waltz. He was notorious
Southwest gambler. earned his living
by the cards. The girl looked un-
happy, and beneath that. rebellious.
Still. the sight OF this lovely face,
and OF the other feminine faces look
Ing out from at least fairly modish
and decent straw bonnets and toques,
| gave Sahra glow OF reinsurance. I'M
mediately this was quenched at the
late snowy. and dramatic entrance,
just before Yancey took his place. OF
/ group Of women of whom Sabra had
actually been unaware As q matter
OF fact. the leader OF this spectacular
| group had arrived In Usage only the
day before. accompanied by beyy Of
six young ladies.
q Usage, since that first mad day
| OF Its beginning, had had Its quota
OF shady ladies, but these had been
raddled creatures, driftwood from this
/ or that deserted mining camp or aban-
doned town site, middle aged, I'M
savory. and doubtless slightly sub
normal mentally.
These we're different The leader,
handsome black-haired woman OF
not more than twenty-five or three,
had taken for herself and her COM
paninns such rooms rs they could get
in the town. Within an hour IT was
known that the woman claimed the
name OF Dixie Lee. That she was
descendant of decayed southern ars-
tocracy. That her blooming COM
panions boosted such fancy nomencla-
ture rs Cherry de st. Maurice. Carmen
Brown Belle Mansero, and the like.
That the woman, shreWd as a man and
| sharp as a knife. had driven a bar
gain whereby she was to come into
4 possession. at stfr price. of the
| building known as the Elite Rooming
House and Cafe, situated at the far
end Of Pawhuska avenue, near the
gambling tent, and that she contem-
plated building a house Of her own,
planned for her own peculiar needs,
II business warranted. Thus harlotry.
heretofore sordid enough in a wrapper
and curling pins. came to Usage In
silks and plumes. with brain behind
IT and promise OF prosperity In Its
gandy train.
Dixie Lee. shrewd saleswoman, had
been quick to learn OF Sundays meet
ing, and quicker still to see the ad-
vantage Of this opportunity for q pub
lie advertisement OF her business. So
now, at Osage's first church meeting,
In marched the six, with Dixie Lee at
their head making seventh. They
rustled in silks. The air OF the close
packed tent became as suffocating
with scent as a Persian garden at
sunset. The Woodworking worthy
wives OF Usage, In their chevlots and
their faded bonnets and cotton gloves,
suddenly seemed sallow, scrawny, and
almost spectacularly unalluring.
All this Sabra beheld In single
glance as did the entire congregation.
Yancey. having lifted Gin into the
chair next his mother. looked up at
the entrance OF this splendid process
sion.
God Almighty" he said. His tone
was as irreverent as the words were
sacred. A dull flush suffused his face,
a thing Sc rare In him as to startIe
Sabra more than the words he had ut
tered or the tone In which he had said
them.
what is 1T? Yancey! What's
wrong?"
That's the GIRL
"What girl?"
THAT one-Dixie Lee-she's the girl
In the black tights and the skull
cap In the Run on
the thoroughbred ;" he was
whispering.
"Oh, nor cried Sabra. aloud. 1t
was wrung from her. Those near by
stared
So this was the church meeting
toward which she had looked with
such hope, such happy assurance
Harlots, Indians, heat, glare, her house
probably blazing at this moment,
Isaiah welterlng In his own gore, Lon
Yountis' sinister face sneering In the
tent entrance. And now this woman,
INSCRIPTIONS. evil, who had stolen
Yancey's quarter section from him by
trick.
Yancey made his way through the
close-packed crowd. leaped to the top
OF the roulette table which was to be
his platform and, lifting the great
lolling head. swept the eIpectant con-
gregation with his mysterious, his
magnetic eyes
II Probably never In the history OF the
Christian religion had the Word OF