Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1931-07-09

Sahra learned many astounding
things in these first few DAYS. and
among the most terrifying were the
things she learned about the husband
to whom she had been happily married
for more than five years She learned.
for example, that this laneey Crayat
WIS famed us the deadiest shot in NIL
the deadly shooting Southwest. He
had the Gift Of being able to point his
SKIS shooters without sighting, rs one
would point with finger He was
one of the few Who could draw and
fire two six-shoofers al once with
equal speed and accuracy His hands
would 20 to his hips with a lightning
gesture that vet WAS 50 smooth. so
g economical that tile onlooker' eve
scarcely followed II. He could hit his
mark as he walked. as he ran. as he
rode his horse. Sabra was vaguely
uneasy. Wichita had not heen exactly
%ffete, and Dodge City. Kan. WAS no.
tcriously a gun-piay town. But here
no man walked without his six-shoot-
ers strapped to his body. On the very
day of her narrowing encounter with
Doc Nisbett. Sabra. her composure re-
gained. had gone with Yancey to see
still another house owner about the
possible renting of his treasure. The
man was found In his crude one-room
shack which he used ar 4 c0mbina-
tion dwelling and land once. He
glanced UP at them from The rough
pine table at which he WAS writing.
'sHowdy. Yancey. !"
.Howdy. Cass.'
Yancey, all grace. performed an in
PRODUCTION This lenn leather skinned
house owner wiped his palms on his
pants seat In conrtlv fashion and, thus
purified. extended hospilabe hand to
Sabra. Yancey revealed to him their
plight.
We'll, now, say, that's plumb
terrible, that is. Might be can help
you out-you and yonr good lady here.
But say, Yancey, Just LET me step out.
will you, to the corner. and mail this
here letter Tie bags gain' any min
ute now.
He licked and stamped the envelope,
rose and took from the table beside
him his broad leather belt with its
pair Of nolstered six shooters. evident
ly temporarily laid aside for comfort
while writing. This he now strapped
quickly about his waist with the same
unconcern that another man would
use In slipping into his coat. He
merely was DOMINIC conventional street
attire for the well-dressed man OF the
locality. He picked up his sheaf of
envelopes and stepped out In three
minutes he was back, and affably
ready to talk terms with them.
1t was perhaps, this simple and
sinister act, more than anything she
mad hitherto witnessed, that impressed
Sabra with the utter lawlessness OF
this new land to which her husband
had brought her.
This house, so dearly held by the
man called Cas-, turned out to be
four-room dwelling inadequate to their
needs, and they were In despair at the
thought OF being obliged to walt until
house could be built. Then Yancey
had brilliant idea. He found a two
room cabin made of rough boards.
This was hauled TO the site of the
main house, plastered. and-added to
it-provIded them with six-room
combination dwelling, newspaper plant.
and law office. There was all the
splendor of sitting room dining room,
bedroom, and kitchen to live in. One
room of the small attached cabin was
combination law and newspaper
Office. The other served as composing
room and print shop. The Hefner
Furniture and Undertaking Parlors
provided them with furnitmre-a large
wooden bedstead to fit Sabra's mat
tress and spring small bed for Gin:
tables. chairs-the plainest OF every
thing. In two days Sabra was house
wife established In her routine as
though she had been at 1t for years.
Setting up the newspaper plant and
law office was not so simple. Yancey,
for example, was inclined to write his
first editorial entitled whittier Okla
homa!" before the hand press had
been put together. He was more OBJ
sorbed In the effect of the sign tackled
up over the front OF the shop than he
was In the proper mechanical arrange
ment OF the necessary appliances In
side. THE OKLAHOMA WIGWAM,
read the sign In block letters two feet
high, so that the little cabin itself was
almost obscured. Then, beneath, In
letters scarcely less impressive:
YANCEY CRAvAT. PROP. AND Ed
ITOR. ATTORNEY AT LAW. NO
TARY.
The placing of this sign took the
better part OF a day, during which
time all oIner WORK wAs suspended.
While the operation was In progress
Yancey crossed the road fifty times,
ostensibly to direct matters from I
proper vantage point Of criticism, but
really to baSk'in the dAsaling effect OF
the bold fat black letterA Al always
In the course Of such proceedings on