Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1931-08-27

they stood woodenly away from the
lean hard bodies. Clay McNulfy's
face had family surprised look, His
long sandy mustache dropped over a
mouth singularly sweet and resigned.
But the face of the boy was fixed In
a smile that brought the lips In a
sardonic snarl away from the wolf
like teeth, and the eyes. whose light
ming glance had pierced you through
and through like one of the bullets
from his own dreaded six-shooters.
now were extinguished forever behind
the waxen shades Of his eyelids
II was at the boy that Sahfa LODI ed !:
and having locked she turned And
walked back to tie house.
They gave them a decent funeral
and burial with everything In proper
order. and when the minister refused
TO read the service over these two
sinners Yancev consented 10 do II and
did. standing there with the fresh
turned mounds of red Oklahoma clay
suIlying his fine high-heeled hnnts and
the sun hlazing down mon the curling
locks OF his uncovered head
They nut up two rough wooden
slabs, marking the graves But SOU
venir hunters with little bright knives
soon made short work Of those. The
two mounds sank lower. inwer. Soon
nothing marked This spot on the
prairie to differentiate II from the red
clay that stretched for miles Nil
about It,
They sent to Yancey, by mail. in
checks. and through solemn commit
tees In store clothes and white collars.
the substantial money rewards that,
for almost five years. had heen Of
fered by the Santa Fe road. the NJ. X.
& T.. the government itself. and vari-
GUS banks for the capture OF the Kid.
dead or alive
Yancey refused every penny OF it.
The committees the townspeople. the
county. were shocked and even Of
Tended. Sahra. tight Typed. at last
broke out in protest.
I'VE could have decent honse-a
new printing press-Cimss education
Donna
Il don't take money for killing a
man. Yancey repeated. 10 each offer
OF money. The committees and the
checks went back as they had come
Sabra noticed that YaDcey's hand
shook with pPrceptible palsy before
breakfast. and that this was more than
ever noticeable as that hand ap-
proached the first drink OF whisky
swallowed before he ate mursel. He
tossed II down Ae one who. seeking
relief from pain. takes medicine.
When he returned the glass to the
table he drew Ii deep breath His
hand was. miraculously, quite steady.
More and more he neglected the
news and business details Of the Wig
wan. He was restless, moody. dis
trait. Sabra remembered with a pang
of dismay something that he had said
on first coming TO Usage. Cd, when
think OF those years IN Wichita
Almost five years In one place-that's
the longest stretch I've ever done"
The newspaper was prospecting. for
Sabra gave more and more time to 1t.
But fancey seemed to have lost In
terest, as he did in any venture once
II got under way.
Even In the courtroom or while ad-
dressing meeting OF townspeople Yam
cey sometimes would behave strangely
He would stop in the midst OF 4 florid
period. At once a creature savage
and overciyiIized. the flaring lamps,
the hot. breathless atmosphere, the
yacuous white faces looming up at him
like balloons would repel him. He
had been known to stalk out, leaving
them staring. In the courtroom he
was an alarming figure. When he was
defending local county or Territorial
CASE they flocked from miles around to
hear him. and the crude pine shack
that was the courtroom would be
packed to suffocation. He lowered
over any jury OF frontiersmen-a be-
hemoth In Prince Albert coat and
fine linen, his great shaggy hnfralo's
head charging menacingly at his OPP
ponent. His was the florid hlfalutin
oratory Of the day, full OF sentiment,
hyperbOle, and wind. But he could