The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-09-21

redo said, "Yuh want some too
do yuh, yuh little" and shot
him through the head. He went
cut laughing, the boys said, but
he went fast,
Laredo, he crossed my trail
close to six months ago; was out
on desert stretch a considerable
ways from here, southwest.
don't do much talkin' about what
happened-but I been after him
ever since"
Presently Barry said, thinking
about his plan for tomorrow:
"You seem to know a good
many folks around here, Timber
line. Happen to know anybody
out at the Judges new ranch
about thirty miles from TylerS-
ville?"
Il was out that way recent,
prospectin' them little hills with
the red gullies in 'em. There was
some new folks out there, man
of Haverill an his wife. A real
purity little woman she was, too. "
He pulled at his mustache. Il was
goin back to see her some time,
but she's gone now"
Gone? Why, they were there
only three or four days ago.
"Gone now though. "Y'see,
young teller, whatever happens
in this country gets talked about
in Tyler, an whatever gets talk
ed about in Tyler, l find out
when I drop in. Three-four days
ago the Judge busted out O here,
headed somewheres else Some
folks says he went East an some
says West; it's my bet he's head
ed Californy-way. Anyhow, he
took his gal Lucy with him; and
he took his new hired hand, that
lack Blount, an his purity young
wife along-they say she's a Hav-
eril, too. An he stopped off at
the New Branch, an told 'em
there he'd sold it, an he chased
them Haveri1s off; an folks say
they for shore headed to Cali
forny." He cooked blue eye at
Barry. what yuh askin' fur?" he
wanted to know.
They're my folks" said Bar
ry. Father and mother and bro
Their; and lack Blounts wife is
my sister"
$50 you are a Haveril, too,
huh? Shake Haveril." ..
Absently Barry shook as direct
ed, feeling his hand gripped by
small one that seemed old lea
Their on the outside, spring steel
within.
First Barry returned to Tylers-
vile. He went openly, in broad
daylight, but he was W2tchful at
every step. No one molested him;
none seemed to have any men,
DRY of him.
Before Barry left Tylersville
he drew heavily upon his pocket
money and bought the first horse
he had owned. He purchased the
best to be had on short notice,
and rode out of town that even
ing we'll equipped, his carbine in
saddle holster, conveniently at
hand. He struck out for his own
place, at the head Of the Sun
Creek Valley.
Barry stopped at his own creek
and went soberly to work. Day
after day he labored all day with
sand and gravel, washing his gold
in a deep frying pan. Encounter
ing three consecutive days, each
as rich as the one he had come
upon the first day, he accepted
his good fortune quite as a mat
ter of course.
"Must be more than two thou
sand dollars already, That's more
than I'm going to need. I'll get
started tomorrow morning"
When he departed at daylight,
still heading north and west, but
beginning to swing a bit more
westWardly, he carried his gold
inside his bed roll
Down in long valley at the
head of a vast, ripping, grassy
plain-coW country, this was-he
tarried at the boisterous little
town of Five Springs. Some days
before, a young man answering
Laredo's description, three 9TH
ers of his stamp with him, had
stormed into town, paid his wild
way in gold dust, had gotten into
a brawl and had stormed out of
Five Springs again, headed west.
Barry followed on.
Whenever he heard Of deprada-
tons, of 1aWlessness and cruelty
and wanton killing-and these
were not uncommOn-he sought
his Cousin Jesse in the neighbour
hood. But Cousin Jesse rode on,
ever westward.
Roth Barry HaN-nril and the