Monday, May C, V.)2S
LA GRANDE KVEN1NC OBSEIlVER, LA GRANDE, ORE.
Pace Seven
lLIDiiBJIJJLlLEirS
Chapter 1 ,
Till: f;OI.I-M)I XTKI I'ISTOli
Yhi'it was nothing In Nathan
Hydt-'B noto that even rcmot(
ufBt8trl a connection wfth whut
uh to hainii n that nlRht. If thr
itud tii't-n, I Hhmild have qunilotl a
Wile, for 1 Ulll Bell hi If on lor that
snuff-box. .rt me see. - Oh, yos,
tht pistol. Hit clown, 42Ohls."
. I dlfj'so and h resumed hi own ;
chair with an uuuihlp croak of old j
tioncH. My eye fell on lh letter j
he hail slid over the object be-j
netlth It. The Incident hot hered '
me. Why kIiouUI Hyde have been '
port oT thing . Not that 1 am old ! in tiuch haste to conceal the thins.
at Oa one huR hardly bcKun one's from me? . "I
doeiinins yeai. ' My garden, my 1 Ho quickly recaptured my nt-'.
hooks, and my collc!lon: of plHtols tention by placing the revolver on
fill my active moments, and l.ucy, j the desk in front of me. It Was all
my niece, gives me such contact j 1 could do to keep from leaping .
with life ns J desire. j to my feet, seizing the revolver, .
The note, which was written In land telling Hyde to name his price, i
Hyde's cramped hand, asked mo Instead, I casually picked It up. j
to drop-In and see him about an aw are that he w-as watching me '
old pistol he thought might inter-slyly. I
est me. I don't care a great deal "Careful, Peebles. It's loaded.1' j
forIlyl 1 is as smoqth ns n The revolver was a long-bnrrelcd .
muhuguny walking-stick but he Colts .46 or a type in general use)
has.au uncanny faculty of getting 3" years ago. On the butt was a
Ills hands on the rui itles collectors j mounting of filigree gold of crude
barter llieir souls for. I.ucy culls ' workmanship. It was this unusual
his shop the "I'lrate's Cave."-and feature that had set my elderly
Hyde, she Insists, Is loielncarnnllon heart thumping like n mill-race.
of Captain Kldd. Hyde was watching me with his
It Was early arternoon. I had secret sinilt. I broke the gun. Six ( '
nothing to do, so there was no rea- j shells, one 01 them exploded, .fell
son w hy I should not see Hyde at ! into my hand. I caught my bieutli, ;
once. .Magnolia avenue is the love-;. My hands began to tremble. Sweat
llest thoroughfare or San Kollpe i dampened my forehead. I bent
and I drove along it with pride, i lower over tin) pistol to hide my,
And yet. .10 years ago the San 1'V- j agitation. . ' '"'". t
llpo Villloy was u sun-burned waste "Well .?. Hyde naked blandly. '; !
of sage and cactus.. Hut that was I "Do you suppose If is aulhen-j
before Andrew Ogden. our rirst tic'.'" I parried casually.
eltlxen, Jnought water and uecom- j He gave his sly chuckle. - TYou
plished another of those miracles Bee the mounting. . And the bul-'
which are the wonder of the lets are they not gold? , I
Southwest. ' .! -His sinlle broadened. "Peter-.
Andrew Is my next door neigh-' son's initials are on tho butt." ' I
lior and my rrlend. His wealth husi As metier or fort I was sure'
left lilm unspoiled and wo have j the gun wits Peterson's although I ;
much In cismmon. i In fuel; there ' could .not prove it .was, any more!
Is between us that fine quality of than J-.e could. A thrill. of plelis-j
nl feet ion v which men achieve so j ure hm through me. Kver since
rarely In their friendships. Ahd .l began collecting pistols I have '
ir, at times, during Hie nine years wanted to net hold of ono of 1'et- i
we have known each other. I have ' Orson's, gold-mounted revolvers. 1
felt, n , rest io Hit upon his siilllt had commissioned several dealers
hud u sense of looking upon a mask to he on the lookout for mo, but I j
Instead of the uinn himself, and t never had qullo expected to realize I
if his antecedents are u matter .of my ambition. And yet here I 'was
conjecture, vluit of It? My feel-! with one-of the famous guns in my J
Ing was probably ' nonsense. -Hut hand. - -
tr it u-en. nut. hattii't he the riirht ' Peterson's fume was mainly 10-
to seal what chambers of his mem-1 cal, but 1 was interested In him
ui-y he cIioohcs? j because he w-as typical of a plrase
Jeerry Ogden, Andrew's boy. and of the West. 1 supposed he . was
"I.ucy have cemented our friend-! dead, but he wouliin l lie nn:om.
ship. I.ucy. I see. Is wearing a ' man If , he w ere alive; . no older ,
handsome sapphire. 1 shall bo thun 1, In Tuct. He had had his day
soi ry to lose her. . " In the mi's, but he was a young!
, Alter the brilliant afternoon i mull at the time. Probably more!
'sunlight the. weird gloom of Hyde's legend than ract clung to his nnnic, j.
shop blinded me and 1 had to : but this deepened my Interest In ,
' grope my way forward. There him. I don't know that he ever!
y se emed' to be no one about; and ! did aythlng especially remarkable, .
..then 1 heard voices In the orrice ' nlthough his rise above Skull S'al- i
at the rear. As I approached the ley's lurid horlxon must Jiave boon!
orrice 1 saw that Hyde was talk-'us spectacular (and probnbly as
ing w ith Jtoy Hammond, a local short-lived) as that or the town j
lawyer. ' i I of Torrldlty itself., At least, he
"Ciood nrterhoon, gentlemen.'1 .( lived bravely, extravagantly, reck
I wear rubber heels and I In--Irmly; recklessly enough. Indeed, I
slantly realized that they had not to hnvo stamped tho Imprint or
heard me coining. Hyde was sit- hlS personality upon the gold-mad'
ling at his desk. His liawk-like town und kept green its memory:
j heud w ent up with a Jerk and ho long after it had become ono of I
AilrHly slid a letter jive HJuib. pb. , Hint jiliniidQiicd company of ghost
BJect on the desk. R iflntrtdJifl "sf nn rifle "Which haunt the desolirte"'
, on his heel with a muttered excla- pluces or the West. ' I
niation. i Peterson, It seems, was an In-'
"Kxeuse me. Hyde." I said, with- vetemte gambler. He would take :
drawing. "1 didn't know you wero tt chance on anything and ho".
' busy. I'll drop In later."
would back his Judgment with his
Ah, Peebles! Nothing or tho lult dollar. There Is a story to the
sort. Come right In," Hyde pro-1 t.ffect that once he played poker.,
tested suavely. -for a human life. He camo to .
He stood up. "long and lean and -rorrldlty with nothing hut his.
lank," ns Mr. Coleridge's Ancient : (runs, gretv wealthy, and lost every-'
.Mariner. 'thing he had nt poker: or so the;
"1 was just going," Jlnnmiond ; story goes. "Ten-to-One" appears
muttered. "t wanted Hyde, to to have been the sobriquet'' ho '
bring some junk down from the : became known hv. ' j
house." I "Well, tlo you want it: - iiyoo
It was none of my business that asked blandly.
llanimond had fled. He IS a tall, I wasn't going to he caught too
heavily built man with a meaty . easily. "Where did you get it?"
face w hich 1 never saw cast In any Hyde blew his nose. "That," he
expression lint one or cultivated 1 said delicately, "doesn't matter,
alfablliiv. In his younger (lays "Oh. yes. It does. If there'-vn
Hammond prospected through the 'story In it I shall want that, top."
desert mountains. A lucky strike "The story," Hyde said sinooth
.. hi,,, a ,n rm.iial nnd he ' lv. "is not Included In the price.
went in for Inw. Now he belongs ! Tlie price is onq thousand dollars." J
to every luncheon club and fra-1 1 laughed, w rote mm a chock
)r,sr $t2&
Hjilo tli ftlj r-liil n letter over some ohjMt on his dck.
..i i .,. i hollovn for 1500. and tossed It over.
He picked up the check, precise.
ly tore it into rrngments.
he has designs on the state legls- "There, isn't more man ii or..i
latur... H wou.ln't be entrusted or gold in the bpllets and nllgree.
with any of my legal affairs.
"Well." I said to Hyde as Ham
mond departed, "what hnve you
gol?"
"It mny not Interest you.
Hvdo's sly chuckle Irritated me.
Itut when I saw
"Slv dear Peebles! I said
li.noo!"
I capitulated and wrote him a
check, "Now give mo the story,
him rouch for I grow ed.
his snuff-box.- which he keeps In I He gave me his secret smile In
a pocket somewhere In the tall of stead. "The story Is not Included
his morning coat. I knew he had , In the price. lor is u ior uie.
v,,,,,,.ii,i- t n.ni.,1 iml I should Here Is your receipt."
have m uv for it. The snuff-lox. And talk as I would I could not
an elaborate affair of richly chased I get him to change his mind,
silver, had belonged to a French Hyde, wrapped my treasure up
ImiIk, and taking snuff from It is while I speculated about the tale
in the nature of a ceremony Hyde I hadn't got. My eye fell on the
always Indulges in heiore and af- : letter which concealed the article
tcr pocketing a fat prorit. After beneath It and I wondered II there
nnieli fumbling he withdrew his ' was a connection between Peter
hand without it. son's revolver and the sitbjutft or
"Queer." he mumbled. (Hyde's conversation with Hnm
1 concluded he hud misplaced ! mond, 1 left the shop as happy
the snuff-box. "Never mind. Hyde, as a boy with the newest Ihing in
It'll turn up." . .mechanical toys. But If I could
His head enme up with n jerk, j - ' - -. -
' ia f- uti. yea, to u ura.-Tbj (Coutloued on pan Klfht)"
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