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RAUL ROBINSON
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THWItSDAY APRIL 7, 1027
THE SPRINGFIELD NEWS
PAGE EIGHT
CHAPTER IX
Don't Want to Kill Him
One night after we had (tone on
•ante time, the sound of revolver
shots berat flatly from a mess beyond
sa. but the shots were accompanied
by lanxhter.
■They're only tryfn' to spile a can.'*
Jan ba reassnred. "By folly, w ell co
over and I'arn 'am a lesson." He
flflanred at me
Time you loosened
n * that weepon o* yonrn. anyhow
PBrty soon it’ll stick fast."
1 went with him find of diversion.
The men were banging, by turn, at
a sardine can set up on the sand about
tw enty paces out. The heavy halls
newt the loose soil flying but amidst
the furrows the tin can sat nntouch-
“W hat you thinkin* to do," Jenks
smiled
"Hit that can or plant a
lead mine "
“Give him room! He's made his
brag?:- they-cried, "and if he don't
ping it the pilgrim sure will."
Mr. Jenks drew and took his stand:
e dvuTA^rand sabin
banged with small preparation and can snap It! But when I think ou It
miaed by six Inches—« fact that as a can. I lack guts!"
■\v otuebody else shot, and som e
brought him up wide awake.
"Gimme another try. boys," he body alae. and another, and the can
growled, but they shoved him aside. gyrated, spurring us to haste as It
constantly changed the range. Pre
No, no. Pilgrim's turn!"
Willy-nilly I had to demonstrate my sently It was merely a twist of ragged
greenness so I drew, aaid stood, and tin.
Then In the little silence, aa we
cocked, and aimed
The Colt's ex
ploded with prodigious blast and parsed a voice spoke irritatingly.
"I 'laow yu tellers ain't no great
wrench— Jerking. in fact.
almost
above my head; and «here the bul shucks at throwln' lead"
Daniel stood by. with arms akimbo,
let went I did not see. nor. 1 Judged,
and beside stood My Lady. He tower
did anybody else.
"He missed the arth!" they clamor ed over her In a maddening atmos
ed.
"No; I reckon he hit Montany ’bout
the middle. That's whar he scored
ceBter!”
“Hold down on I t hold down, lad." t
Jenks urged. "To hit him In the |
' heart awn at hls feet! Here! Like
, thia—" and taking my revolver he
threw It forward, fired.
The can
plinked and somersaulted, lashln in
i to action.
"By George." he proclaimed, “when
1 I more like It had a gun in Its (1st. I
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ence again ensuing. Only —
"A caiLa. dUli.'teUl from a mau.
Janka cuobr remarked. "A tan don t
shoot back "
. . . L '*IUI * laow any m an s «stilt io,
neither " Duals) fated me In turulag
sn u g . "That's somethin' (or yu to
I'arn. young fuller," he vouchsafed.
Ilia gaaed shifted.
"Gome along. Edna." he bade. "We'
II be goln' bach.“
A devil—or was It he hlniselfT—
twittered me. Incited me. and In n
moment, with a gusli of aaserllni.
there I was. saying to her. my hal
doffed:
"PH walk over with yon."
"Do." she responded readily. “We‘-
re to have singing "
The men stared Dauiel whirled
“I 'laow you ain't been Invited.
Mister."
"If Mrs Montoyo consents, that's
enough." I Informed "I'm not walk
ing with yon. sir; I am walking with
her The only ground'you control la
Just In front of your own wagon "
"Thar ain't no 'Mrs. Montoyo."' he
suarled. "Anil whilst yu’re la m in ' to
shoot yu'd better be I'arnln" manners
Yu cornin' with uis. Edna?"
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"As fast as I, can. and with Mr.
llcujipti also. If he chooaes," said she.
"J have my ipstipcSp in mini, too.
"By gosh. I don't walk with ye." ha
Jawed And lip flounced about, »«•!>< ’
fully slridlitg on ua Umugh punishing
her fur a misdemeanor
She dropped the men a llltle curtsy
"The entertainment Is conehided.
gentlemen I wish you good-night."
Yet underneath her ralllerv there
lay an appeal, the stmniter because
subtle and unvoiced
It seemed Io
me every man must appreciate that,
aa a woman, she Invoked protection
by him against an Impending some
thing, of which she hsd given trim »
glimpse
So we left them somewhat ■ulidnsd.
gating after us. thslr rugger! faces
sobered reflectively.
Daniel was angerly shouldering for
the Mormon wagons, hls Indignant Ac-
ure black against ths weslsrn glow
She laughed lightly
“ You're not afraid, after all. I see."
•'Not of him. madam "
“And of tue?"
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AT THE
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phere of proprietorship.
«h.-aaatlcd at can—at all of ua, at
mi? sCtniy at the rewt. frankly. And
I knew that she was afraid!
Daniel laugher J><jlabiuu»l^, hls
mouth widely .»rati
- ...
"Set me up a nan! That thar on«
wouldn't jump to a hullet"
A can was produced.
"How fur?"
“ P ur as yu like,"
It was’ tossed contemptuously out;
and watching It I heard Daniel alee
fully yelp, "Gut o' my way. yu-all!"—
half saw h ls hand dart down and u|<
again, felt the Jar of a shot, witnessed
the ean Jump like a live IhtWk. and
away II went, with spasm after spnsm
to explosion after explosion, tortured
by him Into fruitless capers until with
the Anal Ixll ps*ace came to It. an i
II lay dead, afar serosa the twllignt
sand.
Verily, by hls cries and ulter sav
agery and malevolence of hla bom
bardment, one would have thought
that ha took actual lust In fancied
cruelty.
"1 'laow thatr's not another man
hyar kin do that." he ranted.
There was not. Judging by the all-
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Rubbing
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