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churned, while he fung me and still "No more of that, you brute," I roared. "If you have anything to say, say it to me." He whirled. "Yau‘ Why, yu leetle piece o‘ nothin‘â€"you shut up!" _ By sudden reach he gripped her arm; to her about. "Can‘t, can‘t be" I kin an‘ I do. Now yu git. I‘ve stood youre fastâ€" anâ€"loose plenty. I mean business. Git! Whar yu‘ll be safe. Ill not hold off much longer." "Git‘ I‘m boss hyar." And at oped us. Again he spat, fetid â€" promised to me. _ Git, yerself," or Ill stomp on yu like a louse!" I forgot instructions, I distegarded every movement preliminary to the omset! _ Bullets were too slow and easy! I did not see his revolver; I saw but the bulik of him and the intoleraâ€" bie sneer of him, and that his flesh was ready to my fingers. Th shock drove him backward. We swayed and staggered, grappling hither and thither. I had his arms pinioned, to bend him. He spat into All his face flushed livid with a sneer, merging together yellow freckâ€" les and tamned skin. And quicker than his hand I was @non him. into him, clinching him, clinging to him, arms binding him, legs twining around his, each ounce of me greedy to crush him down and master him. lke the tecth of a horse, through whirt and hide to the flesh. iel. No man on this earth can speak to me like that." my face; and shifting, set his teeth into my shoulder so that they champâ€" "Go whar yu belong, yu Jezebel! Then I‘ll tend to thisâ€"" The rabid epithet leveled at me I shall not reâ€" Daniel charged in for us not touch revolver butt; he He barked first at her. "It won‘t be necessary, madame," said Iâ€"a catch in my throat; for while I was all iciness and clamâ€" iness, my hands cold and my tongue dry, I felt that I was going to kill him. "You mean to face him? I knew it. You will play the man‘! Watch him close! _ He‘ll <give you little grace this time. But â€" remember this: T‘ll never, never, never marry him. Rather than be bound to him Il] deal with him myself." INTO THE NIGHT Chapter Xi ; A meeting between My Lady and, me brought on, not long after, the expected crisis. . As we talked, sudâ€"| denly I saw Daniel nearing, stridâ€"‘ ing rapidly, straight for us, a figâ€" ure portentous in the fading glow, bringing the storm with him. She saw, too. Her eyes widened, startled, surveying not him, but me. "Please go. T‘ll keep him." "It is too late now," I asserted. in a voice not mine. "I am here first and I‘ll go when I get ready." Under Jenks‘ and Edna‘s instrucâ€" tion Framnk practices shooting â€" is told .to "aim for his feet to hit his heart." This follows a clever exâ€" hibition of shooting by young Danâ€" iel. who is angered by Edna‘s interâ€" Daniel, by a foils Montoyo‘s back with him. PAGE SIX Captain Addms, a Mormon, is in charge of the wagon train, Rachael Adams, an atiractive young woman, one of his wives, is in the train. as is Dani«! Adams, his loutish son. When Edna, who has shot, but not killed the gambler, Montoyo, comes a fugitive in "britches" to join the train, Daniel tells his father that she is seeking Jenks and Beeson. Captain Adams shouts, "No hussy in men‘s garments shail go with the train." Daniel, by a spectacular gun play, foils Montoyo‘s attempt to take Edna George Jenks, a teamster in a on train about to leave for Salt City. physicians to seek a climate "high and strength; smelled the sweat of and dry." He is robbed of most of him. snarled into his snarling face, his money in his hotel and loses his close bon>ath mine, last twenty dollars at monte in "The: Once he partially freed himself Big Tent," a dance hall and gambling| and buffeted me in the mouth with his resort, in the "roaring" town of Bonâ€" fist, but I caught him â€" while strugâ€" ton. gling, tossed and upheaved, dimly saw Edma Montoyo, a companion of a that as by a miracle we were surâ€" gambler, is believed by Frankto have rounded by a ring of people, men and cajoled him purposely into the game.‘ Women, their countenances pale, Broke, disconsolate over his discovâ€" @larmed, intent. Voices sounded in a ery that "the lady of the blue eyes"; "ull roar. as he calls her, is what she is, and Presently I had him crucified:, bis finally humiliated over his glaring °D* Outstretched arm under my knees, "greenness," Frank repulses Edna N‘s Other arm tethered by my two when she begs him to go away with Pands, my body across his chest, her, sobbingly telling him that she while his legs (hre_shed v'.mly‘ 2 bad made a big mistake in letting! I looked down into his buiging ; se his & s ko ) eÂ¥Cs :l?oiot,:: mones T Ne snes to Lake ‘‘Nuff.‘ Cry "Nuff" Icommanded. Framk Beesom, from Aibany, N.Y.,| The acrid dust of the alkali envelJ reaches Benton, Wyoming, thenâ€"| oned us.. Again he spat, ftid ~i 1863â€"western terminus of the Pacific! sprewled u({fi him, smothering his j railroad. _ He had been ordered by ) flailing arms] gave him all my weight | physicians to seek a climate "high and strength; smelled the sweat of and dry." He is robbed of most of him. snarled into his snarling face, his money in his hotel and loses his close bon>ath mine, I last twenty dollars at monte in "The: Once he partially freed himself Big Tent," a dance hall and gambling| and buffeted me in the mouth with his resort, in the "roaring" town of Bonâ€" fist, but I caught him â€" while strugâ€" ton. gling, tossed and upheaved, dimly saw We »"Be_:urefnl what you say, Danâ€" son he thrust her I did did not. wag axe |_ "But it wasn‘t about her! He lbnllied me â€" dared me. . We were | man to man, boys. He made me fight | him." |_ _ As they hustled me onward the: | world had grown curiously darkenâ€"| ‘ed, and I dumbly wondered whether | |I was dying myself. Across a great kdistlnce we stumbled by the wagons j \ and halted at a fire. { She knelt beside me, her hand grasped mine, she gazed wideâ€"eyed and imploring. ‘"No, he‘s all right, ma‘am." "I‘m alnl right, I assure you," I mumbled thickly, and helpless as a babe to the clinging of her cold finâ€" gers. â€" "Mounts!" 1 blurted. _ "Set out,, you say" You mean that I â€" we â€" should run away * I"ll not leave the train and neither shall she, until the that you disown as?" Then she, herself, My Lady, apâ€" peared, runnihg in breathless and apâ€" pealing. h ‘"You did! _ He‘ll not bother you ag‘n. She‘s yourn." That hurt. "But it wasn‘t about her! He c Hind] they were not believing. They still | linked me with a woman, wbemu‘ she had figured only as a transient | occasion. 1 The group about me dissolved. Jenks seated himself close beside us. "You‘re arm won‘t trouble you," he said. _ "Jest a flesh wound. You two can eat and rest a bit, and if you set out ‘fore mdonâ€"up you can "Did I kill him?" I besought. "Not that! I didn‘t aim â€" I don‘t know how I shot â€" but I had to. Didn‘t 1?" "Is Mr. Beeson hurt? Badly? Where is he? Let me help." casy get cl‘ar. We‘U furnish mounts and grub and anything else you need." "You‘re all right." Jenks 'lppcr-} ently had looked me over and was ministering to me. . "Swaller this." | The odor of whiskey fumed into my | nostrils. I obediently swallowed.l Hands were rummaging at my left| arm; a bandage being wound about. | Figures rushed in between. Hands grasped me, impelled me away, thru a haze; voices spoke in my ear while I feebly resisted, a warm salty taste in my throat. gruffly. "Shore he did; shore you didn‘t. _ I¥‘s â€"ail right. Come along, come along." Thenâ€" . "Pick Beeson up. He‘s bad hurt himself. See that blood" No, ‘taint his .arm, is it? He‘s bleedin‘ internal. Whar‘s the hole? Wait â€" he‘s bustâ€" ed something." They would have carried me. "No," I cried, while their beardâ€" ed faces swam. "He said ‘‘Nuffâ€"he shot me afterward. Not bad, is it? [ can walk." . He was upon his face, his revolver‘ hand outflung. He was harmless. The moment had arrived and passed. I| was him! "I killed him. I didn‘t want to kill him. He made me do it. He shot first." So there I stood, amidst silence, «aping foolishly, breathing hard, my revolver smoking in my fingers and my enemy in a shockingly prone posâ€" ture at my feet, gradually reddening the white of the torn soil. On a sudden, as he faced me, his hand shot downward â€" I heard the surge and shout of men and womâ€" ch, to the stunning report of his revolver ducked aside, felt my left arm jork and sting â€" felt my own gun explode in my hand (and how it came there I did not know â€" beâ€" held him spin around and collapse; an astonishing sight. | "‘NuT!‘" he panted through bared tecth, _ "Lemme up, Mister." . "That settles it?" "I said ‘‘Nuff‘" he growled. With a quick movement I sprang clear of him, to my feet. He lay for a moment, balefual, and slowly scramâ€" bled up. â€" crowd. â€" Iie straincd again, convulsive relaxed. "‘NuT!‘" he panted throueh Presently I had him crucified:. bis one outstretched arm under my knees, his other arm tethered by my two hands, my body across his . chest, while his legs threshed vainly. "Yes, shore," they agreed â€" and ‘Nuff.‘ Cry "Noff!*" 1 commanded. "Nuf! Say *‘Nuf." echoed the standing here alive. 1 had killed they said. soothing he did; shore you 1 right. Come along, BRIDGE CLUBS AND PRIVATE PARTIES MAY HAVE SCORE PADS FREE BY TELEPHONING H. P. 178 OR CALLING AT THE RELIABLE LAUNDRY. adv This. then. was T: somebody who had ‘just killed a man, had broken from the open trail and was riding, he knew not where, through darkâ€" ness worse than night, himself an outlaw with an outlawed woman â€" at the best a chance woman â€" now the spoil of killing! (Continued next week} Copyright by Edwin L. Sabin What her thoughts were I might! not know. but they sat heavy upon her, closing her throat with the tprâ€" | ture of vain, selfâ€"reproach. That‘ much I sensed. But I could not reâ€"! assure her. My own thoughts were | so grevious as to crush me with ach-l ing woe. | without a word The fact appalled. It gripped me coldly. 1 seemed to have bargained for her.with fist and bullet, and won her; now I should appear to carry her off as my booty; a wife and a gambler‘s wife. Yet such must be! "Moon‘ll be up in a couple o‘ hours," Jenks said. "I‘d advise you to take an hour‘s start of it, so as to get away | easicr. If you â€" travel <traight south‘ard you‘ll strike the stage road in the mornin‘. When you get away east <traight south‘a stage road in the reach a station other, voked "Hold on," Jenks bade. _ " ‘Taint a question of disownin‘ you, | But you‘ve killed one o‘ the Mormons, the wagon boss‘ son; and when he comes in the mornin‘ demandin‘ of you for trial by his Mormons, what can we do* â€" We‘ll take the chance n sneakin‘ you both i‘ the old man." "I think we‘d best It‘s the only way." S%L‘f.fm@l'o.s. 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