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STORY C\J
LANGFORD]
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1 BARS [
AND VIRGIL D. BOYLEsj
(Copyright by A. C. McClurg & Co., 1907.)
SYNOPSIS.
G*or gr Willlston, a poor ranchman,
high-minded Rn<l cultured, searches for
cattle missing from his ranch—the "Lazy
S." On a wooded spot In the river's bed
that would have been an island had the
Missouri been at high water, he dis
covers a band of horse thieves engaged
In working over brands on cattle. He
creeps near enough to note the chang
ing of the"Three Bars" brand on one
steer to the "J. It." brand. Paul Lang
ford. the rich owner of the"Three
Bars," is Informed of the operations of
the gang of cattle thieves—a band of
outlaws headed by Jesse Black, who
long have defied the law and authori
ties of Kemah county, South Dakota.
Langford Is struck with the beauty of
Mary, commonly known as "Wllliston's
little girl." Louise Dale, an expert
court stenographer, whi had followed
her uncle, Judg* Hammond Dale, from
the east to tha "Dakotahs," and who
la living with him at Wind City, is
requested by the county attorney.
Richard Gordon, to come to Kemah and
take testimony In the preliminary
hearing of Jesse Black. Jim Munson, in
waiting at the train for Louise, looks
at a herd of cattle being shipped by
Bill Brown and there detects old
"Mag," a well known "onery" steer be
longing to his employer of the"Three
Bars" ranch. Munson and Louise start
for Kemah. Crowds assemble In Justice
James R. McAllister's court for the
preliminary hearing. Jesse Black sprlnss
the first of many great surprises, waiving
examination. Through Jake Sanderson, a
member of the outlaw gang, lie had
learned that the steer "Mag" had been re
covered and thus saw the uselessness of
fighting against being bound over. County
Attorney Gordon accompanies Louise
Dale on her return to Wind Pity. While
Willlston stands in the light In his door
at night a shot is fired at him. The house
Is attacked atid a battle ensues between
Willlston and his daughter, on one side,
and the outlaws on the other. The house
Is set on tire. As an outlaw raises liis rifle
to shoot Wllliston a shot from an un
known source pierces his arms and the
rifle falls to the ground. Aid has come to
Willlston, but he and his daughter are
captured and borne away by the outlaws.
Jim Munson late at night heard the shots,
discovered the attack on Wllliston's house,
hurried to the Three Bars ranch and sum
moned Langford and his brave men to the
rescue. It was Langford who fired the shot
which saved Wllliston's life. Langford
rescues Mary from her captor. Langford
takes Mary to the home of Mrs. White.
Her urm luia been broken by a shot. She
grows delirious and receives medical at
tention.
CHAPTER Xl.—Continued.
The long day wore along. Mother
White was baking. The men would
be ravenous when they came back.
Many would stop there for something
to eat before going onto their homes.
It might be to-night, it might be to
morrow, it might not be until the day
after, but whenever the time did come,
knowing the men of the range coun
try, she must have something "by
her."
At last came the doctor and Gordon,
driving up in the doctor's top-buggy,
weather-stained, mud-bedaubed with
the mud of last spring, of many
springs. The doctor was a badly
dressed, pleasant-eyed man, past mid
dle age, with a fringe of gray whisk
ers. He was a sort of journeyman
doctor, and he had drifted hither one
day two summers ago from the Lake
Andes country in this self-same trav
el-worn conveyance with Its same
bony sorrel. He had found good
picking, he had often jovially remark
ed since, chewing serenely away on
a brand of vile plug the while. He
had elected to remain. He was part
and parcel of the cattle country now.
He was an established condition. Peo
ple had learned to accept him as he
was and be grateful. Haste was a
mental and physical impossibility to
him. He took his own time. All must
perforce acquiesce.
"You have worked yourself into a
high fever. Miss Willlston, that's what
you've done," he said, with profession
al mournfulness.
"I know it," she smiled wanly. "I
couldn't help It. I'm sorry."
Gordon drew up a chair and sat
down by her, saying with grave kind
ness, "You are fretting. We must not
let you. 1 am going to stay with you
all night and shoo the goblins away."
"You are kind," said Mary, grateful
ly. "May I tell you when they come?
If some one speaks to me they go
away."
"Indeed you may, clear child," he
exclaimed, heartily. He had been half
joking when he spoke of keeping
things away. He now perceived that
these things were more serious than
he knew.
The doctor administered medicine to
reduce the fever, dressed the wounded
arm, with Gordon's ready assistance,
and then called in Mother White to
prepare the bed for his patient; but
he paused nonplussed before the
weight of entreaty in Mary's eyes and
voice.
"Please don't," she cried out, in ac
tual terror. "Oh, Mr. Gordon, don't
let him! I see such awful things when
I lie down. Please! Please! And
Mr. Langford said I might sit up till
he came. Mr. Gordon, you will not
let him put me to bed, will you?"
"I think it would be better to let her
have her way, Lockhart," said Gordon
in a low voice.
"Maybe it would, Dick," said the
doctcr, with susprising meahness.
I "I'll stay all ui£ht and I'll take good
CAMERON COUNTY PRBSS > THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1908
care of her, Lockhart. There's Moth
er White beckoning to supper. You'll
eat before you go? No, I won't take
any supper now, thank you, mother, I
will stay with Mary."
And he did stay with her all through
the long watches of that long night.
He never closed his eyes in sleep.
Sometimes Mary would drop off into
uneasy slumber —always of short du
ration. When she awakened suddenly
in wide-eyed fright, he soothed her
with all tenderness. Sometimes when
he thought she was sleeping, she
would clutch his arm desperately and
cry out that there was some one be
hind the big cottonwood. Again it
would be to ask him in a terrified
whisper if he did not hear hoof-beats,
galloping, galloping, galloping, and
begged him to listen. He could al
ways quiet her, and she tried hard to
keep from wandering; but after a
short, broken rest, she would cry out
again in endless repetition of the ter
rors of that awful night.
Mrs. White and several of her small
progeny breathed loudly from an ad
joining room. A lamp burned dimly
on the table. It grew late—l 2 o'clock
and after. At last she rested. She
passed from light, broken slumber to
deep sleep without crying out and
thus awakening herself. Gordon was
tired and sad. Now that the flush of
fever was gone, he saw how white and
miserable she really looked. The cir
cles under her eyes were so dark
they were like bruises. The mantle
of his misfortune was spreading to
bring others besides himself Into its
somber folds.
The men were coming back. But
they were coming quietly, in grim si
lence. He dared not awaken Mary
for the news he knew they must carry.
He stepped noiselessly to the door to
warn them to a yet greater stillness
and met Langford on the threshold.
The two surveyed each other grave
ly with clasped hands.
"You tell her, Dick. I—l can't," said
Langford. His big shoulders drooped j
as under a heavy burden.
"Must I?" asked Gordon.
"Dick, I —l can't," said Langford,
brokenly. "Don't you see?—if I had
been just a minute sooner—and I
promised."
"Yes, 1 see, Paul," said Gordon,
quietly. "I will tell her."
"You need not," said a sweet clear
voice from across the room. "I know.
I heard. I think I knew all the time —
| ■(' "
The Sheriff and His Deputies Made a
Diligent Search for Williston.
but you were all so good to make me
hope. Don't worry about me any
more, dear friends. I am all right
now. It is much better to know. I
hope they didn't hang him. You think
they shot him, don't you?"
"Little girl, little girl," cried Lang
ford, on his knees beside her, "it is not
that! It is only that we have not
found him. But no news is good news.
That we have found no trace proves
that they have to guard him well be
cause he is alive. We are going on a
new track to-morrow. Believe me,
little girl, and goto bed now, won't
you, and rest?"
"Yes," she said, wearily, as one in
whom 110 hope was left, "I will go.l
will mind —the boss."
As he laid her gently on the bed,
while Mrs. White, aroused from sleep,
fluttered aimlessly and drowsily about,
he whispered, his breath carressing
her cheek:
"You will goto sleep right away,
won't you?"
"I will try. You are the boss."
CHAPTER XII.
Waiting.
The man found dead the night the
Lazy S was burned out was not easi
ly identified. He was a half-breed,
but half-breeds were many west of the
river, and the places where they laid
their heads at night were as shifting
as the sands of that rapid, ominous,
changing stream of theirs, which ever
cut them off from the world of their
fathers and kept them bound, but rest
less, chafing, in that same land where
their mothers had stared stolidly at a
strange little boatload tugging up the
river that was the forerunner of the
ultimate destiny of this broad north
west country, but which brought in
incidentally—as do all big destinies in
the great scheme bring sorrow to
some one—wrong, misunderstanding,
forgetfulness, to a once proud, free
people now in subjection.
At last the authorities found trace
of him far away at Standing Rock,
through the agent there, who knew
him as of an ugly reputation—a dis
sipated, roving profligate, who had
long since squandered !ji« government
patrimony. He had been mixed up in
sundry bad affairs in the past, and
had been an inveterate gambler. So
much only were the Kemah county
authorities able to uncover of the way
ward earthly career of the dead man.
Of his haunts and cronies of the
period immediately preceding his
death, the agent could tell nothing.
Ho had not been seen at the agency
for nearly a year. The reprobate band
had covered its tracks well. There
was nothing to do but lay the dead
body away and shovel oblivion over
its secret.
In the early morning after the re
turn of the men from their unsuccess
ful man hunt, Gordon, gray and hag
gard from loss of sleep and from hard
thought, stepped out into the kitchen
to stretch his cramped limbs. He
stumbled over the figure of Langford
prone upon the floor, dead asleep in
utter exhaustion. He smiled under-
and opened the outerdoor
quietly, hoping he had not aroused the
wornout boss. The air was fresh and
cool, with a hint of autumn sharpness,
and a premature Indian summer haze,
that softened the gauntness of the
landscape, and made the distances
blue and rest-giving. He felt the need
of invigoration after his night's virgil,
and struck off down the road with
long strides, In pleasant anticipation
of a coming appetite for breakfast.
Thus it was that Langford, strug
glng to a sitting posture, rubbing his
heavy eyes with a dim consciousness
that he had been disturbed, and won
dering drowsily why he was so stupid,
felt something seeping through his
senses that told him he did not do
well to sleep. So he decided he would
take a plunge into the cold artesian
pond, and with such drastic measures
banish once and for all the elusive yet
all-pervading cobwebs which clung to
him. Rising to his feet with unusual
awkwardness, he looked with scorn
upon the bare floor and accused it
blindly and bitterly as the direct
cause of the strange soreness that be
set his whole anatomy. The lay of the
floor had changed in a night. Where
was he? He glanced helplessly
about. Then he knew.
Thus It was, that when Mary lan
guidly opened her eyes a little later
it was the boss who sat beside her
and smiled reassuringly.
"You have not slept a wink," she
creid, accusingly.
"Indeed I have,"he said. "Three
whole hours, I feel tip-top."
"You are—fibbing," she said. "Your
eyes look so tired, and your face is all
worn."
His heart leaped with the joy of her
solicitude.
"You are wrong," he laughed,
teasingly. "I slept on the floor; and a
good bed it was, too. No, Miss Willis
ton, I am not 'all in' yet, by any
means."
In his new consciousness, a new
formality crept into his way of ad
dressing her. She did not seem to
notice it.
"Forgive me for forgetting, last
night," she said, earnestly. "I was
very selfish. I forgot that you had not
slept for nearly two days and were
riding all the while in—our behalf. I
forgot. I was tired, and I went to
sleep. I want you to forgive me. I
want you to believe that I do appre
ciate what you have ddne. My fath
er •"
"Don't, don't, little girl," cried
Langford, forgetting his new awe of
her maidenhood in his pity for the
stricken child.
"My father," she went on steadily,
"would thank you if he were here. I
thank you, too, even if I did forget to
. think whether or no you and all the
: men had any sleep or anything to eat
I last night. Will you try to believe
that I did not forget wittingly? I was
j so tired."
When Langford answered her,
which was not immediately, his face
was white and he spoke quietly with
a touch of injured pride.
"If you want to hurt us, Miss Wil
i liston, that is the way to talk. We
cowmen do not do things for thanks."
She looked at him wonderingly a
moment, then said, simply, "Forgive
me," but her lips were trembling and
; she turned to the wall to hide t\'<s
tears that would come. After all,
she was only a woman—with nerves
—and the reaction had come.
The sheriff and his party of depu
ties made a diligent search for Willis
ton that day and for many days to
come. It was of no avail. He had
disappeared, and all trace with him,
as completely as if he had been spir
ited away in the night to another
world—body and soul. That the
soul of him had really gone to another
world came to be generally believed
—Mary Held no hope after the return
of the first expedition; but why could
they find no trace of his body? Where
was it? Where had it found a rest
ing place? Was it possible for a man,
; quick or dead, even west of the river
; in an early day of its civilization when
the law had a winking eye, to fall
away from his wonted haunts in a
night and leave no print, neither a
bone nor a rag nor a memory, to give
mute witness that this way he passed,
that way he rested a bit, here he took
horse, there he slept, with this man he
had converse, that man saw his still
body borne heuce? Could such a thing
be? It seemed so.
(To Be Continued.)
Trend of Civilization.
I had thought that civilization
meant the attainment of peace and
order and freedom, of good will be
tween man and man, of the love of
truth, and the hatred of injustice, and
by consequence the attainment of the
good life which these things breed, a
i life free from craven fear, but full of
incident; that was what I thought it
meant, not more stuffed chairs and
more cushions, and more carpets and
gas, and more dainty moat and drink
—and therewithal more and sharper
difference between class and class.—
William Morris,
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advances, they do not decrease. During the Spring months, no one should
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