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gent away from Red HIN
8 uncle, J. ¥ 18 a moral
A health on his
Alan Wayne
ome, y
A ‘lern drinks
Judge He
ith his er
ife, meet
fie
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if,
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led your
had to
think
in a day of desper
you h embez2
empl oyer's
fi the
jee
u could resis
country, « 54
re to re-
Does
‘the
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turn, even after
bobs bmp Gln fle lrod
home seem to yo
anchor of a man's
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APTER XX-—Continued.
fue and
imas and
When they
1 to Kemp ti
hie mnake his he iqquarters o the rr
we at
inch
for a while h Mavantnges w
dent It
the nat 1
skins came Ub feb ir ym
dreds of
singly
packtralins
directly
ducer:
ore evi
ng point for
1d Goat-
bun
They came
in
they passed
into his bands from the pro-
sometimes they ran through a
shain of transfers, from hand to hand.
All news centered i ind radinted
from Lleber's men that
brought In goatsking would be glad to
add orchids to thelr stock io trade.
Kemp grunted his thanks. He had
waited two years for this offer. The
realization of the obligation Lieber
was putting him under embarrassed
Sim. He began to talk. “11 greas-
ors,” he sald, “ta lot o' teachin’
wmometimes, an’ imes they don't
¥'r instance, you can tell ‘em that Cat-
tleyns are wo'th money nnd that the
vest © thelr parasites ain't,
they seen you throw Ba'lin't
j Oneldioms an’ Miltonias §
k card fo’ three montha ste
win to sober down to jest Catt!
realize that {t's no nse
Mosh against a workin’
At the scientific names
fncongruonsly from Kem
ry stopped eating and loo
ber's face
hind heard it before but is quite will
‘ug to hear it all over a
“But,” continued
pull till you're
4 Up country.
loads or
Sometimes
The me
eRe
ke n
somet
oniags an’
nto the dis
uly,
eyns ‘nd
holdin’ a four.
pair
p's lips,
ted np,
gain.
Kemp,
bliin’ an’ you can't head
'em around to see that onless a Cattle
it's too young to
an’ good to the market
bein’ a victi
“As to thelr
10
be packed
besi n to race suicide
ugin' In Bo'lin'tonias
des
an’ Onecldiu
get onpatient « hi
ever
Miitonias, 1 never
it. How ¢'n a gre
that a Miltonla
1 that looks like
in a pu'ple shadow
al propos! 4
When
straigh
learn
11s Morelian
A
* COUs
days and
irge of
he time
foun
eared bear r monster plat
two hundred leaves strung, like
grape cluster of Eschol, on a pole.
deer eyes seemed to
grow out of his head ns he m out
i thelr burde “Hi he yel and
rushed off to the corral where he threw
himszell on to an astonished heifer.
For one second she squatted and then
went mad, With yell and flogging hat
Kemp poured oil on the fire of her
| frenzy. She bucked and twisted and
all but somersanited in her efforts to
| rid herself of the demon on her back.
| On the veranda, Lieber and Gerry held
their sides and roared at the most
grotesque fine riding they had ever
| geen. Finally, with a desperate lang
| the heifer breasted the corral fence
{ It enught her middle and she teetered
over. Kemp turned a handspring from
her back and landed on his feet. The
| heifer scrambled free from the fence
and tore, wild-eyed, out into the desert.
Laughter rang from every side, Three
herders threw themselves on to their
horses and rode, shouting, after the
heifer, Kemp straightened out his hat,
| put It on, and walked sedately over to
| the veranda. There was only a faint
glint in bis eye ua he bought the mon
stor plant to erown the monster ship
| ment,
over
the
Kemp's Ld!
slp
led
That dry season saw the beginning
of a drought that will long hold the
blackest page in the annals or the San
Francisco basin, It seemed but days
after the rains when the sparse grass
and new-leafed bu of wilder
ness began up after
brazen, the
the
Day
from
shies
shrivel
the sun leaped
to
mois
very
it
gtared
and the
While
becaine Ww
searching ont the scant,
ture of wilting folinge,
Bap of the hardy brush.
tle were still fat they
and turned to cactus for nourishment.
They broke down the sickly
with thelr horus and rubbed them In
the sand to free them of the worst of
the thorns. Herders rode the rovads
on weakening horses and dismounted
time and again to pull out spines from
the snouts of passive, panting
Bulls died of broken pride.
wonld not subject themselves
pain of cating cactus. The river
great river—was no longer great
the of
enk
They
the
the
tn
watched its
and one
down in the gorge
falling level with
day seat an urgent call to Lieber for
Gerry
anxious eye
He
very man
that had come
Spades were few
of a
i Nees
the
Lieber came brought
AU AFMY, ¢ bea 4
tool soonest to
and hoe
shares
hit lke |}
‘nded on
twisted
e¢ of his
the
night ard the
of a steamer's | an vhen |
Wt was
that there
far from
forget that
you to it"
nee fell
«t
ke up the
Tree
on
ehead know
dessrt, no
things you rould
PINOess, 80
follow
and
Jdeber sls
fn ‘nnnot
He stopped wl
iin I
| front of him,
face worked
upon
{ them aired straight in
ght
wore
When he
words were
kno why
twhy I am
We
fi
out into the n
as though he strug
gling to keep his lips closed
began to speak again, the
carcely audibie. “1 don’
I want to tell you two abon
here, unless It is that as
so quiet 1 felt that you knew it all—
that knew all that | know and
that I was on the point of knowing all
that you have known. The little lies
of life suddenly became big and hate
ful and 1 saw In my life a monster lie
that the slience was exposing
“There are lots of men with the be
ginning of my story. It's common and
tnkes little telling. 1 was born In
Pennsylvania,
farmera but
w
gat here
you
I got all the schooling
home,
I waa still a boy our little bank took
ine in, It wasn't doing much business
region struck oll and the bank's busi.
ness soared by leaps and bounds, It
turned Into as good a spouter as any
of the wells, The family that ran It
became rich and went to higher jobs
or out altogether. The staff was
shoved up and about the time | was of
age I was handling more money than
I'd ever known was in the world, The
amount 1 stole war an even thirty
thousand and I got away with it. It
was easier to do thirty years ago than
it is today.
then It got away with me. It lasted
the end of it up the coast at Pernam- |
buco
“1 date my from the day i
spent the | dollar and woke up. 1
worked Nothing wa 0 small or
big 4 for
16 risk
it agnin
could
and pl
wh
is
ms to handle
and then I riskq hed
and again After ten years 1
draw my i
3 Interest and I di i
check to the little bank
wialted two months for
then it my
aud a letter ar
bad already been met
surety
sont
back home, 1
th
check torn
thant
by a
intion wrote
letters and
'
in
came;
the
bankers
the
some
ghort Vitig
n8soe ARKO
of
st
ciation a dozen
them took the in
I offered fourfold the
been plenty of Bible my |
up. They wrote back that
use-~thit [ could keep on «
peace but It was their
for fifteen years
got and they’
some Ww
it
limbing In
first ch
iinute 1
tho
me
the n
they
ne,
vork
for
Been Away a Long 7
think 1 mean
that flies at
nn
anag =»
ys tn
in
the tops of
flag blinking
of deep
cloud and to pid,
sail for home today." I'd shut oy
or the blinds d
use of Night
bear the of
blast for good-by ang
challenge to the sea-
headed out for home.
“I couldn't
And vow, last night,
eard it in wy sleep—up here
tiemen, a man without a «
bad way but a man with
it's a hovel Ce
ie
Then In a {
caught he added, “NH
anchor of a man's soul. |
blue
We
ey os
close
that?
wae the
bellow
ns
tg 1 Py
stand it. I came up 1
I dressed
ere
that |
Ger
mintry Is In
ah
wt He
the old song.’
his volce
master
wi that they
is the
to go
paused to
whis
he
rant
want
Lieber stopped talk
silence had it had
brought them close that he
had spoken lest they take his soul by
assault. He left them and went to his
own room. They saw he was an old
beyond the years be had dis
ug. The reveal
its work,
KO
done
close
closed,
They did not speak. They were
Kemp made a cigarette,
puffed at it once or twice and then
threw It away, to roll another a mo-
ment later. His thoughts were wing
Ing away to the fork of Rig and Little
Creek where a three-room shack stood
in the shadow of the White mountains
of New Mexico. He had thought it
small, miserable, cramped. But out
here in the wilderness, thousands and
thousands of miles away, it came back
to his vision, glorified. A
came into his throat.
of the mountain,
in his throat, He took from his pocket
a treasured cake of tobacco and with
|
i
teeth tore
Then he ro
eral
COrrii
ting
the
Gerry
oy 0
his boy, too
son
fron
firs
ples
of up-pointing
tl
1 tor read
d over ag
he
as from
i
read with a eur
+
a pretty woman
to his life and out
and
words in his bu
i
not really
tunate and
fortunate
mt had
He had
nd
ttered
tel now she
Kk to buze I ears
“It
pping
COoRls a Ww an
tangible
happy a
ts
is
<8
being for
is fixed. 1 was - just
m iserable—and stood on the brink
if. Happiness brushed me
reached out to
and the gif took me, How
it be climb back
ght that seemed not so very
possessed it? 1 don't
I do not hate you--only
You have known many wom
but you have not known we. That
is the bitter part. You do not know
what 1 gave you. One thing 1 ask you
and the words as 1 write are hiurred
with tears lke my eyes—Iif ever a
foolish woman, honest and true as |
was, offers you the same sacrifice, do
pot take it. I have suffered for all the
women you will meet.”
“Fool” sald Alan to himself, “fool,
not to see that 1 turned her wish.
washy weakness into strength and
loosed a dumb tongue.”
gulf
not
of the gu
with lis
eanteh it
tong will
to the he
high when |
know
wings I
before |
What sort of a reply do you
suppose the cynic Alan wrote to
this sorrowing woman? What
does he deserve Tor his sneer
ing attitude?
We
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