| NOT UKF, | ! OTi?i '8 MEN s By Frederic 112 ° Van Rensselaer Dey, 2 • Author or "Tli« !trc>thcrhmxl of SI- ® Irn e," "Th« Quality of a ll2 in," Kio. 4* s <§ O OopTI I U• >' Krt uric Van O 0 ti • U< r l)oy. O v a 1 9 ■ -£< • CHAPTER I. •"(SHE SI! At I Tli ~ V IHN \Ni> HE A* .V MAN." M \N anil ;. wo; ,an faced each .112 i!i t' center of a bril i 1 ir l room. Thewo if'-' n n' iy. s urrc filled with I rrnr tl . t wis only half manifest Hit ugh th< i in- pt and proud dis dain w 11li v 'lieh her entire being seem •d auimntc !I• r I'crin was erect. Iter V« ;;'l a- t! • ;>v. i i>aek, and licr right I nd clus ! il i tly t'.e knotted lace Irlrid (tTcnxl her boson, while tbe left otie 1 1 ; seh at her side. Her I'ji's. d : luminous and tilled with loatl:!i:.-. »lr<::ii. anger and defiauee. were unflin. liingP fixed nj >n the nut who confront* I IUT. His features wcri gleam 1 and glinted with jealous rage. His . r id a . cheeks were wa.xe.i in hue. at ! liis sliizhth parte I at I lilihmll transformed what otkerwi- • might have lict'U a smile into an ev l*r*— -i* iof ferocious triumph, lie r— t •'.•d her contemptuous star' uitii one of sup; ressed hut inflexible hatred, ltetw*. n them, prone is] <> 4 the floor, jMnsdeMt Inanimate, was tin? I«>y- "Words, mere words," he responded eohlh. "IJeeriniinaiions are useless. I will not indulge in them. This is the first time ee 1 was a boy that 1 have lost my temper. I will not repeat the < xp. c> : I bsve a few words to say before this person revives. They will b- t! Ft that you will ever bear me utter." "Say them; I listen." "I will arrang. that an ample annul ty be paid to yoo. You may make your own e.M uses for mj absence. I will make none. If the reasons for my d<- p:11 ■: 1r• are 1 er known, the knowledge will eotue from you or from—him; not from me. Tliat is all." Hi- did not bestow a glance upon the silent form at his feet. His face had r« g-. Ned i's wonted calmness; the fury bad gone from his eyes; there was only I»ain there now. The u in i'i started toward him. Iler !tody tiioved. but not her feet. She . nld • -tip across that mute harrier that was stretched between them, but her dev. ii iim eyes watched him while be craned tbe room to the door and readied out rand sio. «1 alone in the silent btßi ay. For a moment be hesitated. '1 : ii l,e !• ed. 11 ■ 'tinted the stairs and ati'iwl a room on tbe second flooe. \\ h*Te for n.ai.y minutes he stood with fol d arms, g.tzit g down upon the 00- enpnnt of n • anopted ertb. upon a rosy. Smiling ■ bnby glrL a living ? • • ire < ' ; nilied innocence, the onlv ■ _* I mi thing in which perm 'ted man to behold absolute purity and goodness. ' ■ 1 ear ago today you came to me. I < ■ of, I will not. leave you here." murmured the man. M t 1 allj he turned away. With ». 11• 1. « lie busied himself villi the prep .rations upon which he had determine!], and a half hour lat er he descended tbe stairs and went ••nt tin..ugh the fri''it door. Fpon his left ;i; ; ri -teil the infant, still sleep ing. in his tight hand he carried a sin ■ 1 I' iind him was his luxurious botne, to which he gave no thought. Within It. In the room Where be had I irtiil with his wife, a man had just red to his feet to behold npen th« ' ■ nar v. here he had fallen the set ' form of the woman who only a sort time before had stood so proud ly • ; i t al>ove his own inanimate body. 1 iter tinman who in»re the sleeping bal.j in hts arms was ushered Into a pretentions boose that fronted ui»on f'entral park 112 r tin unhappy scene nsenrted in ti". etty of Mew York-and a 112 w m n< iits afterward was seated In tl e library behind closed doors. The Infant, still asleep, was securely en seonsed iii the depths of a lingo arm ossession?" "Perfectly 1 have twice as much more, as you know, in negotiable secur- ! ities. That will suffice for me." "You w ill not apply for a divorceV" "Certainly not." "What name will you assume?" "Yours. 1 think that is, your last one. If you will permit it. I will call myself Uidiard Maxwell." "Why not Philip Maxwell?" "No; 1 will retain nothing of the past. I am only years old. but as long as I am permitted to live my life shall be devoted to that child. Philip Harring ton ceased to exist an hour ago. 1 will sleep here in your house tonight. If 1 may. In the morning 1 will ask you to take some checks to the banks for me and secure in their places cashier's checks that I may deposit where 1 please; also to withdraw my securities from the safe deposit vaults and bring them to me. Such other affairs as need attention I w ill remember before morn ing. and before night tomorrow I will I be gone." "Where will you go?" "I have not decided. I probably will [ not decide for some time to come. 1 I will let you know in good time." "You are very unwise. Philip. Your suspicions may be unfounded, your conclusions wrong." "Perhaps so." wearily. "My decision is Irrevocable, however, so we will not discuss it." "You cannot lie father and mother to that child to that little girl If she were a boy. it would be different." "I will be father, mother—everything —to her. I'o not argue with tue. Max. Will you show me where I am to sleep? My duties begin at cnce. I shall not avoid them." Not until the man who had decided that he was henceforth to be known only as Richard Maxwell was alone in the room that had been assigned to him - no. uot alone, because the little girl, still quietly sleeping, unconscious of the tragedy that had already occur red in her young life, reposed upon the bed not until then did he show any sign of the ravages of the mental whirl wind that had passed over him. and even then his face did not lose its calm, although tears trickled down his cheeks and splashed unheeded upon the pillow where rested the companion i>f his future. He remained thus silent for several moments, and then he began restlessly to pace the floor with bowed head and bauds clasped behind Ids back, up aud Jown up and down, endlessly, cease lessly. untiringly, his footsteps fall ing with absolute precision, keeping time like the ticking of a clock one. two, three, four, five. six. sev en. turn; one. two. three, four. five, six. seven, turn—hour after hour. Once the baby awakened, and Its little voice murmured. "Mamma!" and then the father went to the bedside, raised the Umall head tenderly, administered a swallow of water, touched the rosy cheeks with his lips and saw the gen tle, sleepy eyes close again in slumber. Then once more he began that restless, tireless pacing and kept it up until the curtains that shrouded the windows became transparent with the advent of dawn, a gray light stole into the room, sparrows began to twitter on the win dow ledge.-, and the world slowly awakened to a new day. After breakfast, while the child stood clinging to a chair between them or sat upon the floor in the mhlst of an agglomeration of parlor bric-a-brac that had been hastily provided for its amusement. Richard Maxwell and his attorney concluded the conversation of the preceding night. "I've thought It all out," he said, "and 1 have fought It all out as well. My course is laid as certainly as is that of a sea captain who sails for a distant port, and I shall follow it as blindly, depending only upon my chart and my compass." "You have not slept, Phil"— "•'all me Richard. No, I have not slept" "Nor rested." "No." "1 know you too xvell to argue with you," said the lawyer gravely, "so I will not attempt to do so. (Jive me your Instructions, and I will follow them to the letter. There Is only one suggi tion that 1 will make." "What is that?" "Your affairs in the future, which you cannot fully prearrange, may require a reference —a personal reference, I mean. Since you have chosen to take the same name as mine, let it be un derstood. wherever you are, that we are brothers Teach the child that she has an uncle lian here in New York and make your will before you leave this house, appointing me as her guar- J dian in case anything happens to you." j "1 have thought of that. Max—vague- 1 ly. it is kind of you to suggest it. Will you draw the will?" "Yes." "Everything to the child at the age of 21; yourself as guardian and sole j executor. You know better than I do how to arrange It." "Yes." "I have thought better of the cash ier's checks. I prefer to leave no trace behind me that may be followed. I will draw what I need for immediate expenses. I will give checks to you for the balance and will draw on you when I have selected a place of deposit. The securities you will convert into cash and repurchase others in the name of Richard Maxwell. They can be for warded to me at any time when 1 need them." "What is the baby's name?" "She has none. We have postponed giving her a name because we could never find one that was entirely pleas ing. lid I have thought of that also. 1 shall give her a name now." "Tell me what It Is to be." "My mother was a Lisle; let that be the name of my child." "It is a man's name." "Not necessarily. It may belong to either; a man or a woman. At nil events, it suits my purposes. Let her be named In the will Lisle Maxwell, child—not daughter-CHILD of Rich ard Maxwell." j "Why that way?" "Because 1 desire it. Lisle shall be my son and my daughter in one, and I shall educate her to be both. She Is the only child I will ever have. I want ed a son; she shall be my son; 1 will rear her as a son. 1 will train her to face the world as a man would face it. 1 will teach her the ways of the world as a man would learn them; I will in struct her in all things as a man should be Instructed, and until she is old enough to know for herself she shall not discover that she is not masculine. She shall not know that there are wo men In the xvorld." "You had better cut her throat at once," said the lawyer grullly. "Max," replied the father slow ly, "let there be 110 argument or comment upon anything or concerning anything that i I have decided to do. Nothing short of tuy own death can alter a plan that I have made." "Very well. What more have you to say now?" | "Only this: My wife will apply to you J for Information concerning me. You | will tell her all that is necessary con "What a beautiful baby qirl!" she re marked gently. I oerning the arrangements for her In- I come. You will say that I came here I with the child—omitting its name—that [ I left instructions with you and that I 1 went away again without telling you where 1 should go. You will instruct her no further 011 any point whatever, and to every other human being you will be entirely silent." • •••*•• At 7 o'clock that evening, when the St. Louis express rolled out of the sta tion of the Pennsylvania railroad, the Stateroom of one of the Pullman sleep ers was occupied by a man who was traveling alone with a little child which nestled upon his shoulder ID happy content, and a woman who no ticed the child and was attracted by Its boauty paused, patted its little hands and remarked gently: "What 11 beautiful baby girl!" "My baby is a boy, madam," was the calm reply, and thus was begun the strange career of Lisle Maxwell. CHAPTER 11. CITAIG THOMPSON, I •/NTFERSMAN. T was the week of the annual 1 "round up" In the Smoky val ley, which nestles in the eni brace of towering mountains along the western boundary of the state of Nevada. Upon the crest of a rise of ground which overlooks the entire valley a horseman, xvho had just risen over the height, reined in his mount and with bated breath and eager enthusiasm surveyed the spec tacle before him. "It is grand—beautiful!" he exclaim ed aloud. "It is strange that my fa ther has never permitted me to see it before; strange that he hesitated now. But I am here in spite of him, and he will not send me back. lie must not. I will not go." The youth turned his head and look ed back in the direction from which he had come, and there was a pleased, if somewhat anxious, smile upon his face when he noted toward the southeast a heavy cloud of dust xvhich extended backward along the trail as far as the eyes could reach, but wdiicli was stead ily though slowly coming nearer. To his practiced eyes that cloud explained that beneath it was moving an army of cattle numbering several thousands, that their track lay over the ridge where he was standing and that their destination was the valley beyond, where the different brands were to be singled out and separated, sorted and assigned to their respective owners. For an entire week—perhaps for two, for the number of cattle was known to be greater this year than ever before— the Smoky valley was destined to be come a scene of life and activity. There would be collected there cattle and horsesby the tens of thousands, ran cheros and vaqueros by the dozens aud scores; there would be trials of skill of every kind which finds proficient per formers and ardent admirers in the wild, free life of ranchmen and their cowboy assistants; there would be fighting and frolic, danger and pleas ure—all things desirable and every thing supposedly attainable for Lisle Maxwell, the margin of xvhose life hitherto had been the limits of his fa ther's ranch. As he looked again toward the valley he could see that thousands of cattle had already arrived. They browsed along the mountain slopes as far as his xdsion could extend,and his keen glance could detect here and there the figures of horsemen on guard near the en trance of passes where they were sta tioned to prevent the animals, gathered with such difficulty, from straying again. Hoarse bellowings and mutter ! lng murmurs drifted along the moun ! tain sides, telling of disputes between ; rival steers which had met noxv for the first time, and away up the valley glis tened a lake beside which he could dis tinguish the outlines of a corral, near i which he knew was situated the camp. Lisle xvas undetermined what to do. His Impulse was to ride 011 into the valley and make himself known to the ; men, who one and all were acquainted I with Ills father and who would there fore make him xveleome. Some of them were acquaintances of his own, for he had met and learned to know several ranchmen and cowboys who during years past had made occasional visits to his father's ranch. On the other hand, he feared the anger of his fa ther, whom thus far in life he had nev er dared to disobey in other than very little things. "If I await hi 111 here, he will send me back again," mused Lisle; "if I go 011, he cannot, or. at least, if lie does so, 1 will have seen something of what I came to see." While lie still hesitated the entire scene changed The moving panorama In the distance faded from view as his Interest centered upon an incident that was taking place almost in the immedl nte foreground. Up the side of the mountain toward him, and not a quarter of a mile away, plunged n madly galloping steer, anil behind it, too distant to east his rope, but nevertheless with the ready loop of Ids rlata swinging in his hand, rode a horseman. He was sotubrcroed. fringed, gilt spurred and bedecked in ; liis best, for cowboys attire themselves I for the annual "round up" with as J much care as a debutante lavishes up - on her "coming out" ball. 1 The cowboy spurred his horse 1111- ) mercifully, but the steer was lithe llmb . Ed, swift and wild It ran as free as 1 an antelope and as easily led the pace, - tossing his horns and bellowing. 1 Young Maxwell quietly took tlie coil- I ed lasso from the pommel of liis sad -1 die, disengaged the loop, balanced it in • his right hand, seized the reins in iiis - left, settled himself more firmly in the i saddle and waited. Then, when the t steer came nearer, he started his horse forward by touching liis heels gently t against the animal's sides, guiding him » toward the left by an almost imper t teptible pressure with liis right knee, t The horse had also perceived the ap t proa el iof the steer and its pursuer and i knew thoroughly well what was ex > pccted of him. In advancing the speed ; was gradually increased, so that when i the steer dashed over the brow of the i hill Lisle Maxwell, with the loop of his - riatn coiling like a huge serpent above his head, was within easy casting dis tance of the object of his attack. I The steer, startled by the unexpected * apparition directly in front of him, i swerved to the right, while the horse that young Maxwell rode described a I graceful curve to the left. At the j same instant the horsehair lariat Hew ! from the rider's hand, the horse stop ped, planted his feet firmly in the sod and braced himself for the shock that 1 was to come, and the next instant the steer, firmly held by the rope, which | had caught one of his hind feet, plung ed headlong upon the ground, tearing ! up the earth and sod and bellowing furiously. In an instant he had struggled to his ; feet, but instead of seeking to escape ! lie turned and faced the enemy with | lowered head, muttering distant thun ; del' as he picked tip clomh of dust and , gravel with his hoofs and ' j threw them viciously into the air. j Then he charged, but the hor <\ obey ' ; ing a slight pressure of the kne •. easily avoided him, dashing past the infuri " ated beast so closely that Lisle could ' ; have touched him. and in another ino -1 incut the steer was again dragged to L ! the earth by the suddenly tightened ■ I lasso. 1 | It was at 1 h:it instant when the orig inal pursier appeared upon the scene. Another writhing, twisting coil of rope • j darted through the air .lust as the steer . was struggling to his feet. It settled . over the animal's horns and head and seized his throat, and the beast was I ' * •tV The steer was again dragged to the earth. captured. It was not the first time that he had been compelled to succumb to the power of mind over matter, and as soon as he found that he was indeed a prisoner his wild rage gave place to sullen docility, and he allowed himself to be led away over the road he had come, knowing that those relentless loops were still fast upon him and that at the first sign of resistance he would again be dragged remorselessly to the earth. "Well done, sonny!" shouted the stranger. "Mighty well done for a younker like you. What outfit are you with?" "Maxwell's. The bunch is two or three miles behind me, to the east." "Dick Maxwell's, eh 7 Crescent and l cross," naming the brand worn by Richard Maxwell's cattle. "What may your name be?" , "Lisle Maxwell." "Good, good! So you're Dick Max well's kid. You're a younker, sure enough, but you ain't as young as you look unless I'm mightily mistaken. I saw you when you first came to this re gion, and that's nigh onto 17 years ago. You must have been most 2 then. How old are you, anyway?" "I am 18." "Well, you don't look it; not by two or three years. Is the old man with the outfit?" "Yes." "What are you doing here? Why ain't j'ou back with the bunch?" "That's my business, sir. At all I events, it doesn't concern you." The stranger chuckled audibly. "I've heard tell that you was sassy," ! he said, "but you ought to wait till you ■ grow more'n you have before you try your sass on strangers. Some of 'em ain't as good natured as 1 am. Never here afore, was you?" > "Never." t "Well, you've got a mighty uncom mon lot to learn; don't forget that. Hut I'll stand sponsor for you with the boys, and that won't do you any harm. > I'm Craig Thompson. Maybe you have I heard of me." i Lisle looked upon his companion with > added interest then, for indeed he had i heard of Craig Thompson, and not much good of him had been told either. . A man who is thoroughly feared is 1 never cordially liked, and Craig ; Thompson was one of those. lie was . a strange admixture of gentleman and rough, a college bred man who for i nearly 30 years had been adapting liiin .. self to the circumstances of his sur roundings and gradually had become a - part of tlieni. He was one of those • men whose age it is impossible to esti mate, for lie appeared at once older . and younger than he really was. His > alertness and energy subtracted from > his years, while his gray hair and I beard and weather beaten skin added . to the estimate that one placed upon i them. With the exception of Lisle's • father, he owned more cattle than any I otiier man on the range, and he had r been in Nevada longer than any of his i neighbors. But all of this had nothing r to do with his reputation. That was derived from a liabit of his that was known and ft a red by every one who j knew him. There were frequently weeks at a time when he was possess » ed by what was known as his sullen fits, and during those periods it was as [ much as a man's life was worth to I speak to hint and certainly to cross i him. When he came out of them, he . | was as loquacious as lie had previous , i\v been taciturn, as kindly as he had s 1 formerly been ugly, as gentle as he had £ ' been rough, as tender as he had been ' hard and cruel and murderous. He ■ was a strange mixture of saint and I ; devil, of kindness and brutality, of 1 generosity and merciless cruelty a I paradox and that which begets more j outside interest than any other human , ' attitude, a mj stery. »i "Why ain't you ever been here be ! fore, sonny?" he asked presently. "Or 1 maybe that ;; n i anv of tny business • itiier." "My t::'i ■ \y« 11!«1 not permit me to ;otnc." "l)i\ t. I', cli? And he gave in his : . ~ i . V" "No.' Craig Ti > i; i < ' • d again. "Do: . vi i «r. I. ~;t iou have answi. !i" :!■ pit :K»n? That's why you're ahead of t'ae ! unc!i. Just jump ed the stsicl . . :!ew the corral, lit out, stampeded all by yourself, same's that | steer you roped in such good style, and l>iek thinks you're r> unded up safe and j sound at home, eh? Is that the ticket?" "That is exactly the situation, Mr. ; Thompson," replied Lisle slowly. "When ' I first saw you swinging after the steer, I was wondering whether I had better , keep down ; he valley or turn back and meet my father. But you have answer ! Ed the question for me, for now I've ' got to help you in with this steer." "Humph! Look here. Lisle. Just consider that we've sli ok hands, will •you? That makes us friend . Now, I'm going to give you some advice, and I it strikes me that for a kid who lias passed all his life, if it ain't only IS j years, punching cattle, roping steers, shooting stars out of the sky and occa ; sionally pinking an Indian or a maver ; ick man—for that's what I've heard j j about you you need it as much as any ! feller I know. In the first place, don't ! 'mister' any of the boys up here on i this mesa, or they'll make a curiosity | out of you before you're 24 hours your | present senior. In the second place, ! when you have once started out to do a thing don't turn back on any account. | ' Do it or drop in your tracks facing it. It's a whole lot better to be shot be- J tween the eyes than it is to be kicked j behind. That ain't elegant, but it's ! God's truth. In the third place, tie up to t'raig Thompson for anything that you can foresee at this writing, and if lie happens to have one of his fits on don't you mind 'em. They ain't for everybody, and they won't be for you. | Here comes two of my boys. They'll ■ take this critter, and we can ride in ' more sociably." They were soon relieved of the care of the steer, and then they rode on si lently side by side for some distance. "Why wouldn't Dick ever let you i conic here before?" asked Thompson presently. "I don't know. lie would never tell me," replied Lisle. "Well, I can tell you." "You can! Why is it?" "I'll tell you by asking a question or two. Didn't you wing one of my cow boys, a fellow named Cummings, about a year ago when he was over at your place after a bunch of steers that had strayed away?" "Yes." "What did you do it for?" "Because lie was impertinent." "Exactly. What did he say?" "IFe saiil that I was cut out for a wo man and spoiled in the making. I con vinced him that I was quicker with my gun than he was, anyway." "Correct. He ain't forgot it, and he | won't very soon. He's gone back east, ' but he left a piece of one of his ribs j out here to remember you by. How- ; ever, that is why Dick don't want you J to come here. See?" "No." "lie's afraid somebody else will say the same tiling; that's all." Lisle brought his horse to a sudden stand. I lis face darkened and his j black eyes flashed ominously. "Do you say the same thing?" lie j asked quietly, hut in a tone which con- I veyed much more than did the words , that were uttered. "Lord, what a fire eater you are! No! i I don't say the same thing, but it would be a compliment if I did, for women ! are a hanged sight better than men. | i But that ain't here nor there. Some | I of the boys will say it, or something ! very much like it, and if you are going | to shoot every one that does you had j better lose no time in selecting a good ! place to start your graveyard. You j ; won't be long in tilling it." "Why should they say such a thing i as that?" "Well, there are a good many rea- j sons. Are you going to take what I i say friendly or are you going to get j | mad?" "I'll not be angry." "Good. Well, I s'pose it's because you ain't developed much. You're 18, and you look In some ways like a boy of 14. Your voice ain't changed enough I to suit the taste of such people as like to arrange other people's affairs for ■ 'em. That's one thing. It's a good j voice, but it's soft and tender and kind i er cooing, like a girl's. 'Twou't hurt it any if you add a pound or two to its weight." "What else?" "Nothing else that I can just put my finger on unless it's your whole outfit. I You have spent so much of your time I in the house reading and studying, j playing your piano and such like that your face has got something in it that , j men don't wear much out here. It's J called refinement, and these cusses round here think that all the refine ment in the world belongs to women. I want you to understand that every reason that any of the crowd such as you will find here can have for telling you that you are like a woman is a compliment, and you ought to take it as one. Don't get mad. Smile and look pleased, for, Lisle, there ain't no better tiling on the top of God's earth | than a good woman." j "I don't believe that you know," said I Lisle quietly, but with such deep con- I vletion that Thompson gazed at him ! earnestly for a moment in silence. "Don't I?" he said presently in a voice that was perceptibly altered. "Well, maybe I don't, but I think 1 do. Some day, maybe, I'll tell you the story that makes me think so. Now, tell me why you said that." "My father has taught rue ever since I can remember that women are tli curse of the world, and I believe him. Ib; Is wise concerning everything else, and he would not instruct me falsely." An audible grunt was the only reply that Craig Thompson made, and the two rode on In silence several rods. { "I would like to see a woman." re- j marked Lisle, permitting his train of thought to end In a spoken sentence. "I have never seen one In my life." "Whoa!" cried Thompson, pulling his liorse up with a jerk. Then lie jammed Jiis spurs deep Into the animal's sides. Ho that it snorted and made two or three buck jumps before it settled down again Into ordinary decorum, frlie ranchman's face was working in iht* strangest fashion, but whether ltfi an effort to suppress a laugh or j tin oath it Is Impossible to say. At last, , more to himself than to the young mail I lit his side, the Nevadian remarked: "Any man who will gi\e a boy that ! 1 port of fodder to chaw on is a blamed | scoundrel." I.isle Maxwell heard the wmd He i i baited his horse as suddenly as Thoinp , nun had previously checked his and l y | it sudden pressure of one of his knees j compelled it to turn so that it st >d
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QIILITY TOE BEST! JOHN HIXSON NO. 116 E. FrOi.'T BT. PEGG The Coal Dealer SELLS WOOD —AND— COAL —AT 344 Ferry Street