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West Main st. Irby Hipp. 3-l»7-4tc
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corner Pitts and Sloan streets, Clinton.
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FOR RENT—Residence on East Car
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WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE:
Frank Beeson, from Albany. N. Y.,
reaches Benton, Wyoming, then—1868
—western terminus of the Pacific rail
road. He had been ordered by physi-
1 cians to seek a climate “high and dry.”
He is robbed of most of his money in
his hotel and loses his last twenty
dollars at monte in “The Big Tent,”
a dance hall and gambling resort in
the “roaring” town of Benton.
Edna Montoyo, compaion of a gam
bler, is believed by Frank to have ca
joled him purposely into the game.
Broke, disconsolate over his discovery
that “the lady of the blue eyes,” as
he calls her, is what she is, and finally
humiliated over his glaring “green
ness,” Frank repulses Edna when she
begs him to go away with her, sob-
bingly telling him that she had made
a mistake in letting him lose his mon
ey. He goes to take a job with George
Jenks, a teamster, in a wagon train
about to leave for Salt Lake City.
Capt. Adams, a Mormon, is in
charge of the wagon train.
Rachael Adams, an attractive young
woman, one of his wives, is in the
train, as is Daniel 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. Caut.
Adams shouts, “No hussy in men’s
garments shall go with the train.”
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CHAPTER VIII
FOR A WOMAN’S SMILE
Jenks stiffened, bristling.
“Mind your words, Adams. I’m un
der no Mormon thumb. As for your
brat on horseback, he’d better hold his
yawp.”
I sprang forward. Defend her I
was silent save for stertorous breath
ing.
Vaguely cogitating over his promise
I lay^joes and face up, staring at the
brighw^tars; preplexed more and
more^er the immediate events of the
future, warmly conscious of her as
tonishing proximity in this very train,
prickled by the hope that she would
continue with us, irritated by the va
rious assumptions of Daniel, and
somehow not at all adverse to the
memory of her in “britches.”
That phase of the matter seemed
to have affected Daniel and me simi
larly. Under his hide he was human.
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it was after sun-up that a horseman
bored in at a gallop, over the road
from the east.
“Montoyo,” Jenks pronounced, in a
grumble of disgust, rather than with
any not of alarm.
I saw him give a twitch to his
holster and slightly loosen the Colt’s.
As it chanced, our outfit was the
first upon the gambler’s way.
“Howdy, gentlemen?”
“Howdy yourself, sir,” answered Mr.
Jenks. Montoyo was pale as death,
his lips hard set, his peculiar gray
eyes and his black moustache the only
vivifying features in his coldly men
acing countenance.
He looked upon me with a trace of
recognition less to be seen than felt.
His glance leaped to the wagon—
traveled swiftly and surely and turn
ed to Mr. Jenks.
“I’m looking for my wife, gentle
men. Have you seen her?”
• “Yes, sir. We’ll not beat around
any bush over that,” replied Jenks.
He meditated, frowning a bit, eye-
j ing us narrowly.
“I ^ad the notion,” he said. “If
you have staked her to shelter, I
thank you; but now I aim to play the
must. She should not stand there-i hand myself This is strictly a pri-
slight, lovely, brave, aflame with the vate & ame - Where is she.
helplessness of a woman alone and
insulted.
“Wait!” I implored. “Give her a
chance. You haven’t heard her story.
All she wants is protection. I know
the cur she’s getting away from.
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my outfit, that’s flat. She spent the
night with the Adams women. You’ll
I i find hre waitin’ for you, on ahead.”
saw him strike her. You’ve K ot wo- Hc ginned “She’ll be powerful glad
men there who’ll care for her! t0 s <* >' ou ; r He sobered. And 111
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“You have one man among you all.
But I am going. Good-night, gentle
men.”
Captain Adams was frowning stern
ly, his heavy face unsoftened.
“Why come you here?”
“My husband has been abusing me,
and I shot him!”
“You killed him, woman?”.
“Not yet! He’s likely fleeing the
public at this very moment.”
‘‘And those garments!” Captain
Adams accused. “You wish to show
your shape, woman, to tempt men's
eye with the flesh?”
She smiled.
“Would you have me jump from a
train in skirts, sir? But to soothe
your mind I will say that I wore these
clothes under my proper attire and
cloak until the last moment.”
A new voice sounded.
“She shall stay, Hyrum? For the
night, at least? I will look after her.”
The Captain’s younger wife, Ra
chael, had stepped to him. Pending
reply I hastened directly to My Lady
hreself and detained her by her jack-;
et sleeve.
“Wait,” I bade.
on the road.”
“The road to hell, yes,” Montoyo
coolly remarked. “I’ll guarnatee you
quick passage. Good-day.”
With Sudden steely glare that em
braced us both he jumped his mount
into a gallop and tore past the team,
for the front.
I could hold back no longer, and
hastening on up, half running in my
anxiety to face the worst; to help, if
I might, for the best.
A little knot of people had formed,
constantly increasing by oncimers like
myself and friend Jenks who had lum
bered behind me.
Montoyo’s horse stood heaving, on
the utskirts; and ruthlessly pushing
through I found him inside, with My
Lady at bay before him—her eyes
brilliant, her cheeks hot, her two
hands clenched tightly, and the arm
of the brightly flushed but calm Ra
chael resting rcstrainfully around
her.
Captain Adams, at one side apart,
was talking to the gambler.
“You see here,” he said. “She has
had the care of my own household, for
I turn nobody away. She came
The gambler smiled—a slow, con-!
temptuous smile, while his gray eyes
focused watchfully.
“It’s a case where I have nothing
to gain,” said he. “And you’ve noth
ing to lose. I never bet in the teeth
of a pat hand. Sabe? Besides, my
young Mormon cub, where’s your an
te? For the sport of it, now, what
do you think of putting up, make it
interesting? One of your mammies?
Tut. tut!”
Daniel’s right hand stiffened at his
side—extended there flat and trem
ulous like the vibrant tail of a rattle
snake. He blurted harshly:
“I ’iaow to kill yu for that! Draw,
you—!!”
We caught breath. Montoyo’s re
volver poised half-way out of the
scabbard, held there rigidly, frozen in
mid-course.
For Daniel had laughed loudly over
leveled barrel.
How he had achieved so quickly no
man of us knew. Yet there it was—
his Colt, out, cocked, wicked and
yearning and ready.
“Haow’li yu take it. Mister?” he
gibed. “I could I’arn an old caow to
beat yu on the draw. Aw, shucks!
I ’laow yu’d better go back to yore
pasteboards. Naow git!”
Montoyo, his eyes steady, scarcely
changed expression. He let his re
volver slip down into its scabbard.
Then he smiled.
“You have a pretty trick,” he com
mented, relaxing. “Some day I’d lik^
to test out again. Just now I pass.
Madam, are you coming?”
“Your choice of company is hardly
to your credit,” he snereed. “Or, I
should say, to your education. Saint
liness does not fall well upon you. ma
dam. Of your two champions—”
And here I realized that 1 was j
standing opt, one foot advanced, my ■
fists foolishly doubled, my presence,
a useful factor.
“—I recommend the gentleman \
from New York as more to your taste.
But you are going of yolir -'wn free
will. You will always be my wife.
You can’t get awa>; from that, you
devil. I shall expect you in Benton,
for I have the hunch that your little
flight will fetch .you back pretty well
tamed, to the place where damaged
goods are not so heavily discounted.”
With that he strode straight for
his horse, climbed aboard (a trifle
awkwardly by reason of his one arm
disabled) and galloped, granting us
not another glance.
Card shark and desperado that he
was, his consummate aplomb nobody
could deny, except Daniel, now caper
ing and swaggering and twirling his
revolver.
“I showed him. I made him take
water. 1 ’laow I’m ’bout the best
man with a six-shooter in these hyear
parts.”
“Ketch up and stretch out,” Cap- j
tain Adams ordered, disregarding. (
“We’ve no time for foolery.”
My eyes met My I-ady’s. She smiled
a little ruefully, and I responded,
shamed by the poor role 1 had borne.
With that jubilating out to the fore, |
certainly I cut small figure!
(Continued Next Week.)
“You would take her in, Rachael?” f**" 1 ' , m >: *"<1 *he shall go of
the Captain rumbled. ^ "a ,
“We are commanded to feed the “You Mormons have the advantage
hungry and shelter the homeless, Hy- 0 ! us » hltf " len ’ f' r ’ Mo " toyo
,, , ed. No one of the sex seems to be
’““V'arily that is so. Talredmef But!f enied 1 b t d “ nd boaid in 5 ' our ** tok :
in God’s name, clothe her for the day-j f/ . , r t i r +V,
„ * nA “By the help of the Lord we of the
light in decency. She shall not ad- . * ^
vertise her flesh to men s eyes! ! . . ....
Quick!” I whispered with a push. ™ uch ^ ttcr th /" you do yours,” big
Rachael, however, had crossed for us.
“Will you come with me, please?”
she invited.
SEABOARD
ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE OF
TRAINS
CLINTON, S. C.
To and from SOUTH and WE .ST
Arrive: Depart:
2:51 a. m. Atlanta-B’ham 1:48 a. m.
2:60 p. m. Athens-Atlanta 2:15 p. m.
5:50 p. m. Athens-Atlanta 11:30 a. m.
5:50 p. m. B’ham-Memohis» 11:30 a. m.
To and from NORTH and EAST
Arrive; Depart:
jl:48 a. m. New York-Wash. 2:51 a. m.
’ .48 a. m. Rich.-Norfolk 2:51 a. m.
1.1:30-*. m. New York-Wash. 5:50 p»m.
11:30 a. m. Rich.-Norfolk 5:50 p.m.
2:15 p. m. Monroe-Hamlet JLOO p. m.
C. G. LaHatte, T.. P. A., Atlanta, Ga.
W. H; Shands, Agcr.^ Cllrtor., S. C.
“Yes,” sighed My Lady, w
“Good-night, sir.” She fleetingly
smiled upon me. “I thank you; and
Mr. Jenks.”
They went, Rachael’s arm about her.
, Hyrum responded; and his face som
bered. “Who are you? A panderer
to the devil, a thief with painted card-
caill/. ^9 arda - a despoiler of the ignorant,
and a feeder to hell—yea, a.striker of
women and a trafficker in flesh! Who
, are you to speake the name of the
. Lord’s anointed ? There she is, your
chattel. Take her or leave her. This
Daniel pressed beside Captain . . . .. . . . . „
, .train starts on in ten minutes.
Adams, talking eagerly.
“She’s powerful purty, ain’t she, ■ “I’ll take her or kill her, Montoyo
paw! Gosh, I never seen a woman in snarled. “You call me a feeder, but
britches before! Did yu? Paw! She s, I ie sb*^ be fed to your mill,
kin ride in my wagon, paw. Be yu Adams. You 11 ^et on that horse
go.V to take her on, paw? If yu be, P ron to, Madam,’ he added, stepping
I got room.” i forward (no one could question his
“Go! Tend to your stock and think nerve), “and we’ll discuss our affairs
of other things,” boomed the father. ' n private.”
“Remfember, that the Scriptures say: She cast about with swift beseeeh-
‘Beware of the scarlet woman’!" hig look, as if for a friendly face or
Daniel galloped away, whooping sign of rescue. With a spring I burst
like an idiot. in.
„ Our group dispersed, each man to But somebody already had drawn
his blanket under the wagons or in f re sh attention. Daniel Adams was
the open. standing between her and her husband.
“Wall,” Jenks uttered, in last words “Say, Mister, will yu fight?” he
as he turned over with & grunt, “hoo-
ray! if it simmers down to you and Montoyo suiweyed him.
Dan’l, I’ll be there. | “Why?” ^
. With tV.nT o^ynatical comment he “For her, o’ course.”
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