The Barnwell people-sentinel. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1925-current, November 15, 1928, Image 3
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DUANES
Second Installment
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WHAT HAPTEN ED BEFORE
Buck Duane, quick on tLe draw, kills Cal
Bam in self-defense and finds himself an
outlaw’. Flying from pursuit, he meets Luke
Stevens, another ou f !aw, and the two be
come pals. Luke fiarfoTvty escapes capture
and Duane is shocked to find his brother
outlaw severely wounded.
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
“Feller’s name was Frown. Me an’
him fell oat over a boss I stole from
him over in Huntsville. We had a
shootin’ scrape then. Wal, as I was
straddlin’ my boss back there in Mer
cer I seen this Frown an’ seen him be
fore he seen me.
“Could have killed him, too. But I
wasn’t breakin’ my word to you. I
kind of hoped he wouldn’t spot me.
But he did—an’ fust shot he got me
here. What do you think of this
hole?”
“It's pretty had,” replied Duane, and
he could not look the cheerful outlaw
in the eyes.
“I reckon it is. Wal, I’ve had some
had wounds I lived over. Guess mebbe
I can stand this one. Now, Buck, get
me some place in the brakes—leave me
some grub an’ water at my hand—an’
then you clear out.”
"Leave you here alone?*’ asked
Duane sharply.
“Shore. You see. I can’t keep up
with you. Brown an’ his friends will
foller us acrost the river a ways.
You’ve got to think of number one in
this jtrme. \
“JA hat would you do in my case ?’*
asked Duane curiously.
“Wal, I reckon I’d clear out an’
save my hide." replied Stevens.
Duane felt inclined to doubt the out
law’s assertion. For his own part he
decided his conduct without further
speech.
First, he watered the horses, filled
canteens and water-hag, and then tied
the pack upon his own horse. That
done, he lifted Stevens upon his horse,
and I void m* him in the saddle, turned
into the brakes, being careful to pick
out hard or grassy ground that left
little signs of tracks.
All that i.ight Duane, gloomy and
thoughtful, attentive to the wounded
•Hitlaw, walked the trail and never
halted till daybreak. He was tired
then, and very hungry. Stevens
sertned in had shape, though he was
still spirited and cheerful. Duane
made camp. 1 he outlaw refused food,
but asked for both whisky and water.
Then he stretched out.
"buck, will you take off my boots?*
he asked with a Unit smile on his
pallid lace.
Duane remoted them, wondering if
the outlaw had the thought that he
did not want to die with his bouts on.
"Hard, you—stuck—to me P the out
law whispered.
Duane caught a hint of gladness in
the voice — he (raced a tami surgriee
m the haggard face. Stevens seemed
like a little child.
To Duane the moment was sad. ele
mental. big with a burden of mystery
he could not understand.
« Duane buried him in a shallow
arroyo and heaped up a pile of stones
to mark the grave. That done he
saddled his comrade's horse, hung the
weapons over the pommel, and mount
ing his own steed he rode down the
trail in the gathering twilight.
Presently the trail widened into a
road, and that into a kind of square
lined by a number of adobe and log
buildings, of rudest structure. Within
sight were horses, dogs, a couple of
steers, Mexican women with children,
and white men. all of whom appeared
to be doing nothing.
His advent created no interest until
he rode up to the white men, who were
, lolling in the shade of a house. This
place evidently was a store and sa
loon, and from the inside came a
lazy hum of voices.
As Duane reined to a halt one of the
loungers in the shade rose with a loud
exclamation.
“Bust me if thet ain’t Luke’s boss 1”
The others accorded their interest,
if not assent, by rising to advance to
ward Duane.
“How about it, Euchre? Ain’t thet
Luke’s bay?” queried the first man.
“Plain, as your nose,” replied the fel
low called Euchre.
“There ain’t no doubt about thet
then,” laughed another, “fer Bosomer’s
nose is shore plain on the landscape.’*
These men line4 tip before Duane,
and as he cooly regarded them he
thought they could have been recog
nized anywhere as desperadoes.
The man called Bosomer, who struck
out in advance of the others, was a
hardlpoking customer, with yellow eyes
and an enormous nose. He had sandy
hair and a skin the color of dust.
“Stranger, who are you, an’ where
did you git thet bay boss?” he de
manded.
His yellow eyes took in Steven’s
horse, then the weapons hung on the
saddle, and finally turned their glint
ing, hard light upward to Duane.
“Stranger, who are you?” asked an*
other man, somewhat more ciiilly. ,
“My name’s Duane,” replied Duasp
curtly.
“An’ how’d you come by the host?”
Duane answered briefly, and his
words were followed by a short sil
ence, during which the men loked at
him. Bosomer began to twist his
bearded tips.
“Reckon he’s dead all right, or no-
body’d hev his boss an’ guns,” said
Euchre.
“Mr. Duane,” began Bosomer, in
low, stinging tones, “I happen to be
Luke Steven’s side pardner.”
Duane looked him over, from dusty,
worn-out boots to his slouchy som
brero. That look’seemed to inflame
Bosomer.
‘‘An’ I want the boss an’ them guns,”
he shouted.
“You or anybody else can have them
for all I care. I just fetched them in.
But the pack is mine,” replied Duane.
“And say—I befriended your pard. If
you can’t use>a civil tongue you’d bet
ter cinch it.”
“Civil ? Haw ! Haw !” rejoined the
outlaw. “I don’t know you. How do
we know you didn’t plug Stevens, an’
stole his boss, an’ jest happened to
stumble down here?”
“You’ll have to take my word, that’s
all,” replied Duane sharply.
“Stranger, Bosomer is shore hot
headed.” said the man Euchre. He did
not appear unfriendly, nor were the
others hostile.
At this juncture several more out
laws crowded out of the door, and the
one in the lead was a tail man of stal-
a close eye on you is Benson,” said
Euchre. “He runs the place an’ sells
drinks. The gang calls him Jackrabhit
Benson because he’s always got his eye
peeled an’ his car cocked. Don’t no
tice him if he looks you over, BucIl
“Benson is scared to death of every
newcomer who rustles into Bland’s
camp. An’ the reason, I take it, is be
cause heVdone somebody dirt. He’s
hidin’. Not from a sheriff or ranger I
Men who hide from them don’t act
like Jackrabbit Benson.
“He’s hidin’ from some guy who’s
huntin’ him to kill him. Wal, I’m al
ways expectin’ to see some feller ride
in here an’ throw a gun on Benson.
Can’t sayT’d be grieved.”
“What have you against him?” in
quired Duane, as he sat down beside
Euchre.
“Wal, mebbe I'm cross-grained,” re
plied Euchre apologetically. “Shore
an outlaw an’ rustler such as me can’t
be touchy. But I never stole nothin’
but cattle from some rancher who
never missed ’em, anyway. Thet sneak
Benson—he was the means of puttin’ a
Ijttle girl in Bland s way.”
“Girl?” queried Duane, now with
real attention.
“Shore. Bland’s great on women.
I’ll tell you about this girl when we
get out of here. Some of the gang
are goin’ to be sociable, an’ I can’t
talk about the chief.”
Buck Duane, Outlaw
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proclaimed
wart physique,
him a leader.
He had a long face, a flaming red
beard, and clear cold blue eyes that
fixed in close scrutiny upon Duane. He
was not a Texan, m truth Duane did
not recugnuc one of these outlaws as
native to his Stale.
“I’m Bland,” said the tail man su-
thoritatively. “Whore you and
what'rc you domg here!** ,
Duane looked at Bland as he had at
the others. This outlaw chief appeared
. to be reasonable, if he was not courte
ous. Duane told his story agam, this
time a little more in detail.
“1 believe you." replied Bland at
once. “Think 1 know when a fellow’s
lyfflt.-
“I reckon you’re on the right trail,**
put in Euchre. “Thet about Luke
wantin’ his boots took off—thet satis
fies me. Luke bed a mortal dread of
dyin' with his boots on."
At this sally the chief and his men
l.Aghed.
“You
“You said Duane — Buck Duane l”
queried Bland “Are you a son of that
Duane who was a gun-fighter some
years back ?”
“Yes,” replied Duane.
“Never met him, and glad I didn’t,”
said Bland with a grim humor.
Bosomer appeared at the door, push
ing men who tried to detain him. and
as he jumped clear of a last reaching
hand he uttered a snarl like an angry
dog.
Manifestly the short while he had
spent inside the saloon had been devot
ed to drinking and talking himself into
a frenzy. Bland and the other outlaws
quickly moved aside, letting Duane
alone. When Bosomer saw Duane
standing motionless and watchful, a
strange change passed quickly in him.
He halted in his tracks, and as he did
that the men who had followed him out
piled over each other in their hurry to
get to one side.
Duane saw all the swift action, felt
intuitively the meaning in it, and in
Bosomer’s sudden change of front. The
outlaw was keen, and he hart expected
a shrinking or at least a frightened
antagonist.
But Duane did not speak a word. He
had remained motionless for a long
moment, his eyes pale and steady, his
right hand like a claw.
That instant ^gave birth in Duane a
power to, read|/in his enemy’s eyes the
thought that preceded action. But he
did not want to kill another man; he
did not intend to. When Bosomer’s
hand moved Duane’s gun was spouting
fire, amd Bosomer fell with his right
arm/shattered. He would never be
to draw a gun again.
When Duane went out with Euchre
sun was setting behind a blue range
of mountains across the river in Mex
ico. The valley appeared to open to
the southwest.
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the si
During the ensuing half hour a num-
er of outlaws passed by Duane and
Euchre, halted fur a greeting, or sat
down for a moment. They were all
gruff, loud-voiced, merry, and good-
natured. Duane replied civilly and
agreeably when he was personally ad
dressed. but he refused all invitations
to drink and gamble
Evidently he had been accepted, in a
way, as one of their dan. No une
made any hint of an allusion to hts
affair with Bosomer. Duane saw
readily that Euchre was well liked.
One outlaw borrowed money from
htni; another asked for tobacco.
Next morning Duane found that a
moody and despondent spell had
fastened on him. Wishing to be
alone, hs went out and walked a trail
leading around the river bluff. He
thought and thought.
When he returned to the shack
Euchre was cooking dinner. *
“Say, Buck, I’ve news for you,” he
•aid, and his tone conveyed either pride
in his possession of such news, or pride
in Duane. “Feller named Bradley rode
in Uus monun’. He'd heard some
about you.
“Told about the ace of spades they
put over the bullet holes in thet cow-
puncher Bain you plugged. Then there
was a rancher shot at a water-hole
twenty miles south of Wellston.
Reckon you didn’t do it?”
“No, 1 certainly did not,” replied
Duane.
“Wal, you get the blame. It ain’t
nothin’ lor a feller to be saddled with
gun play he never made. An’, Buck,
if you ever get famous, as seems likely,
you’ll he blamed for many a crime.
The border’ll make outlaw an’ murder
er, out of you. . . . Wal, thet’s
enough of thet. I’ve more news.
You’re goin’ to be popular.”
“Popular? What do you mean?”
“I met Bland’s WTfe thi$ mornin*.
She seen you the other day when you
rode in. She shore wants to meet you
an’ so do some of the other women in
camp. They always want to meet the
new fellers who’ve just come in. It’s
lonesome for women here an’ they like
to hear news from the towns.”
“Well, Euchre, I don’t want to be
impolite, but I’d rather not meet any
women,” rejoined Duane.
“I was afraid you wouldn’t. Don’t
blame you much. I was hopin’,
though, you might talk a little to
thet poor lonesome kid.”
“What kid!” inquired Duane, in sur
prise. -
“Didn’t I tell you about Jennie—
the girl Bland’s boldin’ here—the one
Jackrabbit Benson had a hand in steal-
m I
“You mentioned a girl. That’s all.
Tell me now,” replied Duane abruptly.
Continued Next Week
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A big New York bank is said to
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All are interested in the develop
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thing helps general prosperity. If
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Mr. Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., of Gen
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fereat demand for automobiles,
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The Northwest and Middle-West
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If we were much more prosper-
is, we could hardly stand it That
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dly
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In New York a man, fifty years
old, having vainly sought a job
open to gray hairs, tried to hang
himself from a thiry-story window.
He did not succeed in hanging
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Roy Howard looks before he
leaps and decides not to leap, ofter
having alcoholic drinks analyzed in
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easies.
In eight “high grade” establish
ments his agentspurchased liquors
actually deadly. Only two or three
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whiskies non-poisonous.
And they also were poisonous,
since alcohol, a* fools use it, is
always a poison.
Something new in modern sur
gery
• Dr Robert Meals, young surgeon
•f Hollywood, thought that shock
after surgical operation It caused
by anaesthetics, not by the opera
tion.
To test his theory he removed
bis own appendix, lying on the
table propped up. asking
I assistance of a brother I ur
ge on only in locating the appendix
and removine adhesions.
A fine display of self-control and
“courage.”
Local anaesthesia was employed,
but could not prevent internal pain.
operating
the assist
This operation again raises the
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Don’t fail to read the first installment of our
New Serial Story-“The Last of the Duanes’’
is one of Zane Grey’s best stories.
* at#;
It reminds us that not long ago
before anaesthetics were used, all
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terrible pain.
The clergy said it was a shame
to use anaesthetics because it de
feated the will of God, who desired
his creatures to suffer. That opin
ion has been abandoned.
Labor Head Asks
Nation’s Workers to
Support Red Cross
William Green, president of the
American Federation of Labor, In
Washington, calls upon the workers
of the nation to support the twelfth
annual roll call of the American
Red Cross, November 11-29, In the
following statement:
“Through the American Red
Cross we find expression for some
of our noblest ideals. It is an ef
fective instrument for magnifying
many times our personal service
to humanity.
“In the face of great disasters,
when the injured and homeless run
into the thousands, there ia Utile
we can do Individually. Consolidat
ing our strength througl member
ship In this great organization, our
opportunity for service is unlim
ited.
We must not forget that every
day la a day of disaster to thou
sands. Into homes where disaster
strikes your Red Cross goes in your
name to be friend and counselor to
{hose upon whom misfortune has
laid* her heavy hand.
“As President of the American
Federation of Labor, I hope and
feel confident that the workers of
the nation will respond to the Red
Cross Roll Call and have a part in
this organisation’s great work.”
(Signed)
WILLIAM GREEN,
President
American Federation of Labor,
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The County Treasurer** office will be open far the purpose of receiving
taxes from October 15th, 1928, to March 16th, 1929. A penalty of one ]
cent. wilTbe added to all unpaid taxes on January 1st, 1929; two per c<
Febraury lat, 1929, and seven per cent March 1st, 1929. tax books
and executions issuing after March 15th, 1929, Taxes are ascertained by
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by Auditor lists real estate and does not itemise personal property, which
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of 21 and 60 years are liable to ptU tax of $1.00.
1 Annual capitation dog tax of $L25 per head, payable during
of January, on all dogs, male and female, old and young,, except
pups (See Acts 1924, No. 655, at page 1088.)
It is the duty of each school trustee in each school district
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