Going Some

Mariedetta, the maid, but it offered an opportunity for financial advancement-as, for instance, the purchase of Willie's watch. This

ing which the young people at the ranch enjoyed themselves thoroughly. They were halcyon days for the Yale man, for Fresno was universally agreeable, and seemed resigned to the fact that Helen should prefer his rival's company to his own. Even when Speed had regretfully dragged himsel

tulation to his employer, and wheezed merrily over th

ces with her, too." They had set out for their daily run, and were now contesting for the seven-up supremacy of the Catskill Mountains. Already Glass had b

the college man, as he cut the

an' them Aztec's is swell people. Say,

me she was in l

rning to talk Spanish myself. If he gets flossy, I'll cross one over his bow." The tr

steel reduced him to a panic, he was a past master at the "manly art," and carried a punch in which he reposed unlimited faith. The deference with which the cowboys treated him, their simple, child-like fai

protection. He's afraid some farmer will walk up and poke his eye out with a corn-cob. One copper with a night- stick could stampede the wh

o-day," Speed complain

keep this beer cool." Glass shifted some bottles to a point where the sunlight did not strike them. "I'

hy. "Seems like we'd ought to

oubt. Isn't it time to

watch. "No, we ain't

s for th

the arroyo and started briskly homeward, congratulating himself upon the impulse that had decid

ation comin' to him whatever," said Willie

he claims he is. Simply because he don't go skally-ho

llie. "No feller can train on that stuff. I went

this: we ain't got no proof. Fresno is

t some proof,

Carara, who had been a

ou, but we got

unted wit

we was killin' snakes. Mr

opinion, this time in violet-tinted pro

ugh work goes. I'm in charge while Mr.

ventured, "the fat va

one

g that Mr. Speed was a Merc'ry-footed wonder, and if th

derstanding of the discu

to him in the mor

r-r-run, w'at you d

xi

ill Bill seemed at

y into space, and Wil

of cowboys, consisting of the original four who had waited upon him that first morning after his arrival. They came forward with grave and serious mein, requesting a moment's interview.

om you," said he. Then noting the trouble

re when read

his cheek, and cleared his th

n you as a man and a champeen, we kind of feel that it might make you stretch your leg

pede cook would be beaten," s

word sufficient?"

t is due to the fact that Humpy Joe's get-away left us broke, and we banked on you to pull us even. That first

i," said

gers until the day of the race. However, if you are broke to s

tipede outfit, which would be bad enough, we have drawn a month's wages in advance, and we have put it up. Moreover, I have bet m

lanky speaker with new interest. "It's a Waltham movement,

ou prize it,

dialect. "Stamp' leather wit' silver filagree. It is m

Stover followed up. "While all our boys has gone the

s it a goo

took it off the quivering remains of a Sheriff in Dod

spine, while Miss Blake went pale a

t ain't no joke-we don't joke with the Centipede-and we've relied on you. The Mex here would do murder for that saddle," C

.-Willie still h

we lose, neither. That's the understandin'." His voice was surprisingly

s caution which we respect

ious-minded gentlemen, began to reflect that this

uch of irritation, "why you should risk such

de their listeners gasp. "The Centipede and the Flyin

thing we wised you u

' for that saddle. I am a good gambler, si, si! but

onograph worth all t

of life and limb," said Willie

y other out

"and so long as it ain't where it bel

" cried the smallest of the trio angri

l," declared Miss Blake, tactfully, at wh

t reckon there's another one like it in the world, leastwa

d Willie. "God!

y begin to pay his poker debts. You'd scarcely hear enough profanity to make things bearable. I tell you it was refined. It got so that when a man came steamin' in after a week's high life and low company in town, his wages gone, and his stummick burnin' like he'd swallered all his cigar- butts, it didn't make no difference if he found a herd

Speed, gravely. "Gentlemen, I can

e no chances?" inqu

pon me to take

The delegatio

d Stover of the little man in glas

ll Eastern boys. It don't seem credible that no sane man would dast to

conclusion wavered

waited their repo

d be running. I tell you, he can't

e beautiful medal he

ra

et was covered with 'em. He had o

ho

less," muttered the

" Fresno was bent upon

ut see 'em in th

t and white,

ke dark meat," Stove

othin' on the looks

d lungs, but I'll bet if you snapped him on the che

in't in goo

those girls hanging around him all the time. Don't you know that t

ld for anybody," said Willie, with

rters; don't let him spend any time whatever in fe

is another Humpy Joe affair I'm a-goin' to put one more notch in

thing to do," Stove

t up to Mr. Glass a

the bunk-house," dir

g and hear what