A Man Four-Square

tor Lend

red Clanton to go to bed at once and stay there. "What he

leep when he's got a lead pill in him, doctor. Could you g

s till he gets to sleep. I'll come and see him in th

es

in' to live?

llow was suffering qualms of conscience. Since he did not believe in the indiscriminat

him in a hundred," h

all over again. Have you got the makin's

or such killings," the doctor said,

my dad found i

ce Clanton led the way out

he porch to announce to sundry loafers, from whom the news would spread over town shor

tel proprietor. He and the youngster appeared to be having a bully time on the porch, but it was noticeable that the cowpuncher,

tor. Now he was in the seventh heaven at being taken into friendship by one of th

yore friend, has he? Jiminy, I'd like

t killers are fine people. They ain't. Some of 'em aren't even game. They take all kinds of advantage an' they're a cruel, cold-blooded lot. Never forget that. I'm not talkin' about Jim Clanton, u

yore guns this mornin' I'd lik

ad men. What I say is that some day we'll all be brave enough

aptured Miss Roubideau? I heard Dad Wrayburn tellin' all about it at supp

examine his work. "Learn to shoot if you like, Bud, but remember that guns a

u ever kil

ood mind to put you across my knee an' whale you with this leather. I've a not

whimpered Bud. "I'l

you a chance to make good with me an'

gan to shine. "Crickey

in

t first I must know th

an' hope to di

naith-McRobert outfit intend to

came all eyes. He was

can find an' saddle horses for us we'll slip out the back door at dusk an' make our get-away. Do

own horses fr

two horses an' tie 'em to the back fence just as if you were goin' ridin' yourself. Then we'l

owed Bud, referring to a famous hero of Nickel Li

ust as it begins to get dark an' whistle a bar of 'Yankee Doodle' when

t at this blessed adventure which had fallen from heaven up

t was. When he was sent to the store for pickles he brought back canned tomatoes. Set to weeding onions, he

ed around to the Elephant Corral by a back way and picked out two ho

d the white-foot bay. Said you'd know his saddle. I

happened that his father was an ex-Confederate and "Dixie" was more to the boy's taste, but he enjoyed th

House and into the garden. In another moment they were ast

the horse you're ridin', Ji

ie-the Lazy S M. Did you tell t

s rides, and you an' I are horse-thieves now as

of a sick man. "How in Mexico did he happen to light on Snaith-McR

bet a stack of blues he picked these hawsses on purpose-proba

t. They've got us whe

t the end of a rope in the hands of respectable citizens who had in the way of business snuffed out the lives of other respectable citizens. Both of the Flying VY riders knew

to go back now,

end the bones back. I hate to do it, but we have no choice. Anyhow,

he animals carrying the fugitives and jumped to the face of Billie. In the eyes of the man wa

d his friend with a little laugh. "I give