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THELAST OF THE DUANS by ZaneGrey Illustrated by Verne C.Chridty
Duane goes to visit the Miss Lee
who had intervened for him with
jViacNelly, and finds her to be none
orner but Jennie. They talk and tell
each other of their love and when
Duane tells Jennie he is commis
sioned to capture Cheseldine she
breaks down and begs him to break
his word to Mac Nelly.
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Duane stared at her, amazed. He
hardly knew what to say. He felt
little he understood women. His
frheart began to pound, and thrills ran
over him. The sweetness of this
woman —that she would go back to
outlawry with him—appealed with
strange power.
"That course wouldn’t be dis
honorable,” she continued.
“No, But it’s impossible. I’d die
before I’d drag; you into that life.
You ought to remember an outlaw’s
clay.”
“I do. I’d rather have tfypm again
than lose you. Besides, we could
hide in some * canyon, some valley—
and be happy.”
Jennie came closer to him then,
so close that she almost touched
him. Something about her presence,
the lock of her eyes, of the heave
of her breast, made that sweet,
vague emotion grow.
“Duane, do you love me?” she
asked.
“Jennie, you’r,? going tc make
it harder for me I” he burst out in
despair.
“Tell me,” she insisted.
“Love you? I love you as no man
ever loved a woman. Think of my
lonely, wretched life! What I have
known of women—of the sweetness
of one? And now it bursts on me.
Jennie, don't ask me that. I’m
afraid of myself. I can’t under
stand.”
She came only the closer, until
now she touched him, her slender
form reaching to *fiis shoulders,
and she leaned upon him with her
face upturned. He felt her hands
on his, and they were soft, clinging,
strong, like steel under velvet. He
felt the rise and fall—the warmth
ci her breast.
A trenr r ran over him. He tried
to draw Lack, and if he sue
a little her form swayed with him,
pressing closer. She did not speak.
She held her face up, ana he was
compelled to look. It was wonder
ful new -*-white, yet glowing, with
the ted lips parted, the dark eyes
But that was n't all
wr.~ pos3ion, ur.qusnchr.bh
spirit, wc man’s resolve deep end
mighty as life.
“I love you, Duane.” she said. “I
could suffer anything for you. I'm
not selfish in this. It’s for you. I
know what your life lias been. I
can't let you go back to it. Listen
—you don’t know me. You think
you’re with the old Jennie. But I’m
afferent. I’ve suffered and I’ve
learned in these years. . I believe
I’m right in asking you to give up
this ranger service. Will you?”
“Jennie. 1 can’t. How could you
dhA IC.
“How could you go if you love
me?”
“If you were a man you’d under
stand.”
"But I’m a woman. You don’t
understand that!” sne criea passion
ately.
“Can you expect a man who lives
like a hunted wolf to understand
the finer feelings of a woman? I
am outside, Jennie —the outcast —
the outlaw. And even so, I’ve kept
myself different from the others.
But heaven knows —perhaps I’m
course, hard, inhuman.”
“Hush!” She put a hand over his
lips. "I didn’t mean to hurt you. I
meant—Oh, Duane, I’m here ready
for your arms —a starved woman—,
and you don’t know it.”
Duane became suddenly weak, and
when he did take her into his arms
ne scarcely had strength to lift her
to a seat beside him. She seemed
more than dead weight. Her calm
ness had fled. She was throbbing,
palpitating, quivering, with hot, wet
cheeks and arms that clung to him
ike vines. She lifted her mouth
to him, whispering: “Kiss me!”
Duane bent down, and her arms
went around his neck and drew him
P close. With his lips on hers, he
seemed to float away. That kiss
closed his eyes, and he could not
*Dt his head. He sat motionless,
holding her blind and helpless, wrap
ped in a sweet, dark glory.
She kissed him —one Ion" endless
kiss—or else a thousand times. Her
Bps, her wet cheeks, her hair, the
softness, the fragrance of her, the
tender, moving clasp of her arms,
the swell of her breast —all these
enclosed him, bound him. She whis
kered and murmured broken and in
coherent words —words that did not
r eed to be understood, so full were
they of sweetness and meaning and
love
He rose and let Jennie sit back 1
against the cushions. Her fingers
clung weakly to him. Her eyes
hurt him. While he fumbled in his
pocket for paper, to fetch forth the
Governor’s pardon, Jennie watched
him; and when he laid the paper in
her hands she let it drop.
“Give that to mother,” he said
huskily. “Tell her —maybe I’ll come
back—there’s a chance.”
“Don’t go! Don’t go!” she cried.
“I must. Dear, good-by. Remem
ber I love you! Jennie, let me go!”
He pulled her hands loose from j
his; stepped back.
She fell upon her knees with out- i
stretched arms. j
“Duane! Duane!” she wailed.
murderer he backed away.
Jennie—dearest, I believe—l’ll
come back!” he whispered.
These last words were falsehood.
He reached the door, gave her
one last piercing glance—to fix for
ever m memory that white face with
its dark, staring, tragic eyes.
Duane!”
,l J 6 rPI W , ith „ that moa ” like thun
der, death, hell, in his ears.
Duane had been three months out
of the Nueces country. At El Paso
he bought the finest horse he could
hnd, and, armed and otherwise out
”“e" to sult him, he had taken to
unknown trails.
Leisurely he rode from town to
y!‘?« e ‘° village, ranch to
ranch, fitting his talk and his occu
pation to the impression he wanted
to make upon different people whom
he met.
He was in turn a cowboy, a ran
cher, a cattleman, a stock-buyer, a
boomer, a landhunter; and long be
fore he reached the -wild and inhos
pitable Ord he had acted the part
°i outlaw drifting into new terri
tory.
He passed on -slowly because he
wanted to learn the lay of the
country, the location of villages and
ranches, the wojk, habit;, gossip,
pleasure, and fears of the people
with whom he came in contapt. The
one subject most impelling to him
outlaw—he never mentioned—but,
by talking all around it, sifting the
ranch and cattle story, he acquired
a knowledge calculated to aid him
much in his deeplaid plot. In this
game time was of nr> moment; if
necessary he would take years to ac- i
complish his task.
The stupendous and perilous na- I
ture of it showed in the slow, weary 1
preparation. When he heard Fletch
er’s name and faced Knell he knew
he had reached the place he had
sought—Ord was a hamlet on th*>
Tinge of the grazing country, of
doubtful honesty, from which sure- j
ly winding trails led down into the j
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He saw a bright light before he
i made out the dark outline of'the
! cabin. Then he heard voices, a mer
jry whistle, a coarse song, and the
J clink of iron cooking utensils. He
smelled fragrant wood-smoke. He
saw moving dark figures cross the
light. Evidently there was a wide
door, or else the fire was out in
the open.
Fortune favored him. There was
bushes, an old shed, a wood pile,
all the cover he needed at that j
corner. '
Before he peered between the!
rought corner of wall and the bush j
growing close to it Duane passed a
moment. His excitement was dif
ferent from that he always felt
when pursued. It had n 0 bitter
ness, no paid, no dread. There was
as much danger here, perhaps more,
yet it was not the same. Then he
looked.
He saw a bright fire, a red facod
man bending over it whistling while j
he handled a steaming pot. Over him j
v*a« a roofed shed built against the |
wall with two open sides and two 1
supporting posts. Duane’s second
glance, not so blinded by the sud
den bright light, made ‘out otl/ar
men, three in the shadows, two in
the flare, but with back to him.
“What’s eatin’ you, Pan Handle?”!
ejaculated another. “Blossom an’
me rode from Faraway Springs,
where Poggin is with some of the
gang.”
“Excuse me, Phil. Shore I didn’t
see you come in, an’ Boldt never said
nothin’.”
"It took you a long time to get j
here, but I guess that’s just as well,” j
spoke up a smooth, suave voice with 1
a ring in it.
Cheseldine’s voice!
Here they were —Cheseldine—Phil
Knell—Blossom Kane—Pan Handle
Smith—Boldt—how well Duane re
membered the names!—all here, the
big men of Cheseldine’s game, ex
cept rhe biggest—Poggin.
Duane had holed them, and his
sensations of the moment deadened
sight and sound of what was before
him. He sank down controlled him
self, silenced amounting exultation, j
then, from a less strained position, j
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! been that of cowboys in camp, ran- ,
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j talk that he felt would come. All ;
1 the time he watched with the eyes of J
a wolf upon its quarry.
Blossom Kane was the lean-limbed
messenger who had so angered Flet
i cher. Boldt was a giant in stature,
| dark, beard, silent. Pan Handle
| Smith was the red faced cook, mer
ry, profane, short, bow legged man
j resembling many rustlers Duane
lhad known, particularly Luke Stev
| ens.
\ And Knell, who set there, tall,
slim, like a boy in build, Jike a boy
in years with his pale, smooth ex
i pressionless face and his cold gray
eyes.
And Cheseldine, who leaned
against the wall, handsome, with his
pointed face and beard, like an ar
istocrat, resembled many a rich
Louisiana planter Duane had met.
The sixth man sat so much in the
j shadow that he could not be plainly
| discerned, ar-d though addressed,
j his name was not mentioned.
Pan Handle Smith carried pots
and pans into the cabin, and cheer
fully called out: “If you gents air
hungry fer grub don’t look fer me >
to feed you with a spoon.”
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to their meal. Like hungry men!
they talked little.
Duane waited there a whfe, then
guardedly got up and crept round
to the other side of the cabin. After
! he became used to the dark again he
j ventured to steal along the wall to
! the crack, and peeped in. The out
laws were in the first room and
could not be seen.
For Duane the twenty-fifth of
October seemed a whole lifetime in
coming. When that day dawned he
left a lonely camp in the brush and
rode into Bradford.
He went to the old inn-keeper,
with whom he had made acquaint
ance, and leaving his horse in the
stable set off in search of Buell.
Inquiry discovered the night op
| erator at his boarding-house asleep.
; Duane had him awakened. Buell
I came in heavy-eyed, but curious,
half-expectant.
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