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MKDCMTU tlWk SIXfE&N>TH INgfAtlifiN’T i? “In Nevada, the woman in the saloon told me my finger 1 ing wasn’t so good; took the guitar and showed me. That interested me a lot. I asked her to have supper with me. “She bad sung in the camps in the Seventies, when mining was a big game on both sides of the Seirras. In Placerville, On the Carifornia side, Bhe had met a young adventurer named Dalton. She took him at first to be a prospector, and he did prospect to some extent, But a little later, when she became his sweetheart, she learned that he often took the road with a route agent he called Reeves. They worked the moun tain passes, holding up pack trains and wagon shipments of gold till the country got too hot for them and they disap peared. “So May's love affair didn’t last long. I gathered it was she who did most of the lov ing. Dalton was a swaggering young rascal, with a lot of life and good looks, and no heart to speak of. It was that, I think that attracted her. She /was used to being courted. “After Dalton left her she had a baby girl. Whether it , was his or not, she didn’t know for certain. She’d known him that short a time. It interfer ed with her work, so she sent it aVay to be cared for, shut it out of her life and forgot about it, as she tried to forget about Dalton. “Then she met a rancher by the name of Owens, who was taking up a grazing claim on the Nevada side, south of the ^Garson Valley. So she mar ried Owens, and went with him to Nevada, to settle down and be a faithful wife. “Her marriage to Owens was unhappy. He was ungenerous and unsociable—almost a mis er. The ranch was a day’s jour ney from any neighbor. No one, hardly, came near it. He was jealous of that old life of hers—had suspected, ■ when he married her, what it had been. He worked the ranch himself, so there was no one to talk | to but him, and he didn’t talk. “One night in summer, when ; Owens had watered the stock and she was watching him for ? the umptieth time draw a lamp | alongside the table, fix the I wick and read some month-old newspapers, she heard a faint tapping on the door. She op ened it, and there stood a vis itor. For her! “A little visitor about three years old, and small for her age, with a cute, solemn baby face, and wet eyes blinking in the lamplight, looking lost. “‘Nice mans said you know where is my Daddy?’ “The woman gave a smother ed cry and gathered the child hungrily in her arms, not ask ing yet how nor why it had come there. "Owens lit a lantern to go out and see who had brought the little one to the door. The rider was out of earshot now, but on the porch was a sick of gold and a note saying, ‘This baby wandered off a train dur ing a hold-up. Keep her till the posse conies looking for her. The gold is from the rob bed train, and is yourn if you want pay for your trouble.’ “That was all. The rest they -tried to piece together from what they .could make of the child’s talk. “For hours Owens pored ov er that note and over the gold, handling it, counting it. . . . And the woman was. yearning over the treasure in her arms. Suppose by some great fall of chance, it was never claimed? “Neither of them slept that night, and the next day they waited and watched the trails. The same hope was in their minds, though their reasons for hoping were far apart. “Several days passed with no sign of the posse. Finally Ow ens made a trip to the nearest freight station to get the news. -In. his absence the woman started making a little suit of overalls for the girl. J ‘^Toward sundown she went into the barn to look for eggs, for the baby’s supper. While she was groping fon* nests in the hay, she caught hold of a man’s boot. She didn’t scream. The first thought that flashed through her mind was that this was the man who’d brought the child and the gold. ft *• “But the man sat up and" smiled at her, and then^ her knees almost gave away. It was Dalton—whom she’d nev er expected to see again. He’d probably learned she was mar ried to the rancher, and had counted on her helping him, if it came to that. “It was his turn to be sur prised when she spoke about the child and the gold. He hadn’t had anything to do with leaving them there. But after thinking it over, he told her how it must have happened. “He and the man he called Reeves had been waiting by a lonely stretch of railway track in the desert to stop a pay train, when a stranger on a bay horse rode by the place they were hiding. He looked like a good gun hand, and they cut him in. During the hold-up the child strayed off the train. When it pulled out and they found her, Reeves wanted to leave, her there. They split on that; the man with the bay horse picked her up and rode south alone, with his share of the loot. Dalton believed he had happened on Owen’s ranch by letting his horse hunt wa ter. “The other two struck west for the mountains. Dalton’s horse had gone lame, and Reeves took all the gold on his mount to lighten its weight. But it still lagged and when the posse caught their trail, Reeves was far ahead and kept going. Dalton left the lamed horse on some rocky ground, so he would seem to have gone on with Reeves, riding double, and after several da.y,i trailing on foot by a roundabout way, came to Owens’ ranch. “As to the child, Dalton thought it was a bad break to find her there, but he encour aged May’s desire to keep her —since giving her up would ruih his hideout. So the baby had its hair cut, as well as be ing put in overalls. “Just after May had done this rash thing, Owens came in that night with the news. The posse seemed to have lost the trail of all three of the fu gitives, but the father of the missing child had been killed in the hold-up, and—worse than that—was a United States marshal.” “The man in the barn had plenty of time to take stock of Owens’ character and of his own position. As the pursuit died away and no word came from Reeves, Dalton realized that his partner had deserted him. He had also done some thinking about the way the posse had been mistracked. “Dalton proposed staying at the ranch as a hired man un til the trail was cold, and call ing himself the father of the little ‘boy.’ The very daring of the scheme would protect them. “Though the police had giv en up hope of finding the lostj child, there was no slacking in the hunt for the three road ag ents involved in the killing of the Federal marshal, and Dal ton knew that there would be none. “Deciding to leave the coun try, he demanded a grubstake from Owens, to take him pros pecting in the North. The rancher grudged the money, but was anxious to get rid of him. “Owens' jealousy got worse after the man was gone. In his brooding rages, he spoke of Dalton’s willingness to appear as the child’s father as if that were a deeper sign of under standing between them. His fury drove him to charges that may have bordered on a truth he didn’t know. “He gave her such a terrible time that finally she left him and her adopted baby, and went back to her old life, where I found her, in the dregs of it. “Some years later ^ came in to Carson City, just before the rumor broke about the big gold strike in the North. And there the thing happened th^ begins to tie this up with--” Fallon, twisting in his chair, caught her eyes now, squarely. “You don’t dare-!” he blurted out with a dark men ace. , Do you dare threaten a wit ness in Her Majesty’s Court?” Judge Dugas demanded. Muttering something, Fallon bit his tongue and waited. “I was crossing a planked sidewalk,” continued Rose, “when I almost bumped into a man stepping down from the porch of the Nevada Hotel. His face came back to me over a long gap of time as well as dis tance . He’d changed some. I passed him blank. “We met again in a place where I sang, and he invited me to drink something. I did, because it was rather funny to talk to a man who’d tricked me with April Fool candy the way he’d done and not be remem bered. “So I said, ‘Your face looks kind of familiar. Haven’t I seen it tacked up in the post office or somewhere?’ “He almost jumped. I hadn’t had a notice how near the truth a reward poster might be. When I smiled, he gave a laugh that sounded flat. “You’ve got the start on me, baby,’ he said, patting my hand. ‘The nearest I ever come to immaginin’ you was a fool kid I met once in Frisco. You are pretty wise arid you’ve been around. Maybe as a woman, you can answer a question that got me curious once. It just come into my mind. Do you believe a girl could be brought up as a boy without anyone on the outside guessin’ it?’ “ ‘It depends on the girl and the surroundings’ I said, still not suspecting anything in particular. ‘I think it could happen, but I wouldn’t bet on a particular case wthout see TAX PAYERS TAKE NOTICE Beginning Jane 1st, 1935, the penalty on un paid taxes for the^ear 1934 will be raised to 5 per cent. Eight per cent interest begins July 1st in addition to the .penalty, as per special act of the General Assembly of 1935. *9 ' „ Don’t delay paying jrour taxes but pay this month and save penalty and additional interest. LN. Henderson, Tax Collector, Duplin County ing the boy you suppose to be a girl.’ “ ‘Well, you'll never see him,’ Fallon said, a little too offhand. “It just come into my mind.* "He started his meaningless love-making again and I left him. "What he'd said chimed with something else in my memory. Though I didn’t recall right at first what it was, I kept look ing as I played the camp for a boy who might not be so boy ish except for the clothes. The only one I noticed was a boy with gold hair. He didn’t look girlish—wore his clothes, I mean, as if he had a right to them. But it struck me that I could have dressed him up as a stunnng girl, and it was a crime to see hair like his wast ed on a boy. He was with an older, whisky-faced man I’d never seen in the campus be fore, and whose name I learn ed to be Owens. The man was buying an outfit to go to Alas ka. Owens are uncommon, but it was the name of the rancher May had married, and with that I remembered, in a shock of ' Understanding, that the child left at the ranch house had blonde hair and had been dressed as a boy. “Dalton had gone North. Owens had stalked him. A man like May’s Owens would not make that trip without a solid lead to go pn. I remem bered his passion for gold. Dalton must have made a strike and sent for him. “Certain this was the same man, I wondered how much Fallon had guessed. Maybe he just suspected a girl in boy’s clothes ^and was curious. She was young and innocent, and he liked them that way. Her name, ‘Pete' was as boy like as possible, but since it | didn’t fit her appearance, it was a kind of give-away.” The chartling voice of the river rippled through the si lence as Rose paused. Speed | leaned on the bar of the pris | oners' dock, intently watching her ' across the red-coated shoulder of the police guard. | Fallon half-reclined in his |chair, in a smouldering silence —the sheathed fir-* of one who holds a final an.-wer in reserve. ! "That same night, the bSg Yukon news came down on the wires from Seattle. Prospec tors who had been waiting and ready were pulling stakes for San Francisco and the first steamers. Owens beat the gun by starting ahead of them and showed that he’d had a definite lead on something. “I caught a train for Seattle and overtook Fallon’s steamer there. He was wary enough to keep Owens out of my way. [Pete avoided me of her own ac cord. My talking to Fallon may have given her the feiea I was a friends of his, and she mistrusted him by instinct. | “Fallon started the rancher] Owens drinking and gambling —a first sign that he had gues sed true about the gold. That it was true, I made sure in a more direct way.” Wade rose to object. “Your Honor,” he said, "I have listened to the witness’s vivid story without offering an objection till now. 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