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About The monitor. (Omaha, Neb.) 1915-1928 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 13, 1919)
(Copyright, 1111, by tbo McClure News paper Syndicate.) “Ho, sheriff, this is Barton. You're needed down Falvy way. They been trying to get you on the 'phone, but the dummed line’s busted or some thing. Come down and I'll tell you ■bout it.” “All right; be there in a minute." And the head of Deputy Sheriff Cal Nestor disappeared from the moonlit upstairs window. Three minutes later he opened the side door. “Come in, Bart,” said the sheriff. “What’s broke loose at Falvy?” “Oh, that half-baked Duhreeee boy, the second oldest of the tribe, you know—works in the pulp board mill, when he works at all—” “I know him,’’ cut In Nestor. “Well, he’s suffering from a mixture of hard cider and Wild Bill nickel novels, and he’s got an Ingrown notion that It’s up to him to be a bad man like he’s been reading about. He had some sort of a jangle with an Inoffen sive little cuss from Peterboro—some thing about taking his job away from him—and this afternoon he brought the Peterboro fellow a swipe with a light crowbar that almighty near done his business for him. Then he run home and got together a regular darned arsenal he owns—a thirty thirty rifle and a repeater shotgun and (. revolver and a johlot of shells and « set out for the woods. Stopped some kids and told ’em to go serve notice on the world for him that he was right dangerous and not to be took alive. “Then he slid into the thickets up back of where he lives—-and the whole town has been out after him ever since six o’clock. There ain't any head to the chase, though, and the two con stables over to Falvy, if you ask me. Is scared of the cnss. I was driving through from West Liberty and ■topped to see the doings. The con •Don’t You Dast 10 otcjj a Foot Near er, or I’ll Send You to Hell Akitin'!" stables asked me to roust you out when I got back and tell you they want you to go down to Falvy and take charge. My mare got a stone in her shoe, and It took me more than two hours to get here.” “Anybody caught sight of Dubreece since he took to the woods?” inquired the sheriff. "Three or four. But nobody with backbone enough to get him. That shooting gallery outfit of his seems to be a great antidote for Falvy valor. Far as thnt goes, I got a peek at him as I came up through the edge of the woods this side of Falvy, and some how I didn’t seem to take any very keen interest in getting into an argu ment with him. I came right along without stopping. Well, I got to be moseying along. Going down there?” “Of course. Til get there by one o’clock. They're all up for the night, I suppose?” “Sure thing. Falvy husn’t had so much excitement since the minister’s little boy swallowed his mother’s wed ding ring. Well, so-long.” “Good-night, Bart.” SherlfT Nestor’s thoughts were not on young Dubreece and his melodra matic foolishness as he drove his lit tle car over the moonlit roads to Falvy. Nothing but the line of duty could have dragged him to Falvy at this par ticular time—and yet In no other di rection did his inclination so power fully draw him. For Mary Nestor was in Falvy, In her capacity of trained nurse, taking care of old man Falvy, the mill owner. She had left her husband, the sheriff, a week ago. It was a case of the conflict of strong personalities, together with a mistaken viewpoint on the part of the man for the rights and liberties of the woman. It had been brewing for months. The final clash bad come over a ■light, Immaterial thing—and Mary had gone out, white-faced but courageoua imii all-apparent calmness, to earn her own living. After n week Cal Nestor would have given his right hand to have her back again. In his stiff necked pride he would have given the left one rather than let her know it. But tonight he wondered whether, in Fnlvy, he might not see her. Nestor found the mill hamlet of Fal vy wide-awake and all its able-bodied males afield, man-hunting. The sheriff, taking command, deployed his forces for a drive, fan-wise, through the half mile of thicket in w hich Dubreece pre sumably was hiding—leaving un guarded all rear approach to his home. “By this time he'll he hungry and losing some of his spunk and want some of that stone-fence cider; we'll let him sneak home, and then get him," Nestor told Phillips, the constable. Even so. At 5:30 in the morning ; came running one of the youths set to watch the Dubreece house. “He Just snook in over the pasture fence, sheriff,” reported the excited lad. “All right; I’ll go have a talk with j him.” "By hookey, sheriff, you’d better be careful. He’s a darned bad egg.” ad vised Phillips. But Nastor laughed. In the broad light of the summer morning, Sheriff Nestor unlatched the rickety Dubreece gate In a most casu al way and started up the dirt path to the side door. He had taken not more than four steps when the door flew open and young Dubreece, white, shaking, wild-eyed, victim of a very panic of desperation, stood on the sill with a shotgun at the "ready." “By goshamighty. Cal Nestor, don’t you dnst to step a foot nearer or I’ll send you to hell a-kltin',” he squeaked, his voice quavering with excitement “Oh, I guess you wouldn’t do any thing as foolish as that, Dubreece.” Nestor’s reply was so easy as to be scarcely argumentative. Without show of arms, without the faintest sign of fear, he continued his approach. It should have worked; with any normal man it would have worked. But Du hreece was not a normal man. The gun roared—both barrels. And big, rugged Cal Nestor, without a sound, crumpled into a heap on the ground. “Anyone else! Come on, the hull gol-dummed world 'n git yours!” yelled the lunatic, ramming home two more shells. "Come Inside that gate and go to hell a-flying!” Of ten men of the posse In the road way not one moved—toward the gate. But from across the way, where, shel ! tered by some alder growth, she had been watching In fear and trembling, a | woman rushed, brushing away re straining hands. As she tore open the gate the madman threw the gun ■ to his shoulder, but, heedless of him as of the others, she sped up the path and threw herself on her knees beside the fallen man. Then she gathered him In her arms, and with the strength of two men, carried him away to safety. At the end of a feverish half-hour, May Nestor hod beaten fate. When : Doctor Holt, back from a country call. | arrived at lust, he said no one but a thoroughly trained and resourceful nurse could have saved the sheriff’s life. What happened then? Goodness me ! What a question! What could hap pen? Did you ever—ever in this world —know of a woman saving her hus band’s life at the Imminent hazard of her own—and then going away and leaving him, or having occasion to? ! Indeed, no. MADE IT PERCENTAGE JOB Old Mose Was Working Along New Lines Which Were Entirely Sat isfactory to Him. The old-time negro who used to 1 rake off his hat and say “massa,” Is learning modern methods. In the old flays, Most- used to do chores and If he received a dollar or a sack of pota toes, he was tickled to death. Nowadays It’s different. Mose works 1 on schedule. Tiie other day Mrs. Brown hired him to clean off a few pieces of furniture. It was a job that would have taken a white man an hour or so, but Mose spent three days ! at it, coming and going as he pleased. Finally he declared the Job done, and presented a bill for $#.50. “Why Mose," cried Mrs. Brown. ‘‘Isn’t this a little high? The Job really wasn’t worth even a dollar." “No, ma'am,” said Mose. “It ain’t | high. Ise working on percentage now, | like a white man." “Percentage? What do you mean?" “Well, ma’am. I figures this way: Yonh library’s worth about $350. Ise charged only one percentage for han I dling It. In the newspapers It says i white men handles furniture for 5 and 10 per cent, so I reckon Ise dirt cheap.” Hawaiian Republic. Hawaii was proclaimed a republic | July 4, 1.804. More than a year before Queen Lllluokalani bad been deposed ! by a committee of public safety be ] cause of her attempt, It was asserted, to obtain more absolute power. A provisional government was set up, which lasted till the Islands were pro clafcmed a republic. Sanford B. Dole, former head of the provisional govern ment, became president. Unsuccess ful attempts had been made to con clude a treaty of annexation with the United States. The Islands were final ly annexed July 7. 1898, as a war measure, the United States being then at war with Spain. They were organ ized a territory June 14, 1900. 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