(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. Ex
President Dole was appointed gov
ernor by President McKinley.
Rare Privilege.
He Is a lucky father who succeeds
in remaining the mandatory for bis
•on in college.
THE KING'S HIGHWAY.
Time was we heard the call of the road
When we were young and gay,
I and my Love from our own abode
Out to the King’s Highway.
We smelt the smell of the hay in bloom
And the miles of the scented hay
When the greensward broke into flush
and foam
Out on the King’s Highway.
We heard the sound of the feeding klne
When dews ran silver and gray.
The sweets of the night were better than
wine
Out on the King’s Highway.
Now he has taken the road alone
And I have no heart to stay;
I would that I with my Love were gone
Out on the King’s Highway.
—Katharine Tynan, in The King’s High
way.
MAKE PERFECT SMOKE RINGS
An Amusing Experiment With Use of
Pasteboard Box and Cigarette
or Pipe Smoke.
Take a small pasteboard box, seal
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face upon Its cover. Cut an opening
for the mouth and fill the box with
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Smoke Rings Issuing From Box.
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