The Big Lake Wildcat (Big Lake, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 15, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 29, 1928 Page: 7 of 8
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Saturday, December 29, 192P
THE BIG LAKE WILDCAT, BIG LAKE, KEAGAN COUNTY, TEXAS
PAGE SEVEN
ST-DUANES
lonely camp in tin* brush und rode I 'i,'iik«*i?•, N.
into Hiadfnrd. "trouble man" to
lUudrskJ byVerae (.Christy
lie went to the old inn-keeper, with
whom lie had made acquaintance
and leaving hi* hor*r in the stable
*ei off in *>e.irih ol Muell.
Inquiry discovered the niglil oper-
atm at Ins boarding-house- asleep
I Inane Inn* him awakened. Muell
came in heavy-eyed, hut curious
ha|f-cxpectant
* Muell, I'm sorry to disturb pni."
-aid Duane, “but my business u;.
Y., ban a special
whom the people
are invited to tell their troubles. This
service won’t be complete until those
who liuve undergone surgical opera-
Iions are inv ited to describe their ex-
pel ienees.
KEEP POSTED
WHAT H AI'I’I.NKD Mi l OKI
Mmk Duane, quick on be draw
kills Cal Main in self defense and be-
comes an outlaw, \ftei adventure
• >ii tin* road be goes to Miami s camp
There lie wounds a man named Me -
omer and becomes a bosom friend o'
nliother name*! Kuehre. lie me t
Mrs. Mined and also a girl. Je iuit
held prisoner by Mhutd. whom lie n-
cues after u series ol intrigues ir
winch lie is forced to deceive \b
Kliiiid.
Ibis lead- to Duane’s killing of
Miami, the outlaw leader, and ru-h-
in>/ off with Jennie, who i t lost later
Diii'iir roams the road for years
art outlaw, finally going to mo
( aptain Mat Nelly of the t.m-r.
who had asked to >cc him. M.u N, '!
i- kind to him, and offers him a :>
don if he wiM a-- • pi ,tn offer to ! .
inine a ranger and go after <-Ji** •
di lie’s gang. Mai \eliv had bee on-,
interested in Duane alter a Miss i<
luid spoken in hi- ! *}:.*If. Du
p:omi-es MacNelly to do him in
service. Meanwhile MacNcllv i.,
Duane muell vveleorne new-.
Duane goes to vi-it the Miss l.cc
who had intervened foi him with Mm
Nellv, and finds her to lie none oth-
<r but Jennie. They talk and tell
each other of theit love, and when
Deane tells Jennie lie's t ummissioned
to capture C.hesohline she breaks
down and begs him to break hi- word
to MacNelly.
Duane stared at her. amazed. He
hardly knew what to say. He felt
how little he understood women. His
heart began to pound, and thrills ran
over him. The sweetness ol this wo-
man— that she would go hack to oul
lawry vvitli hint appealed with a
strange power.
“That course wouldn't In- dishon-
orable,” she continued.
“No. Mut it’s impossible
before I’d drag you into
You ought to remember an
days."
'I do. I’d rather have them again
Oil the progress of West Texas and
gent. You can aid me. I’m going to! Oil fields by placing your Hubaorip-
perhap- I m course, hard
hi*
V CM killlW s
inhuman."
"Hush! She pul a hand over
lips. "I didn’t mean to hurt you. I
meant Oh, Duane, I’m here readv
for yotii arm« a starved woman
and you don't know it."
Duane became -uddenlv weak, and
when lie did take hei into In- arms
he scarcely had strength to lift her to
a seat beside him. She seemed inor*
than dead weight. Her calmness had
fled. She was throbbing, palpitat-
ing, quivering, with Iml, wet cheek-
and arms clung to him like vines
She lifted her mouth to him. whispci
mg: “Kiss me!"
lie passed on slowly because he
wanted to learn the lav of the coun-
try, the location ot villages am'
ranches, the work, habit, gossip
pleasure*, and tear* of the people
with whom he came in contact, lie
one subject im -t impelling to him
outlaws lie never mentioned; but
h\ talking all around it. sifting the
old rum’ll and < attic- story, lie ac
quired a knowledge calculated to ai<1
him muc h in Ins deep-laid plot. In
this game time was of no moment; if
reeessurv lie would take vears to ac-
complish hi* ta.*k.
The stupendous ami perilous na-
ture of it showed in the slow, wary
Duane bent down, and her arm preparation. When he heard f letch-
—.......1 L; 1 1 1...... , ’ -?d faced Knell he knew
I'd die
that life
outlaw -
went around his neck and drew birr
clo-c. VI itli his li, . on her.-, h- • Till-
cil to limit awav. I hat Ki*» closed
hia eyes, and he could not lift hi*
head. He - it Miotionles . holding her
Mi >1 and helpless, wrapped in a
sweet, dark glory.
“he ki-sed him one long, endles-
ki < n r!-e a :I!ou.-orjc’ times. Ibu
lip*, her wel checks, hei hair, the
oftre-s. the finer,litre of her, tin-
lerdcr, mnvin; clasp of her arms, the
w«■ 11 o| hit liii ist all these en-
closed him. hound him. >he vvhi--
pered and murmured broken and in-
oolieient words words that did not
need to he under'stood, *o full were
they of sweetness and meaning and
I hiv e.
He lose and let Jennie sit hack
against the cushions. Her finger-
c lung vveaklv to him. Her eyes hurt
him. While lu- tumbled ill hi- pok
c’l for papers, to fetch forth the Gov
crncir's pardon. Jennie watched him:
and when he* laid the paper in her
hands she let it drop.
“Dive that to mother." he said
hu-kilv. “Tell her may In* I’ll conn
back ihet's a c hanc e."
Don't go! Don’t go!" she* cried
"I must. Dear, good-by. Kemrmber
I loved you! Jennie, let me go!”
He pulled her hand- loose from hi-
end stepped hack.
She fell upon her knees with out
than lose you. lies ides, we could hide stretched arms.
II.. >•,.! I in "I Jii mo * I 11
llev and be
m ome c anyon, some
happy.”
Jennie came closer t<* him then, so
dose that she’ almost touched him.
Something about her presence, the
Iook of her eyes, of the- heave- of her
breast, made that sweet, vague
emotion grow.
“Duane, do you love me? 'lie-
ashed.
“Jennie, you’re going to make it
harder for me*! he hurst out in di--
pair.
“Tell me." she insisted.
“Love you? I love you as no man
ever loved a woman. I hink of tn\
lonely, wretched life! What I have
known of women- of the sweetness
of one? And now it bursts on me
Jei nic*. don’t ask me that. 1 m alrai-l
of myself. I can t understand.
She- came only the closer, until
now she touched him. her slender
form reaching to hi* shoulder*, am
she leaned upon him with her faj'e
upturned, lie felt her hands on hi-,
and thev were soft, c-tinging, '• *0,1
like- stc-c-l under velvet, lb* felt du
rise and fall the warmth of her
breast. .
A tremor ran over him. He tried
to draw back, and if be succeeded a
little lu-r form swayed with him
pressing closer. She did not speak.
She held her face up, and he was
compelled to look. It wa* wmiderlu
now white-, vet glowing, with the red
lips parted, the dark eves alluring.
Mut that was not all. There was pas-
sion, unquenchable spirit, woman s
resolve deep and mighty as life*.
"I love you, Duane," 'be said. I
could suffer anything for you. I n<
not selfish in this. MN for you
know what your life* has been
can’t let you go back to it. Li't»n
yoc don’t know me. M»u think you
are with the old Jennie. Mut 1 m dif-
ferent. I’ve suffered and I ve
learned in theoe years.
I’m rijiht in n'king you to
this ranger service. Will you
“Jennie, I can't. How could vou
ask it?"
“Ilow could vou g-» it you love
me?”
“If you were a man you’d under-
•land.”
“But I’m a woman. You don’t un
drrstand that!” 'be cried pas
•innate.
“Can you exjieet a man who live*
like a hunted wolf to understand the
finer feeling* of a woman? I am
outside. Jennie—the outcast —the out-
law. And even no. I’ve kept myself
different from the other*. But hea-
Duane! Duane!" she wailed.
lake a murderer lie hacked away.
“Jennie dearest, I believe I il
come back!" he whisoered.
I’hc-sc last words were falsehood.
Me reached the door, gave lu-r one
last piercing glance to fix forever
in memory that white face vvith its
dark, staring, tragic eye*.
"Duane!”
lie fled with that moan like thun-
der, death, hell, in his car*.
Duane had been three months out
of the Nueces cuuntrv. At hi Paso
In- bought tin- finest horse he could
line), and, armed and otherwise out-
fitted to suit him. In- had taken to
unknown trails.
I.eisurelv lie rode from town to
town, village- to village, ranch to
iamb, fitting hi* talk and In* oecup.i
limi to tin impression he wanted to
make upon different people whom
In* met.
He wa* in turn a cowboy, a ranch-
er. a cattleman, a .stock-buyer, n
hoc truer, a lamlliunter; and long be-
fore In* reached the- wild and inhos-
pitable Old lie had acted the part
of an outlaw drifting into new ter-
ritory.
name
he had reached the pi ice lie had
si;light Ord wa- a hamlet oil th
i'tingr »»f 'In- grazing country, of
doubtful hone-tv, (roiii which surely
winding trail* led down into the* free
.i 'll nevri disturbed paradise of out-
laws the I’.ig Mend.
He *aw a Ini-lit light before b
m ole out tIn- daik outline of the cab-
in. I ben lie heard voices, a merry
win tic, a coarse ,»c,ng, arid the clink
ol iron cooking utensils. He melled
liagtanl wood-smoke, lie -,iw mov
ing d.nk figiiic* CIO** the light, r’.v i
dently there v\as a wide door, m
cl-c the- file was out in the open.
Fortune favored him. there wa*
Ini bos, an old shed, a wood pile, all
the cover he needed al that corner.
Before he peered between the
rough corner of wall and the hush
■rowing close to it Duane paused a
moment. I hi* excitement was dif
ferent from that he lure' always felt
when pursued. It had no bitterness
no pain, no dread. There was a
rincli cl.ingei here, perhaps more, ye'
it wa* not the- same. Then he looked
He saw a bright fire, a red faced
man bonding over it whistling whib
be bandied a steaming pot. (Her
him was a roofer* shed built against
the- wall with two open 'ides arid two
supporting post*. Duane’s second
glance, not so blinded hv the sudden
bright light, made out other men
three in the shadows, two in tin* flare.
I'Ut w ith hacks to him.
It's a smoother trail by long odds,
but ain’t as short a* ibis one right
over the mountain." one outlaw was
say ing.
“What’s rutin* you. Pan Handle?"
ejaculated another. “Mlo*»om an’
me rode from Faraway Springs
where Png gin is with some of the
gang."
"Fxeuse me, Phil, Shore I didn’t
see you coim* in, an* Boldt never said
nothin’."
“It took vou a long time to gf
here, but I guess that’s ju*t u* well,"
spoke up a smooth, *uuvr voice- with
a ring to it.
(!hr*rldine*s voice!
He re they were..... Chrscleline
Phil Knell -Blossom Kane Pan
Handle Smith Mold! how well
Duane remembered the names' all
here, the big men of Chesrldinr'*
game, except the biggest Poggin
Duane had holed them, and lu*
sensations of the moment deadened
sight and sound of what wa* Ix-fore
him. He sank down, controlled him-
self, silenced a mounting exultation.
then, trout a less strained position, he
peered lorth again.
Hi<- outlaw* were waiting for sup-
pci. I heir conversation might have
l'<- n that of cowboy* in camp, ranch-
er- it a roundup. Duane listener*
vvith •■ager ears, waiting for the- hu*
inc" talk he felt would come. All
tto- time In- watched vvith the- eye* of .- '
wolf upon its quarry.
liloss-om Kane was the lean-limbed
nic-vsenger who had so angered
Helcher. Molt wa* a giant in stature
ci.cik. bearded, silent. Pan Handle
Smith wa* the red faced cook, rnerrv.
profane, a short, how legged man r*- ,
*< milling nianv rustlers Duane had
I i-owti, particularlv l.uke Steven*.
\nd Knell, who sat there, tall
slim, like- a hoy in build, like u Imv
in vc-.ir*. with his pale, siiujoth, ex-
pie-sioi h-s- face and hi* cold, grav
C’V Cs.
\nd < hcM-ldine, who leaned
a-,.inst the- wall, handsome, vvitli hi*
poiuted fare- and heard, like an ori*
li .i.it, resembled main a rich l.oui*-
■ai’a plniitc-i Duane hac' met. The
ixtli man *at so mtn h in the shadow
i'i,cl In- could not Im- pluinlv discern
cd. and though addressed, iiis name
cv a* not mentioned.
Pan Handle Smith c arried pot* and ,
p ins into the cabin, and cheerfully ;
-ailed out “If vou gents air hun j
gr\ b-r grub don’t locik f>-i me t<
fc-c-d v ou w itli a spoon."
I he outlaws piled inside, made a .
great hustle- and c I at t«-r as they sal
to their meal, l ike hungry men thev
talked a little.
Duane- waited there- a while, then
guardedly got up and crept round
to the other side cd the cabin \ftcr
hr bec ame used to the dark again he
ventured to steal along the- wall to the
cc.ck. and peeped in. I In- outlaw-
were in the first room and could not
he *ecn.
For Duane the twenty-filth of Oe •
loher seemed a whole lib-lime in c -m
ing. When that day dawned he left
ariest a man here 'orlav. a prominent
eili/en. Nov* it * likely some of hi*
friend* somebody, at anv .at- -sill
shove d gun in your f«<•**. or die day
operator's, and make you -end trie-
grams along the line.”
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Hibdon, John. The Big Lake Wildcat (Big Lake, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 15, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 29, 1928, newspaper, December 29, 1928; Big Lake, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth633667/m1/7/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Reagan County Library.