THE
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
WEDNESDAY, MAY 25, 1938.
THE BAD MAN OF BRIMSTONE
ADAPTED FROM THE
METRO GOLDWYN MAYER PICTURE
LEBBEUS MITCHELL
By Paul F
HOW IT BEGAN Berdanier
Copyright 1837 by Loew's Ind.
Chapter One
Priza Oghting in 1880 was against the law in most atates. That was why the Cartasio Kid and his man- ager, Eight-Ball Harrigan, having escaped the St. Louis police rald on a baro-linuokled barge match, were now jogging along the lonely, duely Arizona roads towarda California, where boxing was legal.
At the most forlorn and deserted bit of landscape they had over soon, the driver of the slago reined in his homes and informed the question Ing Kid:
"IIere's whare we always gite hold up by the meanest-stoolin' hombre In Arizony Territory."
"Who? Mo? Why not" and the embarramod Kid. Then, dropping bis Bowery aah manner, he said naturally, "Bay, couldn't I carry the growier for you?"
"Are you following me?" she de-ing, match with his protege, Bev-| manded diroully,
eral games were in pregrow in the enloon. Most of the spectators word thronged about the table at which the man called Trigger Bill and his eronten were playing poker. From the gosip of hy standers, the id learned that Trigger Bill had; just come from the jall where he awed timid Sheriff Barney into
"Your watch? This horo watch of mine is a hairloom."
"It's mine and, you know 11. Give it over!"
"What makes you, imagino it's yourn?" naked Duo Latamis, one of the players.
"Because there's a ploture of my mother in the back of it. And I'in
crook!"
She looked him over critically, then amiled and replied: "Thank you kindly. I reckon so."
En route to the shack where she turning loose a number of Diliating, it back from that lying lived with her father, Lawyer gang whom he had arrested for Jackson Douglas, the Kid enteroperating a Greaser faro wheel. tained a daughter, Loretta, with Bill had wanted them at the saloon glowing accounts of his flatie tri-to join in a game of poker. umpha.
"I bet you never so much as ever killed a boy?" pho smiled.
"I never cald i did. I fight with my data. Do I look like a mur dorer"
"Don for Heaven's anko, spank She squinted at him, smiling dom horses!" cried Eight-Hall. "You look pretty much like a man "Not me, pardner! Last time I to me." He pushed up ble stift hat didn't wait real punctual, he was and she was all motherly anxiety right ornery 'bout it. Wara't only at once at sight of the wound across the passengers we went for took his forehead. She insisted upon dressing the cul and invited him it.
the mail too."
"Who is this thlok-car?" demand- od the Ild. "You seem to know him."
...Thar
"Mobbe I does, mobbe I don't, but one thing's certain, strangers, when they're workin', these derper ndaco don't rolish being called by their Christian namen. they comes now! Right on the dot!” The Kid got out of the coach, shadow-boxing with his fints, cocky for a hand-to-hand encounter with the two hold-up men who galloped up. The lower part of their faces were covered by bandana handker- chiefs, and each held two nix-shoot- ero, covering the Kid and the driver. The latter threw down his Win- chester.
"Now, I can just trouble you, Jarge for the Wells-Fargo box," said the beaɣler-set of the two ban alto. "I'd take it right kind of you,” "I'd take it right kind of you Minter, if you could pans the box through this timo," pleaded the driver. "They're gettin' regular down on me up to Dodge City."
"I'd like to oblige you, Jarge, but you know how 'th when a man gita down on his luck."
The driver handed over the box with a sigh. "I sure hopes the cards ntart your way noon."
The younger hold-up man had in the messtime dismounted and, with one gun covering the Kid, had frisked him and taken psoralon of a large old-fashioned watch:
"Beol," he called, "look what I cntch!"
"Ifand it over to me, Ben," or dered the man called EllL
The Kid saw his opportunity, picked up the Winchester which the driver had thrown down, and covered the two bandit.
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Trigger Bill tumbled with tho watch, threw it down on the table, pulled out bath guns. "It it's yourn, pick it up!" A big, bare-foot nit-wit with
The Kid looked into the two guna Gorman accent was trying to ex-
Bul moving. Trieger plain to Trigger Bill that be had without
Ils found gold in the nearby moun- sheared: "Burs It's your Laine: "Ja, town, guna, gambling, glance went to the watch, its back drinking-peoples vili laton! But sprung open by the far from being nobody will listen at my yellow thrown on the table. He stared at pebbles I kick away from my feets the timepiece in mingled amaze moat and diamay; the guns were A fortune in gold to be had-"
"Well now, Loco," interrupted slowly lowered until they dangled Trigger Dill," "gold's always been from Inert arma.
particular hobby of mine. If you really think you've got something Here, help yourself to a stake. But don't you forget I'm cuttin' in on half of all the gold you dig."
Mr. Douglas, graying, disipated but still a fine-looking man, wol-
The man called Loco clutched comed the stranger with westora hospitality, but ended the Kid's pro- the money, gosping cut: "Packal test at Loretta's bothering about Shovele! Durroe--grub-gold!"
The lower part of their faces were covered by bandana handkerchiefs. and each held two six- shooters.
his wound-that he was all right-
The Kid smiled cockily, delibor- ately picked up the watch, pocketed it and nonggered out of the saloon amid a dead allance.
Habituates of the saloon came out of hiding. Trigger Bill wollte to the bar as though in a daze and pourod himself a drink. The ran
"Get off your horse," he com manded the onger desperado. "And when you hand over that watch, ter declares you are all right. In deot-lon na Bherin." Loco botook the old days I would have said himself hastily away, fearful Tzig no funny business.”
With a cocky stanco at Eight-that was a sabre-cut." He was in-ger Bill might demand back the Ball, cowering in the coach, the terrupted by a fusilade of shots andful of money.
The Kid sought out Eight-Ball Kid threw down the Winchester, from the street, "I should imagine and started to take off als jacket something of that sort was respon- and wangled from him Ave of their Before he could free his arms of alble for the state of your head, remaining six dollars. He then re- the alcoves the hold-up men slagged That's the way Trigger Bill and turned to Trigger Bits table and his gang maintain order in our watched until Horned Toad, one of him over the head with a gus, and community. Except that my day is the gamblers, quit the game. the Kid slumped into the alkaline dust, Eight-Ball, treasurer for the past, I could envy you catching the asked if there was any objection pair, was relieved of his cash, the four o'clock atago out of Brim-to his sitting in.
"Bure, Meester, you can buy a driver of the Wells Fargo box, and stone." the bandits galloped off with a quietly, his eyes on Loretta. "I'm the banker,
"I ain't takin' It," replied the Kid stack for one hundred dollare, eald friendly, "Adios, Jargo!"
stayin here for a while. Maybe my fuck's holdin","
"Reloase this prisoner, Barney," įknown as Horned Tond, a despised by chuckling: "In this house, sir, said Trigger Bil to the Sherif, member of Trigger Bill's own gang. you're not all right until my daugh- "And now you kin resume your drow near.
She went to the door with him when, his wound dressed, he took his departure. "I'll be seeing you around, won't I?" he naked.
"Providing you care to. What's real Your name I mean your
hamu."
"Mother uned to call me Jeff. My name's Joffrey Burton."
Но
"I always did have you figured tangle with you myself one of these
for a four-flusher, Hill, Maybe I'll
day
B Ared both guns at once and Horned Toad crumpled to the floor, doad Bill smiled contentedly, and poured himself another drink.
"Put yer hand right on that there Biblo, Ben," said Trigger Bil to his hier aide the next day in the mala room of his ranch. "I held up that wanderin' parson to git it, and on it you're goin' to swear nøyer_to Treveal to a livin' soul what I'm
"Oh, no!" laughed the Kid. think he was blurring-with a nod about to tell you" towards Trigger Bull. "All I'll nood with him is dve."
"Oh, Beol" protested Portuges Ben, extending a hand to the book, "Say, you think you can buy Intoying on a pack of cards, as though this game for avo!" cried Trigger be expected it to bura him. Bill, outraged. He suddenly looked up into the boy's face. "Bag, where did you git five dollars?"
"Know of any reason why shouldn't have five dollars?"
Walls attempting to hide in the canch, ght-Ball had crammed into his mouth as many silver dollars an it would hold, so when they got out of the stage-conch in front of the Longhorn saloon in Brimstone, the tenderfort had the wherewithal to quench their thirst. But the Kid nover did get that drink, for, no they stood at the bar, a particularly attractive young blend woman on- tered the saloon with a pail which nbe requested be filled with boor From the friendly chaffing of the mon, the Kid gathered that she was the school-teacher and that
Stranger. Til play you one hand,"
"Sults me, but hold that with the help of Crocker, the caloon keeper, who refused to sell whiskey "Well!" sho ́all but gasped. "I above the table. I like to sẹo the to her inwyer - father, she had always heard you Easterners wore cards como off the top," wenned the latter away from the hustling set of folks, but thin
That's a dandy name. Wouldn't surprise me it I got real fend of
that name."
"Quess you could have it any time you wanted the replied, and found himself almost meaning it.
Well, no, but... I "You don't mean a rough-and-o tumble like you la afraid to play p
taunted the Kid,
"Put your money on
the table.
deck
"Now, my after me: If I ever reveal to a livin' soul as to how the ornery tenderfoot galoot in Trigger Bilrs son, let the coyotes burrow into my mother's grave and may I dio a foamin' and a-howlin'
fever-lastin' hydrophoby......
"Oh, Hell Not the dog bitenl Plonce!"
"do on! Hydrophoby and all!" Ban compiled fearfully.
"Now, cross your heart. There. I reckon that ought to hold you, but Trigger Bni laid down his cards if you give me away T'll just natur
battlo by means of paths of anda. bents all, Popat she called back and reached for his guns, "Any ally blast the insides out of you!*
Now the Kid was young, mus-into the house. "I've had an offer other requirements?" bo naked om- cular and good-looking, with a keen and
.. I haven't said no!"
inously,
aye for feminine beauty. He did not The Kid returned to the Long- The Kid remained staring at the
mian the light of pleased surprise
In the girl's cyon as she saw him
at the bar, and, sa che loft with the bror, started to follow her, the turned quickly of the door,
horn, shadow-boxing en route, and gambler. Across his chest was the axelaiming to himself: "What a chain of the watch which the hold- girl! What a girl!" He saw Eight-up mon had taken from him. Ball at the bar, trying to egg a "Give me back my watch!" said the solemn-looking Indian on to a box- Kid, quietly emphale.
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EARLY FRENCH “GUIGNEUR,” (ONE WHO POINTS AT SOME - THING WITH ONE EYE CLOSED) LED TO THE ENGLISH TERM "GUNNER" (ONE WHO SHOOTS A FIREARM BY AIMING WITH ONE EYE). HENCE “GUN” FOR THE FIREARM ITSELF-FIRST USED IN CHAUCER'S HOUSE OF FAME.
OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS
ACROSS
1 A handy game (5).
4 A spinning machine of sorts (D). 9 This sum has to be corrected
here (7).
10 This might provide a private view to one who would sloop to it (7).
11 Amid the Irish he might be at
the wake (4).
12 Pigment of fishy orighi (5). 13 "Sweet are theof adversity"
(4) ("As You Like it").
18 Hestitates loses his head and
changes (7)
17 A eelacoan (7).
19 What bit of clothing suggests
a fish with the minimum
roe
of
22 A bounder often smokes a cigar
with this (7).
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Pakage that means trouble for
a port (4).
25 The best in the literary world
(5).
20 Oriental servant (4).
29 Epithet for the movement of a
giucler for example (7).
30 Shown in on open position (7). 31 Perfect description of a soured
old-maid? (9)..
32 The hend of a sort of relation
is this household article (5).
DOWN
1 More terrible than timid (8). 2 Acid thint suggests caustic re-
.marks (7).
3 American Alcot-commander (4). 4 No it is not the function of these Ittle parts of a car to keep It clean (7).
18
The idea suggests a cross be- tween a cuttlefish and another (7).
0 Macaulay composed some (4).
town
7 Part of this Derbyshire
has a brilliant appearance: (7).
8 Regimental colours? (5),
14 What shows I am in debt? (5).
15 Diana's transformation (5).
18 This remark on a hot day sug-
gests that these are (0).
20 Brave (7).
desirable
21 A small lake in Asia (7).
22 Were a heart this it would be
he (quited simple) (7).
| 23 Estate (7).
24 A lady of rank in the East (5). 27 Book of the O.T. (4),
20 The work of some composer of
classical music doubtless (4).
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