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MUTT AND JEFF

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THE DAILY SHORT STORY

SELBY WAS SMART

SELB

ELBY MAYNARD was a crook all pell mell, some jumping after him right. You couldn't get around through the window and some gallo- that. He was smart, too. You couldn't ping out through the door. get around that either.

Selby was running across lots

to- We didn't know he was a crook at ward the woods up behind the town. first. He landed in Red Gulch all He was running with a limp, as though dogged out in store clothes and smo- he'd hurt his foot when he jumped king a ten-cent cigar: We were im- from the window. pressed, and when he passed around ten- cent cigara to every man in the Palace saloon, we decided he was a good gent.

Red Gulch wasn't much of a town in those days. Most of the population consisted of rough miners with no man- ners and less education. There were only three women. Other women had tried living there, but they couldn't stand the lack of refinement.

We set out after him with whoops cause we wanted the trial to be all and yells. Nobody pulled a gun, be-

straight and according to law and we wanted Seloy alive. Besides, he was lame and it wouldn't be any time at all before we'd run him down.

So we kept going and pretty soon some of the boys up ahead got quite near and ordered him to stop. But instead of stopping, Selby increased his gait, acting desperate and as though his foot was paining him some- He managed to keep thing awful.

reached the

Selby, with his fine clothes and fine manners, gave the town some prestige, even if he did later prove to be a crook, Nobody knew much about him, but we wondered plenty. We wonder- just beyond us till he ed how he made his living, because woods. He disappeared from sight he didn't own, a claim and he didn't for a moment, and we piled in after work, and he always had plenty of him. We expected to find him lim-``

But. money to spend.

ping along not ten yards away. he wash't. He wasn't anywhere in sight.

Well, we found out what his busi- ness was, We found out in a way that didn't increase our love for him any.

We chased around for awhile and then went back to town. We went Every week a stage left Red Gulch, back for just one reason. Most of carrying freight and passengers and us were ex-cowboys. We all owned the gold we'd dug from our claims horses on which we rode back and down to the railroad at Wyman. Selby forth to work, and naturally we all

By Vic Yardman

Maynard held up that stage one day, wore high-heeled boots. Well, high- First he got us all to like him and heeled boots aren't any good unless a believe he was honest, and then he man's on a horse. He can't walk or dressed up in rough miner's clothes run in high-heeled boots a great ways and held up the stage and stole about before he either has to rest or remove $50,000 worth of gold.

his boots.

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Selby was smart. We figured out He would have gotten away with it, he knew that. He himself was wear- because we'd never seen him in rough ing flat-heeled shoes. He figured if miner's clothes and we couldn't believe he could make us chase him on foot, him capable of highway robbery, ex- get us away from the Horses, he'd cept for one thing. There was one stand a good chance of escaping, thing that gave him away. A ring Well, he did. We got our horses that he wore on the finger of his right and we rode around all day, but the hand. It was a peculiarly shaped woods that Selby had taken to were ring, and the stage driver recognized pretty thick and a man on a horse had it. He didn't say anything, because he to stick pretty close to beaten trails. knew that Selby thought his disguise was perfect, and he wanted Selby to come back. to town acting surprised and innocent.

Yes, sir, Selby got clean away. And we didn't get our gold back either. Not a bit of it. He must have hid- den it somewhere and picked it later.

up

We talked it over in the saloon that night. Selby was smart, we decided.

Selby did. We were waiting in the Palace when he came through the swinging doors, dressed up smart and fine as usual. He stopped and looked He had a head on his shoulders. He at us and I reckon he suspected what knew how to wear clothes. was up, because he turned and would how to make people like have gone out, but Mel Turner had alid in behind him and ho didn't have a chance.

But Selby was smart.

We decided to hold the trial right there and then in the Palace. Tex Lyman was elected to serve as Selby's attorney, and I must confess that Tex played fair and did the best he could. But it wasn't any use. We had Selby dead to rights.

So the jury retired and the rest of us hiked over to the bar for a drink. While we were there Selby Maynard let out a yell and jumped through the window.

We should have become suspicious at that warning yell, but we were too excited to notice. We went after him

He knew and trust

him. He never did a day's work in. his life. That takes brains, we de- cided. Yes, sir, Selby was smart.

(Copyright, 1938, by The, Associated Newspapers.)

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