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THE DAILY SHORT STORY

GOOD HORSES

Jig Hayden rubbed his hands and and Joe, knew that those pearls were smiled in greedy satisfaction when Joe valued at $50,000.

Ware, owner and manager of the Wel- come U dude ranch, explained about the lack of motor transportation.

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To Jig this was a perfect set-up; the end of this long period of patient waiting and planning,

"We've found that most people,'

He did not make the mistake of be

He waited a week. Joe was explaining to the Severances, ing too eager. "like the idea of getting away from checking the arrival and departure of the new fangled gadgets of civilization the beach wagon, making sure that the when they come out here. The Wel- train from Thunderbolt would coincide at the come U allus has got along without with the arrival of the car automobiles and I reckon it still can." " station. Then, on the eighth day fol

lowing-his advent, while the Sever-. "How perfectly divine!" Mrs. Se ances were off riding in the hills, verance exclaimed rapturously. "We're Jig casually entered their room, re- really.cut off from civilization!" moved the necklace from its box and, "It's OK," Andrew Severance ten minutes-later, was seated beside mumbled, "as long as things run along the driver of the beach wagon as it smoothly But suppose something headed back to town.

He laughed to himself as the car Joe happened which made it

bumped over the rutted road. to get to town quickly?"

Ware had seemed surprised at his "We got horses," the ranchowner sudden departure, but he couldn't said laconically. "An' they're danged do anything about it. And now they good horses too. Then, once every were safely hway, There were other day the beach wagon comes up cars at the ranch therefore no chance supplies of being overtaken. No telephone from Thunderbolt, fetchin'

either, to, warn the sheriff at Thunder- and new guests."

"Don't like it," Severance said. "No bolt Escape, unless the train had

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tran- jumped the rails, or something, was sportation." He looked back over the certain, yellow, rutted road that wound over the hills toward the town of Tunder A half hour after the beach wagon bolt, thirty miles distant. The beach had departed the Severances return- wagon that had carried him his wife ed from their ride. Five minutes. and their luggage out from the sta- later Mrs. Severance discovered tion was an ant crawling toward the loss of her pearls and announced summit of a distant slope which the to her husband and the rest of thread of road surmounted. With its ranch in wild and hysterical disappearance over the brow of the Andrew Severance cursed and swore hill Andrew could not help but think and remembered how helpless they that for two days, until the car ro were out here, but Joe Ware only look- turned, they would be completely cu grim and called Slim North and isolated from the rest of the world. issued curt orders.

Wall The beach wagon mounted the last He thought of his office in Street and of the necessity of being slope before descending into the town. in constant contact with it. He curs- Far to the right Hayden perceived a The train!- His ed his wife for prevailing upon him thread of smoke..

heart leaped. The last vestige of to take this trip.

But when the beach wagon return doubt disappeared. In fifteen minutes ed to the Welcome U two days later now he would be safely aboard. the on Limited, thundering eastward to sa- Andrew Severance wasn't even hand to witness its arrival and de- fety and a life of case. parture. He was off in the hills rid. He felt suddenly like whistling; Ing, accompanied by a cowboy named had, in fact, puckered his lips to do Slim North. The broker had, as Joe so. Two horsemen suddenly merged. Ware know he would, forgotten about from the brush beside the roads Pach being isolated and the fact that his held a gun. Jig Hayden's face whiten- Wall Street office might need his at- ed. Ho blinked. The horsemen were tention. There was that quality in Joo Ware and Slim North. Jig hesitat- the air and in the environment, in ed only for a fraction of a second; the distant hills and the over-changing then, snarled his rage, and reached i desert that made a man forget the side his conf. His fingers closed about rush and whirl and nerve-racking the automatic in its shoulder holster grind of the life he had left behind and unclosed. A gasp escaped his Everything would have turned out lips. Slowly he slumped forward, and fine and Joe would have chakled" up would have pitched to the ground but another pair of satisfied customers to for the supporting arm of the driver. the long list of guests who had vaca- Joo Ware, smoking gun still in his tioned at the Welcome U-if it hadn't hand. rode up close, smiling thinly.

contemptuodely. beon for. Jig Haydon.

Jig Haydon had come to the Wol- -“You sou Joe Ware explained to come U because the Goverancea Lhad Andrew Severance lator, "wo haro come. But no one knew that; › Every-- good horven at the Welcomo U. And horses out here are much more im- one thought he was a school

portant than now fangled gadgets like automobiles. They ain't bothered by ch: things am bago and cactus and mesquite and outcroppings. It's only ten iles to the station by horse, thir- ou follow around the road the automobiles hafta go" It so. Nor (Copyright, 1989; By The Associat- Severances.(ed.

on vacation, No one would have guais edikt Jig Hayden had schemed and thought and dreamed for two About the pearl, necklace that Severance carried in her: love and which at dinne The wors even

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