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Show • Page 2 with what he wanted . lvlore than likely it was a track left by some wood haulers , to follow he argued , because the hills were full of Cedars , thick . ·He decided , thinkin g it a ways anyway , so he drove someth ing over three miles into the hills here sure all the time what a fool he was ancl that the fellow who had gone into had a taste for rough country . At last herarke d his car and took the track afoot . It looked so much fresher here , that he went on anothe r mile or so . Then all of a su dden , he come onto a cmnp. There was a ton and a half truck , ed three or four barrels of gas , a roll of wire , and some camp things scatter Over at one side was a bed on the ground with two people , r a n d a around. woman , in asleep . They must have been traveli ng most of the night , because he mornin g. could hear one of them snore , and , ere it was nearly 10 o ' clock in the The He went up to the bed and covered them with his gun before he spoke . was fairly man grabbed for his , which was laying side of his pillow , before he But Lew was one too quick for him. awake . hit1\9 elf . He ldcked it out of reach , then got it 't If Lew had known who they were he ' d a been more cautiou s , but he didn have an idea this was the notorio us Jack Weston . As it was , he kept them covered made him untiH~ they got a_ressed and then thre,v the man a pair of hand cuffs and Insiste d tha t they were on good and tight , t oo. put them on . They a hard looking pair , maybe because they had just been roused and hadn' t had time to slick up any. Weston was a big fellow , in his fifties , I ' d t hair .judge , and the woman was smalle r and younge r , with brovm skin and straigh cut dutch. They both had on Levis and boots . ahead of Anyway , Lew got the handcu ffs on Wes·ton and started the pair of them him toward his car . too . Where he made his mistake wc s in not handcu ffing the woman Re had anothe r pair but didn ' t figure she ' d need them. little ways when Weston l1roke into a run. .rhey went along a 1 Lew yelled at him a couple of times to sto-p , but he went right on f ester , so Lew had to shoot . Weston pitched forward cry . like he was killed and the woman run to him and begcin to scream and Between was kept crying , and swearin g at Lew , and begging her husband to not die , she plenty busy. rie~t . When Lew came up and looked him over it looked like he was killed all just under The bullet had gone in close to the b[~ck bone and come out in front the ribs . He was bleedin g bad . Looked like he couldn ' t live more than a few al quick . minute s , so Lew decided that the thing to do was to get him to a hospit . He went after his car and come b - ck expect ing to load in a dying man When he but drove uu he noticed that ~ ston WP s in a sitting positio n agains t a stU111p |
