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GAMBLING WITH FATE
By WILLIAM WALLACE COOK
Author of “ fhe Gold G/eanerj: A Story of the Cyanide
7'ankjt,” “Wilhy'j Dun,” "His f riend the tlnemy,"
'"Rofcrj nf "butte,” f.tc., f,tc.
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(CopjritfhJt. 1W3, l»* WiltUm WaU«c« Cook j
f (Continued from last week.)
CHAPTER XIX
HAKUKI/B INNUCKNCK J'KOVKU
There followed a long pause during
whith the wild music ami hilarious
shouts froxu the dance-hall were wafted
to the group in the gambler’s ofiiee.
In the presence of suffering like Mc
Cloud’s the festive sounds wtiu incon
gruous and brutal.
“Did you know this ail the time,
Roy?” asked Payton, In a low tone.
“I did not know he waa McCloud,”
answered the young ruan. “He waa in
a stupor, apparently, and we could get
little out of him. We thought he was
Nate Darrel.”
Lenyard ran to Darrel and took him
by the hands.
“How wonderfully this has come
about Mr. Darrel.” he went on, in
a voice full of emotion. I believed in
>ou ail th* time and did what I could
to establish your Innocence, but it wa.1
not until this afternoon that the card.1
were placed in my hands that helped
me win title game for you. McCloud
walked into camp and Glenn was
among the Hist to see him. Glenn
thought he was you, and look him to
Ills own lodgings and made him at
comfortable as possible, then came to
me, knowing I was about the only
friend Nate Darrel had In the tamp.
"We could get nothing out of Mc
Cloud and 1 also though I he was yotir
si If. Your arrival on the Anaconda
>ta.g< >011 whom I thought to be Mc
Cloud all but carried me off my feet,
t followed you covertly and arranged
for Dr. Payton and the marshal to
wait in front of Kalipets after you
and Murgatroyd had come up here.
"Glenn had told tn< spurred to re
morse at sight ot the man we thought
to be you--of his discoveries here on
tin night td tiie murder. It was our
intention to confront you and Murga
troyd With Darrel and do what we
could to get the whole truth. God
knows Darrel, how much this moment
means to me.”
ui i-’i n n 111 i in j vmiiQ mini o v j v.«*.
Hu a mm ted his face anti would have
withdrawn his hands had not Darrel
clung to them.
"And l know, for the first time," re
turned Dititl with feeling, "the worth
ol a true l i n iidship.”
He shook the young man’s hands
end released them. Turning to the
doctor and tin marshal he added:
"(leuth nu n. you have doubted my
words
“Confine t’i it remark to Merrick,”
broke in the i;o lor; T was more than
half convinced all the time."
“Thank you." said Darrel. "There
is au t.i;11> rtunity. now, to prove every
thing l iiav <■ said. \~ to the explo
sion on the War Ragle trail, the mere
fact that l am here is evidence that
that part of it is true."
Barrel sat down and all eyes were
fixed on McCloud. Murgatroyd leaned
limply liar;, iu hi, chair and gazed va
cantly at the i ilmg.
Merrick paid little attention to Dar
ick Passing over to McCloud he
raised his head aud endeavored to
press a flask of liquor to his lips.
With -uddtMi strength. McCloud
pushed the hash aside.
"1 don't want that.' lie said huskily.
“Wiiis v ■! i « . • ha\ ,u in ruin
of me whisky, ami cards and and
Murgatroyu.
Muigalioyd dropped ids eyes from
the ceiling and fixed them ou McCloud
with a sneering smile.
Keep youi devilish looks <>(T of
me.’" muttered McCloud, in a passion.
“Take that man away." he went on,
addressing the others, his voice quiver
ing with > \ 11.’in. at.
Murgamnd was nut taken away but
Payton drew his chair in trout if him.
"You say that >m are Junius Mt
Cloud?' said the doctor.
* Yes.
“Do you know Jack Sturgis?"
' No. '
“You mow he was murdered
“It s that that ha haunted me and
made lit* a hell tor the last month,'’
wars the - ilk- h dess response,
"You were in these rooms on the
uight the-muuier was committed?"
"1 was in that privet i loom, there,
with Murua royd. th* night Sturgis
was shot." He fluttered one hand
toward tin other apartment,
■'Are you willing to soli is every
thing, here and now, Mr. NUCioud. or
would you like to consult a lawyer
first ?”
"I wattl no lawyers." said McCloud,
decisively, " and if everything is not
told now it may never ite.
'Get pen and paper, Lenyard," said
Merrick, “and sit at the desk."
“That's right,” said Payton. "Take
down everything, Roy.
In a few moments Lenyard was
ready and had jotted down the sub
stance of what had already been said.
“You were talking with Murgatroyu,
you .say, Mr. McCloud?" resumed Dr.
Payton.
"Yen."
“You came here by appointment?”
“1 was In Sandy Bar and Murga
troyd sent for me; told the stage driv
er to tell me that 1 was to come here
at once.”
'What was Murgatroyd doing when
you entered the room?”
"Wall'lug up and down like a caged
animal. Ik; had a letter in bis hand.”
"Did in tell you anything about the
letter?”
"He read it to me. It was from
Nate Darrel and said that he Darrel
was in town awaiting Murgatroyd’s
pleasure, and could be found at Hawk
bill’s.”
McCloud seemed to gather strength
as he proceeded. Excitement was
buoying him up for the ordeal.
“You knew there was a feud be
tween Murgatroyd and Darrel?”
"Murgatroyd told me. He said that
Darrel was in Sandy Bar and must not
get out of tlie camp alive. He said
that i was to help him put Darrel out
of (he way.”
A mild sensation was caused by this
announcement.
"Why should Murgatroyd ask you
to help him in such a criminal pro
ceeding?" went on Pay I on.
"Because I had helped in other crimi
nal proceedings, 1 suppose,” was the
bitter reply.
ler, McCloud," .-aid llie doctor, by way
of warning. "We only care lo know
about this.''
"I arn a wreck and will soon be be
yond the pale of any earthly law.
Wkut 1 am I owe to Murgairoyd and 1
would like to have everything known."
| "Where did you first meet Murga
| tioyd?"
In Denver. Physicians sent me
| there tor my health. I am the victim
! of a strange malady and physicians
j were puzzled and could give me little
• except advice and suggestions. They
i sent me to Denver."
i Professional curiosity manifested II
' self in Dr. Payton’s manner.
What sort of a malady, McCloud?"
he asked.
i "It is nervous, they tell me. Undue
excitement throws me into a eondi
' lion itiat resembles death—but it is
l not dtaih. although it tias led me close
! to It. I can see, and hear all that goes
i on around me. but there is no notice
able beating of the heart and all the
evidences of death, even to rigor nior
i tis. may be detected."
"Hare, but not unique," muttered the
doctor. "The attacks couie on at in
tervals?"
" Cxcitement brings them on. They
have been more frequent of late than
formerly.” McCloud turned to Dar
rel. "When l tied from Sandy Bar,
that night. 1 was beside myself with
apprehension and remorse. I took
refuge in that deserted cabin, and t'eel
iug that an attack was upon me, and
not knowing but it would be the last,
l made a few preparations and
stretched myself out in the bunk,
covering myself with blankets l ear
ned with me.
' Then y ou came. Nate Darrel. Up
to the time you closed my eyes every
move you made Inside the cabin was
seen by me; every word you spoke i
heard.”
"What did Darrel do?” asked Pay
ton. bent on proving Darrel's story.
McCloud recited Darrel's actions in
detail, substantially as Darrel had al
ready set ihem forth.
"What were your feelings, Mc
Cloud?" continued Payton.
The utter silence of the room was
broken only by the low tones of the
speakers and an occasional burst ol
music from the dance hail.
"I was glad," said McCloud, "glad
that Darrel could save himself by in1
personating me. My hope was that 1
might die and be found, after a time,
and mistaken for Darrel—just as he in
tended. But fate spared me for this
final act of reparation. 1 recovered
and, for the last four weeks, have been
living with a prospect* in fhe hills. '
Again he addressed I.
"I have what you wrote and plaeeu
over me." said he. Taking a Morocco
purse from his pocket, he brought from
it a ragged slip of brown paper. “Read
it, doctor,' he added, "it will prove
hat Nate Darrel is a man of fine feel
ing.”
Payton took the slip and read it.
Is there another paper in the pocket
book?' he asked.
"This.”
ii was the writing which told of the
marked bullet and a deej> breath es
■aped the listeners when its contents
were made known to them.
"Let us come back to your relations
with Murgatroyd," proceeded Payton.
You say they began in Denver?**
"Yes; in a gambling house iu Den
ver. I played there night after night,
forging checks to cover ruy losses. i
Murgatroyd look the stolen money and,
finding me an apt pupil, taught me
how to play with hint and help him
fleece others. I went from had to
worse. Friends paid the amount of the
forged paper, hushing the matter up.
From that hour, however, I was lost.
The fetters of Murgatroyd's devilish j
Influence were things from which I
could not free myself. ! did not un- ;
dersiand his power then and I do not !
understand it now—bui it was an in
vincible weapon and be used It merci
lessly. For that monster I have re
nounced everything 1 hold dear in life
and see how 1 am repaid!"
In the brief, hovering stillness that
followed there was not one but looked
upon McCloud In pity and upon Mur
gatroyd with horror und loathing.
"So,'' said Payton, softly, “you came !
to Sandy liar, inet Murgatroyd in that 1
private room, heard him read the note j
from Darrel and was asked to help j
him commit a murder!"
“Not asked,” returned McCloud,
hoarsely, "commanded! Perhaps I
should have obeyed him but for what
happened. Murgatroyd stood at the
office window, looking down lino the
street. He saw Darrel walking -
in the direction of Hawkhiii's. b,un
iting around. Murgatroyd said to me:
‘‘‘There is my man now; he is go
ing to Hawkhiii’s, hut he shall never
reach there alive. I will spring out
into his path suddenly, from between
the buildings. When I leave you take
that revolver on the desk, McCloud,
step to this window and shoot front
It in case J need you. Darrel's back
will he toward you and it will he an
easy shot.'
‘ Then Murgatroyd hurried away. I
picked up the revolver from the desk
and stepped to the window as directed.
I could see Darrel plainly and recog
nized him as a man I had met earlier
in the day at the Half Way house, on
the trail from Anaconda.
“While 1 stood watching a form
leaped from the buildings and con
fronted Darrel. 1 could not make out
the form distinctly, owing to the
shadow of the buildings, hut a revolver
gleamed in the man’s hand l could
not kill Darrel, hut the thought struck
me that I could kill Murgatroyd and
sweep the incarnate devil forever from
mi pat a l sit htc d i in gun i li
and fired My God, gentlemen! when
I found out later that Darrel had been
imprisoned, accused of the murder of
Sturgis—when I learned that 1 had
slain the wrong man with such terri
ble consequences to another, the earth
slipped away beneath me and 1 thought
I should die! I thought—"
The words trembled on his lips and
faded away to silence. With a wild
tossing ui i he anus McCloud stood up
reeling, ins e\es gazing on a point
above Payton’s head.
“That’s a lie, McCloud, and you
know it," came the cutting wotds ot
Murgatroyd He hud risen behind tlit
dot tor and stood like a statue his
manacled hands stretched toward Mc
Cloud and his burning gaze fixed on
his face. “Tell these men that you
have spoken a He! Toll them you are
trying to revenge yourself against me
and have—”
A deep oath and a sudden rush of
feet interrupted the speaker; then a
brawny list leaped out like lightning
and struck him down.
"it’s the act of a coward to strike a
man in irons," said Merrick, turning
blackly from his work, “but that cur
deserved it. There, Darrel McCloud
—quick!”
McCloud. with a feeble moan,
pitched forward, but Darrel caught
him and eased him to the floor. His
form became rigid, his eyes staring,
and he was again as Darrel had seen
him in Kansas Joe's old hut, just oil
the War Kagle trail
(To be continued.)
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