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Turkey Hill. That's what they called
.him. because he looked like that grace
fill bird. Had the same innocence of
eye, same craning of skin-bedecked
neck, and same general air of curi
osity. When Socorro was young there
were but four inhabitants to witness
the incoming of the Overland; Hill, be
ing a visitor, went along, and that's
why he happened to see her first.
Acting as a guide, he carried her
baggage to the Williams abode, where
he "reckoned she might put up.” And
in these incidents were the momentous
beginnings of Socorro.
Her name was Mary Brown. Why
she came no one knew; what she was
there for no one knew. Hut that
wasn't a secret very long. She was
taking orders for a hair-restorer that
was guaranteed to grow fuzz on any
thing, from Turkey Hill to a Mexican
dog. All that was necessary was to
buy and apply enough.
To one on the inside, business
wouldn’t have looked very flattering
when Mary came. As a matter of his
torical fact. Turkey Hill was the only
bald-headed man within 100 miles, and
he didn't belong to Socorro. He was a
cattleman from 30 miles away, and
hitherto ha i never particularly be
moaned the loss of nor hankered for
more hair. Baldness had been a
blessing, because it saved combing.
Mary was a retiring sort of girl, but
she didn’t have to work overtime to
impress Turkey, because he was at the
old tin-can age where his affections
were easily dented.
Turkey ordered a couple of cases,
and when lie rode back to the valley
that night wept unrestrained tears
over the bis family of orphans that
must starve unless all the ran;;1
bought freely of the remedy.
As a heart-breaker, Mary Brown,
sweet, retiring and coy, would have
n. made Clcoi atra seem a mere black
smith. Her fame spread for many a
day's ride, and it was astonishing hove
many men there were on the range
who were in direful apprehension of I
losing their sunburnt locks, although
most of them could have sported
signs: "Hair to Let."
Mary liked the country, so she limit j
a cabin of great dimensions, not a
barbaric thing of adobe, but with lain
ber shipped in from the west. It cost
eleven hundred dollars, Turkey said,
and he ought to know, because he
loaned her the money.
In addition to her hair-oil business,
Mary opened up a manicure shop, and
at night she rented it for dances and
sttch. But the manicure enterprise was
the most successful thing ever opened
In Socorro, because apparently all
cowpunoher- on the range had been in
great distress for manicuring before
she came.
There was one modest thing particu
larly noticeable about Mary Brown.
!?he never b • gned of all the cities back
east she mu ' have seen, nor interpo
lated into a C'iiiversaBon "Winn 1 was
In Wichita, Kan.," or said "You ought
to see the* swell stores In Omaha.
They're just grand." There was noth
ing boastful about her in this regard.
But, although she never even men
tioned where she came from, men felt !
this superiority.
Turkey Bill resolved to travel and |
get a liberal education thereby. He
got a chance, after much effort, to go
•.through to Kansas City with a stock
train.
But Bill didnt have a very good
time. He saw all the big bulldir vs
in Kansas City, and rode on street
ears for a half day, then bought a
•phonograph and a pair of gilt opera
glasses for Mary, and got ready to go
home. Traveling wasn’t what it was
•cracked up to be. He finally found the
freight office, where he was to get a
return stock pass, and by this time
-va^^go nervous that when the man
•who apparently bossed the railroad
barked at him through a grating he
was glad it was there. Bill was
afraid the man would bite. When he
tried to find his contract, he fumbled
so much that he dropped all the papers
and cigars and other things from his
pocket on the floor.
That was the place where Turkey
met the real kind man. He showed his
kindness by helping Bill pick up the
scattered documents, and, among other
things, a photograph of Mary Brown
he had taken along.
“Likely-looking girl,’’ quoth the real
kind man, as he handed the picture
back. That warmed the cockles of
Turkey Bill’s heart, if It had any.
The man seemed to he pretty well
posted about the town. He took
Turkey to a place where they sold
things to drink, and then they got to
be real good friends.
.Jones sai l he had consumption, but
didn't have money enough to get to
a warmer climate, although smneofhis
best friends had recommended him to
to there. lie wanted Bill's advice as
to what a man in such a delicate state
of health and pocket-book ought lo do.
As Turkey Bill was entitled to take
mother man back on his stock pass,
and, having formed a real love for
Jones, he offered to take him along.
They had a nice trip west, and
i on os’ ecu- h kept getting belt >>•; but
that, hasn’t anything to do with the
lory. Most « t trie toys were goad to
ee Turkey hack, o” pretend ■ I they
v re. They took .Jon* in because he
vi. r 1 a pretty good so: ; of f-dlnw,
■,d, in spite of hi " being ,-> ;h a desti
•ate ;.i t • «-f chap, he certainly was a
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Looking hack over T use early days,
t seems odd how every man, as soon
is he landed in town, wanted some
lung done to his hands or hair. Jcnesy
.vas no exception, lie went around to
Mary Brown's early the next morning,
but early as he was, Turkey and nine
niters were ahead of him, so he went
way fully decide ! to c< me b u l; later,
dating nothing else to do, he went to
he next best place, and visited the art
•a’lory.
When he enierct d front the art gal
lery a short time later he couldn't
"dp but notice how every!)- dy was
tended f r th * station. Of coarse, be
knew by t'a.it that the train was due.
He lies it.tr. i between a d .vlre to see
he great daily «. ■ of or Mary Brown,
"it illy l.e decided .hi • \va just his
me. as probably titer:- won! n't he
any one at Mary's. He was pretty cun
ning.
Just as the last of a lot of empty
beer kegs were being put Into the
express car the spectators of the pass
ing of the train were fairly petrified
b.v the greatest sight ever seen in
Socorro, it W-8S Jones, calm ami un
coughing, gently but firmly walking I
with Mary 1’rown toward the rear plat
iorni of the train. And, worst of all,
Mary didn't look as happy ns a June
hride. Indeed, she seemed rather
melancholy, and in tears.
The cowmen looked at each other, at
Mary and at Jones. Btiquette forbade
any interference, if the couple wanted
to elope, but somehow it was all so j
sudden.
Turkey Hill recovered first, just as ;
Jones and Mary started up the rear
steps of the long, dusty Pullman.
“See here, Jonc«y!" Pill called, in a
half-pleading way. “In course, it ain’t j
nobody's business if you.and Mary is j
just runnin’ away."
"Yes, it is,” came a voice from the |
rear. “We ain't a-goin’ to allow no i
short-horn; sheep-herdin' tenderfoot j
from away back east in Kansas City
to come rollickin' onto this range and
run off with our Mary. She's got ter
give her consent. We don't know but
what you’re kidnapin' of her to huld
us up fer a ransom.”
Loud cries of: "That’s right! It
dou»t go—it don’t go!” came from
the throng. Mary seemed pleased, and
showed signs of regret and hesitancy
at taking this rash step under the be
guilements of a man who wore a boiled
shirt. She seemed on the point of ad
dressing her admirers, but a low word
from Jonesy induced her to remain
silent.
•'ones men snovea niraseii forward
and made a speech.
“You fellows are a set of suckers,-’
he said. “What do you care where
Mary Brown gees?"
Turkey Bill’s chest expanded as he
broke in with an answer. “Care?
Care? You unmanicured Piute! 1
may as well tell you this here Miss
Brown”—with the emphasis on the
Miss—“is ingaged ter marry me. I'm
the bully boy that cares some.’’
Every man on the platform turned
a fiery gaze ou Turkey. Some instinc
tively dropped hands on their holsters.
Some were amazed. It looked tricky,
and like an undertable deal.
The voice of Jones, in loud, full
lunged, derisive laughter, broke the si
lence.
"Engaged to marry you, eh? Well,
that's good! That's one reason why
she’s going back east with me. She’s
under arrest. She ran a matrimonial
bureau before she came here, has one
husband living, and is engaged to 14
other gents buck there, from all of
whom she’s got money. And all the
backwoods counties aren’t heard from
yet; but I’m closing the polls right
now. I'm an officer, and reckon I’m
due to get about SB,000 reward for this
trip, and, by the way, I'm much
obliged to you for the pass. It helped
some!”
Jones opened the Pullman door and
pushed Mary insi 1 e, politely bowing
and lifting his hat to the S'ocorroans
as he disappeared. The conductor
waved his hand high in the air and
the wheels revolved while Socorro
sto- d stunned and speechless in utter
bewilderment.
They stood and watched the last ves
tige of smoke and dust as the train
pulled out of sight. Then Skink Bill
ings planted himself in front of Tur
key Bill and i-aid very gently; “Pard,
was ye lyin’ about that bein' ingaged?”
"Not by a hellufasight!” came the
sturdy response. “An’, what’s more,
although we was keepia’ it a dost se
cret, being' under promise, 1 give her
$200 to buy a ingagemont ring with.”
More blank amazement, and then
loud voices in speech. A close tally
disclosed the fact that of 27 men pres
i at, 19 had furnished various sums for
the same purpose. t9 had promised
absolute secrecy, and the eight others
outside the engagement guild had
loaned sweet Mary Brown money with
which to bring out her little brothers
and sisters from the east.
Turkey Bill silently stepped to the
edge of the platform, drew from a
pocket in his shirt a three-by-four
photograph of Mary Brown, which he
tore to tatters and scattered to the
winds. Twenty-six other men lined
themselves up and followed his ex
ample.
Twenty-seven men filed—Indian
fashion —to the “Cowman's Rest,” and
prepared for the night which was to be
the most memorable in Socorro's his
tory, while a wise spider began weav
ing cobwebs over the window panes
through which Mary Brown had been
wont io smile. And in the dawn, as he
started fur the ranch, Tennyson
George, with a piece of charcoal, wrote
upon her door:
Mery w.is a little lam.
Aiul L-if ■ upon the borrow;
She gati'-'i ,l all the fleece we had.
And di*iu near broke Socorro.
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