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Of the date I am certain because +I verified it only the other day when I came by +accident upon a pile of letters, tied with red silk ribbon +and bearing a tag "Letters from Francis." These +were the letters I sent to my mother during my +Odyssey and one of them, bearing the date of the +day succeeding that I have named, contained an +account, toned down very considerably, as I had +thought necessary for her sensitive and retired heart, +of the previous day's doings, with an outline of the +strange tale heard that day. That nothing was +mentioned in the epistle of the doings of that night, you +will be scarcely astonished when you read of them.</span></p> +<p class="pnext"><span>I was sitting alone on the rear verandah of the +Laughlin Hotel, Baker City, watching the cicadi +hopping about on the sun-scorched flats, now and +again raising my eyes to the great, confronting +mountain, the lower trees of which seemed as though +trembling, seen through the heat haze; while away above, +the white wedge of the glacier, near the summit, +glistened dry and clear like salt in the midst of the +high blue rocks.</span></p> +<p class="pnext"><span>The landlord, a thin, quick-moving man with a +furtive air, a straggling apology for a moustache, and +tiny eyes that seemed ever on the alert, came shuffling +out to the verandah, hanging up there, to a hook +in the projecting roof, a parrot's cage which he +carried.</span></p> +<p class="pnext"><span>His coming awoke me from my reveries.</span></p> +<p class="pnext"><span>"Hullo," he said: "still setting there, are you? +Warmish?"</span></p> +<p class="pnext"><span>"Yes."</span></p> +<p class="pnext"><span>"You ain't rustled a job for yourself yet?" he +inquired, touching the edge of the cage lightly with +his lean, bony fingers to stop its swaying.</span></p> +<p class="pnext"><span>I shook my head. I had indeed been sitting there +that very moment, despite the brightness of the day, +in a mood somewhat despondent, wondering if ever +I was to obtain that long-sought-for, long-wished-for +"job."</span></p> +<p class="pnext"><span>"Been up to the McNair Mine?" he asked.</span></p> +<p class="pnext"><span>I nodded.</span></p> +<p class="pnext"><span>"The Bonanza?"</span></p> +<p class="pnext"><span>I nodded again.</span></p> +<p class="pnext"><span>"The Poorman?"</span></p> +<p class="pnext"><span>"No good," I replied.</span></p> +<p class="pnext"><span>"Well, did you try the Molly Magee?"</span></p> +<p class="pnext"><span>"Yes."</span></p> +<p class="pnext"><span>"And?" he inquired, elevating his brows.</span></p> +<p class="pnext"><span>"Same old story," said I. "They all say they only +take on experienced men."</span></p> +<p class="pnext"><span>He looked at me with a half-smile, half-sneer, and +the grey parrot hanging above him with his head +cocked on one side, just like his master's, ejaculated:</span></p> +<p class="pnext"><span>"Well, if this don't beat cock-fighting!"</span></p> +<p class="pnext"><span>Shakespeare says that "what the declined is he +will as soon read in the eyes of others as feel in his +own fall." I was beginning to read in the eyes of +others, those who knew that I had been in this +roaring Baker City almost a fortnight and was still idle, +contempt for my incapacity. Really, I do not believe +now that any of them looked on me with contempt; +it was only my own inward self-reproach which I +imagined there, for men and women are kindlier than +we think them in our own dark days. But on that +and at that moment it seemed to me as though the +very parrot jeered at me.</span></p> +<p class="pnext"><span>"You don't savvy this country," said the landlord. +"You want always to say, when they ask you: 'Do you +understand the work?' 'why sure! I'm experienced +all right; I never done nothing else in my life.' You +want to say that, no matter what the job is you 're +offered. If you want ever to make enough money +to be able to get a pack-horse and a outfit and go +prospectin' on your own, that's what you want to say."</span></p> +<p class="pnext"><span>"But that would be to tell a downright lie," said I.</span></p> +<p class="pnext"><span>"Well," drawled the landlord, lifting his soft hat +between his thumb and his first finger and scratching +his head on the little bald part of the crown with +the third finger, the little finger cocked in the air; +"well, now that you put it that way—well, I guess +it would. I never looked at it that way before. You +see, they all ask you first pop: 'Did you ever do it +before?' You says: 'Yes, never did anything else +since I left the cradle.' It's just a form of words +when you strike a man for a job."</span></p> +<p class="pnext"><span>I broke into a feeble laugh, which the parrot took +up with such a raucous voice that the landlord turned +and yelled to it: "Shut up!"</span></p> +<p class="pnext"><span>"I don't have to!" shrieked the parrot, promptly, +and you could have thought that his little eyes sparkled +with real indignation. Just then the landlord's wife +appeared at the door.</span></p> +<p class="pnext"><span>"See here," cried Mr. Laughlin, turning to her, +"there 's that parrot o' yourn, I told him to shut up +his row just now, and he rips back at me, 'I don't +have to!' What you make o' that? Are you goin' +to permit that? Everything connected with you +seems conspirin' agin' me to cheapen me—you and +your relations what come here and put up for months +on end, and your—your—your derned old grey +parrot!"</span></p> +<p class="pnext"><span>"Abraham Laughlin," said the lady, her green +eyes flashing, "you bin drinkin' ag'in, and ef you +ain't sober to-morrow I go back east home to my +mother."</span></p> +<p class="pnext"><span>It gave me a new thought as to the longevity of the +human race to hear Mrs. Laughlin speak of her mother +back east. I hung my head and studied the planking +of the verandah, then looked upward and gazed at the +far-off glacier glittering under the blue sky, tried to +wear the appearance of a deaf man who had not heard +this altercation. Really I took the matter too +seriously. Had I only known it at the time, they were a +most devoted couple and would—not "kiss again +with tears" and seek forgiveness and reconciliation, +but—speak to each other most kindly, as though no +"words" had ever passed between them, half an hour +later. But at the time of the little altercation on the +verandah, when Mrs. Laughlin gave voice to her threat +and then, turning, stalked back into the hotel, Laughlin +wheeled about with his head thrust forward, showing +his lean neck craning out of his wide collar, and +opened his lips as though to discharge a pursuing +shot. But the parrot took the words out of his +mouth, so to speak, giving a shriek of laughter +and crying out: "Well, if this don't beat cock-fighting!"</span></p> +<p class="pnext"><span>The landlord looked up quizzically at the bird and +then there was an awkward pause. I wondered what +to say to break this silence that followed upon the +exhibition of the break in the connubial bliss of my +landlord and his wife. Then I remembered +something that I decidedly did want to ask, so I was +actually more seeking information than striving to +put Mr. Laughlin at his ease again, when I said:</span></p> +<p class="pnext"><span>"By the way, what is all this talk I hear about the +Lost Cabin Mine? Everybody is speaking about it, +you know. What is the Lost Cabin Mine? What +is the story of it? People seem just to take it for +granted that everybody knows about it."</span></p> +<p class="pnext"><span>"Gee-whiz!" said the landlord in astonishment, +wheeling round upon me. He stretched out a hand +to a chair, dragged it along the verandah, and sat +down beside me in the shadow. "You don't know +that story? Why, then I 'll give you all there is to +it so far. And talking about the Lost Cabin, now +there's what you might be doin' if on'y you had the +price of an outfit—go out and find it, my bold buck, +and live happy ever after——"</span></p> +<p class="pnext"><span>He stopped abruptly, for a man had come out of +the hotel and now stood meditating on the verandah. +He was a lithe, sun-browned fellow, this, wearing a +loose jacket, wearing it open, disclosing a black shirt +with pearl buttons. Round his neck was a great, +cream-coloured kerchief that hung half down his +back in a V shape, as is the manner with cowboys +and not usual among miners. This little detail of the +kerchief was sufficient to mark him out in that city, +for the nearest cattle ranch was about two hundred +miles to the south-east and when the "boys" who +worked there sought the delights of civilisation it was +not to Baker City, but to one of the towns on the +railroad, such as Bogus City or Kettle River Gap, +that they journeyed. On his legs were blue dungaree +overalls, turned up at the bottom as though to let +the world see that he wore, beneath the overalls, a +very fine pair of trousers. On his head was a round, +soft hat, not broad of brim, but the brim in front was +bent down, shading his eyes. The cream-colour of +his kerchief set off his healthy brown skin and his +black, crisp hair. There were no spurs in his boots; +for all that he had the bearing of one more at home +on the plains than in the mountains. A picturesque +figure he was, one to observe casually and look at +again with interest, though he bore himself without +swagger or any apparent attempt at attracting attention, +except for one thing, and that was that in either +ear there glistened a tiny golden ear-ring. His brows +were puckered as in thought and from his nostrils +came two long gusts of smoke as he stood there +biting his cigar and glaring on the yellow sand and +the chirring cicadi. Then he raised his head, +glancing round on us, and his face brightened.</span></p> +<p class="pnext"><span>"Warmish," he said.</span></p> +<p class="pnext"><span>"That's what, right warmish," the proprietor +replied affably, and now the man with the ear-rings, +having apparently come to the end of his meditations, +stepped lightly off into the loose sand and Laughlin +jogged me with his elbow and nodded to me, rolling +his eyes toward the departing man as though to say, +"Take a good look at him, and when he is out of +earshot I shall tell you of him." This was precisely +the proprietor's meaning.</span></p> +<p class="pnext"><span>"That's Apache Kid," he said softly at last, and +when Apache Kid had gone from sight he turned +again to me and remarked, with the air of a man +making an astounding disclosure:</span></p> +<p class="pnext"><span>"That's Apache Kid, and he's in this here story +of the Lost Cabin. Yap, that's what they call him, +though he ain't the real original, of course. The real +original was hanged down in Lincoln County, New +Mexico, about twenty-five year back. Hanged at the +age of twenty-one he was, and had killed twenty-one +men, which is an interesting fact to consider. That's +the way with names. I know a fellow they call Texas +Jack yet, but the real original died long ago. I mind +the original. Omohundro was his correct name; as +quiet a man as you want to see, Jack B. Omohundro, +with eyes the colour of a knife-blade. But I 'm driftin' +away. What you want to get posted up on is the +Lost Cabin Mine."</span></p> +<p class="pnext"><span>He jerked his chair closer to me, tapped me on +the knee, and cleared his throat; but I seemed fated +not to hear the truth of that mystery yet, for +Mrs. Laughlin stood again on the verandah.</span></p> +<p class="pnext"><span>"Abraham," she said in an aggrieved tone, "there +ain't nobody in the bar."</span></p> +<p class="pnext"><span>Up jumped Abraham, his whole bearing, from his +bowed head to his bent knees, apologetic.</span></p> +<p class="pnext"><span>"I was just tellin' this gentleman a story," he +explained.</span></p> +<p class="pnext"><span>"I 'm astonished at you then," she said. "An old +man like you a-telling your stories to a young lad like +that! You 'd be doin' better slippin' into the bar and +takin' a smell at that there barkeep's breath."</span></p> +<p class="pnext"><span>Mr. Laughlin turned to me.</span></p> +<p class="pnext"><span>"Come into the bar, sir; come into the bar. We 've +got a new barkeep and the mistress suspects him o' +takin' some more than even a barkeep is expected to +take. I hev to take a look to him once in a while."</span></p> +<p class="pnext"><span>Mrs. Laughlin disappeared into her own sanctum, +satisfied; while the "pro-prietor" and I went into the +bar-room.</span></p> +<p class="pnext"><span>The "barkeep" was polishing up his glasses. In +one corner sat a grimy, bearded man in the prime of +life but with a dazed and lonely eye. He always sat +in that particular corner, as by ancient right, +morning, noon, and evening, playing an eternal solitary +game of cards, the whole deck of cards spread before +him on a table. He moved them about, changing +their positions, lifting here and replacing there, but, +though I had watched him several times, I could +never discover the system of his lonely game.</span></p> +<p class="pnext"><span>"Who is that man?" I quietly inquired. "He is +always playing there, always alone, never speaking to +a soul."</span></p> +<p class="pnext"><span>"The boys call him 'The Failure,'" Laughlin +explained. "You find a man like that in the corner +of most every ho-tel-bar you go into in this here +Western country—always a-playing that there lonesome +game, I 'm always scared to ask 'em what the +rudiments o' that game is for they 're always kind o' +rat-house,—of unsound mind, them men is. I heerd a +gentleman explain one day that it's a great game for +steadyin' the head. He gets a remittance from +England, they say. Anyhow, he stands up to the bar once +every two months and blows himself in for about +three-four days. Then he goes back to his table there and +sets down to his lonesome card game again and +frowns away over it for another couple o' months. I +guess that gentleman was right in what he explained. +I guess he holds his brains together on that there +game."</span></p> +<p class="pnext"><span>We found seats in a corner of the room and +Laughlin again cleared his throat. He had a name +for taking a real delight in imparting information and +spinning yarns, true, fictitious, and otherwise, to his +guests, and this time we were not interrupted. He +told me the story of the Lost Cabin Mine, or as much +of that story as was known by that time, ere his +smiling Chinese cook came to inform him "dinnah vely +good. Number A1 dinnah to-day, Misholaughlin, +ledy in half-oh."</span></p> + + <script type="text/javascript" src="../src/smartquotes.js"></script> + <script>smartquotes()</script> +</body> +</html> |