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ers 's only ‘have garrulous that Aub if I had not chanced mrak that I occasionally wrote for magazines. yore a writin’ man, eh?” he sed. “Well, sir, I venture tuh say 11 find this part o’' the country

: talk o’ nothin’ but his dead . Goin’ 'on séven years now, he had nothin’ ut that dead dog i » said. “Thats how dog ain't dead.” dead?” o » the dog ain’t dead. Dead 4 Just thinks he is.” ‘The “ho man paused, looking beyond © me toward the street. Then he said, “in a believe-it-or-not tone, “There \yuh are. See fer yo'rself.” Curious, I crossed the lobby to the i n door to get a better look at “the old man who was shuffling along the boardwalk on the other Side of the street. He was a thin, little bow-legged figure with narrow, drooping shoulders. I couldn't see much of his face because the brim "of his tattered tan sombrero wa “tipped low over his eyes to shut out some of the fierce, glaring sunlight.

oo He seemed oblivious of the dejectedJoe mongrel that padded along ~ DPeside him, “Wanna meet him?” asked the ‘hotel man, joining me at the door. “I'd like to—yes,” I replied. “| The proprietor raised his voice. , Dead Dog! Come here!” tJ » 2 shuffling figure paused, then stepped down hesitantly from e boardwalk and started across e street, the dog tagging at his eels, I opened the door, and the ) etor followed me out into the t shade under the tin-roofed wning that jutted out over the oardwalk from the hotel front t tch-rack. ‘ ck. : “Dead Dog,” said the hotel man, 8s Duffy joined us, “I wantcha tuh "meet a friend o’ mine. He writes er magazines.” “Howdy,” said Duffy. His voice was weak, noncommittal. He didn’t raise his head and he didn’t offer to shake hands. But 88 I returned his greeting, he said guerulously : . ‘You ain't seen my dog no place, “have you?” © ‘Why, he’s—" I began, glancing at the mongrel, but the hotel man inferrupted quickly.

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‘N& Dead Dog,” he said. N aln’t seen him.” ~ “Well, I guess I gotta be goin’ then,” said Duffy. “My dog went $n" died, an’ I gotta find him before ‘the buzzards git him. Pleased to've ~ metcha, stranger.” ~ He turned and started down the “street again, the dog beside him. ~ When he was out of earshot, I said, “Why didn’t you let me tell “him about the dog?” : " The hotel man tapped his head significantly. : “Dead Dog's a little off,” he explained. “He thinks the dog is dead, 80 we gotta humor him. He's get%in’ old, yuh know.” ‘ “But wouldn't it be better to tell him—" ; .

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front legs of his chair ly, a last drag his cigaret, and tossed it into the road. “Guess there ain’t not use tryin’ to Soot you, stranger,” he said, a little sadly. He pushed his hat back off his forehead and turned toward me, I looked him straight in the eyes and didn’t say a word. After a moment, he tipped his chair back against the wall again. “I know my dog ain't dead,” he went on presently, “but I don’t wanta be pitied an’ I don’t wanta be sent to no county home, I was born in this hills over there, rode this range all my life, an’ I wanta spend my last days here. So, for goin’ on seven year now, I been pertendin’ my dog died one night. That way, because I don’t git around so well an’ sometimes don’t recognize ‘em right off, folks think I'm a little loco, but they leave me be.” 2 8 = UFFY paused, his eyes turned - unblinkingly toward the last rays of the setting sun. Then he added: “I .don’t wanta die nowhere else. So if you've got any respect for a old man’s feelin’s, you won't tel folks you know my secret. Can I have yo'r promise on that?y I didn’t hesitate a minute. There, in the twilight, I gave my promise snd, never during all the time I was in Patterson City, did I reveal the secret that Dead Dog Duffy was blind. THE END,

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ARRANGE GATHERING OF ROUTE CARRIERS

State Group Prepares for National Meeting.

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Arrangements for the National Star Route Carriers’’ Association national convention here Oct. 13 and 14, are to be discussed at the state convention Monday in the Severin Hotel.

persons holding Federal contracts for carrying mail from larger cities to offices in towns not served: by mail trains. Both the national and state organizations are seeking to bring the classification of mail service under the civil service or the supervision of -the Interstate Commerce Commission, according- to H. C. Updike, Indianapolis, state association secretary. Everett Bear, Indianapolis, -president, is to preside at the business session Monday afternoon. More than 100 members are expected to attend. Following a banquet at 6, a business meeting is to be held at which time officers are to be elected and by-laws adopted. Speakers are to include E. J. Velder, national president, and Mrs. Katherine Velder, executive secretary. . Both are from Bonesteel, S. D. :

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