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Updated: June 17, 2025
Bow-legged Mike was not present; but the little man with the squeaky voice commonly known as "Squeaks" was there to represent him, as he did in divers ways and on different occasions in the ward. Hartigan and Hopkins were on the platform. Belle sat at a small table to act as recording secretary.
Then, allowing seven hundred and fifty dollars capital, of which five hundred dollars could be invested in lots on 10 per cent. margin, this would secure five thousand dollars' worth of lots, or fifty small lots at present prices; in the ordinary course of the boom, this would speedily reach fifty thousand dollars, when, of course, he would sell and " "Hartigan!" cried a voice.
Hartigan learned that he could go to Shay at any time for a reasonable contribution, after having made it clear that it was for some one in distress not for a church. The only return Shay ever asked was that Jim come sometimes and put on the gloves with him in a friendly round. Most of Shay's legal finesse was done through Squeaks.
That was the beginning of bargaining, and the end was that the Kentuckian got two native saddle horses and two hundred and fifty dollars cash. Cattleman Kyle got the beautiful Red Rover and Jim Hartigan experienced just a twinge of jealousy as he saw the new champion and heard his praises sung.
The rain had ceased the day before, but the flood had subsided very little by Saturday night as Hartigan mounted Blazing Star and set out for the fortnightly affair at Fort Ryan. The sky was still blocked with clouds and at eight o'clock it was black dark, so Hartigan left the selection of the trail, as a matter of course, to Blazing Star.
"He's come down from Cedar Mountain to save us from Hell, as if Hell could be any worse than this." Hartigan drew up to inquire the direction to a certain cabin and when he learned the way he rode on. "Looks to me like he would have made a cowboy, if they had ketched him young." "Do you see that horse? Ain't there some blood there?"
Then he said, "If it was 'pizen juice' I wouldn't let any one touch it; but this is the simple clear whiskey, as you can prove for yourself. I wish we could send this to the hospital." He offered it to Hartigan, who smelled it. Then Lowe said, "Well, here's to the empty keg."
In fact, he had been heard to say that the Church itself was chiefly a huge fire insurance company, taking risks for the next world instead of this. On the morning after the fire, he was up betimes to sail with the wind, to take advantage of the stir-up that the public mind had got; and he secured a lot of new business. "Now, Mr. Hartigan, why don't you insure that horse of yours?
In the stable yard of Downey's Hotel, where Jim Hartigan the father of our hero and several others of his Church were disconsolately looking forward to a dreary and humiliating day, the cheery uproar of the Orangemen in the bar-room could plainly be heard.
The days and all they held were a terrible strain on Jim Hartigan. How he itched to be in it! Not once, but many times, he rode to Fort Ryan to see Red Rover training; and more than once he rode around the track to pace the Rover. His face, his very soul, glowed as he watched the noble animal, neck and neck with his own fair steed. "The only horse that ever had made Blazing Star let out."
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