Motion Picture Story Magazine (Feb-Jul 1913)

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CALAMITY ANNE'S INHERITANCE 27 "Poor old Calamity! Good fortune 's gone to her head. However ' ' — his face grew more serious — ' ' I think that, perhaps, after a while she'll — maybe I'd better follow," he mused, at last. However, Williams' resolve was not as speedily carried out as he desired. There was work to be done at the White Eagle. There was a delay over an injured miner. There was a dog-hole to fell his horse and break moustached individual, * * I 'm the new boss of this here cut-up ; who 're you?" "The new boss?" Cal Edwards, two-gun man, scowled a bit. "Whatta yuh think yuh're gointa boss?" "What do I think I'm goin' to boss?" Calamity asked. "Say " She stopped short in her speech and motioned for the girls to get behind her. There was reason, for she was looking into the barrel of a re CALAMITY REFUSES FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR HER MINE its leg. And so, before he had fairly started on his journey to overtake Calamity Anne and her companions, those persons were viewing the side of life which Calamity had always seen — tough luck. It was in the gray of evening that they had arrived at the Black Hole Mine, Calamity singing, the little burro wobbling, and the girls tired and sleepy. It was evening, and here and there about the place forms could be seen — the miners who had worked for Wall-eyed Jake. Calamity strode forward. "Hey!" she called to a black volver. The man of the black moustache was speaking. "I kinda think yuh're barkin' up th' wrong tree," he said, shortly; "they aint gointa be no woman bossin' things around here. Know why? 'Cause I'm gointa do the bossin'. I guess yuh got a will or suthin' like that, huh? Well, it dont count, see? Now there's th' trail back— hit it!" The face of Calamity Anne went hard. Slowly her eyes went to the right and to the left. Suddenly her teeth gritted, then she smiled. She had noticed the door of the mining