The Man Next Door

"'Well,' says she, 'we never played anything for pikers, did we, dad?'" THE MAN NEXT DOOR BY EMERSON HOUGH Author of THE COVERED WAGON, NORTH OF 36, Etc . Illustrated by WILL GREFÉ New York GROSSET & DUNLAP Publishers Made in the United States of America Copyright , 1917, by EMERSON HOUGH Copyright , 1916, by THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY TO THE MEN WITH WHOM I RODE IN THE OLD DAYS CONTENTS I - How Come Us to Move II - Where We Threw In III - Us Living in Town IV - Us and Christmas Eve V - Us and the Home Ranch VI - Us and Them Better Thing VII - What Their Hired Man Done VIII - How Old Man Wright Done Business IX - Us and Their Fence X - Us Being Alderman XI - Us and the Freeze-Out XII - Us and a Accidental Friend XIII - Them and the Range Law XIV - How Their Hired Man Come Back XV - The Commandment That Was Broke XVI - How I Was Foreman XVII - Him and the Front Door XVIII - How Tom Stacked Up XIX - Them and Bonnie Bell XX - What Our William Done XXI - Her Pa's Way of Thinking XXII - Me and Their Line Fence XXIII - Tom and Her XXIV - How Bonnie Bell Left Us All XXV - Me and Them XXVI - How I Went Back XXVII - How I Quit Old Man Wright XXVIII - The Hole in the Wall XXIX - How the Game Broke XXX - How It Come Out After All LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS "'Well,' says she, 'we never played anything for pikers, did we, dad?'" "'Well,' says he, 'our dog is more of a trench fighter.'" "'I know now what it means to be a woman and in love.'" "She knowed where he carried his gun." The Man Next Door I - How Come Us to Move Bonnie Bell was her real name—Bonnie Bell Wright. It sounds like a race horse or a yacht, but she was a girl. Like enough that name don't suit you exactly for a girl, but it suited her pa, Old Man Wright. I don't know as she ever was baptized by that name, or maybe baptized at all, for water was scarce in Wyoming; but it never would of been healthy to complain about…