The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1873-12-19

speed in him for my service-sueh as
running after wild cattle, or running
away from Indians"
90 Boone! Now / am going to see
how fast he can run. l shall feel that
YOU are safe il know he can go like
the wind. Catch me if you can, Mr..
Tndianp" and seating herself firmly,
Judith gave the word and the touch, and
she sped away as if she freally believed
the whole Apache race were in pursuit,
until she had put mile at least between
herself and Boone, when she drew rein
and walked her horse back to meet him,
smiling triumphantly.
"You are good rider, Jude" was
Boone's first remark. 'If we had two
horses like that I'd risk you to go with
rue down among the Indians
"No, thank you, Boone; 1 am rather
vain of my hair, and prefer not to risk
it," answered Judith, laughing. But
the jest did not suit with the anxiety
which was only being ignored after all
not in any measure subdued-lying at
the bottom of her heart, and she re-
preached herself for having made it.
"Forgive me, Boone" she said turn
ing serious face towards him; then
with sudden passion adding: 'If any
thing should happen to You, my only
brother, never will forgive Pap
never!"
''Now, Sis, what terrible thing that
would be for Pap It's a good deal
more likely that you will do something
he'll never forgive you for; isn't it now !?
Besides, nothing is going to happen to
me. Pve got our fortune TO make
yours and mine-and haven't got time
for accidents. DO you just be a good
girl, and not fret, and keep on the right
side Of Pap for three months, and I'll
bring you something handsome-see If
l don't"
That was Boone's usual assevratiou,
meaning quite as much as an appeal to
all the gods of mythology, and so Judith
understood it.
"Well, I'll try" she said, "because
you wish il and because know it is right.
But there is something / wanted to talk
to you about before you went away.
For the last year / have read good
deal in the books that Mr.. Shultz has
given me, and have learned that there
is a very different kind of life from the
one we live here. It seems to me should
be very happy If could ever hope to be
like the people read Of, and to live as
they live. The more l think about it
the less satisfied 1 feel to keep on in the
way We are in all my life. | want to be
a good daughter and sister, and all that;
but / never can be a happy one if Pap
always forbids the things / like, and
hates the people like-and 1 don't see
any way out of it."
(which means" returned Boone,
THAT Pap gets mad sometimes; that he
is down on the Yankees-and Dutch, !"
, he added, mischievously. "And now that
you have mentioned it, Sis, wish to say
just here that / want you to be careful
about letting Shultz make too much
= of You. There's no harm that l know
[ Of in your reading his books, tho Pap
r wouldn't allow it If he knew it, that's
D certain. But if he is a gentleman and
D means right he won't talk any nonsense
= to you; and if you are the right kind Of {
e girl you won't let him; because you see
Jude"-explained Boone, growing EN-
: barrassed-"Pap and him never coulC
I agree; aud n man like him never shoulS
: make up to a girl only one Of his owl
. sort; and it isn't likely lie would, only il
/ fun. And no man must treat y0u that
away, Jude, unless he likes being sho
at"
r Having given utterance 10 this warn
2 ing, and done his duty as man of nine
teen, Boone rode for time in dignilie'
D silence, uninterrupted by word from
, Judith, whose cheeks were flaming
!. She knew Boone meant to be kind, but
{ Oh, was it not cruel outrage, this well
meant impertinence OF fathers ant
S brothers, who forced upon girls min'
y suspicious that never ought to have oc
/ CURED TO them, and never could by an,
II possibility be true? Even Boone, he
D. only brother" as she called him, ha,
= hardly been admitted into her idea
world and now he entered with irrev
+ erent feet, with irreverent hands thrust
RI ing thence its only real living guest
l. The grief, the indignity, was more thai
N she could besr.
Or at is cruel and mean TO say sue
II things" she cried, passionately; "
I'd shall hate you if you talk like that!
as that is, il cannot forget it" she adde,
of penitentiy, feeling how kind Boon
had always been to her.
IS "I don't want you to forget it," r,
,e turned her brother, resolutely. "Bl
as you need not he quite so quick wit
a your hate, either, Jude. You know
m wouldn't say anything to anger you z
h nothing"
I'd Judith could not bring herself TO r
n ply Just then. But she did the mel
K hest thing she could-turned her face
Ill her brother that he might see her smi
ly ing face and tear-bright eyes, then s
It of at pace that soon brought them
If sight Of their destination.
es The store was on the Spedden estat
n and was only rude warehouse for Il
a storing Of such articles as were need,
W, to provision the men employed the
ng with such coarse clothing as was requir'
up by them To the stock was added fe