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

watching ner opportunity 10 slip past
him to her sisters side, where she
nestled silently.
But childhood is not proof against
dulce, even when awed by mysterious
terror; and Katie, who spied one of
these sweets lying under the table, made
a sudden dive for 1t, forgetting all else
in her excitement. Her father noticed
the action, and understood it.
'Durn his ugly Dutch picturi" ex-
climed Miles, wrathfully, stopping to
gaze in a sort Of blind rage at Judith.
The action gave him the appearance Of
having suddenly discovered his daugh-
ler's remarkable beauty, and Of being
a good deal struck by it; though moth
ing was at that moment farther from
his thoughts than the recognizing Of any
excellence in Judith, or anyone else.
Judith, who was used to these appear
ances, avoided his gaze by commencing
to brush Katie's curls around her fin
> ger.
"Whar dye git that thar thing7"
asked Miles, his countenance changing
from angry reverie to seornful inquiry
"Do you mean this, Pap?" returned
Judith, with well-assumed carelessness.
"Boone brought me this when he was
down to San BernardinO. Look at this
, pretty handle with woman's face on
it."
"I never seen no such woman as that,
nor never will. Why, you're got yer
hair fixed up like that-red ribbon an
all. You'd better just twist it up the
way yer mother did her'n. That's the
only way 1 ever seen any decent
woman's hair fixed. An you needn't
curl Katie's hair so much, nuther. Bet
ter let it be, nat'rel. don't want nc
highfalutin' ways in this yer house.
Boone he'd better be savin' his money 10
take him to Arizony."
Pap, don't make Boone go to Ari-
zona. wish you wouldn't; it's such a
dreadful country; and read in a news
paper that the Indians were killing
everybody they found away from the
|, settlements, and in them, too"
"Wa-al, / reckon a Miles knows how
ter fight Injuns. What's more, dye
reckon Pm a-gwine to stay hyar, along
o. the the Dutch an Yankees, as is COM
i'm thick as grasshoppers, with the
grain-farmin' an ther gang-plows an
headers an railroads, maxim the coun-
try onfit ter live in? Wish I'd staid in
!, Texas an fit the id Yankees, stead oy
, comm ter Californy, whar they're
thickern ever, so!"
4 al think this is nice country, Pap
: and I wish you could be contented &c
: stay here" said Judith, with O sigh
n "The Yankees will start a school, righ
4 away; and Katie can get an education
r so easily. And she's so peart, you know
a Pap" she added, with design Of soft
= ening her father on the educations
a question, and so causing him to tempo
% rize. If she had ever a final hope o
/, success itwas extinguished by his an
= swer:
"Katie kin git all the larnin' wan
Of her to have from you and Boone. 70
IS can read an write, an that's enoug
m for gal. Boone kin cipher, besides
e, an that's enough for a man. Pm nc
ot gwine to be ketched in surround, al
re druv to terms, like herd o. antelop,
IN by no number Of Yankees an Dutch.
ne 81 should not think you could G
I'd away and leave mammy's grave
at sobbed Judith, forgetting in her terri
No OF the often threatened Arizona the di
N cretion she usually observed in referrir
no to her mother.
ut That grave had been made with
. three months after the emigration
e. California, and might never have new
er been needed but for the exhausting Il
er Of the Journey that had loft not enoul
vitality with which to fight the bait
a for two lives afterward. Jack Miles HI
nd never been able TO forget that Kate b.
ms urged him to wait another year
e'' Texas, and that he had willfully l
re. fused to grant her the respite. This l
y ANAIAA(C ~ ACA AAONAACA was ~ 10A~ASAeN
Ter under the circumstances, that Judi
led was frightened, even before her faith
Of replied in tone Of intensest passion:
US 'By God, Jude, If you were not b
les darter, I'd pack you out o. this y
rn- house quicker lightnin'! don't wa
md to hear you ever speak her name to u
it ag'in-recolleet that"
of 30 Pap, Pm so sorry!-I did not me
rly please forgive meIn cried Judith, NJ
ne thoroughly penitent, as well as frigf
len ened and grieved. She cried to d,
sh- ears, however. Her father never turn
her his head, but strobe heavily out Of {
his room, away from the house, mount
rly his horse tethered little way of, a
to rode across the prairie as fast as the s
In imal could carry him.
lad Judith stood in the porch, with flush
ing cheeks and fearful eyes, gazing af
My him. Her thoughts were not all pc
Gus tent thoughts. Some Of them were |
cry ter enough, as they accused her faith
by not altogether unjustly, OF unnecessi
the harshness towards her for this fault. 5
h had not meant to offend him-only
ak prick his conscience in such way 4
snce he might he brought to relent iowa
ould Boone and herself. But in her exc
nder ment Sue had spoken unwisely.
cen. could not but own, too, that her reas
her for wishing to remain In California "
'ods. some Of them independent Of fear
with the Apaches, OF tenderness for