The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1874-01-09

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ruins it for stock-raising, and il it comes
through ours we shall probably let 1t out
to wheat-growers in large tracts nearest
the road. In either case it cramps YOU
uncomfortatly, rs you are perfectly
we'll aware"
"Them fellers says as how yew her let
eout some ov yer land to wheat-growers
Already"
"Well, so have we"
"Whar mout IL be ?u
"All that tract lying TO the east of
your corner, and bordering on the river
up above the Yankee farms, is sown to
wheat"
''ro cut me Off from the river when
the branch gifts low. Is that yer game?"
"Most likely the wheat will be cut be-
fore the drought comes on; but the land
is ours, Mr.. Miles, to use as we think
best; and this is only the beginning of
what Is sure to follow more and more
every year, for the settlers are coming in
upon US wanting land. The cattle-rais-
ers will have TO get it where they can;
but the grain growers can make
money on rented land while we
have always some that might be
rented with profit. You will think
better of my proposition before the dry
season. Goodnight with which
cheerful assurance the man of culture
rode away, leaving the man of preju-
dices to the bitterness of bafiled expec-
tions.
In the interest with which Judith list
ened to this dialogue she had not forgot
ten to keep watch upon the movements
Of the mysterious vacquero, who, when
Mr.. Shultz started off in hand-gallop,
emerged from his hiding and hastened
after the agent at an equally rapid pace,
reminding Judith at once of Tim
/ Parker's half drunken statement.
Alarmed, and feeling that should any
thing happen to Mr.. Shultz she could
not be held accountable if she kept si-
lence, she at once fastened down to
communicate her suspicious to her
father, though with little enough hope
OF his sympathy.
"Like as not" he returned, when
Judith explained her fears and the oc-
casion OF them; "but 'taint none o. my
bizness. Pm willin' to be shet o. him,
eff them Mexicans is willin' to DO the
job"
1t must not be supposed that Judith
. was as much shocked by this reply as
one unaecustomed TO the manners of a
rude and lawless class would have been.
1t startled her, nevertheless, TO discover
how deep-seated her fathers animosity
was. Besides, the danger, if danger
there should be, was most imminent, re-
quiring immediate action.
80, Pap" she begged, "please DO ride
a piece after them, and see if it is all
right"
"An' git shot myself for a-follerini
'em? Not ef l know myself, Jude
Yew jest go to bed an let Mr.. Shultz
paddle his own canoe. He is able fol
it."
Il There was consolation in this remark
of her fathers, unintentionally as it was
impaired. Yes, Mr.. ShultZ Scds as able
to take care of himself as most men
and, although assassination could moi
always be guarded against successfully
he was quite likely to be on guard, ant
might escape. Nothing at all events
could be done about it now, since hel
father refused his Intervention, anC
there was nothing left for her but obedi
ence. So she crept reluctantly back Il
her chamber and to bed, her imagina
= tion full of horrors that haunted even
, her sleeping visions.
Judith would have given much mex
r morning TO have known whether or no
; Mr.. Shultz arrived safely home. II Their
had been the barest pretence of an ex
l cuse she would have asked her father t
go to the store. But rs Boone had lai'
= in the necessary supplies of grocerie
! only so short a time previous, no excus
s offered itself, and she was left to the dis
: quieting influences of her own imagin
] ings, until Tim Parker's wife, having
! heard the news Judith so aDxiously de
sired to be informed about, and not be
e ing able to bear the exciting intelligenc
n alone, made this the occasion of a visi
d to Judith.
o 1t was rarely that Judith was favore
o by the company of her own sex. "Tha
gal o. Mileses' was kinder queer" &C
y cording to the judgment of the wive
s and daughters of her fathers associates
8 She exhibited very little sympathy wit
g their bodily ailments, never havin
g known what it was to be i'll; she ex
It pressed no interest in stock, alway
i having left such matters entirely to he
Is father and brother; and the babies an
IT the "fellers" of the country round wer
It equally Indifferent 10 her. As thes
It were the principal topics discusse
& whenever she had made or receive
$ visits, Judith preferred that society {
l. which they knew nothing-the con
j. pany of books, and the inhabitants {
= her imaginary world. Gradually hC
lie style of speaking as well as Of thinkin
s. was formed upon a different mod
ID from theirs, so that her peculiaritit
l. had become the subject of remark an
criticism. Added to the ,ofense of b,
i" ing "queer," was the one of being han'
II some, with beauty which they eoul
II neither deny nor appreciate beaut
Z of the grand Juno-like type, that in
m0nnl Of her age looked like nDutlil