The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1892-06-02

through the OeallClIul Plantations,
and entered therichly furnished house.
1t was an unhappy disillusion for
her. Brace, who never let anything
in the world surprise him, stroked his
chin rehectively as he looked around
him, and said:
'"This is your lot, is it, Gentleman
Th orne?"
II shall be better able to call it
mine when I have paid up the capital
invested in it. AS you know ] had no
money of my own. l have borrowed
heavily, and until the loan is paid"
shrugged my shoulders.
"Until it's paid" said Brace, con-
tinuing my sentence "you've got to
go to bed late, and get up airly, and
be thankful hef you kin sleep sound
in betwixt. / reckon it'll take you a
pretty considerable long time afore
you feel you don't know what to do
with yourself"
ga long whilel' I said gravely.
Glow long2" asked Lola quickly,
under her breath.
ooh, many: many years, perhaps" :"
I replied. She did not attempt to
conceal her satisfaction.
I gave the girl a wir;y little horseI
she sat it for the first time with the
grace and mastery Of trained horse
woman.
EverymorningI rode round the plan
tation; sometimes business took me to
the city,-shenever failed to be by my
side on these occasions, But when I
had work to do, 1t was another thing.
She hated Iwork, and dreaded tran
quillity; she found an escape from
both in wild gallop among the foot
hills. She became coquettish with
regard to her appearance. When she
could coax dollar out of her father,
she would gallop off to San Diego to
buy some trife for the adornment Of
her pretty little person: If, by, my
manner, she fancied | approved the
new addition, she wore it till she
could replace it with something elsei
but, if | failed to NOTICE it, or she
thought it was not to my taste, she
would fling it away before it was a
day old. She abandoned herself
to the enjoyment of the new life that
came to her, and for some time she
seemed neither to remember the past
not think OF the future,
Under these conditions, all trace al
illness disappeared, and with health
returned something of her old mutin=
Gus Independence paternal authority
once more sank into insignificance.
Brace quickly found occupation,
and, after q time, rendered me invalu-
| q OF in hn ~
the business. One day, as VIC were re-
turning from the packing sheds, he
saidi
GIVE looked round this consarn
pretty careful, and I see, sir, that
you're goin' to do a great big thing
here. You've found out jest where
the real grit O. this country lays, and
you're goin' to work it up into
an almighty pile. That's what you're
goin' to do, and Pm everlastin' glad of
it, for more reasons than one. And
one reason is this,--Tm gettin more
duberous every day whether we shall
ever get the Great" Hesper. For,
Justly, when the frost breaks up,
the great hole where the gel hes hid the
stone, may ,be swep out as clean VS. a
CUR, n,baril by the torrent Of melted
snow; or II may be blocked up for
everlastfn' by the mast Of rock that
comes roIlin' down from the mountain
sides every spring; and, secondly the
Kid may change her mind. She may
back out Of the promise she gave us
when she was sick. RepHept her
mother were o greaser, and CONSEQUENT
ly it's nat'ral to her TO tell lies
when they'll serve her purpose;
and bear in mind it would