Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1892-04-30

calored fire and the earth turns into
cloud because she fayes and il loved, AT
! the same time | saw Saunarex's face as
he heard Maud Copleigh's voice.: and
fifty yards away from the clunip Of
orange trees saw brown Holland
habit getting upon a horse.
Ii must have been my state Of over ex-
citement that made me SO quick TO med
die with what did not concern me. Sau-
marex was moving of 10 the habit: but
| pushed him back and said. stop here
and explain. I'll fetch her backin And
ran out 20 get at my own horse. had
aperfectly unnecessary notionthat every
thing must hc done decently aud in order.
and that Summaries first care was to
wipe the happy look ont Of Maud Cop
leigh's face. All the time was linking
up the curb chain ! wondered how he
would do il.
Icantered after Edith Copleigh, think
ing 70 bring her back slowly ON some pre-
tense or another. But she galioped away
as soon as she saw me, and was forced
TO ride after her in earnest. She called
back over her shoulder: 800 awayl I'm
| going home. Oh, 80 awayr two or three
times; but my business was TO catch her
first and argue later. The ride just fitted
In with the rest of the evil dream. The
ground was very bad. and now and again
we rushed through the whirling, chok-
ing ''dust devils" in the skirts Of the fiy-
ing storm. There was burning hot
wind blowing that brought up a stencil
of stale brick kilns with it; and through
the half light and through the dust dew
lis, across that desolate plain, fiickered
the brown holland habit ON the gray
horse. She headed for the station at
first. Then she wheeled round and set
off for the river through beds Of burnt
down jungle grass. bad even TO ride
pig over. In cold blood should never
have dreamed Of going over such a coun-
try at night. but it seemed quite right
and natural with the lightning cracking
overhead. and reek like the smell u
the Pit in my uostrils. rode and shout
ed, and she bent forward and lashed her
horse, and the aftermath of the dust
storm came up aud cmIghtsus both, and
drove US downwind Like pieces of paper.
don't know how Far VIZ rode; but the
drumming of the horse hoQfs and the
roar of the windand the race OF the faint,
blood red moon through the yellow mist
seemed to have gone on for years and
years, and | was literally drencled with
sweat from my helmet TO my CATERS
when the gray stumbled, recovered him.
self and pulled up dead lame. Ny brute
was used up altogether Edith Copleigh
was in a sad state, plastered with dust,
her helmet off, and crying bitterly. why
can't you let me aloneg' she said. 81 only
wanted to get away and go home. OH
please let me go,''
"You have got to come back with me
Miss Copleigh. Saumarez has somethins
20 say TO you"
! TWAS foolish way of putting it; but
hardly knew Miss Copleigh and, though
. | was playing Providence at the cost o
J nay horse, could not tell her in as man,
words what Saumarez had told me.
!. Thought he could do that better himself
All her pretense about being tired AM
wanting to go home broke down, and sh,
. rocked herself to and fro in the saddle d
she sobbed, and the hot wind blew he
black hair 10 leewarsl. ann not going /.
repeat what she said, because she wa
utterly unstrnng.
This. If you please, was the cynica
Miss Cupleigh. Here was |, almost NJ
utter stranger to her. trying to tell he
that Sanmarez loved her aud she was Il
come back To hear him say 50. beIiey,
made myself understood, for she gath
erred the gray together and made hin
hobble somehow. and we set off for TIN
tomb, while the storm went thunderin,
i down 10 Umhalla and a few big drops d
warm rain fell | found out that sh.
had been standing close To Saumare,
when he proposed To her sister, and hai
wanted 10 go home to cry in peace, as an
English girl should She dabbed he,
eyes with her pocket handkerchief o,
we went along, and babhled to me on
Of sheer lightness Of heart and hysteria
That was perfectly unnatural; and yet
it seemed all right nj the time and in ths
place. All the world was only the two
Copleigh girls. saumarezand /, ringed Ii
with the lightning and The dark; and ths
guidance Of this misguided world seemed
TO lie IN my hands.
/ When we returned to the tomb in ths
deep, dead stiffness that followed thu
storm, the dawn was just breaking and
nobody had gone away. They wers
waiting for our return. Saumarex mosi
4 Of all. His face was white and drawn.
As Miss Coplesgh and | lmped ND hs
came forward To meet Us, and, when he
helped her down from her saddle, be
kissed her before all the picnic. Il
WAS like scene in theatre, and the
likeness was heightened by all the dusl
white, ghostly looking men and women
under the orange trees, eiapping theii
hands-as If they We're watching a play
AT Summaries choice. never kncw
anything 50 un-English IN my life.
Lastly, Sanmarez said we must all &C
home or the station would come out te
look for ms, aud would be good enough
20 sde home with Maud Copleigh? Moth.
ing would give me greater pleasure.
said
Il 50, Wa formed up, six couples in all,
and went back two by two; Sarmarez
walking at the side Of Edith Copleigh,
who was riding his horse.
The air was cleared, and little, by lit
tie, as the sun rose. felt we were all
dr.pping buck again into ordinary men
aud Women aud that the "Grsat Pol
Picnic Was . thing altos, lAef apart and
out Of the world--uexer 10 halpen again.
/ 1t had gone with thedu storm and the
tingle IN the hot air.