Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1894-01-04

storm was on in the divide, and the cattle
was a-drifting"
cts the fever: delirium accompanies
1t" said the doctor as they entered the
shack.
Nleron was lying on rough couch of
| quilts thrown over II few blankets and
hides, supported by cot of boards. The
room was hdeously hot the roof being too
thin, and the furnace breath from the des-
crt wandered through the half matched
walls Of ocateas
The surgeon walked to the door and
looked YEARLY across the brown waste.
"Morrisy should be here tonight, he NUT
| tered.
He was thinking of ice. Meron's pulse
was an octave too high. The fever was
rising. Already he was tossing on the I'M
chartcd tides of delrum-that mysteri-
ous sen where the landmarks of life APP
pear for moment and then sink and are
forgotten. He no longer heard the tinkle
of tho cattle bell in the pines up the can
yon; the storm day had passed on the dry
divide where his partner had been caught
| in Il cloudburst and swept away. He was
! back in the pleasant east now, unacquaint
ed with the desert. and the time was early
+ summer. He spoke of a woman III his
rawlings now, but OF her l can not say
| The story belongs to Tom and the sur
geon, and they never told it.
But this / do know, that after the deli
rum the surgeon went oftencr to Rancho
Bonito, and that Tom drank heavily of
ranch coffee and watched day and night at
the bedside of Meron, sleeping only dur
ing the surgeons visits.
Days passed on-superheatcd, change
less days, where your chronology collapsed
and faculties tainted.
But they won the fever battle in the face
OF the desert. The doctor said it was
nursing. while Tom thougho it was the oc-
cult knowledge of a doctor who could wear
p captain uniform.
one evening" when Mcron was GONZALES
cent, he rode over with Tom to the garri-
son They met the surgeon at the traders
Doctor" said Meron, 'Tom tells me
you are ordered east
"Gcs; | start for Boston tomorrow, and
wish could take You with me, Meron; it
would do you good.
~ never go east, - said Meron simply,
looking at the surgeon with that far,
steady gaze which sees nothing.
The surgeon caught the glance and add
ed, "NOu will have Tom with you now, |
suppose"
II want him to stay, but he ia going
on tho fall roundup at pantauo.n and
then Mcron continued awliwardly, as if
uncertain how to say: "Ihe beef cattle
We're not sold when | was taken i'll, but
I've arranged with Williams for the Indian
contractor to take them on the range. |
want to square up with you and Tom, since
you are both going away
ooh, forgot to tell you that there was
no bill. I'm glad enough to have the
pr"CI'ce' ne 'APre1Sio'i oli Mtroh Iace
wv MN iiG ,I"u mr"'o " lii9t"ht' anu ne
a""cu q''IoAlH lhc'e were 'ne ice ana Il
ie" hl'le hieulCliIt9 from tne government. .
iou may pay me I"r 'hoSe, IL conveniently
hnni!hS 'rliilns SUN WHICH Meroh iiahu-
GU MN
-NosV Vi your "'Il I9"ue ON any way
We surgeon 9aiu "9 ne l"cke'eu tlio money
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l"i' "oulu '"Ne io'hl'iG' Whlch was
"ru!%' 'or ne utv'eu money p'uly' ana
~ hi9 ic'"N"i Nv H"l' -teioh leellhe9'
'hlhk ON a'lI"Ii was nan that obstinate
rorNersi'F- IRRATIONAL sell sacrlll,J
l""lu irequtn''I among saIases ana ci'ii-
u'yH. h"' II '"IshV nave peeii princiPie
ms my "C' PUNK i'I'iio! ior "''ut i"r
t''roii "n'' nc "o''lu cer'"ihiS NAVE uone
ioI even !" Er'a9er peoi:
ne 'n''eu ny porroW iiS 90 from -heroil'
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or",t'' anu "i'er 'Fe"'iilS al rouiiu Started
i'r ""'"Iio' men Neroh ',aue 'le SUIT
eeoh 9oounE ana rode nome alone
20 you are Just come from Arizona,
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