The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1900-09-27


that morning with a tomato-can. L..
Tact. from where she sat now on a
rock. she could see the
mutilsted can rlit,ering in the sun.
over beyond the arroyo. So she thirst
ed for freshcr sensations.
"fll tell YOU" she said 10 Grcvilie. as
he held up the mnshroom-can for her
To inspect the eight holes he had made
with fSc shots, "iet me toss up your
hat. and you make q hole through the
trade mark in the crown"
II was a nice, new straw hat. Gre
Vile had sent east for II and IL had come
by stage the day before. IL had cost
him express paid, sA75. This, too. at a
time when anything he had left after
settling his mess and suffers and tai
iors bills. went into stick-pins and
candy and books and music and riding
whips for Miss Nirart. But he took on
the hat and gave Is 10 her without even
a lingering glance st that high priced
trademark within. And he felt that Il
was worth four times S4.75 when she
picked mp the tattcrcd remains. at last,
ana asked that she might have them TO
hang in her room.
Then she looked down at her rrimy
hand and considered the first finger.
crooking II open and shut. IL think II 5
going TO swell" she pouted. THAT Is
perfectly awful trigger 10 pull"
Hrcvilie did what any man might
have been expected to do. lie caught
the hand and kissed II. Miss Mi,art
looked absolutely unconscious of H..
She might have been ten miles away
herself. Grcville. therefore, thought
that she was angry, and his heart was
filled with contrition. Yet he was old
aud wise enough TO be first lieu,cn-
ant. He walked beside her back to the
post in state of humble detection she
could not understand.
The next morning IL was Burton's
turn. Greville was over on the range
now, vainly trying to bring his record
up to where Burton's was. This time
Miss Mivart fired at white pa steboard- =
box cover. and hit IL three times out Of
twenty. She was jubilant. and SO was
Burton. because she was making such
P''N'n' """'' HiS tui'iOn.
mat an easy cnrbine 10 shoot.
isn't III: She asked. as they wandered
nome II ish at all hard To pull the
",eRer'
burton glanced at her, and she met
his eyes innocently. ITS Just like ny
other trigger" he told her.
ies' OF course. And is that the very
4 La.
same 'arpihe You use in the competi-
,'o"-'he one You shot with yester-
""H' anu VIII use this afternoon when
som hn'sh "p'
ne 'oia hrr 'hat II was.
Wen' she said, complacently. 81
MINK III cong very nicely, don't you.
J. "it the target three times. and my
"rs' nhSer Doesn't hurt bii-this
morning
INA. AFTERNOON the competition
'a"'e 10 an enc win Iurion good
man! points ahead OF Erc,ille. And
.h"' hIeh' 'here was The big hop. II
na' peeh UNDERSTOOD from the first that
me man VINO won was to take Miss
MNar, 10 the mop. 80 she went over
WIN burton, ana gave him on--third of
h'r eahees. "re'iiie had another third
ana the rest were open To the post n,
urge.
"re'ise d" not LOOK happy atall. IL
was not the target record he minded.
lie never thought about that. II was
ha'ing 10 20 down the boardwalk TO
'he hop.room behind burton. and to
""tch MISS Mivart leaning on his arm
aho looking up unto his face from under
'he white mists OF her lace hood. He
was NOT oonsoied at all when she looked
up INTO his own face even more swecily
ut the beginning OF the second dance,
and whispered that she was $50 sorry"
Now as the second dance had been
Greviiies, the third was Burton's.
Ihat wns the way II had been arranged.
As the band began the waltz. Miss
MiNart STOOD beside Gre,ille In the cen
ter or quite group. The commanding
ofhcer was in the group, so was Bur-
tons captain, and 10 was the adjutaBi.
There we're some Others as well. and
also some women. Miss Mi,art may
have chosen that position, or ii may
simply haze happened SO.
Anyway. just as the waltz started.
Burton. light-hearteG and light footed.
came slipping and sliding over the
candle-waxed h0or. and pushed his way
into the midst. Ours" he said. tri.
umphnntly.
But Miss MiSarf did not heed him AZ
once. she was telling them all how she
mao learned 10 SHOOT carbine ms well
AS anyone ana they. the men, at any
rate. were hanging on her words.
MIR. Greville taught me" she said.
"ana 80 dic Mr' burton. tThis.was the
mart In II and they EXCHANGED =, I,oL
"They taught me with their own .or,