The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1900-02-28

BORN TO WED$
How "A Texan .woman's Inheritance, (
Pair of Mules, Gained Her
Second Husband.

ishment IL had endured.
Mrs. Elliott emerged from the far
thest coTaer of the lee room-there
were bug four-and made an attack on
the heaps of allzali dust that covered
the floor Her weapons were a fire
shoyNn and a coal scuttle. A mere
broom would have availed no more
th1 feather.
She was northern woman making
a SIuaintance with the new southwest.
Domestic help in the southwest is q
czke Of Chlnaman or nothing. Mrs. FL
lott would have preferred a cobra.
A shadow fell silently across the tiny
entrance way and soft voice said:
"Good evenin."
Madam resented the southernism. 1t
was only afternoon. However, she
looked toward the open door and ac-
cepted the challenge.
"D'y'all want a grip
Mrs. Elliott gripped her shovel firm
~ TO prevent herself from throwing
her arms around the woman's neck.
'Will you walk IMP
She family remembered n tradition
regarding servants entrances and 9th
er devices of civilization, but they were
intangible vapors. beating idly against
the rockA~ primitive conditions.
The PSan smiled gently. and her
browpSyes were as friendly as a dogs.
She seated herself unasked. calmly
rocking back and forth and apparently
seeing no reason to pause in the chew
ing of her gum.
Are you looking for place."
yes. Y'see. m husban' has Jest
died. an Of c'ose | caynt live alone in
a tent out on the plain"
Mrs. Elliott bowed in recognition Of
Texan conventionalities.
81 thought mebby yll 'ud low me to
put my tent in y'all's back yahd. Then
I'd be safe, an cud wo'k feb y'all."
The idea was good Mrs. Elliott
grasped it with concealed eagerness.
- yes. NJ husban lef' me shack an
pa'h o. mules an a wagon"
ko.Her shipper could not be called purse
\aoud. but it was certainly well salts
jon
ashland been dead long?"
out three weeks" Her cheerful
tas suspicious.
u he good to your
exon he was as good as most
ne was sobeh. Sometimes when
On drinkin he use to beat me-"
lnad apparently been no cause
Iysentment. but was regarded with
dnconcern as the usual course Of
ire.
What is your nameT
- "Loo-eye-za."
Mrs Elliott gasped. but her necessi-
ties were great.
"Loo-eye-za." she said, with gulp,
''you may come tomorrow"
Early the next morning the shack
and shackhold effects appeared in
charge OF lazy. shiftless looking and
unkempt Texan ranger. smelling vilely
of tobacco and whisky. LooeyeZa fol-
lowed with smiling deliberation.
'Who is that man?" asked Mrs. FL
lott.
HE says his name is Mack Taylor"
In New Mexico il is the part of wis
dom TO take n mans word for his
name and to make no further inquiries.
"Is he n friend Of yours?'
Gle lives off yondeh, an got him to
move m shack feb me. | never saw
him befoh."
When the full New Mexican moon
hung overhead that night. flooding the
plaius with silver sheen for n hundred
miles. unwonted voices reached Mrs.
Elliott's ear. She made an errand into
the back yard. On n bench in the tent
door sat Looeyeza and Taylor His
feet were on another bench. and he
had shed his coat. lie had the air of
man perfectly at home.
II jes' come oveh { see ef I'd got
Mrs. RENDERS shack fixed all right"
he exclaimed. thrusting his pipe behind
him and trying to appear unconcerned.
Looeyeza's smile was conscious and
silly
Looeyeza took no trouble to adjust
herself to her new conditions. She let
them fall around her and drape them
selves as they would. Her smile was
Mrs. Elliott's despair. She ceased to
wonder her husband had beaten her.
On the third day OF her advent she
Joined her mistress and a caller in the
room dignified by the name of parlor,
seated herself, with a serene interest in
the newcomer, and smiled on both Ia
dies benignly. For few seconds the
atmosphere of the room was peculiar.
"Thomas Jefferson's ideas of democ-
racy were crude and limited" remark
ed Mrs. Elliott to her friend.
very" said the lady, with ready APP
probation. Thomas should have lived
in Texas"
These remarks not being of interest
to Looeyeza, she decided to sit on the
front porch. from which madam dis
lodged her later by an errand.
"That Taylor comes every evening
TO see Looeyeza," said Mrs. Elliott to