The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1901-06-20

nILLIE LOWE grew like solitary
wild flower in wilderness. Her
father was Black Hills gold seeker,
and failing in that began to raise
horses in the edge of the Dakota Bad
Lands. When the soldiers of Fort
. Meade had made the place compara-
lively safe, he sent for his wife and
four sons to join him. Dillie was
then too young to know much of
events, and when she was 16 there
had been little for her to remember
but horses, herders and Lieut.. James.
And yet she was far from being unac-
complished. She could lasso and GU.
horses out of the herd equal to the
best of them, and she read all the
most popular magazines, although
they were two or three months old
before Lieut.. James could get them
to her.
Dillie was past IS when the interest
Of Lieut.. James in her plainly passed
beyond furnishing pretty girl with
magazines and books. The immediate
cause that brought this interest to
the surface was the shock produced
on Lieut.. James when he arrived one
day with bundle of magazines and
books tied to his saddle and found
Dillie at the lower end of the sand
draw eating buffalo berries with How
Grimes. The lieutenant was a hand
some young man whose fine military
bearing added greatly to his appear
ance, but How Grimes was rollick-
ing westerner, born to the ways of
the pioneers, and he was said to have
half dozen ranches, each of them
with horses enough to make him an
acceptable suitor for any of the
bellies of the plains.
Dillie began to introduce the two
young men when she saw a look in
the lieutenant's face that froze the
words on her lips.
Web have met BEFORE" he said, stiff
y. Perhaps Mr.. Grimes will remem-
Der the affair-at Red Gap"
VERY WE'LL" replied How Grimes
with as polite and expressive move
sment of the head and hand as the
nee and easy manners of the plains
man possessed. "Old dog Tray near
y got his death that day for being
IN bad company. have always wished
1or chance, lieutenant, to thank
you for giving me the benefit of the
.aonbt. Those horsethieves did me a
sorry trick and I would like nothing
better than to pay them back in their
own coin. Did you ever find the own
er OF the horse they traded me?"
", yes,' replied the lieutenant:
ne caught up with us about an hour
efter you so cleverly departed and
imagine it would have gone rather
nard with you if he had been able to
find you"
Lieut.. James turned his horse alb
INptiy and went on to the house.
when Ollie came in he was about to
nase for the fort, although it would
DC nearly midnight before he could
arrive there, and it had always been
ms custom to stay over night. Plain
y something was very much wrong
ana billie had good cry over her
isst real sorrow. Her mother said
s, sae must expect such displays OF
Faloosy in men, and that the good
SANDING of How Grimes was too well
.erihed for her OF her daughter to
..el any doubts about him, besides
=, sne was not sure that it was a good
.ning for a girl to marry a soldier.
day. "'os' any
After that How Grimes came fre-
qaehtiy, considering that it was near
Y a hundred miles to his nearest
ranch, and the lieutenant came more
V1een' although. his duties at the fort
were very exacting.
,niiie was q,lite distracted, and At
'ne END OF year when How Grimes
ashea her to be his wife. she was al
nost beside herself trying to know
ae1 own mind. Fortunately, the two
young men he'd not met each other
saner house since the first day, and
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