Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-12-03

sode as deeply as possible. But
would not let him go without his
warning.
II saw you pull lot of the land
company's stakes, Bart" said. when
the ranch lights were in sight. "I'm
afraid you'll hear from st."
"What'll they do to me, dye reck-
ONT"
Nothing, presume, because they
won't know who did it. But it'll
make trouble for the captain"
Kilgore plodded on in silence for q
full minute before he replied: "Reck-
on so? I'll be dad-burned II they do.
I'll go pull up some more in the
mornin' and cyar' EN- up yonder to
His Jags' camp. Blame II don't"
Whom we reached the ranch house
Macpherson had come home and was
about to start out In search Of me.
took my sooldins like . guilty
schoolboy.
"You ought to be thumped," he
said,- when I had been helped down.
Haven't you grain of sense left?"
Plenty Of IT.; it was the horse that
was lacking. I was all right as long
as he let me stay on"
"oh, you were"-with hne sarcasm
-"Well, suppose you're good for
week in blankets to pay for it.
Knocked your good appetite silly,
didn't it7"
"Come In to supper and I'll show
you. I'm good for anything, from
pate do foie gras to boiled dog"
1t Yves three full days, and had
ennuyed myself into state of coma,
before Macpherson would let me try
It again, and when he finally con-
sented we went together, ambling
the length Of his small kingdom and
pausing only when the horses OF the
settlement came In sight from the
brow Of low hill dominating the
clustered farmsteads and the engi-
neer's camp at Valley Head. I want
ed to go on, but Macpherson shook
his head.
"No; you've had enough, and moro
than enough, for one day. You for
get that the nearest undertaken is
; at the fort"
81 forget nothing. Give me that
glass"
When 1 had focused the feld glas,
he said: what do you see?"
II see the promise Of remarkably
beautiful sunset"
"Is that all?"
"No; see a log cabin which take
to be schoolhouse. The door IL
open, and there is some one standing
on the step-a young woman,
should say" dropped the glas!
: and turned upon him quickly enough
to surprise the beatiAc eagerness !,
= his face.
"It's she," he said, rather sheepish
ly; and then: do you really thinl
!. you could manage another mile o
: two and make out to get hom
alive?"
). I laughed. His wistfulness wa
:. beautiful to behold. 81 can do bette
than that; can find my way bacl
!, alone"
"And get thrown again-not niue.
n you QOu I. oS6loSo, NoHC yO0
. meet her"
4 do your It's much better as
J. stands. You can tell me all sorts Q
3 affectionate little fictions about he
a and I shan't be able to contradic
n them"
n 81 wish you'd stop devilling m
e long enough to say yes or no." b
growled.
- For answer 1 led the way ives
if ward at double, and ten minute
Il later we were climbing the schoo
" house knoll. The gallop had bee
r. wrought out in silence, but while til
o. horses were breasting the hill, Ma
% pherson said: "Of course, you unde
,e stand that what I told you about tt
If about the fracas with Wykan
ID must be as if it had never happened
e. my dear boyl Was born yeste
IN day? But you've seen her sine
I'd haven't your"
,e "No; I thought she would
m thought perhaps it would be bett'
I'd to let it age little, you know"
II. Here was embarrassment made
no order, but found comfort in the r
Election that the chapter of acc
IT dents, helped out by little tao
n full design on my part, wou
n, doubtless give mo an oppo
tunity to effacc myself after the
i'd PRODUCTION.
p Knowing Macpherson and his ste
he ing worth, and remembering the pr
d. verbal blindness of lovers in gene
ed nj, I was prepared to criticise t
nd school-mistress as the facts mig
warrant. But when she came to t
,ir door to greet us, went over to t
IN. enemy, horse, foot and dragons.
he had pictured her as young WON
off of the attitudes, schooled in the
AT nocent little man-entangling arts
the girl-graduate; woman of t
Nv broader world only by courtesy OF
es, high-school diploma; young pers
he who would be careful to make
ng distinction in pronouncing rise"
cd verb, and "rise" the noun, perha
he with cheerful disregard for
mt weightier solecisms. So ran the p
conception, and when she came {
ere to US the revulsion was sharp enou
to to be painful. More beautiful won
than Winifred sanborn there hs
ILL been, doubtless, but never anotl
se.' more instantaneously lovable. S
I'M was of the chastened Puritan ty
ose with a personality Of grace ratl
than of strength; young won
q with a face and figure which mis-