The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1901-08-09

poked from the northward windows
| and stretching arms and index fin
gers guiding them in their inglorious
hunt, the lieutenant and his few
associates were stalking the first
four-footed object sighted from the
train since the crossing of the bald
divide.
Within the heated cars, with
flushed faces and plying palm-leaf
fans, a few of the women passengers
| were languidly gazing from the win
dows. 4At the center window of the
second sleeper, without a palm-leaf
and looking serene and unperturbed,
sat the young girl whose lovely face
had so excited Mr.. Stuyvesant's deep
| admiration. Thrice since leaving
Ogden, or one pretext or other, had
he passed her section and stolen such
a look as could be given without
obvious staring. Immediately in rear
of the seat she occupied was an aus
tere maiden of middle age, one of
the passengers who had come on by
the Union Pacific from Omaha. Di-
reetly opposite sat two men whom
Stuyvesant had held in but scant
esteem up to the time they left the
valley of Salt Lake. Now, because
their sections stood over against
hers, his manner relaxed with his
mood. circumstances had brought
the elderly maid and himself to the
same table on two occasions in the
dining-caf, but he had hitherto felt
no desire>to press the acquaintance.
This afternoon he minded him of
new b6ck he had in his bag, for
literature, he judged, might be her
hobby, and had engaged her in con-
versation, of which his share was
meant to impress the tiny, translu-
cent ear that nestled in the dark
brown coils and waves of the pretty
head in front of him.
When, however, it became patent
that his companion desired to form
Influenced by his well-delivered COM
ments, Mr.. Stuyvesant had bethought
him of the semisomnolent occupants
of the opposite section, and some
cabalistic signs he ventured with a
little silver cup summoned them in
pleased surprise to the water-cooler
at the rear end, where he RECALLED
them with good story and the best
of V: P. Scotch, and accepted their
lavish bid to sit with them awhile.
Fromsthis coign OF vantage he had
studiedsher sweet, serious, oval face
as shessat placidly reading little
volumesin her lap, only once in awhile
raising q pair of very dark, very
beautiful, very heavily browed and
dashed Brown eyes for brief survey of
the forbidding landscape; then, with
never an instant's peep at him,
dropping their gaze again upon the
book.
Not e2ce in the long, hot afternoon
had she vouchsafed him. the mini
mum Of a show of interest, curiosity,
ence. Then the train made it's Sec
ond stop on account of the, fires,
and Bre'r Rabbit his luckIess break
into the long monotony of the de-
clining day.
Tentative spikes, clods and empty
TASKS having failed to find him, the
beaters had essayed skirmish line,
and with instant result Like
meteoric puff of gray and white, to
chorus of yells and the accompani-
ment of a volley of missiles, Jack
shot into space from behind his
shelter and darted zigzagging
through the brush. A whizzing
spike, chance shot that nearly
grazed his nose, so daZzled his brain
let that the terrified creature dou-
bled on his trail and came bounding
back towards the train.
Close to the track-side ran a mar
row ditch. In this ditch at the in
start crouched the tall lieutenant.
Into this ditch leaped Bunny, and
the next second had whizzed past
the STOPPING form and bored straight
into little wooden drain. There
some unseen, unlooked-for object
blocked him.
Desperately the hind-legs' kicked
and tore in the effort to force the
passage, and with shout of tri-
uEph the tall soldier swooped upon
the prize. seized the struggling legs,
swung the wretched creature aloft,
and for the first time in six mortal
hours met full in his own the gaze
of the deep, beautiful brown eyes he
had so striven to attract. and they
were half pleading, half command
ing for Bunny. The next instant, I'M
injured. but leaping madly for life.
Bre'r Rabbit was streaking eastward
out of harms way, liberated victim
whose first huge leap owed much of