The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1901-08-02

ct to keeping "a RESTRAINT al Never,
mine. lie got tired Of her by and by
and he vamoosed the rancho there
TOO, and went down near 10 Lo,
Angeles. lie got into "a scrap there
and the other fellow was n bette,
shot, ! guess. That's ALL"
who told you?" asked Maggie.
1.-Two fellows that was on the cor
oner's jury he answered her.
what did he fight for?"
woman" he told her, curtly. "Shs
was the other mans wife"
Maggie's face was SO near the color
OF the alkali sand outside that n
could not turn pale. And the only ex.
preston of which her eyes had ever
been capable was dull hopelessness
so there would have been no guessing
how the news affected her except that
her fingers strained until the Joints
OF them were livid. "Where's he
planted?" she asked.
He told her the name Of the town.
III you'll marry me now, III take
you TO see his grave"
Maggie began 10 cry then. Even
when Dcnnison had departed she had
not shed tear. So it was all the
worse now. Tears held back for four
years from eyes, heat-dried, come
painfully.
Leslie thought for while that she
was going to die. And that would
be his fault. 1t occurred to him
that he had perhaps been abrupt.
lie had never seen woman cry, be-
cause women had not entered much
into his scheme of things. For a
while he sat and shifted on his chair
and watched, very unhappy indeed.
Then he got up and went TO her and
put his hand on her shoulder tenta-
lively. She pushed il off-and he
felt that he had been unwise again.
So he walked to the door and stood
there. his feet wide apart, consid-
ering the glaring fat and looking
back at Maggie, over his shoulder
now and then.
She cried for n good half hour, and
the whole experience frightened Les
lie 90 much that il was not until
nearly sunset that he dared get up to
the subject again. lie meant to go
at it tactfully this time, but IL came
AT the end of n long. strained pause.
"Say-what about our getting Joined
in wedlock and all that-anyway?
lie held his breath for fear she would
cry again.
INF zh 4 a. 4.
IL amt sure he's dead" she answered.
II am" said Leslie. "But I'll go
fetch the fellows that told me about
it, and you can find out for your
self" He went out and saddled his
broncho, and departed by the way
he had come. 'Tll be back" he said.
lie had no idea where the fellows
were to be found. They had been
prospectors. and might be anywhere
in Arizona, New Mexico. Colorado or
California by now. But though his
phrasing might have been less pol
ished, his sentiments were indentical
with those of Calonne-if it were but
impossible, it should be done. It
took him four months TO do it. But
M the end of that time he rode UP TO
the adobe again. There were two
men with him, and they went into
details that caused Maggie to be con-
WINGED.
"All right" she said 10 Leslie that
night. I'm marry You" 1t was not
but Leslie made allow
anccs, and took what he could get.
So, the next morning. the ranch
was left in charge of the two
vaqueros, the Mexican woman, the
And Maggie and Leslie rode off. side
by side, with the two men bringing
up the rear. The same padre who
had made her Mrs. Dennison made
her Mrs. Leslie now. and gave her
his blessing. She took it stoldly.
Then she and her husband took the
the train for California, to see Den
grave.
The head board to IL had the sur
name in black letters on plain board
ground. Maggie did not like that,
SO Leslie paid for a new one-white,
we'll. When it was duly put up, they
went on their way. The way was to-
ward the Mojave. leslie had mining
interests up there, and, being in the
general neighborhood, he took the
of looking them up.
At Mojave they left the train. hired
. wagon and proceeded toward the
All day they drove along
! road that wound between soft
rolling hills. pale brown, shrub
licckcd. The sun scorched. Near the
railway there were small cultivated
bits, where green things grew. But
hey stopped after a while. by after
noon IL was desolation.
"Where'll we put up Tonight"
Maggie asked-thc first time there
had been n word in two hours or
more.
There was house ahead, he told
her. He had inquired as to that. II
vas 35 miles from the railway-more
Dr. less-and it belonged to one Den