The Tucson citizen., 1902-05-21
Continued from Yesterday
CHAPTER III.
MAD BEEN TAUGHT TO BE A MAN.

R.TS%T eu eNefypout Wuo hHcW HIAh
E%SY~f with the idea that he was ON
N, point Of having one of his dreaded
"dts." but II any one OF them had stud
,ed him closely he would have known
hotter. for the expression OF his face
wa, childlike In its geutleness But his
ioouacty was gone, for he was think
ING He had volunteered and been ac-
c.nted as the intermediary between son
md father, and his interview with
Richard Maxwell had left upon him an
imuression which he was endeavoring.
without success, to define. Lisle had
Injected 10 INTERPRETATION. believing
,he direct way to be the best. but Craig
convinced him that his own way was
nreferable and had dispatched him on
n supposedly important errand TO a
herdsman who had charge Of an ontly-
iug bunch of cattle.
Richard Maxwell was natural mar
tlnet. Ciockwork was not more exact
than were the rules OF his life. from
which be never deviated. His employ
ees liked him, but at the same time
they feared him. The slightest dlsobe
dence was regarded as a resignation
from his employ. aud Lisle was in this
respect as subseryIent to him as they
were. Maxwell was handsome man
TOO. Although his hair and perfectly
trained mustache were rs white as
snow, there was not line upon his
t4rfect face. His eyes were his most
rpmarkable features, for there was
within their depths something so SOM
her. 20 threatening. so fierce and so re-
pcllcnt that strangers instinctiyely
avoided them and then looked again TO
discover the cause. But II was undis-
coyetable. The more one looked the
more obscure seemed the reason for
avoidance. for the surface glance upon
them although searching and deep,
lad nothing In II OF those qualities
which Mt first repealed. His eyes were
tDdeniably large. and they described a
terfect oval. IL eyes can be intensely
hack. his were 40. and In hue the long
hshes which fringed them and the
la'hcr heavy brows that shaded them
were IAacker stili.
Yea would not have said that Lisle's
f,es were like his fathers. but you
would have insisted that Richard Max
WcIrs eyes were like his sons. with the
G'rerence that where the glance OF the
,ider man repeiled that of the younger
Gitractcd.
Iise Maxwel's training bad been all
that The heart OF young man could
a'>re. and his father had been hts 'u-
tgr ID everything. Particularly had his
a>truction been thorough In every
branch of knowledge which properly
fmld belong TO young manhood, and
I >c could not remember when any
l#Iy save bis father bad waited upon
1~ WSlicS AT least until he was old
sarn-h 10 20 abroad After that The
c~f"ys instructed him Ia riding ahd
a-~o ibrowiug. lie could ride Ike an
Aia,ao Indian. rope the widest STEER
tA, ever trnd the ranges of Nevada
s:eut from the back of his galloplns
aor~a with revolver or ride nfinit"Si-
a.al articles thrown into the air by his
1lH ng Instructors: he could leap
tsor bis horse 10 the ground and
again while the creature was
L..n a nad run and could cast his
A-ahcrchIef or his hat upon the plain
a@ hrn. dasliing past nj the topinost
.'"td ot his horse pick IL UP again. he
,Hl1 catch and mount and successful
lf .)r the widest and most unframed
}u.so that ever belonged on Crescent
AID cross ranch. There was nothing
along those ranges that man could do
which he had not been taught to do and
r. do well, better even than his IN
''fuctors. and as proficient Ia every
manly sport in craftsmanship, horse
lAaH>hip and courage-he was known
aId admired throughout that wide cir
c'' which had It's yearly rendezvous In
IT," Smoky valley.
Richard Maxwell had lived up to the
statement he made to his lawyer II
Years ago Lisle Maxwell was boy IN
every generally accepted sense or the
word. lie had grown up as boy ana
I'ed rs a boy. He had studied as
toy and thought as boy, and he had
hPoonception of what girls and women
were other than that they were some
tah@ 70 he religlously avoided. Re-
g4r'' ag the question Of sex. his father
Lao l'pt him as profoundly ignorant
as Il babe. and the words girl ana
N"'7au" We're TO him only terms Tor
~. p""sSion of n thought, and that
vi he had been taught to regard
i. + HGnant Indian women-sq quaWs
had seen frequently. but he had
h". .'*oryed much difference between
"'t 3nl the men except that they
"''g j'gIler, more brutal and dirfler'
I""A2hout all his studies. and they
"''' manifold and thorough, books
''''l;lrd to direct his thoughts into
IaiH"l> which might reveal to him his
c"I identity had been vigorously ex-
'NHrd. and he had no more idea who
'"' what he really was than he pos
I'>Sed II years ago when sleeping upon
"> iather's arm he was stolen away
''"'' his mothers loving care. That is
why the masculine pronoun Is used