Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1903-07-29
IN APEH
CANYON
By WILLIAM
MACLEOD RAINE

and comfortably settled in her section
he looked about to see If by any
chance there were any of his friends
aboard 10 whom he might confide the
care Of his sister for the journey from
Chicago TO Denver. His eye fell on
Maddox-big Jim Maddox of Cripple
Greek and Seattle and Los Angeles, a
mining argonaut who knew his west
as a Boston girl does her Henry James.
A moment later Maddox's big fist
was squeezing the blood out of the
clubman's limp hand.
BY thunder, Huntly. but I'm glad
to see you. Let me see-last time |
saw you was on The dump of the Mol
lie X, out in Gods country. Member
the day drove you up Son-of-a-Gun
hill and sold you 5000 shares in the
James g. Blaine? We saw weather
that day, young man. The blizzard
sure did hit us on the way home. You
on the way out there nowf'
Huntly rescued paraiyzcd hand be
fore he ventured on explanations. No.
I'm seeing my sister started She has
not been well. and the doctors have Or
derrd complete change. We're send
ing her to Denver. II was the original
plan that should 90 with her. but !
received a. telegram this morning that
the senior partner of our firm has died
suddenly. and it is imperative that !
should leave for New York at once.
| Would 1t be asking too much of you
to see that she doesn't get too lone
some and that she makes connections
with my aunt AT Denver"
We'll. guess not That's what I'm
here forte help out my friends when
they need me. But I'm not much of a
lady's man. Miss Huntly viii have to
take me in the rough
| Now. big hearted. breezy Jim Mad
dox was the very man To cheer home
$ K SRI who WAS travelling in search
Of health. He was as full of good spir-
its aud wholesome energy as Fourth
OF July is of noise. He had In his va
red past experiences enough back of
| him 10 beggar romance. and he had the
gift OF breezy narration rs few men
! have il. To be sure. he didn't know
anything about young college graduates
| from Bryn MawF. but as socn as he had
seen Miss Huntly he was more than
willing to learn.
| Helen Huntly accepted the lntrodue.
ton with outward reserve and with in
ward doubt. She was tired. and She
did not want TO have TO smile and look
pleasant to this big. awkward man for
two whole days But Maddox did not
| know Of the existence of either the
| doubt or the reserve. If he had it
wouldn't have mattered. His big brown
hand came out and buried the little
white one. and somehow the girl found
herself less lonely when she looked in
10 the honest, smiling, blue eyed face
Of this tanned stranger
Before they had reached Rock Island
she was congratuIatinc herself ON the
good fortune that had made him her
travelling compan.on He was the most
interesting man on her list. she decided.
| More strange adventures had fallen to
his lot than to dozen average men.
lie told his experiences quite simply
and because she was interested in hear
ing them, not at all because he was
proud of them. He seemed TO have
gathered into his personality the free
dom and the breadth OF about a dozen
of the mountain states. He wasn't
coarse in the least, but he was as I'M
conventional as Kansas cyclone in ac-
ton. He trampled unconsciously on
her New England traditions with Wig
or that would have shocked if il had
not amused her. They simply did not
exist for him; that was all
The emotions of Jim Maddox were
not a bit complex. When after two
happy days he said goodby at the I'm
ion depot in Denver. where Miss Hunt.
ly's aunt met her. he had already maGe
up his mind to marry her or know the
reason why. AS he phrased it to him.
self:
You've struck the best vein OF orr.
you ever unearlhed, Jim Maddox. anG
If you don't follow it up you're the big
gest fool in Arapahoe county"
He certainly followed IL up. and if
his mines ut Cripple Greek required
any great amount of personal attention
during the next three weeks they
must have suffered. for their owner
openly and patiently made il the bust
ness of his life 10 WOO Miss HuntlS
lie organized picnics and excursions
galore. and he always contrived TO be-
the man who was paired of with hei
Finally he ;:.duced party of the eide
q. Miss Huntly's choosing TO 90 calnpin.
in the mountains near new mine Ii,
was developing.
AS TO Miss Huntly. Jr.. her feelings
were as Il house arrayed against itself
She found herself falling into greater
liking than she cared 10 admit for this
free and easy blond Hercules. and the
nature of her liking did not approve
itself TO her Judgment. She knew. OF
course. that he was in love with her
and the knowledge of 1t sent delightful
thrills 70 her heart. but afterward she
would scourge herself for it. The things