Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-11-26
CopyrtGht. 1905. b2 HAe1ef @ Brothess

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 'DaX. must have ttat gray mare of E9Hrv light aHstH@ Hc=waut iH tIe fi- IeetiJN If tle stable without a second glance at tho- -p9~t<str. ss. ana prp..- eAtly they saw him &5bll9l HE etI in tae opposite direction from winch he had come. Ms lta& cane il with q tray ell which Were | pot of coffee and sun. dry Suhstanti;,i delicaeies.
 ..Where'S he g9np=" she demanded, putting the tray down SC hard that the coffee stopped.
 Il dunno" said Leander. "Ie said he'd got to have the gray mare, sad dlel her hiSself and rode off
 Mrs naN looked at them all savage. ly for the explanation that they could Lot give. Ill sending her out to make coffee she felt that Peter, whom she regarded in the light of weakness. had taken advantage of her affections to dupe her in regard to his plans
 Take them things back to the kitch. en." she commanded Leander
 Mary Carmichael now involuntarily was in her check.
 Peter Hamilton. bowed in his saddle and logging forward inlumanely, bred rife speculation as to his destination among the group that watched him from the Daxes' front door Mrs. DaX. who entertained so profound respect for her own omniscience that she disdained to arrive at d conclu sion by a logical process of deduction. was plumb certain that he had gone after frtstlprS, I.eander who bad held no opinions since his marriage except that first and all comprehen. sive tenet of his creed-that his wife was a person to be loved. honored and obeyed instantlY-agreeJ With his lady by q process of reflex action. The fat lady, Who had Il commonplace for ev- ery occasion didn't "know what wa Were all coming to- Miss Carmichael, Who Was beginning to find her ca pacity for amaZement overStrained, alone accepted this last incident with apathy Mr. Hamilton might have gone in swift pursuit of cattle thieves or he might be riding the mare to death for pure whimsy. Only Judith Rodney. who said nothing, felt that he Was spurring across the wilderness at breakneek speed to see girl at Wet mores But her lack of comment caused no ripple of surprise in the flow of loose tipped speculation that served for the time being to inject q casua. interest into the talk of these folk, bored to the verge of demoraliZation by long waiting for Chugg.
 Judith preferred to confirm her ap- prehensions regarding Hamilton's ride alone She knew--had not all her wo mans intuitiens risen in clamorous warnins:-yet she hoped. hoped de spairiuYlv, even though the dread alter native 10 the girl at the Wetmore ranch threatened lynch law for her brother Her very gait changed as she withdrew from the group about the door, covertly gaining her vantage ground inch by inch The heels of her riding boots made no sound as she stole across the Kitchen floor. toeing in like an Indian tracking an enemy through the forest. The small window at the back of the kitchen commanded view of the road in all it's sprawling circumlocution. Seen from this prospect it had no more design than the idle scrawlngs of q child on bit of paper, but the choice of roads to good and evil was not fraught with more momentous conse quences than was each prong of that fork toward which Hamilton was gal lopng
 The right arm swung toward the Wetmore ranch, where at certain times during the course of the year hun dred cow punchers reported on the stock that grazed in four states. At certain seasons, likewise, despite the fact that the ranch was we'll into the foothil country, there might be found New York family playing at life primeval with the cooperation of DOT celain bathtubs, d French chef and electric light.
 The left fork of the road had a mean CT destiny. It dipped straight into des- olation. penetrating a naked wilder ness where bad men skulked till the evil they had done was forgotten in deeds that called afresh to heaven for venge- ance.
 Judith watched Hamilton with mar rowing eyes. And now she was all indian, the white woman in her dead Only the Sioux watched, and, in the patient, Indian style, bided its time "Cattle thieves,'' "the girl at Wet. more's'-the words sang themselves in her head like an incantation. "Cattle thieves meant her brother, their rec ogniZed leader-her brother, who was dearer to her than the heart Ill hel
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