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'Likely, ain't it, so many folks pass

Her father laid his hand on the
clumsy latch to the sagging barn
door. Sue Strengthened her back
against it resolutely. 49,
Mot in there, pop. I've just found
that old yeller turkey hen wethought
the minks had got. She's sittin' up
in the hay.loft, and I wouldn't have
her pestered for forty Jeb Wilson's.
No, I wouldn't! She do look so PEACE
full and proudlike. Bud Frank, take
the gentlemen to the spring house and
give EN- q bait er buttermilk. Fresh
churned this mornin', gentlemen.
And you uns do look like you'd been
swsllerinjyo' peck er dust all Z onoet.."
3Lumley took his hand off the latch
| and faced toward the men.
!. ttWe're foolin' away yalerble time,
gents. Will you step down to the.
milk house and wet yo' whistles be-
fore We start ag'in?"
"Won't the gentlemen stay and take
a bite" Sues hospitality waxed
urgent as sheperceiyed her father wss
bent on pushing forward. 'Twon't
Esake me morsen half an hour, pop, t9
get .,em aomathin' h6t "
"rhey'Ts&av something hot when
We keteh the Teller that done for Jeb
Wilson; so will he."
This witticism revived the tagging
energy of his followers, and afteGa
hurried excursion t6*he spring house,
theuee&iafAeAeisa AefA-seeidg
them mount their horses and dig
appear down the steep, stony bride.
path by which they had come.
When the last hoof-5eat had ceased
to sound upon the rocky ground, she
fed her prisoner, and loading him
Edown&with, provisions: and good adj
vice, sent him away 10 On epposite
direction fronfs4tbAt taken by the
hoofaemen.3 He turned and waved his
hist / her before theIblack woods
swallowed him up.
Vol. eourss I won't never gee him
sgainSashs said stoidlES1ksnd faeaas.
know as T care to bat I lied for him.
right on top of mammy's Bible, and
that's. goin't to make it bard feg me t9
hin out and,6uf." 8
In polht uf faeY she found It im-y
ApsssiblS TOY org& him (aeas ana-e1ty
She called herself a mean spirited
creature for clinging so tenaciously to
bis :memory, bnt1t did not mend the
.Gistter 81 aHOA wv DA&
Jeb Wilson's real slayer was discov.
cred and summarily dealt with. Jeb
Wilson himself was we'll nigh forgot
-tsn-wher6ue,-s ittrng
ing corn, as she had been doing that
evening, lifted her eyes to gauge the
lengthenipg~ shsdqwsl of the, familiar,
fiahhaaacaps, as she had done OF that
evening" and seYaman Ate499ipG ops
the stile that spanned the rude yard
fence.
She sat quite still. bqt a slow, sweet,
,smile isMat4 heEdigss@ Aglad llgG
into her clear, steadfast eyes.
"You be come back What for?"
: He was by7her side in a few swift
LstHaes!sS HS hdd out his hands to}herI
dqgnintgh eE ARllifte9 isces
t1'm building q house, over t,other E
side efahetdelk3At = oSahiiiotASi
/, '-s ia }ss' sS}ss 4 d:fits Htas fstp'1a
isIXess..iE chs COLOR .as1hel 4and went
in the girls sun burnt cheeks in q hot
torrent.
,Tmgoipg.ta take Wygife toJi7a
in nv house when it is finished"
sYes"-it was almost a whisper.
She fell to Smelling corn as if the world
held no other possible occupation for
-bes-+geaabling -}ittle-hsaas-
He seated himself boldly on the slab
by her side.Si he laughed and filed
bis bshdsswth cQrasshsb aatsheua1 =
I "Don't you want to learn some.
thing abont the girl I'm that
house for?"
IF you be anxious to talk about
her"
clam" s--
He athE the corn from him. and
the, pigeons came in ~hite.Winged
athDang to- epsisthe-waster
."She's the pluckiest girl I ever saw
She's worth ten dozen OF me. She got
the dearest, clesrest brown eyes in the,
world, a1d-and once nponSa time She
saved me from being hurried out Of
the world. by q lot tof ddiotsWhe Ing,
sisted upon calling me- murderer.
Slowly the truth dswnedsupon Sues
mind She leaned toward him with
hands folded on her knees 81 a G
I5hedfor you on mammy's Biblel
How are we going TO get around
thatg H. - - -
1--WE are not going to try to get
around it. We are going to forget it.
NO one -nget Know We ever met be:
FORE" .,
And Sue placed her hand in his,
with a smile of absolute trust and con.
tent.
Pending theiurnishfug roi bis house
and the fencing, Of his farm, Martin
spent much TINA al, the Lumleys's.
fsncied he game there to learn
rwisdom--ia hraing Of him. Frank
thought he came to learn how to make
make a colt pace. Each masculine
member otLthe Lumley~householdchad
his own solution Of the mystery? !,
Sue alone knew why he came. Mar.
knew how he. had been saved
from an Iignomlnious death by the SUI
perb courage tof the mountain girl.
-Ne.eae else-wn Observation-Disclosures
some Bradley Martin came to 'throw
himself. AWAY, Oh ReiaS LnmlagsSua-
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