Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-04
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"Out OF the country. you mean7 Because
the lands n1ine and mean to hang on to
y Tho claims are all mine. and took
them up. The man that died was just q
aide partner to help me work the stun
They're the best copper properties around
here. Do you think I'd let them chase nae
out of the terrifory7"
But you can't do anything with them"
she persisted mot when you are out
Well I can't dispose Of them exactly :.
nothing to prevent my taking another part
4 ner. Is there? How does Mr.. Knight like
the looks of the arroyo7s
! She caught her breath as the full mean
ing of his words flashed upon her
Does my uncle know" she demanded.
Know whatf"
Who you are?v s.
DO you think he would have Travelled
| clear out from New York to Grisiner, New
Me . If he hadg'
/ cisive.
you wouldn't give fellow the ghos. o.
| a chance. would you? Well, I'm taking
| mine. understand? 1t was risky Ting
TO 90 even before met you and that there
| risky now. But I'm going to take tie
| chance. I'm going down to your camp end
have business Interview with Tristram
| Knight. your uncle. And IL he wants TO
And IL he does take up my claims and de-
velop them 1t means new life for me, and
| new chance to get away from the SOW
ernment bounty Maybe ~ amt to be-"
lessness and looked at her. Maybe, as
! you say It's one of them things that's go
Ing to happen anyway. just now. it's up
to you. reckon that you're my rate this
time. and it's your hand on the bride lead
ing. Are you going to tell?'i
Against her own will she met his gaze.
1t was compelling, winning gaze. 1t
seemed to her as If she never had looked
SO long or so deep into mans eyes.
Are you going to tell on mer' he re-
mo"
They had halted the chestnut at the
western brow OF the table land. Below
them 1t dipped into sudden slash of land
that some volcanic acrobatc stunt had
left back In days of primitive chaos. Ridge
upon ridge of many colored strata rose
from an unseen river gorge.
The Rather lifted his hat from his head
and looked down at the land of his promise
In peaceful content
Then Wen take the unknown trail to-
esether,,.. he said :.
Marie Louise"
Mrs. Knights audible whisper spanned
the space of the box rail. Marie Louise
was seated in the chair nearest the stage
half hidden by sweep of old rose drap-
cries. The others in the party had been
chatting in whispers, their backs half turn
ed from the stage. She wondered how they
could do 1t. Leaning her chin on her finger
play. "Arizonian," the prog ram announced
1t TO be. 1t was not the plot that caught
her fancy and swept her out of herself, it
was the atmosphere of the scene. Yellow
ana red, and skies of deepest blue. Even
the false glare of the spotlights and cal
cium could not rob the picture of it's reality
to her. She looked down at 1t and forgot
New York, forgot the year between forgot
everything in her life but the bit of Arizona
before her and that other bit in her own
life.
One of the soldiers on the stage brought
on small gray burro and she laughed
softly to herself. The poor little burro
with the red silk handkerchief binding Its
leg. Esteban had been sent back after 1t
as soon as they had reached camp 1t had
been the Rattler's suggestion, and he had
smiled grimly when the Mexican passed re-
luctantly and obviously out of sight and
left him alone with Tristram Knight.
Marie Louise"
The tone insistent and refused to be
ignored Marie Louise glanced up indif-
ierenuy and discovered a tall figure stand
ing behind her chair The lights were low.
she could not distinguish the newcomers |
lace. An empty chair stood just back of |
her own and she inclined her head slightly |
toward Tow II. Mrs. Knight smiled comfortably |
and leaned back in her own seat
year ago, almost. Marie Louise stared |
thoughtfully down at the painted rocks and |
canvas mountains He had kept his word
and disappeared as soon as the deal had |
gone through. There had been no trouble. |
Grismer had not been blind to its own in |
a BOOM
ing copper district. And 1t had doomed |
The arroyo and its hillsides had been torn |
and stabbed with shaft workings and the |
silence and beauty of the old camp by the |
waterfall had given way to a mule trail and |
the clatter of the miners shacks and grub |
tent.
once she had heard of him through her |
uncle. Six months after they had returned |
TO New York he had told as Iaughable in |
cident of the new mines that Jack Yates, |
ms partner, had given himself up to the |
he hod fnI lit
own bonds and been his own lawyer and |
had won the case. 1t had been an interest ,
ing case, Knight added, mighty interesting |
as those western things CO. But Yates had |
picked up witness, Mexican fellow who |
had been on the spot at the time of the !
murder, or, rather, the killing The fellow |
had been mixed up in the row himself |
Yates had said, but with the assistance of /
assurance as to his personal safety In the |
case, and liberal witness fee, Esteban /
had borne excellent testimony for the de- |
fence, and had cleared the reputation of |
Jack Yates, otherwise the Rather.
And the government bounty had been |
lifted from the pelt of the wolf
1T needs little more local color. doesn't |
it? said voice at her side
The curtain fell. In the n1omentary hush
which lay over the house as the lights
raised Marie Louise turned her head toward /
the speaker With lips half parted she met |
his gaze and did not speak. There was
something lacking to the fitness of 1t all A |
tilted Mexican sombrero. a smoking revol-
yer, chestnut horse and the loneliness Of !
the unknown trail
Her uncle was shaking hands with Yates
his partner, and introducing him to the
others. Marie Louise sat In her chair and
was silent. When Yates lifted her cloak to
her shoulders she rose and looked up at |
him curiously. He was not in evening dress
Il arrived in New York just one hour
and a half ago." he said. Don't criticise |
Really, do know better. went directly |
from the station to your home and they
told me you were here. So came after
YOU"
Why"
The question had slipped from her Inns
before a second thought could check IL
Her aunt glanced over her shoulder and
asked Yates to take Marie Louise For !
moment they were alone in the box
II have come about 5000 miles after
you,'' he said. Don't you know why? You
needn't answer. You answered 1t all right
when you sat looking at that play, and
watched you You haven't forgotten
There was nothing to forget"
Wasn't there? Why did you let me ride
to camp with you that day. when word |
from you would have cut away the last
rope from me? Why did you give me the
chance to live again?''
Marie Louisew
Il must 60 My aunt called us. They |
are turning out the lights
ont txarod har for,