The La Jara chronicle. (La Jara, Conejos County, Colo.) 1896-19??, 1906-06-15
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o"oh, this is grandr' exclaimed George
Casey, as he paused for few moments 70
heaps. farther away the foothiils sioped
gracefully downward, and still farther
down in the O valley and out over the mining
stretched away to the westward He was
new to these scenes, having. recently come
he was drinking in the atmosphere of the
new life to the fullest
'Y-a-s." drawled the girl as she overlook
her companion; but I'm thinkin how
We better start fer home. It's a-gettln'
purity late, an we're some twelve miles
from from town; n. We can't much more than git
..Two-bits," said George. ,tauntingly, ~
believe you're a coward. Here you were
scared about being out in the hills after
dark. Now, I'm tenderfoot. and yet
would mt be afraid to wander all over these
hills from now until morning.
but this was not the worst of his failings.
Raised in wealthy family, he had been
given everything he wished, and had ruled
his fathers house to suit himself. That
he Was the most important portion Of the
and 1t was his greatest desire that Others
should share that opinion with regard to
the summer in Wyoming looking after some
mining interests. he determined that of all
fbaee tba ih Ssre ne wona that as
not SO tender after all. The few friends
whom he had made first arriving at
Cold Springs. had soon tired of his lordly
ways and the only one who cared to accom-
pany him on his various journeys s over the the
a aI1s Tf Ike nT fsts a Sho followed him
Nobody. could tell where Two-blts got, her
name. She was, rough; unconth girl OF
to her birthplace. The high cheek bones
and and swarthy features Tes told of Ind Indian
No two ia Characters ' could possibly S have
been more opposite than those of George
Casey and Two-bits She had always been
dressed. brown-featured. bow-legged cow
boys, who treated her like one of their own
kind, and sometimes enjoyed teasing her
alton had been awakened In her for this
smooth-shaven, we'll dressed, polite young
gentleman who had come from the land
of which she had heard such wonderful
stories. She had dreamed Of such individ-
uals but had never seen one before He
appreciated the fact that she admired him,
and since no one else In that immediate
vicinity seemed to share the feeling, he
gladly allowed her the monopoly of 1t:
system all their own, with just two classes
master and vassal;
the way we come, fer it's too long round
We got to GO straight back , toward 18th the
Mebbe yer don't know tibet them there hills
Jest above the camp has got FIRE all under
'em. Mebbe yer wouldn't like ter fall down
one of 'em inter the fire."
"Ho, no. ho!" laughed the tcnderfoot
such ghost story. Now Miss" he added
do you see that big pile. OF rocks Eondcri
around here, and I'm going 10 go there. +"
"Huhr' muttered Two-blts. Yer kcnt
neither. ' A while back yer thought this
was the highest-her yer are. an thet's the
highest. It'll be the same way when yer
git thar; the highest will be just beyond. l
tell yer, It's time to go home"
home
afraid. KIN going on. 1t isn't more than
mile farther"
Its all of five mllesr' she declared: but
the master started along. and the faithful
slave followed obediently.. If he were
going, there was nothing for 1t but that
she must accompany him. They trudged
along In silence for half an hour, and still
the peak seemed as far away as ever.
"Confound It'll" said George. at last, "if
We had not stopped so long to talk about 1t.
we could have been there before this. 1
suppose it's too late to go any farther"
Had Two-bits been more cultured ana
learned, 1t Is likely she would have said,
"I told you So" But she only turned as