The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1906-01-06
CHAPTER tx.


Portable cabin on the Bear creek when
he had turned rustler and moved into
the bad mans country" one of
those remote mountain Businesses that
abound in Wyoming. and furnish nat
ural protection TO the fugitive from
justice. Judith took the left fork of
the road even as Peter Hamilton had
chosen the right the day she had
watched him gallop toward Kitty Cole
brooke with never glance backward.
judith stroye now to put him and the
memory of that day from her mind by
turning toward the open country with
out n glance In the direction he had
taken. But her thoughts were weary
of journeying over that trail that she
would not look toward. In magma
ton she had travelled 1t with Peter n
hundred times. saw each dip and turn
of the yellow road, each feature of the
landscape, as he rode exultant to Kit
ty, to be turned, tried, taken or left, AZ
her mood should prompt. But Judith
was more woman than saint. and In
her heart there was II blending of JOY
and pain, for she knew-such skill has
love in inference from detail-that the
mysterious faraway girl, who was so
powerful that she could have whatever
she wanted. even to Peter, loved her
own ambitions better than she did Pc
ter or Peters happiness and that she
would not marry him except as make
shift. For Miss Colebrooke wrote
verses. Peter had white and gold
volume of them that Judith fanclcd he
said his prayers to.
AS for Peter himself, he had never
been able to explain the magic Kitty
had brcwed for him. There was
heady quality in the very ring of her
name. His first glimpse OF her on
class day IN n white gown and hat
that TO his manly differentiation look
ed as guileless rs n sheaf Of peoples
noddlng above the pale yellow hair
that had the sheen of corn silk had
been vision that stirred In him he
role promptings. He had no difficulty
in securing an introduction. She was
Il connection of the Wetmores, as was
he. though through opposite sides of
the house In the few minutes talk
that followed he had the disconcerting
sensation of being talked down to-"
There was the indulgent tolerance of
the woman of the world to the mice
boy" about this amazing young wom-
an, who might have been eighteen.
Hamilton had repudiated the very sug
gcstion of being mice boy" But he
felt himself blushing. cropping for
words, saying stupid things, supplying
every requisite of the nice hoy" as If
he We're acting the part
Later. when he ran the gamut of
some friends, they had chaffed him on
his hardihood. BY Jove. he had nerve
TO look at her! Didn't he know she was
the" Miss Colcbrooke? Now. IIamil.
ton was absolutely ignorant of Miss
Colebrooke's right of way to the def
mite article. but il was characteristic
Of him to make no inquiries. On the
whole. he found the situation meeting
with n greater number of the artistic
requirements than such situations usu-
ally presented. lie was still dalying
with this pleasant vaguencss of scnsa-
ton when he picked up Il copy of
magazine, and the name Katherine
Coebrooke caught his eye and held 1t
like the flight OF comet. Her contri-
button was n sonnet entitled THE Mir
aclc." As naive emotional confessions
The Miracle" interested him. As n
sonnet he rent II numerically.
Peter was to learn, however. that
this sonnet was but solitary flake in
poetic fall Of more or less magnitude
He rather conspicuously avoided a ref.
ercnCc TO her poetry when they met
again. To him it was the very least of
her gifts. Her hair, that had the tender
yellow OF ripCning corn, was worthy of
Il cycle of sonnets, but pray leave the
making of them to some one else!
When Hamilton knew her better he
did not Ike to think that he had
thought her eighteen at their first meet
ing, II lmpugucd his judgment as
man Of the world. Young ladies OF
eighteen could not possibly he con
ributorS Of several years standing to
the various magazines. An unusual
situation was abhorrent to him. That
he should marry an older woman, one,
moreover, who had gained her public
In u field 10 which he had not gained
admission, was doubly distasteful by
reason of his Difference to the convcn-
tionuL II she had llrted with him,
his midsummer madness would have
cvaporatrd into thin air. but she kept
him ni urtI'S lrUVih nstpugibIy tn,l.