Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-02-06
Copyright, by Lothrop Publishing Company

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Copyright, by Lothrop Publishing Company.
CHAPTER V.-CoNr1NUED.
She turned and smiled into his eyes
with utter frankness.
cat least you must be sure that /
like you; that am very friendly; that
want to know you better, and l want
you to know me better. You don't
know me at all, you know. You west
erners have another way, of accepting
people too readily. it may work no
harm among yourselves, but perhaps
fasteners are bit more perilous.
Sometimes, now, very eastern per-
son doesn't even accept herself-him-
self-very trustingly; she-he- it
so hard to get acquainted with him
SELF
The young man provided one of
those silences of which few discern
ing men are instinctively capable and
for which women thank them.
This road" she said, after little
time of rapid walking, "leads right up
to the end of the world, doesn't it?
See, it ends squarely in the sun"
They stopped where the turn had
opened to the west a long vista of gray
and purple hills far and high. They
stood on a ridge of broken quartz and
gneiss, thrown up in a bygone age. To
their left few dwarf Scotch frs
threw shadows back toward the town.
The ball of red fire in the west was
half below the rim of the distant peak.
II shall look forward to seeing you
and your mother and sister?-in
New York." she said, when they part
ed, "and I am sure shall have more
to say when we're better known to
each other
If you we're the one woman before
If the thought of you was more than
the substance of any other to me-you
must know how it will be now, when
the dream has come true. It's no small
thing for your best dream to come
true.''
Dear me! haven't we been senti
mental and philosophic? I'm never
like this at home, assure you. I've
really been thoughtful"
From up the canyon came the sound
of putting locomotive that presently
steamed by them with it's three dingy
little coaches, and, after a stop fol-
water and the throwing of a switch
pushed back to connect with the Shep,
Ter car.
The others of the party crowded out
on to the rear platform as Percival
helped Miss Milbrey up the steps
Uncle Peter had evidently been chat.
ting with Shepler, for as they came out
the old man was saying: "*Get action
is my motto. Do things. Don't frit.
ter. Be something and be it good and
hard. Get action early and often.''
Shepler nodded. But men like us
are apt to be unr> asonable with the
young. We expect them to have their
own vfgor and our wisdom, and the
infrmities of neither"
The good-bys were hastily said, and
the little train ratified down the can
yon. Miss Milbrey stood in the door
of the car, and Percival watched her
while the glistening rails that seemed
to be pushing her away narrowed in
perspective. She stood motionless and
inscrutable to the last, but still look.
ing steadily toward him-almost visit.
fully, it seemed to him once.
WELL" he said, cheerfully, to Uncle
Peter.
"You know, son, I don't like to cuss
but except one or two of them folks
Id sooner live in the middle kittle Of
hell than in the place that turns 'en
out. They rifle me-that talk about
people in the humber walks OF life.
OF course I am humble, but then, son
if you come right down to it, as the
Teller said, amt so damned humble!
CHAPTER vi.
THE ARGoNAUTs RETURN TO THE
RISING SUN.
It was mid October. The two saddle
horses and team for carriage use hat
been shipped ahead. In the private Cal
the Bines party was beginning its owl
Journey eastward. From the rear plat
form they had watched the tall figure
of Uncle Peter Bines standing in thu
bright autumn sun, aloof from thu
Dand of kerchief-waving friends, thu
droop of his mead and shoulders show
ing the detection he felt at seeing then
go. He had resisted all entreaties tt
accompany them.
His last Injunction to Percival hai
been to marry early.
II know your stock and know you,
he said; land you got no call to b.
rangin' them pastures without a brand
You never was meant fur a maverick
Only don't let the first woman tina
comes ridin' herd get her iron on you
No man knows much about the crit
tiers, of course, but I've noticed few
things in my time. You pick ont
that's full-ckested, that's got fairish