Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-11-23

Kn0W MatLneWS. coulu Duy LII null XII an poodle with a swig O whiskyv' He araigned the fort with crutch.
 What do you think of doing, dad7" "Ah'll fin out where thet cuss was las night V Charley Il help me, y see"--
 And then2"
 "Ah'll see thet-thet Oliver knows O this, thet he keeps a eye on thet dog goned"-
 But it'll be easier just to go straight to the captain-not I. but you''-
 "Yes, do, pa," urged Marylyn. "oh. Dallas, what's happened?"
 The elder girl told of the pole and the bootmarks, treating them lightly. Then she came back to her father, to find that her argument of @ moment before, for all its short cut logic, had set him utterly against the plan he had himself proposed. And now he was for no mans help, but for venge- ance wrecked with his own gun. Hurl- ing a final defy toward Shanty Town, he disappeared behind the partition.
 No breakfast was eaten that morn ing. The section boss was too angry to taste of food, Marylyn was too frightened and Dallas had no time, for she was busy with the mules, cur rying them and putting them before the wagon. Cant help what you think about it this time," she said when her father asked her where she was going. i've made up my mind that if you won't say the fort, why then I'll have to drive to Clark's for MT. Lounsbury. We don't know for sure what that pole meant. We must ask"
 LAW, you ain't got smitch O pride" he taunted jealously. "Goin' t Louns- bury. Waal, waal! You think heap O him. don v? More n you do O you father! Thet sticks out like sore finger"
 "No," she answered simply. I'm putting my pride in my pocket, dad. Pm going to MT. Lounsbury because l care so much for you and for Mary lyn. And want to say something-1 hate to say it-you've almost discour- aged me about Brannon lately. We came here to raise stuff to sell over there. But I can't see how we can sell over there if we won't even speak to soul. It looks as if we're going to give all that up-as if lot of my work is for nothing"
 It was new thought for the section boss. And while Dallas disappeared behind Betty he pondered it with hanging head She came around soon to hitch Ben's tugs, when her father looked up shamefacedly. "Ah'll tell y, Dallas" he said by way of compro- mise, "ef Lounsbury don't came back with y'"-
 "He will," assured Dallas stoutly.
 "W'y, we'll go t tn fort, as you say"
 "All right, dad," she replied, giving his back pat.
 He began to hobble up and down. "You ain't scairt t go?" he ventured at last. "Ain't afeerd O nothin'?"
 "No, and I'm going on my own hook, remember. It's not your fault"
 "Y' kain't think O no other way"-
 She paused in front of him. "Can you?" she asked.
 He could have sworn, but there was something in her face that forbade 1t. "No-no," he said explosively and so matched her determination with his hot stubbornness.
 He left her and, taking the rife and all the ammunition there was, seated himself on a bench placed just outside the door. There he was-a pitiful sen tinel-as she circled the shack and refined.
 And now another question was pre- sented: Should Marylyn stay or go? Dallas was for her remaining, so that in case of need help could be sum- somewhere. Marylyn sided with her. And 1t was long after ward, when many things were made clear. before the elder girl understood her sisters action-one that seemed so contrary to what the younger one felt. But their father opposed them both and vehemently.
 Dallas upon the wagon seat, prepar- ed for her long drive, had softened and touched him. She bore herself so bravely. She was so respectful and 
 You take Marylyn," he insisted, "an' the pistol. An c'n git along fine by myself. Charley Fl be comin', an Ah'll hang on t him. An reckon be- tween us we'll be O. K. Sides, y know An got a weasel's tail"
 The mention of Charley won Dallas to her fathers view. He would not be alone all day, for the outcast would surely appear. On the other hand, she longed to have Marylyn with her, where she could shield her from cross words and possible harm. "We'll have MT. Lounsbury with us coming home" she snid
 At that Marylyn waxed still more eager to remain. And 1t took some pleading to overcome her reluctance and to bring about her consent. Final ly, however. the two girls drove away.
 Before she started the team Dallas down to say goodby. In all their lives few caresses had ever pass cd between father and daughter, and those had been during her babyhood. But now. moved by a common i'm pulse. each reached out at parting to clasp the other. And there were tears In the eyes of both.
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