The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-06-21

the fight that ensued when Fleming
made inquiry of a sick woman.
I should imagine" she said, glanc-
ing at ellison, that they would all be
sick. At o'clock this morning. heard
them go by my window, painting as
they carried water up TO the cook
house. l wonder, Jack, that you stand
for such inhumanity."
1t was the tocsin of war and, we'll
used TO its alarm by this time, Elem
ing turned a twinkling eye on ellison.
What about it, Gil?"
'Panting?'" Without looking up
from his dinner, ellison answered:
shouldn't wonder. They are getting
, too lazy and fat to do anything but
eat"
Applied to the gaunt enganchadas,
| fairness was so eminently ridiculous
that Fleming TOared. his wife Uttered,
Bender chOked, and even Jackson's yell
low mustache drew up to his nose. Ig-
noring them the girl wrathfully eyed
| ellison.
You are Shameless she said, after
q long pause.
| Later. Walking out through the moon
| light, ellison led Bender in among the
plantation buildings, a double row of
| lm-thatched huts, that rose on either
hand, looming sere and black in the
tender light. Passing the galera-a
huger hut, wound and fenced with barb
wire till it resembled a bird cage-the
might wind brought them the sleep
| breathing of the hundred contract
! slaves imprisoned within.
Sounds like a huge sigh" ellison
commented as they walked on. DO
| you know, 1 never gec quite used 10 it
the squalor, misery, hell of il all"
It's surely hell" Bender agreed
But if we don't make the best of the
| system, some one else will make the
worst"
Stopping at a hut that stood by itself
ellison called out the mandador, huge
Indian of the isthmus tribes. "Tomor-
row." he said, you will set two men
to carry water for the women in the
/ cookhouse, two to chop wood for their
fires, and third to grind corn for tor
tilla paste"
AS they walked away Bender patted
! his friend delightedly upon the back.
Now you are doing things. That ought
to take the wind out of Mr.. Jackson S
sails But say" he added quickly
With his mania for sitting on ex-
pense, don't you suppose that he will
object to your weakening the field
force?"
ellison shrugged. That's just what
GO ADtGl. TIE very ECdSOl lOI NY
passing it up to him.
You think that he will"
e. report me to headquarters. J
don't think-Tm sure"
Suddenly enlightened, Bender grinned
You old fox, l see your game. You
will call his sympathetic bluff. But
| take care that he doesn't deal you out
from a cold deck. Anyway, this play
| is bound to serve you with Miss Ma
bell"
The concession to her opinion did
serve ellison with Mabel. though. ODE
dent to the law of feminine cOntrari-
ness, she was at pains to conceal the
| fact For this he was largely RESPONSE
| BILE Having sized her up as a girl of
mettle. one of the kind that are not to
| be coaxed with sugar, he bore himself
toward her with a superlative indiffer-
/ ence that sharply piqued her sense of
power. Apparently, she was no more
| i'm his eyes than the dirtiest engancha-
da; an appearance that was the more
maddening because long ago she had
OWNED the love that lay behind it,
Her inability to draw him from his
entertainments. strange to say, both
piqued and pleased her; a paradox that
/ is explaina BILE only on the hypothesis
! that she could have no further use for
conquered foe. She would have loved,
yet feared TO defeat him. So. for
another month, they played at cross
purposes, Mabel riding or walking in
! the cool of the evening with Jackson.
carrying on a desperate Irritation under
the Indifferent eyes of Gibson, who,