Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-01-30

10 1ct'u StTaWS ana scraps lOf lncll
building and the grass, bright green
but stubby wore a changing spattcr
work Of sun and leaf
Marylyn let drop her bonnet and the
COW horn that hung by a thong to hei
wrist. Then, with folded hands, she
looked up and around her, smiling the
warm air in delight The Texas home
had never offered such lovely retreat
There the arid mesa had grown thorny
mesquite, scragc'od cypress or stunted
live oak for shade. Sand had whirlcd
ccaselcssly before a high, hot wind
No flowers had doomed but the pale
toadflaX and the priollY pear, and be
side the salt lakes OF that almost wa
terless waste lad nestled only the vul-
ture.
But this, It was like the blossom
strcVn plain that burst upon them as.
desert Wcaricd. they Travelled into cen
tral Texas; like the gimpscs OF April
woodland in the Upper and Lower
Cross Timbcrs. It made generous re
turn for the long. mcrcilcss winter.
Moro IN one glance. in one breath. 1t
sweep away whole winter of hateful
memories.
She caught up bonnet and horn and
chose a scat close to The river. Before
her was a gap in the l,notted grape
vine heaps jhat chung along the brink
Of the bank. Through If. vcied only
h. some tcndrils that swung viShfully
Fcrpst. ''. Wcdgelike vista of mud
d. v.'D. bottom land bluff and sky.
The nUmornng sun glinted upon the
treachcruUe current. upon the wet grass
Of the bottom land, upon the green
brown bluff and the Calling at its top,
upon the fa", curyug azure of the sky.
Against The Ga22lc. her blue eyes
wnked harder than the breeze tossed
ancmoncs Strctch',g out upon her
back. she rested them in the shifting
canopy of foliage
4 startled kingbird flashed past her,
coming from Il tree by the cut She
got up and saw man in uniform
standing near. lie was young man.
with Il flushed face and wildly rum
pied hair. In ono hand he held tas.
seled hat and in the other rifle
lie leaned forward from behind n
burberry bush, and his look was
gniltily eager and admiring.
AS startled as the kingbirI, she
grasped the COW horn and lifted it to
her lips.
But she did not blow warning The
Uniform ret~ated in coWardly haste,
the tasseled nat lowered and the eyes
beseechei.
a moment. Thea the man smiled
and shook his hat at her roruishly.
"A-ah," he said lin The tone of one
who haG made a lfsoovrry-.I didn't
know before that ~ fairy lives In tAis
grove
Marylyn glanced over n shoulder.
Does there" She questioned. half
whispering.
He took forward step. There
does" he answered so,o,nnIy ms
Goldenboi, nc ,v,lI. a.. oo, ,,,I.,. o,4
But where on earth orn fho bnars>,
Instantly she had her BONNET NV
NV She said "roors, Indians is l,d
enough" She Dcored into the long
boans of 4ap,,,ot ,r,.,,.,.,....o
"Oh now" lie e~c'o i,,.d so,f accus-
ingly. He whinfou n ,rcn with thc
hat "%ov T,o nom. o,,l .,o..a ,o,,
SAY honest There is'l'f q bp0r i'm a
hundred milo. rd sfoI,n my st,nid
head on IT,"
"Rrt Gollnu"-- eho horo,
"Goldeubaire" Tie smiled AGAIN nv
way of eulrea-v. "Why Goldcohoir is
vol"
She clapnol ON bcr hornct ir . liftIo
furry. puliu.s If down to hide thr LAST
yellow ,yicn
misunderstanding tho action he he
gan to pleod "oh don't 90. plcoso
don't 20, I'VE v.outnl ia moot Won for
months and months. I'VE hoard 50
much about Won. Lounsburv told ne"
She payc him \ ouick look from, m
der the honuors rim "Nr Jonns-
bury" she rcuentod ana stironod har
lips.
Yes"
"Ue dou'r I,nov much oho,,t mo T
reckon. He oin't loon IN SOC ne for
months and morfhs.'" She hogan to
dig at the ground with the foe of q
shoe
"Well-weN' he noundcred. Hes
been awful rushed lotelr-needad ot
Clark's-thore now. | promised toto
tend to his business here for him Rut
he told me about you. lust the same.
and about your sister too. Say. but she
is a brick