Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-23

the Bald Hornet" / had taken a fancy
to the youthful discoverer of the mine
and felt it my duty to warn him against
the pitfalls of the miners modern Jeri-
cho
Don't you worry about me, Mr.. Brad
ford, 1 guess l can look out for the
money all right" he answered earnestly.
1T means a good deal to me. i never
had as much before in my life. and
don't guess no derned Graham that ever
lived did either. They were all poor. my
dad his dad and his dad. If Graham ever
got any money he COUNT keep it. Why.
] had 500 once he went on, impulSive
~, land bowed it in-jest naturally blow
ed it in: worked hard for it, too. Then
he paused, examined the buckle on my
horses bride closely. and added irrele-
vanity You didn't get no SLOUGH of a bar
gain on the Hornet for thousand, tell
you"
TT looks like a fair prospect: we are
TO do with the price,"
'Do?" he said. a dreamy look coming
into his eyes. DO? Why, i am going to
get twenty acres of land, under ditch
down on the Picketwire where l come
from, and go to raising alfalfa. It's
sure crop, and there's more money in 1t
than hay. 1 know, because L have
ranched before. and right down here, too.
That s Where L SdNeU up tHc S'pU WdS
telling you about. Did ii in two years,
and paid a pretty stiff rent 1 tell you,
Mr. Bradford. those were the happiest
days j ever see, all filled with sunshine
and horses-and things like that. instead
of powder smoke and hole in the
ground like this. ! want TO get back to
It, and stay back. ] am tired of ham
mering drill all day, and thinking and
thinking like you do in a tunnel After
all. farm is the only place for white
man to live"
II guess you are right about that.
Tom / said though don't care TO live
on one myself. But Ii you liked farming
so well why did you quit?''
.Oh ! wanted a change" he SIAM
nered with reddenine face. You see,
was going to get married-and then i
didn't and that always breaks a fellow
up. you know. Seems like he's got 10
pull up stakes; nothing else will do him.
/ did, and blowed UP here: thought I'd
try a hand at prospecting-kinder wanted
to be alone. You know how ii iS?'
Not exactly from personal experience;
tell me about it.
HOH. there amt much to tell; it
~ wasn't anybody's fault, except my
being a fool Graham. She kinder changed
her mind. in all. and married another fell
low more suited to her than me. He was
educated way up ana she ildo TWO terms
in a convent herself. They were both
good lockers. 1t was all right. YOU I'M
derstand: l amt kicking. 1t we'll
enough for us TO think lots of each other
when We were growing up together-kids
Is liable to do that: and I guess ii was
all right for us to gee engaged when We
got a little older-that's natural; and
reck'n IL the Gulf road hadn't built
through here that spring We would "a
sure enough got married-but ii did, so
there amt any use talking about il. "
II don't understand Tom, L said SYM
pathetically. How did the building of a
railroad interfere with your MARRIAGE"
Easy enough; il brought in lot of
college fellows to lay out the rOad-differ-
ent from us, you know; and one of them.
John Cameron. boarded spell at her
house. He was a little bit the niftiest
thing you ever saw. He knew how to
wear his clothes and whiskers. and he
could talk Ann Arbor like Il book; and