The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1908-06-03

tdAGkJ of fluffy gray; cluster of
windfowers nodded. winking their
snowy blue eyes; birds whisked about
TO fetch straws and scraps for their
building. and the grass. bright green.
but study. wore a changing spatter-
work of sun and lear.
Marylyn let drop her bonnet and the
COW horn that hung by thong to her
wrist. Then. with folded hands, she
looked up and around her, shifting the
warm air In delight. The Texas home
had never offered such a lovely retreat
There the arid mesa had grown thorny
mesquite. scraggled cypress or stunted
live oak for shade. Sand had whirled
ceaselessly before a high, hot wind.
No flowers had bloomed but the pale
toadfax and the prickly pear, and be-
side the salt lakes of that almost wa
terless waste had nested only the vul-
ture.
But this! 1t was like the blossom
strewn plain that burst upon them as,
desert wearied. they travelled into cen
trail Texas: like the glimpses of April
woodland in the Upper and Lower
Cross Timbers. 1t made generous re-
turn for the long, merciless winter
More-in one glance, in one breath, 1t
swept away whole winter of hateful
memories.
She caught up bonnet and horn and
chose seat close to the river. Before
her was a gap in the knotted grape
vine heaps that chung along the brink
by some tendrils that swung wishfully
across, lay wedgelike vista of mud
dy water. bottom land bluff and sky.
The midmorning sun glinted upon the
treacherous current. upon the wet grass
Of the bottom land. upon the green
brown bluff and the Calling at its top.
upon the far. curving azure of the sky.
Against the dazzle. her blue eyes
winked harder than the breeze tossed
anemones. Stretching out upon her
back. she rested them In the shifting
canopy of foliage.
A startled kingbird flashed past her.
coming from a tree by the cut. She
got up and saw a man In uniform
standing near. He was young man,
with flushed face and wildly rum
pied hair. In one hand he held tas-
seled hat and in the other a rife.
He leaned forward from behind d
burberry bush. and his look was
guiitily eager and admiring.
As startled as the kingbird, she
grasped the cow horn and lifted it to
her lips.
But she did not blow a warning The
Uniform retreated in cowardly haste,
the tasseled hat lowered. and the eyes
beseeched
moment Then the man smiled
and shook his hat at her roguishly.
A-ah" he kaid-in the tone of one
VINO had made d discovery didn't
know before that fairy lives in this
grover
Marylyn glanced over a shoulder.
Does thereT' she questioned, half
whispering.
lie took forward step. There
does," he answered solemnly. Its
Goldenhair, as well as can make out.
but where on earth are the bears"
instantly she had her bonnet. "My,
myg' she said. "Bearsl Indians is bad
enough" She peered into the long
heaps OF tangled grapevine.
oh. now" he exclaimed self accus-
mgly. He whipped knee with the
NAT. Now. I've gone and scared you'll
say, honest! There isn't a bear In
hundred miles. I'd stake my stupid
head on it,
But Golden she began.
'Goldenhair?" He smiled again, by
way OF entreaty. why. Goldenhair is
YOU"
she clapped on her bonnet in a little
hurry, pulling it down to hide the last
yellow wisp.
misunderstanding the action, he be-
gan to plead. "Oh, don't 20: please
oon't go! I've wanted to meet you for
months and months. I've heard so
much about you. Lounsbury told me-"
she gave him quick look from un-
DER the bonnet's rim. "Mr. Louns-
pury.' she repeated and stiffened her
lips.
Yes"
lie don't know much about me, l
reckon. He amt been to see us for
months and Months" She began to
uig at the ground with the toe of a
shoe
"Well-well''- he noundered. Hes