The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1908-05-13

las leaned forward eagerly, face flush
ed, eyes shining.
The woman also leaned forward and !
looked Dallas up and down searching
~, coldly. Her lips were set In
sneer. Her eyes frowned. Then the
ambulance bowled smartly along, the
driver catching at a leader with his
whip.
who's that, Mrs. CummingsT' The
women in the rear of the vehicle were
peering out.
shoulder. why, it's the Plow Wo-
man."
There were "ohs" and "Ahs' and
laughter.
The girl by the roadside heard.
Sighted, rebuffed, wounded to the
quick, she stumbled homeward, her
sight blinded by tears.
She did not wait for Lounsbury
again. Once she thought of writing
him, of summoning him through a note
given Squaw Charley; but, recalling
her fathers treatment of the store
keeper, she questioned If the latter
would heed her message. She felt
herself isolated, but no hint Of her
bitterness was allowed to reach Mary
Ign. The younger girl knew only
bright words and unceasing, unselfsh
care.
For one thing Dallas was deeply
Observation-Disclosures did not trouble
the shack. David Bond had told her
that when the troops left for the sum-
mer campaign the interpreter would
ride with them, the evangelist being
place. The latter declared that, by the
pilots report, Lounsbury's name made
Matthews clay back his ears" but
that he no longer stormed about los
ing the claim.
And now came the warm days-days
in swift, sweet contrast to those jus:
gone. Sun and shower banded the
sky with triple arcs of promise. The
robins arrived, plump and saucy
crew. Bent bill curlews stalked about
uttering wild and mellow calls. The
dwellers of the ground threw up fresh
dirt around their burrows. The marsh
violets opened pale lilac cups, and the
very logs of the shack put forth am
bilious sprigs, so that from the from
the grotesque head displayed bristl'
of green whisker. The prairie wai
awake, blood and soil and sap.
Ben and Betty showed their Aig
spirits with comical sporting. I'll
mules frolicked together pitching hin
quarters, rearing to box and niIppin
at Simon. Fully as gay was he, thong
his shaggy TANKS were gaunt Il
played at goring them or frisked i
ungainly circles. Occasionally, how
ever, he gave signs of Ill humor Low
cred his broad horns threateninGi
even at Dallas, paved up the neN
grown grass and charged to and IT
on the bend, his voice lifted In hoars
challenge.
On the little family the light, th
warmth and added duties wrought
, good effect Lancaster's grumblin
; lessened, and he helped to plant som
: boxes with cabbage and tomato see
that the sutler supplied. Maiylyl
: coaxed out for an hour or two 1ail.
rewarded Dallas with smiles. Her G.
t petite grew (rather to her chagrin
: and when she held the looking gla'
! before her she saw faint color In h'
e cheeks.
: To Dallas the spring brought rene,
e ed courage and vague longing. WI
: the first mild evenings she took to We
= turing out, wrapped In her long claa
for d lonely walk. In her love of Il
/. cleaning she was like wild thin
: From birth the twilights Of the me-
had proved irresistible. When she W
r q child they soothed her little trouble
a In womanhood. If sorrow press
l. heavily, they brought her strengt
d The half light the soft air and the la
d of sound were balm to her spirit.
e Nightly she strayed up the coul'
eastward. south or toward the rive
until. early in May. a second incide
. occurred and interrupted her rambl'
!. She had walked as far as the swi
= that was part way to the Nilsson
There she was startled into sud-
- halt. From a point ahead of her a
- TO the left sounded gunshot-
- She sank down cautiously and stay
= close to the ground her fingers stead
ing her. her breath suspended. The
", was no moon. and the stars. were
~ scured by clouds. The ccttonw DC
~ were black. shapeless mass. S
,o watched them.
p No answering shot rang out; b
IN after q long wait. reply came FRI
ne the grove. 1t was a laugh, loud a
d. haunting.
A She STAYED crouching and presen