Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-07-19
By J. L. H A r 30 u r
Drawings by Will Crawford

asked Pap Wymore later in the day when
he again Jared toward the hotel
Il dun no." replied Dan Trimpy. Il
amt got that far along in my own nvesti-
cations. The stage ride made her sick, and
she's been lynn down since she came.
She asked me if l knew of anyone named
Robert Burton in around the camp, and
that give me the idea that she is on the
trail of some one. I never heard of no
of that around here; did your"
Pap Wymore shook his head, and said,
Never did Like enough he left his name
behind if he is around here. But she's
lady all the same. You can't fool me, and
she's got to be treated suchl''
THE next day Pap Wymore was coming
down mountain slope above the min
ing camp, when he met the First Lady with
a bunch of the beautiful lavender and yell
low and white mountain columblne in her
hand. A floating white veil of some cob
web like texture fell to her shoulders with
lek peculiarly graceful and becoming. effect
ssazs Paps keen eye noted the perfect fit of her
. black dress and the remarkable grace of
49, her movements. Off went his old hat when
~ they met on the trail, and again he bowed
- Good morning" she said with voice
- of a woman of culture
~ Good morning, ma am, replied Pap.
What splendid view there is from this
rocky ledge! This is the first time have
ever seen the Rockies, and they are splen,
did, splendd'' Her cheeks flushed
with the effort of climbing the rough trail, and her
dark eyes sparkled when she said, g How pure and
invigoratng the air is up here and what glorious
Mount of the Holy Cross away over to the East?"
Yes, ma am, it is, and dun no as 1 ever it
outlined any clearer than it is to-day That is the
g 1t is beautiful beautiful, with all those lights
and shadows above i'll Everywhere are such lights
and shadows. They make me think of that line in
Whttler's Sunset on the Bearcamp'
"Touched by light that has name,
beauty never sung
There! I've forgotten the other two lines; but
"'Aloft sky and mountain wall
Are Gods great pictures hung
added the old man. and the young woman's surprise
manifest in her face
Il cut that poem out of newspaper once, and
learned it," said Old Pap Its consid'a able of
poem. But dun no that it up to that other piece
of Winters called The Eternal Goodness That's
dandy! Say, if you'd like some mountain pinkS to
put with your flowers, know where there are lot
of em. You set here, ard I'll get you handful"
The old mans kindness appealed to the young
woman, while her sweet and gentle manner won his
heart. Before they separated he knew that the
Robert Burton for whom she hunting her
husband; that foolish quarrel had separated them;
and that she had traced him to Colorado where she
had heard that he had been leading reckless life.
And oh, want much to find him, to ask him
to forgive me, to help him to reclaim the manhood
he may have lost for the sake of the child he has
never seen-our little boy who is with my mother!
1 believe that personal appeal would move my
husband as nothing else could, and have come to
wss1 that 2 vtn{y as avs asis he me to nd
him?" she had said to Pap w ignore, with tears.
81 will ma am, said Pap simply; but his mental
comment was, The man who'd leave wife like
her amt u'th the powder that it would take to
blow him to the place where he and all other such
cusses belongs. I'll help her to find him. and if
git word with him in private, III give him goin'
over he won't soon forgit-the skunk!
THEnext day Pap W. more went on a little tripover
into Paradise Gulch, twenty-five miles distant
owned there. 1t the evening of the third day
after his departure before he again unlocked the door