The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-07-31


Y 4 la6oring mcn-what do you call m?-l,d9ue-
toS-playng cards III the Hall House"
Gordon took off his cap and ran his fingers
throush MS thick gray haiF He Scotchman fac
tor for the American properties Of Sir lanes Dunstan
as he had been for the English estate when the Young
man before him. the fourth of the old baronc was
small boy He accustomed to icer at Dunstans
interest IN the daughter Of Sweet Meadows Ranch for
many reasons OF good policy but he forgot these for the
1t won't do lass like that-shcs too wel-born-
she wouldn't understand"
NO, She doesn't said the other, that's whv
couldn't do anything She was standing with that
astonishing hair IN two long golden plats payinp on
her violin like symphony orchestra the score pinned
up on pillar of the veranda gave her the mail and
her fathers note She's game, Her face went white
but she Just stood and looked off gravey-t would have
wrung your hcart-as il she'd been woman Of s;,,tv
and then she SAID The foreman is i'll with pneumonia
Nl Dunstan, and my father says he must supcrlntend
the driving himself 1t is very difficult sort of thing
isn't -drlvng five hundred head OF cattle two hun
dTed miles over the mountains I'm afraid he is too
old to endure the camping-out and exposure"
told her that was sure it would be very beneficial
herself" e
shall have to stay here she said quietly Z can't
90 and saye Wing alone For ono thing, I'm quite
Oh il seemed the father went away like that once
before unexpectedly and brought her over to Kings to
VISIT and the men who had been left there-thc fore
man had to go of for few days to Lakeyiew-playcd
some internal practical Joke the poor heathcn bound
and gagged him, you know, and made him believe they
were gong to carve HIM up. When he found himself
finally unbound TO get supper, he cooked and served il
Tor them, and then shut up the house stole out and
saddled horse and rode ten miles 10 Kings that abt
Nobody knows how he found the way but he
tunbcd in there they going TO bed and called
lYid and chatcring. for Miss Bellingcr and fell in
to go back She won't leave him this time Fc loves
her as II nc were her dog and she's Dunstan laughed
with gag that almost a sob" she's staying down
drunken brutality of her fathers servants" Gordon
muttGrcd that the old man must be wcsk-mindcd
he sees nothing on earth but that he's losing money
on piece OF property. Americans beat me-to leave
an exquisite girl like that Couldn't you suggest the
propriety of-or the improprety, don't you know"
Dunstans blue eyes snapped
If you met St Cecilia strolng along OIL a sunset
cloud Ti Wth that oIganette thing in her hand would
chapcron2 | wish you'd look into those cyes OF hers
and talk proprety. tried it and she said There's
walked IN to her fathers desk and showed nc her
pistols. She had two and we ended up by cleaning
cm and shooting bottles off the fence post
Gordon got up and put hand the others shou
man needs keeper"
Dunstan went obcdiently TO his room, but only
to Change his clothes TO ones, and then slip
ping out to the stables he took fresh horse and
There no light in the Hall and in tho great house
only one IN the region OF the kitchen Ills spurs
daG spGd softly & on % the p3[e and d Wings terrified face
Wing he called gently; don't be afraid"
But Wings teeth chattcred
No can spleak me now-goin' blcd."
No, you're not going to bed" said Dunstan firmly
You're gong to listen TO I'm not ono OF the
on the place. You know me- don't you
The voice and the infection, spite OF terror made
a gull between Dunstan and the demons whom Wing
considered his hcish enemies
:. don't want those mensto harm you or Miss Bel
linger do you understand And want you TO arrange
signal SO that you can get me in case OF need"
lie caught tins IN spite ot the idIoms
in,
No, don't unbolt the door don't want to come
IN ] can talk with YOU perfectly here
lhIS rcasSurng still.
How | get you'
I'm gong ride down every night after and
picket III the tucs yondcr by the rivcr do you sec?
No will know-if you breathe word Of this I'll
murder you Wing narrow eyes blinkcd once But
II any suspicion of trouble to this house, want
you to step out and light that beacon do you set"
This much Wing didn't sec, chiefly because
he didn't know what beacon was, and Dunstan led
him. unwiIngy enough with his glin1mering white
apron removed knoll OF rim-rock beyond the wood
pile They arranged the wood lnnoccntly in tall
heap slender sticks and barrc-saves around
Of stone and in the center can of kerosene and box
OF matches Dunstan had sighted the spot carefully
through the field glasses. and in the moonlight stood
clear Of all intervening obstacles across the miles OF
meadow
He put weight of silver in the coolies hand, who
looked at him he friend then. No fees except the
unlimited gold of Miss Bellngcrs consideration had yet
oonsolcd him IN this Siberian exile
:" / not tell, ncber-not Miss Bclnger, noboy.
" In the daytime shall be at Mt Dunstan-l can get
the valley i'll half an hour by cut know But
you are not TO wait for trouble iou light it-do you
hear2-any tine you get tho least uneasy. At night
shall watch in the day you watch and signal"
So a compact; and Dunsan hld his horse IN
the tucS. and counted the watches after the last light
had been put And all night her window-curtam
blew softly, and the rpening meadow lay like golden
tooT under the moon the rm-rock TO the cast jagged
iron in the shadow The solitary house, with its wstfu
flower garden inside OF the clean white fence stood aP
pallnsy alone III vast land that knew no human his
tory, whose face turned cxpressoness TO the blank
heavens, Beyond the rimrock and beyond lay leagues
OF umbled hills and plains that had never trculbcd under
ottvc1 lc1rI he uhisu of a
ono spot in the United States where, foT radius OF
three hundred miles progress is but
In the lonely nights ne told his beads OF memory He
recalled when he had FIRST begun dream At all 1t was
day year ago. when nc had been riding along tho