Arizona republican., 1909-08-19

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 rOs-playing cards in the Hall House.
 Gordon took of his cap and ran his fingers through his thick gray hair. He Scotchman, fac tor for the American properties of Sir James Dunstan, as he had been for the English estate when the young man before him. the fourth of the old baronet was small boy He accustomed to jeer at Dunstan's interest in the daughter of Sweet Meadows Ranch for many of good policy but he forgot these for the moment
 < It Asont de, lass like that-she's too well-born- she wouldn't understand"
 = No, she doesn't" said the other, "thats why I couldn't do anything. She was standing with that astonishing hair two long, golden paits, playing her violin like symphony orchestra, the pinned up pillar of the veranda gave her the mail and her fathers She's game. Her face went white, but she just stood and looked of gravey- would have wrung your heart-as if shed been of sixty, and then she said, The foreman is i'll with pneumonia, MT Dunstan, and my father says he must superntend the driving himself It is very difficult of thing isn't it-drving five hundred head of cattle two hun dred miles over the mountains? I'm afraid he is too old to endure the camping out and exposure"
 told her that sure it would be very beneficial, and that would be glad to see her safely to Kings herself" .....-... ....-...-.- -,...... .- " shall have to stay here' she said quietly T can't go and leave Wing alone. For one thng I'm quite sure he wouldn't stay.'"
 "Ohl it seemed the father went away like that once before unexpectedly and brought her to Kings to visit, and the who had been left there-he fore man had to go of for few days to Lakeyiew-payed internal practical joke the poor heather, bound and gagged him, you know and made him believe they were going to carve him up When he found himself finally unbound to get supper he cooked and served it for them and then shut up the house. stole out and sadded horse and rode ten miles Kings that night Nobody knows how he ever found the way, but he tubled there they going to bed, and called lvid and chattering. for Miss Benger and fell in faint at her feet Nothing earth would induce him to go back She won't leave him this time He loves hera hard HaA with gag that almost sob" she's staying down there alone to be his protection against the possible drunken brutality Of her fathers servants" Gordon muttered that the old man must be weak-minded.
 He sees nothing on earth but that he's losing money on apiece of property. Americans beat nie-to leave an exquisite girl like that Couldn't you suggest the propriety- of-or the mpropriety, don't you know2"
 Dunstans blue eyes snapped.
 If you met St. Cecilia srolling along on sunset cloud with that organette thing her hand would you hold her up to know what she'd done with her chaperon wish you'd look into those eyes of hers nothing to steal and can shoot straight enough She walked in to her fathers desk and showed me her pistols She had two, and we ended up by cleaning
 Gordon got up and put hand on the others shou- der. Come to bed" he said, she's safe but the old needs keeper"
 Dunstan went on obedienty to his room but only to change his clothes to warmer ones and then slip ping out to the stables he took fresh horse and ured the miles more to the Sweet Meadows Ranch
 There was no light III the Hall and in the great house only one, m the region of the kitchen His spurs canked softly the porch and Wings terrified face looked up from the bread board by the open window
 Wing" he called gently, "don't be afraid" - But Wings teeth chattefed.
 No can spleak me now-goin' bled"
 No, you're not going to bed" said Dunstan firmly "Youre going to listen to me I'm not of the men the place You know me, don't youp
 The voice and the infection in spite of terror. made gulf between Dunstan and the demons whom Wing considered his helEsh enemies
 "I don't want those men to harm you or Miss Bel finger, do you understand? And want you to arrange SfQna n that yotI oct tfri-r nf
 He caught this in spite of the idioms
 "I let you in" he murmured
 No don't unbolt the door, don't want to come in. can taig with you perfectly here"
 his was more reassuring still
 How get you?"
 EIm going to ride down every night after sunset and picket in the jules wonder by the river do you see? No one will knowif you breathe word of this, I'll murder you" Wings narrow eyes blnked once. But If any suspicion Of trouble comes to this house. want you to step out and light that beacon, do you see?
 This was too much Wing didn't see chiefly because him. unwillingly enough, with his gimrnering white apron removed to knoll of rm-rock beyond the wood pile. They arranged the wood innocenty in tall heap slender sticks and barrelstaves around of stone and in the center of kerosene and box of matches Dunstan had sighted the spot carefully through the eidglasses and in the moonlight stood clear of all intervening obstacles the miles of meadow.
 , He put weight of silver in the cooies hand who looked at him he zedS friend then No fees except the unnted gold of Miss Bellnges consideration had yet consoled him in this Siberian exile.
 T not tell, neber-not Miss Bellinger, nobolly." St"1n the daytime shall be at Mt Dunstan-I can get across the valley in half hour by know But yod not to wait for trouble. You light it-do you hesrl-auy time you get the least uneasy. At night shall watch; in the day you watch and signal"
 So It was a compact and Dunsan hid his horse in the tules and counted the watches after the last light had been put. out. And all night her window-curtain blew softly and the rpening meadow lay like golden floor under the moon, the rim-roc the east jagged iron in the shadow The solitary house. with its wistful flower garden inside of the clean white fence stood a vast land that kneu tory, whose face turned expressoness to the blank heavens Beyond the rnrock and beyond lay leagues of umbled hills and plains that had trembed under locomotive heard the whisper of telegraph-the one spot in the United States where for radius of three hundred miles, progress is but rumor.
 In the lonely nights he told his beads of memory He recalled when he had first begun to dream all It on day year ago when he had been riding along the river at point where their two places adjoined and