Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-04-11

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 q promise. Don't worry. little wo.
 man. I'm not ready for reckoning yet"
 As he turned away she laid her hand on bis nrm and said:
 If you co not know him he will not know you. Is ii not so?'
 "Yes."
 'sIheS the rest Is easy"
 But he only shook his head doubt. fully and answered. "perhaps: 1 ain not sure" and went inside. where he made u2 light pack of bacon, Hour and tea. T pail or two. a eoffeepot and T frying pan. which he rolled inside robe of rabbit skin and bound about la tura with a, light tarpaulin. If did nut weigh thirty pounds in alt> Select iEg q new pair of water boots, he stuffed dry grass inside them. oiled up his six shocter. then slipped out the hack way sc6 ia five minutes was hid den in hr thicketS. Half an hour '"ter haying completed Getour cf
 the town. he struck the trail to the tn
 terior. where he found poleon Doret
 equipped, in n similar manner, resrin;
 beside q stl eanl. singing the songs ol
 bis people.
 When Burrell rciurncd to his ouar
 Gers he igied to mitigate the feeling O
 lonesoineDess that oppressed him by
 tecklsnS his ncglefcd correspondence
 SoEIe,low fuody the sense of his isola
 tion had come over him stronger than
 ever. His rank forbade any intimacy
 with his miserable handful of men
 who had already fallen into the mo
 notony of routine, while every friend E overture he mace toward tue citi. Eeps of Fiaa.beau was met with dis. trust and coldncss. his stripes of office seeming tu erect barrier ard induce ar cstraeisin stronger and more com p'ete than if they had been cmb.ems oS the penitentiary Even Doret and the trader seemed 10 share the general feeling; hence the thought of the long, lonesome winter approaching reduced the lieutenant to a state of black de- spondency, deepened by the knowledge that he now had an open enemy in camp in the person of Runnion. Then. too, he had taken morbid dislike to the rev man, Stark. So that all in all the youth felt he had good reason to be in the dumps this afternoon. There was nothing desirable in this place everything undesirable-except Necia. Her presence in Flambeau went far toward making his hrmdrum existence bearable, but of late he had found himself dwelling with growing seri- ousness on the unhappy circumstances of her birth and had almost made up his mind that it would be wise not to see her any more. The tempting vision of her in the ball dress remained vivid ly in his imagination. causing him hours of sweet torment. There was a sparkle, fineness, gentleness, about her that seemed to make the few wo- men he had known wei, dull and com monplace. and even his sister. whom till now Ee had held as the perfection of all things feminine, suffered by comparison with this maiden of the frontier.
 He vas steeped in t:is sweet, grave melaac holy when knock came at his door, and he arose to frd Necia her. self there, excited and radiant. She came In without sign of emharrass- ment or slightest consciousness of tho possible impropriety of her act.
 "The most wonderful thing has han pened,' she began at once when she found they were alone. "Youu faint 'or joy"
 What is it?"
 Ice has made a strike--a wonder 'ul strike--richer than the KIondike. came as fast as I could. because to- morrow everybody will know about 1t. 1 md 1t will be too late."
 Too late for whatT"
 For us to get in on il. of course. )h, but won't there be stampede. | Why, all the people bound for Daw- on on the next boat will pile off here. Then the news will go up river and | town river, and thousands of others vi'i come pouring in from everywhere. nd this will be n city. Then We will | take our town lots and sell them for yer so much money and go around with our noses in the air"
 Held on. Hold onl' said the sol fer, stopping her breathless batter. Tell me all about this"
 Well, No Creek came in this morn. lg to tell dad and Poleon. Then the oct arrived with an old friend of 'ee'a. Mir. Stark, so Lee told him. Do. and now they've all gone back to Is creek to stake more claims. They lpped away quietly to prevent sus- lcioa. but ] knew there was some hing up from the way Poleun acted, made .illtlra tell me all about it. hey haven't more than two hours art of us. and we can overtake them lsiiy." We! Why, we are not going" "Yes, we are" she insisted impa entiy, you and I. That's why I lme, so you can get mine for your |, If and be rich man, and so you m lrlD me rpt ouo | knoxx tho xc,v | |,