The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-12-09

eyes as he reached for his cup. Thank
you, Mrs. McCloud, only one after
that" He looked toward Marion. "All
| can say is that IL Mrs. McCloud's
husband had married her two years
earlier he might have been general
manager by this time. Nothing could
hold a man back, even a man Of his
modesty, whose wife can say as nice
things as that. By the way, Mrs. Sin
clair, does this man keep you supple
with transportation"
ooh, have my annual, Mr.. Bucks!"
Marion opened her bag to find It,
Bucks held out his hand. Let me
| see 1t moment" He adjusted his
| eyeglasses, looked at the pass, and
called for a pen; Bucks had never lost
his gracious way of doing very little
things. He laid the card on the table
and wrote across the back of 1t over
his name: Good on all passenger
trains" When he handed the card
back to Marion he turned to Dicksie
Il understand you are laying out two
or three towns ON the ranch, Mrs. Nc
Cloud?"
1.-TWO or three! Oh, no, only one as
yet, Mr.. Bucks! They are laying out, oh
such a pretty town! Cousin Lance IL
experimenting the street work-and
whom do you think I am going t.
name 1t after? You! think Bucks
makes dandy name for a town. dom
you? And / am going to have one
town named Dunning; there will b.
two stations on the ranch, you know
and / think, really. there ought to b
three"
"As many as that?"
81 don't believe you can operate |
line that long, Mr.. Bucks, with station
IA miles apart" Bucks opened hi
eyes In benevolent surprise. Dicksie
unabashed, kept right on: We'll, d.
you know how traffic is increasin
over there, with the trains running
only two months now? Why, the sci
tiers are fairly pouring into the cour
try"
viii you give me q corner lot II W
put another station on the ranch?"
II will give you two IL you will Civ
us excursions and run some OF tn
Overland passenger trains through tn
valley"
Bucks threw back his head an
laughed in his tremendous way.
don't know about that: darent prom
Use offhand, Mrs. McCloud. But II 20
can get Whispering Smith to com
back you might lay the matter befor
him. He is to take charge of all tn
colonist business when he returns"
Whispering Smith, lying on his iro
bed in the hospital, professed not
be able quite to understand why the
had made such fuss about 1t. II
underwent the excitement of the a
pearance of Barnhardt and the fir
talk with McCloud and Dicksie viii
hardly rise in his temperature, an
lying in the sunshine of the afternoo
he was waiting for Marion. She ra
half blinded across the room ar
dropped on her knee beside him.
my dear Marion, why did they drf
you away out here?"
They did not drag me away o.
here. Did you expect me to sit wi
folded hands when heard you were
anywhere in the wide world?"
He looked hungrily at her. II didr
suppose any one in the wide wor
would take 1t very seriously"
"Mr. McCloud is crushed this afte
noon to think you have said you wou
| not go back with him. You would n
| believe how he misses you"
1T has been pretty lonesome for Il
last year. didn't think 1t could be
- lonesome anywhere"
= Nor did l."
- Have you noticed It? shouldl
y think you could in the mountains. w
- there much water last spring? Hes
- ems, I'd like to see the Crawling Sto
i, again!"
- why don't you come back?"
70 He folded her hands In his ow
. Marion, 1t is you. I've been afraid
y couldn't stand it to be near you a
. not tell you"
?, What need you be afraid to t
~ me?"
20 THAT / have loved you so long. .
~ Her head sunk close to h
" Don't you know you have said 1t
" me many times without words? L
:, only been waiting for chance to I
20 you how happy it makes me to thi
- 1t is true"
ei THE END.