Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1910-11-10

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I'd become what he was, and I'd fgt
with him. I'd give him all / had
money. position. friends. influence.
my people objected I'd tell them to e
hang. I'd give them up and join hin
I'd use every dollar every vile an
feminine device that I possessed. 1
his service When a woman loves sh
doesn't care what the word SAYS N
man NAV be a ~weakling or worse. bu
he Is still her lover, and she will go Z
him"
The words had come tumbling fortl
until Cherry was forced 20 pause 10
breath.
you don't understand" said Boyd
"You are primitive; you have lived II
the open. She Is exactly your opposite
Conservatism Is bred In her. and sh,
can't help her nature. II was hare
ever for me to understand at first. bat
when ! saw her life, when I saw how
she had been reared from childhood
I understood perfectly. I would no.
have her other than she is. II Is enough
for me 10 know that In her w way
she cares for me"
Cherry tossed her head in derisiou.
"For my part ! prefer red blood to sap.
and when l love l want TO know il.
] don't want to have 1t proved to me
like a problem in geometery, I want
to love and hate and do wild, impul-
sive things against my own judgment"
"Have you ever loved in that way?"
he inquired abruptly.
Eyes" she answered without hesita.
ton, looking him squarely in the eye
with an expression he could not faith
ON. Thank heaven. I'm not the
artificial kind. As you say, I'm print.
tive. have livedr' Her crimson lips
curled s~cornfully.
81 didn't expect you to understand
her." he said. But she loves me.
And I-well, she Is my religion. A
man must have some God. He can't
worship his own image"
Cherry Malotte turned slowly to the
landing place and made her way into
the launch. All the way back she kept
silence, and Boyd. confused by her at
tack upon the citadel OF his faith and
strangely sore at heart, made no effort
at speech.
"Fingerless' Fraser met him at the
waters edge.
Where in the devil have you beenY'
he cried breathlessly.
AT the Indian village after help.
Why
big George is in more trouble. He
sent for help two hours ago. / was
going 10 beat It down there"
What's upy-
There's six Of your men in the bunk
house all beat up. They don't look
Ike they'd fish any more for awhile.
Aarsb's men threw their salmon over
soard- and they had another fight.
Things are getting warm"
I'VE can't allow ourselves TO be
lriven from the banks" said Boyd
-1n get the shorenen to-
'EA%[S AAEBA away EtUa Afbtn ana \
ring him along. Wen need every man
We can get
Nothing doing with that party.
les quit Ike a house cat and gone to
ed
Very well: he's no good anyhow.
les better M Of the way" ego6 o1
He hurried through the buiiding,a
DIV silent and half deserted, gather
q a crew; then, leaving only the orr
Itais and the Waterman to guard the
ant, he loaded his men into the boats
nd set out. ~
All that afternoon and on through
'e long, mnrky hours Of the night the
ittle ragged on the lower reaches OF
Ie Kalvik. Boat crews clashed: half
men cursed each other and fought
18th naked fists, with oars and clubs,
Id when these failed they drove Mt
he another with wicked one tined
IN 'pues." An night the hordes OF
lmon swarmed upward toward the
tai waters OF their birth, through
gging nets that were torn and slit,
keels that rocked to the i'm
ct of struggling, Needless bodies