Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-01-08
By Stewart
Edward White

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 with Ernest Colburn. who was just
 out of college and who worked in q
 bank. Orde, standing in the doorway,
 looked upon quite the usual thing, only he missed the Incubus. Search ing the room with his eyes, he at length discovered that incoherent, des- iccated, but persistent youth vis-a-vis with stranger. Orde made out the white of her gown in the shadows, the willowy outline of her small and slen- der figure and the gracious forward bend of her head.
 ''So you're back at last. are you, Jack" drawled Jane in her lazy, good natured way. Come and meet Miss Bishop, Carroll, want to present Mir. Orde."
 Orde bowed tremendously. The girl inclined gracefully her small head with the glossy hair. The Incubus, his sallow face twisted in a wry smile, held to the edge of his chair with characteristic pertinaclty.
 Well, Walter" Orde addressed him genially, "are you having good time:"
 Yes, indeed"
 His chair was planted squarely to exclude all others. Orde surveyed the situation with good humor.
 Going to keep the other fellow from getting a chance, see"
 Yes. indeed"
 Orde bent over and, with great ease, lifted Incubus. cnalr and all, and set him facing Mignonne Smith and the croquet ball.
 Here, Mignonne," said he. Eve brought you another assistant"
 He returned to the lamp to find the girl her dark eyes alight with amuse ment. watching him intently.
 "Walter is a very bright man in his own line" said Orde. swinging for ward q chair. but he mustn't be al- lowed any monopoHes."
 How do you know want him so summarily removed?" the girl asked him.
 Well" argued Orde. q got him Co say all he ever says to any girl. Yes so you couldn't have any more from him. Besides, want to talk to you myself"
 "Do you always get what you wantY' inquired the girl.
 Orde. laughed.
 Any one can get anything he wants if only he wants it bad enough" he asserted
 some people" she amended. How ever, 1 forgive you. will even flat ter you by saying am glad you came You look to have reached the age of discretion. l venture to say that these boys idea of lively evening is to throw bread about the table"
 Orde flushed little. The last time he had supped at Jane Hubbard's that was exactly what they did do.
 "They are young, of course," he said, 1 and you and are very old and wise."
 Now. tell me. what do you do?
 What do I do?" asked Orde, pug Jed.
 "Yes. Everybody does something | ut west here"
 ''Pm river driver just now"
 "A river driyer?" she repeated. Why. Eve just been hearing great leal about you from Mrs. Baggs."
 "Oh!' said Orde. "Then you know what a drunken. swearing. worthless ot of toughs we are, don't you?"
 "There iS Hell's Half Mile," she re- minded him.
 "Oh, yes," said Orde bitterly, there's Ielrs Half Mile! Whose fault is that? fly rivermen's-my boys? Look here! suppose you couldn't understand it if ou tried a month. But suppose you were working out in the woods nine nonths of the year. Suppose you slept n rough blankets on the ground or in unks. ate rough food, never saw 7oman or book, undertook work to care your city men up tree, risked our life dozen times q week in angle of logs. with the big river roar lg behind just waiting to swallow ou; saw nothing but woods and river, ere cold and hungry and wet and so red you couldn't wiggle. And then uppose you hit town, where there ere ali the things you hadn't had, nd the first thing you struck was Iell's Half Mile. Say. you've seen wa 'r behind jam, haven't you? Water overs good thing In mill course, here 1t has wheels to turn, but be- Ind jam it just rips things. Oh, hats the use talking? A girl doesn't now what it means. She couldn't un-  "l think I begin to understand lit e." said she softly. But they are a eartless class in spite of all their 'urage, aren't they?"
 "Heartlessw exploded Orde. "There's 3 kinder lot of men on earth. There mt a man on that river who doesn't nip in five or ten dollars when man hurt or killed, and that means three four days hard work for him. And 3 may not know or like the injured an at all. Why'- What's all the excitementY' drawl- Jane Hubbard behind them. Cant ou make 1t to be continued in our