The Delta independent., 1911-03-03


troubled musing. 81 am afraid she
suffers more than she will admit"
"She needs a rest and change. She
should get away from her seat at that
cash register and return to the open
air. A touch Of camp life would help
her. She sticks too close to her work"
81 know she does. but she won't let
me relieve her. even for an hour. 1t
isn't because she doesn't trust me:
she says it's because she doesn't want
me sitting there-so-publicly She
doesn't oppose my housekeeping any
more
you certainly have made the old
hotel into a place of miraculous neat
ness"
She flushed with pleasure. 81 have
done something, but not as I'd like to
do. 1 really think If mother wishes
to sell she could do so now to much
better advantage"
I've no doubt of it. Really. I'm
not being funny, Miss wetherford,
when 1 say you've done something
heroic. It's no easy thing to go into
place like that and make it hab-
table. 1t shows immense courage and
self reliance on your part. It's pre-
cisely the kind of work this whole
country needs"
His praise, sincere and generous. re-
paid her for all she had gone through.
1t was great pleasure to hear her
small self praised for courage and self
reliance by one whose daily work was
heroic. All things conspired to make
a conquest Of her heart. for the ranger
bore himself with grace and dealt with
his silver deftly. His face. seen from
the side. was older and sterner than
tracttve in line.
Redfield appealed to the ranger
"Ross, you're all sorts of reactionary.
What do you say to this? Senator
Bridges is opposed to all federal inter
ference with state forests and state
game"
The forester's eyes lit up. But are
they state forests and state game?
What makes them so? They are lands
which the whole people purchased and
which the whole people defended"
"Heah. heah!" cheered Enderby.
Bridges brissled with anger and went
off into a long harangue on state rights
and the dangers of Capitalization, to
which Enderby replied: "Bosh! The
whole trouble with your bally gov
ernment is its lack of cohesion. If I
had my way I'd wipe out the senate.
You're such blooming asses over here.
You don't know enough to keep a real
ly big man in your presidential chair.
III,
plain rot. Here's Roosevelt gets in
the midst of a lot of the finest kind of
reforms, you know, and directly you
go and turn him out. Then If you get
bad man you've to wait four years
till you can fetch him whack. Why
not arrange it so you can pitch your
president out the minute he goes
wrong? l say your old rag of a con-
stitution is a ball and chain on your
national leg. England is immeasura-
bly, better off so far as that goes"
Ross turned to Virginia, leaving the
political discussion to go on over his
head. Il was back in the old island
couple of years ago, and you've no
idea how small it seemed to me. 1t
surely is a right little. tight little
island couldn't help wondering
whether the men in parliament We're
as important as they seemed to think
they were and whether England is not
keally an empty shell of empire,
memory of what it once was. l
couldn't settle down there some way
| was hOmesick for the mountains in
month. But what scared me most
was the pauper population of the old
place-One in every thirty must
be helped. ! came back to the States
gladly. Il guess I'm an American l
said to my sisters"
To Lee Virginia the talk of "the
curse of democracy" and 'the decay
of empire" was unexciting. but when
Cavanagh told of the sheepmen's ad-
vance across the dead line on Deer
creek and IF the threats of the cat
tie owners she was better able to fol-
low the discussion. Bridges was
heartily on the side of law and order,
for he wished to boom the state ,being
heavy owner in town site, but he
objected to Redfield's ideas of "bot.
tling up the resources of the state"
But We're not" retorted Redfeld;
"we're merely defending them against
those who would mOnopoiize them.
We believe in their fullest use. but we
see no reason for giving away the re-
sources when the country needs the
revenue"
Mrs. Redfield rose as soon as the cof-
fee came on. you gentlemen seem
ben, upon discussing matters of no In
tercst to u.s." she said, 80 we'll leave
you to fight 1t out alone. I'm sure
you'll all agree with Hugh in the end.
Like General Grant, he's "a very oh
stinate man"
No sooner were they seated in the
| big living room than Mrs Enderhy be