Yellowstone monitor. [volume] (Glendive, Mont.) 1905-1928, 1911-11-16
ID Il
The tanning OF
Red Butte
Western
BY
FRANCIS LYNDE
downright, 1910, by ch~r2es scrib-
nei.'s Sons.


na Owed il with one of bis own.
Wv .yss | can work" he asserted. THE
ming impossible is not to love you
wv rls,nor It's hard enough when you
naknd: you mustn't make it hard
~ nr being what you used always 70
be to me-
what a lover you are when you for
- IN he self conscioust" she said
s.f.Jr~ None the less she freed the i'm
.rtsonpd hand with a hasty little jerk.
rbnn she went on with playful auster-
~. Nov you are to do exactly what
ron we're meaning to do when you
didn't know we were coming with you.
III make them all stay away from you
inst as long as l can"
She kept her promise SO well that
for an industrious hour Lidgerwood
scarcely realized that he was not alone.
when he came out on the rear plat
farm Miss Brewster asked him how
far it was to the canyon portal.
4OnIy a mi1e or two now" was Lid
cnrwood's rejoinder. Williams has
bpen making good time" And two
minutes later the one car train, with
the foaming torrent Of the Timanyoni
for its pathfinder, plunged between the
narrow walls Of the upper canyon and
tbe race down the grade of the crook
sd water trail through the heart Of
the mountains began.
Miss Carolyn clung to the platform
bandrail, and once Lidgerwood thought
he surprised Van Lew with his arm
about her-thought it and Immediately
concluded that he was mistaken. Mir
lam Holcombe had the opposite corner
of the platform. and Jefferis was MAX
ing it his business to see to it that she
was not entirely crushed BY the gran
deurs.
Miss Brewster. sTeadying herself BY
the knob Of the closed door, was not
overawed. She had seen Rocky noun.
tain canyons at their best and their
worst many times before. With her
lips 10 LidgerWood's ear she said:
"TelI me. Howard, how soon should
chaperoD begin to make a diversion?
I'm only al apprentice, you know"
There was a small Pintsch globe In
the hollow Of the umbrella roof, with
Its single burner turned down to d
mere pea Of light Lidgerwood's an
sTer was to reach up and food the
platform with sudden glow Of arti-
f2ial radiance. The chorus of protest
was immediate and reproacLfus.
oh, Mr., LjdgerWood, don't spoil the
perfect moonlight that wayw cried
Miss Doty, and the others echoed the
beseeching.
You'll get used to it in d minute
asserted LidgerWood in good natured
sarcasm. 1T is so dark here in the
canyon that I'm afraid some Of you
might fall overheard or get hit by the
rocks or something.
You can do the meanest things in
Inc name Of solicitude, Howard" Ele-
AMOR began, but before she could fin
Sn ne had reached up and turned the
gas OFT with a snap, saying. AL right;
anything to please the children" after
*hlch, however. he spoke authorita-
4Yey to Van Lew and Jefferis. Don't
'et your responsibilities lean out over
Inc railing, you two There are places
0eioW here where the rocks barely
give the train. room to pass
I'm not leaning out, said Miss
Brewster, as If she resented his care
,aklng, then for his ear alone, But
snail il want to"
Not While | am here to prevent
you"
"How?"
Tie special was rushing through the
darkest of the high walled clefts i'll
Tue lower part Of the canyon. This
way" he said, his love suddenly break.
ing bounds, and he took Der ii his
arms.
sne freed herself quickly, breathless
ana Indignantly reproachful
: am ashamed for you!" she painted.
Ana then. with carefully calculated
malice What if Herbert had been
looking?"
! shouldn't care if all the world had
oeen. looking" was the stubborn re-
1o'naef, then passionately, Tell NE
yAe thing before we 90 any further.
tLleanor-haFe You given him the right
70 call me out?"
how can you doubt it?' she said,
again,
There was safety only in flight. and
- ned-back to his desk and the work
~ nefeon The train came to d stand al
! .ahlanyoni, the first telegraph station
~ The shut 10 valley between the
fountain ranges 4 minute or two
,a'sf the wheels began to rerolve again
Saa Bradford came In.
... More maverick railroadIng. he
,asa dlsgustedly. Timanyoni had his
a - hsht out, and when i asked for
n eaeFs he said he hadn't a!ly-thoughtI
~a adyoe we'd want TO ask FOR en- our
~ being as we was running Wild. !
gig - ne thoughtfully stopped Us to
va woe, os the chance. snapped Lidger-