The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1913-06-27

the thought that here was a mar who
never used a knife and fork and all for
my sake
"Nasn't you in love with him?' |
asks, all injudicious. Wasn't there a
deal on for you to become Mrs. Curios-
ity"
ITO that Name says much too
pleasant: You're short on credentials
for asking that question, Mr.. Peters.
Suppose you do a forty-nine day fast
just to give YOU ground to stand on,
and then maybe I'll answer it,
so. even after Collier was kidnapped
out of the way by the revolt of his APP
petite. my oWn prospects with Name
didn't seem to be improved. And then
business played out III Guthrie.
II had stayed too long there. The
show signs Of wear. and the Kinder
refused to light up right frequent on
wet mornings. There is always Il time
in my business when the star of site
cess says. Move on to the next town.
| was travelling by wagon at that time
So as not to miss any of the small
towns, 50 | hitched up a few days later
and went DOWN to tell Name gOOdby.
| wasn't abandoning the game. | i'll
tended running over to oklahoma City
and work it for a week or two. Then
| was coming back to institute fresh
proceedings against Name.
"Nlat do | find at the DuyanS' but
Name all conspicuous in a blue travel
ing dress. with her little trunk ut the
door. 1t seems that sister LOttie Bell,
who is IL typewriter in Terre Haute.
is going to be married mex Thursday
and Name is off for Il weeks visit to
be an accomplice at the creme
Name is waiting for Il freight wagon
that is going to take her to Oklahoma,
but l condemns the freight wagon with
promptnc>s and scorn and offers to de-
liver the goods myself. Ma Dugan
sees no reason why not. as Mr.. Freight
er wants pay for the job; so, thirty
minutes later Name and | pull out in
my light spring wagon with white
canvas cover and head due south.
That morning was Of a praise
worthy sort. The breeze was lively
and smelled excellent Of flowers and
grass. and the little c%ottontail rabbits
entertained themselves with skylark-
ing across the road. My two Ken
lucky bays eel for the horizon until
it come sailing in so fast YOU wanted
to dodge it like a ~clotheSline. Name
was full Of talk and ratified on like a
kid about her old home and her school
FRANKS and the things she like, and
the hateful ways of those johnson
girls Just across the street. way up
in Indiana. Not q word was said about
Ed Collier or victuals or such solemn
subjects. About noon Name looks and
finds that he lunch she had put up in
a basket had been left behind. | could
have managed quite Il collation.. but
Name didn't seem to be grievinc over
nothing TO eat, SO I made no lamenta-
tons. 1t was a sore subject with me.
and | ruled %provender in all its branch
es out of my conversation.
II am minded 20 touch light or ex-
plantations how I came to lose the
way. The road was dim and well
grown with grass, and here was
Name by my side contiscutin~ my in
tellects and attention. The excuses
are good or they are not. as they may
appear to YOU. But l lost it, and at
dusk thai afternoon. when we should
have been in Oklahoma City. we were
seesaWlng along the edge of nowhere
in some undiscovered river bottom,
and the rain was falling in large, wet
punches. Down there in the swamps
we saw a little log house on a small
knoll of high GROUND. The bottom
grass and the chaparral and the lone
some timber crowded all around it. 1t
seemed to he a melancholy little house.
and you felt sorry for it. Twas that
house for the night. the way reu-
soned it. l explained to Name, and
she leaves it to me to decide. She
doesn't become -alNanic and prosccut-
ing, as most W"lncn would, but she
says it's AL right. She knows l didn't
mean to do 1t.
I'VE found the house was deserted.
It had two empty rooms. There was
Il little she'd in the yard where beasts
had once been kept. In Il loft Of it
was a lot Of old hay. | put my horses
in there and gave them some of it, for
which they looked ut mt sorrowful.
expecting. apologies. The rest of the
hay | carried into the house Ivy arm
fuls. with Il view I" accommodations,
I also brought in the patent kinder
and the Rrazilians, neither of which
are guaranteed against the action Of
water.
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