, 1913-04-17

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1t lowell. to hit anything"
She started up suddenly to enter the
house. He new she was going for
her revolver.
Never mind" be said, here's mine,
What you do with it?'
shoot the block Oh your fae hal
yards"
he smiled his unbelief.
Il don't know the gun" she said
dubiously.
It's a light trigger and you don't
nave to hold down. DRAW nne."
Yes, yes" she spoke impatientiy.
n know automatics-they jam when
they get hot-only I don't know yours"
She looked at It a moment. ITS cock
ed, Ii there q cartridge in the cham
berr' i'"
She fred. and the block remained
intact.
Its a long shot," he said. with the
intention of easing her chagrin.
But she bit her lip and FREQ again.
The bullet emitted a sharp shrek as
It r~icochetted into space. The metal
block ratified back and forth. Again
and again she fired, ill the clip was
emptied of its eight cartridges, SIX
OF them were hits The block still
swayed at the gan end. but it was
battered out of all usefulness. Shell
don was astonished. 1t was better
than he or even Hughie Drummond
could have done.
That's really good shooting-for a
woman" be, said. "You only missed
4f frrfn. AID ta $50. 1865
on"
But 1 can't make out the two
misses" she complained. The gun
worked beautifully too. Give me an
other clip and I'll hit It eight times
for anything you wish" -" u
IL don't doubt 1t. Now I'll have to
get a new block. viaburi. Here. you
fella. catch n fella block along store
room"
I'll wager. You can't do It eight out
of eight-anything you WISH" she
challenged.
NO fear of my taking it on" was
his answer. "Who taught you to
shootT'
Won and his cowboys. BE vas a
shot-dad. l mean. though Won was
splendid too" i
Sheldon wondered secretly who Won
was. and he speculated as to whether
1t was Won who two years previously
had led her TO believe that nothing re
manned for her but matrimony.
what part of the United States is
your home" he asked-'Chicago or
wyoming or somewhere out thereT"
mo: Hawaii. | was born there. 1t
is a beautiful land. My. I'm almost
homesick for it already. Not that
haven't been away. I was In New
York when the crash came. But
do think 1t is the sweetest spot on
earth-Hawaii.I mean.
81 might as well begin at the begin.
ming" She lifted her head with a
proud air Of dismissing sadness after
the cnanner Of a woman qualified to
wear a Baden-Powell and a long bar
relied Colts. 81 was born at HiIo.
That's on the island of Hawaii, the big
gest and best in the group. I can't re-
member when / first got OF a horse
moi when I learned to swim. That
came before my A B C's. Dad owned
cattle ranches on Hawaii n Maui
big ones or the Islands. Hokuna had
100000 acres alone. II extended in
between Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa.
goats and wild cattle.
"von had cen in the army. and dad
was an old seadog, and they were both
| stern disciplinarians-only Von's girls
had no mother. and neither had l. and
they were two men. after all. They
spoiled us terribly. You see. they
didn't have any wives. and they made
| chums out Of us-when our tasks were
done. We had to learn to do every
thing about the house twice as well as
I the native servants did it-that was so
that we should know how to manage
some day.
More than once one or the 9th
er Of us had N rifles taken away
for a week just because OF a uny
speck of rust. We had to know how
to build fires in the driving rain. too,
out of wet wood when we camped out.
which was the hardest thing of all
except grammar. ! do believe. We
learned more from dad and Won than
from the governesses; dad taught us
French and Won German. We learned
both languages passably well. and we
learned them wholly in the saddle or
In camp. When l was sixteen we three
girls were all sent up to California to
Mills seminary. which was quite fash
ionable and sitting. How we used to
long for home! We didn't chum with
the other girls. who called us little
cannibals. Just because we came from
the Sandwich Islands and who made
invidious remarks about our ancestors
banqueting on Captain Cook which
was historically untrue. and. besides.