Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-03

dine with should like TO walk back across the
hill with you after dinner You will, won't you? Re-
member you have promised many times, but
made good. Come in and what real camp cooking
is like.
She hesitated for a moment looked at her watch
and then said, swell, accept-just because l have
stayed here later than intended, and it will be nearly
nine o'clock before the is high enough to light
the way. Must wash my hands and face in that tin
basin that one Of your men is proposing in over there
outside the bunkhouse?"
Jim looked at the "porpoising' and laughed
THAT he said, "s little old chap call Frenchy
because he seems to have perpetual enmity to the
French nation-for no reason that can fathom save
that his father an English man o-warsman who
came around the Horn in the early days and stopped
in this State.
3Yes an reckon that there Frenchy'll give Big
Bill Ridley what's what or LATER if Bill don't let
up on his everlastin foon' with him. Hardpan vol
unteered. @Bl don't nothin by it, take it.
but some day Frenchy' get sore
Jim did not laugh. Instead he frowned little at
the cabin where Ridley at that moment appeared
batantly nsstent that the called Frenchy should
not try to keep the washbasin forever The latter in
perturbaby took his time for his lavations dried his
face with punctious care before emptyng the water
and then ignored his torentor as he crowded past him
into the clubhouse.
RUT if there any undercurrent of i'll feeling be-
tween the two men, it was carefully concealed when
Waters sitting demurey at the end of the table and
joying the democracy of her situation Indeed. her
opinion of Frenchy that he sulen; for of all the
there he the only one who did not try to say
something intended to be interesting, on an occasion
momentous where lady graced the table with
her presence That Hardpan dsdained the of fork
and appeared to prefer his fingers and knife did not in
the least disturb her, she surprised when the
grff old man. having finished liberal meal almost be-
fore the others started calmly got up without
apology and sauntered out into the open air.
CHAPTER II.
FIVE WATERS and Jim talked lightly as they passed
II the trail leading up the crest, and yet with
out his knowing it. she steadily leading him to
his straight rankness and solicited his confidence for
had ever known All her life had been passed in the
eastern part of the United States, Europe, where
she had been surrounded perpeually by the highest de-
velopments of close civilization. All of Jim Kings
life had been lived in the western part of the American
continent and the greater part of it sheer self-de
pendencc. 1t of this she led him to talk whenever
she could, finding in it the interest of strange book
whose pages had been opened freely for her reading
He envied her the opportunities she had had for an
education, she envied him all the freedom he
had known.
dts all very well for you to try to find something
interesting in the lives of those who brought up
l was he said to her in the early part of their
acquaintance; "but to it seems dull. Now, if you
had brother he would have been able to go to school all
the time until he had passed through high school, then
into of those fine universities in the East where
he could learn something worth while. Consider mel
"Why, you to be we'll educated" she had
torted.
"Me?" he had replied in astonishmcnt, and flushing
as if this compliment had been great one. mo- am
not. | was born up in Placer County this State. My
father miner, and he finally got old ground
to work Placerve. 1t was just good enough
to give living He would have left there but for
the that my mothers health not good enough
to stand roughng it, and he was bound that should
have some schooling. don't know-t may have been
that he would have gone prospecting for ground
it was, if he had not loved my mother as he
did. He couldn't bear to be separated from her in the
last years of her life. He was greedy for every hour
of life with her. And she knew it, and loved him the
more for it."
He had been sitting by her side a huge boulder
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