Bisbee daily review., 1914-01-13

 heard a.y roaring canyon. saw my cliffs. my embattled scrlptured cliffa and once more seemed to walk with Jesse in Cathedral Grove
 laughed. cried. Oh. yes. oi course made fool of myself. For this dear lad came out of Wonderland this needless rufiian who knew of my second marriage. who had such a tale to tell of Madame Scotson." Oh, haven't you heard? Her precious Baby David Is illegitimate! Couldn't hear my neighbor. Mrs. Pollock tell. ing that story at the Scandal clubi
 Feeling ill.bred and common. l begged Billy's pardon. made him sli down, tried ever so hard to put him at his ease. Poor lad. His father condemned as a felon. his mother such wicked old harridsn, his life. to say the very least. uncouth. Yet some how out of that rough savage face shone the eyes of gentleman, and there was manliness in all he said. in everything he did. After that great journey for my sake. how could I let him doubt that he was welcome?
 'I know I'm rough" he said hum ply. but you seem to understand. You know I'm straight. You won't mind straight talk unless you're changed. and you're not changed-at least not that way, mum"
 Changed, An. how changed. The looking glass had bitter things to tell me, and crying makes me such a trump. l never felt so plain. And the eyes of young man are often brutally frank to women.
 Don't mind about me, Billy. Say what you've come to tell me"
 Been gettin' 1t ready to say ever since I started for England. Look here. mum, l want to go back to the beginning. to when was a kid, an mother kep' that hash house in Abi. lene. Dye mind if l speak-I mean ! about this here Polly?"
 1 set my teeth and hoped he would ! be quick.
 Well. ye see. mum. she only done it | for a joke. and the way Jesse treated her"
 "I can't hear this"
 You don't mind if I say that moth CT and me haven't no use for lesser
 'T know that"
 Well, mother put her up to the idea. To get shut of him. she sham med dead. l helped. say she done right. mum. If she'd let it go at that I'd take her side right now"
 Billy, was that a real marriage"
 Tt was that. She's Jesse's wife al right"
 There was something which bracet me in his callous frankness. Il hoped, I said. "Go on"
 Well. mother hated Jesse some thin chronic. Afterward when-well she had to run for the British posses sions, and we met up with Jesse agaiI by accident. He give us a shack ant some land, but mother an me had ou pride. How would you like to talk charity? Mother hated him stll worse. and don't you imagine I'd g back on her. She's my mother.
 "Then you married Jesse. Of cours' mother and me both knew that Poll. was alive Father knew, too-an' father was around when no one bus n ever seen him. We knew that Poll, was alive, and mother would hay given Jesse dead away, only we stoI ped her. Father said 1t was none O our business. Father liked Jesse,
 thought the world of you, so whe mother wrote to Polly. wed burn he letters"
 What an escape for usl
 Then you saved mother from burr ? ing in that shack. and afterward sh hated Jesse worse, because sk . couldn't hit him for fear of hurtin vou. Oh, she was mad because she got fond of you.
 And you took us into your ranci Charity again, and you sailin' unde Protestant colors, both Of yez. Tn way mother prayed for Jesse wa enough to scorch his bones" Bill chuckled. T ain't religious-I drinl and mothers professin' Catholic cut no figure with me.
 linen there's the fightin' betwee
 fathers gang and Jesse's. Dad go hung. Jesse got the dollars. Rougl common, noaccount. white trash, lih mother an me. hears Jesse expoun ing the Scriptures. We ain't got [ feelings same as you
 Poor lad! Poor savage gentleman You saved me from murderir Jesse and got me away from th' ranch. Since then I've followed tf sea. There's worse men there ths Jesse. l seen worse grub. worse Urea
 ment, worse times in general since
 quit the ranch Five years at sea- There was the glamour, the grea
 ness of the sea in this lads eyes, 1u'
 as in Jesse's eyes. Sailors may rugged. brutal. flerce-not vulsa Men reach out into spaces where a sheltered women cannot follow. Suppose I've grown" said Bill
 Well. mum, got a notion to go hom
 Signed as A. B. in four-masted bal
 Clan lnnes out O Glasgow. for Vance
 yer with general cargo. I quit her Vancouver, made Ashcroft by c. P. !
 blind baggage mostly. then hit u
 road afoot. I thought I'd take my d
 parture from the Fifty-Nine." | The old bush trail?'
 | Hard goin'. but then expected,
 course mother'd be there at q