Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1914-11-27

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followed. An hssaw was the pyturnee |
face of the gist he loved. swinging q
hundred feet abcvs death In hts strong
arns. aafe.
About 5000 miles away a dark ana
spiendid woman was looking critically
at her maid. "Eloise." she was saying.
II don't IKE b be walked this early IN
the morning. have told you often
enough about this. what do you mean
by disturbing me for mere Ietterf'
you told me. madame. always to
call yoy when there was a letter In this
haDdwrilihg.r
The woman under the roseate cover
let's held out her ieweled hend. The
maid gave one swift glance at her
mysterious axaricious eyes ana van
ished as she closed the door after her
the envelope. torn into shreds, fell TO
the fioor
Mrs Darnell sat up alertly and
quickly perused the slow. even script
written on the old fashioned blue lined
paper Of a country hotel:
Dear Cousin 1ean--elncc you last heard
from me have found Gallon am lenv.
ing today Cor silent Valley His Master
Key mine ~ only ten miles from there.
won't he be surprised TO sss met will
Iet ycu know later how our scheme comes
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when oaIlor thongb, n. had ks,,ssy
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gfvec' srst exnre-,so,, ~ M. s..l,ogr,
The vo,,pr m,n,nr enr,ne.r on ncco,,nt
az a. vo,,th dIA not e.llv .underntand
SS.t n,sr ~ not sne.1 ~, ~ srrh th,ng.
uotsi eee-looae,,er ~ tongncs :. veil
81 ~ tha chord. ~ l,f.--s,,dd.rlv on
nr.s..s ther,--mater thsu feel heln.
lesa- brInea them 10 4 realisation of
wbat the nlti6ate fact Of death means
ne had harelv ca,,ohf the anneaI n
| the old mans voice when ha had coro-
nrehended Rufh'a perii.
The old man. with shaking liu1ba
| haA watcbed the rearue' when he
saw that bIa daughter was safa he
el.o nerceiveA fhn solution ~ hia uroh.
Iem qera was ouick mind needed
| ~ ,rctect Ruth,n nrooerfv Somewhere
IN that h,ll waa the richest OF CaIlfor-
MIA pold Once more he said to him.
aalf aJohn Dorr can sud .the master
/ kew"
Feeling himself too weak To meet the
| pirl who was now clinqing Imply to
bar rascuar ana aIso discerning I'm his
own slowino mise that his time was
| abort be went down the hill. crossed
the culcb without n word to the won.
dar,ng miners ana entered the bunga
low
moment later John Dorr entered
with Ruth a his arms. The old man
merely looked nm. ALWAYS look after
ber Jobn. p he snifi slowly. "and n vii.
karson comes bacl,,--
Dorr looked at tha old man with pity
IN nia owes ashe isn't hurt" he said,
cantIv nuttino her down on the couch
Then he straiqhtened nm. am always
loolr for berD ha promised.
Gallon stared over M the white face
of b,a dauot,ter as she Law unconscious
on the couch "Humph"- thus ex
nressIng n himself his own compre
hension Of the fact that there was
coming such 4 period IN his own life
He went ont witbout look backward
when ne returned the room was empty
| He fingered the books on the table and
i fell into state of profound thoueht
! He did NOT near the door omen behind
4 him.
Ruth freshlv clad and wholly recov
erred from her experience. wondered a
her fathers attitude She -steppet