The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1914-04-24

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knowledge Of Kip Ryerson's
death d~issipated as David be-
anne reused at the ejaculation
Of suspicion Of his informant. Brought
back somewhat to his surroundings. he
muttered, well, reckon l must be trav-
cling" He left the yard and struck
into the road again, turning mechani-
cally back over the way he had come.
He had tried faithfully to fulfill his !
oath, and the power to do so had been
snatched from him, and he might now
stretch forth his hands to take fear
lessly the newness of life which had
come to him.
Late the following day he reached
home. His mother was seated before
the fire and turned e%xpectantly toward
him at his entrance. Without greeting
he stepped over to the mantelpiece and
laid his fathers rifle back upon its
rack.
Kip Ryerson's Dead" he said quiet
ly. His mother leaped to her feet and
clutched his arm, looking into his face.
NO." he said, answering her look,
for she had not spoken. Il amt done
hit l went over ter do hit like l PROM
Used, but he went west and got kilt
last sulnner in er railroad rick"
Slowly his mothers hands fell from
his arm and she sank down again into
her chair, but she made no comment
on either his expedition or the news
with which he had returned.
T., t1n fooo re thi, fpovov o,,,
that Judith Cree had become. it requir-
ed an effort on David's part to call to
mind what she had been in the days
before his fathers death; and the
younger children knew her only as a
pillar Of strength and determination on
whom they might entirely rely, but
from whom all lightness and show of
tenderness had vanished. And David
knew that every struggle and burden
of life that came upon them in the
years after Alderson's death his moth
err laid to Kip Ryerson's door with a
bitter accumulation of hate, though his
name or that Of her husband never
crossed her lips.
And the years had been hard and at
times almost past endurance; but.
thanks to Judith's indomitable will and
David's energy, they had managed al
Ways to pull through somehow, to the
constant surprise Of all the Crees and
Leisters, and now were come to easy
years, with David twenty-five and thu
other boys almost grown and able Il
the farm while David worked
in the log camps.
In the years that followed his six
tenth, David shook off much Of thu
somberness which the shock of his fl
ter's death bad laid upon him. anc
being now able to look into the future
he found life and its possibilities Yer.
pleasant, and at twenty-One or SO, look
ing about him, he found that for hin
Mary Reddin was growing up to b.
quite the most attractive possibilit,
which his life held.
At dinner tir.s. in the cornfcld tina
May morning, Robert Reddin looke'
back with satisfaction over more tina
half of his brown field in which til
secret treasure of golden grains an
white beans were safely hidden, an
when the soft gray blue note of til
dinner horn came pleasantly acros
from the house he gave quite a jovia
halloo in response and shouted to hi
gang of planters to knock of.
David and Mary took their wa
across the field. Mary had pushed ne
p1nky sunbonnet with its white ruf1e
back off her head, leaving it to han
from her neck by its strings. Fo
sunbonnets are the creations Of tn
middle aged. who find nothing particl
larry interesting outside of themselve!
and are to the young. who care to Sc
and hear, the very invention of the ev
one. Therefore. now that there wer