The bee. (Earlington, Ky.) 1889-19??, 1914-04-10

- ened her. and as she raised her pretty
face from the trunk Of the tree, against which
she was half reclining, the book which she had
been reading slipped from her lap to the ground.
She watched the rider with interest as his
broncho loped into plain view and passed along
the trail almost beneath her feet. The broncho
stopped at the little stream and the rider dis
mounted, took folding cup from his pocket and
joined his steed in drinking here's to you, old
boy, in the finest drink distilled, and that's
some water, tool" He took off his Stetson and
wiped the perspiration from his face and gazed
with deep admiration at the scene before him.
1t was one OF the fairest spots in section Of
the country, where natural beauties were few,
indeed Some romantic traveller, years before,
has christened it "Waters of Delight" Through
a small cleft in the mountain side little stream
poured out its waters over a rock-shelled cliff,
some thirty feet high, forming tiny waterfall
The narrow points of several canyons met here,
and in the background the sides Of one of them
lowered up several hundred feet. There were
clumps of grass, green from the moisture and the
waters of the stream, the only verdure in that
sand-covered country for miles around. To the
left of the waterfall there was grass-topped hill
of dirt, some ten feet high, from which good
sized tree spread its sheltering shade over the
little dell. The stream wound around the foot
of this and slipped away into one of the canyons
beyond
The girl, slipping her revolver little nearer
to the front, was watching him intently, but
quietly. She saw the look of amazement in his
eyes as he observed her for the first time. He
stepped forward and said to her, Are you
vision or just girl?"
"Just a plain, everyday girl" she answered
Why"
Because have seen the Waters of Delight
several times before, and have considered it one
of the most beautiful spots anywhere, but now
| appreciate the fact that there has always been
one thing lacking to complete its delights; then,
too, was startled to see girl in this out-of-the-
way place" l.,
II ride over from the ranch three or four times
a week and spend couple of hours here"
Then you live at one of the ranches
here2"
Eyes my father owns the Double-O ranch.
about ten miles from here"
as David Owens your father?"
Eyes he is my Dad" she answered
81 worked there several months last year and
remember that he had daughter who was
away at school at the time"
Eyes father and aunt insisted on sending me
away for several years, to try to make finished
young lady out of ranch tomboy but l fear
those years have been wasted for ] certainly love
the ranch and ranch life"
"Your dear old Aunt Emma used to talk of
her pretty niece away at school You know she
mothered us homeless cowboys, and we were all
very, very fond of her, and used to spend many
evening on the porch at the ranch house play
ing the guitar and singing to her She was
mighty good woman, for she stood for my music"
"Oh then you must be the Jim Bennett have
heard her talk about. She said that you quit to
go out on a prospecting trip"
Eyes have been knocking around the noun
to be a mining engineer, and after l left home
back in the East and came West had job for
a short time with mining company up in Mon
tana. After l worked there few months the
company broke up and / was minus job. Since
then have been alternately cowboy and miner
without having made much of success of either
Job. About a week ago. though / believe
struck something that looks good and am now