The evening world., 1914-03-03

ears. Her very audacity left him
speechless.
"There you are. $50 In soid!" He
hung the money into her lap. old
mans shoulder while his mocking
laugh again made her cheeks ungle.
you oughtn't to lie TO me like that"
When he had sauntered across the
street with his careless. easy stride
and disappeared inside the swinging
doors Of the barroom OF the Terri
berry House. DR.. Harpe said brusQue-
ly:
Here. you gotta help me yank this
leg straight. but. first. want you to
20 over to the store and bust up .
thin box-somethinG for splints-
strips of q fruit case would be best
II you can get EN-"
,, sa;y ,s ,I,rs ySs 'D'int''" the man
"No; rye Just come: I haven't got
a stock yet and there's no drug store
in this jay town. It's on the way. but
that doesn't help us now. We ought
TO have plaster Of Paris. but We
haven't. Hurry up-get . move on
before II swclls any more"
Tho man did a. he was bid. with q
look OF doubt and uncertainty upon
his face.
He returned almost Immediately
with strips torn from q case Of fruit.
That's good" DR.. Harpe laid
them on the bunk with the bandages.
She added shortly: "She's going TO
howl"
Cant you give her anything8"
mo: can't give ether by myself.
81 A~h q
that. II she'd die on my hands ia
queer me here on tr' jump. 'Twon't
kill her. She'll PROBABLY faint and
then tn be easy. When the muscles
relax hold on to her leg above her
knee while pull.
The mans face turned q chastity
hue a. the child screamed and tainted
away. nor did the color return A. he
watched the woman's clumsy Fingers.
the bungling movements which. I'M
lettered a. he was. told him Of her
experience - bunsling movements
which had not even compensating
feminine gentleness.
When the child had revived and
DR.. Harpe had finished. the man went
outside and leaned against the wheel
She saw her own misgivings re-
fiected In his face. and II exaggerated
her.
what q fool question. DO you
think I don't know my business?"
He did not answer. and she turned
away.
Daddy"
Yes. Rosie" He was at her aide
At once.
She lifted her clear eyes to his
II don't like that woman"
Like her!" he answered slowly
Like her! Her heart 10 a. black a.
my hat"
To herself DR.. Harpe was saying:
Moses! had to start In on some
body"
Il was with relief that she looked
through her once window after sup
per and saw that the wagon was gone
from tho vacant lot.
Good riddancel" she muttered. :"
wouldn't have that black eyed devi
hanging around this town for money
He's onery enough 70 do me mis-
chief wonder who he was? III
might be anything or anybody;
dago duke or q hold-up-or both
Anyway. he's gone, and II ! nevei
see him again it'll be soon enough"
She sat down In her ONCE chair and
rested her heels on tho window sill
while her cigarette burned 20 ashes
between her ltstless fingers. For a
time abe watched the white light Of
the June moon grow on the Inc OIL
dimpled foothills. the myriad odors o.
spring were In the air and the balmS
west wind lifted the hair at her tenn
pies as It came through the open win
dow. She felt lonely-inexpressib bly,
lonely. She thought of Alice Freof
and restlessness grew. Downstairi
she heard Easie Tisdale's merry laugh
ter and II changed the current OF hel
thoughts.
She had learned her story now. ant
the mystery OF her Identity had glvSI
the little belle Of Crowheart an addst
attraction. Everybody In Crowhear
knew her story. for that matter; Z
was one Of the stock tales Of tn
country. TO be repeated TO interes
strangerH.
In the old days when Crowhear
was a blacksmith shop and tn,
stamping ground OF "SnOw-shoe'
Brown. whose log cabin hung on tn
edge of the bench overlooking tn
stream like a crows nest In a cotton
wood tree, Snow shoe" Brown ha'
yelled In vain. ono spring day. at
man and woman on the seat OF a GOV
cred wagon who were preparing 4
ford the stream at the usual cross
ing. But the sullen roar OF tho waite
drowned his warning that H. wa
swimming depth. and. even while h
ran for his horse and uncoiled hi