La Junta tribune., 1915-11-27
.Incognito
Story Of a Ranch Party
., MARTHA y MONROE

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his friends In the swim to what be
called n ranch party They were all to
20 west by train to u station and from
/ the station TO the ranch by stagecoach.
/ He did not own the ranch. but said he
Z had hired II for the occasion. The
/ ranchman. Patrick Coleman. would re-
main In charge. MacKnirht's guests
( beinI In the nature of boarders during
their stay at MacKnight's expense
Therv was something novel In the
plan. and the dozen young men and
women who were invited considered
themselves fortunate. They arrived NJ
the ranch house In the evening and
/ took possession Macknight had A.
surcd them that for the period Of their
stay they were a, liberty TO do as they
pleased. and they did When they
came the owner was out attending to
| his herds, but they didn't consider his
presence OF much Importance % long
as bis premises were at their disposal
They were all. except one lady. repre-
seniatives OF American present day 30
cicty-that Is. they bad all come into Q
good deal Of money during 4 recent
date. had climbed into the swim and
kicked The ladder away from under
them In order that no one should b.
assisted upward by taking bold OF
their skirts The exception was q Miss
Dewitt n scion Of an old Dutch fami-
ly which had managed through many
generations to retain some wealth.
Gu the second day after the parsy's
ARRIVAL the owner returned The gue=ts
were some~ ha, taken aback by the
sreiing Machnisht aud Coleman gave
I zach other. whhch was quite chummy.
Coleman uas In ranch costume. rather
brusaur IN his manner. and spoke With
a broSue though In his case it was
20, As b-osd ~ that OF the ordinary
son Of Erin on the whole. the New
Ycrker did not consider that there
~as anythinx about him that required
cine~ui treatment from other meo
~ho wer~ bot In their sei-
IL scoo developed that Mr.. Coleman
vas no Of this oytRtpn- He seemed
TO exl-St that be Was TO Be taken In
as one os the party MacKuixhs trrai.
ri hin q. spch aud SEEMED TO exp-ct
hi, guests TO do the sane. Miss ne
Witt. ubo ~a. = cousin OF the hort
ssymcd dist-s-~d 10 scc~pt Mr.. Co.e
Uan as an esluai-at least. while under
his roi-oEf !; was supposed by the
otsers that she had taken her cue FROM
the boat. IL uas Dot lorS before Mr.
Co,cmsn saw that be vas l-rr~cua nou
erata aud drcw himself sway from all
except Mlss l~wu;
MachptsEf .s,io-i TO be pro,ok.-.
that hts guests shoaid carry their sev
i~s I-tty 1..amIsioas into the ~id
~>t Tbr men of the Iarsy ss~ at
ooec that ;b-ir bo-; vas dispi~zs~i
and m,pd-c their tr~stm~nt " Co,e
usza sat the ~,ssp-n ~~rr ~, 80 mind
cd After ali. u Mas quite natural that.
hArins ~"ss-d their uay with - much
truubi. to = Tc-iii.p utere they coald
lols down 90 the maliitode. they ap
po~iai-d What they had gained ADD
did pos I<sf.c-~ to relinauish an, In
nnii-.inai .ar % u
1bsrv "a. ooe yVcns tsdy. Ni-s -
isn is~ NlB---t- hsa only ,u.s r-sch
81 the snrfzc- IA the .~im-vbo main
tsiHs-i that whsi-ssr t- tho srraifn~u;
of rairis cci-rpan. sh~ would s-ry
him wh~fv b. t~lcns.d
-rat.- 81. sid is him one morning
-grt the . stas. of wAirr.-
cos-mas soior,i . ~. DO; w.n' 20
th. sat.r. wh-u ~ resaru-i be .sh
Arr yea r-iai-i 10 n. tAr vins. o'
rpF-rary souniy. 'rrlandr-
u 90. n.p ui.. te Vines turn O.
~ r-i In 81. 's--. Mhhsei pe Via.
hsf srnndfaib.r hsd t-~n steward fof
tho s-,at- sss "a. Esrt % Erfnxvnsh
she pr-ssess.>i prs 10 have heard he
question. turning 60 srrsk 90 . gifi
.ifsins u~sr h.f
u cid nes fsk~ Mr.. Coleman ions %
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Nseknists's gu~sss. ard. havins t-wn
sssusv~i that shes had 10 - Zoe him.
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