Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1915-03-05
CHAPTER ~.


When 7 left tho Bennett mansion
walked down Fifth avenue with my
thoughts not M all in Fifth avenue
but on the great free ranges OF Mon
tana. Everywhere on those rangee !
seemed 10 see the stalwart figure or
Claude Bennett. cowboy painter. l
laughed AT my thoughts.
Foolish girl" ! told myself. "one
would think you were in love with this
unknown scion n the banking house
~ Bannett. Avastt-whatever that
means. Cut him out OF your thoughts.
Because you. Della Whitmore. have
got TO work a whole lot and build up a
practice and earn a vacatiOn-befOre
you can 20 out to the FLYING U and
meet this self-same Claude Bennett"
Mrs. Bennett had ordered" me 10
come every day. darling'-and OF
course ] mean 10 'obey"-not only 10
hear more about Claude Bennett. ~
course. but also actually 20 help cure"
Mrs. Bennett OF nerves"
On my arrival home ! simply had 10
tell Cecil all about my first patient.
THIS | did with detail and particular
ity. Yet never a word spoke | 20 Cecil
about Claude mean about Mr..
Claude Bennett No. stree. | kept
Claude Bennett all to myself. never
let on that Mrs. Bennett even had a
son nor any offspring al all. 7 simply
told Cecila the professional" side OF
the matter. And Cecil Eas tickled n
death
". good for ten dollars a visit At
least she cried.
There you 60 again. you merce-
nary" ! protested I'm not going 10
charge Mrs. Bennett any more than I
would charge a in A tenement.
! shall bin her al the regular two dol.
lars = visit. not q cent more"
idiot murmured Cecil.
And then came a letter from nv
brother lack. Eagerly I ripped II open.
feeling sure would hear news OF
Chip lie told how Chip had come
10 him and how Chip had been hired
as a cowboy and how the other COW
boys-namely. Shorty and Slim and
Weary-liked Chip-and how Patsy.
the cook. nearly laughed himself asun-
der when he first behell said Chip In
his painting togs-and-
But LEI me tell you. az nearly az I
can remember. In my brothers own
phrassology. all about Mr.. Chip and
his advent at the Flying u.
N s~eems1that three OF my brothers
cowboys were the first to discover the
prodigal. They were Shorty and
Weary and Slim. They were herdlng
a f'ock-or "A horde or a batch. ~
whatever you call it-of cattle
through a valley on the way IN the
roundup And on a knoll they saw
something that looked like a man. yet
was not In their eye@ exactly a man.
either. This 1T that looked like a
man was sitting in front of an easel
and Was painting 4 picture ~ the val
ley below-for II was sitting on a
high knoll. Weary and Slim and
Shorty rode up the knoll and DOTTED
their sombreros to II and said Howl"
in the manner Of Montana. And II
replied How" In the manner 81 Mon
tana. the which surprised Shorty and
Slim and Weary. because they had cx-
pected IL would reply Good morning
kind sirs. Or something like that.
They called the thing that looked
like a man 1T" because Of the a
II vas dressed and because OF the
occupation in which II Vas engaged.
II II had been dressed as an artist
they would have known II VAS an
artist. because they had seer pictures
~ artists In the Police Gazette. But
II was 10 dressed at all like an artist.
IL was dressed more like a ~vaxabond.