The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1915-10-29
lin BRECKENRIDGE ELLIS
Copyright, 1918, by the sobbs- Merrill
Company.

Upright, 1918, by the eobbs. Merrill
Company.
watched him with q face as calm anu
Unconditional as that Of Red Feather
himself.
what you do with that?" She point
ed at the flowers in his rough hand.
I'm going to put 'em on your moth.
er's grave"
"She not know, not see not smell.
She dead; mother dead"
"Lahoma, do you know anything
about God?"
"Yes-Great Spirit. God make my
path white"
"Well, l want God to know that
somebody remembers your mother. It's
God that smells the flowers on the
graves of the dead"
They walked on. Pretty loon Laho-
ma began looking about for flowers,
but they had reached the last barren
ledge, and no more came in sight.
Take these, Lahoma."
mo. Couldn't fool God" They be-
gan the last descent. Wilcox sudden
ly discovered that tears were slipping
down the girls face. Suddenly she
cried joyfully, "Oh, look, look!" She
darted toward the spot at the foot of
a tall cedar where purple and white
blossoms showed in profusion. She
gathered an armful, and they went
down to the plain.
Her heads toward the west" he
said as they stood beside the pile of
stones. Lahoma placed the flowers at
the western margin of the pyramid.
Wilcox laid his at the foot Of the
grave.
During the two years passed by Brick
Wilcox in dreary solitude conditions
about him had changed. The h%ardships
Of pioneer life which fifty years ago
had obtained in the middle states yet
prevailed in 1882 in the tract Of land
claimed by Texas under the name of
Greer county, but the dangers Of pic.
nee life were greatly lessened. As
Lahoma made the acquaintance Of the
mountain range and explored the plain
extending beyond the natural horse
shoe, Wilcox believed she ran little
danger from Indians. He himself had
ceased to preserve his unrelaxing
watchfulness. After all, it had been
the highwaymen rather than the red
men whom he had most feared. and
after two years it did not seem likely
that such volatile men would preserve
the feeling Of vengeance.
With the wisdom derived ION bis
experience with wild natures. he care
fully abstained from any attempt to
force Lahoma's friendship; hence 1t
was not long before he obtained it
without reserve. In the meantime he
talked necessarily, and to his admira-
ton he presently found her manner of
speech wonderfully like his own-both
fluent and ungrammatical.
He knew nothing Of grammar. to be
mistakes. echoed from her lips. struck
upon his ear, and. though he might not
always know how to correct them. he
was prompt to suggest changes. test
ing each. as a natural musician judges
music-by ear. Dissatisfied with his
own standards. he was all the more
impatient to depart on the expedition
after mental tools. despite the dangers
that might beset the journey.
His first task, prompted by the com
ing of Lahoma. had been to partition
of the half of the dugout c%ontainin.
the stove for the child's private cham
Der. Cedar posts set in the grount
and plastered with mud higher thai
his head left a space between the toI
and the apex Of the ceiling that tn
temperature might be equalized in bot
rooms. Thus far. however. they di'
not stay in the dugout except lon'
enough to eat and sleep. for the au
cove seemed to the child her home. o
which the dugout was a sort of cellar
Concerning the stone retreat in tn
crevice she knew nothing. Wilcox di
not know why he kept the secret sine
he trusted I.ahoma with all his treas
ures. but the %unreasoning reticence Q
the man of great loneliness still reste
on him.
/ "Lahoma." he said one day. there
a settler owe yOnder in the mountain
across the south plain. How'd you lik
to pay him a visit?"
! II don't want anybody but you," sal
Lahoma promptly.
: Wilcox stood on one leg. rubin
the other meditatively with his deligh
ed foot Not the culver Of a muscl
however. revealed the fact that h'
words had flooded his heart with SUI
: shine. well honey, that's in reaso'
But I've got to take you with me aft
t books and winter supplies, and don
like the idea of travelling alone.
d come to me that l might get Mr.. Sc
b tier to go too. Time vas not so loI
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