The Raymer enterprise., 1915-08-05
Lost BouFDAAf LIVES
Hy r. $, CAMP.

On one eldo of Tho haghed-wire fence
stood Colonel BiaGfoFd. his fine face
crimson With anger. seeing rot The
slightest humoa in the situation.
Half way through tie strands OF
parbcd wire, which caught the shoul
dnrs e her best lavender dimitg gown,
was Miss Rebecca ncbson, his HeXt
door neighbor. Her delicate. faded
face was quite pink With eElbarrass
ment
Upon ny soul, madam ragged ths
colonel testify, "this is too much!"
III you were a gentleman you'd ex
tiicate nc from this Wretched fence
which you have had the inpudenee 10
erect On my property" was Rcbecea's
acid reter, Then, with wrench OF
Ter shoulders and her imprisoned
knees, Miss Dobson tell back entirely
Tree frem the barbed wire.
"a gestieman. intcea," clustered
the colonel. when be was LETT alone
How vas | to know that a meddiins
old maid would go racing over my
,Nfoper,y hunting for a lest guinea
hen? Her land. eh, thought the
courts of Sufern county decided
where the boundary ,lines were."
The colonel clustered into his lone
ly house. where he sat down 70 a
lonely neal in the great dining room
lie had never made a woman cry In
his lifc-unless his wrangla over the
boundary line had caused Rebeeca to
shed tears lie never believed ii had
she Was too plucky for that.
She had never cried, either. when
they had quaTeled. long years before
he wouldn't believe it; their en-,
gagement had been short and sharp
and soon ended And nov the colonel
had come home to spend the quie;
life Of a country Gentloman, and his
first gklrmish had tcen dispute over
the boundary line between the twq
estates. The cnlonel had conquered
aud ii Was by his orders that the old
meadow fence had been torn down
and replaced With ore Of barbed wire
TO include twelve feet OF land that the
Dthsons had always claimed.
Bg this time the colonel was Down
In the dew-drenehed rose garden
which heretofore had always offered
him Tenosa when veary IN mind and
heart Tonight the white moaa
staring down en The fragrant ineIos-
uro was too much for him-it re.
minded him sorely Of another neon
Light night and another rose garden
when he had been younger
So be trapped out OF the garden
End down the yew walk TO the Or
ehard and through the orchard and
around the fields until he fetched up
short and sharp before the oontro.
rersial bafbed-wire fence.
a big black form was basp there.
muttering brokenlY. While long flail-
like arms moved 10 and fro There
wgs the clink Of some tool against
the whaaging wire and the z-G-z-zip.
zip as II tore sway from the posts
Look here, What are Won doirE
there" sharply dcr'andsl the colonel
Sukey rolled her eyeballs at him
but did not cease her work Of Sc
struction.
Mind 70 own biznessl" sic
eroBled fercelE
Look here, woman" he began,
when she lifted a greet fist and
shook il under his outraged nose,
Listen to ne, KuHnel Rickf0rd "
said sukev impressiveiy you ies'
gotter mind 70 own bi2ness,
und'stand2 Dis yero land belongs 10
Miss Rebecrn and I amt goin' to hab
no more wraneula.ion over il, If ]
breaks all yo bones, like de weY yo'
broke her sweet heart years agci'
"sukey~ he cried worninely "RecEy
neYer cared about me-yoa knew We
we're engaged-you knew she broke il
off and
"Oh, 30 lcns,' muttered the dis
gpsted Suhey II 70 had &c en9r
ton Of n fca 70 would'a' stomped
over hcah and ies made IN with her
And now. dpra yo lives an albney
cranky as old man Satan hesalf-and
here lives mg Miss Becky les
piiin' her sweet heart ont With lone
liness-and de cure right in you' t"o
hans, White folks aiT de contrapt-
edestl'
Whan9' went another length Of
wire. There remained only the
naked posts. sukey picked up crow
bar and began to pry at pos.
When the last post vas ont and
the boundary fence had entirely dis
appeared. Colonel Bickfora atepued
acposs the space and entered the little
lane That went UP 10 Rabecca's cot
taee. sukey rested On her cr5whn
and watched him
DE good Lord forgive me for what
I've said to HIM" she prayed as she
scuttleG away 10 her own quarters.
Colonel Bickford found Rebcaca Dab
zen sitting on the front yerania. lie
stood at the foot of the steps. tan,
straight sollieriy figure. tie mann
Nght fallinE On his graY. uncoYerea