Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-11

usual solid lines of plantation head
quarters. Great. rough-hewn beams;
towering rafters, built TO carry the
heavy tiles and to bear their burden
for generations; unceiled. vast rooms
with calclmined walls; all these were
not outside Gerry's experience in the
new land. The strangeness came with
the rugs and the linen, the etchings
and the furniture, and last and most
significant the shelves and shelves OF
books and the tables piled with maga-
zines In three languages. Everything
bora the stamp of quality, everything
had the distinction of a choice.
Gerry did not let his curiosity carry
him beyond a rapid glance around the
great living-room where they found
Lieber, bathed and freshly dressed,
experimenting the making of ice in
the latest ingenious contrlvance for
the pampering of the pioneer. "Ice
water in the desert" thought Gerry
and the phrase seemed to him more
than words-it seemed to paint Lie
Der dimly, hut rs the mind saw him.
The veranda at TIeber's was like
that OF Fazenda Flores only much big
ger. 1t looked out upon wide stretch
of desert but away at the rim of the
desert one could feel the river. The
roar of the falls mumbled in the ear.
1t came from so far away that one
had to strain ones ears to actually
define ii. After supper they gathered
on the veranda. They sat in rude, raw.
hide chairs which were comfortably
strong and tilted them back to the
national angle. Iieber and Gerry
smoked corn-husS cigarettes hut Kemp
stuck TO his yellow papers. Gerry did
not want 10 talk. He sat where he
could watch the strange pair whose
companion he was for night. Into
the souls Of I.icbcr and Kemp the long
sileuces of solitude had entered and
become Mt home. They were patient
Of silence. Speech had its restricted
uses. They still had their hats on.
Lieber's was pushed back, Kemp's
was drawn forward. Kemp was whit
ting. Kemp's words of farewell came
back to Gerry. Its long trail from
the Alamo to New York. but the whole
countrys under one fence" Texan.
/ Pennsylvania Dutchman and New
Yorker might be social poles but to-
. night they seemed strangely near to
each other.
The next morning Gerry was up ear
/ ly, nervous after his first nights alb
sence from FaZenGa Flores. Kemp
watched him saddle his horse. "That
amt one Of the five" ha remarked.
mo" said Gerry. Il traded the
roam for the ircn-gray. Do you think
was doneT
81 amt sayin." said Kemp cautious
". 81 don't want you should think l
was teachin' you. Mr.. lansing but
that hoss amt no iron-sray. There
amt no such color for 4 hosS as ever
heern tell on. That boss is a blue an
he's true blue"
GAIL right, Kemp" said Gerry, smil-
ing. you've named him true blue and
True Blue he is from this day"
Lieber came out IN pyiamas and
called them for coffee. When they
were seated he proposed to Kemp that
he make his headquarters at the ranch
| for while. The advantages were evi-
dent. 1t was 4 coEgrcgating point for
the natives from miles round. Goat
skins came into LicbCrs from hun
dreds of miles up country. They came
singly, in donkey loads or in whole
packtrains. Sometimes they passed
directly into his hands from the pro-
ducer; sometimes they ran through a
/ chain OF transfers. from hand 20 hand.
I All news centcrel AZ aud radiated
from Lieber's. The same men that
brought in goatskinS would be glad to
add orchids to their stool; in trade.
I Kemp grunted his thanks. He had
waited two years for this offer The
realization of the obligation Liebcr
was putting hiu under embarrassed
/ him. He began to talk. These greas-
ers,' he said lake lot o. teachin'
sometimes, an sometimes they don't.
F'r instance. you cantell 'em that Cat
I tleyas are wO'th money and that the
rest o their parasites amt, md after
they seen you throw Bulintonias an
I Oncidiums an Miltonias into the dis
Z NSAN ~ III &C A4AO44-tlN oNIdNlss AuNs ~
gin to sober down TO jest Cattleyas nd
realize that it's no use holdln' four
flush against workln' pair"
/ At the scientific names dropping so
anonymously from Kemp's lips, Ger
/ ry stopped eating and looked up. Lie
ber's face wore the smile OF one who
had heard 1t before but is quite will
ing to hear ii all over again.
But" continued Kemp. "yo' en-
pull till you're bin an you can't head
'em around to see that onless Cattle
l va has eight leaves, it's too young to
be packed an no good to the market
/ besides bein a victim to race suicide.
AS TO their bringln' in Bu'llntonias
an Oncidiums an Miltonias, l never
get Impatient o that. How en- greas-
/ er ever learn that Miitona Specta-
I bills Morelisna that looks like pigeons
( blood in a purple shadow ANT a COM
mercial proposition, while the Cattle;
| vas Is? When he's in the woods an
a smell straight I'm heaven draps its
rope on him an he looks up an sees
droopin' spike o. snow. how you go
in to teach him that a Bu'llntonia
/ Fragrans amt lust as GOOD business