The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1916-03-23

@0vseE >>>" llM '~
"You three shall answer for this. 60
not forget"
outwait you in this game. You shall
stay here on bread and water till the
SHOWS come.
Crawford puffed his pipe three or four
times, knocked the bowl against his
heel and turned toward the ladder.
mo candles this time-twenty-four
hours in the dark Smead warned.
80 long as you're not bent on starv-
ING me, day or two more in this hole
will not matter" Crawford began the
descent He heard Hanchett laugh.
"Cranford, I'm beginning to like you.
III make it two candles and q boz OF
patches
"l'ool." growled Smead.
"You be still" retorted the son.
Hes right. You don't appreciate him.
like a cool hand. no matter which
side he is on. A brave man isn't so
common these days that we can afford
to ignore him when we meet him.
He'll have his candles and matches,
and tomorrow night he may be little
tanner and tell us who has them
"What do you mean by that?' de-
manded Smead.
"Why, he really hasn't got them, but
knows who has. You're as dense as
sand bank. Found them. but gave
them to some one else to keep
Clever!'
On the farmhouse veranda. some
times called the front porch, the stool
and often the piazza Diana sat IN he
+ steamer chair. Her arm was still in
! sling and over her injured foot a furr.
I carriage boot
. Whenever she saw the figure of
Q man in the distance she would lea
forward from her pillows, only to rt
cline again. cmbittered that she coul
not resist the impulse. Why shout
|. she wait and watch? He was busy
= perhaps he had gone away. Had
h not been her wish that he should
t. and no more waste his time in though
= of her? The gender feminine-to wis
one thing and desire another.
e Its no use, Frances. I am not Ii
t tening to word you're reading"
e u have not been reading for Il
s. past ten minutes, DIANA" replied ST
of the tragic eyes and the intagl
face. "Yoll are watching fcf son
Il one You look always toward the v
rV,I,x nf
n hand drumned tattoo.
We You have been SO good to me- So
II Frances. 81 have been very unhapl
One by one let my rings go, 1 hat
TO part with single one OF them.
ad needs said must. They We're so bee
ne tiful. But had starved else
at "Foolish Frances! Well, yes;
are both of us unhappy, only you
nd cent your fate resignedly and | re
re- against mine, always and eternally
rebel against the accident which MAJ
me what am, which stands as
between me and what might he. l
OF bel against the lack Of money, my Il
our of fine clothes and comforts.
the travagance is the heritage of all
ho' men. but | am one OF those VINO
o S, against the desire. l have saved
'u "a, of all have earned.
lhe "You have only to ask" said FL
sou ces and all these things are yours
H.. WHAT" wrathfully. "On my KIN
> ~ 7? I rather believe not. Humble
4 4, pride in the dust for nothing perhs
wv No. | can earn my living.
been hurt. terribly hurt, through
fault of mine
"And so have l."
&c "Ah, you thrust yourself into
'' hurt, You We're warned, Mine
tho given me gratuitously."
"Di. you are cruelty right in
~" you say"
NJ Diana saw some one coming 8
10y the road afoot. Its Uncle Bill,
", wonder where he's been keeping
faw self?'
&c" "Hello. Miss Wynne!" hailed I
Ri,)v. How v gittin' along?"
ooa "Finely. Where have you been
ing yourselfE
,anv. awful busy
Uncle Billy sat down on the
j, "Hsd t. take tn engine all apart.
M to "l 90 busy to come out and ash
was getting along" reproach
!, SET "lJncle Billy, you're a mighty pc
teller. What has happened?
eered Il amt brhsln goou news
"1s Mr.. Crawford ill?' she aske
lew" mot that l know of. l was
t I'M t. tell y tn day it happened.
,entle- Mr. Cranford's BEN kidnapped"
moth "Kidnaped!' from both women