The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1916-12-22
rERMs-st.oo .PER:ANNuM
Helen
MacAlister
A Story Of a Girl Brought
Up With Cowpunchers.
By HORACE SLATER

BY HORACE SLATER |
My father was interested with q
Scotchman Of the name Of MacAlistei
In ranching In the west MacAlistei
attended to the stock raising. while
my father remained In the east manag
Ing the financial end of the business
When my father died I was twenty
ono years old. found with his will
leaving all his property to me, q letter
stating that II was all In the ranch
lie and his partner had virtually been
one owner and this was all that had
saved their Investment from bank
ruptcy. MacAlister had died ten years
before, since when my father had
managed the business alone for him
self and Ills partners daughter, who
was sole heir to her fathers interest
From my fathers death. the letter
went Oh TO say, was TO be sole man
ager for myself ana this daughter,
Helen MacAIister. now seyenteen wars
OF age.
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So ' ."p ""' "'
,'"'''s '''s 'e'''i s"' "aeA III my cnhi
Tor JoD OF thinking did not relish
any business relations with woman
My father had been dealing with 0
chiid~who was now entering upon wo
manhood Doubtless my task would be
far harder than his. The result of my
thinking was a resolution TO 10 wes
and look over the property and espe
chilly the owner OF the other half of Il
When | reached the ranch | found II
entirely I'm the hands OF man. Aah,no
for Miss MacAllster. I was told that
she was visiting n ranch mar nv
where there was A woman s,nca ,bore
was no one or her avn ser a, hsr own
home I wns furtber IN FORMED ,bst sho
had lived on,v among rho man or ,ha
ronc,, ,ro, ,ha ,,r,a a.. ,,.a a.. -
$50" 800" w" t'sp nHu "ao NV youtb
old. when her mother died. and her
rather had the undivided care Of her
IN, ,hIs ,,s,, '
san, ,n m,.. u.,.. $780,.
,bat .,a con-. - 80. !. ,.fuon'
essary that we have business talk
together. She returned ut once. On
the day OF her arrival ! was sitting on
tho vernnda Of the ranch house. BE.
Ing just from the east. l was dressed
IN eastern costume. Miss MacAlister
was robed In cowboy apparel of a fem
mime cut. She rode up to the house on
horseback, astride, and. fiinging her
right leg over the saddle, planted Il on
the ground; then. taking the left foot
from the stlrrup. she turned and came
M the steps.
Suddenly she stopped ana Iooked me
over from nv derby hat TO INV cbeck
I'D spots Evidently abe Ind never
seen ope got nm ma I WINS befora
aAro vou M MI,,h.nL," .ha astaa
~ AMI ren,ied r,s,no and moL,n.
. aro w,,, room how
~ d,d mn reckon I w.. N uo.. =.
,.,a..soo," 49,. ..,s "a, aao..s
$50. H. go
- So. $3.50. .r,s .n 10"
80" ST." ",e"s"uo a., '"e'
hnen s"u. 'a'o u 'e'
'niaA ,ney n"'e pee" ~a'''ns you,
arr''hi 10 n'spose VI ms men hfe No.
as wei, "''eu a' women '"' ho"Seno'o
"na'rs'
say she said 70 several men
louhging ABOUT whnt DO you mean Dy
leaving tine gentleman without room
ana sumwhat TO eatf Bestir your
selves and show him to the room his
father always had when he visited us'
Gang onW
To my horror the order was accom-
panied with n volley OF 0aths emanat.
Ing from a rosy little mouth. the most
lnapproprIate instrument In the world
for their conveyance. One Of the men
addressed shouldered my trunk, which
had thus far been left on the yeranda.
and ,nrried H 10 room on one side
Of the hall within. | followed him and