The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1916-04-27

I'm serving you we serve sletz.'"
he quoted to himself, tor she's your
woman" And an odd sensation
prIckled his skin. tlngled at the roots
Of his hair. Some way, somehow,
these were Siletz' people-these silent.
shiftless. welltaught creatures. who
made no use OF their t%alentB. yet who
did hard. unnecessary labor at the cali
OF the blood
That night. with the raft and even
the two engines under guard and all
the length OF track patrolled. he camo
In tired, worn to q thin edge with
sleeplessness. tense and tau as a sing.
ing wire. 20 meet Mas Ordway.
She slipped her hand into his arm
with q little. familiar gesture n
turned him about.
Come along and relax" she said,
you're almost hysterical."
~ believe am" said Sandry wen.
rilv, though az he stepped out into the
night. soft already with the breath OF
spring as is the way with the coast
country. where the seasons shoulder
each other suddenly for place. he
looked uncasily for Siletz.
Lets go up TO the old rollwav It's
: deserted and ! lave things to tell
= you-oh. many things!"
She laughed. her little ripping
7 laugh that was 80 soft and rich and II
soothed the mans strained nerves like
a narcotic.
e Miss Ordway sat down. or rather
4 climbed up. on q log that lay beside
the rollway and drew her gray broad.
9 cloth aside.
y Sandry settled himself beside her
and took on his hat The soft. changed
. breath q. the night air was grateful
to him.
9 "Wh"cw' III he thankful when this
strain IS over. that raft headed ont to
Il sea aud my contract fulfilled! | never
! knew business was so strenuous"
= Miss Ordway looked nj him through
the dusk with admirtug eyes.
= Put look how you're succeeding!
WAY. it's great"
" "Ncs-but for how much NJ II car
j" I thank myself? Hainpden has me IN
" n bad hole about my great East Belt
" the best timber In the region and the
" base. practically. OF the Dillingworth'S
u future-and but for these indians
II would BE- now-well. | hate to thinh
where I'd have been
" "S'h." said Miss Ordway: not &c
i fas, abou, that bad hole. Instead Mr.
Walter Sundry. we've got your trienC
" HGmpdcn In the deepest hole he wa,
" ever in in all his life. In fact. wher
We say tho word, he'll turn over tn,
' East Belt with both hands"
Saniry neld out a hand and Mis-
- Ordway took II. not after her usua
y, manner OF hail.fellow. but with
- gentle. proprietary motion. she ,appe,
the breast OF her princess gown.
4, II have right here copies OF filing
-, on sixteen claims. all duly put through
=. by cash entry by as many difTeren
mcn-and know that Hampden own
all these numbers. that he furnishe
the money tor building the cabins. 10
NM ding fees. for advertising. tor nna
proofs az the land office and for IN
government price OF the land. In r,
Il turn lur all this these bogus entr,
TX ~m"n-your drifting gentry OF th
Il spiked boots and the turkey In mos
cases-receivcd tour hundred dollar
each for the breaking of their fat
with the government. No wondt
Hampdcn Is rtch!"
For "A long moment Sandrv sat |
"a silence 80 deep hat he ceased I
= breathe Tie was grusplng the maGn
~ MT, at ,I., ,,unHg ,V.Yt,A, ,p. ,y.,
III, risk he ran with his safety in the NJ
\ certain hands at sixteen men.
| And also he was beginning IN con
li prchcnd. wnndrriugly. the daring
s| this woman. her hnpsse. her cleye
AZ ness ami her success.
nv "Wondcrful," he said ~ las': 81
Nh past belief! Ana how. for the love
M heaven, ala you ever wind up thi
" commissioner To put his ~ head
the moose by giving you those proofs
Miss Ordwav looked away down u
fast darkeuing slough, and there W
that IN her narrowed. smiling eve
which. had Sandry seen. would ha'
shocked him from her,
,a, HE didn't give" she said oddly:
,.r took"
And something In the speech
fenced the man.
"a Sometimes" went on this clev,
,,t woman. zone will take providii
, , there Is a great enough incentive.
,ou had n great incentive"
She ceased. waiting. and against h
will Sandry supplied the question.
What"
You" said Miss Ordway In a VIII
:" per.
th With her pretty, inimitable gcstu
and OF daring she put up Il hand, laid
against his cheek aud drew his IA
,er toward her,
and Boy" she said In a curious
choked tone, as II emotion dOminat,
her. "oh boV! With yOur youth al