Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-01-21
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but l don't just fancy your knowing
this Hampden man. He's-he's coarse
and bad. Miss Ordway."
But isn't it worth a little risk?
What big thing is ever accomplished
without some risk? And think, Mr..
Sandry-isnt Hampden trying to ruin
the Dillingworth company? In other
words, to ruin you?"
There was tingling, suggestive tim
bre in her low voice, subtle, fiatter
ing tone that thrilled the young owner
strangely.
rMiss Ordway," he said admiringly,
"as a mans friend you're simply
great"
Il may have to make frequent de-
mands on Black Bolt" she said fur
Their, for | cannot navigate in your
deluged valleys. I'm a poor mariner"
"S-s-h-h." warned Sandry, you don't
want to speak about this climate that
way Why, haven't you noticed that
the Oregon mist doesn't wet through"
They laughed together after the
fashion of youth and health, though at
the last turn of words he felt a vague
uneasiness. He remembered Siletz
dark face between her braids and the
tears falling on her cheeks.
Poor little girl" he said to him
self. And on Thursday of that week
another horse made its appearance at
the camp, a wiry, lOng-limbed bay,
picked up at Toledo.
This is for you, Miss Ordway," he
told the novelist, so you may come
and go at will No one will have him
when you wish to ride. You can al
ways put your hand on mount at a
moments notice. Black Bolt is SO
frequently gone when you might need
him"
So it came about that the young
woman from the East went after
Hampden," and the sharp, crude man
Of the hills was to be no match for
her BY another week she could not
fare forth upon the road to the SiletZ,
ride into Toledo where she was a
matter of wonder in her beauty and
her smart clothes, or take the least
canter on the rangy bay but what
HRmpden met her-by the merest
chance. She was a revelation to him.
In his crude way he was soon at the
point where he would have laid down
his world for her little finger, and in
his loOse-fibered soul he swelled with
| self-approval beneath her notice.
What delicate hattery she employed
only she herself knew. 1t was suffi-
cient at least, for he unwound to her
his somewhat eyentful and picturesque
life with the simplicity of a child.
They rode and talked, traversing the
| lonely ways piercing the mist, thread,
! ing trails where Hampden had to ride
! close at her side to keep the wet foil
age out of her face, and she saw the
| passion growing in him to the point
Of idolatry-which filled her soul with
/ rioting laughter.
IN get it'll get it," she told her
self, and there was no place in the uni
verse so interesting as this rain
soaked country, this land of mysteri
Gus operations.
What are these little, deserted
huts?" she asked him one day wheI
they had climbed high on wooded
ridge and come upon tiny cabin, win
dowless and rooted with shakes. I've
seen several of them"
"Homesteader's cabin" he answered
"Ah-and where's the homestead
For goodness sake, did any man evel
intend woman to live here?'
Well" he said reluctantly you see
that is,-nO. They don't often comt
here to live. This here's snap"
"Ah-yes "-there was a note o
vague puzzlement in Poppy's COLDER
voice-"and what is that"
Why, a Teller comes up an take.
a claim-proves up on it, you know
gets his patent-an' then sells out
Relinquishes his right to the buyer
"Oh-and this is only temporar!
arrangement" She waved a han(
around at the dreaTy clearing among
the lesser growth. The man wht
built this didn't intend to stay at tn,
beginning. And who was smart enough
enough to buy him off when he go
tired of staying, | wonder?"
Il did" said Hampden promptly
flushing at the imputation of brains.
Easy" said Miss Ordway to her
self. Aloud she said wonderingly:
We'll, what do you know abou
that! fancy you made pretty pile
or Without of such deal, Mr. Hamp
den? Just think of the perfect ocean
and oceans of pretty clothes even
dozen of these great trees would buy
Pardon think in clothes because
love them"
The Difference of that pardon" di,