Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1916-05-11

| it-but you can't. And it changes ev-
erything for you, distorts everything,
colors your entire life. It's heart
| breaking!'
This was dangerous ground for him
| and he knew it. In the ardor Of young
manhood he had taken up the yicari-
Gus burden dutifully, and at that time
his remuneration Of the things that
| other men strove for seemed the light.
est Of the many fetterings. But now
| love for a woman was threatening to
make the remuneration too grievous to
be borne.
How did you know" he queried Gu
riously. 1T does change things. I'd
sell anything I've got, save one, for
| chance at the freedom that other men
| haVe-and don't value"
What is the one thing you wouldn't
! SELF" she questioned, ana Brouillard
chose to discover. a gently quickened
interest in the clear-seeing eyes.
my love for the-for some woman.
I'm saving that, you know It is the
only capital I'll have when the big
debt is paid"
do you want me to be frivolous
or seriOus?' she asked, looking down
| at him with the grimacing little smile
| that always reminded him of a caress.
81 have been wondering whether she
| is or isn't worth the effort-and the
! reservation you make. Because it is
all in that, you know. You can do and
be what you want to do and be If
you only want to hard enough
He was looking down, chiefly be
cause he dared not look up, when he
answered soberly: "She is worth
it many times over; her price is above
rubies. Money, much or little, wouldn't
| be in it."
That is better-much better. Now
| we may go on to the ways and means;
| they are all in the man, not in the
/ things, not none whatsoever as Tig
would say. Let me show you what
| mean. Three times within my recol.
| lection my father has been worth con-
! siderably more than you owe, and
! three times he has-wen, it's gone.
again when the railroad comes"
BrouiI1ard got up, thrust his hands
| into the pockets of his working coat,
and faced about as if he had suddenly
remembered that he was wasting the
governments time.
Il must be going back down the
HILL" he said. And then, without warn
iv1Cr Oh @oI1
the railroad is not coming to the Nj
| quota, Amy?"
To his utter amazement the blue
eyes filled suddenly. But the owner
of the eyes was winking the tears
away and laughing before he could
could put the amazement into words.
you shouldn't hit out like that
when one isn't looking; it's wicked"
she protested Besides, the railroad
is coming; it's got to come"
1T is still undecided" he told her
mechanically. Mr. Ford is coming
over with the engineers to have a con-
ference on the ground with-with the
Cartwright people. l am expecting
hin any day
"And the government"
THE department is holding entirely
aloof, as it should. Everyone in the
reclamation service knows that no
good can possibly come Of any effort
to force the region ahead of its nor
NAL and natural development And,
besides, none of US here in the valley
want to help blow the Cartwright
bubble any higher than it has to be.
Then you viii advise against the
building of the eXtension?"
Instead of answering her question
he asked one of his own.
What does it mean to you-to you, |
personally, apart from the money your
father might make out of it, ANY,"
She hesitated a moment and then |