The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1917-10-11
CHAPTER Vlu--conunued.

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vandervyn had arranged to be gone
q week. There was no cause to dis
cuss the time OF his return, and as Ma
RE seldom mentioned him, Hardy was
not often ANNOYED by the vision of the
handsome young fellow i~ntcrposlng be-
tween himself md the girl.
From day to day 1t could plainly be
seen how the rides In the pure noun
tain air and the delight OF the girls
companionshlp were bringing back
strength and vigor to the officers
tropic-weakened body. Soon a healthy
red appeared under the tan OF his
cheeks. The lines OF severity and re-
pressed grief began to smooth away.
On the morning Of the seventh day,
when he rode over to join Marie for
a ride out to the butte Oh Wolf river,
ten years seemed to have dropped from
him. Even when he lifted his hat to
the girl and exposed the silvered hair
at his temples, he looked nearer
twenty-five than thirty. He had
shaved of his bristly mustache!
Positively. captain" she bantered,
"you startle me. You IRE growing so
youngl First thing l know, ! shall
be feeling myself n grandmother In
contrast"
Impossible" he calamity replied.
"Yeu are the Spirit Of Youth. Being
with you Is what makes me seem so
much younger than I am. Yet l shall
never see thirty-two again"
"You're barely Of age this morning"
abe said. smiling at his shapely clean
shaven lip.
"In that case you raust humor my
callowness by pretending you need
my aid to mount"
She put one small booted foot In his
hand. rose with the lightness Of a
feather and perched herself sideways
on her mans saddle. Unused to such
strange behavior, the pony began to
buck. Hardy sprang to seize the beast
by the head. Marie waved him aside,
and proceeded to give IN impromptu
exhibition Of her skill as a horsewom-
an. With one knee crooked around the
horn Of her saddle, she kept her diff
cult seat like a circus rider, until the
pony subsidized.
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