The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1917-08-25

here that Starbuck found him.
"What?" said the new secretary,
looking up from his work when Star
huck's viry figure doomed in the door
way, q thought you were once more
family man. and had cut out the
night proving"
Starbuck jackknifed himself com
fortably in chair.
81 was. But the little girls run
AWAY again: gone with her sister
Maxwel's wife. you know-to Denver
10 get her teeth fixed; and I'm foot
loose. Been butting in little on
YOUR game, this evening, just to be
doing How's tricks with you, now
"We're strictly in the fight" de-
cIarrd Smith enthusiastically. I'VE
closed the deal today for the last half
mile of the main ditch right OF way
which puts us up on the mesa slope
above the Escalante grant. If they
| knock us out now, they'll have TO 90
1t with dynamite"
"Yos." said the ex-cowman, thought
fully: with dynamite" Then: How
| is Williams getting along!
| Zine, The water is crawling up on
him little every night, but with no
accidents, he'll be able to hold the
flood rise when it comes. The only
thing that worries me now is the time
limit"
.vThe time limit?" echoed Starbuck.
whats that?'
ITS the handicap we inherit from
the original company. Certain state
rights to the water were conveyed In
the old charter, on condition that me
project should be completed, or at least
be far enough along to turn water into
the bitches, by given date. ThlS time
limit, which carries over from Illnan-
yoni Ditch to Timanyoni High Line.
expires next week. We're petitioning
for an extension, but if we don't get
it we shall still be able to back the
water up 50 that it will flow into IN"
lower level of bitches by next Thurs
day: that is. barring accidents.
Yes: with no accidents" unused
Starbuck. Cant get shut of the If.
no way nor shape, can We? 50 that
why the Stanton people have been
fighting so wOlfshly for delay, is it:
John. this is wicked, wicked world. >
Then he switched abruptly. "Where
did you corral all those good looks you
took to the opera house last night
John?"
Smiths laugh was strictly perfume
tory
"rhat was Miss Vera Richlander, an
old friend of mine from back home
She is out here with her father, anC
the father has gone up into the Topaz
country to buy him gold brick"
"Not in the Topaz" Starbuck strucl
in Loyalty. 1--WE don't make the bricks
up there-not the phony kind. Bu
let that go and tell me something else
. A while back, when you were givins
me a little song and dance about TIT
coloners daughter, you mentioned an
other woman-thOugh not by name, 1
} Won haDpen to recOllect. / was jus
wondering If this Miss Rich-people, o
, whatever her name is, might be tn
other one"
Again the new secretary laughed
I this time without embarrassment
+ you've called the turn, Billy. She !
, the other one"
, HIN; chasing you upy
, ooh, no; 1t was just one OF TN
near-miracles. She didn't know
: was here. and had no hint that sh
) was coming"
, "AIl right; it's your roast; not mine
! But I'm going to pull one chestnut on
p Of the fire for you, even if | do &c
, nv fingers burned. This Miss Ricf
\ folks has had only one day here
Brewster, but she's used it in gettin
\ mighty chummy with the Stanton'
n Does that figure as news to you?
: st does" said Smith simply; and h
added: 81 don't understand it"
d Funny" remarked the ex-cowmal
s ut didn't ball me up for more than
e minute or two. Stanton fixed it som
e way-because he needed to. Tell NJ
something, John: could this Miss Ricl
i garden help Stanton out in any OF n
t. little schemes, if she took a notion
d Smith turned away and stared at II
e blackened square of outer darkne'
a living beyond the office window.
lie "She could, Billy-but she won't, /
answered.
You can dig up your last dollar al
n bet on that, can your
m Eyes, I think 1 can"
s. Him; that's just what l was mo
IL afraid of"
n Don't be an ass, Billy"
Up I'm trying mighty hard not to D
lie John, but sometimes the ears will gro
ly ON the best of us-in spite of the dev
What l mean is this: / saw you tV
when YOU came out Of the Hoph
dining room together last night, ana
saw the look in that girls eyes, l
YOU know what I said to myself re
SIS then, John? l said: oh. you little z
e- out at the Hillcrest ranch-good-t
OF your"
or Smiths grin was half antagonist