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Mexico Missouri message., 1917-04-26

found her Uncle Duke ana Gale stand.
ing In front of the fireplace IN the llv-
ing room. The two appeared from
their manner to have been I'm a heated
discussion, one that had stopped sud-
denly on her appearance. Both looked
at Nan. The expression on their faces
forewarned her. She threw her uuIrt
on the table, drew Off her riding
gloves, and began to unpin her hat
but she knew storm was impending.
Gale had been made for a long time
to know that he was an unwelcome
visitor, and Mans greeting of him was
the merest contemptuous nod. "Well.
uncle" she said, glancing Mt Duke,
I'm late again. Have you had sup
per2'
Duke always spoke CURLY; tonight
his heavy voice was as sharp as IN
ak. Been late q good deal lately"
Nan laid her hat on the table, and,
glancing composedly from one suspl-
cious face to the other, put her hands
up to arrange her hair. I'm going to
try to do better. I'll go and get my
supper IL you've had yours" She
started toward the dining room.
Hold onr Nan paused at her I'M
cle's ferocious command. She looked
at him either really or feignedly sur
prised, her expression changing to one
of indignation, ana waited for him to
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-04-26

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Mexico Missouri message., 1917-04-26

had it two hours after he got there,
and then in fifteen minutes that
blamed bullwhacker you pay thirty
two a week to took 1t away from me.
But 1 got Sassoon spotted. And where
do you suppose Spllt-lips is this min
ute?"
"Morgan's gap"
Quite so-and been there all the
time. Now, Bob has the old warrant
for him-the question is, how to get
him out"
De Spain reflected a moment before
replying: John, I'd let him alone just
for the present." he said at length.
Lefever's eyes bulged. 'Let Sassoon
alone?"
Hell keep-for a while, anyway"
"What do you meanT
II don't want to stir things up too
strong over that way just at the min
ute. John"
"Why notr"
De Spain shuffied a little. "WeIl,
Jeffries thinks we might let things rest
till Duke Morgan and the others get
over some of their soreness"
Lefever, astonlshed at the indlffer-
ence of De Spain to the opportunity
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-04-26
Beulnnind Yound.

A three-year-old Presbyterian girl
and her mother were visiting some
friends In Rennerdale. After being
seated in the parlor for some minutes
the hostess was interrupted by the
small voice of her seven-year-old son:
MA Ma Where is my little gunT
"Now, Christian, it is just wherever
you put It,"
Upon finding 1t the boy passed
through the parlor and out into the
yard.
After some moments the little visl-
tor looked up at her mother and said:
"Muzzer, where did Onward Christian
Soldiers go?"-Pittsburgh Chronicle
Telegraph.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-04-26
"You Coward" She Cried.

speak. Since he did no more than
glare angrily at her, Nan lifted her
brows q little. "What do you want,
uncleY
"Where did you go this afternoon?"
"Over to Calabasas," she answered
innocently.
"Who'd you meet there?" Dukes
tone snapped with anger. He was
working himself into a fury, but Nan
saw it must be faced. 1.-THE same
people usually meet-whyT
did you meet Henry de Spain there
this afternoon"
Nan looked squarely at her cousin
and returned his triumphant express
sion defiantly before she turned her
eyes on her uncle. "No," she said coll
lectedly. "Why?
"See him anywhere else?"
mo, did not. What do you mean?
What" demanded his niece with spirit,
"do you want to know2 What are you
trying to find out?"
Duke turned in his rage on Gale I
"There! You hear that-what have
you got to say now" he demanded
with an abusive oath.
Gale jumped forward, his finger
pointed at Nan. Look here, do you
deny you are meeting Henry de Spain
all over the desert? You met him
down the Sleepy Cat trail near Black
Cap, didn't your"
Nan stood with her back against the
end of the table where her uncle's first
words had stopped her, and she looked
sidewise toward her cousin. In her
answer he heard as much contempt as
a girls voice could convey to a re-
jected lover. $50 you've turned sneak I"
Gale roared string of bad words.
"You hire that coyote Sassoon to
spy for you, do your demanded Nan
coolly. AREN'T you proud of your
manly relation, uncle?" Duke was
choking with rage. He tried to speak
to her, but he could not form his words.
what is it you want to know, uncle?
Whether it is true that I meet Henry
de Spain? 1t is. do meet him, and
we're engaged to be married when you
give us permission, Uncle Duke-and
not till then"
"There you have it" cried Gale.
''There's the story. I told you so.
I've known 1t for a week, tell you"
Mans face set. mot only" continued
her cousin jeerlngly, injecting that"
Almost before the vile epithet that
followed had reached her ears, Nan
caught up the whip. Before he could
escape, she cut Gale sharply across the
face. "You coward" she cried, trem-
bling so she could not control her
voice. eff you ever dare use that word
before me again, I'll horsewhip you.
Go to$Henry de Spain's face. you
skulker, and say that If you dare"
"Put down that quirt, Man." yelled
her uncle.
~ won't put 1t down." she exclaimed
| defiantly. "And he will get a good
flashing with 1t If he says one more
word about Henry de Spain"
"Put down that quirt, tell you"
Numbered her uncle.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-04-26

taken him to Sleepy Cat, where he be-
longs"
"But, Henry, suppose"
"There wouldn't have been any sup
pose.'"
Suppose the others had Gomez
with one rifle, here, q man could
stand Off q regiment. Nan, do you
know, you ft into my arm as If you
were made for it?"
His courage was contagious. When
he had tired her with fresh importu-
mites he unpinned her felt hat and
held ii out of reach while he kissed
and toyed with and dlsarranged her
hair. In revenge, she snatched from
his pocket his little black memoran-
dun book and some letters and read
or pretended to read them, and seiz-
ing her opportunity she broke from
him and ran with the utmost fleetness
up into the rocks.
In two minutes they had forgotten
the episode almost as completely as
If it never had been. But when they
left for home they agreed they would
not meet there again. They knew that
Sassoon, like a jackal, would surely
come back, and more than once, until
he found out just what that trail or
any subsequent trail leading into the
beds meant. The lovers laughed the
jackals spying to scorn and rode away,
banterlng, racing and chasing each
other in the saddle, as solely concerned
in their happiness as If there were
nothing else Of moment in the whole
wide world.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-04-26

Henry SPAIN general
Thief River railroad division in the Rocky
n
fertile valley 20 miles Sleepy
Caabasa Spain
seriously wounded He and
leader secretly in love- but trouble
they o marry.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-04-26

Old Duke Morgan decides to
take matters into his own hands
with De Spain. He goes to
Sleepy Cat hunting the stage
manager-and finds him. It's all
told In the next installFrent.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-04-26

American firms have 500 branch
houses in Canada.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-04-26
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