Carrizozo outlook. [volume] (Carrizozo, N.M.) 1910-1945, 1918-07-19

NN4NW ~ ANMN0 MNNa
I'm awfuily homesick for a rood old ride
on Blue. / miss him terribly. Have you
seen anything OF the cove folks latelyf
Seems like I'm clear out Of the world. !
hate town, anyway, and a hospital u the
limit for dinmalnesa. Even tina Louise OF
me IL getting ready 10 do something aw-
full n I have 10 stay much longer. Nom
milo sleeps most OF the time. I believe they
dope her with something. She doesn't
have that awful pain so bad. Sc ! don't
have anything 20 do but sic around and
read and sew n wait for her 20 wake
up and want something.
And his n Chriatmaa, almost. I won
der what you'll be doing. Say, Ward. n
you want 20 be a perfect Jewel OF n maj
send me some Of that jerky you've got
swiped some that last time ! was there.
II would taste mighty good 70 me now
after all this hospital truck.
Well. n merry Christmas, Pai-o'-mine
and here's hoping you and mommie ana
I will be eating turkey together at the
Wolverine when next Christmas comes.
Nummy-numi Wouldn't that taste good.
thought
Now rsmembsr and write a whole tablet
full 20 BILLY LOUISE.
Phoebe put that letter on the mantei
over the fireplace the day after Christ
mas.
Billy Louise RETAINED from expect
ing any reply until after New Years;
then she began to look for a letter,
and when the days passed and brought
her no word her moods changed often
err than the weather.
Wards literary efforts along about
that time consisted Of cutting notches
In the window sill beside his bunk.
On the day when the stage driver
gave Billy Louise's letter TO Phoebe
Ward cut a deeper. wider notch. think
Ing that day was Christmas. Under
the notch he scratched a word with
the point OF his knife. II had four
letters, and II told e%loquently Of the
state Of mind he was In.
The letter gathered dust upon the
mantel down at the Wolverine. When
the postmark was more than two
weeks old another letter came, and
Phoebe laid II on the first one with
fingers that trembled a little. Phoebe
had a letter OF her own that day. Both
were thin, and the addresses were more
scrawly than usual. Phoebe's Indian
instinct warned her that something
was amiss.
This was Wards letter:
on COO ward mommie,s dead. She
IN the nursn came IN M Z o.c,ocL Ss,pe
all alone and don't know what 10 do, /
wish you could come, but II you don't got
.nns nrn aw 49, = zee you az INC ranen
Ward. / hate ,ifo ana everythins' VI"
BILLY LOUISE.
Please Ward. stay at the ranch TIL I
come. want an,v 20 Sr,s see you. tsel az Y
mommie'a gone, she looked 40 p%saeefui
when they took her away-and so strange.
didn't belong to her any more. felt
y LII nn aws,, gan IN M nsa" .nsss
you'll understand. You always do.
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n uay mat let.er was written
ure" y piah OF tue mousse ne
meant 10 puiiu some uhy, win u "iue
porch on the iront' where u nhnhock
"ouiu s"ins eonlortuoly'
lie u no presentiment OF blllyls
need OF him' "hlcn was just as weh'
since ne WINS upSoiu'eiy poweriess TO
help her'
hhIy louise havins arrived uneA-
pecteuly oh tne sunse' puheu on ner
tur hneu mittehs ana put ner chilled
nahus peiore the pinze IN inc
fireplace her eyer were tiree ana
sunkeh, hnu ner mouth uroopeu piu-
iuly NJ tne eoIncrs put asiue irom
tnat sne ulu no. seem muen cnhnseu
rum 'ne sni ""o n"u ieit 'ne r@"
Two montns anu more peiore'