The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1918-05-03
CHAPTER xVlll--Continued.

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II am plensed to welcome you bacl
TO Gott's country. Mrs. Vagstaff," HI
said. "Und let me carry dot suid case
airetty.-
They walked two blocks TO the
Kings hotel. where Lauer's family
was housed. He was in for supplies
br told her. and, of course, his wife
and children accompanied him.
"Not dat Gredda ISIS afraid. She Is,
SO goot a man as | on der ranch ven
am gone" he explained. But for den
il iss a change. Und | bring by dei
town n vaigonloat off bobadoes. By
Gosh. dem bObadOes iss sell high
II flashed into HaZel's mind that
here was heaven-sent opportunity td
reach the cabin without facing that
hundred miles in the company OF
chauce-hircd strangers. But she did
cot broach the subject at once. In
stead she asked eagerly of BIZ. Lauer
told her that Bill had tarried few
days at the cabin. and then struck out
alone for the mines. And ne had not
said when he would be back.
Mrs. Lauer. unchanged from year
earlier. welcomed her with pleased
friendlineSs. And Jake left the two
of them and the chubby kddies in the
Kings Office while he betook himself
about his business. Hazel hailed ms
wife and the children to her room as
soon as one was assigned to her. Ana
there, almost before she knew IT, she
was murmuring brOkenly her story In
70 an ear TINT listened with sympathy
and understanding. Only woman
can grasp some of woman's needs
Gretta Iauer pattcd Hazels shoulder
with n mOthcrly hand, and bade her
cheer up.
Homes the place for you, dear"
she said, smllngly. "YOu just come
right along with us. Your man will
come quick enough when he gets
word. And we'lI take good care of you
In the meantime. La, I'm all excited
over It. It's the finest thing could hap
pen for you both. Take it from me.
dearie. I know. We've had our trou-
bles. Jake and I. And. seeing I'm only
six months short of being graduate
nurse. you needn't fear. Well, well y
'Ill need to have food hauled in"
Hazel reflected. "And some things
brought with me- wish Bill We're
here. I'm afraid I'll be n lot of both
or. Won't you be heavily loaded, as it
is?'
She recalled swiftly the odd, make
shift team that Lauer depended on
the mule. lop-eared and solemn. "und
Gretchen. der cow" She had cash
and drafts for over three thousand dol
lars on her person. she wondered II
II would offend the sturdy independ-
euce of these simple, kindly neighbors,
If she offered TO supply four-horse
team and wagon for their mutual usei
But she had been forestalled there she
learned In the next breath.
"Oh. bother nothing" Mrs. Lauer de.
clared. "Why. we'd be ashamed If we
couldn't help little. And far's the
load goes. you ought to see the -four
beautiful horses your husband LEI
Jake have. You don't know how much
Jake appreciates it, nor what IA fine
man he thinks your husband is. We
needed horses so bad. and didn't have
tho money to buy. So Mr.. Wagstall
didn't say II thing but got the team foi
us, and Jake's paying for them In
clearing and piowing and making I'm
provenents on your land. Honest
they could pull twice the load wei
have. There's good wagon roat
most of the way now. Quite lot OF
settlers. too. rs much as fifty or sixty
miles out. And we've got the fines
garden you ever saw. Vegetable:
enough 20 feed four families all win
ter. Oh. your old cities! never wan
10 live in one again. Never day hav,
the Riddles been sick. Suppose ii is ;
bit out of the world? You're all IN,
more pleased when somebody doe
happen along. Folks Is so different il
new country like this. There's plen
ty for cverybody-and everybod.
helps. like neighbors ought to-"
Lauer came up after a time. ant
Hazci found herself unequivocally il
their hnnds. With the matter of trans
porting herself aud supplies thu
solved. she set out to find Felix Cour
voiseur-whc would know how to ge
word 10 Bill. He might come back {
the cabin in u month or so; he nigh
not come back at all unless he hear
frorn her. She was smitten with
great fear that he might give her u
as lost to him. aud plunge deeper int
the wilderness in some mood of reck
lessness. And she wanted him. longe
for him. IL only so that she could max
amends.
She easily found Courvoiseur. "a tn
spare FreDchman, past middle ag'
Yes, ne could deliver message to Bi
Wagstaff: that is. he could send
nan. Bill Wagstaff was In the KiaI
pan range.
"But II ne should have left therel
Hazel suggested uneasily.
"'E weel leave weeth Witey Lewes
word of were o CO." COurvoiseur reas
sured her. "An' my man. witch ee
my bruxseriaw. w'ich I can mos full
trus', e weel follow 'eem. So Beel'
ees arrange. II ees say mos partes
cuIar II madame ees come or weesl
for forward message, geet heem to M
aueeci. Oui. Long tam Beel ee
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