The Prescott daily news., 1918-04-26

amends.
 She easily found Courvoiseur, a tall spare Frenchman. past middle age. Yes, he could deliver a message to Bill Wagstaff; that is, he could send n man. Bill Wagstaff was in the Klap- pan range.
 But if he should have left there?" Hazel suggested uneasily.
 "'E weel leave weeth W'itey Lewees word of were e go," Courvoiseur reas- sured her. An my man, wich ees my bruzzer-law, w'ich can mos fully trus'. e weel follow 'eem. So Beepe ees arrange. 'E ees say mos partee- cular if madame ees come or weesb for forward message, geet heem to me queeck. Oui. Long tam Beel ees know me. l am for depend always"
 Courvoiseur kept traders stock of goods in weather-beaten old log house which sprawled hundred feet back from the street. Thirty years. he told her. he had kept that store in Fort George. She guessed that Bill had selected him because he was a fixture.
 She sat down at his counter and wrote her message. Just a few terse lines. And when she had delivered if to Courvoiseur she went back to the hotel. There was nothing now to do but wait. And with the message un- der way she found herself impatient to reach the cabin, to spend the wait ing days where she had first found happiness. She could set her house in order against her mans coming. And if the days dragged, and the great, lone land seemed to close in and press inexorably upon her, she would have to be patient. very patient.
 Jake was held up, waiting for SUD- plies. Fort George suffered sugar famine. Two days later the belated freight arrived. He loaded his wagon, ton of goods for himself a like weight of Hazel's supplies and be- longings. A goodly load, but he drove out of Fort George with four strap ping bays arching their powerful necks, and champing on the bit.
 -Four days ve will make 1t by der ranch" Jake chuckled. "Mit der mule und Gretchen. der COW. von week 1t take me, init half der !oat."
 Four altogether pleasant and satis- flying days they were to Hazel. The worst of the fly pests were vanished for the season. A crisp touch of frost sharpened the night winds. Indian summer hung its mellow haze over the land. The clean. pungent air that sift- ed through the forests seemed doubly sweet after the vitiated atmosphere of town. Fresh from a gridiron of dusty streets and stone pavements, and but stepped, as one might say, from days of Imprisonment in the narrow con- fines of railway coach, she drank the whey air in hungry gulps. and joyed in the soft yielding of the turf be- heath her feet, the fern and peavine carpet of the forest floor.
 It was her pleasure at night to sleep as she and Bill had slept, with her face barred to the stars. She would draw her bed little aside from the camp fire and from the low seclusion of a thicket lie watching the nimble flames nt their merry dance. smiling laZily at the grotesque shadows cast by Jake and his frau as they moved about the blaze. And she would wake In the morning clear-headed, alert. grateful for the pleasant woodland smells arising wholesomely from the fecund bosom of the earth.
 Lauer pulled up before his own cab in nt mid-afternoon of the fourth day, unloaded his own stuff. and drove to his neighbor's with the rest.
 "rll walk back after little." Hazel told him, when he had piled her goods Tn one corner of the kitchen.
 The rattle of the wagon died away. She was alone-at home. Her eyes filed as she roved restlessly from kitchen to living-room and on into the bedroom at the end. Bill had un- packed. The rugs were down. the books slowed in familiar disarray up- on their shelves. the bedding spread in semi-disorder where he had last slept una gone uNuy Wltnout tFOuDtlHB tO smooth It out In housewifely fashion.
 She came back to the living-room and seated herself in the big chair. She had expected to be lonely, very lonely. But she was not. Perhaps that would come later. For the pres ent 1t seemed as if she had reached the end of something. as if she were very tired. and had gratefully come to welcome resting place. She turned her gaze out the open door where the forest fell away in vast undulations