Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1918-01-26
cheer up.

Homes the place for you, DEAR"
she said, smilingly. "You just come
right along with u.s. Your man will
come quick enough when he gets
word. And wen 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, 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!s
TN need to have food hauled in"
Hazel reflected "And some things I
brought with me. / wish Bill were
here. I'm afraid I'll be lot of both
er. Won't you be heavily loaded as it
isl"
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
ana drafts for over three thousand doh
lars on her person. She wondered ff
IL would offend the sturdy independ-
ence of these simple, kindly neighborS.
il she offered to supply q f9ur-horee
team and wagon for their mutual USE?
But she had been foresta}led there, she
learned in the next breath. Nm
sOh, bother nothing" Mrs. Lauer de-
elared. sWhy. we'd be-ashamed II we
couldn't help little. And far's the
load goes. you ought to see the four
beautiful horses your husband let
Jake have. You don't know how much
Jake appreciates it. nor what 4 6ne
man he thinks your husband ~ We
needed horses so bad, and dIdn'k hfye
the money to buy. SO Mr.. Wagstaff
{ didn't say thing but got the team for
us, and Jake's paying for them IN
clearing and blowing and making I'M
provements on your land. Honest
they could pull twice the load we
have. There's good wagon road
most of the way now. Quite q lot u
settlers, too. as much as fifty or sixty
miles out. And we've got the finest
garden you ever saw. Vegetables
enough to feed four families AZ winf
ter. Oh, your old cities! Inever want
to live in one again. Never a day have
the Riddles been sick. Suppose It's
bit out of the world? You're all the
more pleased when somebody does
happen along. Folks is so different fn
new country like this. There's plen-
ty for everybody-and everybody
helps. like neighbors ought tor
Lauer came up after time. and
Hazel found herself unequivocally in
their hands. With the matter of trans
porting herself and supplies thus
solved, she set out to find Felix Cour-
voiseur who would know how to get
word to Bill. He might come back ~
the cabin in a month or SO; he might
not come back at all unless he heard
from her. She was smitten with
great fear that he might give her up
as lost to him. and plunge deeper into
the wilderness in some mood Of reck-
lessness. And she wanted him, longed
for him, if only so that she could make
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 a
man. Bill Wagstaff was In the Kiap-
pun range. W
"But II he should have left thereiv
Hazel suggested uneasily.
s'E weel leave weeth W'itey Lewees
word of Were e CO." Courvoiseur reas-
sured her. AN my man. witch ees
my bruzzer-law. witch can mos fully
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ees arrange. b ees say mos partet<
/ cnlar If madame ees come or weesii
| for forward message. geet heem to me
| queeck. Oui. Long tam Reel ees
/ know me- / am for depend always
I (To be continued Monday