The Arizona copper camp., 1918-02-02

/: By B. M BOWER 4
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Copyright by Little. Brown and Company
SYNOPSIS.
combed, harsh of voice and speech and
nature, with her shiftless husband Jase,
journey over desert trail, driving four
wagon first fords the Wolverine stream.
Jase is ready to stop at the first green
spot, but Marthy insists on plodding along
another full days journey. That night,
through natural instinct, two of the oxen
stray into narrow gorge and feast on
the rich grasses of the Cove, where they
are found by Marthy who recognizes the
dreams and the pioneers at once take pos
session. Later they are Joined by an
other couple who are impressed with the
Wolverine and also establish a home. To
them is born daughter. chriStened Billy
Louise.
CHAPTER II-After a visit to Marthy,
Billy Louise on her horse Blue reaches
home late, in snow storm, having met
stranger riding over the same trail. He
is invited to stop for the night and is well
coined by Billy LouiSe's mother. Intro
duces himself as Ward Warren who has
q claim on Mill Creek.
CHAPTER III-Marthy is Mortified to
find that Jase has died during the night.
Digging a grave in a level place above
the main ditch, she wheels Jase's body
on the homemade Wheelbarrow and
buries her dead. Charlie Fox, her nephew
arrives
CHAPTER !V-Fox rides to Billy
anything of four of their calves which
disappeared; theft is discussed, and Billy
Louise starts in search
CHAPTER v-spring has come, but
Billy Louise is not affected by the beau
ties Of Wolverine canyon, for she Is brood
ing over her discouragementsa and is on
the brink of nervous breakdown when
she finds one Of her finest cows dead,
and she has a machinery note due Two
men approach on horses looking about for
missing stock. She rides to Wards cabin,
but he is not there.
CHAPTER vI-Riding along a f1at-bot-
toned canyon she sees horseman resem-
bling Ward disappear in the hills and later
discovers a hidden corral such as she re-
members being told about by heV father.
She is late in arriving home and finds
her mother i'll. and a physician is called.
CHAPTER vII-Billy Louise does not
hold changeless her broken faith in Ward,
although she has learned to. love him;
Ward NETS her on the trail and is puzzled
at her apparent coolness toward him.
Ward writes Der offering any assistance
he car give.
CHAPTER VIII.
"You Won't Get Ne Again.
NNE day late in the fall Ward was
riding the hills off to the north
and west Of his claim, looking at
the condition of the range there and
keeping an eye out for Y6 cattle. He
had bought another dozen head Of
mixed stock over toward Hardup and
they were not yet past the point of
straying off their new range. So, hav-
ing keen eyes and the incentive to use
them, he paid attention to stock tracks
in the soft places, and he saw every
thing within the sweep Of his vision,
and, since the day was clear and fine,
his range of vision when he reached a
high point extended to the Three Buttes
away out in the desert.
By sheer accident he rode up to the
canyon where the little corral lay hid
den at the end and looked down. AND
since he rode up at an angle different
from the one Billy Louise had taken
the corral was directly beneath him
so directly, in fact, that half Of it was
hidden from sight. He saw that there
were cattle within it, however, and
two men at work there. And by
chance he lifted his eyes and saw the
nose of horse beyond jutting ledge
sixty yards or so away and the crown
Of hof oh iI1Ct a
A lookout, he judged instantly and
pulled Rather behind the rock he had
been at some pains to ride around.
Ward was a cowpuncher. He knew
the tricks of the trade so well that he
did not wonder what was going on
ed to do as Billy Louise had done
ride on and pass up knowledge which
might be disagreeable, for Ward was
not one to spy upon his fellows, and
the man whom he would betray into
the hands of a sheriff must be guilty
of a most heinous crime. That was
his cOde-to let every fellow have a
chance to work out his own salvation
or damnation as he might choose. 1
don't suppose there was anything he
hated worse than ali infOrmer
He got behind the rock, since he had
no great desire to be shot, and he dis
covered that his view of the corral
was much palmer than from where
he had first seen it. He looked behind
him for an easy retreat to the sky
line and then before he turned to ride
away he glanced down again curiously.
A man walked out into the center Of
the corral and stood there in the re-
vealing sunlight. Wards eyes bored
like gimlets through the space that di-
vided them. Instinctively his hand
went to the gun on his hip. 1t was a
long pistol shot, and he was afraid he
might miss, for Ward was not a wiz
ard with a gun, much as l should like
to misrepresent him as a dead shot.
He was human, just like yourself. He
could shoot pretty well, a great deal
better than lots of men who do more
based on 40 pounds of metal per ton
Today the ore averages only 80. But
Jackling is not worrying.
eve can handle at profit, ore
that contains only IA pounds to the
ton,' he told me, "and have several