Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1918-01-11

| young woman self-consciously. "Pye
qnife circle to ride yet. l hope you
locate the rustlers, and II there's any
thing I can do--if see or hear any
thing that seems to be a clew-In let
you know right away. I've been keep
ing nay eyes open for some trace Of
them. and 80 has Char-Mr. Fox"
Then she blushcd and told them good
by very hastily and loped on up the
ridge.
Bark up that tree for awhile you
twoF' she said. with a twist of her
lips. when she was well away from
them. "You-you darned idiots. TO go
prowling around Wards place, just as
IT, Wsrdll take shot at them II
he catches them nosiug through his
stockr' She seowled at big ID COW
that thrust her head out OF an alder
thicket and sent Blue in after her.
browning, she watched the animal go
numbering down the hill toward the
Wolverine "Just because he's a stran- |
ger and doesn't mix with people and |
minds his own business and il trying |
TO get start they're suspicious. as IL |
n man has no right to- Wen, think |
managed 10 head them OF anyway"
Her satisfaction lasted while she rode
to the next ridge. Then the little
devils OF doubt came a-swarming and
a-whisperlng. She had said she knew
all about Ward. Well, she did to q
greater extent than others knew. But
she wondered If she did not know too
much or II she knew enough. There
were some things
She headed Blue down the slope and
as straight for tho Big Hill as she
could 40. There was no tran that way,
and the ridges were steep and the can
yons circultcus. But Blue was a good
horse, with plenty OF stamina and {
much experience. He carried his lady 4
safely, and he carried her willingly. |
Even her impotence gould find no I
fault with the manner in which he
climbed steep pitches. slid down slopes
as steep. jumped narrow washouts and
picked his way through thickets OF
1uaking aspens or over wide stretches
IF shale rock and lava beds He was
vet TO his ears when finally he nhuf-
led into Wards trail up the creek bot n
ON. but he breathed evenly, and he Il
arried his head high and perked his e
airs knowingly forward when the cor h
al and haystack came Into view II
round a sharp bend. He splashed Il
10Th front feet into the creek just be- II
ore the cabin and stopped to drink. b.
While Billy Louise stared at the silent W
lace. II
By the tracks along the creek trail ty
ne knew that Ward had come home, 81
nd she urged Blue across the ford and OF
D the bank to the cabin. She slid or 81
nd went IN boldly to hide her inward st
mbarrassment-and she found nothing TO
ut emptiness there.
Billy Louise did not take long to In on
The coffee pot was still WI
arm ON the stove when she laid her WI
aim against IL. and she Immediately so
,ured herself cup OF coffee. A plate an
I'd cup on the table indicated that I'm
ard had eaten a hurried meal and To-
I'd not taken time TO clear away the res
ter. Billy Louise ate what was left, tn
ID mechanically she washed the Tel
shes and made everything neat be- wi
re she went down to look for Rather. lay
lie had thought that Ward was out OF
mewhere about the place and would In
turn very soon probably. Blue she Lo
d left standing in plain sight before an
9 cabin so that Ward could see him
a know she was there. a fact which sn'
!, reyretted rel
.yhua she vss WASHING diahas snd VIII
eeping she had been trying to think Oh
some excuse for her presence there.
was going 10 be awkward. her COM sio
, there on his heels, one might say. jag
,uv Io,,,s. nsgan 20 ys,sb she had thi
/ come. She belsn to feel quite GER
n that Ward would DO surprised and "n
gusted when he found her there and iie'
uld look at her with that faint curl VI
the lip and that fainter lift OF the sisi
stril above Il. which made her go .ae
all over with the scorn In them. so
. had seen him look that way once ",'N
twice. and ia spite OF herself she be- ~,
! TO picture his face with that ex- SUI
ssion.
illly Louise was on the point OF rid ~.
away good deal more hastily ~ 80
N she had come In the hope that 50.
Ird would not discover her there. + -,
IN her own stubbornness came up -,
most. and she teld herself that she -,
a perfect right 10 ride wherever -
pleased and that II Ward didn't -
} Il he could do the other thing. ,,,.,s
he went 10 the door and stood look r.,s
cut for minute. wondering where Mo-
was -.
here was little window behind 81.
bunk aud beside that shelf filled ,v.r,
b books aud smoking material and Wild
ches. She knew hy the very ar w
cement OF that shelf and window har
Ward liked to lie there on the har
K and read while the Hight lasted. alon
/ the head OF the bed hung -four ,vha
( half full OF some hard, nsmpy ann.
which Billy Louise had not no no :,
4 before. she felt the bag tents- A.
". could not guess It's contents and mad