The Prescott daily news., 1918-04-26
toovrish. by Little. Brown a Col .uAprER xvlll--Continued

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 u om pleased to welcome you pack nott's % country, Mrs. vagstaff," ne
 :, '0. sr1nd let me carry dot suid case alretty.' ,,oo,s to tho Kings hotel, where Lauer's famlly r' rss housed. He was in for supplies ss @sI told her, and, of course, his wire
 and children accompanied him.
 'Ds SNot dat Gredda iss afraid. She iss
 .oot M . man as I on der ranch ven l
 am gOne" he explained. But for dem lem
 |, a ice change. Und l bring by der
 ..rr a vaigonloat off bobadoes. By
 cosh dem bobadoes iss sell high'
 1t flashed into Hazel's mind that ssre was n heaven-sent opportunity to ,sach the cabin without facing that huudred miles In the company Of ebsncehired strangers. But she did oot broach the subject at once. in- ,tpad she asked eagerly of Bill. Lauer ,od her that Bill had tarried a few mys at the cabin, and then struck out alone for the mines. And he had not ald when he would be back.
 Mrs. Lauer, unchanged from a year earlier, welcomed her with pleased iiendlness. And Jake left the two of them and the chubby kiddies in the Kings office while he betook himself about his business. Hazel haled his wife and the children to her room as mon as one was assigned to her. And \ there, almost before she knew it, she
 was murmuring brokenly her story in- 10 an ear that listened with sympathy
 and understanding. Only n woman can grasp some of woman's needs. Gretta Lauer patted Hazel's shoulder with a motherly hand, and bade her cheer up.
 Homes the place for you dear." she said, smillngly You just come light along with us. Your man will come quick enough when he gets word And we'll take good care of you h the meantime. La. I'm all excited over 1t. It's the finest thing could hap pen for you both. Take 1t from me. deare' l know. We've had our trou- oles' Jake and I. And. seeing I'm only SIX months short of being graduate purse, you needn't fear. Well, we'll l"
 I'll need to have food hauled in," haze reflected. And some things I brought with me. l wish Bill were aere, I'm afraid I'll be q lot of both .f. won't you be heavily loaded, as !. isi
 ohe recalled swiftly the odd, make ~ suil team that Lauer depended on ,le mule, lop-eared and solemn. "und ue'cheh' der cow" She had cash auu urafts for over three thousand dol "a a's on her person. She wondered If ~ "Oulo offend the sturdy independ. s s's " ol these simple, kindly neighbors. z ,.. sAe offered to supply four-horse D.. au una wagon for their mutual use ! Ia. .s. sne had been forestalled there, she turned aa, in the next breath.
 ,. os' oother nothing" Mrs. Lauer de- s"n,s su Why, we'd be ashamed if we SsS l help a little. And far's the hs.a,,. u goes you ought to see the four l,san w horses your husband let hke nave nave You don't know how much man appreciates 1t. nor what q fine lneedas aV 'n'nks your husband is. We lho ma r norses so bad, and didn't have didr, sa to buy. So Mir. wagstaff .us ma ' a thing but got the team for eeorIna 'ake's paying for them fin proyomona,n anu blowing and making im- tley co,,,s % oh your land. Honest have '1,u T pull twice the load we'll most s ., There's II a good wagon road Settlers .ue way now. Quite a lot of niles m, .oO' us much us fifty or sixty .sarden ''' And we've got the finest enough :, you ever saw. Vegetables 'la M Oh 'U Feed four families all win. 'bl live eh, !, Your 2" old cities I never @ want ~ the kldd,oSau cue again. Never day haye Dit out sS os eeen sick. Suppose it Is n more :" D'a.l pl the world2 You're al, the happen pleased 0,n when somebody a'' doas oss a aew yI cann, a'Ong. Folks is so different tn in e fo, t0ontry like this. There's i plen. ,r helps, l,so everybody-and evervsodv %
 Lauer rAq eal neishbors ought to-" haael fon came up after n time ,ra
 sls haoa loqnd herself unequivocai,v s'ne; ahu ,u porting 'Ss. Ss,N. With the matter of transl a@ 'olseu,sae she set out to find ippl9s PeIIs ca"r thus Word dI@no to p,n would know how o,,A tO oour, ua,
 cabin as bi m He might come nUW back ,c ss, ta Dot eona p,a ha ,n month or so ho Iun mIrs, s1 ioa s aes back s1 at all unless he he ln,sn, haars lost ltsr ,a ,' that he might sive hs,h Ser nn