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The girl looked at him with an amused smile for a moment. Then she laughed.
 Langford turned to her quickly. His face was very grave and his eyes were somewhat disturbed.
 Look here,'' said he, "how did you know this? I thought I was the only one in the vicinity that knew Lap wing could top timber I didn't sup pose even Johnson himself knew it"
 How did you find 1t out?" she asked, suddenly. CT wonder if it was in the same way I did-by seeing that when he had him out for exercise?" it.'' he said.
 And so that is why you're here?" she unused, softly '.When Lapwing is put up you intend >to get him, if strenuous bidding will do it for you. Is that so?"
 Again Langford nodded. That is quite right" lie admitted cheerfully.
 t'It seems a sha-le,'' said Langford, slowly, that when no one but you and I and Pat know about him, that we should have to bid against each other and run his price of. If we weren't to bid against each other, l haven't doubt ned go at a ridicu- iously low figure
 "You want me to promise not to bid ?'' she asked quickly.
 Goodness, no," Langford declared. "You dot think I was limiting at that, do you? I was merely thinking that if we run him up pretty we'll, some of these other chaps about here may get an inkling as to his real worth and put in their oars and so
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fear that perhaps Jeanette might be successful after all, 9 st
 The thought worried him, and more than once he was on the point of seeking out Henry Telford, and ask ing how things were going, but before he could finally nerve himself to make the inquiry, he received note asking him to call.
 Telford's face frightened as Haver- ford entered the private office.
 'I was afraid that you might not come." he explained when greetings had been exchanged.
 Anything wrong?'' asked Haver- ford, anxiously, as he noticed the lines of care about the elder mans eyes. '. 'I want you to induce Jeanette to take that ring back" explained her father, abruptly. "Of course what I tell you is in strict confidence?"
 Hayerford nodded and the other produced sheaf of letters. tI put her on our star route," he explained. ''She skipped Chicago because a drum mer who introduced himself to her on the train explained that he had Chi cago territory by rights and that our man stole it from him. Listen:
 T think you had better dismiss
 
 "Boyce being the best salesman in this line. He is not honest. This MT. Corey that I met tells me that Boyce has stolen a lot of customers from him and he thinks that Boyce drinks. He'd got the cutest little baby-he showed me his picture-and I think it a shame that house like ours should prevent a man with a pretty baby like that from earning a living.''
 'tIs that a sample or the worst ?'' l asked Haverford.
 "Just sample" explained Telford. l Heres another; T don't think I'll bother with Devine & Driggs. One of the men I met tells me that MT. De- vine sits in his office in his stocking l feet and that he chews tobacco all i the time. I know that you would not want me to associate with people like that And Devines gave Boyce one order for BPS, ,0O0." Something appears to have gone wrong" suggested Haverford and Tel ford groaned.
 ''The worst of it is she seems to be | having a perfectly lovely time,' as she puts it.. She Is three weeks be- | hind her schedule and-well, Boyce is out ahead of her and I don't want her to catch up with him. Will you go for her, Jack?''
 ''Do you think that she will come ?' he asked | Silently Telford handed out the last letter.
 stP. s. Haveford read. eff you see Jack please tell him that my ring finger looks .awfu1ly bare"
 .'I guess she's ready to be coaxed, ; said Teford.
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on and he used the reason for strike-

on and he used the reason for a strike- breaker."
 'I wonder if she was in the game,,' .
 unused Taylor bud. ,,,-,t t3I make the motion that no one speaks until we all have an even chance,' proposed Slim, and to this there was no dissenting voice. There were seven or eighs weeks of hard work ahead-work that would take them far af1eld-and each man felt that he would be easier in mind 1 if he knew that no one was getting ahead of him. Solemnly each pledged his word, and after the noon meal they rode off l to the different tasks, determined to get through as quickly as possible. With such expedition did they work i that in six weeks the cattle were all back on the range and the fences were
 all up again. There was a small cele-= bration in honor of that fact, at which Coleraine took a hand. [ The men were all gathered in the bunk house, and Curly had just an- nounced that the prohibition on
 courtship had been raised when the door opened and the boys sprang up to greet the old man.
 1 Glad to see you looking SO happy. | he said as he glanced about the room. i've come to make things little livelier. We are going to have party here-a wedding.'
 For moment the silence was pro- nounced, then Curly rose wrathfully. HYou don't mean to say that you've l-" he began. The old man held up a restraining hand.
 'Tm not going to marry he ex- l plained hastily. "It seems that Miss
 Kitty has been engaged to an Eastern
 chap for more than a year. I have
 arranged to give him position here as a sort of assistant and they are to be married next month. I suppose
 that you boys will be disappointed but tits better after alI There was
 bound to be lot of hard feeling over a contest for Kitty's hand"
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sibly be something worth while.''
 The girl moved over on the seat. "Climb up,'' she invited. tYou can get an excellent view of 1t all from here.''
 Langford accepted with a1acrity.
 'tI don't think your explanation is the whole truth,'' the girl said. look ing at him steadily. tYou wouldn't have come over here just on chance It isn't the fact that there might be something worth while, but the fact that you know there is something worth while that has brought you. Isn't that right?''
 "I can't dispute you," Langford laughed. "Yes, I'll admit there is somehing worth while that will be put up a little later on. I don't mind telling you confdentia1ly that there is a horse in Johnson's bunch that can Top timber in way to make us all sit up and take notice, and I think most Of us have seen some pretty to1- erable jumpers in our day.
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back Monday" 3
 Peters expressed bis grateful thanks and strode off well content. He would have the inside track over the new men, and with the others out of the way success seemed assured.
 He could not know that each of the others had determined upon the same course, yet when Moncay came the entire old crew came riding in from the station to fill their old hunks. In town each man had seemed to shun the others and not until nearly noon did they all return and face each other.
 The old man greeted each one with sardonic courtesy and expressed his pleasure at seeing him back, adding that he hoped that stay in town had gratified to satiety the desire for so- ciety.
 Curly glanced over the men as they sat down to the noon meal.
 fI thought I was --ne only fool O. the 1ot,' he: said gfim1y as he eyed giving in but I couldn't leave the old man with brand new crew, and l stayed over so there would be some one who knew the range.''
 HAll the same here," agreed Peters Its hard to break in an all new crew and l told the old man that I would be back Monday"
 Funny he didn't tell me when ] offered to stay on. spoke to him Thursday morning." said Curly. "He knew it then,' confirmed Slim I"I spoke about it Wednesday night. You were in a precious hurry grunted Smiling Boyd. T waited un. til Thursday noon, and I think saw D,,%4 D 1Jy; 4~ l,;, ! than that.''
 "I beat you a1l," proudly announced Btng Taylor. 3tI just come over thi morning and took chances on being taken on again.
 ''It looks like put-up job," de clared Curly. "The old man knev Ethat we had good reason for stayin;
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would listen to your scheme-what- ever it is-until I know wha. 1t is?' she suggested at length.
 'II tell you and you may decide, said Langfoff, gravely. Suppose we enter into partnership, strictly limited corporal tion, as it were, hora and now and buy him together?"
 70, I don't know she demurred. That wouldn't be satisfactory, would
 about him. You'd probably want to have him at your stables, just when
 I wanted him mos. at mine, and vice versa"
 '.1 think we can obviate that" said Langford. We might -- well, W6 might pool our whole, outfit. stapies and all, you know said he. NS Goodness, she laughed You do put value on him. don't you?' Not so much as dc CT some other things" said Langford, with an en- phasis there was no mistaking-
 Helen, let's own him toGetheE.=I n fact, let's own everything together. l have waited very patiently. ynull aa- init. have stood all your reEufs ard
 your parrying like a little man. CIR want LapwiDg; so do I. E3,r there are i things that I want far more than I do i a horse that can take 5ix-rail fence Lets buy him together ard c1'an him together, and rechristen him -o=z gether-I think Cupid would be ap- prcpriate-and then let's enter hfEls ] in the register under the ownership ! of-of-'
 He looked at her eagerly, but her | eyes were steadfastly turned away. 1.The ownership of MT. and Mrs Tom
 my Lanztord! he finished boldlx.
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give my whole mind toSbusiness.'''
 'It is not broken,' retorted Haver- ford. "I am under sentence of sus- pension-not expulsion"
 Its not what you think-it's what I know came the quick retort, and HaVerford, seeing that the prolonga- tion of the conversation could do no good, took himself off.
 He knew Jeanette too we'll to be- lieve that she would change her mind. She had the Telford pluck, and he realized that for a time she would en- ter, heart and soul, into the business and forget her broken engagement.
 He learned of the time of her de- parture on her first trip, and a basket of orchids was his silent farewell, then he sat himself down to wait From business friends he learned that Jeanette Lad been given the route that the star salesman of the Telford company had been years in building up; "a self-se11ing route,' '' some called it. and Telford began to
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some and disappointed that I slipped up behind him and kissed him before he knew that I was there, and said It's all right, daddy, I'm going to be a business woman; and then he cried a little, and I cried lot, and I guess I must have kept on crying all night.
 "Next week I'm going to take to the road as a salesman-just as Dick would have done had he lived-and I guess I'll show some of those men that a woman can sell hats better than they can."
 - 'I don't know whether to sympa- thize with you or-your father" said Haverford. "On the whole, I think the greater sympathy IS due him." Jeanette drew back stiff1y. If you feel that way about it l suppose it is useless to discuss it any more," she said, coldly. ''I supposed I could look to you for sympathy. I don't want to be business woman, but since it will please daddy, think that ought fA"
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"My dear little girl,'' Haverford's tones were tender now. "I appre- ciate the sacrifice you are making, but, also see the uselessness of your trying to take your dead brothers place. As salesman on the road you will only prove a failure, and even greater disappointment to your father than by refusing to make the at tempt
 "If that's the way you feel about 1t, perhaps you feel that I will not make a good wife, she suggested hot ly. She was nerved to every sacrifice and his unbelief hurt her.
 ''It is because I believe that you will make a good wife that I hate to see you attempt business career, ,, exclaimed Haverford. "If I thought you could make good selling goods I
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make it pretty expensive for us - whichever one of us it is that is final ly lucky enough to get Dim.''
 Well, what are we going to do about it?'' she challenged. ttYou aYe supposed to have a remarkably actire mfnd--especially so where horse you want is concerned. Can't you suggeac something?'' '
 Langford looked at her~Ion eak1 thoughtfully. Indeed, he looked 75eI steadily that her color rose and her eyes were turned away.
 There is scheme that mient prove effcacious," said ae very slor-- ly. ''The only trouble is that I an rather doubtful as to whether you would consider it seriously"
 There was little period of silence between them. The bidding about the auctioneer had suddenly becor @, very active. IT girl was apparently absorbed in it.
 How can I tell whether or not I
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the matter may have been, Johnson was in financial difficulties, and to relieve the pressure of. the moment the South Ridge stock farm and all that pertained thereto were going under the hammer of the auctioneer.
 Langford, astride magnificent hunter, swung briskly into the gate way, ga1loped past the stables to the paddock, where one after another the horses were being led forth to have their many virtues extolled to high
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ment in Haverford's eyes, and she inn petuously drew off her engagement ring.
 ''Take this,'' she commanded inn periously. ''I don't want to be en- gagged to a man who has no faith in me-
 Haverford took the solitaire and carefully placed it in his pocketbook.
 'tTo be kept until called for,' he quoted, lightly. My dear little girl, you are overwrought. You have nerved yourself up to this sacrifice, and you do not realize just what it means. When you do realize-then send for me, and I shall have the ring ready for you.'' That will never be- was the pas sionate reply. Its just as well that the engagement is broken. Now I can
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ROUBLE reigned on
 the CoIeraine ranch and things were not
 well with the ani-

z ] I ||: ~TXHA Ht the COleraine ranch ~YIJ and things were not
 ~IN well with the anil
 ~H mals that bore the crazy "C" on their
 H% Hanks. Little bunch
 h411k es of cattle, branded
 Mp" with e." that sug- " gested a half coiled
 snake suffering from
 the cholera morbus, e.fayeo rom the range and sought fresh pastures through the breaks in the line fence, while the riders sat about the bunk house and rolled cigarettes and Peter Coleraine sat on tne porch of the big house and swore violently at men and things.
 It had all started when the hard work of roundup was completed and they felt that they were entitled to some relaxation. There had been started the series of balls and the old man had set his foot down, declaring that the men employed on the Crazy 6 should not go riding off to every fes- tfv1ty within 50 miles of the home ranch.
 More than that, he declared that the men could not do their share of the entertaining, and this to men who had set their hearts upon outdoing all previous balls ever held in the Sagawatch valley.
 Some weeks had been spent in vain argument; then one night every man on the place had ridden 30 miles to Brewster's in. direct defiance of the old mans orders, and the next morn ing, unrepentant, had sent Curly Dfggs to announce that they would not ride range until they were per mftted to give their own entertain ment and attend all others within reaching distance.
 The old man had violently declared that he would see the cattle drift across two states into Mexico before he would be dictated to, so both sides had sat down to play the waiting game, with this difference-that the riders enjoyed their inaction and the old man didn't.
 It was the middle of the third week of the strike that Kitty Bellman ar- rived on the scene. Mrs. Morrow, Coleraine's housekeeper. had left to get married. and Mrs. Bellman came to take charge of the big house for the choleric owner. Kitty came with ear mother, and life held a new in- 3eresr for the men of the Crazy c.
 It was the old man himself who brought them to the ranch He had suggested to Curly that in view of the free board that he was receiving that he might at least ride over to the rail road town and bring back the new housekeeper, but Curly, who had rid den over the day before for fresh sup r plies of tobacco and paper, had de- clared that if Brewsters was too long a ride for a ball, it was even farther to the railroad, and he did not care to make the trip, since there seemed to be a prejudice against long rides on
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-of Brewster's, each man hoping to be the one to see Kitty first, for by tacit consent none had trod upon another's privilege, and the first man to reach Kitty's side held his place until it was her pleasure to make a change.
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If it's all the same

going to stay on. If it's all the same to you, sir $
 ''It doesn't matter,'' was the care less reply as Sims voice trailed into silence. ''Ride over to town with the rest if you want to and then come
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IL sorts of rumorS were in the air as to just why Johnson
 had made a fZZle of the South Ridge stock farm. One was that he had gone in too steep; another reported him to have dabbled too freely in marginal stocks, but wh ethar tha fr11th of
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your father and are going to give the best years of your life to business
 ITO father" she corrected. Poor daddy has his heart set on my taking an interest in his business. I gave in last night, Jack. I came in from the Burlington ball, and roor dad was sitting in the library looking so lone
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do so.''
 ''I wasn't counting on saying any thing about my staying on,'' explain ed the embarrassed Peters. tsAll the rest is going, and it would look sort of bad if I, was to tell them I was
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EANETTE TELFORD

lANETTE TELFORD drew back as Haver- ford bent to kiss her.
 "I don't know that you'll want to kiss me when you hear" she began, doubtful ly, and Haverford groaned.
 "I suppose that means that you have been won over by
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uired, with badly assumed indiffer-

.I don't think SOL was the placid
 response. ''Im' just figuring on hav- ing the house fixed up little. Pm going over to town to get some new
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1920-12-24

=
Lester and Leitha Gable and Lille
Bowman spent Saturday night a.
the Suffer home.
Quite number OF young people
OF Big Flat and Boyle crock gathered
al the Suffer home Sunday evening
to practice for the Christmas pro-
gram. which will be given at the
Boyle creek school house Wednesday
evening.
r. w. Nieman came down from
Salmon Sunday to look after his
ranch.
Mr.. and Mrs. John webb spent
Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. Bowler.
Leon and Doris Cooper and Joe
Abbey came down from Carmen 10
spend few days at the ranch.
Mr., and Mrs, Lee Aiken were bus
mess visitors at Salmon Saturday.
MIR. and Mrs. Larsen spent Monday
81 thy !. A. Cable home.
Mr., aad Mrs. jay Thomas were
visitors at Salmon Monday
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H. H Boomer, highway contrae
Is this week moving down for sff
ment all the equipment used in
Improvement OF the Salmon river
highway. The work has been complet-
ed through Cronk's canyon to Cleg-
horn hill.
Salmon is now covered with q
thick blanket OF snow, which began
falling at an early hour this morn
ing and continued till noon. The
depth is now five inches. Appear
ances say more is to fall before the
dawn CT Christmas day
Down in Idaho Falls not long ago
they had cleaning out of the city
reservoir when dead infants, dead
cats and dogs and a variety of other
things that do not improve the fay-
or or wholesomcness of drinking wa
ter were taken out above the dam.
They use pumping system in Ida
he Falls from the flow of the river.
something similar to one of the plans
proposed for Salmon, when crystal
mountain water may be had in album
dance. About now the voters oi
Idaho Falls would willingly pay G
million dollars for Jesse creek water
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