Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1920-07-29

no 0 of me. There I lived; very
warm, and nice. for ten days."
ITen days!" I cried. "rWhat did you
eatg' ff@,
why, I ate the horse. It was what
you call board and lodging to me. But
OF course I have sense to eat the legs
and live in the body. There were
many dead about who had their water
bottles, so I had all I could wish. And
ON the eleventh day there came a pa
troll of light cavalry, and all was we'll"
1t was by such chance chats as
these-hardly worth repeating in them
selves-that there came light upon
himself and his past. But the day was
coming when we should know all, and
how it came I shall try now to tell
you.
The winter had been q dreary
one, but with March came the first
signs of spring, and for a week on
end we had sunshine and winds
from the south. On the seventh Jim
Horscroft was to come back from
Edinburgh, for though the session end
ed with the first, his examination
would take him a week. Edie and 1
were out walking on the sea beach IN
the sixth, and l could talk of nothing
but my old friend, for, indeed, he was
the only friend of my w age that I
had at that time. Edie was very 81
lent, which was a rar thing with her,
but she listened, smiling, to all that
I had to say.
"Poor old Jim" said she. one or
twice, under her breath. "Poor old
JIM"
"And If he has passed." said I.
why then, of course, he will put up
his plate, and have his own house, and
we shall be losing our Edie." I tried
to make a jest of it, and to speak
lightly, but the words still stuck in
my throat.
"Poor old JIM" said she again. and
there were tears in her eyes as she
said it. "And poor old Jock !" she
added, slipping her hand into mine as
we walked. "You cared for me a lit
tie bit once also. didn't you, Jock?
Oh! is not that a sweet little ship
out yonder?"
1t was a dainty cutter Of about 30
tons, very swift, by the rake of her
masts and the lines Of her bow. She
may have been rather less than a
quarter of a mile from the shore-so
near that 1 could see a tall man with a
peaked cap, who stood at the quar-
ter with a telescope to his eye, sweep
ing it backwards and forwards along
the coast.
"What can they want here?' asked
Edie.
"They are rich English from Lon
don," said 1, for hat was how we x
planned everything that was above our
comprehension in the Border coun
ties. We stood for the best part OF
an hour watching the bonny craft, and
then, as the sun was lying low on 8
cloud bank and there was a nip in
the evening air, we turned back te
West Inch.
AS you come to the farm house from
therfront you pass up a garden, witt
little enough in it, which leads oQ'
by a wicket gate to the road. On the
right Of this gate, on the garden side
was a bit of a rockery, which was sale
to have been made by my fathers
mother many years before. Well, az
we came in through the gate, my eyes
fell upon this stone heap, and there
was a letter stuck in a cleft sticl
upon the top of it. I took a step for
ward to see what it was, but Edit
sprang in front Of me, and, pluckin:
it off, She thrust it into her pocket.
"That's for me-" said she, laughing
But 1 stood looking at her, with
face which drove the laugh from hel
lips.
"Who is it from, Edie?" I asked.
She pouted, but made no answer.
'Who is it from, woman?" I cried
SIS it possible that you have been a:
false to Jim as you were to me?"
"How rude you are, Jack J" she cried
II do wish that you would mind YOU
own business"
There is only one person that i
could be FROM" I cried. ut is from
this man De Lapp."
and suppose that you are right
Jack|
The GOODNESS of the woman amazed
and enraged me. "You confess It'll
l cried. "Have you, then. no sham
left?"
why should 1 not receive letters
from this gentleman"
Because it is infamous"
And why?'
Because he is a stranger"
ION the contrary said she, "he /
my husband"
CHAPTER TX.
The Doings at West Inch.
can remember that moment 81
WE'LL l have heard from others tina
a great sudden blow has dulled thei
senses. It was not SO with me. O.
the contrary, I saw and heard an
thought more clearly than ! had eve
dnpot hoforn And tho limb I1pOn m