Carrizozo outlook. [volume] (Carrizozo, N.M.) 1910-1945, 1920-04-16

wi NiuN III uhbthtA AAOhANhh -
toppie over; then she laid a qulverlng
hand on his arm. He turned quickly,
looked at her face gone white In spite
OF the heat and cursed himself aloud.
He led her through the fringe OF the
forest TO the deep shade at Its open
edge, made her lie down and showed
her that a helmet, right side up on the
ground. makes an excellent pillow.
"Tm OF. Promise you won't be
lonely, for II will be hours before !
get back"
Andrea's lower lip trembled. "Aren't
you coming for lunchf
He looked down at her and shook
his head. 'There may come days OF
plcnics. youngster, but they're a long
way on"
"Please come back" she insisted.
He met her Eyes with a hardened
gaze. "rhere's not d woman living"
he said slowly, "that will let n man
work when she's around-if she can
help IT,"
you're thinking Of people ia love-"
said Andrea to start an argument and
gain time.
"of course I was" said the man OF
the instant. "Can't you let me work."
"Benst," said Andrea and rolled over
on her side, one moist hand for a pill
low IN place OF the hard helmet. She
did not watch him go. she did not see
Bathtub and another boy arrive with
table, chair and lunch bnsket, oil In
a single small load, for before II hap
pened she was far awuy In the land
Of Nod. When she awoke she vas
sorry, for awake the hot hours passed
on laggard feet. At midday she ate;
then she tried to read. but by four in
the afternoon she was desperate for
something to do. She determined to
sleep again. md Just MS she wns dozlng
OF a whisper came to her-one OF those
carefully measured whispers that
reach the intended ear and go no far
Their.
"Missis I"
She turned. "what Is 1T" she
asked.
"Gashiyi Mlssis." breathed Bathtub,
and the agony In his appeal to her
to go slow was SO eloquent that she
caught the spirit, IL not the meaning
OF the word.
She raised her head wei 81 ARE
fully and looked out over the plain,
"Oh |" she murmured.
A quarter OF n mile away n band OF
sable wero grazing, and In n moment
she could tell that they we're feeding
directly toward her. "Oh she
breathed again, "oh, you benutlesi"
Closer and closer grnzed the herd
stepping dalntlly from tuft to tuft Of
fodder. Their black and white faces
the sweep OF their arching horns, theii
brown bodies tnat glistened In the SUI
as though they had been groomed
their nervous ficking bobbed tails
their incredibly slim legs, combined
all the attributes OF fascination
benuty, vigor, strength, motion-ant
filled the eyes OF the watchers TO over
flowing.
In the van OF the herd stepped
mighty bull. his tiny hoofs lifting higl
as though he boosted that his weigh
was really nothing. Straight towarI
the forest and Andrea he led his littl
army until presently she could smel
the stable odor OF their bodies. He
heart was beating like a trip hammer
she tried to hold her breath. He
bosom rose and fell In a fiutterinI
undulation. The bull looked up an
saw her. His horns went back an
he squatted. hesitating on the brlnI
OF the mighty spring Of fright. In hi
eyes WIS a CLEAN unbellevnbly wicked
Then the crack OF a rife. the thu
: OF a bullet In flesh, a body hurled Int
I the air by the death-throe and fallin
In n heap. legs doubled up, neck oui
stretched. blood gurgling from nos
trlls and mouth
| Andrea buried her face In her laI
trying to blot out the sight from he
: eyes, and sobbed rs though her hear
: were breaking. She did not hear IN
wild cry OF Bathtub. nor see his crnz
( gyrations about the PROSTATE brut'
5 but when the white man spoke he
mind leaped TO meet the justification
In his words, without which she feI
: she could never have looked upon hi
face ngaln.
Q "Stop your crying" he said sharpl!
when a sable bull gets as close q
that. there's no telling which way he
going 10 CO."