New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1921-10-21

in a leathern holster.
Hello, Mister Dale" she mimicket
He shook her hand, then he drOppe
TO a moss-covered log that lay besid
the narrow trail.
"Sit down here beside me-" he said
and he added: I've been going har,
all day, and I'm pretty tired"
She let fall her bundle and he
shoes and stockings. and obeyed.
"Why did you come back, Babe?" h
asked as though he We're d~ispleased.
Cause" she answered-and sh'
corrected herself quickly, Il mean be
cause"
y reason whatever" smiled Dale
Well" and her clear brown eye,
looked at him squarely, Il come bacl
because yOre mother she said l would
be a burden to Mis- McLaurin, that.
why"
Mrs. McLaurin," said Dale; mo-
Mis- McLaurin."
:. "A burden to Mrs. McLaurIn, and
amt a-goin' to be a burden to no
: body" vehemently. In a softer voice
she went III, Mrs. McLaurin and her
husband and her folks has done made
up friendly, Bill Dale. Mrs. McLau-
rims pap-I mea her father-he
brung 'em a big lot o. silver
things.
Bill Dale, l had a big time. Every
body liked me but yOre own maw-I
mean yore mother. My goodness
gracious-they dress awful fine, don't
they? Why, silk amt nothin'. But
whar all o. their money comes from, l
shore CANT see. Say, | showed some
O. Pats friends how to dance our old
NIL dances, and the whole town was
crazy about EN- when l left. Jimmy
Fayne is awful good-lookin' and rich,
amt he, Bill? He liked me better'n
any of 'em, less ii was Pat herself.
You know Jimmy, don't we, Bill?"
Dale nodded. frowned, and turned
his sober gaze toward the toes of his
high laced boots. Yes, he knew Jimmy
Fayne, and he held him in contempt.
h pampered son of n wealthy cotton
Spectator, weak, devoted to high
nights, remarkably handsome 10 ro-
mantle and unsOphisticated girls but
not to men and women who had cut
their MISUNDERSTANDING was Jimmy
Fayne.
Babe Littleford was speaking again
Il 'clded TO come back here, Bill
Dale, because l thought they might
need mo hara no urall 40 I.aa,ga 49,.
afeard | would be a burden TO Pat-I
mean afraid would be a burden to
Pat. Seems like ! CANT talk proper
at all. I've tried and tried. I've spent
half o my time jest a-tryin' 10 talk
proper. Pat, she'd put down words |
mustn't say ON a sheet o paper, and
I'd study 'em. Afeard, shore, pap,
cause, amt, Mainland all o. them.
And she'd put down the right words
with 'em SOS Id know.
"Yore mother was the last to come
TO see me, Bill. so this she SAYS 10
PAT. is the barbarian princess :"
didn't know what that meant, but |
'spect its somethin' bad. | went into
the house, because | didn't want to
say anything, and her yore own moth
er. But listened, and | heard her
say the rest. and this is 1t:
.,vbat an 49,. !, -
innovation wears off, Patricia?' she
Shell be n burden To you,
you'll have Il h~alf-sayage
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p""e put OUT II 1907 ana ldiy rolled r
III acorn across the path with one Il
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but II don't mini | want To go u
ach' she protested. I'D rather stay I
ere, "A heap rather il
But you must 20 back" declared "
bale, you really must b
Ben LittlefOrd's daughter was 81.
mt. For n moment she absentIy 81
'alched the playful antics of a little b
squirrel On the side of n near.
Y hickory. Then she arose. Fl
Look" she urged-it was ono of Il
lie charming wiles of her-"Look at al
y new dress. Me and Pat made 4, it
rery stitch Of ii. Don't you think irs a'
T.
"Sure, it's nice" Dale agreed. But