Carrizozo outlook. [volume] (Carrizozo, N.M.) 1910-1945, 1921-05-13

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and ! overheard one ~ them mention
Arthurs' nnmc. Pulling myself 10.
gcthrr. I asked him II he could tell me
where Arthurs lived.
Eyes. MISS hc answered. llfting q
hig hat and showing when hc spoke n
clean SCI of teeth. It's twenty five
miles up the river We're you expect
lue him to meet yuuy
~ explained That I had Intended 10
lrop no % them hy surprise. hut ! hnl
had no iica they lived so far from
town.
"Oh. thnt's not far he said. Can
you rldcT'
"i;,,t,hody here rides horseback.
ms the standard means ~ locomotlon.
And the women ride nstrldc. | was n
bin shocked NJ first. hut You soon get
used 10 H.. But twenty five miles Is
different from u runp round the pas.
turc.ncld, so I said ! wus afraid not.
"'Arthurs Is coming dawn with the
h%uckhnurd.' remarked the other man.
i pusscd him on the trail ns I cume
lu'
Sure enough. u little later Arthurs
himself drew mp re- the hotel. |
wouldn't have known him, but Onc Of
the Young men pointed him out. and
n would have done you good 10 see
how he received me. And YOU are
Jack nnd Mnry's daughter he said,
taking both my hnnds In his aud
holding me at arms length for n mo
mcnt. Then, before I knew II, he had
drawn me up and kissed me. hut I
didn't care. Al of u sudden II
seemed to me that I had found II real
father. It seems hard 10 say It, but
that Is how I felt.
"Well, he Just couldn't keep AWAY
from me ain evening. lie showered
me with questions about YOU and IA
thrr. which | answered ny well Ms |
could. but ! Don found I couldn't
keep my secret, So | Just mp aud told
him all. lie was very grave. but at
cross. You need time TO think things
over. and to get n right perspective
he snld, and our home win be yours
until you do
1--WE drove home the mex day. M n
wonderful river valley, deep Into the
heart Of the foothills. with the blue
mountains always reckoning and re-
ceding before us. Mrs. Arthurs was
as surprised and delighted ms he hnd
been and ! won't try TO tell you all
the things she snid 10 me. She cried
q little, too, and I'm afraid came
near helping her n bit. You know the
Arthurs lost their little girl before
they lefr Manitoba, and they have had
no other children. They both seemed
Just hungry.
There's nothing SO very fine about
their home, except the spirit that's In
side II. ! emit describe II, but It's
there n-certain ~lclsurely wny OF do.
Ing things, n sense that they have
made work their servant instead OF
their master. And stlll they're GER
talnly not lazy, and they've accom-
plishcd more than we have. when
they left Manitoba In the early days,
discouraged with successive frosts,
they came right out here into the foot
hills with their few head OF stock,
Sow their cattle nrc numbered In
thousands. and they have about u
township OF lnhd' ana SUN theN seem
10 I'VE Tor the pure happiness lhey
hnd In life. ana only 10 think Of their
property NJ n secondary cohsluern'
tiou
wow really must close Mrs Ar
ihurS sends u note ana I'm pulie sure
MS an INVITATION On mother "iht
could hr loNoll'r! Now non say YOU
can't fnlher mas plenty OF money :
lr' hlu' hlr' % h~oNSrhr'Irr I"r q
WINE Ih' 'hun-' VIII 40 MN gnou'
.l"'e I" YOU dearest, ana Z" NllHn'
10 he sill iuinhs coy me.