Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-03-22

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other and wholly unsuspecter side OF
The blue-eyed maiden displayed for
me. ! tried to imagine lisette help
ing her father. or me, or any lone
man to defend a beleaglered mine
against an armed attack. 1t was SO
amy that | shouted. Id you NEAR
to say that Jeanne would shut herself
.p IN here and lead the guns for you
lgafnst a mob Of mine ju'npers?'
He looked up with Il prideful spar.
iile IN his mild blue eyes.
You don't half know that little
girl o mine, yet, Stannie, sen" he
said earnestly, And then: shes the
only boy I eve had. you see; and
she hain't had any mother since she
can remember. Maybe I hadn't orr
to taught her to ride hawspcs and
shoot, and then, things; but 1t seem
ed like I had TO-" .r. 49,.
You haven't made her one iota
less womanly--or lovable," | fastened
to say. Then I blurted out the thing
that had been weighing on me ever
since we had found Fullerton loafins
On the doorstep: DO. you suppose
they could-is there any way they
could have been married Yesterday.
Daddy:" =
"Uh-huh: l reckon there WAS. They
might "a gone on down to Angels.
There's a justice o the peace down
there" . {
It still lacked a full hour OF noon
when We got L preparations made
Then we waited, and waited some
more; and after d. whiio I began 10
grin. What If we had stampeded
ourselves necdlcssly? Ate. all, the
men we had seen in the deep gulch
might really have been tra1nps. and
not a Fullerton army. Would the
mining engineer, unprinciplcd as he
doubtless was. go to the lalngth of
trying to dispossess US BY force? The.
more l thought Of it, the more unlike
Is it seemed.
y guess maybe We were scared Of
q shadow, after all, Daddy" sa.o.
"Bullerton has had time enough tt
bring up his army, II he has one.
Il amt countin' much on his back
IN down" was the Crawling reioin-
DER I'VE. see. I know Charley Bul-
!efton OF DC keen KNOWN hin, ever
since he first bn'sted into the mimi.
game. That was ver in the Sag.
suche. He an ~all-'round cuss. bu,
he's a slayer. Besides, YOU roushed
him up sort O. hnrtful this mornin'
and .he's got that to make him s,,itcy
Wen be heari7' from him IS soon az
no gets things yanked round into
shape to suit him.
STILL, as time passed and NO nj ne
happened, it looked less and less like.
y that We were. going to have to
light Tor u holding ground. don't
know to this good dag U'hat made
Fullerton 20 slow In bringing up his
army, but it was high moor and Dad
dy and I were eating 4 cold luncheon
with the shaft-house door-all for a
seat when We 50 r the army coming
1t was a stra9gling gang Of perhans
a DOZEN men; We couldn't count snern
because the road on the
bench wound Ia and out among IL
trees. 'Ae
They came up within a & rif1ee sho,
and pitched their camp, IL you cn,,id
call it that, in q little glade. At AJAX
distance We could see that they were
armed. but, Of course, we couldn't telj
what kind OF guns they had. AfteI
they had taken possession Of them
set to work 10 build a cooking fire.
a. the halt in the slads one Of the
party-Bul!erton. we guessed it was
= broke a branch from a pine. strip.
ped the tWigs from II, and made IL 9
flagstaff for his white handkerchief
tnder TINS flag OF truce he and tive
OF ms men came on, leaving. thei,
guns psaina: There va 9 climb Of
n from tf 3. bench n;s = The kdse upon
we got q fairly good look at the peace
party before L came within talkins
Fullerton still HAD a slight
tuucn o. tns wfy-nsck,, and the devil.
LaS.eare iapntiness which had been
r. -; 5ssas; ;''s s. 81 4 ~. i .s' ;.s q
fron, ! black board: !
LAS the three Of them toDbSd the