Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1922-07-14

ducted himself very well. He was 1.-the and graceful and at first very dignified, but as he grew in confidence he began to execute steps that were new to that polite land and rather boisterous, but Barbara looked pleased and all onloOkers seemed greatly smused-all except Hugh. And when the old fiddler sang out sOnorously:
 "Genelman to right cheat an swing!" the boy cheated Outrageously, cheated all but his little partner, to whom each time he turned with open loyalty, and Hugh was openly sheer. ing now and genuinely angry.
 "You shall have the last dance" whispered Barbara. "the Virginia reel" .f N 1T know that dance," said the boy. And when that dance came and the dancers were drawn in two lines. the boy, who was third from the end, heard Harry's low voice behind him:
 "He is my cousin and my guest, and you will answer to me-"
 The lad wheeled, saw Harry with Hugh, left his place, and went to them. He spoke to Harry, but he looked at Hugh with a sword-fash In each black eye:
 q don't want nobody to take up for me-"
 Again he wheeled and was in his place. but Barbara saw and looked troubled, and so did Colonel Dale. He went over to the two boys and put his arm around Hugh's shoulder.
 "Tut, tut. my boys" he said. with pleasant firmness, and led Hugh away, and when General .Willoughby would have followed. the colonel nodded him back with a smile. and Hugh was seen no more that night. The guests left with gayety, smiles and laughter, and every one gave the stranger a kindly goodby. Again Harry went with him to his room and the lad stopped under the crossed swords.
 "YOu fight with 'em? l want to learn how to use them"
 Harry looked at him searchingly, but the boys face gave hint of no more purpose than when he first asked the same question.
 "All right" said Harry.
 The lad blew out his candle, but he went to his window instead of his bed. The moonlight was brilliant among the trees and on the sleeping flowers | and the slow run of the broad river, and 1t was very still out there and very lovely. but he had no wish to be out there. With wind and storm and sun. moon and stars. he had lived face to face all his life. but here they were not the same. Trees. flowers. house. people had reared some wall between him and them, and they seemed now to be very far away. Everybody had been kind to him-all but Hugh. Yelled hostility he had never known before and he could not understand. Everybody had surely been kind, and yet-he turned to his bed, and all night his brain was fash ing to and fro between the reel of | vivid pictures etched on 1t in day and the grim background that had hitherto been his life beyond the hills.
 From pioneer habit he aw0ke before dawn. and for moment the sOftness where he lay puzzled him. but he could smell the dawn and he started to spring up. He felt hot and stuffy though Harry had put up his windows and he could not He there wide awake He could not go out in the heavy dew in the gay clothes and fragile shoes he had taken off, so he slid into his own buckskin clothes and mOccasins and out the still open front door and down the path toward the river. In, stinctively he had picked up his rifle bullet-pouch and powder-horn. An hour later he loped back on his OWL tracks.
 At the front door Harry hailed him and Barbara came running out.
 'I forgot to get you another suit of clothes last night" he said, "and we were scared this morning. We thought