Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1922-02-02

the subject had been pretty thoroughly
talked to death.
/ heard Daddy's reply, made as to
one with whom the matter he'd been
canvassed before. 5s4 81
"Nothin' but that clippin' from some
newspaper back East, tellin' about Mr..
Dudley's passin' out" g IS
kinda curious somebody don't tell
ye somethin', amt it," the marshal
put in. Looks like the heirs d be
either fishin' r cuttin' bait on this
here Cinnabar layout-not as it'd do
'em any good If they did. Didn't any
letter come with the newspaper piece"
Mary a pen-scratch."
"Whereabout was the envelope
posted?' III 81
"Washinton.''
!" said I to myself. II have you.
Cousin Percy! For some reason best
known to yourself you didn't want
Daddy Hiram to get hold Of Grand
father Jasper's proper address,"
His pipe smoked out. the marshal
prepared to take horse. Daddy went
with him to the far side of the dump
and the murmur' of their voices came
to me in diminishing cadences. After
bit Daddy came back and called up
% me in the sing-song of the miners
after the final blast has been fired:
|. sA-a-ll ever. Stannie. / reckon We
can come down nov and get you some
breakfast
Jennie served me in silence when
took my place at table and the good
old man stood in the doorway. keeping
watch. as ! made no doubt. against
a possible second-thought return Of
Friend Isaac. the brlstle- bearded.
Throughout the working day which
followed he never made the slightest
reference to the episode Of the morn:
ing and. truly. i think the whole incl
:fent would have been buried in obljv-
ion BY those two supplemented souls
u hadn't first spoken Of 1t myself.
RMS did in the evening of the
saIne day, when Daddy had gone to
make his entirely useless night round
o. the mine property. AS on most
evenings. Jeanfe sat at her corner OF
the hearth. knitting, and was filling
"a bedtime pipe. M y
jeanne. !" ] broke out, II wish you'd
tell me why you and your father are
so good to me. How do you know that
I'm not the crazy criminal that other
people believe me to be? did steal
the car and get 1t smashed, you know"
foa are not criminal and ! am
sure you didn't mean to get the chr
smashed. Besides, you had taken
shelter under our roof
!. lou are true Bedouins," l laughed.
is that the code in the West ?-your
code:-to defend anybody who has eat
en- salt with your a
! should think 1t would be any.
body's code"
You and your father were expecting
this man Bensley to come, here look
Ing for me?r
Daddy thought he might just hap
pen along. We are only four miles
from Atropfa, you know
and was that the reason you nut
the old transit ut the window $50
you might watch for him?" ,55
"Of course
BY Jove! Another woman, any 9th.
er woman in the world, I thought.
would have let some little shred Of
sentiment show; she couldn't have
hefped It. But this one didn't. A
boy couldn't have looked me in the
eyes any more frankly and squarely
than she did when she said ..Of
course" Since I had eaten their bread.
was, for 80 long as i chose to stay.
a member Of the clan.
II was near the end Of the fortnight.
and Daddy Hiram and had secured
and rubbed and scraped and reas-
sembled the engine and pumps and
were finishing the cleaning Of the boil
ers. These were pretty badly rusted
and scaled. and to do the job properly.
we had taken the manhole heads out
Of the holes left to give access to the
interior Of the shells. and had had q
good-natured squabble as to which Of
us should crawl inside to do the scrap-
ing; DADDY insisting upon doing 1t, be-
canse as he pointed out, he was the
smaller man. and arguing that /
should becatse.I was the younger and
stronger. Is s32 Il.
To settle II finally we dipped coin
-one Of those tnch.wile copper pen.
MES that Daddy carried for q pocket
ptece-and ] won the, toss. The job
wasn't exactly 4 picnic, but il got along
all right until we came to the last Of
the battery. found that the repair.
ers had 1t some past time inserted 1
couple Of extrs stay-ro5ls. 90 that there
wys little enough room left in the old
steel shell for professional boiler
monkey to wriggle about in, to say
nothing Of a husky young chap who
tipped the beam at around hundred
and seventy pOnnls. atrirpnti. "A X
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