The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1922-10-07

There were other reasons for giy
ms herself "A little longer experience
II welded bliss. This marriage wa
FOR "a purpose.
She grew frantic with indeclslon
The train seemed 10 bee eXerting itAell
10 fling her into Yuma before Ah,
could make up her mind Nothing wal
easier than to tell lie, but, great
Heavens how difficult II was Ia fore
sse an the things that would happen
10 Dc aH lt went along accommodating
complications Like other works Of
art q lir must be all things 20 all
men or bee strong enough 10 endure
their idiOsyurrusies and their at
tacSs.
Doctor Bctherlck had told her
20 hold her head up and run-yet not
10 run. lie had theretpan shipped
her west To a land " stangcrs, yet
she could neither break away from
the tics nj home nor break through
the nets nho1d ~ her. She was run
ming ag fast az she could, but she
had leg irons on. She had not LEFT
pursuit behind and the path ahead
was all bramhlCs and pitfalls.
The train went Whooping into n
low. loosely built town as she oscil
lated from one plan TO another, a
hoursa voice bawed: "Yew-my,
Yew-my.'
CHAPTER XVII.
Nobody stepped forward 10 call
Mem by name. But she almost
wished that somebody had, for she
was in n foreign world indeed.
The town had nothing Of Tucson's
in the eternal battle with the savage
desert Nearly a century and a half
ago Spanish missionaries and soldiers
had been massacred here by the
Yuma Indians.
Indians were all about the station
now, and they frightened the girl
who knew Of them only az demons OF
cruelty. The heat was savage, too.
There Is saying that only a
sheet OF paper stands between
Yuma and hell. " Mem could have be-
lied it as her thin soles WINGED at the
oven.lid platform, and the sun bored
through her hat and her sweaty hair
into her very brain, .....
She was solicited TO go 20 the no.
tel. but she could hardly afford such
splendor. She inquired about
DOHTQllk HOUSE, L ne Jas 3 hb 'iiiN'' 49,
commended one, and she rode thither
fearing to trust herself TO wander
about the sun-smitten streets.
They were torrid, those streets, but
fascinating. since everything was for
elen to her experience. The shabbiest
adobe but was picturesque to her
because cooked mud was new to her.
the stick .in-the.mud'' houses made
of plastered willow poles were artistic,
somehow
Date palms and nesnpite trees and
fuzzy Cottonwoods. pepper, trees and
domestiCatcd cacti, made her cry Out
with delight. ..
But the Indians were the main
charm. They gave the dusty, dreary
town a festival look. They reminded
Mem Of the days when circuses had
come to Calverly. She had never been
permitted to go to them, and 1t had
hurt her fathers confidence in her
when she showed desire to see the
free parades But now she was in
side the circus, part of the troupe.
She expected to see an old stageCoach
SWING into the street pursued by
shooting Apaches. p.
Yuma was filed with Indians. An
Indian school was there, and reser
walton. The Indians had their own
shops and farms. They We're tanned
now and no longer matched torture
and treachery with the soldiers and
the pioneers.
They were suhdued to agriculture
and petty commerce. Their barbaric