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Mexico, Madeline Hammond, New YORK
the waiting room a drunken cowboy en-
ters, asks IL she is married, and departs,
leaving her terrified He returns with .
priest. who goes through some sort OF
say Isl" Asking her maine and learning
her identity the cowboy seems dazed. In
a shooting scrape outside the room 4
Mexican is killed. The cowboy lets =
then conducts Madeline to Florence
Kingsley. friend Of her brother
learns her story. and dismisses the cow.
Hammond, Madeline's brother, takes
Stewart to tack. Madeline exonerates
CHAPTER III.-Alfred. scion of .
wealthy family, had been dismissed from
his home because Of his dissipation.
h sse' shs that mee tss Wai ha' A.
employer, typical western ranchman.
Madeline learns Stewart has gone over
the border.
st;.La5T SHAnTEH IymDanny Mains one ro q
friends link his name with the girl Bfo--
AIta-
CHAPTER v.-Madeline gets glimpse
CHAPTER vI.-stewart's horse comes
to the ranch with note on the saddle
asking Madeline to accept the beautiful
animal. With her brothers consent she
does SO, naming him Majesty" her own
pet nickname. Madeline, independently
rich, arranges to buy StillwelIs ranch
and that Of Don Carlos, a Mexican neigh
Dor.
-They sure would. The Don mas
been after me fer years, wantin' to
sell thet old rancho of his; an these
herders in the valley with their stray
cattle, they'd fall daid at sight Of q
little money"
please tell me, Mr.. Stillwell, ex-
actly what you would do here If you
had unlimited means?" went on Made
line.
Good Lud" calculated the rancher.
"Wall, Miss Majesty, it jest makes my
old heart warm up to think Of such
a thing. I dreamed lot when first
come hyar. What would 1 do If I
he'd unlimited money? Listen. I'd
buy out Don Carlos an the Greasers.
I'd give job to every good cowman
In this country. I'd make them pros
per as l prospered myself. I'd buy
all the good horses on the ranges. I'd
fence twenty thousand acres Of the
best grain. I'd drill fer water in the
valley. I'd pipe water down from the
mountains. I'd dam up that draw out
there. A mile-long dam from hill to
hill would give me a big lake, an
hevin' an eye fer beauty, I'd plant cot
tonwOods around 1t. I'd fill that lake
full of fish. I'd put in the biggest field
Of alfalfa In the Southwest. I'd plant
fruit-trees an garden. I'd tear down
them old corrals an barns an bunk
houses to build new ones. I'd make
this old rancho some comfortable an
fine. I'd put in grass an flowers all
around an bring young pine trees
down from the mountains. An when
all thet was done I'd sit in my chair
an smoke an watch the cattle string
in in fer water an stragglin' back
into the valley. An thet red sun out
there wouldn't set on a happier man
in the world than Bill Stillwell, last
of the old cattlemen."
Madeline thanked the rancher, and
then rather abruptly retired to her
room, where she felt no restraint to
hide the force Of that wonderful idea,
now full-grown and tenacious and
alluring.
Upon the next day, late in the after
hn oc1y ho
safe for her to ride out to the mesa.
"Ill go with you," he said gayly.
"Dear fellow, want to go alone"
she replied
"Ah!" Alfred exclaimed, suddenly
serious. He gave her just a quick
glance, then turned away. go ahead.
I think it's safe. I'll make 1t safe by
sitting here with my glass and keep
ing an eye on you. Be careful coming
down the trail. Let the horse pick
his way. That's ALL"
She rode Majesty across the wide
fiat, up the zigZag trail, across the
beautiful grassy Ievel TO the rar rim
Of the mesa, and not till then did she
lift her eyes to face the southwest.
In that darkening desert there was
something illimitable. Madeline saw
the hollow Of stupendous hand; she
felt mighty hold upon her heart. Out
of the endless space, out Of silence
and desolation and mystery and age,
came slow-changing colored shadows,
phantoms Of peace, and they whis-
pered to Madeline. They whispered
that 1t was great, grim, immutable
earth; that time was eternity; that
life was fleeting. They whispered for
her to be a woman; to love someone
before 1t was too late; to love any.
one, everyone; to realize the need Of
work, and thus find happiness.
She rode back across the mesa and
down the trail, and, once more upon
the fiat, she called to the horse and
made him run. His spirit seemed to
race with hers. The wind Of his speed
blew her hair from It's fastenings.
When he thundered to a halt at the
porch STEPS Madeline. broathloxs and