The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-10-30

alone, time had shown no change
Elsewhere, improvements at every
turn were living monuments to the
tireless brain of her father. Stock
corrals, sturdily built, outhouses spot.
less in their cleaning whitewash. mon
ster barns, fenced-off fields. bridges
across the narrow chasm of the froth'
ing river, telephone-poles with their
wires binding into one sheaf the nun
graded road over which she and her
father had come here the last time to-
gether.
TITS a big, big thing!" she whis-
pered, and her eyes were very bright
with it all, her cheeks flushed. big !"
Passing one of the great barns, she
heard the trumpet call of a stallion.
From the instant her eyes filed to the
massive beauty Of him. she knew who
he was: might Shade, sprung from
the union Of Mountain King and
Black Empress; regal-blooded, ebon-
black from sllken fetlock to flowing
name; a splendid ~four-year-old des-
tined to tread his proud way to a first
prize at the coming state fair at Sac
ramento, a horse many stock fanciers
had coveted.
At the store, where a ten-by-ten
room was pa%rtitioned off to serve as
office, she swung down from the sad
die and, leaving her horse with drag
cling reins, went in.
Hello, Charlie. You're still left to
us, are your" she said, as she stepped
forward to shake hands with Miller,
the storekeeper and general utility
man Of the settlement. "I'm glad to
see you"
Som I. Miss judy" grinned Char
lie, looking the part. "Howdy."
II wanted to see Johnson and Den
nings. Are they here yet"
mo-" answered Miller. johnson,
the ditch man, you mean? He's ome
where at the Upper End. Has got a
crew Of men up there making a new
dam or somethin' or other. Been at
1t purity near a week, now, I guess.
They camp up there
"How many men are with him?" she
asked quickly.
about a Dozen" and he looked
hard at her. Judith frowned. But
instead Of saying what she might be
thinking, she inquired where Den
Mugs was.
"Out In the olive orchards, l guess.
What's this l hear about Trevors?
Canned him?''
Eyes"
"Um!" said Miller. "Well, Miss
Judy, l amt sayin' 1t wasn't purity
near time he got the hooks. But,
femme tell you something. While
you're riding around this afternoon,
if l was you I'd pike ove to the
milking corrals."
She looked at him sharply.
what is it. Charlie?"
"You just ride over" said Miller.
1T amt more'n a step an I'll just
shet up store IN mosey along after
you"
Vaguely uneasy because Of Charlie
Miller's manner, Judith galloped down
toward the four ~corrals where the
cows were MIXED. From a distance
she saw that there were a number Of
men, ten or twelve Of them, standing
in a close-packed group. She Won
dered what it was hat had drawn
them from their work at this time of
day what that big, bull-voiced man
was saying to them. She heard the
muttering rumble of his words before
the words themselves meant anything
to her. A quick glance over her Shout
der showed her Charlie Miller hasten
ing behind her, pick-handle in hand.
Her way carried her by a long,
narrow building standing out like a
great capital e, the COW hospital. She
was passing on to the men at the
milk c~orrals, when the breeze, blowing
lightly from the west, brought to her
n~ostrlls a Whit Of sulphur.
A quick tide Of red ran into her
that fool, Ed Masters, had not
told Crowdy to refrain from the old
fashioned, deadly treatment Almost
before her horse had set his four feet
at the command Of a quick touch
the relns, the girl was down and
hurrying into the middle Of the three,
out as she went:
"Crowdy! oh, Crowdy"
Bill Crowdy, a heavy, squat figure
Of a man, shifty-eyed, with hard
mouth and a nervous, restless air,
down a long hallway, smoking a
cigarette. His eyes rested with no I'M
dislike upon Judith's eager
face.
"Fm Crowdy," he said. want me?
81 told Masters to tell you to stop
the sulphur treatment for the lung
calves. Hasn't he told you?"
"Mr. Trevors said l was to give 1t
them," said Crowdy. Il can't be
orders off'n every hop-o'-my-
.humb like that college kid"
"Then Masters did tell your"
"Sure, he told me-" said Crowdy in
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