Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-08-28
By JACKSON GREGORY

| the job I'VE got in my hands? Yor
know that the ranch Is million
dollar outfit; you know that you car
rice fifteen miles without getting of
| the hone-range; you know that We
are doing a dozen different kinds Of
farming and stock-raising. But yor
don't kno; just how short the money
isl There's that young idiot now
Hampton. He holds third interest
and I've got to consider what he says
even if he is q weak-minded, inbred
pup that can't do anything but spent
an Inheritance like the born fool he
is. His share is mortgaged; I've tried
to pay the mortgage off. I've got tt
| keep the interest up. Interest alone
amounts to three thousand dollars 6
! year Think of thatl Then there:
Luke Sanford dead and his one-thir(
interest left to another young fool, 6
girl! Every two weeks she's writing
for a report, eternally butting in
making suggestions, hampering me
until I'm sick of the job"
"That would be Luke's girl, judith 2
Eyes. Two of the three owners
kids, writing me at every turn. Ant
the third owner, Timothy Gray, the
only sensible one Of the lot, has JUS
up and sold out his share, and | sup
pose I'll be hearing next that some
superannuated female in an old lady's
home has inherited a fortune an(
bought him out. And now you, the
best man I've got, throw me down 7
II don't see,"i said Lee slowly, after
a brief pause, ''just what good it does
to sell a good string of horses Ike they
were sheep. Half of that herd is rea
horse-fesh, tell you"
"Well," snapped Trevors, suppose
you are right. I've got to raiss three
thousand dollars in hurry. Where
will | get it?'
/ 'sWho is offering fifty dollars hea6
for those horsesY asked Lee abruptly
1T might be the Big Western lumber
company?'
"Yes.''
ssUh-huh. Well. you can Kill thu
rats in your own barn, Trevors. II
go look for a job somewhere else"
Bayne Trevors, his lips tightly com
pressed his eyes steady, faint, angr.
flush in his cheeks, checked wha
words were flowing to his tongue ant
Hooked keenly at his foreman. Lee
met his regard with cool unccn
Germ. Then, just as Trevors was abou
to speak, there came an interruption
The quiet Of the morning wa
broken by the quick thud Of a horses
shod hoofs on the hard ground of thu
courtyard. Bud Lee in the doorwa.
turned to see strange Nurse draw
ND so that upon it's foLF punched
hoofs 1t slid to a stands$ill; saw ;
slender figure, which in the earl.
/ light he mistook for a 10y, slip on
of a saddle And then, suddenly, ;
girl, the spurs of her little riding-boot
making jingling music OH the veranda
her riding-quirt swinging from he
wrist, had stepped by him and wa
looking with bright, swapping eye
| from him to Trevors.
4 am Judith Sanford she an
nounced briefly, and there was not
| in her young voice which went ring
ing. bell-like, through the still air. II
one of you men Bayne Trevors?"
A quick, shadowy smile came ant
went upon the lips of Bud Lee. /
struck him that she might have sail
in inst that way: II am the queen O.
England and / am running my owl
kingdom p He looked at her with eye
filed with open interest and curiosity
making swift appraisal of the flush II
the sun-browned cheeks, the confusion
of dark, curling hair disturbed by hel
furious riding, the vivid, red-bloodef
beauty of her. Mouth and eyes ant
the very carriage Of the dark heat
unon her superb white throat an
nounced boldly and triumphantly Thai
here was no wax-petaled lily OF lady
| hut rather a maid whose blood, like
the blood of the father before her, was
turbulent and hot and must boil like
wild mountain-stream at opposition
Her eyes, little darker than Ire
yors'. were the eyes of fighting stock
Trevors, irritated already, turned
hard eyes up at her from under cor
rugated brows. He did not move II
his chair. Nor did Lee stir except tia.
now he removed his hat.
81 an Trevors," said the gete-al
manager CURLY. "And, whether S0r
are judith Sanford or the queeE OF
Siam, 1 am busy right now"
"You talk soft with me, Trevors 7
cried the girl passionately, re yor
want to hold your job five minutes
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