The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-12-18
~By~JACKSON
COPYRIGHT Y~
CHARLES SCRIBNER,S SONS


perfect wonders in the education o
his horses. She turned to introduc'
Farris, the artist. But Farris brok'
into Marcia's words with a sudden ex
clamation.
Dave Lee" he cried, as If h,
could not believe his eyes. "You
Herel'
Hello, Dick" Lee answered quietly
Eyes, I'm here. l didn't know thai
you were the artist Hampton had
brought up with him."
Farris' hand went out swiftly to be
gripped in Lees. Marcia, mystifed
looked from one to the other.
"You two know each other? Why,
isn't that"
She didn't know Just what 1t was,
so stopped, looking frankly as though
she'd like to have one of them finish
her sentence for her.
But" muttered Farris, 81 thought
that you"
Never mind, Dick" said Lee quick
ly. And to Marcia's mystifed express
sion: you'll pardon us a moment,
Miss Langworthy? l want to talk a
little with Mr.. Farris."
His hand on the artists elbow, Bud
Lee forced him gently away. The two
disappeared into the little room off
the library where Jose was placing a
great bowl of punch on the table.
"Que hay, Bud" grinned Jose.
"Yonr OF nose smell the booze d-n
queek, no?"
He set down his bowl and went out.
Farris stared wonderingly at Lee.
bud, is it?" he grunted. Breaker
of horses, hired man at a dollar a
day"
"Ninety dollars a month, Dick" Lee
corrected him, with a short laugh.
"Give a fellow his true worth, old
timer
Farris frowned.
"What devils game is this?" he de-
manded sharply. isn't it enough that
you should drop out of the world with
never a word, but that you must show
up now breaking horses and letting
such chaps as Mrs. Simpsons Black
Spanish chum with you? Not a cursed
word in five years, and I've lain awake
wondering. When you went to
smash"
"When a Lee goes to smash" said
Bud briefly, che goes to smash. That's
all there is to It,"
"But there was no sense, no use in
your dropping out of sight that way"
There was" said Lee CURLY, cor
shouldn't have done it. 1t wasn't
lust that I went broke; that was a
result of my own incompetence in a
lit of speculation and didn't worry me
/ great deal. But other things did.
There were a couple of the fellows
hat I thought were friends of mine.
found out that they had knitted me;
lad helped pluck me to feather their
,wn nests. 1t hurt, Dick; hurt like
IL. Losing the big ranch in the
South was a jolt, I'll admit; seeing
hose fellows take it over and split 1t
wo ways between them, sort of
the props out from under me.
believed in them, you see. After
hat l just wanted t. get away and
ort of think things over"
''You went to EuropeY
81 did not. / don't know how that
eport got out, but if people chose to
hink | had gone to take a hand in
he fighting over there, I saw nc need
0 contradict a harmless umo l
a horse and beat it up into the
cast mountains. 1 tell you, Dick, /
to think And / found out
efore l was through thinking that /
sick of the old life, that l was
ok of people, the sort Of people you
nd / knew, that there was nothing
/ the world but horses hat I cared
ne snap of my finger about, that the
My life worth living-for me-was a
fe in the open. / drifted up this
'ay. I've been living my own life in
y own way for five years. | am
appier at it than l used to be. That's
i Of the fiat little story, Dick"
"You might have let me know, 1t
1e11S 10 Iuc, Sdlu dTTIS u Dl Slllly.
$50 / might" answered Lee thought
lily. Il was going to In the first |
ace. But you'll remember you were
I somewhere travelling when the t
lbble broke. When Dick Farris trav-
s." and his grave smile came back
him, "let no mad letter think that
can track him down. Then I hit my 8
ride in this sort of life / grew away b
om the old news; the years passed
years do after a man Is twenty r
re; and / just didn't write. But S
dn't forget, Dickie, old man." he said
and his hand rested on Far s
: shoulder. "You can put 1t in that Il
l black pipe of yours and smoke 1t, t
at / didn't forget. Some day t
AIMED to hit town again, heeled, you '
low, and remind you Of auld lang
me-" s
you are a fool, David Burrill Lee b
Id Farris with conviction. LOOK v
re: you can take a new start, pull
urself together. come back-Where g
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