The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1926-11-25

nc tliCu 1tuld.
mo, but Wen shut him up fol-
a week or So" said Amos.
Levine started the car homeward
They reached home at daylight
The celebration made table talk an(
newspaper topic for several days
No real attempt was made to pun
ish the Indians. For once, the
whites, moved by a sense Of tardy
and inadequate justice, withheld
their hands.
1t was just before college opened
that Amos announced that he was
going to buy the one hundred and
twenty acres John had set aside
for him.
How r you going to pay for
lt?' Lydia asked.
Don't you worry, I'll tend to
that" replied Amos. "John's going
to bold it for me, till I can get the
pine cut off. That1l pay for the
land"
How much did you pay for 1t,
Mr.. Levine?" asked Lydia.
Levine grinned. 81 forgot"
Lydia sat with her chin cupped
In her palm, her blue eyes on Lee
vine. To the surprise of both men,
she said nothing.
After the supper dishes were
washed. and Amos was attending to
the chickens, Lydia came slowly
out to the front steps where Levine
was sitting. She leaned her head
against his arm and they sat In 81
lence.
Lydia said John, finally, chow
does the Great Search go on?"
Il don't think l make much
headway.' replied Lydia. 1.-THE
older I grow, the less | under
stand men and I've always felt as
II, If there was a God, He was q
man."
you mean male, rather than fe-
male" agreed John. Lydia, dear,
wish you did have faith"
But do you believe, yourself?"
urged Lydia.
Yes. | know that the soul can't
die" said the man, quietly. "And
the thing that makes me surest is
the feeling l have for you. I know
that TIL have another chance"
What do you meanY asked
Lydia wonderingly.
THAT, you'll never know" he re-
piled.
"Well, I know that you're a
dear" said the young girl, unex-
pectedly, mo matter how you get
your Indian lands. And l love you
to death"
She patted his cheek caressingly,
and John Levine smiled sadly to
himself in the darkness.
College life was not much unlike
high school life for Lydia. She was
very timid at first suffered agony
when called on to recite: reached
all her classes as early as possible
and sat in a far corner to escape
notice. But gradually, among the
thousand students she began
lose her self-consciousness and
feel that, after all, she was only
attending a larger high school.
Except for flying visits home.
John Levine snent the year at
Washington. He was returned to
congress practically automatically.
the end Of his term. Kent throve
nightly as a real estate man. He
continued to call on Lydia at irreg-
1lar intervals in order to boast, she
thought, of his real estate acumen
and of his correspondence with
Margery and Olga, both Of whom
now at boarding school.
One Sunday afternoon in March
Amos was in town with John Lee
vine, who was on one of his hur-
led visits home, when Billy Norton
owe to the cottage.
Lydia saw at once that some
hing vas wrong.
whats worrying you, Billy?"
'he asked.
Lydia" he said, dropping into
AMOS chair and folding his big
rms, "yOu know my tract of land
the n | was going to buy from j
IN. Indian? | paid young Lone
Wolf a ten-dollar n~t'
= -E..va an tt while
1vvsea around to see how / could
'alse enough 10 pay him a fair
He's only a kid of seventeen
md stone blind from trachoma.
Veil, yesterday I found that Mar 6
hall had bought it in. He looked |
Dung Lone Wolf up and gave him
bag Of candy. The Indians are g
ray for candy. Then he told him /
make his o on a piece of
aper. That that was a receipt t
hat he was to keep and If he'd s
how IL at the store whenever he il
'anted candy, he'd have all he t
'anted, for nothing. And he had Il
vO h~alf-breeds witness 1t. What g
larshall had done was to get Lone a
'olf to sign a warranty deed. Civ n
e Marshall his pine land. The Il
DOR devil Of an Indian didn't W
now it till Yesterday when he it
lowed me his receipt in great W
Of course, they'll swear he's 81
mixed blood" Il
Lydia burst out, "Oh, wish that d
'servation had never been heard b
:! 1t demoralizes every one who /
mes in contact with it," cf
Lydia" said Billy, slowly. "Tm fl
ing to expose Marshall. I'm go n
e to show up his crooked deals L.
18th the Indians. Pm going to rim ef
is reservation graft wide open
n not going to touch an acre of m
e land myself so | can 90 in with ie
Fan h2nds and I'm not going to ie