White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-10-06


through all the ages her sweet brave
soul had come to meet and mate with
his. This was his first instructive re-
action; the next was that she must be
prepared for the tragedy awaiting her.
Gravely he looked into her eyes. 81
have bad news. You must have cuur-
age"
Her mind flashed to the truth. GAS
peru
Eyes. He's been badly hurt"
"Not you" It broke from her in a
cry of horror.
''Thank God, no. Gitner shot him
treacherously."
"Where is he?"
"Come," he said, and he led her to
the spot where her brother lay.
She went down on her knees, with a
wailing sob, beside him. He was sink
ing fast, but he recognized her.
"Jule," he said family. "Gitner.
got me from behind ~
had it comin'."
The girl looked up quickly at Stone.
"Can't you do anything for him?" she
begged.
The Texan shook his head, but it
was Jasper who spoke.
mo use I'm going fast
He shot Dad, too, Gitner did"
The girls arm pillowed his head ten
derly. She forgot he was ne'er-do-
we'll and worse, that he had been dis
credited and disgraced. All she re-
membered was that he was her broth
er, the little boy with whom she had
played and quarreled and made up,
one around whom hundred dear
memories twined.
1--WE been a. bad lot" he muir
INJURED. IF you'd-pray for me, Sis"
She did, brokenly, with heart from
which welled love and tears.
Within the hour, peacefully, he
passed away.
The two men were grateful to him.
He had not told the whole truth. II
he had been guilty of completely in his
fathers death Julia would never know
It now. She could not wear her heart
out in bitter shame, since both Of those
who knew the facts were lying here
dead Her grief could be clean sorrow.
They carried the body of Jasper to
the cabin and laid 1t on one Of the
hunks.
Hours later, in the middle Of the
might, while Julia lay sound asleep,
worn out by her exertiens and her
SORROW, Domfnfck Rafferty, and his
posse reached Horse Thief park. Not
| till morning did she know that they
had come.
While she. was asleep their plans
had been made. They would bury Git
ner on the edge of the rock field and
bring Jasper's body back to the Circle
/ Cross. Meanwhile Stone and Mccain
would ride with her to the sheep
ranch.
To her anxious inquiries Dominfck
reported Phil doing well.
After breakfast the three started
homeward..
I'm Julia's grief there was an element
Of relief that at moments distressed
her. For months she had been OPP
pressed by fears and doubt and shame.
These. were gone. The end had come,
and 1T was not SO bad as she had
dreaded Wilson Mccain had ex-
planned to her that her brother was
not rustler but had been brought
there by Gitner and killed because he
knew too much. She was anxious to
believe this, to- believe that he had
been weak and not wicked. The con-
viction that he would have gone from
refused to consider, but it was this
feeling that made the loss of Jasper
bearable. In the hour of his death at
any rate he had come near to her and
chung to the comfort she had to offer.
They rode through the golden dawn,
for the most part in silence, below
them lilac lakes of light in the shadowy
hollows of the hills. Julia, riding
| knee to knee beside her lover, felt him
| very close to her. Words were not
necessary to tell her with what ten
| der care his sympathy EMBODIED her.
| She knew that the barriers built be-
tween them had been swept away as
| though they had never existed.
Out of the fierce and ruthless desert
he had come to her, bringing it's
| strength and endurance, the deep
| hidden tenderness and the Imagination
| that transforms it from devouring
and rapacious Sahara to fairyland
of magic light and shadow.
She knew he would not speak to her
vet while her grief was green. Today
was to be for her dead brother. All
the years to come were to be for him
| and her. Not even the eyes that met