Hyder weekly herald., 1932-11-26
Dandelion Jim By CLARISSA MACKIE
co by Mcclure Newspaper syndicate.)
 (WNU Service)

SHe nau expected her uncle or one of the family to meet her, to find a perfectly strange young man in cow boy clothing and broad hat in his hand, lowing before her.
 Miss Meade?" he asked pleasantly, and when she bowed he added, "Mr. Fisher was very sorry that he could not come himself but his bad knee has bothered him today and he thought it best to keep 1t very quiet. Excuse me, please, but I must see to your baggage-if you will give me your checks-thank you"
 "Who does he remind me off" asked Cornelia, and, finding no answer, flushed little at her odd interest in this cowboy attached to her uncle's ranch. COrnelia Meade rather prided herself on her aloof attitude toward young men-she was simply indiffer- ent to everyone of them. Sometimes her thoughts did steal away from her stern keeping and she would remem- Der one summer when they stayed at a farm and she had met boy-a Aui hhCi iod oCfClal yCulo OluCi thuh herself, who had been the most charm ing playmate a small girl could have. There were other children but none of them had the charm that young 'Dandelion JiIn," as they called him, possessed. Cornelia had never seen him or heard of him again.
 Ready, Miss Meade?" asked the young mans cheery voice, and she turned to find a large motor car in the back of which were her trunks.
 He knew how to drive and it was only half hours stiff ride, fleeing traffic officer, before they entered the wide gates of comfortable ranch house, with Uncle Paul and Aunt Kathie waving from the broad yer anda. She was warmly greeted and then they explained that both the chill for few days.
 "They did not expect you quite so soon, dear. and they will be so dis appointed" said Aunt Kathie, "but they will be home at once. AS soon as we received your telegram, tele- phoned to Kathie and she will be here this evening. Dick and a friend will arrive on the morning train. Paul, did you Introduce Jim to Cornelia ?- Jim," she called to Cornelia's driver.
 "Yes, Mrs. Fisher" he said smiling. and Aunt kathie said, "Cornelia, this is one of our best friends. Jimmy Lyon, foreman of the Bar-B ranch! !"
 AS Cornelia dressed after her cold bath week later she thought of the week at the ranch, and her thorough enjoyment of all the sports of that outdoor land. She had written her mother that she would forego the trip to Europe this year that her sister and parents were taking, if she might only remain out here with her uncle and aunt.
 They were merry crowd with Dick and Kathie home and Dicks class mate, Jack Hart. There was to be dance that evening at a nearby ranch, and they were all going, even Jim Lyon confessed that he had con- sldered 1t. To tell the truth, this an- nouncement made Cornelia very hap py. for she was growing to like Jim Lyon more than she would have cared to confess. Little by little she had extracted information from the family Jim Lyon was really from the East and he was like one of the family, this extremely good-lOoking young man, whom all the cowboys called Dandy" and whom Cornelia had found looking at her from wistful blue eyes when he thought she was not glancing in his direction.
 When they came home together aft CT the dance, Mir. Fisher winked at his wife and murmured: "Wonder what Cornelia's mother would think if the girl married our ranch foremanT
 Aunt Kathie laughed comfortably. "If she knew what we know, Paul. she wouldn't say word-how could she? Here's Jim-as rich and we'll educated as any of them. working for us summers because he likes the life l suppose though, if he should marry COrnelia, if she would have him, I mean, he would not come back here very nften"