The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-10-16

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''Will you send a wire to Doctor
Harris and ask him to come up and
look after our patient here?"
Eyes. He'll probably be needed
at the Wagonwheel Gap Ranch too.
On the way there he can stop here"
Ellen walked down with him to the
corral. Roam Afford was taking
care of the wounded man, and for
the time she could be spared. She
moved with a fine animal vigor,
shoulders and hips in straight line
vertically. Calhoun noted the rhyth-
mic grace of the slender figure. He
had never met another woman like
her, so fine and gallant and ami
mated with life. There strummed
in his blood a strong desire for her
for the dark beauty tempered as
Toledo blade, for the sweetness and
the courage that she carried like
banner. There would be gifts in her
eyes for some lucky man, but they
would not be for him.
Larry Richards and I are buying
a slice of the Diamond Reverse B."
he told her. 1--WE been thinking we
might have a place for jeff Brand
when he gets able to work"
She flashed a quick look at him,
surprised. do you think that would
suit jeff" she asked. Hes so
restless. I wonder if he would be
content"
Hell have to settle down some
time, won't hep" Calhoun said.
ST don't know. He's so wild"
She went on, almost as if she were
talking to herself: 'It would be ter
rible for a girl to be married to
him. With a husband as reckless
and unstable as he is, no woman
would be able to keep step. He
would bring her great and lasting
unhappiness, though very likely she
would keep loving him till the end"
Calhoun pulled up in his stride.
81 thought you were going to marry
him"
did you think I would marry
rustler?" she reproved gently.
'Do you mean-that you're not in
love with him?" he asked, looking
directly at her.
She laughed, a little TREMENDOUSLY.
where did you get that ridiculous
notion?"
He stared at her, a heat beating
through his body. '"Then you're not
in love with him or with any
other mani"
She said in a low voice, "We
aren't talking about any other man,
are WEI"
Some hint of her deep emotion
reached him. A swift hope blazed
up in him. He had thought never
to tell her what was in his heart,
but now he flung away restraint.
He said, 81 couldn't be the man."
But his voice asked for denial.
When she did not reply, he pressed
home his question.
Ellen looked up, her face a soft
and shining answer.
Riding through the night to send
the message to the Governor, Cal
houn was filed with a sense of the
nearness of the girl whose warm
body he had held in his arms. The
lift of the hour was still on him.
With the extravaganza of lover, he
was sure that no man since Adam
had ever had sweetheart compare
BILE to his. He loved everything
about her-the parted lips and shin
ing eyes, the flowing grace of move
ment, the turn of the lovely head.
His ecstasy amazed him. He had
counted himself a hard man, cyni-
: cal, not given to sentiment. Yet
girl with a wind-blown skirt had
crossed his path and changed the
world for him. He thought, with
smile, of the verse of the hymn he
had once quoted to her:
Though every prospect pleases,
And only man is vile.
He was ready to revise his opin-
ion about that too. jeff Brand
Dave Morgan-Sheriff Hart. Tough,
hard men all of them, but with
light shining in their hearts that
separated them a million miles from
vileness.