i & m Library Vol 49. Houlton, Maine, Wednesday, August 4, 1909 No. 3 1 1 convent in the States, but I couldn’t “ W'y? Wat you mean?' "What kind of them, so thanked Stark hurriedly and our n that he et you go so far away. I loved you "Well, t hero’s a feller makin' a spluttered. :oo much for that! I couldn’t do went on her way. : speech about me down b the land- "1 »at's jimt plain w’eat flour.” it, girl. I’ve tried, but you're all I’ve “Reen making friend", with that in’.” "Not .in \ i1 u r life," said tin* miner, ?ot, and I’m a selfish man, l reckon." squaw, oh?” remarked Runnion c an­ “Wat he say?” THE uaiiy. with (lie firm: .'^s of a arear conviction. “ No, no! You’re not!” his daughter “Tt ain’t nothin’ to tight over. He “It's full of \ , “ \es, ' replied Stark. “She's a nice *ast powders. Why, it’s Tied impulsively. "You're everything says I’m another DaM! Room leadin' r’.irin’ and rU little girl, and I like her. I told her I in’ like a hackin' boss, that’s good and dear, but you're lived the march of empire wvsiwnn]. (Vr- I’m plumb ma didn't have any part In that miners’ so-k." IIo laid a zigzag barrier 1 different life from other men, and tainly sounds good, but ;s It: on the course for the door. meeting affair.” roil see tilings differently. It was level?’’ "'W ere .mil goln’?” asked Poleon. “ Huh! What’s the matter with you? mean of me to talk as I did.” She put “ Waal, I guess so.” admitted Roleon. BY it was all your doing." "I’m goin’ to get somethin’ for this tier arms around his neck and hugged The prospector swelled with indigna­ stomach trouble. It’s fierce.” He de- . “ I know it was, but I didn't aim it. hi: 11. "Hut I’m very unhappy, dad.” tion. “Then why in h i didn't you sceiuled into the darkness boldly and at her. I wanted that ground next to REX BEACH "Don't you aim to tell what started fellers toll mo long ago?" stepped off with confidence this time Lee's, and I wanted to throw a jolt dii.s?" he said gently, caressing her The scanty ounce or two of g dd 0 >> > sntni. I’o!e<m heard Into old Man Gale. I couldn't let the him flounder- C0PYRIflMT.l90a.BY HARPER & BROTHERS with his great, hard hand as softly as from his claim lay ln the scales at the ing about, hi s indignant girl stand in my wny, but now that voice raised t mother. Rut she shook her head, host, whore every newcomer might ex­ irascibly. alb. ■it with a It's over I’m willing to be friends with note of tri­ (Continued from last w('ek) and he continued, “I’ll take the first amine it:, and. realizing that he was a umph. boat down to the mission and marry tier.” It don’t apply to you, of course”— rawer ending source of information, ■A\ ha’ll I tell you? You put that "Corporal Thomas began to perspire your ma If you want me to.” "Me too. By heaven, she’s as grace­ “Of course!” agreed Necia again. they fawned on film for his tips, brib­ stop back while 1 was ashleep.” Then, uncomfortably, but went on doggedly: “That ■wouldn't do any good," said ful ns a fawn. She’s white too. No­ “But what would happen to Lieuten­ ing him with, newspapers worth 31 whmtilng blithely, If somewhat out of “I’m goin’ to tell you a story, not she. “We'd better leave things as body would ever know she was a ant Burrell If—If—well, if he should do !"b'h or with cigars, which he wrapped turn*, lie steered for the new saloon to because It applies to Lieutenant Bur­ they are.” Then she drew away and breed." something like that? There are many up carefully and placed in his macki­ got something for his “stomach trou- rell”— smiled at him bravely from the door. “She’s a good girl,” said Stark mus­ half breed girls, I dare say, like this naw till every pocket of the rusty Me.” “Of course,” said the girl. I “I’m very bad to act this way. ingly in a gentle tone that Kunnion other girl, or—like me.” garment bulged so that he could not At Stark’s he found a large crowd —“but just to show you what I mean. Scuses.” had never heard before. She did not Hush now as before. In­ sit without losing them. They dwelt "f the new men, wlm welcomed him It was a good long spell ago, when I He nodded, and she went out. "(Jetting kind of mushy, ain't, you? stead her cheeks were pale. Upon his lightest word and stood him heartily, plying him with countless was at Fort Supply, which was the Necia was I11 a restless mood, and. I thought you had passed that stage, “It would go a heap worse with him up beside tin* bar, where they filled questions and harking to his maudl1’ frontier in them days, like this is now. remembering that Alluna ami the chi 1 eld man." than it did with Captain Jefferson,” him with proofs of friendliness until tales of his m*w nui itry which to him We freighted in from Dodge City with i dren had gone berrying on the slopes “ No; I don’t like her in that way." said the corporal, “for lie’s got more T* sin d fears from his one good eye. t .is old. He laid followed the muddy bull teams, and It was sure the fringe j behind the Indian village, she turned “ I'll lay you a little eight to live that ahead of him, and he comes from bet­ Cautiously at first he let out his river fi m crater lake to the delta, of the frontier—no women, no society, her way thither. All at once a fear of Run-ell 1ms thrown her down,” elnie- ter stock. Why, his family is way up.” wit, which was logy from long disuse seaivhi; the bars and creek beds in a nothin* much except a fort, a lot of In­ ! seeing Meade Burrell came upon her. l.led Reunion. “I never thought of myself as an In­ and as heavy on its foot as the jump­ tireless Cllcst till he knew each stream juns and a few officials with their ; She wanted to think this out, to find "I never thought »f that. You ma dian.” said Necia dully. “ In this coun­ ing frog of ('alaveras, but when they ami tributai". ■ and. like < Pile, he had wives and families. Now, them kind | whore she stood, before lie bad w<>rd he rigid.’’ try it's a person’s heart that counts.” laughed at its labored leaps and sallies lived the: c many \ears ahead <ff the of places Is all right for married men, : with her. She had been led to observe "I f it's true I’ll sbuflle up a ha ml for “That’s how It ought to be,” said the liis confidence grew. Witli the regu­ law. w!e re each man was his own but they’re tough sleddln’ for single • herself from a strange1 angle and must* that soldier.” corporal heartily, “and I’m mighty sor­ larity of a clock he planted c igars and 11 airr. of ; ppoals and where crime was ones, ar.« after awhile a feller gets ' verify her vision, as it were. What if Meanwhile Necia had p:assed on out ry If I’ve hurt you, little girl. I’m a ardered “a little more hard stuff,” t;nkn< AVI). awful careless about himself. He he had changed now that ho was if Use town and through the Indian rough old rooster, and I never thought while his roving eye* rejoiced in lachry­ "i )h , tie re’s lots of countries worse'll seems to go backward and run down alone and had had time to think? ft v il lage a t: t lie mold h of tin creek unt ii mighty quick when he gets away from < but what you understood all this. Up mose profusion, Its overburden losing t hm." declared., "We way not be would kill her if sin* saw any differ- !i igh up on t lie slopes she aw .Minna here folks look at It right, but outside '‘me* to the naked eye, and civilization and his people and restau­ enro in him, and she knew she would ! nd the little ones. She climbed up to Itself in the tangle of his careless It’s mighty different. Even yet you 1 t we:ir our liandk’chiefs ln rants and such things. He getS'fUumb he able to read it in his eyes. them and seated herself where she board. By and by lu* wandered don’t half understand.” 1 vt'. but r’eav ain’t rm wid- reckless and forgetful of what’s what. As she went through the main street ' Oitld look flu- out over the westward through the town, trailed by a troop "I’m glad I’m what I am,” cried the ■ "i cans doin' (,ur wasliin’, There was a captain with us, a young of the camp she saw Stark occupied valley, with tin* great stream flowing of tenderfoot, till the women marked girl.