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Show THE PAYSONIAN, PAYSON, UTAH IOUR LOYALTY TO RANCH ATglHE WQLVERIN SACRIFICES MAKING OF THOSE TO EQUIVALENT A tale of the wild outdoor life of pioneer days that called forth all the courage and resourcefulness of men and women inured to danger and hardship Little, Brown (Copyright, ARE YOU OUR By B. M. BOWER A Co.) ALL CAN CHAPTER XVII Continued. 12 Seulask relurned after a while, and who was watching from Hilly met him at the little gate the as he was coming up to the house. Well, how had Is it, Mr. Seaheck?" she asked sharply, Just because she felt the Imperative need of facts she who had struggled so long In the quicksands of suspicion and doubts and fears and suspense. llmmm-mhow bad is It In the house? he countered. The real crime has been commuted there, It seems to me. A few head of cattle, more or less, dont count for much against the broken heart of an old woman. Oh ! Louise, her hands Hilly clenched upon the gate, stared up wide-eyeInto his fare. And this was the real Seubeck, whom she had known Impersonally all her life I Tills was the real man of him, whom she had never known; a flawless diamond of a soul behind those bright blue eyes and that pointed, graying beard ; poet, philosopher, gentleman to the bone. Oh! You saw that, too ! And theyre your cattle that were stolen! You say it doo-wa- y, If men Lilly Louise signs this note, well pay It; and we want some perfection from you, fer Charlie." Hrrimm-mI see!" He turned and went buck to the Uttered desk and wrote carefully again upon another Well, Its a lucky thing for you he 'buse me. And I Her lips twitched wont let you, Billy Louise informed a little. I think you can qualify. him sternly, stooping to crawl under They came to the gate, and Billy the bottom wire. Youve got about as Louise freed her hand from bis clasp much sense as She did not say and dismounted, since It was a wire Give me that rope, and you gate and could not he opened on horsewhat. take yourself and your crutches out back. She closed It after him, looked of the corrul, Mr. Smarty. I Just had to her cinch, tightened It a little, patn hunch you couldn't be trusted to be- ted Battler on the neck, caught the have yourself." horn with one hand and the stirrup Brave Buckaroo got lonesome," with the other, and went up quite like Ward said, looking at her with eyes a man, while Ward watched her Inalight, as he hobbled slowly toward tently. her. You'll have to open the gate for In sooth, I know not why you are roe, William. Battlerll make a break so murmured Billy Louise, for the open If he sees a crack as wide when she swung alongside in the trail. as your little finger. Ward caught her hand again and did By then he was near enough to not let go; so they rode hand in hand reach out an arm and pull her close to down the narrow valley. I was wondering him. he hesitated, Oh, William girl. Im sure glad to see you once more. I got scared. I drawing in a corner of his lip, biting Wllhemlna. If thought maybe I Just dreamed you It, and letting it go. were here ; so I tackled old Lady Fortune takes a notion to You tackled more than you could give me another kick or two, Just when handle. You ought to know you mustnt life looks so good to me Why, well kick buck Just as hard try to ride Battler, Ward. What If hed as she dees, threatened ihlly Louise pitch with you? In thnt case, Id pile up, I reckon. courageously. Dont let happiness get Say William, a broken leg does take a on your nerves. Ward." If I wasnt crippled, it wouldnt. deuce of a time to get well. But all the same, Ill stop old Buttler, all right. But when a mans down and out, he I'd top anything rather than spend an- thinks a lqt. The last three days. Ive lived a whole lifetime, other night In that Jail. EveryYoull ride Blue, Billy Louise told thing seems to be coming my way, all him calmly. Im going to ride Rattler at once. And Im afraid; what if I can't make good? If I cant make you myself. he squeezed her fingers so Yes, you are not! happy Do you mean to say I cant? Do that Billy Louise had to grit her teeth to keep from Interrupting him or If you think Oh, I guess you can, all right, but anything should happen to you Lord "Youve got nerves, buckaroo. Youve Well, If I can, Im going to. If you think I cant handle a measly old skate been shut up there alone so long you see things all distorted. Were going like that He's been running out for nearly to be happy, because well be together, and weve so much to do and so much two months, Wllheraina And look at his ribs! If youll Just to think of. You must realize. Ward, kindly go in the house while I sad- that weve got three places to take care dle of, and you and me and poor old MarIll kindly stay right here, thy, She hasnt anybody, Ward, but You dont know Battler us. And she's changed so got so old Just In the last few dafys. I never And you dont know Billy Louise She wrinkled her nose knew a person could change so much MacDonald. at him and turned back to unsaddle In such a little while. Shes just let go all holds and kind of sagged down, mentally and physically. Well have to take care of her, Ward, as long as she lives. Thats why Im taking yon there so we can look after her. She wont leave the Cove. I I was hoping, she added shyly, that we could sit In front of our own fireplace, Ward, and nave nice cozy evenings; but well, there always seems to be something for me to do for somebody. Ward. son and another cowboy at the Cove, Just preparing to leave. Marthy, It transpired, had sent for them because she wanted to make her will, so that Billy Louise would have the Cove when Marthy was done with 1L Billy Louise cried a little and argued a good deal, but Murthy had not lost all her stubbornness, and the will stood unchanged. Billy Louise and Ward were married just as soon as Ward was able to make which was the trip to the county-sea- t, just as soon as he could walk comfortably with a cane. They stayed the winter In the Cove, and a part of the spring. Then they buried grim, gray old Marthy up on the side hill near Jase, where she bad asked them to lay her work-wor- n body when she was gone. They were very busy and very happy and pretty prosperous with their three ranches. They never heard of Charlie Fox again, or of Buck Olney and they never wanted to. If you should some time ride through a certain portion of Idaho, you may find the tiny valley of the Wolverire and the decaying cabins which prove how Impossible It Is for a couple to live In three places at once. If you should be so fortunate as to meet Billy Louise, she might take you through the canon and point out to you her cave. It is possible that she might also show you the washout which always made her and Ward laugh when they passed It. And if you ride up over the hill and along the upland and down another hill, you cannot fall to find the entrance to the Cove ; and perhaps you will like to ride down the gorge and see the little Eden hidden away there. And If you should meet them, give my regards to Billy Louise and Ward who never calls himself a football these days. (THE END.) I think this will be sheet of paper. quite satisfactory, he said, and handed the paper to Marthy. Git my specs, Lilly Louise offn the shelf over there, she said, and read the paper laboriously, her lips forming the letters of every word which contained more than one sylsa-alable. Marthy, remember, was a plulns-woma- n born and bred. I guess thatll do, she pronounced at last, pushing the spectacles up on You read It, Lilly her lined forehead. Louise, n see what yuh think. I think Its all right, Marthy," said Lilly Louise, after she had read the document twice. Its a bill of sale; and It also wipes the slate clean of any I think Mr. Seabeck Is very possible c clever. Whereupon Marthy signed the notP, with a spluttering of the abused pen In her stiffened old fingers and a great twisting of her grim mouth as she formed the capitals. Then Lilly Louise oh, youre youre Ilintn-ma human helrg, I hope, wrote her name with a fine, schoolgirl lady-girMiss MucDonald, as well as a mere ease and a little curl on the end of the last d. Seabeck took the paper from cattleman." Marlhy did not attempt to rise when the tips of Billy Louises supercilious Seubeck followed Lilly Louise Into the lingers, returned with It tc the desk envelope, slttlngroom. She caught up her apron for a blotter, hunted and wiped her eyes. After that she folded the note carefully, and laid It fueed Seubeck with harsh composure away inside. ! I believe that Is all, Mrs. Mcilke. 1 and waited for the settlement. Ilmm-mm- ! I have been looking hope you will suffer no further uneasiover the cattle," he began, sitting on ness on account of your nephew." the edge of a chair und turning his Im liable t suffer some gittin that black hat absently round and round by five hundred dollars paid lip, Marthy i You the brim. you tell returned with some acerbity. Im me there were seven head of grown much obleeged to yuh, Mr. Seabeck, stock " fer bein so easy on us. If yuh hadnt That they shot and throwed In the drug Lilly Louise Into It, Id say yer lady-gir- l. river, with thp brands cut out, inter- too good to be human. I heard em polated Marthy stolidly, "nrnmm-mnot at all," Seabeck say thats how they would git rid of stammered deprecutlngly and left the em, an I heard em shootln down room with what lmste his Playing the Man. natural digthere. matter No what part he may be nity would permit. llmra-mn- i strenuous game of life In yes! Do you know Just the playing ended Seabeck Thut the part of the what as it is presented today, the brotherwhole sordid affulr, except that he reFive dry cows n two steers long mained for hood man, above all others, must play another hour, doing chores I Jedged em to be." and the man. These are times when the snug for the making best that is in us must be given to Marthy was certainly prompt enough night. Also heeverything wood-bo- x filled kitchen the and explicit enough. And her lips were carry on, and the race run with as high as he could pile the sticks grim, and her faded blue eyes hard and steadfastness and a manly purpose. to water last brought overnight and steady upon the face of Seabeck. since As Robert L. Stevenson so beautifully to pipe water Into Charlies Ilmni-myes! I find also, he the cabin had plan puts It : Whether we regard life as a remained a beautiful went on In his somewhat precise voice line leading to a dead wall a mere more. and Louise nothing Billy thnt had earned him the nickname of plan bags end, as the French say or Seabeck, when he was ready thnt thanked Deacon" among Ms punchers, Ward slipped whether we think of it as a vestibule Oh, you Wllhemlna to go. there are more young stock vented and his arm around her, to the disgust of or gymnasium, where we wait our turn I know you were square, and youre rebranded than I er sold your Rattler and Blue, and made shift to and prepare our facilities for some too. remember it Ill nephew. Fourteen head, to he exact. really kiss her twice. Long as you live, more noble destiny; whether we thunWith the cattle you tell me which always, Mr. Seabeek. be something for der in a pulpit or pule in little esthetic doing youll always Will you? Seabeck looked down were nmi-rdisposed of last night, ; thats the way youre made. poetry books about its vanity and brevsomebody head of at her, with his hand upon the latch. thnt would make twenty-on- e And nobodys been doing things for ity, whether we look justly for years I take it Even if you are put in a position stock for which mm-myou ; but If the Lord lets me live, thats of health and vigor, or are about to where must note you puy that you you are willing to pay." mount into a bath chair, as a step togoing to be my job from now on. Ilm-mnI see. Before I I aint got the money now," Marthy will still He said a great deal more", of wards the hearse; in each and all of deMiss should like I be to MucDonald, go, either your stated, too apathetic course. They had nearly fifteen miles these views and situations there is but You cn fix up the permission to send a man down here to fiant or placating. to go, and they rode at a walk ; and a one conclusion possible; that a man look after Ill anythings." t suit sign yourself. papers man and a matd can say a good deal should sop his ears against paralyo, you mustnt. Billy Louise thing yuh want. at such a time. But I dont think they sing terror and run the race that is Ilmm-mMarthy yes ! A note covering spoke with prompt decision. would like to have It all repeated. set before him with a single mind. of rate were It interest, might think you the amount, with legal you see, Their thoughts ranged far back over will be quite satisfactory, Mrs. Mcil- wouldn't do. Ill see about getting a the past and far Into the future, and Canadian Honored. ke. I shall make a lump sum at the man. If you will take tbls note up and of love to close the miracle At that Canada was representBalaklava, clung going price for mixed stock. If you leave it In the mailbox for me, John had brought them together. There Is ed by Lieut. Alexander Dunn of Tortomorrow. come will Well have a blank note, I " up Pringle one thing which Billy Louise, even in onto, an officer of the Light Brigade, You kin look In that desk over manage all right. her most mood, did not lie was the first native of Canada Youre quite right. But, Miss Macthere," permitted Marthy. If yuh dont and that Is her doubts of to receive the Victoria Cross. At Watell Ward, nonone Is er find any there, there aint Donald, there something else. I lilm. Never once did he dream that terloo Capt. Alexander McNab, the where. should like to give you a little wed- She Went Straight to the Hay Corral she had suspected him and wrung her first Canadian to hold a commission in and Stopped. Senbeek did not find any blank notes. ding gift, since you honored me with of her suspicions and the British regular army, was among because heart mm-nof i He found an eloquent confusion the news of your approaching was wise and kind. to Intend Blue. she think the heroic dead of that historic battlefI in "I didnt that go really Jumbled letters and accounts and pamarriage. As an old neighbor, and back found Seabeck and Floyd Car- - ield. she said, but seeing now, They right owner hnd and thnt the most who sincere pers, one of your guessed admirers, on it, I supdone some hasty sorting nnd straight- would feel greatly honored by your you've got your "heart set pose we might ns well." Then she and his affairs. of to have lie like should sighed, I ening you friendship, Were only going as far as his blue eyes hardened for a minute. accept this ne held something out added: the Cove, anyway; und I really ought Then Rllly Louise moved from the door to Billy Louise and pulled open the back to look after Marthy. nnd went over to kneel comfortingly door for Instant escape. Good night, to hurry beside Mnrthy, and Seabeck looked at Miss MacDonald. I think It will Charlie Fox and Peter pulled out and Norfolk Bids Pair to Break all Rec-ord- a overflowing Just as they are In Washthe two and sighed ngnln, though his storm. Then he was gone, hurrying left her there all solitary alone. Ive at Her Present , Rate been staying with her overnight. I ington. Now business blocks are gone were no stern, with eyes longer long told her we'd be down down the nnrrow pnth of Progress. and ing up and the residence sections of there, stay pulled a sheet of paper toward him strides, his tall figure bent to the wind, till the further notice." are being extended far Into and wrote stendlly In a prim, upright his coat flapping around his lean legs. There Is not a city In this country, the city Louise not did Ward much districts. I venture to Billy give outlying flourish a never ehlrogrnphy thnt had Billy Louise closed the door nnd her opportunity for argument. He was too perhaps none in the world, that is that in another decade Norfolk say will mouth nnd let down her anywhere, hut carefully crossed ts nnd half-opeNora more than rapid rate come close to being the leading city In awkward with his crutches to keep up growing at back with her and dotted punctuation lifted eyelids. Standing carefully Is with her, aud she managed to be on folk, remarked 0. W. Sizer, manager the Old Dominion, both in population marks of benutlful exactness. against the wall, she turned thnt some- the move most of the time. of one of the lending ifotels of that and Importance. You will plence sign here, Mrs. thing nn envelope over twice, then When she had helped Ward upon city, at the Raleigh, the Washington he mild calmly, coming over tore oft the end nnd pulled out the Blue Mellke, census states. The Post last gave and that was not easy, either. The First Romanoff. to them with the sheet of paper lrtld contents. It wns the note'she and Mar- that he only had one leg the population of Norfolk at less than wfcrlng best-sells an hour than no had tbv a Signed Romanoff longer is the name of the Russmoothly upon NorIs that 70,000. estimated It to Today on stand nnd had gone to the and with Charlies fountain pen In his ago. nnd written large across the fnoe tit folk is a city of 140,000, or more than sian imperial dynasty regnant In the cabin for her of and bag nuggets other hand. And if Miss MacDonald of It were the words: Paid, Samuel Ward's roll of male line from 1613 to 1730, and money which he had for- double the size It was in 1910. Washwill also sign, as an indorser, I think Seabeck. thenceforward In the female line. Contremendous Itself the on, I can safely do away with any mortThe old dnrling! said Billy Lou- gotten, and had exhausted every other ington prides In the Inst two or stant Intermarriages with German attained excuse for she growth Ratdelay, picked tip ise under her breath and went straight gage or other legal security." tlers reins and wound her fingers in three years. I take considerable pride princely houses, however, have made Lilly Louise stood up and gave him In tq show it to Mnrthy. his mnne. and took hold of the stirrup In the growth of Washington, for I the Romanoff strain of today more t one look which Seaheck did not as nonchalantly as If she were mount- lived here many years, but the pro- German than Russian. Nay; the oldCHAPTER XVIII. because he did not see It. portionate Increase In the population est ancestor of the house of Romnn-of- f. ing Blue. "Id ruther give a mortgage," Mnrthy Andrew Kobyla, Is said to have Now of the national capital cannot compare all were and she right comfy," All Right and Comfy. said uneasily, sitting up suddenly and come to Moscow from Prussia both Of of Norfolk. announced with course, that when the first breathlessly, (1341). 1 dont next morning Billy Louise looking from one to the other. fight wns over and Rattler, like his cities are helped by war business. The name Romanoff was given to the want Lilly Ioulse to git tangled up In up the creek at a long lope, master, had yielded to the Inevitable. Washington, I presume, is the busiest family by the boyar Roman Yurie-vitcand she pulled up at the stable my troubles. .Shes got plenty of her the fifth of direct descent from And we know whos boss, and were city in the world, but Norfolk Is alSeaown. Her i flaws Just died, Mr. and slid off Blue. She went straight all of ns squlndidously happy, because most next. Andrew, who succeeded In getting a heck. And Ill bet there was a hos- to a corner of the hay corral and we're headed for home. Aren't we, "Hampton Roads Is filled with ships. female member of his family on the pital n do tors blllTdggern this cat- stopped with her hands clutching the buckaroo?" are passing In nnd out throne of the czars by marking his Battleships tle note, to be paid. I dont want to top wire. "I suppose so," Ward mumbled every hour, and soldiers and sailors dnughter to Ivan the Terrible in Ward Warren, for heavens sake, douhtlngly, for a moment eyeing her are filling the streets, hotels nnd resi- February, 1613. Mlkhael pile on " Feodorvltch You couldnt sidelong. Now, Mnrthy, you be stilL Im per- what are you doing? a dences of Norfolk. Only recently I Romanoff, boy of seventeen, was proclaimed czar, grand duke and autocrat fectly willing to sign this note with have told from her tone that she had And say, bnekaroo!" Billy Louise saw some 2,000 soldiers from New Zeayou. If It will satisfy Mr. Seabeck, been crying, a mile back, from sheer reined close, so that she could reach land of of all the Russias In the Red souare streets the through parading Im sere its the very best we can do- anxiety, or that she loved him to out and pinch his arm a little bit. Norfolk. Many of them were not of Moscow. With this accession or expect Billy Louise, bless her pieces. She sounded as If she did not Soon as your leg Is all well, nnd you're young. New Zealand already has sent the throne of the famous, or rather heart, was trying very hard to be grate- love him at all nnd was merely disgust- every speck over the hookin-cougdynasty began a 3G years close to 150.000 men to the front In of In the ed his with to Seabeek actions. ful slump spite us why you can be the boss France, and Belgium, out of a popu- misrule that-- let en(led Pm trying to sink my loop on this he hnd suffered in her estimntlon, Can I? of 1.500,000, and Is still sending forever with the forced abdication of lation of a horse," Ward rv Well. Ill want your written word buzzard-hea"nonest, yon can. Pve Billy Lou- men, which should be an object les- Czar Nicholas, In March, 1317. that yuh wont prosycute CharUe nor torted glumly, rve been trying for ise had the grace to blush a little son to us. Wlp nobody else prosycute him, stlpu about an hour," he added, grinning a Tve always thought Pd love to have New Zealand wheat "Business ts booming In Norfolk as acreage la 20 ted Marthy, with suddeo shrewdness. little at his own plight. Somebody bully me and boss me and never before. The hotels are filled to per cent short d l. inm-nm- 1 n il self-reveali- CITY HAVING RAPID GROWTH n ! last-year- THE 1 SOLDIERS? FIND WAY TO HELP Make No Ridiculous Reservations; Hold Back Nothing; Share Your Money, Your Food and Your Clothing to Aid the Great War. (By VIRGINIA TERHUNE VAN DE WATER of the Vigilantes.) A good woman was discussing the rules of the food administration. I am doing a lot for my country, she said, but there are certain trifles that I do not intend to give up. Such as white bread und bacon. No, she said in response to my astonished look, I mean to have white bread when 1 want it. Why should I cat corn bread aud other substitutes? I like white bread just as much as the soldiers and sailors do. And, anyway, what difference can it make if I use a little white flour and a few slices of bacon every day? I am only one person." Only one of millions! Suppose they all took that attitude! 1 am no slacker. I she added. work at the Red Cross four ufternoons of each week, and I have made dozens of knitted things for the soldiers. But I draw the line at bacon aud white bread and rolls. Is this patriotism? I remembered the text: These things ought ye to have done, and not to have left the other undone." Another good woman was talking of Ihe next Liberty Loan drive. Well, she declared, they need not come to me for help ! I am a business woman, and I have lost money on heatless Mondays, und since the government has made me do that I do not propose to help with their Liberty loan. I love my country, and I am a Red Cross worker, and all that but there is a limit. Should Be No Limit. A limit ! Is there any limit to what she would do If her nearest and dearest were fighting for his life? Would she stop to argue that she had given the suffered expensive woolen underwear, but that she (Jrew the line at the renunciation of certain comforts so that he might have them? Would she be considered a good wife or mother or daughter if she held tills attitude towards husband, child or parent? Let us stop all these ridiculous reservations, these talks of what we will do and wont do. Let us hold back nothing. Do the women who are sending their sons abroad hold back anything? Do these sons grudge risking their beautiful youth, their lives, for their country? Yet some people hesitate at white bread and bacon, and refuse to buy Liberty bonds ! The hesitation is not only unpatriotic, but it Is absurd. Later we will know the meaning of the expression, What I give I have. The money we Invest In Liberty bonds will be ours when other money that we now have is gone. All such talk as I hare quoted Is Let us give as unpatriotic. our sons give ungrudgingly, proudly, because we are counted worthy to make sacrifices for the greatest e against evil that the world has ever known. Make It An Honorable Service. What would the Son of Righteousness say to our hesitation about trifling luxuries? He died for his cause. We women are not called upon to do that. (Some of us may wish that we were.) But we are called to sacrifice our selfishness for 1L I am not making light of the wonderful work done by those women who toll nt Red Cross stations; I am not forgetting the noble and vast army of wives, mothers, sisters and sweethearts who stop at nothing In their desire to help end the war honorably. But I hope that such sentences as I have quoted go no further than the of the tongue. If they do, shame tip to the speakers. And shame to us who 'et such speech pass uareproved. His very living such was Christs Jiving." We women "have not yet resisted onto blood. But some of our men have, nnd God help us ! many mcc may have to. Can we then endure the .gnominy of remembering even In our Inner hearts we have, paused to consider what delicacies we may use? Shall w not in the language of our iear fighting boys cut out" ail loubtful articles? And let us make of the trifling dut an honorable service. The cause ennobles all that It touches. last-name- d wt-ke- dly cru-Bad- tat True Respectability. Having the courage to live within one's means Is respectability. Wifeys Ultimatum. Looks like women will soon have the ballot everywhere, my dear" Uh. "How are you going to vote? Well, Im not going to vote In this old hat. I can tell you. You'll have to buy me a new one. Louisville hopu9 Naturally. The leader who embezzled fi his players wont come back to f the music. Well, that beats the band I" |