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Show ho mu THE PAY SON IAN, PAYSON, UTAH- wait to" see w la tuer sue appneu it even- lr W;1 honle time In the latter part mixed stock ox:er toward Hardup, and fereme somewhere, fie carried hack or iy to her telltale eyelids, but dabbed with him a fit of the blues whi- h seem- - ,f September that Billy Louise got up they were not yet past the point havon the way to her mother's So. them at new range. off he their middle of a frosty night because straying ! ed to huve utta ked him without cause to use i oum. e he had not quarreled she heard her mother moaning. That ing keen eyes and the Incentive slm or pretext, tracks stock to "Doctor says youre all right, rnoiu-inl- with attention the .as off he j She John sent paid Ix'gaiuiug. them, Billy Louise and had been warmonly you mu-t- u t go digging post efore d i.vllght for the doctor, aud In the soft places, and he saw everywelcomed bv "uiorumie." loor iuodi-mi- e ly for awhile." or holes shoveling hay the next night she stood with her thing within the sweep of his vision, was looking while and frail, aud and tine, No. 1 guess not!" Her mol her her temples were too distinctly veined id" pressed together and watched the and, since the day was clear reached a unconsciously to the stimulawith purple. Ward told himself that it 'dor ount mommie's pulse and take his range of vision when he tone. I couldn't was no wonder his Wilhetuina tion of Billy Buttes Three the to i.iociniie's her in drew anil extenu-jtemperature tided high point Im that strained and unnatural. He meant dig holes with u to breath liurdiv when she saw how long away out ip the dtsert. weak ami useless. Did he say what it work harder than ever and to the get his he studied the thermometer afterBy sheer accident he rode up was, Billy Louise?" The sick are ul stake so that he could go aud make ward. bidcorral little the lay where canyon ways so curious about their illnesses. There was a month or so of going den at the end and looked down. Aud tier give him the right to take care of Oh, your lumbago got to scrapping her. to ami fro ou her tyes and of watching since he rode up at an angle different with your liver. 1 forgot the name he to figure the cost of com- the tloek with a mind to medicine giv- from the one Billy Louise had taken le began 'gave it, hut its nothing to worry his boniest ad right away, so ing. 'there were nights and nights and the corral was directly beneath him about. Billy Louise had imagination, muting he would not have to hold it nights when the cabin window winked so directly, in fact, that bulf of It was lhat remember. down for another three years. Maybe like a star fallen into the coulee from hidden from sight. He saw that there I guess hed think it wus something to bring her moth- du-- k to red dawn. Ward rode over were cattle within it, however, aud to worry uVoiit if lie had it, her moth- stie would not want off the main road. Iu that once, stayed all night and went home two men at work there. so er far And by er retorted fretfully, but reassured nevaso he would go down and put that iu a silent rage because he could not chance he lifted his eyes and saw the ertheless by the casual manner of Billy "Wolverine place in shape. He had uo do a thin I believe I could eat a little nose of a horse beyond a jutting ledge Louise. There was a week of fluctuating about living on her crown mile of toast and diink Mime teu, sir; .squeiimishness sixty yards or so away and the ranch instead of his own if she want-etf- c hope and a time when the doctor said of a hat showing just above the ledge. added it that way. He meant to lie bet- lnomniie must go to a hospital Boise, A lookout, he judged instantly aud "And an egg poaelasl soft if you wai t hooked up financially than she sim e she had friends there. And there ter it, mom. Ill oebe just brought iu t'.e pulled Rattler behind the rock he bad was and have more cattle when lie put Louise out went hummiu ; been at some pains to ride around. Billy eggs." on her finger. Then he the cold unconcernedly under her breath us ;f would do ring Ward was a cowpuncher. He knew whatever she wanted him to she hud not a care beyond the propci tricks of the trade so well that be the not to he have would and crucify toasting of the bread and brewing of do, not wonder what was going on did ids pride doing It. the teu. there. He knew. He was temptdown You see, they could not have qu vine timsl not go to vvur or voyage to do as Billy Houise had done-ri- de to ed as the far cornel of the earth to find the well assince Wuid carried ensiles on and pass up knowledge which the blues. In fact, their partstuff heroes are made of. be disagreeable, for Ward was might uneven had Ward an ing given pulse to one not spy upon his fellows, and for a mile, for Billy Louise had gone CHAPTER VII. the man whom he would betray into witli him as usual as far as the corral the hands of a sheriff must be guilty when lie started home. And when Each In His Own Trail. a of a most heinous crime. That waa Ward hud picked up his reins and turnnothing iu this world is abso. ed to his code to let every fellow have a toe in his the stirrup Billy SINCE Pninutabie the human Louise put to work out his own s&ivatiou chance had come dose to his very emotions least of all perhaps--Bill- y shoulder. Ward or damnation as he might choose. I had turned his face Louise did not hold changeless don t suppose there was anything he toward her. aud Billy Louise Billy her broken faith In Ward. She saw it Louise had hated worse than an informer. taken his head impulsively broken Into fragments before the evi- between two hands, had looked her He got behind the rock, since he had dence of her uvvu eyes and the fraginto his eyes and then lmd kissed no deep great desire to be shot, and be disments ground to dust beneath the him wistfully on the lips. Then she covered that his xiew of the corral weight of what she knew of his past had turned and fled up the path, wavwas much plainer thau from wheru things he had told her himself So she ing him away up the trail. And. though seen it. He looked behind had he first thought there was no more faith In Ward never guessed that to her that an him for easy retreat to the sky- him, and her heart went empty aud kiss was a vow of loyalty to before he turned to ride aud theu penitent line, aching through the next few days. their friendship and a slap in the face he glanced down again curiously. away was human since But, Hilly of the doubt devils that still pursued A man walked out into the center of ami a woman-n- ot altogether because her weaker moments, it set him planthe corral .and stood there In the she wus twenty she stopped after hurder than ever for that stake ning sunlight. Wards eyes bored awhile, gathered carefully the dust of he must win before he dart'd urge her like through the space that digimlets her dead faith, and, like God, she be- further toward vided matrimony. them. Instinctively his hand fashioned she First gan to create. a wonder that the kiss did not Its on his hip. It was a to went the gun doubts of her doubt. IIow did she out completely the somber mood long pistol shot, and be was afraid he know she had not made a mistake, wipe that held him. That It did not, but He Wrote a Letter to Billy Louise. might miss, for Ward was not a wizthere at that corral? Otiier men wore served merely to tangle his thoughts in ard with a gun, much as I should like gray hats and rode dark hay horses; a most hopeless manner, was a terrible, nerve racking journey to perhaps misrepresent him as a dead shot-liwere and men slim and she other tall, how greatly the Inner life of to the railroad. And when Ward rode proves was human, just like yourself. He bad only had a glimpse, after all, and Billy Louise had changed her in those next to the Wolverine ram h there was could shoot pretty well, a great deal no Billy Louise to taunt or tempt nim. better than lots of men who do more the light xvas deceptive down there In two weeks. John Bringle and Phoebe told him in boasting than he ever She In the next two changed still more the shadows. When that first doubt did, but he frewas molued and she had breathed Into months, however. There was the strain brief, stolid sentences of the later de- quently missed. He measured the disit the breath of life so that it stood of her. mothers precarious health velopments and gave hitu a meal and tance with his mind while the man offered him a bed, which he declined. , stood there talking to some one unsturdily before her she took Heart and which kept Billy Louise always on the When the suspense became madden and to alert hide her a created reasons, whole company of seen. To look at Wards face you always trying them, to tell her why she ought to give fears. She must be quick to detect the lug after that he would ride down to would have sworn that the man was Ward the benefit of the doubt. She first symptoms of a return attack of the Wolverine for news. Aud the news doomed, but somettdng held Ward's remembered what Charlie Fox had said the Illness, aud she must not let her wus monotonously scant. Phoebe could finger from crooking on the trigger. about circumstantial evidence. She mother suspect that there was danger read and write after a fashion, and The man bad his back turned squarely vouId not make the mistake he had of a return. That much the doctor had Billy Louise sent her a letter now and toward the gun. Ward waited. The made plain to her . then, saying that moinmie was about man did not move. He waited another made. Besides that, there was an undercur- the same and that stye wanted John minute, and then he opened his Hits to So ahe spent other duys and loug, wakeful nights. And since it seemed rent of gossip and rumors of cattle to do certain things about the ranch. shout. And when his lips parted for Impossible to briug her faith to life stealing whenever a man Stopped at Sue could not leave mommie, she said. the call that would bring the fellow again Just as it had been, with the the ranch. It worried Billy Louise In Ward gathered thjt she would not. facing him Wards tricky brain snapOnce when he was at the ranch he ped before bla eyes the face of Billy glamor of romance and the sweetness spite of her rebuilt belief lu Ward. of pity aud the streugth of her own lu. Doubt would seize her sometimes iu wrote a letter to Billy Louise and told Louise. noeence to make It a beautiful faith spite of herself, aud she did not see her that he would come to Boise if He lowered the gun. He could not there was anything he could do and shoot when he knew that the bullet indeed, she used all her Innocence and Ward often enough to let his personaliall her pity and a little of romance and ty fight those doubts. She saw him begged her to let him know if she would split a gulf between himself created something even sweeter than just once In the next two mouths and needed any money. Beyond that he and the girl a gulf that would sepso. worked and worked and tried to crowd arate him forever from that future her untried faith had been. She had a then only for an hour or A man rode up one night and stayed the lonesomeness out of his days and where stood his ntw element to strengthen it. She air castles. knew that she loved Ward. She had with them until morning, after the the hunger from his dreams with comHe let down the hammer with his learned that from the hurt it had given open handed custom of the range land. plete bone weariness. He did not ex- thumb, sUd the gun back into its hoher to lose her faith in him. Billy Louise did not talk with him very pect an answer to his letter at least lster and dismounted, with a glance toThat was the record of the Inner much. He had shifty eyes aud a he told himself that he did not but ward the place where the lookout was Billy Louise which no one ever saw. coarse, loose Upped mouth and a thick one day Phoebe gave him a thin little stationed. He was sure he had not girl-likshe took a violent letter. The Billy Louise which her little world neck, and, been seen, aud so he crouched behind knety went her way unchanged except dislike to him. But John Brlngie told Billy Louise did not write much. a splinter of rock aud watched. He was Buck nohe that her afterward iu small details that escaped the Oluey, She explained that she could only had no plan, but his instinct impelled tice of those nearest her. A look in' the new stock Inspector, and that he scribble a Hue or two while mommie him to closely watch Buck Olney. see to could was he If ftrouud a one prowling her eyes for hurt, questhing; slept. Mommie was about the same. Another man came into view down tioning look that was sometimes re- find out anything. She did not think there was anything there in the corral. He also stood aftbellious as well; a droop of her mouth deal worried a Louise good Ward could do, and she thanked him Billy and Ward plainly revealed, gave a also when she was off her guard; a sad. er that. Once she rode out early with for offering to help. There was little snort of contemptuous surprise, intention of going to Ward's claim big. she said pathetically, that anybody tired little droop that told of the weight when he recognized him. After that, of responsibility and worry she was to warn him. Hut three miles of saner could do. Even the doctors did not he studied the situation with scowling; carrying. thought changed her purpose. She seem able to do much tell her his conclusions or t complicated his! not mother all for leave her dared lies and charge her for them. No; she manner day, Ward observed both the minute he of with Buck Oluey. dealing saw her ou the trull. He had come one thing, and for another she could jjd not need any money. Thank you Ward would not have hesitated Ward without warn letting across country on the chance that she scarcely just the same, Ward." That was about second about putting the sheriff on, might be riding out that way, and be him see that she felt he needed warn- all. it did not sound in the least like the trail of Buck, but if the seon had come upon her unawares while ing, and even Billy Louise shrank from Billy Louise. man were Implicated be could ipt beshe and Blue were staring out over the what might follow. Ward answered the note' then and tray one without betraylug the other. .The stock inspector stopped again on th(re.and called her Wtlhemina-mine- . desert from the height they had attainAnd if the business down there in tb his way hack to the railroad. Billy j ed In the hills. an name to awkward wag wjite corral were lawful, then he must thtuk. so anxious that she smoth - and dve niinuteS ttf cogitation of some other means. At MLo, Bill! he said when he was Louise was eosj any rate, the him nlce and dislike treated her ered thp spelling. Bnt lie wantpd it thing to do now was to make sure. quite dose and held himself ready to - jvw meet whatever mood she might pre- ly. which thawed the man to an alarm- down on paper where sllp (.oulfl SPe it The two in the corral eame out and in? amiability. She questioned him art- - an,j h0w sent. souuded when he closed the that-a- ml gate behind them, aud the Louise for fully-tr- ust Billy guid it eveu if it did look queer. She turned her head quickly and first man kicked apart the embers of decided stock that the she inspector er along he started to call her Bill looked at him, aud the hurt look was was either a very poor detective or a Boo mt rubbed it out and substituted a small fire and afterward busied himstill hi her eyes; the droop still showself with the ground, either looking iufor Badv Girl (with capitals). Altogether ed at her lips. And Ward knew they very good actor. He did not, or them up. They In a be hidden corral mention stance, any djd better than he knew, for he came a littlecovering had been there before she saw him. in back the hills. , way along the side of blind canyon away Bm made Louise when ahe read cry Whas uiolla, Bill?" he asked In the mounted and rode up toward Louise did not mention it ,t and he made her and Billy tone that was calculated to Invite an say ..I)par Ward either. He had not found any worked lmder her breath and remember how where the lookout waited. And one of unburdening of her troubles. them rode a dark brands, he said. Aud he did not appear hlg hair wavpd over his lpft and was sllux temple and tall and wore a bay "Oh, nothing la particular! Mom-mie- s tl know ard further ab(.ut gray hat. a'thlng and how he lookpd when that smile hld been awfully sick, and I'm alWard glanced at Rattler than the mere fact of his existence. behind his lips and his eyes, and ways worried when Im away from the half asleep with reins droppedstanding There's a fellow holding down a just to the ranch for fear she'l huve another spell claim away over on Mill creek." he fnlth to hlm. She llppdpd (o and ground. He reached out, took the while I'm gone. The doctor said she 11 1 look when him reins and led the horse farther down had remarked up might have auy time. Were you head- I come back, though Seabeck says he s she needed t0 rpheniber and als0 t0 under the shelter of the ledge. Rat(orRe, some thlngs, for ufe was a hard ed for our place? If you are, come ou. tler all his right. pricked ears at the souud up in dull Boise, with drab I was Just starting back. I don't dare nothing to W ard is all right, asserted Billy B 8ave a vicarious hope that oft those other riders, but he did not be away auy longer." If that were a show enough Interest to nicker a greet-tuqia not comfort. real unburdening Ward was an unrea- Louise rather unwisely. He was always a self centered a of I doubt it. Havent thought' sonable young man. Billy Louise lookBilly Louise was not stupid. She ed at him again, and this time hep mavbe he might have seen something saw through the vagueuess of the doo- - beast and was content to, go his way alone, like his master. eyes were dear and friendly. . Ward stood up, where ... Ward waa not satisfied, for ail the the stock Inspector was wiser than she f,or bpat"K the rim of the bluff over he could see rfhills , surface seemed smooth enough. He gave him credit for being. He did notthe ledge of Y f1 Jsts )eoauJe lava rock. He mighi get a closer was too sensitive not to feel a differ- at any rate pursue the subject any fur- dld no.thnR t0 "lake view nioIumle well found an opportunity to to go home. She grew to hate and see who was trfe lookout, and he ence, and he was too Innocent of auy then until he enough Mrs. MacDonald herself. Theu talk to might be seen. For that e nurse and her neutral cheerfulness. wrongdoing or thinking to guess what he kept his fingers close contingency was the matter. Guilt is a good barom- he artfully mentioned the fellow on That is ow the fal1 Issued to his gnu Billy not did because .she Mill and creek, eter of personal atmosphere, aud Ward Louise the and wln-- , of 8criimhling the early progress. part Now and then one of had none of it The worst of him she know auy reason for caution he got all ter. the horses sent he and wanted Information more, a the little rock bounding down had known for more thau a year. He lqt the canyon, whereat the cattle in the had told her himself, aud she lmd heal- for mommie was In one of her garcorral' CHAPTER VIII. humors. rulous moved ed the hurt utmost of the past by her restlessly around the small drifted After that the days quietly firm belief iu him and by her friendYou Won't Get Me Again." ship. Gould vou expect Ward to guess for'a month and grew nippier at each They came closer after they had' In which lazier and the end middle, day late in the fall Ward was that she had soou her faith in him die t0P' Ward' ONE '"aok'g summer over was the hills off to the north the. dull agal,ls a violent death no longer than two meant that the short gray rock beforp and west of his claim, looking at the murmur weeks ago? Such a possibility never and that fall xxas getting ready to of their vol,es cinee the condition of the range there and PHint the wooded slopes xvlth her gaj-occurred to him. For nil Unit he felt there was a dlf- - est colors and that one must prepare keeping an tye out for YG cattle, lie (To he Continued.) had bought another dozu head f for the siege of winter. f - e; i is i e d teu'-poo- WOLVF.RINI 1 !BM.I30WEFU: lTflf COftfY && rl.l.n to Bill DhiI-G- h ranch to Inquire It slip has an thlriK of four of their iuUcs whun Is discussed, and Utl'J tjiHupi'eureii. theft I.uulse Starts Iri starch. but I'HAPIKIt V Spring has come by the beau-- .l Billy Ismlse Is not affected brood-cIn ahe for es of Wolverine canyon, on n oyer her disc ouiagement s and is n e brink of nervous breakdown when see rinds one of her finest cows dead, nod she Iibs a rnaeblnerv note due. Ivvo men npproac h on homes looking uboB for Klie rides to Ward's cabin, m ssmg stock b,d he Is not there. CHA ITFK IV-F- ox fur down toward the end of his nose, reading a pabj green pamphlet that he must have brought lu his pocket. Phoebe wus down by the creek washing clot lies in the shade of a willow clump. She went into her own room, still walking ou her toes. In her trunk was a blue plush box of the kind that Is given to one at Christmas. It wus faded aud the clasp wus showing brassy ut the edges. Sitting upon her bed with the box In her lap Billy Louise pawed hastily 111 the Jumble of keepsakes it held; an eagles daw' which she meant some time to have mounted for a or four arrowheads of brooch; thn-the shiny, Muck stuff which the Indians were said to have brought from Yellowstone park; a knot of green ribbon which aim had worn to a St. Patrick's day dunce in Boise; rattlesnake rattles of all sizes; several folded clippings versts that hud caught her fancy and had been put nwuy and forgotten; an She a fiber bead she had found once. turned the box upside down In her lup and shook It. It must be there the thing sh sought, the thing that hud troubled her roost In her dream; the thing that was a menace while It existed. It wus at the very bottom of the hox, caught In a corner. She took It out with fingers that tremhhsl. crum-deIt Into a little hull so that she could not read what It said, straightened It Immediately and read It reluctantly from the beginning to the lmd where the last word was dipped short with hasty scissors. A paragraph cut from a newspaper it was; yellow aud uiuhago agnin?" site asked caressingly and did not krmit the tiniest simile of of her unxlety to spoil the reassurance I went f.uther than usual prisenee. uml Blue's pretty Iciu!.t, so I eased him along, and Im fearfully Idle. I supof kinds all been having post; youve She was disasters happening to me. over her her soothingly lingers passing mother's forehead while ahe explained and she saw (hat her mother did not moan so much as when blit came into the room. Of course I worried. I wish you wouldnt lake them long rides. Oh, I -- hut seems guess it's luinhugo--mostllike it aint, either. The pain seems to Slit stirred be mostly In my side. moulted and again. restlessly What's Phoebe beeu doing for It? You don't seem to have any fever, mommie and thats n good tiling. I'll go tlx you one of those dandy spice poultices. Had any supper, unmimle?" "Oh, I couldnt eat. lhoebe made hop poultice, but it's awful soppy." Well, never mind. Your dear daughter Is on the job now. .Shell have you frayed from contact with other objects, all comfy in just about two minutes telling of things lleuduche, mum? All right, I'll just Billy Louise bit her lip$ until they shake up your pilly and bring you such hut she could not, keep hack the hurt, a dandy spiee poultice I expect you'll tears thut came hot pnd stinging while want to eat It! Billy Icoulse's voice; she read. She slid the little heap of was soft and hud a broody sweetness odda and ends to the middle of the bed, when she wished it so, that soothed crushed the clipping Into her palm and more than medicine. Iler mother's eyes went out Info the Immuculute steultbily closed wearily while the girl talked; As If she were being spied kitchen. the muscles of her face reluxed a little upon she went cautiously to the stove, from their look of pain. the clipping In lifted a lid and her lips where the wooddropp'd Billy Louise bent aud laid blazed the brightest. lightly ou her mother's check. "Poor She watched It flare aud become nothold nioiumie! Id- have come home not even a pinch of usUs; the If I'd known she was sick ing wus not very large. When It clipping and had to have nasiy, soppy stuff." wus gone she put the lid buck aud lu the kitchen a very different Billy went tiptoeing to the door. Then she Louise measured spick's aud asked a ran. questiou now and then in a whisiier and Phopbe was down by the creek, so breathed with a repressed uueveiiness went to the stable, which betrayed the strain she was un- - Billy Louise on beyond, still runand that through tier. was a grassy down Farther ning, "Tell John to saddle up aud go for on beyond the road. She went the doctor, Phoebe, and don't let mom-t- il nook hid behind the willows, iu know whatever you do. This Isnt there and no one lie the her lumbago at all. I don't know what where she could cry and not could she But wiser. cry the ache Is. a It hot turieutiue I wonder If the nor rebellion heart out of her cloth wouldn't he better than this? I've a gikkl mind to try It; her eyes are against the hurt that life had given Iff she could only have burned glassy with fever aud her skin is cold her. memory when she burned lhat dipas a lish. You tell Johu to hurry-up- . He can ride Boxer. Tell him I want ping! She could still believe and be him to get a doctor here by tomorrow happy If only she could forget the boon if he has to kill his horse do- things It said. Phoebe called her after a long while ing It." . Thut night took its toll of Billy bud passed. Billy Jmulse bathed her Louise aud left a seared place In her face In the cold water of the Wolverine, memory. It was a ulglit of suappiug used her handkerchief for a towel and fire lu the cook stove that hot water went hack to take up the duties life might be always ready; of tireless had laid upon her. The doctor's team struggle with the paiu that came and was hitched to the light buggy he tortured, retired sullenly from Billy drove, and the doctor was standing in Louise's stubborn fighting with poul- - the doorway with his square medicine tlees aud turiientlne cloths aud every case In Ills hand waiting to give her a homely remedy she had ever heard of. few final directions before he left. He was like so many doctors he amj came again Just when she thought she lmd won the fight. seemed to be afraid to tell the whole There was no time to give thoughPto truth about his patient. He stuck to the trouble thut had ridden Inane with evasive optimism and then neutralized her, though Its presence was like a black shadow behind her while she worked and went to and fro between bedroom anti kitchen and fought that tearing pain. She met the dawn hollow eyed and so tired she could not worry very much about unything. Her mother slept uneasily to prove that the battle had not gone altogether against tiie girl who hud fought the night through. She had her reward lu full measure when the ' doctor came. In the heat of noon, aud lifter terrible minutes of susjiense for Billy Louise while he minted pulse aud took teuqierature and studied symptoms, told her that she had done well and that she and her homely isml-tiee- s had held back tragedy from that house. Billy Isjuise lay down ujion the couch out on the back porch and slept heavily for three hours, while Phoebe and the doctor watched over her mother. She woke with a start She had beeu dreaming, aud the dream had takeu from her cheeks what little color her night vigil had left She had dreamed that Ward was In danger, that men were hunting him for what he had done at that corral. The corral seemed the center of a fight between Ward and the men. She dreanjed that he came to her aud that she must hide him away and save him. But though she took Waa Lika So Many Doctors him to a cave, which was secret enough Afraid to Tell the Truth. for her purjawe, yet she could not feel There even there. safe was he that the reassurances he uttered by emphawas something some menace. sizing the necessity of being notified if Billy Louise went softly into the Mrs. MacDonald showed any syrup house, tiptoed to the door of her moth- turns of another attack. er's room and saw that she lay quiet, Billy Louise ran Into her own room, with her eyes closed. Beside the win- grabbed a can of talcum and did not dow the doctor git with his spectacles j j d . - j e etd-'ep- the-bluff- I I 1 ... |