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Show THE FAYSON IAN, PAYSON, UTAH are you sure they didn't gel ut of What wiU he think? aud wander on down the . Have "Itoes it matter such a deuce of a that pasture she stuck them upright in the lumpy all those willows? Its a among Cove, Ward went on head aud sPumI there jou been eduiatuig your musical taste Jl. t what lie thinks? s soil over perfect jungle away down. Are you the week, M..--s William Louise?" v. ith his interrupted scrubbing. ja long while1 with tear streaked faie, in sure Ward they aren't with the rest of the lus horse and befoie her "I'm awfully glad he came, anyway, stopped staring down, at the grave aud at the I dont see how they could cattle? with his bunds still clasped over the:K1lj Kiyy Louise. "I wont have to nodding pink blossom- -. leave the Cove unless they were drivsaddle hoiu looked down at her with slaj all night now. I was going to." -en out. ien bin else.1 that welsmile and "Ju that case the young man is something Billy Louise rode singing do vn (be "Yes, I thought of that strange as it I havent. I don't have to edu- -' i uie as a gold mine. Here they come "No, narrow the trail deep, through rocky seem. Charlie's voice was 1 know ate .elf to Inthe may my where to Mrs. have point and Martha. Youll gorge to where the hawthorn and chokt On the contrary, he seemed lie i a ndsbolm kind Tiail' isnt proper n. lie, uee me; 1 have never met the cherries hid the o en.ug to the cove. so keen an interest From there to the pink drift of pea !. of funeral hymn. Ward Warren." Billy lady." Ward hastily returned the mop glad that she took has been a week, Louise "It affairs. iu his over ber and shoulder I. row 1, glance' to its cm ner, rolled dow a his sleeves a of bloom against the dull since we I'luced tier voice they flew the coop. I ami piiktd up his gloves. instinctively, as Then he you kiow, bluff Blue gallojied angiily, iild hunt every foot of that Cove twice do nil when come close death and has in outside bluck and beside waited soft the Billy green ef :cped deep, prints "J use oils last night; that's lmi-e- , looking not in the least like a over. I drove every hoof of stock up SR they caiue headlong Mopis'd the meadow. bis grave up there. Isn't it perfectly man who 1ms just wiped a lot of dishes and corraled them aud made sure these upon Martliy, just as she was knocking I infill? I'oor obi Martby was here all and s rubbed a floor. four were not In the herd. Then I the yellow clay of the grave from her alone Aud him. with hunted Ward, through every inch of that wilThe nephew, striding along behind irrigating shovel against ine jade fence solitary she dog lh.it grave her owuself ami low Jungle aud all along the bluff and of her pigpen. Marthy ami showing head and shoulOnce before in her look him up ami buried him! And, ders above her, seemed not to icseut the river. Miss Louise, I put iu three "Why, Martby! at it, from sunrise till it was too life Billy Louise bad seen Murth.vs chin 'Yard, she xbe wheeled him up in the ni.y little mischance, such as muddy She hail wheelbarrow! course. see. Then I began riding outof to dark to, fluted him fiViu broom. slow a like and tears that upon big, quivering v.,iki Mie Hut him. it couldn't There side. 1(. coPtAcvr or isnt a trace of them anycarry isnt, ,mN!l,i reminiscently as he came sliding down the network of lines oi COfMfr tTTJt SHOW? Her hunds were up. patting up, shook hands with the two of them where. I had just bought them from awful.' cheeks. With .i evleathery Marthys that for? And the wind freezing i nd I drove them , j j. i SYNOPSIS. no? let his glauee dwell too Seubeck, you know. slump her spirits vvent heat,, . ml smoothing the neck of ids hoi se, .i erything inside! 1 can leel a terrible gainful her face was bent to hide tlie tears ; or t ,o often upon Biilv Louise nor home, aud because they were tired, !" her with "Martby sympathy. and )ou draft on my feet and ankles, lhat stood in her eyes and the quiver t.(, briefly upon Ward, niAPTKK aud so was I, I just left them in that She knew without a word of ej.pl.i and know w hut that leads to!'' liHiah i.I u)i c and of her mouth. . When Ward went to the stable after upper meadow as I came down the what had nation Froi hJiUiIiSS iiusl.and Jase, happened, just nature, tt IUi del So Hilly Louise closed the door aud Several minutes thy stood there Line half an hour later Charlie Fox gorge. I hadnt branded them yet. I Iratl, tiiihS torn bent shoulders she knew an; journey over de.-oxen and are the pioneer a wlmee tuMUiis laid another alder root ou the coals in Maitliy's t liking, while Hilly Louise patted the went with him. His manner when they 1 know Ive made an awful botch of from stained tear face her aud froi on lit rtt forda the Wolwiiiic stieanr while her unud was Luse absently, and Ward looked down were alone was different, not so exub-i- t the thing, Miss Louise, he confessed, J.ree is ready to slop at the ftral Kieen the fireplace the soil clinging still to ili the jelluw ahmr oxer to dreamy speculations, and her and did not miss one little light eruntly cheerful more frank and prac- - turning toward her with an houest disspot, but M.irtliy insisis on ploddruK shovel in her hand. The wide eyes or That nltfld, gheu uouther full days j.iurnej the words of tbut old tiail soug ran m r in her face. shadow tress and a tical. tl rough natural luetiiu t, two of the oxen humility iu his Billy Louise sent seeking glances up Into a narrow gorge ami ferret on in her memory, though she could no the "You from saw mihj You floored course. of that to me was Billy Louise's it the soil mommie, wiped where eyes llouest, completely where yellow: of slope the I'rtve, they tt tr ru h grase?, hear him singing. Her mother weut to the long, raw toward longer home? from mind see tame try Marlhv who recognizer the old what woman been that tendency found under has Incipient auy the poor ridge tie hidden Krierr as the place of her talked ou about Ieter aud the storm ir.le, see Im green at "But down not. "No. I blossoms he did told you contempt. I the as as the with np against here, far Warren, standing peach wall, lube once posgot at tin Mine and the pioneers who hud ridden straight er slon l.ater they ate joined hv all- and ibis man pitifully awry upon the western end. i reek and saw Blues tracks coming stutling tobacco into a silver rimmed this ranch game. And I never dreamed f day dreams to her Her ot ,ei couple who are Impressed with tire from the land eyes tilled with tears. "Oh, Mar-thy- ! now n. so I just sort of trailed along, briar pipe while Ward saddled Blue. those waives werent perfectly safe In In u home eetahlrsh ulso and Wuheitne 1 door, hut the girl was nut listening. dont know a deuce of a lot about there. The fence was new aud strong, When was it? t tiein IS born a dauglrler i hrlstoned BUI) seeing it was niotnmies daughter I felt J.ourse. aint you relieved yourself this ranch game, but if that old lady hnd the bars are absolutely bars to auy some most to. I like the "In time, talking guess." night, that he's going to stay?" stock larger than a rabbit. voice had a harsh huskiuess. "Mmr a lit- eau put it across I guess I can wabble Martliy's tines daughter laughed he forgets to come l.u k Sri If you'll Too bad the old man "I hate to bother you with this, and Hilly Ismtsa, kneeling on the hearth "'lie was -- gone- when I woke up. Well " tle and instinctively made a change in along somehow. xiuke me to a tueul now anti then ami and staring abstractedly Into the the, casin in just now, but Aunt Martha I don't want you to think I have come, better off than I be, .1 duuro the subject, lies a place to sleep Ill he al to see you came back with a Jerk to reality. Tilt what woubla Income of him if Id went "Ive got to go in and wab the as good as told me he wasn't much whining for sympathy, he said after seethrough the winter r itfitfl yon get little smile that had been in ber eyes first." There, at lust, was a note of dishes," slip said, stepping !: k from fmee, so maybe I can play a lone hand a minute of moody silence. "But. !n lart')ias (as-- a 1 cwll(1 have done with ing they were not branded yet with ,oiue white in an to trike my place.'' and on Imr Ups fled back with the tenderness, stifled though it was and him. "Of com se nothing was ' our brand I thought perhaps you had lie took up the two water pails huiI tlnai ms that bad brought It. She gave fleeting. "(Jit down, Hilly Louise, and the cabin, and Ive been dom" i lR.e Afterward, when 'Yard thought it run across them and paid no attention, waited, glancing from one to the other her shoulders an impatient twitch and come in. I been kiuda lookin' for yuh liousecleaniiig. I guess tiie disbvaivr to come ever settee the weather opened is hot by tlii time -- if it hasnt all ever, he remembered gratefully that thinking they belonged to Sea beck. with that repressed smi'e whir h Hilly got up. Charlie Fox had refrained from atBilly Louise smiled a little to herself, Louise was beginning t" look for In boiled liWIIj. "Oh, I guess hell be more agreeable up. How's your maw?" he had not been quite so "green at. discussion if of Louise "What are joti going to do itor, Mar-thy- ? tempting any to have around than Ieter," she adhis face. Billy Tied his Ward, us a matter of course. e from close c as reranch game he would have was the which was ca;wi-bleven Louise mitted had asking any Now that matters questions taciturnly, Hilly perfectly approached horse to the fence auil went into the of opening a conversational door cabin with her. He also asked her io motely personal. He knew enough about Honed brands at first as the most imthe point of decision her mother stood to her real opinion of the man as a in-t- i to appreciate the tactful silences portant point instead of tacking on the even when It had been closed decisively stake him to a dish towel, whet looking at her helplessly, waiting for mere mother might hope to come. of the stranger, and when Billy Louise information casually after ten minutes heron "Von here did after a good deal of cant get in her face. her to speak. Hilly Isitiise drew rummaging. self up primly and ended by contraWhen spring came at last and Ward alone, you know. Hid you send fur that He stood with his hat on the hack of on the way home predicted that the, of other less vital details. must a to his havent him If hire his head, a cigarette between his lips, nephew was going to lie a success Ward . "Were they vented? she asked, supyou you Warren rode regretfully back nephew? dicting the action. She gate " did not feel like qualifying the verdict. pressing the smile so that it was mereull was least till not at was which he be ou Mill creek claim somebody and wiped the dishes with much apsidelong glance In sent He's letter ly a twitch ofthe lips which might cornin. Jusbad Who That Warren you lie morose Ward prepared to withstand, (hough, parent enjoyment. He objected strongmean anything. CHAPTER IV. tice to Hilly LouHe she was absoluteridden down to the Wolverine that over last month was from him. I dunno ly to Billy Louise's assertion that she 1 come to yes, I think they were. Thats liable effectivewhen lies hell Its of here; git meant to scrub the floor, but when he general ly unconscious stormy uigbt in January. The distrust The of the what Mystery you call it when the former ownmost any time. I ain't going to hire found her quite obdurate he changed Missing. ness and tw isted her lips whimsically. had left bis gyg s, and that guarded k was gone from bis manner. nobody. Charlie Fox. his name is. k his melhod without in the least degree W'HENY Charlie Fox rode down to er puts his brand in a different place "We'll stake you to a hook, a Wolverine a month or so to show that his ownership has ceased,, and a bed If you want to stay, He thought and lie planned as other hope he turns out a good worker. Ive yielding his point, though for diplomatlater, tied his horse under the isut It? Seabeck puts his brand upMr. Warren, she said quite soberly;, men thought aud planned and looked never had a tdianee to git ahead any, ic reasons he appeared to bbd. j "also to a pitchfork and an ax, If you Into (tie future eagerly and dreamed hut if Charlie ll jest take holt Ill mph-b- y lie curried water from the creek and 'lied and came up to the cabin as side down "I know Seabeckg vent, Billy Louise-cu- t git some comfort outa life ylt. like, aud regular wages. Idled the teakettle, the big iron pot and though he knew of no better place in dreams of bis own, dreams that brought U the in. There was no need of letting, when momhe worid; "He sure. And greeted steadied to her and to, went Im every i ought and His eyes be hidden smile often to bis Ups both pulls. Then, when Billy Louise i lie as though he were something such a fine fellow display inor$ Igone thinks youve done awfully well, had turned her back there with the intent expression In big eye. t upon him while i rccious in his sight and talked with norance on the subject. And I should, What can I do now? Wash f.ne looked in a dark corner for the them. "Thunks. Cut out the wages the thing those dreams were Marthy. Still, I have noticed had seen four about if it most was the she 'i things and Ill take the offer just as It built he suddenly seized her under the upon was yet bu ked light 111 Ids the dishes and straighten things np, J mop, in and actually made ber feel calves vented fresh and uot reUzauded. stands," lie told her and pulled his bat arms aud lifted her upon the table, and and not even Hilly Iconise, whose guess. farther down on his head. "She's go- heart, as if he were immensely Interested al- Why in the world didnt you stick yoer instinct wus so keen and so sure in all You needn't do nothlp' you aint a before she had finished her astonished ing to be one stormy night, so, Billy Louise simply cold. i not help brand on at the same time? Billy or them of he water of knew a mind to else, I Louise. gaspings anything caught up dont want do, Billy pall he added in quite another tone on bis things sing patience with hia were hnHt and sloshed it upon the floor under her. admiring him and liking him for his Louise was of the bright hued hope they to think to around yon you got slop Five o'clock by the way to the door. frank good nature and his kindness. greenness. wasbiu my dirty dishes. Im goln on Then lie grinned in his triumph. This upi. well! town clock, and "I didnt have my branding iron with sle "ever before met a man just a 1 Louise coasterof gave Billy down Into the tuedder and work on a u squeal last In still another tone a he pushed like (,larhe Fox. though she had known me, Charlie answered Tiumbly. "I then nation III. sat and In. You CHAPTER do dttcU still, what absolutely Im puttin jest out against. the swooping wind and I!laI1-" bo were what Ward once called have done that before, when I bought youve a mind to. Sip picked up the, staring round eyed through the door-- 1 those other cows and calves. I pulled the door shut with a slam. broke. I,a,l,r Great Ward stepped back even hla shovel and went off down the jungly way. Marthy Buriat Her Dead end "Y'oud better ' pack your iron next, was uo: They heard him whistling a shrill, rolwas Charlie Har Nephew. leaving was and composure herself the allgbtly the jarred in ugliest object path, to his on the creek way If you cant gfet. licking air did not move or give his 'hut lie gave Billy Louise a hint that time, she retorted. where she bad created so much twisted his lips amusedly. at least It sounded rollicking the way JASE querulous grunt when Mar- he said after a few blank !lis ella"d was not yet accomplished, a little bunch of calves ten miles with"Hello, he whistled It. 'le "'"'hed down with him to where out losing them You missed some of it, didnt seconds. thy nudged him at daylight, one "That's 'The Old Chisholm Trail' he's morning In mid April, Marthy gave an- - j Bmy Lou(je g,t dowa on the r,.k you?" His tone was "But you must understand I dick I lis horse was tied and so gave him a MartlV bad rested after digging mildly eommisertook them home and turned them into whistling," Hilly Louise observed un- other poke with her elbow aud lay still, wl(ere ' bloom against the dull brown of the come "Will in?" yon atiug, amI he Jier hv w,tb her cbln graye der her breath, smiling reminiscently, numbed by a sudden dread. She moved thank you, I dont believe I ' lu'.nce to speak what was in his mind, the Cove. I know Im an awful ehump. "the very song 1 used to pretend he cautiously out of the bed and half cupped palms, stared out across the will." The speaker looked in, however, "?ou know, I hate to weutiou little at this. river at he heaped bluffs and down at The calves may not be absolutely across the cramped room before she he said saw Billy Louise perched upon the ta- - "'orries before your mother. turned her head toward him. Then she Why, 1 lost a big hie and took off his hat. He was well "Those pathetic eyes of hers make me lost, you know. to bother her with a thing, steer last spring aud never found him stood still aud looked and looked, her plastered with dirty water that ran !ut a'a worrit'd. Miss Louise. I came HU I was going to, sell a few h'ead. hard face growing each moment more down and left streaks of mud behind. I must hare got off the road, he said.' "ver to ak Jou if youve seen anything Then he turned up. the biggest and fatpinched aud atony and gray. Jase had died while the coyotes were ; l'm looking for Jason Meiike's faurb." of' jn,!' oa'ves f ours. I know you test one in the bunch. You cant tell. applng their duwn aong up on Ihe fiU Billy Louise tucket her feet farther ride a good deal through the hills, They get themselves in queer places of the cove. He lay rigid under the under her skirts and continued to stare they disappeared a week ago, aud 1 sometimes. I'll come over tomorrow ant find any trace of them. I've been If I can and take tt look at that pasture-ancourse, gray blanket, the flesh of his Ward, glancing at her from dumbly. all around. And Ill keep a face drawn close to the bones, Ida flip corner of bis eves, stepped consid- - looking all through the hills, hut I cant locate them. lookout for the calves. , skimpy, gray heard tilted upward, Billy Louise had not seen them,, eiMany men would have object! to. Marthys Jaw set Into a harsher out-line than ever. She dressed with slow,! ther, ami she begged for particulars. the unconscious patronage of bait tone. "1 dont see how they could get away That Charlie Fox did not, but Ivavy movements aud went out and fed accepts, from j our cove, she said, unless your ed the spirit of helpfulnasa In the stisk. In stolid calm she did the bars were down. lifted him out of tka small milking and turned out the cows iuto class. the pasture. She gathered an apron "The bars were all right. It was last "It s awfully good of you, he said. full of chips and started a tire, just as1 think. I'm not sure. They Friday. she had done every morning for twenty-nin- e weie in the little meadow above the You know a lot more about the bovine-naturthan I do, for alt 1 put In every house, you see. 1 was away that night, years, and she put the coffeepot on the greasy stove and boiled the brew and Aunt Martha is a little hard of spare minute studying the subject. Inji of yesterday, which was also her habit. heating. She wouldn't hear anything taking four different stock Journals, She sat for Home time with her head unless there were considerable noise. now. Miss Louise. Ill bet I know a lot I came home the next forenoon I was more atout the different strains of valeaulng uikmi ber grimy hand and stared over to Sealmeks and the bats were rious breeds than you do. Miss Cattle miKeeiusly out upon peach tree in j full bloom aud at a pair of busy robins lu place them Aunt Martha had not Queen. But Im beginning to se that who had chosen a convenient crotch for j been up the gorge nor had any one we only know what we learn by extheir nest. Finally she rose stiffly, as come to the ranch while I was gone. perience. Ive a new book oq the subif she had grown older within the last Soyou see, Miss Liultfo, heres a very ject of heredity of the cattW- - I'm goand went outside to the place hour, ing home and see If Seabeck hasnt pretty mystery, , where she hud been mending the irrlYoq think they were driven off. stumbled upona strain that can be gating ditch the day before. She knock-- 1 dont you? Billy Louise asked a ques-- ! traced back to your native mountain, od the wet saml off the shovel she had Bon with the words and made a state- sheep. The Whistling Broke and He Began left sticking in the soft bank aud went ment of It with her tone, which was a Billy Louise laqghed and said good-b- y out of the yard and up the slope toward She Sat Down on the Rock Where to Sing. trick of hers. and stood leaning over the gate the rock wall. Marthy Had Rested. Charlie Fox shook his head, but his watching him as he zigzagged up the always sang when he came down the On a tiny, level place above the main auou to rescue me. But of course I ditch eyes did not complete the denial. "Miss hill, stopping his horse often to breathe. aud just under the wall Marthy the pink and white patch of fruit trees. knew all the time hes a cowboy. It Louke, Id work every other theory to She began to wonder, then, about those was as She the young will al trying, began to dig, setting her broad, flat foot -- aid so death before Id admit that possibility. calves. Vented and not rebranded, to the solve riddle of and ways life, try, shoulder of the I don t know all of luv The whistling broke, and he began uncompromisingly upon neighbors so they would be easy game for any mau the shovel aud sending It deep into the she was battled aud unhappy becau-- e o slug at the top of a clear, strong 1 should but well, very eodld not find any answer at all hesitate a long, who first got his own brand on them-Sh- e soli. She worked slowly and she meant to get a description of them time ' unged voice an old, old trail soug jellow long both her ideals and her pleased methodically and steadily, just as she when cloved of punchers the West hut. she saw Charlie again It was "It neednt have Aud reason. a been then she i heard a neighbor. mans else. When she had dug like his Innocence to forget the most What did you sa.v, Hilly Louise? did everything a Pail of Water and Thine are lots of strange men He in lifted voice riotous Up h Caught and song up aa she down could as and passing still deep !m sure its a comfort to have him Sloshed It on the Floor. through the country. Did you look for essential details and she meant to. climb out and had the hole i Hirned her head toward the oiiening of ere, and you see he was glad and tutnnge to keep her eyes ojen. If Charlie were tracks?" y gorge and llsteued, her eyes wide enough aud long enough, she got eraiely between her ami the stranger elltlng "I did I not. tight about the calves not being anyshe while didnt to waited, want filing admit and to the grassy surface j so that his broad shoulders quite hid But Billy Louise was holding the that possibility. 1 decline to admit it where in the cove, then they had been came into sight through the "ard a long while uim a rock, star--; for sat stare. mans the curious loor open half an inch, listening and now.' 1 he chin of Charlie Fox squar-- ; driven out of B, stolen. Billy Louise e meadow, riding slowly, with both her from dumbly at the gaunt, brown hills Youve s' ruck die right place, he ed lipping back into the child world across the river. hands clasped over the horn of the sadperceptibly, so that Billie Louise turned dejectedly away from the fence said calmly. "This is it." He picked herein Ward Warren came singing i aught a faint resemblance to Marthv and went down to a shady nook by the returned to the cabin at last, and, dle, his hat tilt ed back on his head and ui) another pad t water aud slo-hi- d She it iu his face. "I saw a man !jwu the canyon to rescue her. The with the manner of one who dreads do. j his whole attitude one of absolute con accused of creek, where she had always liked to upon the wet floor to rinse off the mud. a theft-onc.ords came gustily from the creek he said. "The evidence do her worrying and hard thinking. be done, she went in i tent with life. He saw Billy Louise must what -- all mg Mrs. Meilke in?" One could "Is own the slope: The next day she rode early to the where Jase lay stiff and cold under the almost as Siam as she glimpsed him. uot accuse the .omig man of craning, was or seemed a bsolntely unassalla-Die- . Cove and learned some lmd and she been And of that bit afterward he was watching exoneratSo chaps, no slicker, and down blankets. things from did try to get another (nit he certi-.inlMarthy which she had not gleaned rata, Early that afternoon Marthy went road quite closely. He flipped the reius glimpse of ihe person ou the table aud ed completely. It xyas just a horrible from nd I swear by the Lord I'll never night-her- d one side and turned from the trail to Charlie. She learned that two of But he left school under a saggering up the slope, wheeling Jaseg to failed because of 'Yard. again, cloud. His life was ruined by the the calves were a deep red except for a sDt'Kbt up the slope to where she body before her on the creaky, homein down the mu to yl youpy, youpy-a- , youpy-a- , Shes meadow, Billy blunder. 1 d have to know absolutely wide, white strip on the nose of one made wheelbarrow. In the same harsh, " as- una to yl youpy, youpv-- a a seif reproachful Louise minimi d, with Louise, before Id manner both which in pceuse any one of stealing aud white hind feet on the other; tbit they "She's do., i in 1'e t, .endow, Ward those 'eat in the stirrups and seat in the primitive Miss Louise. I'd have to another vas spotted on the hindquarcalves. had lived Marthy hurled her dead. And i dan,'e at the grave, ran down the sloix repeated to the k spas, ere, saddle, nmig man. to meet him an unextsxied wel tune, In them I a I few him them in with man's corral, with his ters aud that the fourth was white, life she had rattled and hough given hung "You just go down past the stable and which with large, red blotches. made Ward's in heart his 1 believe on brand leap them or in cattle, command words save She had upbraiding, thats the known follow on d. vu"- - - lie w.ned a hand cattle all her life. She would jinn to yl done its out with never a hint of love to sweeten the idlest. here and even "ay t be 'ok up the broom vaguely know these If she saw them Oh, Ward, for heavens sake, dont n"Do shut the door, Billy Louise! days for either, yet she went whimtier-iu- g d lmr, all right, he theanywhere. again. "YtuiY. She ulso discovered for herself ' "Where have you looked?" There away from that grave. She broke le singing that coine all ye at the top added ei. oU agioa;. , that hat you want to stand there like ouof like Don't that. were reasons why this tiff three branches of precious peach jour voice, particular sub"Oh, Ward! 'lhat uiu-- t be Martbys (To be Continued.) ject was painful to Killy Louise. "And blossoms and RANCH rallied tnem up the "Now J was gum. you liked that same s. u tinm-r-lau- that i, eoine-ail-ye- pht-w. j Ja-se- j uuuf-fende- . 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