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Show THE SAUNA SUN. SAUNA. UTAH CHAPTER VIII It was the first day of Aflftat of that first year on the prairies that Jack and I hitched the oxen to tho wagon,' threw on board a kit consisting mainly of a change of clothes and a blanket for each of us, said a brava to the but undemonstrative good-bgirls, and turned our faces to the older settlements. We were setting forth to earn what money we could the short season of high wages. during The Homesteader Author of Th Cow Puncher, Our own oat field could --wait-; we Copyright by Hobart Staad would cut It for feed, anyway, and a little frost wouldnt matter. On the second day out, as we haltus we had a little shyness about being She turned to the dog, who sedately bor. a countryman of yours, down on section Two. Spoof, he calls himself, ed on the side of a little knoll to let overtaken In our good works, and the held up one paw In acknowledgment the oxen graze and to eat our lunch, next morning, while I was gulping of her remark. . although that Is not his real name." She was working over the stove, we were suddenly aware of the rumble "Gerald, I should have told you, has great draughts of ozone In front of the with her back toward us, and perhaps of an approaching vehicle and the shack before breakfast, Marjorie called Just turned three. I am a widow, Mrs. Alton rattled on, as though not she dallied longer than there was any tones of a lusty voice, lifted In some.over my shoulder: , Whats that, away to the east, wishing to stress the point and need for, but I took no notice of the thing evidently Intended for song. Even before we had Identified the Gerald and I have our way to make In matter at the time. Frank T What a strange name, she said, Sure enough, there was a little white the world. lie Is tired now, and asleep flyln' ants" we caught the burden of . pyramid outlined against the horizon; after a great days roaming, but I shall after a while. . . , Is he there the refrain now I mean, have you seen him unother tent pitched against front wake him before you go." a Lived a mln-etrenches of civilisation. "Oil, please dont PTean entreated. lately7 A countryman of mine; you An hi daugh-teSweet Marie."Let him as he sleeps," and know, I must be Interested In him, e Neighbors, Marjorie; neighbors I" I Its' Jake, of all the world Wotit-esaid. Were getting to be quite a without Waiting for an Invitation she she added, brightly, turning her face Jack, and together we rushed down community. Do you ever think of the gently made her way Into (he little to us again. At length, with assufances that we upon him. His pudgy form, sheltered day when all this wilderness of prairie tent. will he plowed, every foot of It; all Dont you think me clever?" Mrs. would repeat our visit soon, and a from the hot sun by a broad felt nat, hearing something for the world's Alton asked, when we had at last dis- promise from Mrs. Alton that she lolled on One end of the seat of his en would return It when had democrat needs, with prosperous farmhouses at covered It. Hello! was his greeting. "Dang Ud her we churches house It a of the under consisted with corner, clambered schools, every way, trunk, I smell the porridge! Marjorie ex- turned back, and about half the con- into our wagon and started the oxen It, stand still a minute, you piebald this to ope of the lump o In this she had laid on their slow, lumbering gait homeclaimed, rushing Into the shack. She tents removed. had a way of cutting off iny rhapsodies a little mattress, and on the mattress ward. Sandy saw us properly off the bronchos, switching at a horse-fldon you know your friends when like that. slept a beautiful toy, his face still place, and even stood at attention Juck had seen the tent, too, and he ruddy from his wrestle with the prai- until we faded out of sight In the you "meet em?. Well, how goes It on and Jean came over at noon to discuss rie winds ; his lips cherry red and twilight. There Is likely to be a nip the gopher ranch? We shook We decided to knock off work slightly it. hands and made him parted; his little arms thrown to thenlghtalr on the prairies even early that evening and ull drive over jauntily above his head. Jean leaned in midsummer, and Jean, I noticed, stop and eat with us. to make the acquaintance of the newJake was fresh charged with Reand touched the breathing lips with snuggled comfortably beside me on comers. box so across gina the board a and which gossip, and that of the country and the did little wagon hers, Marjorie, W'e found that the tent was pitched for two hundred miles around. The . Or perhaps .later I saw tears on the cheeks of served as a seat on Eighteen, In the next township to both. It was then I remembered that It was that for the first time In settlers were streaming in, he said. the east. As we eume Jip we were these girls had not seen a child since months the latent motherhood lq her greeted by a fine collie dog, who we left Itegina In the spring, and the nature hajJ been stirred Into conseemed to be suffering from the con- mothering Instinct in them, pent up sciousness. . flicting emotions of Ids natural good through all those lonely months, now It was Sunday before we heard or humor and a sense that we had no burst forth In" "sweet silent tears. I saw anything more of Spoof. In a business on Eighteen. His rush upon began to realize that Gerald Alton shirt and corduroy us with great harking and show of was to be one of the Important mem- treeches and leggings and ah Indian ferocity ended In much aimlable bers of the community. helmet which he had dug up from Evidently we measured up "Isnt he lovely lovely? Jean was somewhere he was a picturesque and to Ids requirements, which we took to murmuring as though unable to teur striking figure as he strode Into the he no mean compliment. herself from his side. Mrs. Alton, I grateful shade of the shanty. Under A team of ponies were tethered on am sure you have placed us all under his arm he carried a banjo case. the prairie not far away, and a demoa debt of gratitude. This community Spoof took off his helmet' and sat crat stood beside the tent, with some simply had to have a baby. down In the shade. A ring of dust of its burden still to lie unloaded. A After that, conversation came eas- had formed on his fair temples and woman of Rlender build and rather ier, and we found ourselves talking forehead and his brown hair was striking beauty stood at the door. about farm life, and the problems of curly with perspiration. II.e was a There was surprise, and, as I. thought, the homesteader. Mrs. Alton drank In man good to look at ; straight and a suggestion of fear in her eyes. More every word with avidity; she was lean, but not too spare; with white remarkable was the sudden and un- eager for Information on the most teeth that flashed behind lips always mistakable relief which sprang Into casual affairs. ready to spring to a smile benea.th her expression when she had seen us I am so frightfully stupid ! she a sandy mustache that had more In clearly. You see, I know nothing it of promise than of realization. His exclaimed. I am not a detective, even of the about farming, and I suppose It was a hands were small and finely formed, amateur kind, but I found myself In- very wild notion. Jhat I should take with long, delicate fingers, and he stantly gripped by a conclusion. "The a homestead. I did It on Gerald's ac- gave his nails a degree of attention woman Is afraid," I said, to myself, count. I shall manage some way, and noL often found among those so close nnd yet she Is no coward, she has no In three years by the time he. must to the realities of life as were we fear of strangers, hut she Is afraid of start to schoof the farm will be pfoneers. someone afraid of someone she mine. ..Tlien I shall sell It or mortOpening the banjo case he produced y By ROBERT STEAD . WNXJ ' 8rvtc MRS. ALTON Lured by hi playmate, Jean Lane, Frank Hall, aged six,' ventures on the forbidden- - wkll of a dam, in a small Ontario town. He falls Into thfV;wublr and Is saved from possible death by clinging to Jean's outstretched arms. Next day Jean informs him that because of their adventure of the day before he la In duty hound to marry her. He agrees when they ire "grownups." With Jeans brother John, also aged six, Frank begins school. Two years later they are Joined by Jean and Frank's sister Marjorie. A little luter Jean confides to Frank, In verse, her hope of some day becoming "Mrs. Hall." lie accepts the "proposal." Frank Is fourteen when his mother dies. The boys are eighteen when John's father Is killed In an accident. Two years Jater Franks father iiiiH Johns mother are married. FUsatlsfied with conditions, and ambitious, the two boys make plans .tic mi to Manitoba and "homestead, the girls agreeing to go with them. They set out. At Regina they meet Jake," who agrees to find them satisfactory homesteads. He does so, and the two friends file claims on Sections Fourteen and Twenty-twJake sagely advises the adventurers In the purchase of supplies, and In a wagon drawn by a yoke of oxen, and with a cow, the four arrive at their future homes. Construction of shacks" and the making of a garden are their first occupations. A young Hngllshman of the name of "Spoof Is a neigbhor. They call on F'poof, who Is living In a tent. He returns the call. SYNOPSIS four-year-o- ld r, - us-se- d thE-m- fox-ba- it y I khaki-colore- Continued 5 Wlit'ii we had liutl our swim untl dried ourselves on the siind we went hack up to the house. The shadows were now falling, long and nnrrow, to the eastward, and the praMe lay hashed and silent In that deep und pen refill calm which marks the summer evening an hour or two before sundown. After supper Spoof sat nnd chatted until It, was time to light the lamp. Jean set It on the table, and as Its yellow glow fell across his face I real iked for the first time thnt Spoof was not n hoy, as were Jack nnd I. There were lines In the cheeks "und about the eyes which, magnified l)y the shadows under the lamplight, bore evidence that Spoof had known more of this world's carqs than wus hinted by bis usual conversation. Presently he was talking of England ; easing, perhaps, the homesickness in his heart by calling up scenes of leafy lanes and misty sun-shlandscapes linking deeply Into his life. He had tales of London ns well; tales of art treasures and music and theaters all alight with life and beauty; tales of gravestones marking the great of a nation with a history reaching hack Into the early obscurity of western civilization. Something about the pride lie showed In the great deeds of the past seemed to strike us strangely '.ve of a country whose history was still so much In the future nnd whose greatest deeds were still to he done. Ho you sing, Mr. Spoof? Marjorie asked. Only at great distances from civilization my bullocks could say a word or two about my musical voice if tlfVy were so disposed. Hut surely you or Miss llall "Jean sings arid plays, If we had anything to play on, Marjorie do" dared, Hilt we havent added a piano yd to our equipment. I suppose we shall have to buy a hinder nnd horses and perhaps n thrashing mill before we have any money for musical Instruments." "And jt house," I added. Td like to see you keep a piano in tune In a cage like this." You should have a banjo, said By Jove, Just the thing! Ive Spoof. a banjo tucked away somewhere In my belongings. Something I forgot to pawn at Itegina. Ill bring It over and give you lessons, If youll let me. "I should he delighted," said Jean, und her voice was vjuhte unnecessarily low and sweet. There was a late twilight glow In the northern sky nnd the smell of dew on the prairie grass filled the air when Spoof, decided It was time to go home. V'e helped him hitch the bully bull-oclto tlu wagon and watched him disappear into the darkness. Long after tie was lost to sight the rumble of his wagon nnd the voice of his exhortation could he heard welling up out of the distance. A fine chap," said Jack, us we parted, for the night. "I am glad we are lo have him for a neighbor. Yes," said I. Hut my voice had no ring of enthusiasm. light-hearte- full-flavor- r. forty-nlne-e- r, o. CHAPTER VI WRIGLEYS i. that it lasts so long and return such great dividends for so small an outlay. It keeps teeth clean, breath sweet, appetite keen, digestion good. Fresh and always In it wax wrapped d .s CHAPTER VII Affairs begun to move with some rapidity In our little settlement. Until now we had had the world, as- - far as ti e eve could carry, to ourselves, but Spoof protect cn!y m auvnnee guard of a stream of neigh) ors which, from its source in a Oo.en different springs of humanity, was to pour In upon us during the next few months. Wednesday night we came back front Spoofs, -- d Carnation Mush brings to your breakfast bowl all the flavor, all the nutriment, of golden wheat fields. And does it ins minutes thanks to the Albers process. sk your grocer! - knows. She wns relieved when she gage It to give him un education. suw we were strangers." The thought By that time we may have a school wus one which wns to recur to me next door, I suggested. People will from many angles during the next few flow In here In crowds, once they months. Have you plans for make a start. She seemed to hesitate about greet- carrying on the work of the farm? ing us, and Jean, always the quick"I have two men following with witted one of our quartette, was the boards to tuild a house; just a very first to break a rather stupid silence. tiny house, In keeping with my purse. She sprang lightly from the wagon and Then I hope to hire a neighbor to do went forward with arms outstretched. some plowing, and I will plant some "We are your neighbors, from Four- corn next spring. I shnll raise chickteen nnd Twenty-two- , she explained. ens, and have a great garden I know We saw your tent, and thought we all she added about gardening, would welcome you to pralrlelnnd." naively, with a sudden return of con"That Is good of you," said a fidence. "You should have seen my English voice, but. some way English roses!" the voice seemed to break Just there, We had not the heart to tell her that there lay a great gulf between English roses and a Canadian cabbage patch, and she rattled on, evidently glad of someone to watch wi(h sympathy the mirage castles which she wus building on her horizon. For myself, I am quite penniless, she confessed, thrusting her upturned palms toward us with a little ImpulGerald is in.v resive gesture. source, ns well ns my responsibility. He has a hundred pounds a yetir,. We shall Invest it In this farm. 1 am sure we are going to prosper wonderfully. All the world seems to circle around Gerald, she added, as though It were fin afterthought. She made Jean and Marie sit down on a box on which she had spread a steamer rug. Jack and I stood at the door of thp. tent, where the setting sun blazoned our faces a ruddy red. How healthy you men are!" she exclaimed, clasping her fingers in a nervous grip. "If only Gerald will grow up like that !" "We will come over when the men bring the lumber, und help them build your house," Juck volunteered. "The lumber what lumber? Oh, the boards! Oh, how good of you! A Woman of Slender Build and Rather The regard in which she held us Striking Beauty Stood at the Door. appeared to rise another degree. And are you enrpenters, as well as and the lips of the newcomer went all llow wonderThe next we knew she and furmers?" she asked, Jean had their arms about each fully clever you men are, here. I had to go to a doctor In Uegina Gerald other. . . . laid a rash, or something It wns in "Oil. how horribly stupid of me! the stranger exclaimed. In a moment or the evening anil I found him at his two, disengaging herself and dabbing house, building a chicken-coop- . Jolly tier eyes with a little lump of hand- wonderful, Isn't it? -As the shadow of the democrat kerchief. One gets a bit u bit. loneYou will filled .the tent door 'we spoke of leavly, In spite of everything. think I am rather a bud pioneer. My ing. "Not until you have had ten," she name Is Mrs. Alton, and Im so glad "We shall have tea with Insisted. you came. Miss Miss" Jean Introduced herself and the biscuits and jam. I bought an oil stove In Itegina a most wonderful others of our party, and then we clammachine. We shall have It ready In bered down out of the wagon. Gerald and 1 have been vry much a moment." title sue started ner oil stove sne alone, Mrs. Alton exnlained. "Gerald ooeaat seem to mind It a bit asked, casually enough, "Am I the rather glories In It, I think. Already only newcomer In ull the big prairie which you have been having to yourhe has made some great explorations, but always under Sandys watchful selves?" eye. Sandy Is a great comfort. Arent "No; you nre the second." 1 anWe already have one tq'-- hpi'wd. yus, sir?" wind-tanne- d not' only a banjo but a box of candy, which he had managed to smuggle We Were Setting Forth to Earn What Into It. Money We Could During the Short Season of High Wages. The ladles, I hope, will accept, said he, tendering the candy to Jean. but the country was so big it was Just "If accompanied by a serenade in like pouring water into the sea. our honor? was the quick rejoinder. be .added, Only more profitable, Fiut not until after I have had a his hip pocket thumping bath, and have somewhat recovered This locatin game is like a pint my wind, Spoof pleaded, and was flask all ' right while it lasts, but It excused. don get anywhere, Jake continued. It was evening before he took up Ive made some lumps o easy money, his banjo, but almost with the first but while I was doin It other fellers sweep of Its clamoring strings he that I d brung Into the started vibrations which seemed to were an today, bustin the sod, busy catch our little band of exiles somebetter off 'n I am. where about the heart and squeeze us dang me, theyre Fellows with no more brains than a suddenly hollow with loneliness. Then grindstone! Got a farm an stock lie sang, dipping Into little fragments an a wife an kids, an let me tell of repertoire, until at last he hit upon them last two Is genoolne colyou, besomething that Jean had learned So I Aggers to myself, Jake, laterals. fore we left the East, and there her or trod the primrose cow-patclear soprano joined his tenor ns nat- youve it whatever Is, long enough. It's time' urally as one brook mingles with an- to get down to business. other and both flow on, singing a new ep," said .Juke, taking a fresh song which Is nil of the old one, nnd of tobacco to give his words mouthful I had never learned something more. in. to sink time After I saw you to sing, anil While I felt the heart-tug- s two fine girls fellows trailin those of their harmony there were I says to myother strings tugging at my heart as out into the e this business Jake, self, well. Is out o date. Better get Into doutla "Hut we. forgot the greatest news, Jean exclaimed. In a pause after one harness. So bein a man of action I wrote out an ad an put It In a of their selections. Ye have neighh'lg paper in the States. Here it is:" bors two new neighbors three, connJake unfolded a scrap of paper ing Sandy. They ore living on Eighteen, to the east; surely you saw from a notebook In which he kept a list of vacant quarter sections nnd the tent? It to us to read. handed I So said Spoof, did, but I thought It might' be a wandering In- WANTED Wife, about li hands high. dian family. Two, did you say? A chestnut preferred, sound in wind married couple? and limb and built for speed. Good No, a widow, Mrs. Alton, and her looks not necessary; I'm- pretty enough 148 for two. St, Regina, baby Gerald, the dearest little chap. Canada. Jake, He puts us down for Indians, and "Do you mean to say any fish ros? with some reason. "Gerald? said Spoof. "How old to such a bait as that? is he? skeptically. "Just turned three, so Mrs. Alton told us. You should see her; not very big, but pluck to the marrow. Mystery! Who is Mrs. Alton She has taken a homestead so that and why Is she afraid of someshe can raise the money to educate one? Is Spoof to cut Frank out her boy. She is coming over as soon with Jean? as she Is settled, and we must have Shes English, and you meet her. (TO BE CONTINUED.! youll love her." Jeans frankness rather set me at ease again. Evidently I was magnifyThe Substitute Little Betty was anxious to own a ing the grip that Spoof was gaining upon her. . She was content thnt he cat, but her father had a great aver--sioshould love his newEnglish neighbor. to.. them ttnd turned a deaf ear I shall he wonderfully Interested to ull her pleadings. He did say. howin her," Spoof said, ga.vly, but 'It ever, that she could have a dog If she d seemed to me that his mind had sud- could find a nice, one There wosj that wouldn't bite the baby. denly gone all moments silence, then he took up One day while walking with her the thread again. "I once knew a mother, Betty saw a kitten frisking little boy of that name Gerald was along beside her. much attached to him. Strange how i fine tnrneo a wmrui lace to her an mciueui a name, ror example-w- ill motner and saia: "Oh, mummy! Seel recall a whole chain of memoIt doesn't seenv to belong to anyone! ries." Cant I take It home? 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