Show i I ii f Short Story of th Day ill In COOSA I I. Continued from Yesterday The white man must not say that that that-no no one shall say say that Coosa full blood the distant fire lIre and his 8 th any man The was fronting 5 v was intensified In his eye Pat FInley was never a coward but that big threatening presence coming up to him with no sound of rung g SS' SS set him back a step and cooled his petulant anger What hat at are you doing here Standing Bear Dear the he girl questioned speaking 1 r native tongue The Indian answered aw w you come out with the white man Co sa Coosa a and d I followed It Iti Ity a i y Ight 1 have a R. right to spy on me I shall marry the white In her herr r Cession Cession lon which was more a defiant declaration there Vas was a ring of Joy that 1 marred even by by the memory Of f last words But t t I 1 do not know lenow that he will marry you The full blood ull blood turned to the boy to ask gruffly Why have you not m married Coosa ci knows broke out FIn FInley eY i 1 Is the thing I I want want Here H Here re the girl k that of me Standing Be Bear r ask my father ask yourself You know t I am m first a daughter to a weak old man man- whose life Is lived through It would kill my md father father and and It cannot be bO long IonS that we must wait walt And C I wIll 11 last a long long time time forever You do not know lenol Standing Bear Beat t Ia 3 the cook the children the fire fire- your fire your love Is that and It Is cold In a aL aI L I But I I-I know know I I know that It Is the greatest song that was ever evern n nta that it win will go on forever In the he heart that It will 1 makes the eyes ees h Love I know will not riot die with the grass Standing bl by Fin Fin- D fe he e was beautiful the divine fire her to an unnatural loveliness had hId spoken In her own language I iNo ro no boy I said that for lor us love Will Wm last a long tl time tine I said we must It Its S SelI Y elI Jl wait walt till tomorrow my girl and no longer If ye marry 1 Pat at Finley rye me the word yes word yes or no The cowboy was blazing unreasoning blood blood fuli-blood silent only half Coosa looked from one onet t h other searched the face q of her lover for a sign of relenting stretched out hands ands to him In supplication n. n Ah h It Is my father rather cant can't you ou see boy boy A quick brutal oath broke tn m Finley r father bah He Ho turned and strode away y toward his hs tethered por pony on it mY my y father My father Coosa O ran eau b. b back to the lighted arena n L' L Ly and crouching at the old mans man's side gripped his arm with her hands and hid her race face In his shoulder 1 S S S a Another spring was calling to bound winter earth Inviting even the thin thin- blooded to come out But old Coweta did not heed the voice He lay layon layon on ott his back In the little cabin counting the smoked rafters and babbling of trivial matters Coosa watched by his bed day after day knew that his life was going out slowly and talked to lo him as a fond monther talks to a garrulous child Spring came In In into to her through the little window and she breathed the fresh tresh warm air with a sigh of delight Then came the memory of her year-gone year lover the laughing blue eyed faithless Finley and the first shadow darkened her view vie Presently Standing Bear rode up a a. stolid persistent Inquirer for old Coweta s' s health The old man mali saw the full-blood full beckoned him to his bedside and spoke out dut ut for tor a minute clearly My so son song I am glad you have come today Come Coosa and listen too I shall go on a long Journey soon soon soon-ah ah yes soon but It is the way of man and roan and I X would have you two mated before I go A long silence fell feLl Speak my my children Coosa turned toward the tiny square of win win- dow I S But Coosa loves another the another the white i man and man and I would not urge urge Standing Bear found It hard to express his meaning Is that you ou say my son the troubled voice was raised He He Ito he has gone awa away because she would not marry him until The young man was puzzled again Why no she will marry you Standing Bear Dear It has been so settled for a along a. a long time Is' Is Is It not true Coosa The falling failing strength of the old man was sorely tried by this last question flung out excitedly Yes Yea It 1 IJ Is true lather father The girl came close and looked steadily at Coweta J Why yes yes that other talk was foolish The old man was talking N calmly again To mate with the white man Ah that would bring only evil evil- no j It was never considered S You are happy my children and will marry before the old rna man Is gone His 1319 voice rose roea at the question and his big eyes fixed the two Coosa answered Yes my father Standing Bear took the proffered brown hand In his own and knelt by bythe the old mans man's bed Sauk Coosa e came from tram the wedding ceremony with Ith Standing Bear then went to the ground burying behind the body of Coweta which was buried burled with honor the old man having been long a man head-man of Influence In Inthe Inthe inthe the tribe Pat FInley drawn by the lure of spring at the end of a long year of dissipation dis- dis I sode Soda by the grave plot and saw Coosa standing reverent among her p people ople He lIe went on baring his tumbled red hair to the breeze and the next lay flay he rode to the little cabin Looking out ont of the tiny window Coosa wife of Standing Bear Br saw the young cowboy riding near a white light of ot love and desire shining en on his face She checked a cry of fierce Joy went pale and trembled and just before FInley came oft off his horse she rushed to the heavy door slammed it with a bang and slid dropped a stout bar in place Then she fell tell to the floor her fingers crowded Into her the oars to keep out sound of the cowboys cowboy's cowboys cowboy's cow V boys boy's pleading Presently FInley mounted his horse and rode away out of her Ute life forever Evening Evening Post |