Show The Evening Telegrams Telegram's Daily Short Story A SUMMER ROSE ROSEBy By GERALDINE SUMNER Copyright 1913 by th the McClure Newspaper Newspaper News News- paper Syndicate S Clifford stood at the bays bays' heads when the express pulled in at Rickard's Junc June tion D. D The They always plunged a little and anda a word from him dm would quiet them Jox it he did not see Rose floss she she- came close to him Cliff Im I'm so 80 glad g-ad to b back She Shet t threw on one arm around his neck and kluM kased him Impulsively Did I surprise you CU 7 Clifford's Cliffords eye eN twinkled with humor n He lie looked put past her to the express agent and the ticket seller seUer Th They were both too bu buT busy r to notice her arrival arriol I 1 didn't know it was you ou that was coming he be returned Youre not very vary cordial She held beld her lo long silk aUk cloak about her waiting to tobe tob be b helped up Into the surre surrey but Clifford was irac soothing the uncas uneasy bays bas and did not leave have them until the train had bad gone pone He lie Hemine mine up beside her his mouth shut a abit abit I bit firmer than usual I 1 ked asked your mother not to tell you Ou I I J wan coming she said presently as they left the village Milage and long bridge e be ho- ho hind bind Ahead la lay the ascending road up Into the tha very heart of the hili hill country he loved th these great shadowy hado foothills In ln the late October air they seemed e med robed In royal purple She lifted lined her face and breathed in the wonderful fragrance of ot the pines pine It was was Just just three thre months since her han visit up at th the ranch She had come from a little college town in Ohio ont one of or a crow crowd 1 of ot college girls It had ken been a e splendid ummer lark to them the month in the cattle country And she he had flirted with Clifford Harkness joyously audaciously They had ridden together over trails he had known since boyhood Ho had taught her hr wood lore things the colleges miss secrets handed banded down front from the Indians Indiana Somehow she had grown to think of ot this tan tall tanned youngster differently from other men There was fall something about Mm that to the imagination she told the other girls He lIe was Wall splendidly pIn pagan in his love Jove of or the wilds and the Arut in his Ms friendship with animals sill ani m male mals Js and knowledge of the forces of or na na- na ture Yet when they had bad been riding far and had been caught in a thunderstorm seek seek- tilE lug shelter In a deserted cabin when h lie he had bad sudden suddenly blurted out his love she he bad had laughed d at him You are splendid as a summer Bummer sweet sweet- heart Cliff CUlt but I hardly think I 1 care to marry you ou why Wb not nott I might grow w tired of all this and ita your tour life Ufe It If 1 lour you loved me you wouldn't grow tired of ot it You wouldn't care Te what place they put Dut u VI UI on Gods God's footstool so long as atC w we e were together ro She had bad shaken her head like a wilful child I Youre Toure awfully dear Cliff but you OU wouldn't b be enough to hold me here con con- t. t tented rm Fm sorry lOfTY Then Than why did you ou let lot me rae kiss you I 1 dont don't know how it Is down where you come from but liens here our girls girl dont don't let lel aman n R that union unless thel mean man kiss them then like they business and will marry them The Th crudeness of it hurt her Ho no had no finesse e at all aU sho ehe told 1 the other girls girl ruefully He was Wall Just a 0 big boy barbarian barba barba- rian rUD and she ahe was 1111 not at all to blame blam Betide Besides what he said was untrue She had tad seen leen him kiss klu another girl almost the tho first da day of ot a arrival a girl who ho rode up to the ranch on horseback her face tace tanned with wind an and l sun IUD ey eyes blue as the Nevada skies and her name nome they told Rose floss 11 was wan Ne a Nevada Murray lurra l She was a R rangers ranger's da daughter anti anil sometimes helped her her father father t Clifford had b been on standing beside her pony pony- pony talking to her and he reached up to help ber her dismount but she he had made the pony pony move mOTe back from him and had bad Ja laughed hed And Clifford his hand on the bridle had bad hold held her down to him and nd kissed ht her c ch cheek ek He had passed paned Ross ROM by without a see flee ocd end glance and arid she had made up her mind thin then to make mak-j him thoroughly aware ot of her existence But three months bock back east had hadt t taught her many things Sho She missed the great freedom an as spacious grandeur of ot the country around the ranch She missed Clifford Other men seemed trivial trivIa beside bU frank quiet nature She told herself she ahe he had hid been cruel to him and nho Rho ho would atone ah alt but she would and gladly She would give five in up everything at home end and II live with him out at the ranch Her brothers othera and married sister badI had bad shrugged I shoulders shoulder and smiled at her sudden sudden sud suI- den decision but she was wan her own mis- mis trees and the they let her har go back to her purple pur put pie hUla hills and tall tan ranchman Clifford she che said ald softLy after arter a long lona silence aUnce which he did not seem leem disposed to break bruk Im not going back Clifford watched the tips Ups of the bays baa tan ears thoughtfully You said laid lain lart summer Bummer that there wasn't enough here to make you con ten tent to toI I know but I was wrong Ive I've missed It alt so and you She waited but he was silent So you ou seo see Ive I've come back k and I want to stay Cliff Well Veil It puts me In a a. mighty queer position said ald Cliff stoll stolidly ell y I think mother should have told you ou Anyway AnWay I will because I know you ou don dont don't t care for forme forme forme me and onel you OU never nover would Rose Youre You're not that kind Youre You're too changeable and experimental 1 i fell feU in love with you lost last summer and it was vas natural too with us out riding together and you talking about all the things thing Id I'd missed seeing You kind of stood to me for tor or that world down yonder yon yon- onder on der just as I stood tood to you OU for this and this and he waved o his whip out at the country around And we didn't fall tan in love with each other but with what we each ench seemed to tos to's stand to-stand stand for tr dont don't you OU see Now youre you're a 8 bit tired and maybe mab nervous and you OU wanted the hills again so you OU thought you wanted me too and you OU dont don't any such thing And even if It you OU did its it's too toolate late now because cause I 1 belong to Nevada Ne She Sho caught her breath sharply sharp her eyes e closed He laid ono one hand on her shoulder with quick sympathy Now dont donUt Rose It wasn't to be cant can't you OU see that Even en now if It I hadn't married mamed after a few tew weeks of this you'd oud change your lour mind again and want to nit lilt away on the tho first eastbound ex ex- press Its It's mighty nice of or you ou to come comeback comeback comeback back and even oven remember me I wasn't your our kind of or people thou though h. h and Nevada why wily Nevada and I arc are Ju Just t mates matei Ive I've known on her since she was a n little bit of ot a girl and she's always boxed my ears ear for tor kl kissing her but she doesn't any more He lie stopped and glanced at the clear cut Indignant profile half hair turned away from hIm I suppose you OU expected me to wait walt I back here like a 0 J pet et tame bear for you OU to change your our mind he he said gently But Bul you ou didn't leave leavo an any room for doubt doubt Below Belo them the road dipped into a aI avalle valle valley with Ith a ranch house a mile farther farther farther far far- I ther on and the road forked here hero Rose looked down dOn at it dreamily That was i Ellison's ranch she remembered And Bob Dob Ellison had tried his b best t to win her that summer Rummer when she had ridden over oer the Ion long trails only with Clifford She smiled a glint lInt of or renewed Interest and mischief In her soft sort dark eyes You ma may drive C mo mc over o there Cliff ClifT please Just tell ten your our mother that I changed my mind and preferred the Ellison Elli Elli Elli- son sons He Ho gave cave her one quick look of admira admIra- tion u Youre ouro sure Iuro game ho said Bald She Sho shook hook her head the color rising in her cheeks from tho the fast driving It Il isn't that I think youre you're right after atler all I do love tho the hills and the open country up here and I want toRta to stay I think perhaps I liked meed you rou bo- bo someway lOm WIl yon r fl mr mn of ot Bob Rob I |