Show DUNRAVEN RANCH A story of Arne american frontier life by bj capt CHARMS MG U 3 A author rhe camera Dam ichter a forms elie ronia in tha distorter etc jn copyrighted VESI last ty J LIPI boot VOcals 1 uj I rabi ed by spose lill 1 I brot through it tho lm ill A c t jy tu a noi text leel jorj lo 10 tho ilia tit ill in which tile young joung etar point oil ed it was ifa tt a lovely starlit A soft olt wind was blowing gently froni from the south and bearing nh 10 it tile fraz arance of spring blia morns and far aa away ay flower ofa othello OLli cra too tent had arisen by perrys perry sudden budjen I 1 i lir belknap turned I 1 la in her liviu aatu mock and glanced over lir her pretty u life shoulder tho the colonel follone od of her eyes cye with wilb ills and nil gave gato a start of the doctor turned slowly find and C 0 U c 1 ep it ly and looked silently alien ly towards tle aln berting object and then upon this allu of tile cavalry there foil fell sudden astonishment mit what wha t on earth could tint thit havo been asked als ed tho the colonel it gleamed liko like tho the head light of a locomotives away anay down there in in tho the valley of the monee monce then suddenly ud denly went w ent out bo ba silent a A moment and watch whispered mrs mra lawrence to perry you will se aeo os it t again asaif nud watch tho that doctor surely eri enough ough even as they were all tooling looking about and commenting on the strange apparition Is 16 suddenly glared forth a second time shining chining full lind and lustrous as an unclouded planet yet miles away an ay beyond and above the fringe of ton woods that wound southeastward co with the little stream full half a t it laud nd then lion abruptly as before I 1 was hidden from sight perry was waa about starting forward to join tho the colonel when a little land wa was a laid upon ills his arm walt once moro more sea it she iio then takemo talio mo la to cart lawrence do you cco ben that the tha doctor is ii lia ivins baying ying a word to any one tho the post surgeon sur gLork had very quietly m withdrawn Ith drawn from the group on tho the veranda he could not well leavo leave by tho the front gati gate without attracting attention but he be strolled leisurely laio into tho the hall took up a 3 book that lay on tho the table and passed through gh tho the group croup of officers seated smoking and chatting there crit efured cred tho the sitting room on 03 the south eldo aide of the hall tho side bido opposite tho the parlor w n hero here tho the whist camo came was in pro progress gross and there lie ho was lost to sight A third time ilia bright light burst upon tho elie view TIOW of tile the gazers A third bione tione sharply aud and suddenly it digap feared then for a moment all was istler socia anil and watchfulness but it camo came no more perry looked questioningly in hla his companions parol pan ions lons face she hid had turned a little white bi to all and of ho he felt sure cure that the sho was sLiT shivering ering aro ara you cold lio lie askel macd her gently no not that but I 1 lilt flat teries after what ive heard and wo we seen ali that at light in everso ever so long come hero ere to th the corner ono one moment and she led lim him around to tho the other flank of the bis big wooden barrack like of lot tho commanding officer look up there isho lio said cald pointing painting to a dark window under tho the keal dormer roof of tile largo cottage cartago to tho the south that la is tho the doctor hou homo sath in a few seconds a faint gle un seemed to creep t it rot azil tho the slats flats then tho the slats slata themselves were thrown vide wido open a white shado was lowered and with tho thas rays behind it growing brighter every evor or Y instant a broad abito light forth over tho the roof of tho the veranda another moment and footsteps were dioro heard along tho elie doctora doctor 8 porch foo footsteps that presently approached them along tho the gram brass tho bho cold at ili biln sleeve como come away it is the iho doctor for what reason ho he answered guthat would seem like hiding no mrs lawrence let us stay until lie he canies conies nut burt the doctor passed thom them with brief and courteous salutation of tit tho 0 beauty of the night and the halm of the summery air air andu and ent in again by the main door to tho the colonels quarters then perry turned to his big partner well awell M mrs no lawrence what docs it all mean Is this part or of you load had to ml me don t ask mo now I 1 I 1 arl not want to see ece nhat hat ne 0 have bavo seen been but I 1 had heard card queer stories and could riot not billi villiore ore bom book ka takes take mo me in ato Capt lawrence please and clr perry you wont epcar of this to any ono one avrill yoto you indeed if I 1 had known I 1 wot would kid riot not have bavo como come out hero for ilia world orld but I 1 believe it a can on wilen when shot shor went at an ay imd and took tile ChIl children drell who went away mrs Mr the doctors wife and she iva was such a ewt sweet on oman and so co devoted to him wo vell mo HIT Lawr cuce I 1 dont tea see Cis rough this thing out at all do you mea that the doctor lias laos anything to do the iho mystery yr she her hwd anad as they turned back ie 0 o tile alio house ill 1 I must not tell you any more to slight you lot ill all bo be suro sure to L hoa oa s something of it all hero here every acay ou on the plazza saw KW the iho lights and ra who liero hero before you camo came know I 1 vi list hat they meant what were thear signals of biome kind from Duny acut cu ranch CHAPTER IL so 1 ED CD hild to ro so 1 it arcillo and morning J stables about as vo TO I as was pos 4 still 0 to a young fellow n too ho was vas in other aspects thoroughly I 1 in tote IOTO with his profession fes sion A fairer typo type of tile amerlean Amerl an ran ca cavelry caviller viller officer n v hen han once lio rot cot la fa tad bad A tann to business one on to find tall athletic blender of build with frank laoR laughing bing auw eyes curly clow close cropped HAM brown half and a twirling knor tache thit was n source of delight to its owner and of scale cary to lo his hi brother subalterns subal submit terns erns sir mr perry was final ably tho the best beat looking of lio ila young youn in officers who 1 with the b battalion tta lion to this ihl far away station on oil elie writer borden of ilia llano Cata dimaca cado jo lie ile lied had leon been ton years in service counting tile tho four in ile spent oa as ft a cadet cadel hill hid just juat won his silver bar as ai tho the junior first lieutenant of th ill 0 regiment n nas as full fill to tin the larlin brimon lif health energy arsonist animal bil tritt anil and run fun anil and bar ring a few duns ducks and debts in his ua earlier experiences experienc os had never known it A hoarier heavier care in the world than tho the tranA transient lont anti and ephemeral anxiety as to w bother hether ho he would be called up nit for on a lio lie but not no much liao as looked at or aj l noil 0 ell absent front from a roll call ho he lilt had lazily bleat through any other man lila its comia co jes amid eal 1 would have hare lac been ell as polled a dozen to zen times time over by tho the petting lie ho had received front both annot said and obien nen but there was rainie thing essentially sweet and genial aquai laid hid nature baturo something on thing lacking cLing lz in fo guile guild about ills his perceptions sald said a cynical old captain of tho 1110 regiment and a jo jovial fat suri way of looking upon tho the world as an edon cdon all men and all women as 01 friends and the army aa the probes sion above au all others and th choso various r A can i p popular 0 pular with his lind and to tile opposite acs As AB A code cadet lie he ila had been perpetually on tile tho torge of distrait bal at because bebau se of tile appalling array amy of do tain aritz roll hn namo and yet tho that very officers tt it lio lie jotted down tile the demor indal of his sina and commission agai against it tho ho regulations were moo men who openly said lie imil tile tho making of one knoof of the linesa soldiers in the class clam 1 AM I junior second lieutenant clebo of f tho the regiment lie ho had been welcomed by every man from the five colonel down and it was particularly rough th tt lie ho should have to go to such buch a company no as capt Ca canders cankers Can kers because canler canker was a man who never got along with any of his bis juniors but there moo toot so 0 o frank anil and contrite in perrys boy tali all faco face n when lou ile he would appear at laa ills captains I 1 door doer in tho the catly caily morning and burt out wilh w iu by JOTO capt captain aird 1 I 1 bleat through rov cillo ot again abat alda morning and norca got down till stables were nearly over that even that cross grained but honest troop commander I 1 I 1 van disarmed and though I 1 lio I 1 a threat ened find and reprimanded lie ho would never would never deny his ma subaltern tho the faintest fain teft privilege and when promotion took the captain to another rc regiment L lio lie bado goodby good by coperry uit heyes that hero suspiciously wet rot is why blow it all allt what do you fellows hato canker so BO forr for the youngster orion often sail aid ho he ought to put mo me in fit arica time and again but lio lie wont B lamed blamed if I 1 dont put myself in arrest or confino confine myself to tho the limits of tho the pott and do eam ething to catall cut ill this going tot lo 10 town own and hops hopa and such euch things then I 1 can stick to tho the troop like wax an and I 1 get up at reveille but if im out dancing till till 0 2 or 3 in tho the morning its no use I 1 tell yu you I 1 just cant wako wake up it was always predicted of ned perry that lio lie would bo be married and duno dune for within a year of ills graduation every new floor faco face in tile fir years that followed revived tile garrison garrison gar roson kroph toy roy now hes gone surel burel but ito however devoted lio lie might teem morn to tile I 1 in question however hower eor restless final and impatient lio lie might bo be v lien hen compelled by him hia ditties to absent himself from her side hou however over promising to casual perchance to tho the damsel herself on might ight beall bo all tile tho burbace indications elie absolute frankness with which ho proclaimed I 1 liia its admiration to every listener and the fact that lio load beat just so with half a dozen other oilier girls enabled tho the cooler heads of the regiment to deci do a hat tile timo time had not yet come oi 01 at least tile tho woman 1 I do isdo said eald mrs mra turner that sir mr perry would betth on somebody because imbt so lone as lie ho dont it f rather hard to tell who ho he belongs to and as mrs turner had long been a reigning bello belle among tile married women i of tile tit th and ono one to whom tho the 3 oung air officers were always expected to allow close much it attention lier her whimsical way of describing tile was readily understood der stood gut but hero at tho the newa new elation tation at far away a w lay rossiter ROM itar matters were taking on a new look to begin with the vives of tit alio llio officers of tile cavalry battalion had not j ined none of the ladies ladica of tile the ill h nere here bera and nono none would bo be apt to come until tile scouting I 1 work ork wai as over and dono done with tile ladies of tho the little battalion of infantry boio tote and though there baere no maiden allters or cousins yet at tho the post vest reft assured af that more than ono one m was as at already summoned troey mero sufficient in number to enliven ilia monotony of garrison lifo life and sufficiently attract attractive iro to warrant all tho the attention they cared I 1 i t to rec civo it waa beginning to be garrison garnation 1 chat that if ned perry had not settled on art soine somebody body as aa tho the ultimate object of his entire devotion somebody had settled on looks and that WAS pretty alm belknap and though ned cd perry hated ro vellia and morning stables as 08 has 1115 been said and could rarely talio tale ilia his n week eck without making ono one or moro more lapses hero ho he was this beautiful may morning out at daybreak niken tt hen it was lits his juniors tour of duty duly and vending ending his way way with that youngster out to the lino line of ca cavalry of a try stables booted and spurred and equipped for a rode itile tho colonel had listened wilh some surprise to his request proffered just AS aa tho party was breaL breaking kag up the night flight LO bo fore to bo be abrant from garrison Is a fow few hours tho ilia following morning kut but wo we have bavo battalion drill sit at 9 0 sir Mr perry act and I 1 need deed youthers you there ho he said oh ill bo be back in I 1 almo 1 me f for or ft aliat ia t air sir I 1 wanted to bo be off three hours or so BO before breakfast tho the colonel coula not help laughing of course you can go go you like itlo at those hours ulion you are arc not on guanti but bill I 1 lie or cr imagined you on would wint van t to got get up OT 60 early neither I 1 would colonel but pre ive bee been n interested in goi I 1 heard about this ranji down tin the ioa thought I 1 id ll 11 to rido down and look 1 nt t it go ahead ali oid by all means and sea ceo whether those lights came from there it mail nado mo me thuinli of it a play phy I 1 once the ibo colleen ban daun chero hot a fellows otwe with etheart carl signaled across tho the take lilio by showing ito ing a liblit in her cottage window just that way tilt three times limes anil ho he answered by turning out tho the lights in im ilia T room gain of course alio llio ila 41 l danco like tins and hero wn wan no ono one hero to turn turndown down tiny ny light ehl it did ill you say lay 1 I boe beg pardon colonel colon rl I 1 to interrupt put in a jentho voice at his hii elbow tot hilo hile a little hand on perrys arm ann elva ravo it a an men andai igo tons squeeze but capt lawrence has called me twice ho he will not reenter re ro enter antor after lighting his hl ackar and I 1 must say ky good night ab ob good night mrs lawrence lau rence im sorry you go so early wo we tire aro going to reform you all in fit that respect as soon boon its as wo get farly settled ideros perry ferry now would sit up and filly in mailat halit with mo me nn an hour yet not this night colonel lias aed to walk homo with rill us another squeeze and go ito ho must or bo be a falth less escort good night weve load such euch a lowly lovely lovely time lime aud and ned perry anred went v w fth fill her botho 10 tho gate where capt lawrence I was aw them sho she hall had barely time tima to murmur you were just on tile point of ff 9 him about ilia doctors doctora lights lighta I 1 cannot forgive myself for being tile means of seeing it but keep my any confidence a and ad leep this until eversly overy every budy ly it is talk talking ing abolt it it will conio conic boon enough naturally mr perry went lome home somo some ait want perturbed in spirit and all aliro with conjecture as is to w what flat these things could mean tho the unit first notes of assembly of the trum trumpeters peters genc generally rally known as call roused ilia liim front froni liable by tile tho time tho the men fil marched arched out ont to elie alio stables lie ho had had lili ills plunge bath a vigorous rigorous rub and a 1 I chance to think over his hid plans before follow ing in in their tracks dreaded for his ride rho astonishment of parka tho file junior of tho the troop was waa something almot til too deep for words H lien perry cattle camo bounding to ills ilia eido aide what on earth brings bringa you out ned utia as liis his only effort going for no gallop down tile tho marine that snIt nil I 1 hall had a 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