Show LOVED AND LOVED D synopsis to the story I 1 left behind me for lack of apace last issue we did not publish the remainder of the story 1 I he girl I 1 left behind Ms me 11 we not intended to do this but also a prize of for the correct or nearest correct interpretation of it 50 for the second and 25 divided equally for the next five demest nAi eat readings but our valuable space anytime and time would not permit As there has haa been no correct interpretation terp up to date and as so BO many reque requests ats have been made for a key or guide as to the solution we have decided to give a brief synopsis of the story and let it go at that in the first place it is a true story of love and courtship on the former reservation in that fertile little basin a few miles north of the duchesne river between dry gulch and the lake foik bridge two homesteads were located during the early days of the opening one by a young man from the rural precincts pre prec cinta ints of dry fork who as yet had bad never set act eyes on the choo choo cars and the other by a buxom lassie who had secured a lucky number and came all the way from oklahoma to locate a homestead she was 21 years of age by only a small margin her dreamy blue ekes ees and the long wavy flaxen hair were vere quite a contrast to the straight raight Qt black hair of the indian maidens who occupied the allotments thereabouts she was fair to look upon this young couple met first at a dance at myton it was A as a case of love at first sight eight and before the dance broke up they were head over heels in love if you know what that is we have been told that the correct definition of love is a mans insane desire to become some womans comans meal ticket but that has nothing to do with this story they were in love lova and as the coarts courtship bip grew and grew the moon hung its head ore the distant sand hills bills and the prairie dogs too for that matter to make hakea a long story short they loved and courted all through that summer and the young lady whose first name was lulu had made up her i mind to prove up and thus secure the land before cupids cupida dai t should spoil all by piercing their very beings and making them one for life about this time the young ladys step father arrived from the cotton plantations of southern oklahoma and being a shrewd old guy as aa all step fathers are he very soon discovered that he was on the verge of losing a step daughter and thereby a promising piece of land and also anes tate b bequeathed to the young lady back east the first trip the old duffer made to the post office he manufactured a letter from home which told of the destruction st of their houte hoube and all effects by fire and of course this made a hasty return the next stage saw lulu and her amiable watch dog on the road to dragon i the next visit the lover made to see his betrothed he found the cabin i empty indian ponies were browsing in the little flower garden the once fragrant sweet peas and hollyhocks were trampled and ruined in vain he searched for a note or some word from the one he loved he finally wandered back to his lonely cabin bearing only a withered hollyhock to remind him of the one sweet face in all the world days grew into weeks and not a word he wrote to her old home in oklahoma but his letters were returned unopened the snows of winter covered the landscape but he still made trips to the cabin of his hia fair one longing and praying that he may once again see her smiling face in the door as he approached but only the moaning of the tree tops greeted him as the wintry blasts played among the branches of the tall grease woods A hoot owl sounded his mournful note from a nearby rock ledge and a coyote could be seen in the foot hills as though standing guard but the fair one came not spring came and with it an increased gnawing at the heart strings of I 1 the ardent young lover rabbit brush I 1 thrived and bloomed the sweet I 1 peas had sent forth their fragrance the I 1 year before even the prairie dogs stood up on every side as aa though waiting and watching also for that sweet face that awgull waiting and watching was telling on the man Hise his cheeks beeks were withered his eyes were sunken and his black hair was turning white I 1 then came the startling news from the vernal land office diat the fair ones claim was contested and and oh the dickens our imagination is getting tired j of this story telling business so BO here it is that conglomeration of type called the girl I 1 left behind me was a lot alpi of pi type that had been picked up irom from the floor during the last six months and dumped into a cigar box and our devil set it up so it could be distributed back nto into the boxes where it belonged the end |