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Show PAGE HIRE BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER, THURSDAY, APRIL IS, 1931 Ci marron By EDNA FERBER ; Copyrlgbt by Edn Ferber.J WNU Service l'7 CHAPTER II Indians were no novelty to tne townspeople of Wichita. Twice a year, chaperoned by old Gen. "Bull" I'luin-me- r, the Indians swept through the streets In their visiting regalia feth-r- , beads, blankets, chains a brilliant sight Ahead of them and behind them was the reassuring blue f United States army uniforms worn by the Kansas regiment from Fort All Wichita, accustomed to Riley. them though it was, rushed out to at them from store doorways and fae ffices and kitchens. Bucks, braves, tepees, papooses; squaws, chiefs, poles, pots, dogs, ponies, the cavalcade, swept through the quiet sunny town, a streets of the yivid frieze of color against the drab monotony of the prairies. A cowed enough people they seemed Since the fcy now; dirty, degraded. Custer massacre of 76 they had been pretty thoroughly beaten Into submission. Sabra, If she considered them at all, thought of them as dirty and animals. The once-wll- d useless things seemed tame enough now, herded together on their reservations, spirit broken, pride destroyed. mid-weste- two-foote- d The child Cim had got It into his TTa tVAo.l th'if tliia uraa ho a rfnfl had smolled pies and cakes baking; lind soon hampers pacKea. certainly, except for the bizarre load that both wagons contained, this might have been one of those informal excursions Into a nearby wood which Cim so loved, where they lunched in the open, camped near a stream, and he was allowed to run barefoot in the shadow of his aristocratic grandmother's cool disapproval. There was a lunatic week preceding their departure from Wichita. Felice fought their going to the last, and finally took to her bed with threats of Impending dissolution which failed to achieve the desired effect owing to the preoccupation of the persons supposed to be stricken by her plight. From time to time, Intrigued by the thurap-Ing- s, scurryings, 6houts, laughter, quarrels, and general upheaval attendant on the Cravats' departure, Felice rose from her bed and trailed wanly about the house, looking. In her white dimity wrapper, like a bilious and distracted ghost. She Issued orders. "Take this. Don't take that. It can't be that you're leaving those behind ! Your own Aunt Barah Moncrief du Tisne embroidered very inch of them with her own " "Bnt. yon Aon't r"f?erstand. Yancey s:!,vs there's very little society, and it's nil quite rough and unsettled wild, almost." "That needn't prevent you from remembering you're a lady, I hope. Unless you are planning to be one of those hags in a sunbonnet and no teeth that Yancey seems to have taken such a fancy to." So Sabra Cravat took along to the frontier wilderness such oddments and elegancies as her training, lack of experience, and southern family tradition dictated. There were two wagons, canvas covered and lumbering. Dishes, trunks, bedding, boxes were snugly stowed away in the capacious belly of cne; the printing outfit, securely roped and lashed, went in the other. There was, to the Wichita eye, nothing unusual in the sight of these huge covered freighters that would soon go lumbering off toward the horizon. Their like had worn many a track in the Kansas prairie. Yet In this small expedition faring forth there was aomething that held the poignancy of the tragic and the ridiculous. The man, huge, bizarre, Impractical ; the woman, tight lipped, terribly determined, her eyes staring with the fixed, unseeing gaze of one who knows that to blink but once is to be awash with tears; the child, out of hand with excitement and impatience to be gone. From the day of Yancey's recital of the Run, black Isaiah, small descendant of the Venables' black servants, had begged to be taken along. Denied this, he had sulked for a week and now was nowhere to be found. The wagons, packed, stood waiting before the Venable house. Perhaps never in the history of the settling of the West did a woman go In such a costume. Sabra had driven horses all her life ; so now she stepped agilely from ground to hub, from hub to wheel top, perched herself om the high wagon seat and gathered up the reins with deftness and outward composure. Her eyea were enormous, her pal fact paler. Yancey had swung Beat dm up to tha beatda Sabra. Hit ah6rt lees, In thair copper-toa- d boota, atack ctralxat tut La front of him. His dark eyta vera saga vitlt excite ant "Why don't va p"n,v ealico-cushlon- tor aa iaaaa4a4,.arar tad aTr, ia Cedar City Hunter Fund to re Store opened. Balina Work veewned on rrinforc-ta- g flattna Canyon branch Use ei Deo tot A Rio Grande railroad. something like a arrea m. He shouted to the horsea as he bad heard team- eters d. "Giddap In 'ere; C.ee-op- ! (i'larng!" His grandmother and grandfather, gazing up with sudden agony in their faces at sight of this little expedition actually faring forth so absurdly into the unknown, had ceased to exist for Cim. As Sabra drove one wagon and Yancey the other, the boy pivoted between them through the long drive, spending the morning in the seat beside his mother, the afternawi beside his father, with intervals of napping curled up on the bedding at the back of the wagon. t Now, with a lurch and a rattle and a great clatter of hoofs the two wagons were off. They had made an early start By ten the boy'a eyes were heavy with sleep. Sabra coaxed him to curl up on the wagon seat, his head in her lap. She held the reins in one hand ; one arm was about the chi'd. It was hot and still and drowsy. Noon came with surprising swiftness. They had brought along a precious keg of water and a food supply suflicient, they thought, to last through most of the trip salt pork, mince and apple pies, bread, doughnuts but their appetites were enormous. At midday they stopped aud ate in the shade. Sabra prepared the meal while Yancey tended the horses. Cim, wide awake now and refreshed, ate largely with them of the fried salt pork and potatoes, the hard-boile- d eggs, the mince pie. It was all very gay and comfortable and relaxed. Short as the morning bad been, the afternoon stretched out, somehow, endless. Subra began to be horribly tired, The boy whimpered. It cramped. was and hot ; it was late afternoon; then the brilliant western aunset began to paint the aky. Yancey, In the wagon ahead, drew up, gazed about got out tied his team to one of a clump of cottonwoods. "We'll camp here," he called to Sabra and came toward her wagon, prepared to lift her down, and the boy. She She was stiff, utterly weary. stared down at him, dully, then around the landscape. "Camp?" "Yes. For the night. Come, Cim." He lifted the boy down with a great swoop. "You mean for the night? Sleep here?" "Yes. He was quite matter-of-faIt's a good place. Water and trees. I'll have a fire before you can say Jack Robinson. Where'd you think you were going to sleep? Back home?" Somehow she had not thought She had not believed it. To sleep out of doors like this, in the open, with only a wagon top as roof! All her neat conventional life she had alept In a r bed with a dotted Swiss canopy and net curtains and linen sheets that smelled sweetly of the sun and the air. Yancey began to make camp. Already the duties of this new manner of living had become familiar. There was wood to gather, a fire to start water tj be boiled. Cim, very wide awake now, trotted after his father, Meat began to after his mother. sizzle appetizlngly In the pan. The exquisite scent of coffee revived them with its promise of stimulation. "That roll of carpet," called Sabra, busy at the fire, to Yancey at the wagon. "Under the seat I want Cim to sit on it . . . ground may be four-poste- damp. . . A sudden shout from Yancey. A squeal of terror from the bundle of carpeting in his arms a bundle that auddenly was alive and wriggling. Yancey dropped it with an oath. The bundle lay on the ground a moment, heaving, then it began to unroll itself while the three regarded it with starting eyes. A black paw, a woolly head, a face all open mouth and whites of eyes. Black Isaiah. He had found a way to come with them to the Indian territory. By noon next day they were wondering how they had got on at all without him. He gathered wood. He Robbins. Yu ran away yon we hunted day of last week. Harvey So re risen has bought the with Mrs. John Arbon is " -"iin visiting he every stamtnercl. and Wm. T. Robbins home here. children home. her before coming burnt li.t.i leurn vt mingled anger and Mr .and Mrs. Alma Larkin eater-tainBp. and Mrs. D. G. Nelson Jr. were rU f. at dinner Sunday in honor of Salt Lake visitors and Mon Sabra shrank from it Its glare seared the eyeballs. It was a bard trip for the child. He w.:s by turns unruly and list lets. He could not run about, except when they stopped to make camp. Sabra. curiously enough, had not the gift of amusing him as Yancey had. or even Isaiah. Isaiah told him tales that wound. ' ed The slim young man 6eemed the though the other three u! older than be. "Why. I'm real sorry you was disWe was going to tressed, ma'am. brirg the Uiy back safe enough. He wandered down here lookln' for his pa, he said." He was standing with one hand resting lightly, tenderly, on t'Im's head, and looking down at Sabra with a smile of utter sweetness. His was the almost caressing voice of the southwestern cowman and ranger. At this Sabra's anger, born of fright, vanished. Besides, he was so young scarcely more than a boy. "Well," she explained, a little sheepishly, "I was worried . . . My husband went off on the track of a deer . . . hours ago he hasn't come back . . . then when Cim I came out and he was I was so so tergone. ribly. (To Be Continued) Nephi Larkin. day, on business. Elijah Larkin and family, of Smith-fiel- d Mr. and Mrs. Chas Peterson came are here for a few days. out from Salt Lake City Monday. Stake Primary convention was held Mr. and Mrs. Lamar Cutler motored at Holbrook, Sunday. to Ogden Friday, returning home Sat urday. Miss Anne Hurd and Lola Robbins spent the week end with their uncle 4Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hurd, at Stone. Mrs. Reed Larkin visited her parSunday Services: ents at Fielding last week. Sunday school 10 A M. Junior Jos J. Cutler and Jas. J. Larkin and church 11 A. M. Story sermon "Will daughter, Harriet, attended conference Roger's Steer." League services at at Salt Lake City last week. Mrs. Morris Nuttal returned to her 7:15 P. M. Evening service of worhome at Salt Lake City a few days ship 8 P. M. Sermon topic: "Lives Great Preachers." This is the ago after spending a couple of months of here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. fourth in this series, used once a month in the evening service. f . Jesse Arbon. The life of Dr. George A. Gordon, a Jas. Cottam, of Spanish Fork was Congregational clergyman, will be eon in town Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Lee Eliason, of Brig-ha- sidered in this subject. The special visited friends here last week. music for both morning and evening Mrs Rosa Neuberger visited for a will be furnished by the Junior choir few days with her daughter, Mrs. girls. You are invited to attend all servicChas. G. Arbon. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Robbins and es of the church. Alvin R, Dickson, Pastor, i Mrs. Mary H. Cooper were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hurd, Sunday. Mrs. Charles McClure of Salt Lake Missess Sara, Ruth and Margaret Robbins and Mrs. visited in Tremonton for several days David A were Larkin returned home SatNephi England Easter guests of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey last week. from two a and a half urday night years mission in the Southern States. Mrs. R. N. Cutler and Mrs. John In 8 months time our company has paid $15,000.00 to Utah Arbon attended the Relief Society con policy holders to fix wrecked cars. $1238.00, of which was ierence at salt Lake City April 2 and paid Box Elder County policy holders. , Ask the man who 3, also general conference. carries the STATE MUTUAL AUTO INSURANCE Mrs. Cutler returned home Thurs sixikesni.'in. were olivii were negro folklore, handed dowu by word of mouth through the years. Often the days were gay enough. They fell Into the routine, adjusted themselves to the discomfort. Sabra got out the sunbonnet which one of the less formidable Venables had jokingly given her at parting, and this she wore to shield her eyes from the pitiless glare of sky and plain. The sight of her in that prairie wilderness engaged in the domestic task of beating up a bowl of biscuit dough struck no one as being Incongruous. The bread supply was early exhausted. She baked in a little portable tin oven that Yancey had fitted out for her. As for Yancey himself, Sabra had never known him so happy. He was tireless, charming, varied. She herself was fascinated by his tales of hidden mines, of Spanish doubloons, of Iron chests plowed up by some gaunt homesteader's hand plow hitched to a stumbling mule. The wind, at certain periods of the year, blows almost without ceasing in Oklahoma. And when it rains the roads become slithering bogs of greased red dough, so that a wagon will sink and slide at the same time. They had two day of rain during which they plodded miserably, inch by Inch. Cim squalled, Isaiah became just a shivering black lump of misery, and Sabra thought of her dimity-hun- g bed back home In Wichita; of the garden in the cool of the evening; of the family gathered in the dining room; of the pleasant food, the easy talk, the luxurious ease. At Pawnee Yancey saw fresh deer tracks. He saddled a horse and was off. They had, before this, caught bass in tha streams, and Yancey had shot prairie chicken and quail, and Sabra had fried them delicately. But this was their first promise of big Sabra welcomed this unexgame. pected halt. She and Isaiah carried water from the creek and washed a few bits of clothes and hung them to dry. She bathed Cim. She heated water for herself and bathed gratefully. She set Isaiah to gathering fuel for the evening meal, while Cim played in the shade of the clump of scrub oak. She was quite serene She listened for the Bound of horse's hoofs that would announce Yancey'a triumphant return. Vaguely she began to wonder If Yancey should not have returned by now. She brushed her hair the motion, thoroughly, enjoying throwing it over her head and bending far forward in that contortionists at started fires. He tended Cim like a nurse, played with him, sang to him, helped put him to bed, slept anywhere, like a little dog. Yancey pointed out the deflnlteness with which the land changed when they left Kansas and came into the Oklahoma country. "Okla homa," he explained to Cim. "That's Choctaw. Humma red. Red Okla people, people That's what they called It whea the Indiana came here to 11 re." vddenly the land, too, had becoate red: red clay a far aa the eye could so. Whea the trail led throafh a deft la a bill the blood red of the eLaf a either stta waa Baa - ... ...... m ..." Snowvuie" 1 Phone LELAND J. HANSON 70-0.- 1. Unlimited Money to on Irrigated Land. 6V cent. No commissions. 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And in another part of her mind she thought that any one of a dozen dreadful things could Indians. Why not? Some happen. wild thing In the woods. Broken bones. A fall from his horse. He might lose his way. Suppose she had to spend the night alone here on the prairie with the two children. In a sudden panic she stepped out of the wagon with the feeling that she must have her own human things near her Cim, Isaiah to talk to. Cim was not there playing with his bits of stone and twigs. He had gone off with Isaiah to gather fuel, though she had forbidden it. Isaiah, his long arms full of dead twigs and small branches, was coming toward the wagon now. Cim was not with him. "Where's Cim?" He dropped his load, looked around. "I lef him playin' by hisself right hyah when Ah go fetch de wood. Ain' he in de wagon?" "No. No." "Might be he crep' In de print wagon." She ran to the other "Wagon?" wagon, peered inside, called, ne was not there. Together they looked under the wagons, behind the trees. "Cim! Cim! Cimarron Cravat, if you are hiding I shall punish you if you don't come out this minute." A shrill note of terror crept into her voice. She began to scream his name, her voice cracking grotesquely. "Cim Cim !" She prayed as she ran, mumblingly. "0 Qod, help me find him. O God, don't let anything happen to him. Dear God, help me find him Cim! Ciml ami" She came to a little mound that dipped suddenly and unexpectedly to a draw. And there, in a hollow, she came upon him, seated before a cave In the side of the hill, the front and roof Ingeniously timbered to make a log cabin. One might pass within five feet of it and never find it Four men were seated about the doorstep outside the rude cabin. Cim was perched on the knee of one of them, who was cracking nuts for him. They were laughing and talking and munching nuts end having altogether a delightful time of it Sabra's knees suddenly became weak. She was trembling. She stumbled aa aha. ran toward him. Her face worked queerly. 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