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Show i,liaa4b, --- - , . , . Art 'ectiolu E.1,,,,D:E ). , -- , G E-'.,ENIN- . 1850 FOUNDED , , , Tarn' DECEMBER SATURDAY . r44111531115111C1311174121":1132210111MIMMUCIMIiiiiitalnalEntilatalLIONORIMMAIIMArifrtetten,941151N-1- L 1 . -- - 1 ,:tr,, , 14,17, y. ,4. ,,, , . ( . , ; ' r I 1 : - iltif, . , i ' i il , .. koarl 11;w7 t ,1 I l 3 d 4)4 t - -- I'lls,:4.,;),- -, 542,ttl - I ...... - ,i0, 0 mourn- - I wonder if it 'Rounds the same as it does to me. Mitybe it's the recollections mixed of , .., ,.,, With ,It7inttenctries., -.'",trettrillig'noits), dreams of her Azad, sweet face. Perhapa it Just the sleepy shimmer el-thdesert. 'Whatever It Is, the mom-mi- lt doves call always makes me want to smile and dream and smile; my . , laart, Iv' f t .10. , -- i N . r j 1'2 ' I , - f ' ' J , ., a all the while. with the sadtIt's a sad Sadness. either. Its quiet and peaceful. a earl of Stinday-bes- t jt s si,Itletift. r Its the sadness of what might have been (and I. Timm is Just as well net). Its the satinesis of linding an old. rusty Jewsharp you'd cried so hard at losing. a long. long time ago. when it was bright awl new anti you were 'Mit a little, freckled lad. It's the sadness of the little, still smile that look," out at you from a tiny. white coMn. The doves were calling. I remember, that day I vcrit Into Jilourning Dove's tent to take to her the iratiger's mensage, the word that blighted hay leittlerent hopes and dn'alus. What a long while . : t I ,,go that wan! This country was not settled then as It in now. And I was not a sheepherder. but only a boy who thought himself a man.- Tn thone days I had a hornet pasture at the Navajo ICelln. The Wells are about 16 miles east of linne.h. my home town. on what we always tailed the Arizona road. This road runs from Kanah easterly to LPPS Ferry. crosses the Colo-nu- b) riter at the head of the (trend canyon. anti v.indm across the Painted desert to the eottlements Moat of tha travel from Arizona it, Arizona. ' t ' T l '. r , l'JI:',Vo:PA .... 1 rt I I g , g It - I ''. . I .1am-elm-- y I . . i ; ' i , ' .,..-- - s 1,,,,. ,e...,2 ladUld,,,- -.- . , t- ke----- '--, - 4. ..;t) '1....' ,, r...1 ,4 d ; i , Indlan-brood, x. , dO.Sle 'Nt, 0,00004 00,0t40,01. 44' 0 look. STRANt;1-.11,- ; MEFSACE. And wayward. lonely )icing devil that I wan. I seemed to learn right t h.r t1 there is to know about, lir.. and 10e- - Ali thc-- e is to know about anything in the world worth while. That old army tont Beamed tamed Otto soot. eort of tempt e. an that I felt dirty and oat of Waft anti uncomfortable. I Do you blame ole for k. turf all bailed up in it? to talk to a squaw not 1,, Mee, 1,d pearted to a live. btamari witran with a baby she loved. little girl juat about Unit I bath for The word Pot I could see she was choked me to death an1t4 So I began to wipe wondering what I cold sweat and Inuit'', yousay. there's a man "Why..; I tam:- tril come to see y.iii know. Johnson's home youhot. you knowwants you to come and bring the baby." I must have looked like It hiPped Cur. Fite seemed to senpe what it tm..et !..ol been expecting and a ghastiv dreading It. Maybe. She turned ueti me to look color trying to turn Ont.,. it sickened at her. But she tlititft fit!nt, just gasped a little In her Mill way and u1IIcd herself around that baby till all the devils in bell couldn't have torn her loose from him. I got out of itcouldn't stand It. I felt like I'd run prise filly off a ledge. I hoptid to 4lott she wouldn't Mir an inch. between tdd Hardsranir and , Just what happened Mourning Dove I don't know. and never want to Coosa. All I know it, that when he etopPed at my ranch on his way home that patent nurse of hie had, the orphan baby In charge. It was mighty decently while they camped Ward tetrad that out-with Inc AU but the hahy. The little fellow cried about ail the time. and I didn't blame him.- Bedtime came. and we men spread our quilts ,t 111., .. '4 4444""40144 0 I400t4k4,4 1,,,,.. f' 0 00,0; x --,.,.1. t I 111 ' 10 11304 x,, C"';'.1."' outside. leaving the cabin to the nurse. Put there was no hodThe boy went right time for her. --for . MV 11Wwling,,,,Astopplag,,,-.4sttly it Wail the moat lonesome. brogth. ever hcani heartbreaktng ;, Wail I a101,. tip trYing I and eent into the end dreesed gOt up Finally house. The kid' was yelling louder than the royotos and kicking and trythe to pull away frtm nut's. The minute hi paw me he grabbed for me. The first thing I knew the little wholp had a strangle hold on a brass button otv my buckskin shirt, and was smuggle4 down in tho hollow of tiv arm. mound asleep. But it wasin't for long ited wake and equirtn and turn over and grab his button again and try to mettle down to another !imp, hut it was of 11,4 use. There was switaithing wrong: I guess I didn't know much more than that nurse how to hold a baby. Pretty soots hie agVe It up ant howled !mei as ever. Hut he wouldni go back to that humen doetor hook; not on your life I put In the treat of tho night walking that lot:ea:one, hungry Itttlo felloW. OfICP In awhile heat drop off. worn out; but mit far long. Amt all the while tould hear hir rilt-o- f kin oot at the end of the AI down . - like a Plesom saenitil That b011ig my nrat work itrotth,1 a bmily. I reit rather queer and awkward, And yet. at the time pp.W I eould learn to tend a kid if I had half a ehanre I was: ertainly marry f..r that orphan, too. aN Wen a. lrteol of the tat- lie foaght -r his rights. NVhen that bocklemtit iiro off noxi m irining. there alire two tit tot holing It arai wardnig a nen. deal, Mourning toove never 1114P'1 t if, near both 11.t,,r I I at. happened to nee her one dai ttiourn, haaket ',Woes in Flood canton. ShP n 1,00..ht more :lazed than anything, like she d hit In the head with a boulder Thorn mo In liwit too, that torn her made v,int thing. i lia 1400,, And how I like the lost I trioo to v.y telt so sorry for amone in tny t wont:: vii).c,.41 It, tt, remettling Wo nioh,rsto-i- i. her fitee shiligrA !.tit need tt,itials hall so often fts wat think lie ood know r I unified to seta Iter keen that t hite ionged right there () id thitnt for a I to d hat know whIte laeii have saY raise.t ns ihe ,vinVest. There ttetietid nye?! than Moon. for all he ttas an Itollan. tint Yirtittig Dove tvotild hayo ttotked ber hitTiols He'd have got tho pi.hohhZ batiy, ,fr 14110 bad mire tried hard t,1 alwIstsvp;I.evei,l. edtniat Ait.rabove all. the boy woutril hate got a ,..e over know- Witett minin rr,Mhtr tew I ooop, ii ho loves them Cr :411 she: itit I bolie:e tur out, 1..iiii ttorth no PP,PI noire ,: matter of .oirse ItP Uhvii hate any of ker "'A:: and gets ona I , ti,,,t she oling t.i it It looks like a sie:ial gift 'row hcaton She loves it a rth ;.7 1 ) ft tt troltrh reriainess that lions:ill ell a it tt ontI Satan k I, ilge liardw ere left hoot month IVelir a ham! ,1 Na,u.l. iitttod They kin., -r- 1;- from their nes:A-oath:Ito ti:4(! hiantiot r ltillStilig horses. aft. r a 1111, 1tt the Io .lorotia their leader. 'Lao. straight, Imam-filfellow, in fat, Hit thp :t bitek die' in It:loiter griteeli:1 II 1,,,t1 the Ki40,ith, at a) as aro bon,. omit tile Kallial soline are bovhile wieerls eti he Natal. aonien. Msrlito vas lter looking than tt tut a lmie and .1 imole an especially litthe de il histat y niat :died eeiiii talk i,g1,1, after a fashion. awl moat in that lino. In oor talk snow off hi- th, man trim Kaftan Who t askrd toe f at Tuba eity a few-iIlm.1 left a 14,:: ::!. aekit hack. I.t' l. v 00 hands the roan had,Ito Pahl. The baby unit taPsed and sitda I '.'ae a sol&er ta. k travel. and the man bad loecorre nd ttaI gm, on s.01110 left the ts man FtY pt 1,,I1 I CI...PM I It was cud 1111,1P 11;irdware and lc.: ,;.lan baby. Thili started me 11 the story nf t'e haby and Its perente. and The otter acemed loss. 7.tourning Dove Paid Ir dteply Interested WhotN the matter. that Moot!. be don't kill he aike.l ornftilly "Rob lay squaw. that man I kill him." galbabs dont Itl ',lilt. meni any more." I explained. of contempt. 111,1, only answer w is a grunt As the band ii,oirtal nayt morning to go on. 1th a a ked twinkle in hin eye. asked: -man"frit M ;r1: lig I, 0., roe white What -orpriee. Why nothing." "ror what ht. WAS Setting at. When be brolt- - irto a jeering !Ranh I was thunkerstruck. I began to fo- -I annoyol. too, at his manner. -That's atright. he bantered. '"Tou prett poen on he rode, laughing the :lecitOttplas, Ate I fingered my colt's, f Iiiitigny hin:IL, nil hit' with lead. The dirty heasit! half 1.,!!,(i.,i FAA it, and that infernal laugh It as the nay he -- r I U .1 tit' his 1...u. Ir.. fterivarda I put in a now w;uott much on tiny work. s thitil.;.-- or Niaurning Dove. Somehow, for .to her troubles that they taut bad ouldn't think of her a a aeomed partly ni inre WaP ft baby's trusting All I , .cd e: suatt ,:t, t the beautiful. plain face of a '11Mell:Itiel;:"kirg Mit not in In with the girl some higher, better way. In tin ordinary I couldn't explain it, "'ply. nerbal,N. ,,,- and not a.aquaw, and so befor sh, ug. a great dust cloud y,.1 piinujz A. too wide and .c.114, ttld So on I culd make out ,s raggo. , ahead of it. It wan Marado :omit. They must have been astangg. all picked up around driving r I 1 , , Kenai). WATER HOLE. without pause fbn into tho wavering glare. for htd. "tetti ftitt Of Strangly I: reio. The Warm glow or welt; Perfect boreertmt the etrong glare of the their blank,t, ri,,i.hed the Vermillion demet. Against tfl background ofItVell the great gorsteous. cliff's, the effect ...eented a ITIOnt41.1 silken banner cloud of their duet AN I watched f was gripped of daunting red. with the urge of the road, the wild impultie to elth thetn into their lawless land. 'gallop awaydwindled to a glowing speck and I went' Thin they k:;..ftit On' pit St l'A:4T they traitor:I , t OW , , T I I.' ; i ' , t , ) s A t t , . It -- .71 "A. i 1-- -- - .t ,. ,,- l. 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On and on we vent through the night. the only sounds the sharp clattr of many hoof., the weird drumming of the nighthawks. and the of the coyotes. tin and yet on, through a,erning eternitieto of into In Idle dark the miles have to. Indian Illettee end IMP night on the road is a deeent lifetime After I had elven the thing up as a nightmare I here m as no from akin r a stingy glow or light gathered grudgingly in the east, growiog $loe ly till at last the mighty Coloratin shooed winding through the shadowy depths far below rioun we were urging our rirred oloan Ube last steep miles to lee's Ferry.'hopes ME N.tVAJOE8 Ilan CR( iSSED. We were late. The Navajos had swims their horses across. a feat white men .1411 not dare atAs down to the ..atolbars on ont yie rod tempt Fide they swarmed. up the !tee., dituiay on the cti.er. They were within easy rine range. but :ker. using Irourning Dalre aa a ahleht. We couldn't shoot fron where we were without danger to her Th black hate In Itoona ugly fa,0 as he helplessly across the muddy torcent was terril,ii . to twe "Come on boy a." I yelled to the huddled band sg I spotr,1 into the shallows, "Veil get her yet 'tut not i hia-- moved. Sullen. silent defeated, the." Just r.e. there and watched their enemies out of didnt seem to notice that I elite41 sight Tt. , matter; thy don't we go oti7. I plead,d. gtstIS back to orgre "We're not afraid o: I that im,!, Pilehre. ,1"4., iniy I the troold. (vase& deaperately, "you nil towItui,i,7 All same coyoteiVr After corning sc far and gtt!ilic SO close. I Wills wild for action "Can't ,r,..0,sriver," jet finally explained dully. -yea e.e ,an If puree afraid to swim It well get the boat "It 'tin: the fraid,'" Joe patiently.. went Ott, taw Kathab ,an't croes river never. all the time. tireat Spirit make law tong time." That settled it. Superstition held them back. They were bravo men. too: give them anything but ghosts to tight. Ail it was. a Kalaab Would let you akin him alive and cut blots up into "jerky. before he'd cross. I had beard of the law that held them to this aide, but had forgotten it That Mourning Dove had paid no heed to that law, was another proof Of her insanity. trr ( ill I i)11 ... - ,rf ; I ,1.,.1 i 't-- t) ',11 t ' ;, VI ' Att 4,, like 7 :tf, omen 't 'u the death you s'aoid her this morning ,, lie h done and That Piot the Ia..," Joe ativ,iireil. pit of my Il i) - a t iy , ; rr, .4. .41:41 It ',minded 0 1 - , 'Ili rather11. , , , P, " i t, 12 IMA,;t; ItETI'lrtNS oe.,t' the saddest thine., itt the ivorld is the way W are hilWity imagining disappoint tf te dn't really know. Mg things alseit it ilazzlea that tie st,it or ies or looks something think him !tome sort front that id god Then a dio. ciimii, iaett Ne find him Out. If shim" ep dist as neat. ,inil fooliah as the rest It is ,.; us hitte, disayviitiftnent That a tde via, felt Mourning Dove. I fto rt titling away. Likely, IrtHrtie her trouble. She ias just ?Olin& toit forget Sia had turned against ciatidnd stand cruel to her. I ,.11 ttitge It had hien ritv kn.1 ex,11,, h.q. Arid yet I had Pipected 1,etter of tier. lie face hail seemed to tell me of and higlier things I hail read ado it a sweetness te, loss ,o1,111 shake. Sontetitnes I Still re It ctrage A An-tof stubborn faith In her in spite of the factw not the f:ittl, Wet,. there and I couldnt get around t .,t il. I Hi-;i- I' ' 1,,, Nk II! t. ,orii to tit it lief 1 :.1 ti,-- i i 111 ,, :4 las. :, --'- .: t. Ft hi:atriah 1 4;4; Y It 1;144 outfit tli.t t.,.1,. lip to tho ..,rt retovt.t. ., It"tw, 1kill; aml barralne.1 r.q. 1,,,akfttst tAhd V., Started Iff ot,,witio till sift hay il, tula back t.imar,I. Kantili V4.4 nrajt h,N 8.44 I Ih.t ion I grumided 1,; .1,, ;IR 444 tolled 41,44r ttiV holt p.r. k sands. Sho'd hay,. (orn, hack t" M.. a, Itt .le s hal- 1,,th sa,a) for- Ing h,rtIf t,11, t ig hl lo It 1.1,, , thts 04,1 All Hisao 'Thatt tot hathali Ise - I,. smiled ,,, 1, ,,,,t il. ka "Nornin ro, ,1, ,, at. It her tiii , : I k,t wIls off he Ott tl.ir trail, Ile. band spurring after gallaped him. I.;ery Luck tool his deer-gu- n se ling across his brassbound saddle ror tn., pinto into the gait unchecked. and I fount) m!scif sting MI a thrili 3,1,,eture tooaning my, loutfIle gun in Its seablutid. ti the natises sere surptOed or pleased or displeased at my coming they made no sign What about it.' I asked Big an undertone. Ho tio you know they 4tole her?" To my thin,' the thing Wit, 1111 titter iiiI 't I liCeptett It .1 N 01, 4oe,1 a dream Tie, impossitue icid merely I, me the Initial. hot t o he thine talk ii Ayoha Make her look thter giao ag.iin forget batty. She heiVe Itte for bini I Make NIetit hind. Title morrong ghe go to go,r., v. ori, It0A tl I for IA hit hothlth other aqua t a conic lot. 1, tonight Mourn ing Doei no yoha ono Him ti,A a V. I au ...,..dat wouldn't run away a ith that black .1, L... I - la back to my ahotiling I mansged to Pat hi ttlY time thli dusk. then emblied city pinto tar a cool night ride to Kenai). As I let tioa,n the bars. a faint druinming , Arlie to lily oars. In litc dying afterglow I finnliv 'haat. t ith,ther band of horsemen b4.1411141114441 oil ht, tr,M the west Iterliatt9 part of the Ntiajoesi had been delayed But on nearing they to tie Kaibabs As they clattered up to myproed bars I saw !oat Moon was their !etnitet. You see 'ern Navajoes-- - he harked. hefore F in mount tuid .441Tell hit, legs to- ,t.,), -r, . A,4 itooLit ,1110 stion as an ato.41-Sei Sei -- it( dell.b ;. 7 st ,, ,,, - .) h: , -- ---- -- . 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It seemed 'tied sues( would that tt,i.hile I'd Flit after something tiring :t itil hack It might be Moon's evil face. 0 isle.' with black. aUll bate. It might he ()Id her grandfather. feeling his tottering t. tick. turning his head this way and I roongli he WOttitt never quite give up that, try,ng to see, I always imagined he was looking and looking for his lost granddaughter. All the time half singing a dreary, tunelese wail it would, s to Inar lir perhaps it we no.. you ite 1N7 - 3,171 ft It! t s 1 armsor atter past my cabin, troi, Ntourningr irsoves face did begin to dint When three mohths had gotte my memory tier story was tt.taw only a dream 'The siiiness 1,!trzcr ttlY silliness. I ri ally began to feel a lit- ,', so hardbeeonte to had tl think 3,1,,,med hearted lint I ouldn't suffer to save loY sold. itere all alike if v.e'd rdv admit it affirtioon. late Ili August. I started to town for my mai!. When I got Wit tho road I found a neither a traik going toward tn!, It qi it Utin track nor a human track. Anil it had too n1,1.it stlitte for a iti;o both, ,ttutlifirtg I couldn't to be tititnati iear I rttk and not enough make en thing of It I notteil in tto, tracks little amount to seem At first they illiln't NPotM "r rust. k It ittnited to pun II. hilt they were in eterV The feet that had "11 Iti's that the NI.A. Wore blood wade the traeksi had been twitised and torn and woken out t human Phic,w. A titan's tritek would rec.., had been a woman's feet At once l, b4:g I ber tracks! tho,oeit Mournirg, nte. They ere would dn. Othr theory 'flas ittttitive of It I didnt even stop to think of any other poesibility. ad cottle.back That Navajo beast had been her. perhaps... It would be like hint. And haek h bad mitd sise bent wonted iterees thag---1 Painted olesert. Over biasing sands. sharp rocks and cruel iactus Up hill and down. mile after to!te wi:hotit any but alkali water. The trip killed horses and Melit The thing was impossible. But an had been her running away. And there were the traeks. telling a history of the journey to thoee able to read. The Nayajo had beaten her and she had come t';','1 :1 ould rq'll I tr, (Continued on page eight) g f 1 1 i 1 ,, of I I 1 t 4. i ,, ) 1) I , 1 ! , r.:, ' t'k0;ZtE1WiWamiiii5LIA,,,ilii,;imillAU.;i404;i.i,x,4ii,r,4wmaTixamwrwimo14071x2wcir 1 . itor , . -- - ,.. 't.........-- ., . .1. 1 , - ,4,rr nt, ir!, ,fri.; t ''.4- .11 "1'; ' YEAR M J.(1:1' - ---- - ,t.....,ots. ' traldaroViZEIVOZNEIri22611216NAZOLZMWedilUat:161M , (. : ,,,;,. ' orzn4.1,, - .'"-- e,' -- -- - -- cl;:,----- ,,It , ', ,;y-,,,- ,' ,,,-- - ye, .4 i s,1 l" tPr-,I.- e , 40040000,40,400 V, d -- Alatira" 31261.41 It It 4... - the-ea-e- k was tikes game of lhotet, hied .r ft4i that's wow.: too feet for you. Even if Ole vLo,trt uhiter ,ti had a little the best of it The orphan boy a as In her a rots V, hen I hoe. shot cad(Ilwd quit I f.rgot my omf,p,,ot, forgot she as a pointy' ale- - seemed b. aitit4tl,tY human. I had never isf,en it face. Filmy eitelt Mother4ave. iw fmn4tIprt he d,, l. the feeling. And the heby knew you rascal net) tondo her lita Ilfelo,ag sin VP ,.ao., fre zt tI tiii ihing They F,eM 1., I. lieyre kilnW 10Ve like a eo-- .. einshtee tro-ktpAR neell it the U1fl. r II. 4 "rv,,tio, . and 0,1;0 as happy and ,itte as t.tfl PUP Itl storm. "That's sure a choice 1,31,v," I had to ten li r lueen I'd have said the sante if lo,,1 between a horned-toa3 end a The; looked so well together There tio g i i. sweeter picture 'Finy hat,' eet hes rt s nnd I u and more. They were; t.,re tolls. They were tied together b. the world know.. coming upon her in that W.1,-- eiti..ng those AtlY. Kalbabs. was 11,,Ci itg a Wile the scrub Plain little flowe hidden 14,g I bef-- r. To find a nuke where nobeelyS ever flower like that. so hotly and yet ., eont.ntedhet to It. looktng. makewme want to take ,,tr I stand and look sod e.ori,1-1if it feels paiI to the world for the that it the tot ha. brought beauty lonely fight it liad to put 1.1, egainst. rola att. wind and weeds and inserts. I keeP hoping it 111,, the comfort of know in.; how enlet it is to look at. And the longer I lot,k the sorer I feel that Moe soots. but they it does. Maybe flowers -I to no. don't look machine-msdNot that I had to wonder if Moliro!cg Does soul. It was that I Paw ilrFt. Mo t that's Ler beauty was. I suppose sb. wasn't expected.. nrotty. That la. I'm not sum tine was. nitr the was 'gnaw &Hatt. Itt,olgh I kept forgetting tt I eooldn't pick out anything rope about her remarkable, looking one w.ty or another. It wogs tuat the girl herself, I Itkvit t,t tool. at bet end never once thought to wiiniter stet.. The sight of her seemed resting to lay tits. She was so satisfying to see I felt that there had always been a rnp. wolt.ng for blank plies somewhere insole I t.aes een the comthat very picture. Wlitn monest stuff in the tool. and tiuts it together right, it alaays too' riWit Anil the stuff thiy generally call beauty sitiiply isn't in it with that THE :, &il tr", , j,---- " I '' : --- ,,,., ,,. , e, , i ' 7co:r''-; ,,,,,,.. I .' ' 4111 s Vs I , - In LA - ,,, , ( '' 4 alli'l" " 61S '1, ,'', ,,,,,,.,..;,, -- 1 right ' ',4' s'"-''-' , . I unmet ' it, - saw the reason for the nurse and her trumpery. e:o they'd found a relative. Long after I took to my quilts my mind ran on the subject soma men would pay Dourning Dove well..tor..... her tare of tin bibThek hpr Pb totA;lite. doubted if Old Hardware would woman What mould t bes- etquaw,Lnialcf.-....A:-white- s Wouldn't willingly give a baby up after finding It as she ha& and caring for it two months. But Of course. she was only a squaw. Next mooning I rode t town alongside the buckboard. The driver, a Flagstaff man. was Wing to persuade me to take a band of saddle horns to Flagstaff to sell. The project appealed to me. would see a new country. anyhow. But there were diMculties In the, trip. I could hardly see my way clear. At the edge of town Old Hardware broke into the conversation. "You're oil, your horse and know w here the Indians are camped." he ordered. "go send that squaw over to the betel with the baby,to on own was "Go and do your dirty work." the end of tny tongue. But I held it-- in .1 wanted to ha more of a gentleman than that fellow. Io I went. Kantili fa, ,4 tile flOtith. lying In a great ellTVe of the Vermillion ...lifts. out of the canyon northwest of the town comes Kanab creek. in a channel 2,11 feet wide and 190 tett deep. frrn town was the camp of the Kailiab Indians tent. his,. I Among the icklups was one at.ny rtu,l, belonged to Moon and Murnior walked right into it. as thou-- h I wte going inio hrt t,111711. the barn after hay, Great car-sarni41 look surprised! And when I looked around ao The tent anti the woman and the bah. were me. I had It PO clean and neat it twarly known lithe wits a imglity d. ent soitaw. hut wouldnd have hotted in hadnt expected this. without being Invited. "Ileg pardon. t.in'itio'' I gasped. then Moshe" to ona ntyloilf talking so pod, I. 11,9101, the just said. Dont mention It iiri I in tioel nut t61, like any while girt ' Iirne,1 r holly loak blush for thi"king 1,11e nag a It011aw ItY that time I noist he,. looked lik, It I'-- . , t 5 '''.:1-.....'...,:- ,,,,,,,,f' . - :..,,, .a '11Oet1 at the Wells for water and pasturtige. moat of my lima was spent there trapping and 1.teaking mustang horses. likoti that denolate place To thono who know the cabla desert, it is never lonely. My little ce,dar-ltal, its roeky Neell seemed to me the center of beautY ,,,r1.1 of 1;01 and color and To the tooth. a few mile' away. stood the lent masses of the Vermilion cliffs, curving gradually the tiiiiierti horizon. land dropping from point ,o.c ' i t est. Where tetraragged point Into the violet 4 ,..tas eut their great wants. I could nee in the die1 t nt, tthe cool. clean battlements of the White t Farther yet. Oster and dainty agaltint the 1,i.fts. ,I ! hied, er the desert sky, gleamed the delicate tints ..r tthe IIlnk ledges. To the southeart lay the Kaibah ' idateno, tiroesing in liquid sapphire. Away to the ; so,itheent. a hundred miles or more, Mount Trum1 ' tools volettnir marts uptilled. vague in the dint4 , in lu putt,lo 4ream-10M- ? By my pasture bstrs ..1 t efrn that Arizona toed. winding anti dimininlong o.to the .rystal depth s! of iliglittel till it dimmed I., the puride of the Kalbab foothills. Tall. swaying I ) nting eleepily over the velvet-greid' th,, nagebrunh, keeping lazy time to the dreamy I , , the Immo of deaden. Over all rose the haunting, deeolitte cry of the mourning dove. This was the i I tieeert in summer. d TIE STRANrIElt cOMF-SI'llett onmo Ithe stranger In a cloud of dust Am It 1 the buckboard clattered up tn my bare I maw that It, driver wee bringing nut from the vague waste e II of Arizona a man and it wornall. It wag the man t!' I soon found. tthat counted. Ile proved to be a r 'Wag herdware dealer eentenced to Phoenix for life on aceount of hie lungs. Ite still in the pretty deep. His heart, con- ir:Yrden7careandhuve., 1 to all have come off his seemed 1 ,,n,n towhee. De had a quick. ',harp, bent way 4 with him. like a machine. Put legs on a rash register, and you'd have the fellow to a T. I didn't wonder that' he had money nongh to buy up our whole couritY. The woman seemed to be a trained nurse of some s,mt., If she didn't make my head ache! It wasn't i r,,, much what Ole knew, as her knowing she knew I It. She 'of am sterilized, even to her feelings. And 1 atm had along a whole gripful of books' on the cans hull raising of babies. and a diet chart and a fever fAi I chart and a thermometer and all torts of &gunnies f, and tidngumabobs city folks torment helpless with. There was even a case of some 10 1babies baby-ft doper to Intiallits Into the young- ',teen nttle stomach every so often by the clock. I 4 1 had to snicker to myself when I saw sal of It.. I pitied the little devil ohs got her hands on. Tihe tnnn didn't eat much Supper, but the driver I ! mid the woman cleaned Up enough green corn and , encumber!' for four. After supper we all sat out- side where It wasn't I50 hot. 1 "Say, do you know a squaw at iCanab named 1 Pigeon?" old Hardware asked after he'd Prttled himself on my easiest waterkeg. "Pigeon? No I answered, surprised and puzzled. "Surely you do," he instated. "She found a white i out on this road somewhere, you know." aby -,h, mourning Dove?" Mourning IDovethats the name. You know her, ., titen''" 1 "I know her: yeti." ..tiahy's parento munderedvory sensational af- ' r:Iii 'Milting or niggere did itpeople richbound for California." "It vias buck yonder ten miles they found them, ,,, the roily wooded hollow you croteed. Their nigger 1' ....,k Iti!led and robbed them. Moat have over-his ImIted the baby. Moon and Mourning Dove. Carne along the next day and saved the 11111.W, 1 lo,i,v, rind brought the news to Kenai)." No white woman to look after that baby?" "None nearer than Kanab. You ere." I explained pnlitently, "the baby was dying and there was no 'IMO to think of white women. Thet squaw saved 1 I went on rather warmly. i, lite. licsblee." 1 i , "7,1dmniing Dove VW, raised in a white family and I,: rt better waye than a good many white women." ' "rhe seems like all the rest, however: dropped kirk Into the tribe." He itnerred, "She had to go back." I defended. "to take care ' of her oiii blind grandfather. Then the family that , bad raised her moved away to Castle Valley, and the Ivan left behind. Finally she gave up the white ' lire mut married Moon." ' to "Humph: and now she'. added a white child ii; Itcr "The whitshaby la all she has." I countered.- "she had any children öfher own." 1 !WWI' "Well,". he boasted, "it la a good thing the sherift found me and I decided to take the boy..? .. "Tour I stammered. -- "I'm , the baby's third 'cousinnearest relative l living, 1 luppute. I've come for the baby.' 0 ' - ---- -- - ,,,, .....,..77 ' , Jr---- - 44,,,,,,..,...... 0:0CP tit .,r) ,...., .,,, , 1rfa"-- 7 . 4, vt, , , nigh breaking, atne Of it. Not that , :1 Then ilMAyou i - ,4,( idfi itf'f'. 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