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Show PAGE sir THE fife ofthe 5, 19q7 The noise without produced a change' within. 'Incredibly agile, Lancaster got to a pane; while Dallas, springin g up. screened Marylyn and waited, as if - in ,, suspense. Dark bulks now shot past, pursued by mounted men. But very soon ithe herd was gooe,and all Author was again quiet. Then followed Biography of a Prairie Girl. a moment that was full of embarPHILLIPS ts COMPANY. 1906, BY McCLURB, ; COPYRIGHT. rassment. Keenly, Lounsbury to looked from father daughter, ' the onestriying to assume an south CHAPTER VI. hisdrinking. account. Ah"reckon, agreed Lancas- easy air, the other incapable of As he came opposite the shack ter., lie sat down beside the hiding njarm. All at once he felt Snow fell on the very heels of Marylyn was still running about younger man, eyeing him closely. certain they scared old Michaels the cavalry. Scarcely were the in the snow, while Dallas was How-- d y come t git away information, ne determined to Indians safe in the stockadeand sweeping out some long, narrow fr'm business he queried.-.Tell them that he, too, knew what the troopers once mbre in bar- drifts that had sifted in through Lounsbury and whom they feared, Well, you see, racks when some first flakes, like window and door cracks. Squint-In-0 answered. Mis s Ive Expect in vfrera ; fle rcc eu dowfrpl rckedhy-Hhe-wim- l in my Bismarck store, and at Dallas? he asked tentatively. acrossriieiii, the breasts of the southward has- all at once a heated conversation Clark's theres nothing to dc The section boss hastened to tening wilT fftwl, came floating that had taken place-a- t Shanty weekdays hardly, so I just took answer. Expectin nothin, out of the sky. Soon the long Town the afternoon of (the south- some tobacco to where he snapped. Then, to cut short Skinneys, sumac leaves on the coulee edge ward departure of a Dodge City the boys could get at it, "and top- any further questioning, Dallas, were drooping under a crystal courier. And he shook his head ed down here. Then playful y y clean forgot them mules tday. line weight, the black plowed sorrowfully- BUft I donTsee much happening Lawd help us, y goin7 t letem Tiell have yer hans fule be- in these parts. strip was blending with the Hdstretchel starve? prairie, and the shock: fore long, he advised aloud, toward a window.The town of Lounsbury sat quiet, realizing head of the cottonwood shack or its me thats not good at Lancaster aint growing very that the team was but a pretext. was donning a spotless nightcap, guessin. lifting the fast. And, - -- - The- - eldergiri-- f ound- - her cloak, was ceaseless and so heavy-an- d fronBof hiVcapf hesympatheti-callyjbleDalias, seatedon a bench wBo pickedliplf bucket and left"7the e thed the purple bump that Marylyn,-looke- d, across at him room. 7 Marylyn shrank "into the "" the sweet trumpet notes of J re- served him for a nose till it rang Im glad of it, she dusk at the hearthside. Lancastreat wefe wafted out from through the crisp air like a smilingly. declared. We aint used-- to ter was hobbling up and down, Brannon across a covered, plain. throaty bugle. towns. his crutch ends digging at the the When morning dawned Farther on as he sat- pondering You folks ve never lived in packed dirt of the floor. heavens were cloudless, and the deeply and letting the leaders cmet - The 1 storekeeper, putting aside 'laggard sun as it rose shone with choose their course a horseman his determination, went on as No, we never even been. blinding- - glory upon- - peaceful came cantering toward him and oner" ; though he "had not noticed the -- miles. Nowhere1: was a sign of drew rein beside his wheel. It He The storm his forehead. others attitude. puckered jwallow, path or road, - and - the was Lounsbury, buried to the on the stock last night. Somehow, was hard Funny, he said. coulee yawned, 'white lipped. Ev- ears in a buffalo coat. I always think of . you twO' as They must a drifted thirty en the Missouri was not unSure, its somethin import- town girls. miles with it. Our loss is big, changed, for away to the north- ant, John, thats ye Aw, shucks! exclaimed Lan- likely. The punchers ll bunch west there had been- - a mighty out cried old 'Michael tday, everything on four hoofs and caster, scowling. rainstorm, and the murky river roguishly,. hishrogue.,disclosing " em into th e" co"uIeeTCows drive But Dallas was'"leanmg'for s tumbledby lnwaveithatwere his identity. Its ayther wind there and ThatV on ac- ll be out e wi.rd, interested. andswoIIenT angry or live on the ground till browsje count of our teachers, she said. - Since his early boyhood the The storekeeper colored undef There was a schoolhouse np the clears. section boss had not known snow. his visor, Its nayther, he track, in Texas, and we went, But, ns he was talking tha sec- in Before theprevionsdayDallas moeked laughingly it on the hand car. Every year tion boss made himself ready for and Marylyn had never seen it. None o yer - shillyshallin, v.e had a different md the cold. Before he had finished It was with exclamations of de- warned the ferryman, giving the a'l of em came fromteacher, big eastern the elder man had disappeared. light, therefore, that, crowding other a playful whack with his paces like New Orleans or St. Lounsbury was thoroughly protogether in the doorway, the gad. Oi kin rade ye loike a nis. So so, you see, we kind-g- voked at the treatment shown three first caught sight of the buke. towny from our schoolma-'ams- .' him he was hurt at the plain glistening drifts. You cant read 'Va book, de- lack of faith. Again he considPa, its like a Christmas dared Lounsbury.. But Ill tell One had a gold tooth, put ered what course to pursue card- cried the younger girl, you. Im going to the Lancas- in Marylyn. Her eyes, wide with Granted the family knew all he and, bareheaded, she ran out to ters. could tell them, what could he recollection, - were - fix frolic before the shack. Old Michael nodded, with a Lounsbury. gained by forcing the fact of his To Dallas the scene the portholes But you passed through cities knowledge upon them ? Nothing Oi knowed it! c ming north, deeper meaning. Here was what of his mask. unless it were more suspicion argued the storewould discourage and block any he said. Then,1 after fishing out. a keeper. against himself. And if they one who had put off necessary tobacco bag from under his many said Dallas slowly. were in ignorance well, it was improvements! And this would Coats and lighting the corncob tt We we skirted em. better than premature care. As last long after 4he expiration of in the protecting howl of his What a pity! he turned to before, he decided to remain sithat six months I guess therell palms, In that case, man, Oi got the section boss. lent and depend upon the pilot. he nojbuilding or plowing now, somethin !lie glanced at Marylyn. On her echoed Pitythe flatter. she said to her father happily. IIe leanedover the wheel Huh R You save fathers departure she had movyou and Lounsbury bent gals is better off ef1 pity. My ed out of the shadow. Now she "Hey fully"asrelieved, returned they don a confident a,ssent. toward him, so that the smoke of meet no town hoodlums. was sitting holt upright, with Lthe pipe-f- ed the -- storekeepers been"WdIer trashbe-fore- , fingers "toucKmg The bench at A3ittleJlate.r,olcLMiehaelr-th- e now it was ferryman drove by, breaking a nostrils." They talked for a half town hoo.f-um- either side. Her lips were half track along the blotted road. His hour, the one relating his story, She was watching Louns- Lounsbury wondered why parted. r he ev-the in other ancient corduroys, known to " quick quesputting hadjeen allowed a second eall bury wonderingly. He tions.' At end the confrom man of their Bismarck river to The iqoment their eyes inet her glanced at the girls. Ihere ery was versation a sudden shadow on Baton Rogue, were hidden beLounsbury held out his each own fell. She reached to the hand. neath of face. overcoats. young He changed to the mantel for a beaded belt and belayers If their letter brings him, fire and looked hard at it. How gan work upon it precipitately. Through the wool cap, pulled down to his collar, two wide Mike, he said, dont you fail cut off they were ! Where holes gave him outlook; a third to let me know. their happiness except in their (To be continued.) home? and smaller aperture was filled And could he tell them Aye, aye, promised the pilot even that was threatened? by the stem of a corncob pipe, earnestly. THATS IT! ! ! was Not headed for lie the cattle Old Michael They parted. by a long shot! he vowcontinued his way with an easy ed. Ill trust old Michael. camp, the lines over a Cough yourself into a fit of He set himself to be hitched to three empty wa- mind, but Lounsbury was trouagreeable, spasms and then wonder why yon gons, a third" team tied to the bled. Instead of carrying, as on and especially toward the section dont get well. If you will only tailboard of the hindmost box. Hore-houn- d his former visit, good news to the boss. lie told of the Norwegian try a bottle of Ballards On the arrival of the saloon little family on the bend he must at Medicine mountain and of the Syrup your cough will he old man who lived with wife and a thing of the past. It is a posigang the pilot had left his steam- now be the bearer of- evil. And when, having stalled his children at the little bend boat in the hands of his two up tive cure for Coughs, Influenza, vamado-his Bronchitis and all Pulmonary dis helpers and -way to horseBetty7he There-ia Town. blankets .and .explained their eases. One bottle will convince shingle entered the cottonwood shack jo Shanty hut, perched atop a whisky cask his heart smote him still more, fir symbolic figures of men, animals yon at your druggist, 25c, 50c, and kicking its rotund belly com-- - secretly he. had hoped that he and suns. He leaned back clasp- $1.00. Sold by RiterBros. Drug. " b placently with his hels, he - had was to tell them what they ing a knee, and branched into Co. wet a throat, long dry, from the knew, bu)t it seemed pre- comical stories. amber depths beneath him. DR. S. B. THATCHER, the reverse. There was ' The little shack awoke to unaccisely - "With each succeeding his Dentist. glass nothing in the appearance and customed merriment. Lancaster obligations had grown apace. actions of the Lancasters that warmed to the storekeepers geniNevertheless, for a lifetime of suggested anxiety. The section al1 attentions and burst into fre-- , Offices over the Morrell Cloth ' rough service had brought about boss, though his manner was not cuent guffaws. Dallas and Marying Store 63 N, Main St. an immunity that belied his Cel. without a certain reserve (as i lyn followed his every wo-- l LOGAN, UTAH. . tic blood, his brain remained he half believed something was breaking in from time tor rime Office honrs 9 a. m. to 12 m. clear, his step steady and his eye about ito he wormed out of him)-- , laughs. 1 p. m. to 5 p. m. mtbleared. Thus it happened greeted Lounsbury good natured-l- y But in the midst of it there that when, cut off from grazing enough. Marylyn hurried np camtpfrom outside a startling it was necessary for the Shanty in a timid flutter to take his iar and . a loud, The newspaper reader who anTown teams to he returned at and coat, while e pistol-likhim from facing cracking, powdery alyzes the want ads. will find once to Clarks old Michael was the hearthside, her hair coiled swirls over .the windows, a frigh-tene- many opportunities that,to other on hand and in condition to take upon her head like a crown, "h-- r lowing and heavy thumgs look like simply a few lines, of them and by so doing wipe out ! 7 gray eyes bright, her cheeks against the shack. type-- . By ELEAJO'R CATES, Saturday, December JOURNAL, LOGAN, UTAH, Y glowing, yras a new Dallas. Well, howve you all been! asked Lounsbury, accepting a bench. anOh, spright nough, swered tie section boss, but its cold ; iits cold. Keeps me tremb lin like a guilty nigger. Youll get over that, assured the other, rubbing 'the blou-into his hands. 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