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Show THE SAUNA SUN. SAUNA. UTAH Jean, perhaps because she had uot ness settled down we gathered about spoken first. At any rate be saw them a fire on our own farms, for the first safely borne, and dallied over bis re- time In our lives. And so we chattered "on, saying nothsponsibility and tbe gate poat until they said they must go In. He called ing of moment, but feeling tbe great the next night and wanted to take joy of possession welling in oar hearts. them to a "show," but they would not It was a day and a night to be lived over many a time in memory. For the go; at any rate, Jean would not go. But you went, walking with him," first time in our lives we were drinking of the wells of possession the enMarjorie challenged. "He asked you, too.httrjean, her chanted streams whlch draw men and . to tlva and pretty face coloring. "You started women Into Author of"Tho Cow Puncher," "The Homesteaders' die on the outposts of civilization. with us, "and then went back." . We had finished supper, and the gray I saw how the land lay, or the wind WNU Copyright by Robert Stfeed blew, or whatever It was. I had noth- gloom of twillgiuwas crawling slowly ing to do at home, but I knew I would up from the east when a sharp, whls- be busier there than out walking with tllng rustle almost. above us brought fer the live stock, h.e added ; the on the dollar. Buying on our own the girls to their feet with a start. and your policeman. you government don' care where they sleep, Judgment we would probably get less THE HOMESTEADS What was that I" Jean exclaimed. "Marjorie! How'caayou us so's the .homesteader hlinselt is than that. her he would call on "It was almost like a bullet" Andhetold So It was arranged that tTake was to sufficiently oncomfortJrie. SYNOPSIS. Lured by hi her after we were settled. Nay, nay, said Jack, infiulglng In We smiled over his Interpretation c ff be our purchasing agent;.with a sort of playmate, Jean Lane, a very sorry joke. did no He asked He It Is a ductlet such thing! Frank Hall; aeed lx, venture that he me Where we were regulations which, as we knew, were gerftlemans understanding A ducklet? to settle, and What ducklet? oriThe forbidden wall of a dam, going wholesale the to a necessary prevent might cheat ns little In. consideration In a small Ontario town. He fall I told him I didn't know, and he said That, my dear sister, was the blanketing of the free lands by people of his services In preventing other'peo-pl- e he hoped he Into the water and Is saved from be patrolling there. whistle from the wing of a wild duck, wouhj on to no who death had Intention of by clinging from cheutirq; us a great deal. The He's possible living going to be sent out fromTjffh darting Into the darkness at a couple Jean' outstretched arm. Next them. arrangement, I believe, worked out to racks soon, and he said It would be of hundred miles an hour. IIe had Just beInform him Jean that day "Nqw we better pick a second an a our advantage.. Jake undoubtedly cause of their adventure of the safer for me for us If someone were got hls eye on you.4 third choice, Jus' Ih cflse somqone slips bought our supplies for less than we day before lie Is in duty bound to More likely on the gun," 'said. Jean, our . district-.patrolling In aheitd o us on this," said Jake, md could have bought tlym, even after marry her. He agrees when they Not for you, dear," said Marjorie, for we had Included a cheap shotgun are "grownups." With Jean we spent the afternoon driving about providing his secret commissions. brother John, also aged six, meaningly, andthere.was a llttje sting among the articles considered Indisand making fresh Jocutlons. Much of Moreover, heltnew what was essential In Frank begin school. Two years her wods. which brought me Into pensable. Wait until Frank gets after the land was already taken up, .Jake and whut was not, and he saved us later they are Joined by Jean and ' him." action; Frank's sister Marjorie. A little told us, and although there were as yet valuable time. . . , 1 believe I was "greatly flattered by Jeans later Jean confides to Frank, in youre no signs of settlement we would Se 9 . When at fust our'outflt Vvaq domplcte In- tones Intended to be severe. verse, her hope of some day be.wholly unwarranted confidence In my said, It presented a picturesque, arm somegreat change by fall. coming "Mrs. Hall." He accepts "And you she retorted. ."You marksmanship and eager to justify it fourthe "proposal." Frank We camped 011 Fourteen that night, what pathetic turnout. On our wagon : to lie". . at. the earliest' moment ought teen when his mother die. The . I were IllleJ with plans and and Jack we lfud built ' The truth Ts, I .was. temporary box pf No time, like the "present, said T, al- had Jean boy are eighteen when John's for our shacks and' our stable. The boards, and on this were "piled 'our father Is killed In an accident. belonged to me so absolutely that picking up. the gun. and filling my shacks would he up on the prairie level, trunks and personal effects, a plow, a ways Two years later Frank' fathor I hud never thought of .the possibility pocket with . "Besides, we and John's mother afe married. on opposite sides of the gully, In full stove,, food supplies a., lent, a "crate of a. rival. .Even Cow J did not think have a surprjsa to shpw you." . Dissatisfied, with conditions, and view of each other, nnd about a hiqv. with hens and another with ."a young, ambitious, the two hoys make of such 'a thlnjf seriously. Ij was true . 80 we starked out In the gathering dred yards apart. The stable womd pig, while over all roosted, If t may plans to go to Manitoba and that, there was fi engagement be- .darkness, I going first, as became the he In tlunrnliy, close to the road al"homestead," the girls agreeing use the term, the. two girjs. The cow tween us, unjess the woulnla man of bearer .of the gun; Jean at my heels; to go with them. They set out. lowance, sheltered from the winds, and we tied, behind, while Jack, and I six. and At Re.g.Ifl!h they meet "Jake," who of four ca.n be taken Jack and Marjorie a little In the rear. oimmient to water. The crossing of walked as A sort of "Hank "guard on as agree to find them satisfactory I looked on Jean as Down the steep edge of the gully we but binding, the stream wus passable, but would el tlier side of the tfxen. These two" homesteads. mfne, nevertheless, and I resented the. worked, and then along by the iqarge stand improvement. . phlegmatic creatures rejoiced' In file- action' of the mounted policeman lrr of the brown snow water, which ripEarly lu tiny morning we started names of Buck and ITiTgFit, and 1 resented, her acdnalntance. pled happily over beds of 'bending Seeking CHAPTER III Continued hack, and after three full days in the : their destiny at a pace of too, "the fact that: she hftd gone walking grass. . , lemoerat we found ourselves one evetwo and a half miles an Jurat. At h short distance "we came .to the with him, hud I told her svj at the first Jake threw a querying stress on the ning swinging up the now strangely resignation In adversity was sublime; opportunity. spot, where the valley broadened Out word sisters, tint It was against itlS familiar streets of Keglrta. The raw in fact, we soon found tt fuipossible to came that afternoon.. Jean said and the little grove of trfies had found It nature to be offended at him. Had prairie city of 11)04 ulready almost invent any adversity to 'width they she was fired rldr.ng, find got down to Its place of shelter .from Chinook we resented his remark lie would lmve' seemed like home. We" were like trav- were not resigned. . . wplk, on my side of the wagon. We winds In winter, and pyalple fires In With such an outfit our progress Was trudged along "foe aosne distance In sprfng and fall. The air was full of. laughed our seriousness out of court. elers returning from strange lands to Hut we decided to see some of the ad- scenes of old recoiled Ions. We had much slower than If had been with Silence, save for jn occasional words the sweet scent of bursting willow been away lust seven days, hut in that Jfike and his joining sections. "flyin anfs, but It was of rebukd and exhortation to the oxen. ' buds and and as we Sixteen appealed to Jack. We could time we hud swung fur out Into the an experience of unbounded freedom cross At pie," she said at picked our steps as noiselessly aa we "Youre universe; we had drunk of the air of and delight. The days held bright and length. ' . . have taken the west half, and so, workcoftld the slightly stirring ljmbs above .. new creation ; we had been warm, as It was still tuo Gods we would have had a mile ing together, Tin hot. Why J said that I cant us wrought their dark tracery against early or the furrow. The gully also touched Six- strangely conscious of the company of May rains; the nights were cold and lrtiagine. .. I was, and .wanted hen to the blue and starry heavqn. . . with a tang of frost toward know It, ; You never told me of teen, and would have given us the our souls. Oh, Frank starry, In tlrt rnornipg we went with Jake ' . . same advantages ns Jake claimed for I didnt mean to "offend you," she this! Hdw wonderful!.: morning; the dawns were fl rush, of to the land office; Fourteen nnd the sections he had recommended. Walt until . you see the pond," : I color, and the sunsets Indescribable. went on. was Just a little Marjorie in the township where we had . At nights we pitched the tent gnd bltsplteful." However, we found him very fixed In ; whispered, as one jtha keeps the best . to locate were still open, and made down decided Tvven-Ids preference for Fourteen and to the last. the I We did not select blankets for ' she I "But .but know girls, was,". agreed.. "no drtltcutty In filing our claim.. Jack and I slept under the stars. We you shouldnt have and finally we accepted his ar- we hud a reaand with gone walking "the to stable with Jake. were roughing It, but qvery 'muscle lo him. ' .' son." . . guments, and set out to make a more We returned !. . .' "Whats the damage J". Jack , detailed survey of the land. The gully our young bodies was vibrating with, ..Why?'There was no path between . ". trunks of poplar and the tense new life of the open. When lie was-- stranger. angled between the two quarters, takdidnt even Juke expectorated, profusely, spread the girls called us" to breakfast of know bis : ing scarce an acre off either of them. balm, and we had to make" progress name.' . . his his bend. fried bacon nnd feet, and Scratched A Jolly streum, brown with the grass potutoes and steaming , T do now. Its Harold Brook. Re- as best, we could. ,. .. , Jack and ; Seven times seven is fifty of its banks, gurgled along Its bed. sides, In tills cCmhtxy, you Marjorie had fallen considerably belocntln dollars ; ninety-blumakes fer ' You I kneKjlown to try the water; there hind. . ' know . . Just peoples napies. , I guess shes boys; gosh . Then, suddenly, the still waters of was the taste of snow, but there was . speak anyway." we might have made it a " also the harder, sharper note of spring dam It, the pond burst upon our view, and at ' "Oh, flo you?1 1 said, sarcastically. . . water mingled with It. the same moment, as though the very "So I see. We paid him the ninety-ninand be cross," she coaxed. "See, heavens cousplred to set the stage to Hutinin water like that Is worth a ."Dont moon thousand dollars on any man's farm, Jack threw In another. "Well make I. can beat you ttf that badger hole. the" best advantage, a. blood-reIt an even hundred, he said. "Come sent Its first pinion .of light sweeping One . Jake declared. An come up this way. out and see us when you get a. chance; 'Kk was off like the wind. For a down from the northeast and splashing Wait till I show you somethin'. we may have a bite of fried coyote for and ochre .across .the a I hesitated, then joined In the to be moment The "something proved you." race. But she had too much start, and slightly ruffled surface of the pond. widening in the valley, where was a Oh, Ill be along, Ill he along," said considerable growth of small willows besides, 'she was almost a. match for We stood for a time as mortals trans- "I'll blow out there often. Jake. me. She reached the little motmd first, fixed, watching lhfe great' red globe Fence posts and fireand poplars. We shook hands with Jake nnd on railroad an and as she turned she swerved a little drawing swiftly; into the blue above, said Jake, wood, turned away with a strange feeling of from her coarse, and I happened to until Its light painted Jeans face and land, too. that won't be sold fer years. ffae feaYoull have em all cut down before cutting ourselves adrift. We had not flange Into her. "To save herself from mine. In .the moonlight her how quickly an attachment may falling she seized me about the neck, tures were wonderful. Irresistible. .. , then.. That timber's worth another known We were brought to earth by a flutgrow on the prairies. and her hair brushed, against my thousand, or half that, anyway.. ter and splashing In the water. Two I face. ". , ... . . I thought of the great pine back on CHAPTER IV ducks, sweeping swiftly down out of i We walked back slowly, arm. In ffrm, the old farm In Ontario, and the "timarid I had a sense of being very much the darkness, alighted not, a dozen looked to me like gads and ber of a brute. . . . Jean bad wound me yards In front of us, and directly In If we thought we had finished with switches. None of it wus tall enough the line of light. I drew my gun to around her little finger. to reach out of the little valley and Jake It was evidence that we still had ray shoulder, and even as I did so their' busiour accomto learn about much re certain thrills of . There show a green, tip to the bald surface guides murmured grumblings sibilant almost of certain of the prairies. But we were not In ness qualities. Jake had a follow-u- p developepochs plishment, as the lisp ef water on a gravelly shore! lifeonce In come a his own.und that afternoon Ontario now ; we were In a land where peculiarly ment, which only time. One of these is when a young came to our ears, and they began to. even a three-inctree wus not to be he came steaming Into our presence "man writes his first, check, or first swim slowly about in. graceful little s we sat In the bare lounge room of despised. turns his key In his own door, or first circles. There was even a motion An here's somethin more, he said, (he hotel, making a list of necessities aa of back sees his name oft an office signboard. about the head of the. male as .he envelope. setting an example for us by walking on the I all over been fellows chasin on But the greatest is when lie first looks brought It close to that of his mate, his you pudgy legs through stealthily short of a a the clumps of willows. At the other hellnngone, he announced, with proupon landlre can call his own. True, that was surely nothing caress. . . . . was not land It but tills ours, end of the wooded space we found a fuse expectation to facilitate speech. yet Race Acres .the Prairies. "Dont, Frank, dont; you ipustntl to us. If we carried oyt our little pond opening out, nnd a score of I got a fistful 0 luck fer you. Chap wild ducks drowsing placidly on Us down at the stables trouble 0 some coffee and ndlk from our traveling part of A very simple agreement, and Jan exclalmed suddenly. In out front 6f arm darted Her me, a Ills more or to more we were we kind had other wants sell smooth surface. proprietary Interest happy and already dairy "An Englishman," Jake remarked, horses; as pretty a team o bays as hungry than anything we had ever In It. We showed it to the girls with "seized the barrel of the gun and drew th'e pride of a mother displaying her It swiftly Xo one side. , I had been when we hud turned buck, "would ever switched a tail In tlytlme, an I known to be possible. We saw them growAnd the girls first born. We were desperately anx- taking a most deliberate aim, to justify take this farm fer the duck pond alone. cun put you next. Svith of their ious, that our choice should be Justi- the high opinion already referred to, "Thats good you, said Jack, "hut ing browner every day, but They're the dangdest people ever was but at Jeans sudden interference I fer wantin to kill somethin, lie dun' weve just figured tlmt we cant afford sunburn they seemed to take on a fied. . . no and We waited for their. Verdict, but pressed the trigger, or, as I always care if his farm Is all sand or wallops, horses. Its a case of horses and competence. strange new charm neither spoke. '8 long as theres somethin' to shoot, cow, or oxen and ft cow, and the vote They treated the whole experience Well, what do you claimed, It pulled Itself against my finger, and went off. There was a loud Yanat a the moment stands unanimous for a high adventure, and ufter cramped think of It?" Jack asked at length. the Englishman dont. "It loo'Uk all right," said Marjorie. report, and the sound of shot harmkee it mus tie every nere wheat land, milk to our porridge, even at the risk hours on the top of "the ark" they : . lie don't care fer nothin but the long of our characters. They tell us that would race like wild things .across the "1 suppose It Is as good-- ns any. But lessly lushing the waten "Did you get him did you get him?" I are to a in how man tell he the even see hair don't to swears their when as you breeze, Hying Jake going good prairies, though paused green." drives oxen. and a vagrant wind tossing. the skirts It from other people's .land. .Its all shouted Marjorie and Jack, rushing think over these national character. . down upon us. . . alike. Thats wrong, Jake corrected. "A about their shapely limbs. istics. I didnt get him," I explained. No, to Jean? do taken the "What you say, "Let's find a badger hole." he con- good man don drive oxen. He may be They had precaution "I didnt even try to get him. I just . But Jean was looking at the" sunset, tinued, and we had little trouble In good before he drive's them, but not provide themselves with sunhonnets, Is was sun an where the Master Artist splashing wanted to see how far the gun' would, impetuous locating one. "Now look at this. This while he drives them, nor lminejut hut the prairie . . hole goes down five, six, seven feet, afterward, its agin human nature. lover, and their cheeks and Ups showed pastels of bronze and copper against curry." Jean. said "It wouldn't "I let him," wus a and silver a ox his of seen ou caresses, lie some 0 the the mark of Look Ive background champagne. profanity maybe more, in the ground. wonderful 1" she mur- would have been a Just a horrible whut Ids tdbs has kicked out. Fine, trails o this country so thick It lay rival who did not pique my Jealousy, "Wonderful, thing to shoot one of those poor crealoamy, sandy soil, not too light an not Jus like a fog on the prairie. Oxen for In his embrace I saw the woman mured. Fourteen Is Franks and Twenty-tw- tures, thg very first night we were has started more fellows on the wrong Jean bursting forth from the bud of loo sticky, all the way down. That Is mine," Jack explained. Well here! How beautiful they were, and In "ottier it crltturs cept girlhood beauty that kept my toes plumb to kingdom come. Course, road than any She said the last tbe and how how loving! the blood for tent t lie top is a little women." on o here, account girls pitch darker, a with word falling Inflecbashful, bothone note do Frank a was gobut likes, Im that There Just chance may tie grass roots, but Its all soli. None ayhe "Well, were going to take t with both," was Jacks answer. "You ered me. Tt was sounded a day or two ing to cross the gully and sleep to- tion that was wonderful to hear. o' jer three Its much more horrible to have no dont happen to have a hard up friend after we left Itegina lu some covert night under my own vine nnd fig tree, to that. duck ducklet I mean for towild Juke took a fresh chew of tobacco who would part with a yoke of oxen, remark which Marjorie made about so to speak. My six months residence morrows dinner," said Jack. seemed It Policeman. Mounted Jean's for a consideration, do you? :.inl looked out over the greenish-browbegins tonight "And those cartridges cost ever so I exclaimed. had been and medtree!" while his scratched Jack that tousled away hair Marjorie Jake "Fig airie. pi The trees around here are Just about much; what Is It? three or four cents land hunting the girls, too, had been Come to think 0 It, I beI have it flggered out like this!" be itatively. remonstrated. "Well, I Jus v.eut on, an my Aggers is right; this lieve I do, he said at length. doing a little prospecting. Itegina was high enough to tickle your ear when each," Marjorie hack. lets go mounted down." of pothe a was the talkin youre lying land Is worth more than any gold mine recommemher headquarters chap who We returned to our camp and started "You havent seen the trees yet, between hell an' Whoopup. When you o selllu his oxen tother day. As lice, and the fine figures of these young to muke ready for the night. But Jack, let's scarlet said with their of in riders ever the plains switched a tall Jack, knowingly. "Now, take the gold out o a mine you aint sleek a yoke as true to his promise, gathered up his and trim tunics an an can camp." nothin riding pitch hut take strong, gentle speedy left, gold flytime; you got We dragged the tent close to the blankets, waded the cold stream, and and clanking spurs have out o this mine next year, an the ns a scairt rabbit. I reckon I could trousers . before more of the gully and pitched It on the slept under the stars of Twenty-twothan heads brow a turned on Jeans an! ever preem, fer the you price get special year after, yer after, of our had We "period begun we had seems and that since. tt was was meself the It my that planned girls buytn." ui ever, an theres still as much there tendin "Have "And a cow," I ventured. us wher you started If you farm It along a business street when slmck should be. We also unloaded they saw a young policeman coming at part of our equipment so that we you a cow on your bargain list?" right." "Jake has everything on his bargain a short distance, and they happened could make use of it in the housekeep.ur inspection satisfied us m every Setting up housekeeping unparticular. Juke explained, as we al- list that we may happen to need," said to stop to admire something In a win- ing operations. It wns with great zest der these condition would seem He also that we carried our cookstove to the ready knew, that we would have to Jack. "Everything from a cow to a dow while he approached. be the wildest sort of an adto two and of said door to er and tent the we all strung up admire, Marjorie Its iniild separate shucks on the two quar- cookstove. stopped right, Jake; venture. What next? ters, to comply with the law about dont mind your little graft so long a something which Jean would not have three lengtns of pipe. In a few minutes with from a Jack somewhere conversation and see done started the Hut half and up, appeared game fairly, you play sleeping on me land claimed. . ran build one stable In the gutiy that we get at least fifty cents worth aud the policeman seemed to prefer an armful of wood, and as the dark iVO BJS CONTINUUM -- By ROBERT STEAD. four-year-o- ld WOMANHOOD Salt Laka City, Utah. 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