Show STUDRXT John Danielson’s horse paused The vision was looking in the other direction and did not see him as breathless he gazed at startled her His horse whinneyed and with a quick gasp she turned A d broad shoulderlarge ed man tanned by wind and sun sat on a horse and paid silent tribute with a pair of large quiet blue eyes It was over in a second The vision came toward him with a look of trust a smile that showed two rows of white teeth and a cup of water extended in her hand Danielson drank and a look came into his eyes like the look in the eyes of Eph when long years before he had stood with his sweetheart in the bend of Blue Creek in the sunset and had chosen the nest Bessie Vernon was not a western born girl She was western from necessity The only daughter of a widowed mother she had brought that mother suffering from consumption into the glorious Oregon atmosphere in the hope of bettering her condition They were staying at the Starr ranch across the valley She hoped the Blue Valle' people would tolerate them and after introducing themselves and talking for a while hoped Air Danielson would come over and see them John Danielson’s one fault one weakness lack of fire in his eye was overcome The old dumb quiet look the heritage of his ancestry left him and he returned to the Starr ranch that night with a light in his eye and a song in his heart light-haire- Lift 47 Bessie Vernon originally western from necessity now western from choice stood with John Danielson at the Erma spring Two years had passed since their first meeting two years in which the big blue eyed honest John Danielson had won a place in her heart that more brilliant men who could talk better men of the world had looked for in vain lie had told her the story at the soring where thev had first u ct told it in the same honest hopeful way as Eph had fifty years before She admired him She would consider She hardly knew herself The dumb look in John Danielson's He went back to eyes returned his work the same John of old quietly hoping and a year later asked her again She knew now They would choose a nest lolm Danielson stood under the 1 is stars nest was built It had been ready for a week but someHis big thing had happened hands were stretched toward heaven the moonlight showed a : 1 dumb pain on his face a dumb stricken look in his eyes He I them God prayed: ‘‘Eorgive guess it was best — if they love each other — I guess I was in the road Eorgive them God” Eph’s old sweetheart died quietly a few weeks after it happened She never recovered from the shock They had left Erank and Bessie the night before the date of John’s wedding Frank had John said nothing drawn all the available funds from |