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Show . 5 'f i .S SOUTH CACHE COURIER A MY FRIEND MARY OHARA 'THE STORY SO FAR: . Ken McLaughlin, given an opportunity to choose any yearling on his familys Wyoming ranch, picks the filly of a loco mare named Rocket. His father, a retired army officer, Is disappointed by Kens choice and by his son's failure in school. But he Is pleased at the change in Ken since he has had a colt of his own. When Flicka, the filly. Is badly hurt trying to jump the corral fence, Ken takes the opportunity to care for her and to make friends with her. Kens mother and father quarrel when she tries to tell him she has seen a wildcat. Nell goes into town to a movie to get away and regain her poise. Now continue with the story. d - , CHAPTER XVI thing. Then I got terribly scared, and started to run home. Then I remembered I shouldnt run and I tried to walk. I kept looking behind me. I was in a regular panic. I knew he was around here. Howd you know? I saw footprints the other morning. Where? In the corral. In the corral! Yes, four perfect prints in that patch of earth that gets the dampness from the water trough. Nell was silent, thinking of the cat stalking out from the woods, across the open space to the corrals. The Stable Pasture thats pretty close, Rob. Theres lots of game up there, Nell. The woods are full of deer. It was true. Several of the hay crew had told of seeing deer when they went up to the Stables early in the morning; and Nell, herself, one day, just pretending that the shape of some twigs and branches and little shrubs were the delicate shapes of deer, suddenly saw that it was true. A group of five does and fawns stood there motionless under her eyes. Its strange that the men didnt see the prints of the mountain lion, Rolling along the Lincoln Highway at about sixty miles an hour, five miles faster than her usual pace, Nell had a delicious sense of escape. In Cheyenne she crept along the streets, marveling at the Neon lights thal outlined the features of every booth, hot-do- g stand, shop and restaurant. The streets were almost as bright as day. At the theater, she saw Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire in a dance-teapicture; and here she was lost in delight Her real life was completely erased. Back again in the days of college proms and holiday dances, she danced the hour through, and came out of the theater too. Gus saw them. He was with me. In a daze, hardly knowing where she was, or at what point her life was to I told him to rake them over. I didnt want the men to see them be picked up again. Now she must get home it was and talk about it. Because of Ken? nearly eleven oclock. Yes. Hes gone through enough It took her a long time. She had to open the window, hang her head this summer, without lying awake out, looking down at the front wheel, trying to keep it right on the center line of the road. It seemed three times the actual distance of twenty-fiv- e miles before she turned Off the highway and drove in Under the Goose Bar Ranch Sign, Rob was sitting in the arm chair by the radio, absorbed by a playlet he was listening to.' One knee was hooked over the arm of the chair. His boots were off, slippers on the heather brown socks that were drawn up over the cuffs of his riding breeches. He was smoking. Seeing her he smiled and nodded, then held up a hand for silence, not wanting to miss a word of what he Mind if I hear this was hearing. out?" he said softly. Not at all, Nell answered stiffly, and went upstairsto bed. Half an hour later, he lay in bed beside her, smoking a last cigarette in the darkness. It seemed to him that the walnut bed was vibrating slightly. The tremor emanated from Nell. Lying there, her back turned to him, she was tense from the back of her neck to her toes. Rob finished his cigarette, ground out the stub in the ash tray on the table, then rolled over and put his arms around her. He held her tight to him, one arm under her neck. With the other hand, he pressed her head against him, smoothed her hair laid his cheek against it as he so often did, kissing it softly. It took a long time for her trembling to stop. When it had, he said quietly, Then he just melted away.1 What frightened you up in the Stable Pasture? worrying about the cat, with school She didnt answer. only ten days away. Was it the wildcat? At that moment they both jumped, Yes. and Rob leaped half out of bed. A I heard you shoot twice did you scream tore the air, rising from the get a shot at him? Hill across the Green, going up in a No that was cottontails I was snarling crescendo to a pitch of shooting at. ferocity, then ebbing slowDid you get the cottontails? sobs. ly away in I shot them but the mountain Profound silence followed; the lion got them. deep stillness of the range as if it What happened? had never been broken. You know the rock up there that Rob struck a match, lit the canI call the Sur.set Rock, because 1 dle by the bed and turned to look at so often climb up it to look at the Nell. sunset? She was sitting bolt upright, her Yes the one in the woods a litwide and dark, and her lips eyes tle way, that comes up out of the parted in an expression that was earth sharp and jagged like the top slightly hysterical. of a mountain poking through. Did you ever hear such a sound! Yes. Well, I had shot the two she said. rabbits, and the light was fading Rob shook his head. Then a moand there were beautiful colors iff ment later said, Beautiful, wasnt the sky. I thought there must be a it? fine sunset if I could get up out of It was gorNell nodded violently. the woods to a high place and see it. geous. So I thought I would climb up the They sat still, listening, wondering Sunset Rock. Its so steep in places if the cat might scream again, while you have to go up on your hands and the flame of the candle flickered knees, you know, hanging on and the long shadows danced on I know. ceiling and walls. So I set the twenty-tw- o against Nell slipped out of bed. Gimme a pine tree near the base of the rock the candle. I just want to see if and tied the legs of the two rabbits that woke the boys. together with that narrow black ribShe came back a moment later. bon I had around my hair, and I Both of em dead to the world. hung them on a jagged stump of We wont tell them, Rob. branch that stuck out of the trunk Of course not. of the pine tree. I wonder if any of the men How high up? heard. Not a chance. Its midnight. Not very high. Just opposite my do you say we go downface. And then I climbed up the rock and stood up there looking at stairs? I cant sleep after that. Ill the sunset. When it was over I make you some hot chocolate. I came down on the opposite side of think you should have had somethe, rock, and walked around the thing to eat anyway, after your evebase of it to the place I had left the ning in town and the long ride back what did you see? A good show? gun and the rabbits, but before I They belted robes about them, got there I met the lion face to face not ten feet away he was coming went down to the kitchen and Rob around the rock, too. And he had made chocolate; for each cup, one square of bitter chocolate and two my rabbits in his mouth. spoons of sugar and a cup of milk, Ill be darned." thick, smooth drink, topped with We ins stood facing each othGuernsey cream. er. Were you scared?" They sat down at the table to Not then. Just so surprised. We drink, and Nell had a chance to tell neither of us moved for a moment, about the show, about the fog, about then he just melted away. It was what she had seen in town. She comgetting dark it just seemed as if 1 never ffelt that she had quite blinked my eye and he was gone pleted an experience until she had I stood listening, couldnt hear a shared it with Rob m ear-splitti- heart-rendin- g When they went up to bed an hour later, all her nervousness was gone. As she blew out the candle, she said, Drct that wildcat hes got my The afternoon that Ken finished copying his composition, he went over to the Post Office with his mother in the Studebaker, and dropped the long envelope, containing his neat three pages of writing, and his mother's letter, into the mail hair-ribbo- Transatlantic new THE Due to an unusually large demand and current war conditions, slightly mor time is required In filling orders for a few of the most popular pattern numbers. show scheduled to start April 15 promises to be amusing; whether it will carry out its purpose, to find out, J- Sewing Circle Needlecratt Dept. 117 Minna St. San prance co, Calif. Enclose 15 cents (plus one cent to cover cost of mailing) for PaKrtm through the participants, what Americans know about Britain and what the British know remains to sat about America, be seen. Col. David Niven, the box. Driving back to the ranch, he silent, aware of peculiar feelings within himself. It was another achievement, something that might amount to quite a good deal in the estimation of his father and Mr. Gibson. It was to be kept a secret from his father until Mr. Gibsons answer came. Of course, he may not answer, He may just tell you said NelL when you and Howard get there. This made school feel very near. And that made Ken think about Flicka. He had never dreamed that at the end of the summer, Flicka would still be lame and half sick. He hated to leave her that way. After he had gone, no one would care for her so devotedly. She would have to shift for herself. She would need her rations of oats for a long time yet, to put the flesh back on her bones. She had been getting so thin, lately thinner, it seemed, every day. i And her coat was losing its fine color and sheen. Rob had no eyes and no thought for anything but the haying and the weather. The extra men had gone; Rob and Tim and Gus were storing the baled hay in the barn; stacking the loose hay in long lozenges that gradually took on shape and style, the sides forked down until they were smooth and perpendicular, the tops shaped in rounded ridges to shed rain and snow. Each time they got one stack topped they stretched long strands of baling wire over it to bind it to the earth, and hung heavy railroad ties on the ends of the wire. This kept the wind from blowing the stacks away. The weather still held; but, each night, the banks of cloud that crept over the sky were heavier, and sometimes thunder rumbled intermittently for hours. Nell dropped her sewing in her lap and looked out of the window, her brows knotted with anxiety and distress. The filly wont pull out of it, Rob had said, when the little mare was first hurt; and he was right. Flicka was going to die. If Rob knew if, perhaps, he had known ever since the generalized infection had poisoned her blood stream and he had given her the shot of serum, he had said nothing; and when the men talked about her he pretended not to hear. But Ken how could he have failed to see that every day left the little filly with less flesh, less strength, less life? Nell remembered a friend whose baby had been wasting away, and yet, because of the daily care and closeness, the warmth and little smiles and tiny arms still clinging, did not know it until the very end. Ken did not know. Soon Flicka began to go down in flesh so rapidly that almost overnight she wasted away to nothing. Every rib showed. The glossy hide was dull and brittle and was pulled over her skeleton as if she was a dead horse. For convenience of unloading, the big hay wagon was left near the corrals every evening; and one morning as McLaughlin and Howard and the men were walking down to it, Gus leading one of the work teams which was to be harnessed into it, Ken was walking with them, carrying the can of oats under his arm. He was going to take Flicka her breakfast. The little mare was waiting for him at the gate of the corral. When McLaughlin saw her, he stopped walking, and a look of horror spread over his face. What is that? he shouted. They all stopped walking and looked at her, and Ken, with a face as white as paper, looked back at his father. Its Flicka, he whisShes been getting awfully pered. cow-bar- By VIRGINIA VALE Beleased by Western Newspaper Union. n thin. roared McLaughlin. Thin! Gus shook his curly head sadly. Ay bin thinking shes not goin to pull out of it, he said. Pull out of it? Shes dead al- ready. McLaughlin turned to glare at How long has she been like Ken. that?" Shes been going down awful fast faltered Ken. the last few days Its Its de fever, said Gus burnin her up. Tim said, It's an awful pity She was a nifty little filly. Hard luck. Ken. McLaughlin looked at her again. She was nickering for Ken. Her head was up, looking at him. She was just bones and a dull, lustreless hide. roared McThats the end, I wont have a thing Laughlin. like that on my place." He walked on to harness the team, and Ken went slowly to Flicka, ar.d down the path to the stream, with the little creature hopping at his He poured the oats in her heels. feed box and she dipped her nose ate them. (TO BE CONTINUUM No Name Address movie star, who has been with the English army since the outbreak of the war, will be a regular member of the London panel when his war assignments permit. Russel Crouse, playwright, and Christopher Morley, author of Kitty Foyle, will be regulars at this end. 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