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Show THE J'AYSONIAN. I'AYSOW UTAH YTOLVEHNE HM.IXMER. Ca l T i Tit covrfY CHAPTER Jj Your paw mtglilu send If he you to school. Hilly Louise, eeu has got debts "He says be wishes he could, but he Let Us Start t the Beginning. trail win n oxen, their necks FOLK to the yoke of patient servitude, should really begin this story. Hut to follow the trail they luude would take seterul clinpteis viiioli you cei tu in ly would skip unless III like to hear the tale of !mw the wilderness was tamed and can thrill ..t the stern hisioiy of those who did the taming while they fought to keep 1eir stomachs I airly well Jilted with I d anil their linld muscled bodies tit or the fray 'i here was a woman, low luowed. mi sunbed, harsh of M.h e mid upeeAi an nature, who (Iron' the four neii loiwaid o'er la' a rn k mid rough prairie mid the Hciuily t age. J might limit ty.irll y, tell you a great deal who plodded stolidly tit f.s s the desert ..ml the low ly lug hills along (he Blnck-fooanil of her weak aotiled, shiftless husband whom she culled .fuse when slu did not cull him Worse. They were the pioneers v, !i";.-- lurching wagon (list fonhsl the Wolverine stream just where It green the tiny 'alley and the t slips between huge la' a ris k ledges to join the larger stream. Jase "mild lm'e Mopped there and called homo the Hielterei little green spot In the gray LtirrentieBL lut Marthy went on lip the farther MR and across the upland, another fttjl days Journey with the ("ruling eifli They .limped that night on nnnthar little, singing stream in another little 'ulley which was not so leel or M green or so wholly pleasing tu the ey. And that night two of t lie oxen. Imthan their pelled l.y a siiier instlic-hitmau outlets, slra'isl away down a narrow, winding gorge and so discovered the Co'e and feasted upon Its rich l lasses. It was Mmtliy who went alter them and who reeogubed the little, hidden K(l. u os the place of her dreams - stipposjug shee'er had dreams. So Marthy and Jase and the four oXeii took possession, and with much labor and many hard years for the woman and with the same nuinlier of years am! as little lul.wr us he could manage mi the tuans part they tamed the Co'e und made It a beauty spot in that "lid land A beauty spot, though their lives held nothing hut treadmill toil and harsh words ami a mental horizon narrowed almost to the limits of the grim, gray rm k "all that surrounded them. Another sturdy smiled couple eiitnn afterward Hiid saw the Wolverine and lirnde for tlicnihes a home upon Its hanks. And in the rough little log cabin was ls.ru the girl child I want you to meet-- a girl child when she should have been a boy to meet her fathers need and great desire; a girl child whose vety name was a compromise between the parents. For they called her l'illv lor sake of the boy her father wanted and Louise for the girl her mother had longed for to light ell that terrible loneliness which the far frontier brings to the women who lua'e its stern emptiness. When Hilly Louise was twelve she wanted to do something big, though she was hazy us to the particular nature of that big something. She tried to talk it o'er with Marthy, but Marthy could, not seem to think bevoml the don't know where the money's coming from." 'h it goln' to take?" asked "How it Marthy heavily. "Oh. piles." Hilly Is.nise spoke airily to hide Imr pride In the JmiMirtaiictt of the subject. Fifty tlollats, I guess. I some new clothes. lime to 'e got liK.nimle says. I'd like a blue dress." And your paw can't raise fifty dol larsV" Mart by 's tone was plainly belligerent. "(lot to pay Interest." said Hilly Louise importantly. Murth.v said tmt another word about del. Is or the duties of parents, What she did "as more to hp point, howe'er. for she hitched the mules t a ' .X& f rnttly old backboard next (lay and D'you Turn Them Calves Out Into on ranch to over the Marjtounld drove the Corral?' the Woh ei hie. She carried $o0 lit Iter all was that and practically She worries about e'ery little thing pocket, the money Mmtliy possessed and had since daddy died. ought to have gone been su'ed for the debts that harassed before-- or I oughtn't to have come her. She gn'e the money to Billy LouHut she was worrying about you, Mai ises mother and said ttmt it was it thy. She hadn't seen or heard of yon present for Hilly Louise and meant for for a month, and she wits afraid you school money." She said that she might he sick or something. Why hadnt any girl of her own to spend don't you get some one to stay with the money on and that Hilly Louisa you? Ittilnk you ought to. She lookwas a good girl and a smart girl, and ed towny! the door, which Jase had site wanted to do a little something toclosed upon his departure. "If Jit-- e ward her schooling. should -- get sick of anything"A woman "111 sacrifice more pride Jase ain't goltt' to git sick, Marthau you would believe If she sees a thy retorted glumly. "Yuh dont want way toward helping her children to an to let him worry yuh, Hilly Louise. If education. Mrs. MacDonald took tb I'd worried e'ery time he yowled money, and she promised secrecy -- with around ubout being sick I'd be dead or a feeling of relief t lint Marthy wishaj crazy by now. I dunno but maybe it. She was astonished to find that I'll have somebody to IiiUji with the Marthy had any feelings not direiTly work, though," she added after it pause, connected with work or the shortcomduring whiih she had swiped the dishings of Jase. hut she ne'er suspeed ing around the sides of the pan once that Marthy hud made any sacrifice for or twice and had opened the door and thru" n the water out beyond the doorHilly Louise. So Hilly Louise went away to school step like the sloven she was. "I got a and never knew whose money had nephew that wants to come out. He's made it possible to go. ami Marthy I. ecu lit u bank, but he's quit and harder and drove Jase inert to git mi to a ranch. dunno but I'll relentlessly to make up that $o0. She have him come In the spring. mw er mentioned the mutter to any one. "Do," urged Billy Louise, perfectly The next year it was the same. When unconscious of the jMiteutlalUies of the iu August she questioned Hilly Louise future. "1 hate to think of you two dont supine any clumsily upon the subject of finances iluwn here alone. and learned that daddy still talked me ever comes down here except me about debts and interest and didnt and that isnt often. know where the money was coming Nobody's got- - any call to come from site drove over again with money down," said Marthy stolidly. "They for the schooling. And again she ex- sure aint going to come for our com-p'ntracted a promise of silence. and there ain't nothing else to She did tills for four years, and not a bring 'em. soul knew that It cost her anything in "Well, there arent many to come, the way of extra work und extra jTTu know," laughed Billy Louise, shakharassment of mind. Site bought more ing out the dish towel and spreading cattle and cut more hay and went deep- It over two uulls, as she did at home. er into debt, for ns Hilly laiuise grew "Im your nearest neighbor, and I've older and prettier and more accustom, got six miles to ride against the wind ed to the ways of town she needed at that. I think Id better start. Weve more money, and the August gift grew got a half breed doing chores for us, The mother hut he has to lie looked after or he proportionately larger. w as thankful beyond the jtoiut of ques. neglects things. Ill not get another Honing An August without Marthy chance to come very soon. I'm afraid. and Mart lie's gift of money would have Momtiile hates to have me ride around las'll ii tragedy, and so selfish is mother much in the winter. You send for that .oe sometimes Hint she would Iihvc nephew right away, why don't you, accepted the gift e' en if she had known Marthy?" it was like Billy Louise to " hat It cost the gl' er. mix command aud entreaty together. At eighteen, then, Billy Louise knew "Heally, I don't think Jase looks a hit some tilings not taught hy the wide well." plains and the wild hills around her. A good strong steelin' of sage 'll Site was not spoiled by her little learntlx him all right, only he aint sick, as And ing, which was a good thing. see. Y'ou take tills shawl. Uo' e. when her father died tragically Billy Louise refused the shawl and When site was thirteen Billy Isutise an overturned load of jades from ran down the twisted path fringed rode o'er with a loaf of bread stie had tlie mountain at t lie head of the can with long, reaching fingers of the hare baked all by herself, and' site put tills yon Hilly Louise came home, 1 heBllly (C'ry hushes. At the stable she stop-jie- d of her tried to take ills jdaee and the problem to Marthy: for au aimless dialogue with Jase "F'e liecn thinking I'd go ahead and I wise of Iter attempted to take care aud tlo-- rode away, past the orchard write poetry, Marthy a whole hook of her mother, who was unfitted both whose leafless branches gave glimpses of it with pictures. But I do love to hy nature and habit to take care of her- - of low. sod roofed cabin, with the nuke bread and people bine to eat self. Which was. after all. a rather Marthy standing rather disconsolately read. Which would you be, Marthy big tiling for any one to nttenq't. on the rough doorstep watching her go. i poet or a cook?" Jase began to complain of haxlng Blue was climbing steadily out of Marthy looked at her a minute, lent "all gone" feelings during the winter the gorge, t witching an ear backward '.er attention briefly to the quest ion after Hilly Louise untile home and took with flattering attention whene'er his nd ga'e wlmt she considered goqd up the whole burden of the Wolverine lady spoke. The horse went on, calmranch. He complained to Hilly Tsmlse ly stepidug over this rock and around Y'ou learn how to cook. Hilly I.oll-- - when she rode over one clear, sunnr that as if It were tlie simplest tiling In e. Yuh don't wuut to go and get day In January. He said that he wae tlie world to find sure footing and carYour maw ain't healthy, and getting old, which was perfectly true, ry liis lady smoothly lip that trail. He mr paw likes good grub. IV try Ls and that he was not as ablebodied ad threw that up Ills head so I I foolishness. and didn't expect to last Hilly Louise "its startledsuddenly There uTh't any money lie might out of her much longer. Hilly Louise sjxtke of It aimless i It " dieiuniugs and pointed nose "Waiter Scott paid his debts writing to Matthy. and Marthy snorted. und ears toward tlie little creek botlie's abiehodied enough at meal- tom abo'e. "here Marthy had lighted ictry," said Hilly Louise argumenttl--,'ely- . Tv her campfire long and long ago. Site had Just read all about times. I notice," site retorted. .alter Scott in a magazine which a heard that tune ever since I knowed A few stops farther and Blue stophim. He cant bud me!" Sslng cow hoy had given her. Per-short In tlie trail to look lmd lisped Jase maundered In at that moment, ten. Billy Louise could see the nervips that lmd something to do with and Marthy turned and glared at Jase ous r new ambition twitchlngs of his nni.-- les under with wjiat Hilly Louise considered a the skin of neck and shoulders, and she Mel.t.y he did and mehbv he didn't. Ill Hudled to herself like to see oitr debts paid off with jicrfeetlv uncalled for animosity. Nothing could ever j'try. It'd have t be worth a hull reality, Marthy was covertly looking come ujxin her unaware when she rode fin- visible symptoms of the ail gone. morc'ii what I'd give for It." alone so long as she lode Hlue. A Oh! lla'e you got debts, too. Mar- -' ness. She shut her harsh lips together hunting dog was not more keenly alive ?" Billy Ix.uise at thirteen was tightly at whHt she saw. Jase certainto his surroundings. !1 ready with sympathy. "Daddy's ly was puffy under Ills watery, pink t lots and j.iles of 'em. He bought rimmed e.'es. and the withered cheeks a minute, , if it's u bear or tiling oe cattle and now he talks to mom-- . ubo'e Ids thin graying beard really did like that you can make a runanjfor lu look. a all the time aianit debts. Momuile lui'e im sty gray if it's a wolf I'll shoot it. You needn't "D'.vou turn them calves out Into the stand here all night, " tits me to go to Boise to school next anj "aj iter, to Aunt Sarah s. And daddy eotral?" slip demanded, her voice hardHlue went on. out from behind tlie I didn't er beenuse of her secret uneasiness. s there's debts to 'pay. willow growth that hid the He "t was goln to. but the wind's returned to his calm, picking"pen. .w jou had any, Marthy. a smooth Well. 1 have got. We bought some vlu nged Into the north, 'n' I thought trail through tlie scattered rocks and ;lo too, and they ain't done 's well's tnfbby you wouldn't want 'em out." tiny washouts It was the girl's turn If I had a man that was Jase turned hack aimlessly to the door, to stare and speculate She did not V might. I liis voice was getting cracked aud kuow this horseman who al tu urgentgood on earth could put up more and the deprecating uote doui- But I can't git uothlng outa Jase ht'-k- y. ly In the saddle and looked up at the , I i "bines. it I. . t, 1 t wmit-work- 1 1 T f4mW;A r m hh ijfi' '!U ill' 1 ad-ic- tm-m- s. m : .- n -e . H- , o e. y m the-ranc- ex-ce- fj 1 . 1 1 1 ; - , . -- we-ain- t h -- she tried to shive$ In honest dread, often aud ofteu. however, YYard War ten was a fugitive who lame to her for hell'. Then she would take him t U ,a'e iid hide him. perhaps, or sb would mount her horse aud lead him by devious wajs to safety, and upou some hilltop from which she could ,oint out the route he must follow she would bid him a touching adieu aud in -- Hence. lanI!i:ie'- - a dandy horse on bad trails, beseech him in the impossible and romancer to old p com-go some of guage she observed a .d m the dark, life. a blameless lead cant ni t at lust, lie i) ot simply j "Jase has got all goue feelings now, in-h - tooting or Ills w ay. inommie" Billy Louise remarked IrrelYes? Thats idee. and 1:1,1' Louise felt like putting out her evantly during a brief pause into silence agalu. She knew tongue at him for the cool remoteness o Ins time. It would serve him right t hat was good for at least five minute to i ide on and let him break his neck of straight monologue with her mother in that talking mood. She finished her (hit Ihe Dill IT if ne wauted to. She ahiit her teeth together and turned her snjiper while Warren listened abstractf.n nwuy from him. edly to a complete biography of the no good with and Meilkes aud 'earned all about Marthy siletue very s.i, in energy and Jases shiftlessness. feeling between them, they went down the steep hill (the bill "Ward Warreu!" Billy Louise wa in which Marthy and the oxeu aud saying to herself. "Ward Warren! .) had tolled so laboriously twenty-seveThere couldn't possibly be two Ward years before) and across the tiny Warrens; its such an odd name. fl it to " here the cabin window wlnk-e- l YY'ell! a welcome at them through the Then she went mentally over that storm. She wished she did not paragraph. remember every single word of It, but " CHAPTER II. site did. And site was afraid to look at him after that, and she wanted to A Book, a Bannock, and a Bad. She felt as though he bedreadfully. led the way straight to the to her. Why, be was her old longed BI.1K dirt roofed stable of logs and jilaymate! And she bad saved hi life stopped with his nose against the uml reds of times at immense risk to cle-e- d door. Billy Louise herself wai and he had always been her detiers, do eiicd hy the whirl of snow and voted slave afterward aud never filled would lui'e missed the stable entirely to a j q tear at the precise moment when if the leadership had been hers. She site was beset by Indians or robber ou the shoulder j utted Hlue gratefully or something and in dire need. The "lieu she unsaddled him. She groped blood he had shed in her behalf! At " it ti her li utrers for the wooden peg in that point Billy Louise startled hertu. wall where the saddle should hang, self and the others by suddenly laughiii Jed to find It and so laid the saddle out loud at the memory of one down against the logs aud covered It ing lime when Ward Warren had killed w oh the blanket. Indians to fill a deep waabout enough Just turn your horse in loose, she so that be might carry her across to wont Blue d, reeled the man shortly. tlie other side! light, and I think the rest of the horses "Is there anything funny about Jase - iu on to come Aud the other part. imMeilke dying, Billy Louise?" her moththe house. j er asked her In a perfectly shocked It pleased her a little to see that he tone. obejed her without protest, but she "No. I was thinking of something v as tmt so jdeased at his silence, and She glanced at the man eying ese. toshe led the way rather Indignantly -r so distrustfully from across the ts- waul the winking eje which was the I I fie and gurgled again. It was terribly i chin's window. t tlie sound of their feet on the silly, hut she simply could not help ide doorstep her mother pulled open seeing Ward Warren calmly filling that Indiana so that be t'e door and stood fair In the light, w ashout withherdead across it in his arms. might carry an anxious look. with out looking The more she trletf to forget that the "Is th it jou, Billy Louise? Oh, ain't Deter Howling Dog with you? What funnier it became. She ended by leavt akes precipitately jou so terrible late, Billy ing the table aud retiring otiise? Dome right In, stranger. I to her own tiny room In the leau-tdon't know your nume, hut I dont where she buried her face aa deep as need to know it. A storm like this Is it would go in a puffy pillow of wild ml the iuterduction u fellow needs, 1 duck feathers. He, poor devil, could not be expected goess." "What about reter?" Biliy Louise to know just what had amused her so. He did know that it somehow conn bed "Isnt he here?" cerned himself, however. He took up he hous an since been and ain't .No, or so after you left. He saddled up liis position mentally behind the wall ami rode off down the river, to the res-- ( of aloofness which stood between himself and an unfriendly world, and when r al ion, 1 reckon." "Then the chores arent done, I sup-jos- Billy Louise came out later to help Billy Louise went over and with the dishes he was sitting abtook a lantern down from its nail, sorbed in a book. The next morning the blizzard raged, turning up the wick so that she could bght it with tlie caudle. "Ho up to so that Warren atayed aa a matter of the fire and thaw out. she invited the course. Teter Howling Dog had not man. "Well have supper iu a few returned, so Wasren did the chorea and would not let Bill? Louise help minutes. Instead he reached out and took the with anything. knit ei'ti from her as soon as she had ' I wish we could get him to atay lighted it. "Y'ou go to the fire your- all winter instead of that Peter Howlself, he said. Ill do whats neces- ing Dog, Mrs. MacDonald 8ald anx1 iously after he had gone out. sary outside. just I dont Why-Billy Louise, her fingers know Peter's off dtinkiug. still clinging to the lantern, looked up think hes a safe man to have around, at him. He was staring down at her Hilly Louise. 1 didn't when you hired "lilt that intent look she had objected him. I haven't felt easy a minute to on tlie trail, but she saw his mouth with him on the place. 1 wish youd and tlie little smile that hid just back hire Mr. Warren, Billy Louise. He's of his lips. She Smiled back without nice and quiet Aud hea got a ranch of his own. Ill have to go along, knowing it. anyway. There are cows to milk, and He doesn't strike me as a man who jou couldnt very well find the cow wants a job milking two cows and, stable alone. carrying slop to the pigs, mommle. "Think not?. YVell, I'd feel a lot easier If we had: Together they went out again Into him instead of that breed. Only the storm they had left so eagerly, even got the breed half the time. lolly Louise showed him where was This is the third time he's disappeared1 tlie pi chfork and the hay and then In the two montfcs we've had him. I. dal tlie milking while he plied full the really think you ought to apeak to Mr. mangers. After that they went to- Warren, Billy Louise. gether and turned the shvering work Speak to him yourself. You're the-onhorses into the stable from the corral that wants him, Billy Louise anwlicre they huddled, rumps to the swered somewhat sharply. She adored, storm, and the man lifted great forkher mother, but If she had run fuls of hay and carried It into their she did wish her mother would stalls, while Billy Louise held the lan- not Interfere and give advice Just at. tern high over her head like a western the wrong time. d J-:'- ' Liberty. They did not talk much, Well, you needn't be cross about it. i VA A when there was need for speech, iou know yourself that Peter cant be hdi they were beginning to feel a litdepended on a minute. There he went ' ' ! Jh' t! tle glow of companionship by the time off yesterday and never fed the pigs, ' ' I t n ' !h h (hey were read.v to tf'glit their way their noon alop, and I had to carry It egainst the blizzard to tlie hous, Billy out myself. And mj-- lumbago baa Louise going before with the lantern, bothered me ever since, just like It w bile the man followed close behind, was going to give me another spelL. ut trying the two pulls of inilk that' You cant be here all the time, Billy was already freezing in little crystals I.ouise leastways you ain't and to tlie tin. Peter "I didn't quite catch your name, misOh, good gracious, inommie I told ter." Mrs. MacDonald said after they j'ou to hire the man If you want him. "Youd Better Ride On Ahead and Get had begun the meal. "But take anDuly YVard YYarren isnt In Out of This. other biscuit, anyway. YY ard Warren open the door "Warren is my name," returned the aud looked from pushed one to the other, hla aud more of it before long. This man. with that hidden smile because eyes two i question marks. a,' use of mine lias had thirty miles Isnt she had never before given him auy what?" he asked or so of rough g dug " aud shut the door 'ard to tell Warren. behind him with the air of one who ls "1 think d botter wait for jou," she opportunity -- .lid "Tin it' ate bad jilaces F'e got a claim over on Mill creek." ready for anything. j'l iiiih Hilly I.ouise gave a little gasp and em-- e to tlie bluff. Isn t the kind of man who wants to "here tl " trail poured two sioonfuls of hire out to do chores," aud the la' a rock "ill lie slipjiery with Billy Louise this -- n w . and it - getting dark so fast s,t;ar hi her tea. although she bated It finished aud looked at him " eetened. that a stiancei might go o'er." "Are you? Mommie wants straight. to hire I've to got tell case the sooner you you why even at the you." "If that's tlie arc !'at tlie bad !ueos the better I'm prlie of digression. i,(mg ago. when "Oh. well. I was just about to aak Y ou drift Hilly Louise was twelve or so and for the till right along.' Job, anyway." He laughed, lived in a dream world of her aud the distrust largely Hilly Louise siavuiated briefly main left his As a eyes. the note of calm authority in Ids voice. own. she had one day chanced ujam a matter of fact, I was going over to Lx tlul not Utto" (' idently t hut she jmi acrapli in a paper tlmt had come Jim Larson's to hang out for the rest wa- - in "tv an to gi'ing com- from town wrapped around a package of the winter mands than t" "hejlng them Her lips of matches. It was all about Ward hmesomeriess and. get away from the of the hills The old at his YY arreti. The name caught her fancy, Turk s a gave a lit t U piid. of pretty good friend of mine. and tlie text of the paragraph seized Hut it mistake. looks to me as if you two need"You go on. I don't want a guide." iq"ii her imagination. Until school ed around that looks like a something lie till'd liis head j'erempt"rilj toward tilled her uiiml with other thiugs she a man a heap more than Jim does. I ; lie hit red t il , head. had built adventures without end In know Peter Howling Dog to a lid'j i.oiii-- e l.,;,hc.i a Lille She did which Ward YYarren was the ntra! You'll be all to the good if as-.mu tcel in tie now emban figure Sometimes, when she rmle In 'Do "U ne'ir -- ct '.l.at Jon d"g t tl e hills. Ward YY'arren abducted her (To be Continued) want?' she usked mildly. "I'd a lot aud led her Into atrange places, where owiar grown bluff tiejond while his Lose stood kr.ee deep In the little si i earn. Sne did not know him, and theie "tie let so main tra'elers in the land that stiati.'eis Weie a matter of indifference. Blue "d omed the hot: with a detu o. ruth- lib ker und went forward brisklAnd the lider turned his head y eyed the girl sharply us she came lift and nodded a cursory greeting. His horse luted its head to look, de. lilcd that it "anted another swallow or two and lowered its mtuzle again to the water. Hilly Louise to uni not form any opin it ot the man's age or . for lie was encased in a "..Itskin cout which co'cri-i- l Inin (ompletcly from hat. rim to ankles She got an Ini pres Si. hi ..f a thin, datk fae and a sharp glume from eyes that seemed duik also. There "as a thin, high nose, and that Hilly Is.uise did tmt look.' If she had the mouth must certainly have reassured her some" lint nine stejiped nolo halaiitly down into the stream beside the strange hore mid went across without stojqiing to ' drink. The strange lmr-- e moved on a:so, s If that "ere the natural thing to do which It " as, since chance sent them tra'eliiig the same trail. Blllv Louise set her teeth together with the queer little ' iebuis rlii k that lmd al- ways been her habit "lieu she fe't to jleld t thwarted and circumstances and sti aiglitened herself ' In the saddle. Looks like a storm," the fur coated one obsened, with a jieffeetly traits., ji.irent attempt to lighten the awk-ardness. BHIy Louise tilted her chin upward aud gazed at Hie gray sweep of cloud t moling sullenly toward the mountains ut bet' liibk. She glanced at t he man and caught him looking intently at Iter, face. lie did not look away immediately, as he bhould lme done, and Hilly Louise felt a little heat wave of embarrassment, etnjihasij'.ed by reseutment. "Are jou going far? he quelled li the same tone he hud employed liefore. "Six miles," she answered shortly, though she tried to lie decently eh 11, Ive about eighteen." lie said. Looks like well both get caught out In a blizzard." Certainly he had a pleasant enough voice, und, after all, it was not his fault that lie happened to lie at the crossing when she rode out of the gorge. Billy Louise, in common justice, laid aside her resentment und looked at 1dm with a hint of a smile at the corners of her litis. Thats what ve have to exjiect when we till' el in this country ill the winter, site replied. "Highteeu miles will take you long after dark." Well, 1 "us sort of figuring on putting uji at spnte ranch If it got too bad. There's a ranch somewhere ahead on the Wolverine, isn't there?" . Yes." Billy Louise hit her lip, but hoejiitaiity ls an unwritten law ot the West, a law not to be liftln lx broken. That's where I live. Well lie glad to have you slop there of eoutse." Tlie stranger must have felt and admired the unconscious dignity of, wer tone and words, for lie thanked 'her simply and refrained from looking too intently "at her face. Fine siftings of snow, like mea! flung down from a gigantic sie'e, swet into their faces us they rode on. The man turned his face tow urd her after a lopg silence. Site was riding with bowed head and face half turned from him and the wind alike. "Youd better tide eu ahead aud get 111 out of this," lie said curtly. "Your horse Is fresh. Its going to lie worse ' ' r r t her lead you past those pis cm than have you go over the edge, she said, heiau-- e nobody could get you up or you decently. 'e'en ;.) d'.wu and bury Its much D wi.ul lo t be a hit nice. s, miller h keep jou ou top. lie aid something, hut Billy Louise. sus-(mi l not hear what it was. She ou She rode j. ted him of swearing. Inatcd pathitiTilIy a!! t liu r fie said face the " it.d uotn' You'll ha'e t home." he shIi! to Hilly Louise. "More'n likely you'll he tie in' snow too Looks hail off that waj " 'You to on mid turn them lal'es out;" Marthy coniiniinded him harshly. Louise ain't home if It Hilly 1 slid think you'd know stoitns enough to know that." "ob, hut I'll luoe to eo anyway. Mom tide can t the girl Interrupted. he theie alone; she'd wmry herself to ileatli if I didn't show up hy dink. rKTT -- ; 1 aum-eme- I nt . fare-jou-'.e- ll. nj |