Show J THE GARLAND TIMES GARLAND Ptolc to Jlove O MARTHA TIIE STORY THUS By MARTHA OSTENSO SERVICE I did sir As I say-l- ike cryin’ it was” and take a look” said Bruce and rode away At the entrance to the ravine Bruce swung his long body out of the saddle and walked slowly into the birches letting his horse wander off to nibble the sweet young grass On a little rise of ground he stood and listened The shimmering even the air held a sad stillness coquettish young leaves of the birches drooped in a melancholy “Oh a “I’ll PAR Autumn Dean returning home to British Columbia from Lovely Independent abroad without her father's knowledge at the home of Hector Cardigan an old family friend He tells her thatstops ahe should not have come home that uilngs have changed Arriving home at tha "Castle of the Norm" she la greeted lovingly by her father Jarvis Dean who gives her to understand that she la welcome — for a short visit Her mother former belle named Mllllcent Odell has been dead for years Autumn cannot understand her father's attitude though gives him to understand that she Is home for good She has grown tired of life In England where she lived with an aunt Her father gives a welcoming dance at the castle Autumn meets Florlan Parr dashing young man of the Late In the evening Autumn leaves the dance rides horseback to the countryside neighboring ranch where she meets Bruce Landor friend and champion of her childhood days He takes her to see his mother an Invalid His father Is dead thought to have killed himself As soon as his mother sees Autumn she commands Bruce to take her away that death follows In the wake of the Odells Autumn Is both saddened and perplexed by the Invalid's tirade Bruce apologetic can offer no reason for his mother's attitude Autumn calls again on Hector Cardigan— thia time to find out the reason for Mrs Landor's outburst From his conversation she Inferred that Geoffrey Landor killed himself because he loved Mllllcent Dean her mother indeed young-on- go down UTAH — frantic search about the place Dickie confessed he had seen Simmy go away in this direction and I rode out at once The men are I had no idea the hills scouring he would have come so far” “It was sheer luck on my part” Bruce told her “One of my men was over this way and told me he thought he had heard a child cryI took a run over and — ” ing “Simmy you little idiot 1” Autumn scolded the boy “We might never have found you If it hadn’t been for Bruce — ” ' She cuddled the youngster and smiled over her shoulder at Bruce who stood watching her “Send the reward to Ned my herder” he said She set the boy on his feet and drew a sigh of relief as she looked down where the birches stood along the creek and disquiet-inglAbruptly out of the obscure weave of the past a pattern a color stood out vividly before her This was the gully she had visited years ago against her father’s desires "I used to come down here often" she said “I still do— sometimes” Bruce replied slowly She was sorry then that she had spoken A wistfulness had come into Bruce’s eyes that caused her to turn quietude He had been standing there only a moment when from somewhere deep within the birches came the tiny bleat of a lamb Bruce knew CHAPTER III— Continued been hostile people said ever since it could not be one of is own flock the death of his beautiful wife If Ned was too experienced a herder There was no mistaking Hector’s Bruce was perplexed at the Laird's to permit any of his wards to stray He would say no more meaning stony refusal to acknowledge him Besides the sound had come from about it at present On the other even as a neighbor there was at well within the land of Jarvis Dean hand his very manner was in itself least some consolation in the fact The responsibility was not his and a confession Autumn's question had that the dour sheepman treated evyet —he stepped down from the rise been answered She had no desire eryone alike granting each a sort of ground and strode through the away “Come along Simmy” she said to leave her old friend in an un- of individual eclipse with the extrabirches till he came to the creek "We’ve got to get you back the shallow stream quickly pleasant frame of mind She looked ordinary power of his unseeing eye He followed home” It was the light downward until he came at last to up at him and laughed “I’ll go along with you” Bruce “Hector you old goose” she said falling moist and sweet from the the fatal spot which he had marked “You won’t he able to ”1 believe you are almost angry green of the hills into the curveif years ago and which he had visited suggestedalone” manage After all there isn’t much that ei- valley where the Landor ranch occasionally during the summers “Thanks Bruce” she said and ther of us can do about it now seemed to hide in humility from its that had come and gone since his into at once saddle her got r Come along darling boyhood — the spot where the and show me more magnificent neighbor the doWhen he had seated the boy behad found the still form of main of Jarvis Dean The ancient your flowers” fore her he lifted the lamb and in shallLandor the Geoffrey lying trees In Hector’s orderly garden at the drooped like a mounted his horse and in a morear of the cottage blue flags stood ceaseless lovely rain into their own” ow creek ment they were riding slowly up the He paused a moment and looked dark and earthy shadow and like tall and brave cupping the sunlight hillside on the way to the trail that Autumn stared at them and tried a phalanx of paint about him The light of the waning led back to the Dean e brushes the long avenue of Lombardesperately to check the shaking “I hope you will try to forget uncertainty of her own heart it was dy poplars stroked the sky swaywhat happened last night Autumn” in Bruce Landor’s eyes that she had ing in a whispered rhythm from the when Bruce said had they gone a seen that same clean and gallant corrals to the Landor ranch house little way in silence In the tiny patch of sunlight that blue Autumn turned to him and smiled lay like a gilded shield between the “One doesn’t try to The moods which had attended house and the somber poplars Jane reassuringly forget such things Bruce” she reBruce Landor all day had been of Landor’s irises bloomed purple yelIn one “One tries to understand low and then again purple on each two disconcerting extremes plied them" moment he would be swept up to satin lip a brilliant sunny stain Jane “That’s better of course” he heights of emotion as he thought of Landor’s hands would probably nevsaid how Autumn Dean looked at him on er trim those beds again Bruce “I am sorry it happened" "It couldn’t be helped he It was I as their meeting last night the quick down strode the walk thought Bewho insisted on going down shy veiling of those luminous leading from the house to the corsides — I think I’m glad rather than eyes of hers a concealment rals The voices of the ranch hands that had brought a strange throb to the bleat of sheep the occasional sorry” his blood In the next moment he “I can’t quite see that” Bruce barking of a dog were rarefied to would be in the depths rememberprotested unreality through the blue filament Autumn was silent for a moment of the air ing how she had been sent away before she replied From the woolshed came the Wen Autumn had gone he had Finally she turned and looked squarely into his of the shearing machine done his best to soothe his mother whir-r-- r “You and I Bruce have eyes and dissipate the fears that had be- Two or three hundred sheep stood without in a the corral he outside When ranch hand grown up together— set her wandering mind knowing much about ourselves I lay awake had finally succeeded in getting her running them into the shed as quicklast night wondering why your mothto sleep he had sat beside her for ly as the signal came from within er should have hated mine for twena long time reluctant to call the These were the pick of Bruce’s flock I think I have of more than three thousand they ty years or more nurse from her room were great learned the reason I spent an hour Merinos All his life it seemed Bruce Lantoday with Hector Cardigan” dor had been compelled to adjust their bodies richly wattled “Hector?” He went into the shearing pen himself in one way or another to "Yes Has it ever occurred to you where the great tall hemp sacks He had his mother’s humors that your mother’s bitterness comes were rapidly filling with wool As scarcely known a day at home that the nervous of- -” from the sheep passed had not been marred by her variato forget will “I you try She behope of the hands hesitated and Bruce spoke up shearer they were ble temper that often flared up over what happened last night” "Of jealousy?” ing caught by the brander who gave the merest trifle It had begun when each “Do you think it possible that the a smear from the branding afternoon was a pure amber sprayed he was eight — twenty years ago now two— your father and my mother-m- ay Bruce stood by and laughed with lacy Here it was in brush —and very soon he had grown at the ungainly look of a greathave been in love with each and on such a day as this that Geofhis pathetic boyish way to underhorned ram as shorn of his magLandor had last looked upon other?” frey stand that his mother’s sudden outcoat Bruce’s eyes were straight before nificent and duly branded he the world he had loved bursts were her only means of predashed to freedom He lifted his eyes suddenly at the him as he replied “I have never serving her sanity after what had When he had of either of them — without the work sound of a child’s whimper Only a thought happened to his father that dash- and instructed hisinspected men Bruce went few yards away behind the other” ing figure romantically and tragicalout his to and There seemed to be nothing to be the made small way the shining birches a small boy was She must ly limned in memory said back of after that They rode forward the poplars where leading a lamb at the end of a rope pasture have loved Geoffrey Landor with a he whistled to his horse When he At first he could not believe his together aware of a deep and silent singular and rather awful intensity had saddled him he mounted and But when he called and the eyes understanding that was more than boy and Bruce could imagine the dreadrode off to the southward to visit turned his face toward him and be- words Once Autumn permitted her ful scene in the gully one of his camps He found the camp gan to cry Bruce knew him at once eyes to move quickly over his strong recurring to her with cruel suddenbrown hands and along his arms to The flock he knew was It was the young son of Tom ness in the midst of some familiar deserted to the eastward close to In a the powerful curves of his shoulJarvis Dean’s foreman task He could imagine her lifting grazing of the Dean property He moment he had the boy in his arms ders And once he turned and saw her eyes from her sewing or from the edge her rippling hair had come caught sight of the sheep edging “Why Simmy! Where did you that her work among her loose from its krfot at the nape of their way across the face of a hill come from?” he asked and beholding again the stark verity The herder was bringing them back - Simmy buried his face on Bruce's her neck and had fallen deliciously of Geoffrey Landor lying face downto about her Her cheeks camp for the night The lamb shoulder and sobbed r ward in the shallow Bruce rode out and circled to the promptly lay down in the fern that hair must be a sort of auburn he creek his head lying downstream but in the low sun it had thought rear of the flock where he found his grew beside the water and the white stones under the water himof tints color He found work with at plum his as herder he Bruce laughed the dog bringhugged there Becoming red as sullen gar“Where in the world do self thinking that she had deep-seing up the stragglers and keeping boy close nets Out of his own young heart— mermaid’s luminous eyes you think you’re going Simmy?” he eyes break had grown a great pity and the sheep on the move toward camp He wanted to tell her be ready for your bunch asked “We’ll her for patience “I want to go home” Simmy so but forebore tomorrow Ned” he told the man In all those twenty years Bruce a And racthen came rider to just sobbed want I’ll sir! “I in home” start 'em first go “Right had never heard his mother speak "Sure you do Come along son ing toward them across the range the name of Milhcent Odell until she thing” It was one of Jarvis Dean’s men and I'll take you home” Bruce comBruce ran his eye over the flock His memhad spoken it last night who had been searching for the lost “You’ve seen nothing more of that forted him ory of his father was on the whole He caught up the lamb under one Simmy big coyote hanging around?” But he could recall very vague “I'm thinkin’ ye'll see little o’ arm and carrying the boy on the one afternoon in summer — it had reCHAPTER IV his of way quickly out mained with him like a vivid dream that one from now on” said the other made to his “Them two shots I got at the birches and whistled —when they had ridden together herder In his Almost at the same instant study Jarvis down the gully where him day before yesterday come horse On a he heard a woman's voice call from Dean sat smoking his cigar had gathered pocketfuls of close to puttin' him away for keeps they and small low table beside his chair a But since ye’re askin’ I did hear the hilltop to the northward rounded pebbles from the creek and book he saw face downAutumn this Dean large afternoon over on looking up lay open something Bruce had used them in the slingward at the page where he had left He hailed her the Dean place Seemed like it was riding toward him shot his father had made for him down there somewhere near the and waited until she had come down off his reading nearly two hours ago He did not know how he had c6me to him and had dismounted beside It was now five o’clock and the SunGulch — or beyond” to think of his father and Mllllcent him heard afternoon sunshine lay in long “You day Bruce in but somewhere something?” Dean as friends beams across the dark “Where did you find him?” she slanting past he had asked that dimly recollected “It sounded like one o’ them cats asked Bruce green rug that covered the floor He seen them riding together down must have dozed off he thought as “Down He we get up in the hills sometimes — there in the gully some forgotten trail and his boyish looked as if he was getting ready the clock on the mantel chimed the a cryin’ it was” fancy had clung to the picture so like hour He had no idea it was so late “Did you go down to what it to put up for the night” that he had rarely been able to was?” He remem“Simmy you little imp!” Autumn Dinner would be on before he knew think of them apart as arms her Jean said stretching out for it It was odd that Autumn had not "I went far as the place bered too the day when Jarvis I heard it Florian Parr had him "Come to me darling” but I could hear nothin’ yet come back He had forDean’s ’wife had died Bruce surrendered his charge and come up from Kelowna for the day the words his mother had once or twice after then an’ I could ' gotten stood by the lamb still in his arms and the girl had gone motoring with ’a' swore it was a kid cryin’” spoken that day but the bitter spirit be in any moment him would did while the it hear Autumn “When last?" boy’s you wiped had eyes They in which she had spoken them “Mebbe an hour back— after I and cheeks with her handkerchief now surely drinking their abomilingered with his curiosity concernnable cocktails and shattering the started headin’ for home I thought and kissed him to still his crying ing the relationship of the two “Don’t cry darling Autumn will Sunday I'd come out in tjie evenin’ just to quiet with their inconsewomen kake you back home” She looked at quential chatter after And now nearly twenty make sure” Well the younger generat n had Bruce turned his horse about and Bruce "Could anything be sillier?” years Jane Landor had once more looked eastward beyond the line that It was only its own and she come said claim to "That’s laughed spoken the name of Mllllcent Odell But his own land from that of The natural after all he supposed you have in your arms with a bitterness and hatred that separated He Dean men told Simmy that they were gothe coming had irritated him time itself had failed to vanquish Of Jarvis tail this after-to dock had never given much thought to down thai I'd ride better somebeen ing “Perhaps there had he knew late he said then bethought until Auhim noon and Simmy just wouldn’t stand the younger generation way” When thing almost fanatical in the proud had unannounced and to he off hide tumn He it for ran returned been had self much very manner in which his mother had he had heard the men talk He must have been taken possession of the gloomy old in the hills spurned Jarvis Dean but Bruce had younger themselves of the haunted gone for hours before anyone missed house with’ no other thought apparamong found some excuse for that m the known a$ Landor's Gulch His him" ently than that the place was hers of the old Laird gully arrogance haughty had doubtless been loath to "How did you know where to look It was surprising too how immedihimself who for years had Ined herder asked the too and ate far him?” that Bruce venture abne way formida complete possession hac' almost as a recluse in his ''Ve have young Dickie to thank been “You’re sure you heard s Tryvui Jarvis Dean's ble turreted house ini that o ct cuiiMtn After all hands had made sort Ned?” Brute asked h:n nner to the worid in general h Peace or War of shot and shell Speaking Diego Corral es Noya Spanish civil war veteran found peace deadlier than war Noya went through the entire conflict without even a scratch But upon returning to peacetime pursuits he got himself a job was killed five hours later when a rock fell on him 100 Languages Army conducts languages The 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