Show 0 ay 1 A r y ran who drank c nd C f romance r 0 v C A 40 4 V 0 U I 1 t CHAPTER I 1 the young lady from philadelphia miss luid maitland was a highly specialized product ol 01 the tar far east I 1 say far viewing colorado as a point of departure not as identifying her with the orient the classic shades of 0 bryn mawr had been the groves of where with old plato she had walked incidentally during her completion ot of the exhaustive cur of that justly lamous famous tion she had acquired at least a bow ing acquaintance with other masters of the mind tor nor had the physical in her aduca tion been sacrificed to the mental in her tier at least the mens sana satia and the cordore sano cano were alike in evidence she bad had ridden to hounds many times on the anise scented trail of 0 the west chester hunt exciting tennis and lei burely goll golf had engaged her atten alon on the courts and greens of the merlon merton cricket club she had buffeted old ocean s gry and melancholy waste on the beach at cape may and at atlantic city spiritually she was a devoted mem ber of the episcopal church of the variety that abhors the word protes ant in connection therewith alto g ather aber she reflected great credit upon her pastors and masters spiritual and t temporal and her up bringing in the three departments of life lett left little to be desired upon tier graduation she had beed been at once received and acclaimed by the assembly set of philadelphia to which indeed she belonged ungues cloned by right of birth and position and there was no other power under heaven by which she could have ef fectea entrance therein at least that Is what hat the outs thought of that mat hobt exclusive circle ahe old home ot of the Malt lands over look rl r Ritten houe square had been the scene of her debut in all uie the refined and decorous galeles of philadelphia 9 ultra fastidious society she had participated she had even looked upon money standardized new aorl ora in its delirium of extravagance at least in so tar far as a cedato and well born torn philadelphia family could coun cenance such golden madness during the ear che had ranged like a con qi qt pardon the masculine appella tion between palm beach in the so th and bar harbor in the north was mas ot of her she has as not unknown in those un ef fortunate parts of the united states ii which lay without in all this she had remained a frank M F free unspoiled young woman lite life t was ft as tull full of zest tor for her and she en joyed it with the most un pennsylva clan nian enthusiasm i tho second summer after her corn com ing out round found her in colorado robert maitland Hait land was as one of 0 the big men of the he had departed from phil adelphia at an early age and had set tied in a colorado while it wag was still in the formative period there he be had bromn up with the state rhe phil J adelphia Malt lands could never under stand it or explain it bob maitland must have been they argued a rever slon sion to an ancient type a throwback to some robber baron long antecedent to william penn and the speculation was true the blood of some lawless adventurer of the past discreetly tor for got by the conservative section ot of the family bubbled in hia his veins unchecked by the repressive atmosphere ot of his home and immediate environment he had thoroughly identified him belt self with his new surroundings and had plunged into all the activities of the west during one period of his life he had actually served as sheriff of one of the border count counties fes and it was a rapid bad man indeed who enjoyed any advantage over him when it came to drawing his gun his skill and daring had been ungues cloned he lie had made a name for him self which still abides especially in the mountains where things yet re almost as primitive as they had been from the beginning his tame fame had been accompanied by py fortune too the cattle upon a thou sand hills were his the treasures of mines of fabulous richness were vere at his command he ile lived in denver in one of the greatest of the bonanza palaces on the hills of that city con fronting the snow capped mountain range for the rest he held stock in all sorts of corporations was a dl rector in numerous concerns and so on the reader can supply the usual catalogue they are all alike he had married late in life and was the father of two little girls and a boy the old est sixteen and the youngest ten going east I 1 which he did not love on an infrequent bus business inezs trip he be had renewed his acquaintance with his bi birther other and the one ewe lamb of his brother brothers flock to wit the afore mentioned enid he had been struck as everybody was by the splendid personality peron allty of the girl and had striven earnestly to disabuse her mind of the prevalent idea that there was nothing much worth while on the continent beyond the allegheny except kenery scenery what hat you need enid Is a ride across the plains a sight of real moun bains beside which these little toot foot hills in pennsylvania that people back here make so 60 much of wouldn t be noticed you want to get some of the spirited glorious freedom of the tile west your conservative consert straight laced little body in my day robert reprovingly re marked his brother enid a father freedom was the last thing a young lady gently born and delicately nurtured would have coveted your day Is passed steve re turned the younger maitland Malt land with shocking carelessness freedom Is what every woman desires now espe dally when she Is married you are am not in love with rith anybody are you enida with not a soul frankly replied the girl greatly amused at the tile col lequy between the two men lien who though mothered by the same woman were as dissimilar as what shall I 1 if IL jr L ak Z 0 0 lp 1 r nna N 10 X 17 your day has passed steve returned the younger mainland maitland V say the east Is from the west yest let it go at that that s all right said her uncle relieved apparently I 1 will take you out west and introduce you to some real men and it if I 1 thought it possible interposed mr stephen maitland Malt land in hia his most austere and dignified manner that my daughter with a perceptible em on the my as if he andton the daughter were the principal being under consideration should evera enereo so far forget what belongs to her station in life and her family as to allow her affections to become engaged by any avy one who from his birth and ing in the er oh unlicensed atmos phere of the western country would be persona non grata to dignified so clety of this ancient city and nonsense interrupted the young er brother bluntly you have hied here wrapped up in yourselves ana and your dinky little town so long that mental asphyxiation Is threatening you I 1 will thank you robert said his brother with something approaching the manner in which be he would have repelled a blasphemy not to refer to philadelphia as er et what was your most extraordinary worda dinky if my recollection serves ah ali precisely I 1 am not sure as to the meaning of the term but I 1 conceive it to be something ous you can say R what hat you like about me and mine but of philadelphia no oh the town towns s right enough re turned his brother not at all im pressed I 1 in talking about people now there are just as fine men and women in the west as in new york or philadelphia I 1 am sure you don t mean to be offensive robert but really the asso clat 04 of ideas in your mention of us witla that common and vulgar new YOI boic at Is er un pleasant fairly ashud der a I 1 the elder maitland Malt land lin im oily urging you ou tj to recognize the quality of the western people I 1 dam ry wy they ther are of a aner ype yde tala the average here prin your standpoint no doubt con in irk aed his brother severely and domn hat wearily as it if the matter were i ot worth all this argument all thai that I 1 wani want of them is that they stay in tle yest ivest where they belong and not 0 to o mingle with the east there 1 is a farrier larrier between us and them which it Is not well to cross to per mit any a intermixtures of er race orf or f the people out there are white steve interrupted bis his brother ear sar doni donle cali allf I 1 wasn gasn t contemplating in ig g enid here to chinese or negri jens or indiana indians or dont you see said mr stephen Malt Unil stubbornly waving aside this sarcastic and irrelevant Irre levent corn com ment from your very conversation the vast gull gulf that there Is between you and mea me although sou you had every advantage advar tage in III life that birth can give you we are I 1 mean you have changed so grealy he had quickly added loathe ta tb offend but he mistook the light in his brother brothers eyes it was a twinkle not a flash robert maitland Malt land laughed laughed with what his brother con calved to be indecorous boisterous ness how little you know of the bone bons and sinew 0 ot this country steve he lie exclaimed presently robert maitland Malt land could not comprehend how it irritated his stately brother to be called steve nobody ever spoke of him but as stephen maitland but bu lord I 1 don t blame you continued the westerner any man whose vision Is barred by a foothill couldn coulden t be ex pecked to know much of the main range and what a beyond there isn t any danger of my tall fall ing ng in love with anybody said enid at last with all the confidence of two tri implant social seasons I 1 think I 1 must be immune even to dukes she eald said gaily I 1 referred to worthy young amer leans of began her father who to do him justice was sp so satisfied with his own position that no foreign title dazzled him in fit the least degree rittenhouse square cut in rob ert maitland Malt land with amused sarcasm well enid you seem to have run the gamut of the east pretty thor roughly come out and spend the sum mer with ma me in colorado my denver louse e Is open to you ne hae a ranch amid 11 the we foothills or it if you are game we can break away from civilization entirely and find some unexplored un mown canon in the heart of the moun bains and camp there we 11 get back 0 o nature which celms to be imps sible in philadelphia and you will see and learn things that you will sever never see or learn anywhere else it 11 you good too from what I 1 hear you have been going the pace and hose those cheeks of yours are a little too pale for or so splendid a girl you look 00 oo tiled thed under the ees eyes for youth and beauty I 1 believe I 1 am not very fit said he the girl and it father will permit ial ai 1 ot of course of course said maitland you are your own anyway and having no mother enid s mother had died in her in fancy I 1 suppose that I 1 could not in or object it if I 1 wished to no marrying or giving in marriage remember that nonsense father anew answered ered the young woman noman lightly I 1 am not acx loua ious to assume the bonds of wed lock well that settles it said robert maitland we 11 give you a royal good time I 1 must run up to new lork ork and boston tor for a tew few days but I 1 shall be back in a week and I 1 can pick you up then what Is the house la in denver Is it er may I 1 ask provided with all mod ern conveniences and began the elder maitland nervously robert maitland laughed what do you take us tor for steve do you ever read the western news papers I 1 confess that I 1 have not given much thought to the west since I 1 studied geography and the philadel phia papers have been thought dent clent tor for the family since sinca good lord exclaimed maitland the house cost halt half a million dol lars if you must know it and if there e aa 1 AJ it he crushed her to him and kissed her la is anything that modern science can contribute to comfort and luxury that isn t in it I 1 don t know what it Is shall it be the house in denver or the ranch or a real camp in the wilds enid first the house in denver said anid and then the ranch and then the mountains right 0 that shall be the tho program will my daughter daughters life be perfect ly safe from the cowboys indians and desperadoes quite sate safe answered robert with deep gravity the cowboys no longer shoot up the city and it has been years since the indiana indians have held up even a trolley car the only real desperado in my acquaintance Is the mildest gen tie tle old stage driver in the west 0 do you keep up an acquaintance with men of that class still asked his brother la in great surprise you know I 1 was sheriff in a bor der county tor for a number of years and but you ou must surely have with drawn from all such society now out west said robert maitland Malt land when we know a man and like him when we have slept by him on the plains ridden w th him through the mountains fought with him s against some border terror some bad man thirsting to kill we don t forget him we don t cut his acquaintance and and it it doesn doean t make any difference whether the one or the other of us Is rich or poor I 1 have friends who can t frame a grammatical sentence who habitual ly eat cat with their knives yet who are absolutely devoted to me and I 1 to them the man Is the thing out there he smiled and turned to enid always excepting the su an prelacy of woman he added how fascinating exclaimed the tile girl I 1 want to go there right away and this was the train of events v aich wrought the change behold the oung young lady astride of a h horse for the first time in her life in a divided skirt that fashion prevalent elsewhere not having been accepted by the best equestriennes of philadelphia bhe she was riding ahead of a lumbering moun tain wagon surrounded by other rid ers which was loaded with baggage drawn by tour four sturdy broncos and tol lot lowed by a number of obstinate little burros at present with packs which would be used when they got further from civilization and the was no longer practicable for any thing on v heels miss enia maitland Malt land was clad in a way that would have caused her lathel a stroke of apoplexy tf if he could have been suddenly made aware of her dress if she had burst into the draw ingroum ing room without announcement tor for instance her skirt was distinctly short she wore heavy hob hobnailed nailed shoes that laced up to her knees she had on a bright blue sweater a kind ot of a cap known as a tarn tam 0 chanter was pinned above her glorious hair heir which was closely braided and wound around her head bead she wore a bilk silk handkerchief loosely tied around her i eck a knife and revolver hung at her belt a little watch was strapped to one wrist a handsomely braided quirt dangled from the other a pair ot of pura pure adorned her heels and most dib composing fact ol 01 all by her tier side i ode iode a handsome and dashing cava her ifer how mr air james armstrong might have appeared in the conventional black and white of evening clothes was not quite clear to her for she had as yet never beheld him in that obliterating raiment but in the habit of 0 the west riding trousers heavy boots that laced to the knees brue blue shirt his head covered by a noble stetson mounted on the airy restive broncho which he be rode to perfection he was ideal alas for the vanity of human proposition mr jamea james arm strong friend and these many years ears of mr robert maitland Malt land mine owner and cattle man on a much smaller scale than his older friend was as desperately in love with anim maitland Malt land and enid swept off her teet feet by m a wooing which began with pre ardor so soon as he laid eye on her was more profoundly moved by hil suit or pursuit than she could have imagined W omae omne Igno ignotus turn pre ico she had been wooed in the conven dional fashion many times and oft on the sands ot of peach along the cliffs of newport in the romantic gle glens nit of mount desert in the old fashioned drawing room overlooking rittenhouse square she had been proposed to in motor 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