Show 4 T get r it BY R OBERT aw 4 ALT rl 0 R or abw st 1 l silao me 1 IN att P alu U lle tile helit una un manbo 2 r tile eirls but sod I 1 alel t U 1 r the stars we w 14 t but 0 isery ery muscle a lo 10 bales 11 As lb ratin with r soun new life of the t open pa when i lea os called us to breakfast of lyamon bacon ana potatoes pot itoch and steaming td ind and milk troia train our trave traveling ling v ire we ere more happy and more than we had ever to be possible possible d the carl ctrl at ne e saw them grow row every day but with their ta B they seemed lo 10 take on it a ge iier charm nod competence 1 treated the whole experience na as ib denture and after cramped m OB top of the ark they ild d race billok wild things acos across the iries hies their hair was d aug in 14 the breeser js t trant wind acs tt ng the skirts mgt air gilr shapely ite 1 bad had taken the PI precaution caution to vide themselves with sunbonnets sun bonnets the prairie sun Is an all impetuous er t ind and their cheeks and lipe lips showed allowed dirk mark of ills his caresses lie he wax was a evil I 1 who bo did not pique my jealousy jr 1 in b IS em embrace brace I 1 saw the woman baill i forth from the bud of hood in a beauty that kept my launie li a tingle unie nere acre nai vias just one note that bothme dmd it was funded a 4 day or twi w after re ire left regina in come some overt smirk irk hibb abich marjorie made about II 11 policeman it seemed tot while jack and I 1 had been way ind hunting the elds too bad been klag S it little ll te elna gina wa was headquarters of 0 the tle mounted po am and the fine due figures fibres of these young i of the plains with their scarlet toles i and trim gold rib boned en arid and clanking spurs have tamed ed morr more beads heads than jeans before nd since it seems the were 1 dong don a business street when bey saw a young policeman at bort distance dJ rance and they happened to stop op to admire something in a win dow rhile he op preached he ile also stopped d to admire and marjorie said Im ething epich jean would mould not have daae ana 1 a conversation etar tei fl up ind the tha policeman seemed to prefer lesa perhaps becatti she had bad not ca first at any he be saw them safely home and dallied over his re and the gate poet post until slid they must to go in lie ile called next text night and wanted to take i to a stow but they would not V it at any rate jean would not go but at you went walking with him dorie lorie challenged challenge tL he e asked you tor toc aid said jean her face colorin coloring you started alth Us c and then want back aw how the land lay tw r the wind blew or whatever it ws I 1 had noth to do at home but i 1 alnert I 1 would be busier mier there than out walking with TO and lid your policeman tarle how flow can you alad sd he told her he tall call en on her after we wem ettlel ett led 1 he did tie such thing I 1 lie ito asked cle we were ere going to settle and I 1 told d him blin I 1 dlan didn t knew know ani and he aid said 11 holled aped he would be there 1108 coins to be sent out brou frou tro u bari aks toon soon and he enia said it would be for me for ua us it if sou leone w re tl IDS our district ot for you deir aid said marjorie Marj orle 1 and there was a at ting ill her words which brought me into action n 1 I believe you re lealou jealous marjorie arjorie St alaid d in tones ant ndel to be keil pre nd aren t 1 ehe retorted lori t to be the e truth Is I 1 was beau had alilya belonged to rae me so absolutely that had 1 never ever thol cht of th the possibility f it rival val aven now I 1 did not think of arch ch a thing seriously I 1 it t wm wits true that there we wai S n enragement ena onga gement be tw cen ns Us aniess tho wf wr rd of ft a man of and d a woman of vur can be taken 0 bl but I 1 looked on jea jean as nevertheless and I 1 reb anted anted the of the mounted policeman in beeking her acquaintance I 1 resent cil etL ta t it e fact hat that she hal tone walking him an and d I 1 toad her i so a the brot opportunity it ame came that afternoon jean said bald aho was as tired riding and got down to alk on my sid side of vie 1 wagon wt trudged ka along for distance it silence te save sav for my words of rebuke buke and exhortation to th oxen tou ure re cross at me ehe she aid said at bearth 0 1 to nol ot chy by I 1 u that I 1 cant inglado we i was and wanted to how it mean to offend you ehe she ll 11 on 0 marjorie Marj orto was just I 1 a attle t spiteful 1 abow inow she ww was I 1 agreed armed but oo 00 t houlan t have gone with rhyl ws wits a sk stranger you even 1113 1 naje do 40 its if harold brook break be ja KID T tu don donbar baW iw do you sav sa jean but jean was looking at the ernset rin set where the master artist flaa as splashing pastels of bronze and copper against a background of silver sliver and champagne chaa wonderful wonderful I 1 she he mur ou aured Tour fourteen teea Is prank franks and twenty two I 1 Is mine jack explained well pitch the tent for the girls here and frank may flo 10 as he likes but I 1 m going to pross the gully and sleep tonight under my own vine and hg fix tree ro fo to speak my sly six months residence begin tonight 1 big kig treel exclaimed the trees around here are lut just about high enough to tickle your ear earthen nhen when you re lying down lou IOU haven havell t been seen the tree trees yet eald bald jack knowingly inow lets let pitch camp AN we e dragged the tent alnie ose to the brow of the gully and pitched it on the spot where we had planned that my shack be ae e also unloaded part of our equipment so that we could make use of it in the bouse housekeep keep ing operation operations it was with great zest that we carried our to the door of the tent and strung up two or three lengths of pipe in a few minute minutes jack appeared from somewhere with an armful of woid and as the dark settled down we gath gatha rl rott about a fire on our own farm farms for the first time in our lives and ao so ft e chattered on saying nothing of moment but feeling the great joy of possession welling in our heart hearts it was a day and a night to be lived over many a time in memory for the first time in our lives we were drink ing of the wells of pos possession the en chanted streams which draw men and women into the wilderness to tv live and die dle on the outposts of civilization we bad had finished supper and the gray gloom of twilight was crawling slowly up from the e tnt when a sharp whistling rustle almost above vs us brought the girls to their feet with a it start what was that jean exclaimed it was almost like a tt bullet noy ay nay said indulging in a very sorry joke I 1 it Is a duckler duck duc kleL lct A decklet duc kletT klet what duc decklet duck klet letl thail my dear eliter sister was the whistle from the wing ing nt of a wild duck darting into the dark at s a 1 cepe of hundred allee sali an bear U alls had just got his eye on you yom more likely on the gun said jean for we bad had included a cheap shotgun among the articles considered coas dered india indis pen sable walt until trank jfrank gets after him I 1 was greatly nattered flattered by jeans wholly un warranted unwarranted confidence la in my marksmanship and eager to justify it at the earliest moment no time like the present presents said 1 picking up the gun and filling lilting my pocket with cartridges I 1 V I 1 sides we have a surprise to show you so we barked larked out la in the gathering lark nesa I 1 going first as became the bearer barer ot of the gun jean at my heels jack and marjurie marjorie a little la in the rear down the steep edge of the gully we worked and then along by the marge warge of the brown snow water nater which rip pled happily over beds of bending ge agwu Us ilau daale 00 0 0 little to inow peoples mimes names you fast just speak anyway oh oil do ou I 1 eald said sarcastically i so I 1 see dont idan t be bec rosi she he ct aabel ax I 1 see I 1 can beat you jo to that badger hole bole j one tuo tw othree three I 1 she was as off like the he vind v and for a hesitated lien jien joined in the mc ment I 1 race but she bud had too much touch start and dealdea she was albort a match for me we S it reached the wild mound first swerved a little he she he turned and as aad and I 1 d 0 course fron from ner a lato her to save herself from plunge tailing failing ahe she seized me about the neck and S her llala brothed brushed against MY face use se walked iad back fi lowly arm la in arm of being very much touch and nd I 1 had a jean had bad wound me of a brute around her little finger thrill thrills of there are ce certain certain epoch epochs of develop det only once ones in a life I 1 f ment which whirl come Is when a youn I 1 one of these time man serl 0 writes rl his first checka or first first in his own door or sees turns ha his his name key on sin office sIP board look looks first when he greatest la but the land he can call his hi own true upon it was but this land was not dot yet aurli alwa carried tat a our if we us to pledged tAt and sart simple agreen of I 1 very part interest to proprietary had a ready already we fn we showed allowed it to the girls with in it 11 displaying her arlda of a r bother the pride kately acx desperately alist were deeper we first born be K IOUs that SS our oar choice should tied adlet but thair baj waited for W V 4 we well what do YOU neither poke ald at jack a of thank ill it looks all right it 1 I suppose it is good t as allf I 1 4 NEIGHBORS fel continued ud from page rage 3 vo 1 banner of 0 tar mr paper pope nailed fir fi tween two latha laths oh say ay doe does the tar paper piper banner still wave you ste ei it has ha nut but lent it awfully wily smelly baid aid jean who had a train strain of dell in her that at times conflicted with her ab alp that ie to one of 4 a chief virtue virtues too you may t know yet but yon you will leam le arnat at beart so jake assured me that population ie Is not nearly no so scarce on an the prairies 11 us to it t seems lie ile faye pay that the inmate inmates olle of ittle little bachelor hacki in ina mif t iaea oes humber liti literally rally millions million well they dont like tarpaper blessed messed b bo tar I 1 scratched the tile outline of the tn tu the aud sud with my shovel and beean began dirking a cellar in tit the center tf ox the little plot for a depth of nearly two te feet lydig throne P bro brownish aulph black loom that turna cnally and threw clean from ther theal Knel I 1 a 4 sticky yellow clay and the going was we much sl slower oer but by the time veneard ve heard jacle jacks hoarse oice and ono his tired oxen their hoots up the tile trait troll on oil tte evening ot of ohp sec PC end ond day 1 I 11 id la in maling a hole which bleh we lne s agreed reed to call a cellar scat ext daj day a ne net met about our bulia build ins ing in earnest earn pet chere were oo 00 union hours with us d m worked froin early morning until after inset sunset and I 1 lid id ilon dolin our tools et at lat lost bilth 1 ali aft atio ate reluctance we were mere stiff and ond tore sore in ovary every joint and our hands were calloused callo usei nod and our balls ere buttered battered with misdirected energy ener iry bot but our hearts were ere with the goda gods I 1 relate only absolute in saying that heri our hack iwan wa flat wo we moved into it jt with a sense ot of such as n perhaps no king rss ever knew know amid the luxury of hie his palaces aft As coon soon as our arst building ball ding was wa finished we started a sl aillar one for jack and jean built a little table stable down town in the gully for the oxen the cow the pi and the hene hens I 1 we improved the cross inglot me stream tream ti I 1 we due dug a well we us plowed a email small area on e each ch farm and planted it to onta oats aad and then we wenton plowing for or nett next seasons sona crop we bought a wowing moraine cs amne sad a ralls on credit and cut an amp soft anay vir ft of wild hay bay for or our winter needs wo we bad had decided tt M hs all fall came on jack an annj I 1 with the yoke of oxen should mcke a pit grimage into the more settled distri districts cis with a view to getting ith some farmer fanner 1 and so our out re source ft 1 it was a hot day in the middle of july when up the trail troll from the oath mouth 4 C limet 1 krev ere w out of uie the distance did tot rot often come our way alid jack and I 1 both topped work in the tb field to study its approach and had to conjecture as to whom or what hat it might be am we watched tha th figure took the form of ot a hone horse and rider at 0 heroic site lie barging et down upon of u literally isu ct t of ei ala tu blea heayn tb ac at jt it app w th giraca miraca iti illusion A and d gra horse 0 q ana nd var dr esene back ek to earth by this tills time we were sure that tie tte glint of color coot which bid bad seemed to dance vaguely 1 agent flir agare had a basis la in fact there was nn ml a doubt that an atom ol 01 0 P sunt was alo nethe trail trall SC ITi 0 s o leavins be the oxen to their midday meditation meditations we calked over ofer to my aback where already joined marjoree Marj orle it giuld BOW now be seen thai that the figure wae was approaching at a rapid salt galt and ite its outline no longer blurred bj by the of the mirage chood e out ut and tind clean the dist die tarnce sitZ it vaa vas a mounted amounted policeman As bo lie drew no 1 beside us I 1 had a sensa sens of being in the pre presence gente of physical perfection ills horse ni although though wet over the flanks showed little sign aa oc ot fatigue the dt dust of travel lung to the th ri dei unburned face but the tf V his hi Ile bearing ariti and uniform r l aalst an LA j r I 1 11 he saluted as he brought hia his horse to a 5 and stilL wad alred saluted as he djs t ja horse to a standstill I 1 th sprang 11 buy itly to the tri arnd and 1 I eee se I 1 tm im right be he eald address int marjorie Marj orle and ass wont you latro dece war marjorie Ma rorie wa as the ct C t to act al though I 1 suspected even aca then thai that be he bad haq poked spoken wore jean my boothm frank she he said and jeams jean brother jack this Is 1 mr brooka Broo kr via ahlook ban a 13 and itan jean asked our viii visitor tor if be he canad dini dinner e r 1 I 1 have no bit not t be he but please dont RO go to any trouble but tir che firl were already la in the hoase house nak ing s a stream around here if my maps are right the policeman con tinned peaking speaking to ne us and both chck arid tbd I 1 coald do with water we led him down to the stream and to the well find and although I 1 was wa disposed to be prejudiced prejudice A against this strop pinit youcle fellow who teemed seemed to aka more than a casual interest in a jean I 1 lost bueb of that prejudice through a little incident that hall happened when we react reeled sed the water although brool was undoubtedly auf ferine from thirst he removed bla his horses borses bit ao so that be he could drink la in comfort before he be accepted the proffered cop top of water jack brought him from the wll well jack and ani I 1 spoke of it afterward and a creed agreed that a chap wha did that tort sort of wan trip a rood bit of a man after a hearty bearty drink brook took off hie ills hut but and tunic produced towel tomel boap couie and brush and clean cleaned 41 up even mo more re thoroughly than seemed necessary an A I 1 watched him dirting bli hi hair by the ti nf Ilett lealon lon in alip water I 1 realized that strook bad had not forgotten lors oUen nant bat vo ninny of us plon planters cers often did forget the alue salue of personal up pearn nee while wo walkr up tho tile ln L n i together I 1 admitted to that alt bouLli I 1 ani ne tin good a man as he lie as I 1 1 illint tint luok 1901 it tile me ercul which the girls hid bid pre loo all pur vur tongues and before it t wait was we mere ere chatting |