Show COWBOY AND THE LADY sarah ellen met romance on the far stretching plain of a west ern prairie by DAN AUGUSTINE the pullman car swayed from side to side and despite the continuous efforts of the ubiquitous porter armed with duster and whisk broom it slowly filled with a choking cloud of alkali dust which settled alike on the just and the unjust sitting down the perspiring pink shirtfront shirt front of the pugilist on his way to to meet a man with the same pertinacity it displayed in insinuating itself into the shabby black folds of the dress of the young lady from Is cw york on the latter it fell unheeded as she sat with her face pressed dose to the car window watching tho dreary miles of sagebrush sage brush and cacti as though alio melancholy desert were a paradise the desolate outlook harmonized well with her own cheerless mood as her t thoughts travelled slowly over the narrow stunted existence which has been hers from early childhood the daughter of a first wife alio had died at her birtle it had fell upon sarah ellen to tend the numerous progeny of the second incumbent and while sho longed for pretty things and attention ethcie were always so many little dirty faces to be washed aej torn aprons and to bo mended that her school days were parsed in a 01 1 family worries and altie had nd time for recreations or tw of lier age when she was eighteen a letter was received from a some means residing in boston saying that she was in ill health needed a cani panion and knowing the poverty of the family would take sarah illan oil their hands to feed board and clothe in return for rendered the offer was eagerly accented minerva ann now being old to superintend the ablutions and hosiery of the younger di ildren so sarah ellen set off for boston where under the auspices of her dead mothers sister she became acquainted with and greater thant acho had leorne before prom her arrival in the household she became the daily drudge nightly nurse and cons laut slave of the moat cantankerous bad tempered old shrew that ever cheated witch hill in mind her aunt was associated socia ted with a picture aho had once seen in an old took called ye common scold ou her way to ye and sometimes the gentle girl regretted the abolishment of that early form of discipline the heavens opened and the bun shone one day when alio invalids physician said she must go immediately to california and sarah gladly packed the trunks put hor faunt on the train and alien returned to alie old homestead where she received bufa a cold welcome her stay was brie however for alio crabbed old lady mused constant care and spon telegraphed orders for her to start for los angeles without delay eo here alie was on her way back to a renewal of the daily tyranny the thought of which made her eyes fill and her hands clench as ehe to id rather die than go back just then the of alic train blackened as the cugino neared a water tank and she turned her head to see the thick white filtering through the car alio train stopped i and she arose front her section at the rear of the car and walked to tho back platform the car was the last one on the train and she leaned against the railing of the platform and looked curiously across the far stretching gray plains to where the with a coppery glare behind the distant sand hills As she straightened up to go inside an old fashioned gold locket she wore her mothers wedding locket a of the bride inside caught on tho brass work the blender chain snapped and the precious relic down the track ond lay glittering in the sand beliinda the car she ran lightly down the stops back to zihere alio gold biad shone but aa the light changed with her position she missed it As she searched quietly and steadily the train pulled away and when she arow the treasured trinket in her hand it see with horror stricken eyes the pullman she had just left receding rapidly into the distance sarah ellen was not a hysterical girl but dropping will wear a stone and with alie accumulated miseries of yearn fresh in her mind this anal catastrophe overwhelmed her completely and heidt down on the candy embankment by alio track and for alio atrat time ins her remembrance gave herself up to unreserved grief As she wept unrestrainedly moments or hours slipped unheeded till lier sobs were suddenly terminated by the sound of a deep voice saying well ril be durne df sarah ellen gasped prang to her feet and turned arf a man on a horse standing close beside her alio hordo was a big handsome bay and as ahe looked at hie man who wore a blue shirt ft floating red tie buckskin trousers ornamented with fringe and a big sombrero she felt that alio was gazing at the original picture that she had often admired in a stationery stationers station ers window on broomfield street and knew instinctively that this was a real live cowboy cow boy iut as her glance swept over the depolito de solito waffle around or and returning finally on the gleam of a steel muzzle in the buckskin belt of the hoi M man she realized how very far away from bromfeld street she was then sarah ellen was of a good y share of new england grit and also of old fashioned courtesy go although lier knees shook under her she smiled and aid politely good afternoon sir what lovela weal her were having the cowboy responded kindly and aa he did not move aroni his hors or draw his felt emboldened bold ened to tell him of her misfortune to which he listened attentively and sympathetically why alias said lie respectfully ant no other train passes through here till noon tomorrow the nearest daneli is iiii lut you atop there you fcc rm all alone with a cliine rook and a greaser sarah looked at him and then entirely without volition a large tear rolled slowly down liar soft cheek this seemed to strike terror to alic heart of the cowood dont take on mi hastily pleaded and then a smile cried 1 I liae it ill take up on the hos in front of roe and well go to my ranch and get a alte to eat and ihen ill hitch P tl buckboard and drive you over to parson adams easterners he come out here for his health and adams will be right slad to see something sa the yg ag fellows bonnit faeo convinced ehlt he spoke the truth and him her hand and lie pulled alny up onto flip saddle in front of him clift diore and cowboy gently rut a aluc arm around her waist apologizing as he did so by saying joes kinder skittish and not bein used to petticoats twill be safer thia way if you dont mind flarah hlen blushed but she bravely said she mind and in fact odd as it may seem after she got used to the strong arm that held her so steadily she began to think she rather liked it after two hours ride they came to a one story mud liou e and as joe turned hi licad toward alio door she gazed with curiosity at the first ranch alic had ever seen to her eastern eyes A very fine morning responded sarah ellen with emphasis it was rough and primitivo but oil in the distance boac a glorious purple haze of mountain peaks and the sky fee ined bluer and the atmosphere clearer alian she had ever seen it before As lie lifted her carefully from the horsed she looked up and said my grae ioui what s lob of gods sky you people have out here and then without further comment she followed him through ali low door into the living room of the home at his call a chinaman totted in with a lin basin some water and a dilapidated comb the cowboy left her alone and strode out to hitch up the buckboard As sho washed the tear and dust from lier face and straightened her wavy altur she observed that on the liitle table lay a well thumbed gram diar and arithmetic in company with a coverless dictionary through the low open window floated the sound of voices and lie saw the cowboy talking to an evil looking mexican who pointed to tho house and said with a knowing leer Varry pretty lady and a fine night for love the cowboy angered quietly see darc lopez that lady i ecat ai safe in ranch aa my bister would be you feel that you can make any more remark about her jest remember there it cartridge in my dhoot ins iron units jest clani orin to git acquainted quain ted with your brains the greaser aid no more but sarah ellens face fluttered her experience with men had been limited and tah one seemed to her a remarkable 1 specimen ehfe chinaman served them with heavy hot biscuit fried potatoes and canned baked beans and their eup pa over they set off at for the parsons ranch the caily moon wa rii nr and a delicious brede came from lie nest sarah mien so long restrained by surrounding conventionalities enjoyed to the the freedom of alio prairie and the companionship of the cowboy who in gome ways seemed tender and thoughtful aa ft woman she had never in tier life had a sym cathiser pat hiser ind now under the opell of the mystical moonlight she ancon poured out more of her to abia listener than site wa aware of so that n hen the lights of the nj raona hone out cowboy mot of her pitiful little life story and ith lie acne of friendship confide neo inspires diio fell eliat alto had known the bi alonet lo net fellow for yeara instead of hour he left her with the adama family cheery hospitable people who were de to welcome a pilgrim efroin ho beloved east and alie bis clock struck eleven before mrs adams her to the spotless little room ahe was to occupy sarah ellen pled down on bior corn couch and lay star ina at the broad of moonlight that geread aarom the floor through the open window she knew the room was empty gave for houlf yet in the moonlight he could aeo a tal blue shifted fleure fringed trousers and many stran fancie t flattered flittered flitt ered through mind in short sarah ellen had fallen n love hc wai on alio little porch alter fast ni orning when the cowboy came ruling toward her through the brilliant sunlight As she noticed how well lie sat on his horse and what a youthful air af freedom there wan in every movement of both horse and rider she felt a strange little blutter in the cardiac res 1011 1 I wondered that slip biad never before observed how becoming a blue flannel shirt was to a un browned hotl with i brund shoulders shou the cowboy tied his horse to a sapling and alien crossing to the porch raised hh sombrero with a smile and said cheerfully good mornin ff responded sarah ellen a fine said the cowboy after a pause A cry line morning responded sarali ellen and alin fi lence ml upon bliem suddenly the cowboy liia throat and leam ive been chinkin th inkin yea sarah ilen swa etly but tho well of lna run dry and another painful silence followed suddenly with nn evident effort lie burst out yec liepp yon dont have much fun laiu lm iu round after that old aunt ol 01 couro an aw lone SOUK out here all by in bartt 1 aint got much Bc hoolin hut ive got a little money and my ranch could be fixed upa nice as aliis one i there was a toinia round to show mo how esposo you marry me an stay here awhile anyhow if you dont jike it I 1 ain mil out an move up to denver or some bis place what do you say h it a ot very sf mental in liisi honett eyes and in the quaver in hi oice sarah SAW alia emotion lie could not express j she wallowed once or anice ana she walked over to him and holding fiut her hand maids a ita a b argain 1 the boboy aped well burned and then ho reached lier loe to alie ahio pressed on her upturned ns tender ft kiss as ever fell on theung theU pg of n new england lady still a arm arouni her he turned lib head and llcy barson lier cit a job of for you to do and IH to the awu then as hn hack to lt former petition poti tion brown bavei of carali leair i sounded like 11 ll 1 11 be |