Show 11 11 I 1 I 1 W I 1 h ION I ON I 1 I 1 ww 12 I 1 11 1 A I 1 i r I 1 il I 1 V n 4 p 1 1 I 1 j 1 I 1 I 1 1 P I 1 I 1 i I 1 I 1 t I 1 I 1 i I 1 I 1 I 1 1 me ih C e colorado Coloia dd 11 ath w amp ap pp I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 1 t ts banks and aby 1 i s I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 1 v 0 a I 1 1 1 a i I 1 I 1 1 1 4 4 t k ed d th e imperial it vw I 1 I 1 4 ednah aiken t I 1 I 1 ar r 0 of f california I 1 4 14 I 1 1 1 bobba I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 1 I 1 le 1 I 1 1 I 1 NOUN 11 1 I 1 r I 1 I 1 MR OVER THE CANVAS HOUSEW HOUSEHOLD OF I 1 THE w I 1 y 1 1413 AS RICKARD TAKES THE REINS 7 i t 11 1 I 1 PF 1 0 an engineer odthe overland pacific rail al d theoffice ta to the office of I 1 etticson Tucson In I 1 nt ariz while ird reads readia a report on the ravages of the colorado river 0 efforts of thomas bardln Hard ln head of the desert mailon ardin had been a student under ln tin nn easteau en biern colm I 1 1 married gerty holmes with Ricka had fancied he m 1 I 1 e I 1 marshall tells rickard the overland pacific must step ti L ep in to 7 V imperial lal valley and wishes to asad rickard to take I 1 charge I 1 clineb because he foresees fore seea iff W 7 v f k Is won over rickard goes gods to io calexico Cal exico and on the way j 4 1 rt 11 about a b 0 ut hardin and his work edard meets mr and mrs mra 6 r i 4 11 L lanes innes hardin the fornieri for half sister at the company I 1 4 lnders joyal twE ardin and hostile 0 o him rickard richard e 4 1 ig 1 of the directors and asserts his authority hardin j id 41 ft wm a mexican son conof of the fetherof Fathe alid imperial valley 11 i i 1 1 general situation and espres expresses S es forebodings that the t P I 1 I 1 Z lail I 1 I 1 I 1 mg i a I 1 aier NER vl I 1 continued r 45 1 7 1 ar T id athe the previous week a a sickening devastation of et S the morning glories alone a i Rath th eless J A pinga oleander I 1 oost w 0 many broken branche from 0 oracles eracles of perfect flowers were w v N the prettiest blossom to 4 gardener herself she 4 1 alfrom hL from eager ajer toll aall hardin W looked at ai he liked W her khaki suit simple as paa a uniform 7 a with alth its flowing black tie and leather belt she looked more like herself to I 1 daya she stivlad lad bad bleached jou cutlif out in lif tucson she had been jetting herself get too Q tanned running around without hats asu tv sunburn palo the value of those k splendid pees eyes of hers he could always te alq lier by I 1 likening them to topazes to pazes 1 4 ahls bees ritu ran over the pink and put pur V pie lines 1 vines which r lier her tent free I 1 1 an 0 of P v they rioted g P I 1 ivor tue I 1 I 1 ahe ha second roof of 1 f 1 livi y I 1 their r ta r I 1 E na J 1 W iem A grace erace to bare nei 1 A 3 V I 1 sep wy Y V atis denlid denied the pati panting fing L ri ita 1 1 I thirsty desert josf b beyond 0 n d 4 he remembered ff his own ra ramada mada kf cherty agerty CS erty 1 had hated lt it had complained of it bo 80 bit bitterly when slid sha came home 4 aiom M new york yori that he be had bad had it pulled down and replaced by aV a V roof I 1 54 jot boards glaring and ugly gerty chertk satisfied forI for it was salean tean she no longer felt that she lived in cc a squaw chouse house let jet the indians have ra madas there was wap no earthly reason rep son slid she should he had urged that the lie desert dwell dwellers evi had valuable hints to give them I 1 but what diya i aias was a remada to him or anything else asef hardin turned to leave she did not want him to go so soon she coln pointed I 1 ted out a now new vine to 0 him she had brought lt it from tucson J kudzu they called it a Xa japanese vine and there ther ewas was another broken rose rose quite beyond thebe the be help of stripped handkerchiefs and splints he follow followed edher her around the tent her prattle falling from his bis grim mood he was not thinking of hera her flowers except as a mocking parallel the desert storm had made a havoc of his garden a sorry botch of hla his life he and innes had been baen trying to make a garden out efti eiert erf the desert had tir em it was not his fault r something had happened som something ething quite alte beyond his hiis power luck was turning against him innes why jbv chemas she was playing as with atoy aboy a toy it was the na natural lural insel instinct act of a woman to make things pretty around her but be had bad sacrificed his youth his chances his domestic life a too he should never have carried a dainty little bomati woman like gerty into the d des ps ert he had never reproached her for V leaving him ean last time when he thought it was for good the word D burned fits bis wound whose good his 1 or gerty gercys s somehow though they wrangled he always knew it would turn out oil all right life would run smoothly when nhen they left the desert but things were getting worse h his ls mouth puckered over some recollections yet bethe he loved gerty he picture lle without h her er he decided that it was li because because there had never lii been h anyone else most fellows if had ad iliad had sweethearts before they marr married jed 4 babad the had not nia nin nor mistress when she lift left lit him m though god knows it would A have been easy enough ills bis mouth fells fell into sardonic lines those halfbreed women I 1 no one even when a divorce had hung over him oh he be knew what their friends made madd of each of gertys lengthened flights be he knewl knew I 1 but that had been spared him that 1 culiar vulgar grisly spectacle of modern life when two people who have been lovers flaig dr agthe the carcass of their love over tho the gelmi grimy floor of a curious gaping court he shuddered gerty loved him else why had she comeback to him I 1 why had bad S she he 11 not kept her threat when ohp m he refused to fd abandon his desert project and I 1 firn turn his hig i fi abilities bUttles loto fc a more profi profitable fable dedication lie he could conla see he her r face is s she be stared flushing up jap into his bt that bisping bip ping cad day when lie he had bad lift id run into her on broadway Broadw ny he regeia I 1 4 dered bep her coquetry when she suggest t ed that there yas pas plenty of room in i X awa I 1 parm eidt 1 she spoke ff I 1 1 I 3 1 av 14 pictures la in the ae papers P be a great an 1 I 1 1 d t j yv ecla I 1 fol 7 I 1 clr I 1 i A pa I 1 I 1 I 1 lowing had been the brightest c ahls life he was suro sure then t that baa gerty loved lit him m the wrangles were only ehly their different ways wak s af pf 0 looking at things of course they loved each other i but gerty stand plo pioneer life shehand loved him or she would not so easily haye hare birt been persuaded to try it over again she yearned to make him comfortable she said so she bhe had gone back and pulled down his ramada and put hla clothes in the lowest bureau drawer it wasi it elther either of our faults I 1 it he ruminated rumina ted d it was tho the fault odthe of the institution ution marriage itself itsel fisa ia a failure look atthe at the papers the divorce courts A mans interests are no longer hla his I 1 lifes curious that it should be so but its a fact it Is ii the modern discontent women want different careers from their huF husbands bands 11 yet how he help throwing hid big life into his work he had committed himself it ft wa waa an obligation 07 tj on if it were not for that indefinable so something IMD his big allegiance e to tb the causo cause which mocked it at reasons and definitions definition 3 t oh he kne knevi wf he had tilted with gerty an and d been worsted 1 he would have resigned from froat his company his I 1 company which had dishonored him why should he stay to get more s stabs more wounds and the last blow this pet of marchalls marshalls Mar Mars balls I 1 hardin gavel gave a scant ung alig in his path a vicious ilia the girls prattle had bad died she walked e with him silently I 1 at ai the door of her tent sho she stopped looking at him wistfully she he wished he could hidehisa hide his hurt jf if he had only some of innes pride I 1 how are things she used their fond little formula oh rot rotten tent 1 growled bardln flinging away gWay the gate slammed behind him Z I 1 CHAPTER CHAPTER vill VIII I 1 under the veneer an hour later lanes innes blinking from the sun stepped I 1 into the tent which had bad been partitioned with rough redwood d boards into a bed chamber on the right a combination dining room and parlor on th the eleft left her glance immediately segregated the three stalks of pink geran geraniums tunis la 12 the center of the mexican drawn work cloth that covered the ta table ble gerl gerty axy herself in a fresh pink gingham frock was danal dancing ground around the table fable to the tune 1 of forks and spoons li it wa was just like gry gerty to dress up to her setting even though it v were ere only d a pitiful water starred bouquet she had often tried to analyze her he alcier ln in laws hold 0 on n her brother certainly they were not happy was it beca because sh made him comfortable was it the little aly air of torm form allty aMit wk or mystery which she ae drew w around her her rooms rooms when innes was allowed ti to enter them were always flawless gerty took deep pride lp in her housekeeping why was iti it innes wondered that she could ne never ve r shake hoffher off her suspicion of art an underlying untidiness tidiness there was always a closed do door dioron oron on I 1 gertys processes may I 1 help the sur nova v as 3 still yellowing the room to hesy hello I 1 harilaou Hard laoU i aked up from tho the couch where e bia helas lying innes suspected it of being belaga a frequent I 1 reheat she had found lt lt tumbled once when she ra nover early if was then that gerty made it understood that she liked more form formality allty innes NY was rare ly in that tha tIent tent except for meals meala I 1 now or during her alternating week of house chores 1 I was afraid I 1 was late k said the girl lunch will be ready in a few minutes announced gerty hardin wont you sit down theres the new journal sam came to clean this morning and nd I 1 get to the e lunch Iti neb until uri an hour ago innes settling herself by the reading table caught herself observing that it would not noi have baire tak taken en her berun an hour to get a cold lunch still ww it would oui duever uever took k so inviting it if gertys domestic machinery radic hindry was complicated and we the fhe results always were ivere admirable the early tomatoes were peeled as wen well as sliced and aers lying on in a bedaf bed of cracked left I 1 the rip flad black olives were w eq resting in a lake othall alt fornin 14 ollye olive oil ell A bowl bow of tuce I 1 had been fe iced eckna find 6 carefully deta V 4 the bread was cut in precise if triangles langles the butter buiter had bad been shaved into frito for eign looking roses A pitcher It cherof of the valley valli aap favorite berbr beverage ae iced ced tea stood by i adins plate there was wae a Plat platter tit of old cold meats it came home e to iannoa for tho auti hundredth time ti me the surprise sui prise of such a 6 meal in that desert des er t A few years ago and what had a rapal ameal been she threw the credit of the ifie little e lunch to sulky tom handlo lyl lying ngon on the portiere cov i ered couch I 1 hla his ugly lower lip against again stan an unsmiling ng vision it was tom tora tom i and h i his brave men the sturdy engineers engine erd the dauntless surveyors ur the indians findlins who had bad dug tha th canals those were the tha ones who had spread that pretty table not the ibe buxom little woman darting about la in pink gingham Is it because I 1 dont like her she mused dereyes he her reyes eyes on an the pictures in the S style book which alch had just comein come in that morning Ceita certainly gerty geraj di did have dhave the patience of a saint with toms humors if she bould only lose that set look of martyrdom I 1 it was not forjan foran outsider to I 1 jud judge ge between a husband and wafe even it if the man mandere were her own brother she I 1 could not nai put her finger fl nger on the germ geierm of their painful painel I 1 scenes she shrank from the recollection of toms to ms temper his bis coarse streak the gingg fiber alber her own mother called it tom morn was rough but slid ehe loyed him why was it she was sure that gerty did not noi love her I 1 husband yet ture there was the distrust as fixed and andas as unjust perhaps I 1 ns as the suspicion of Gert gertys yi little mysteries I 1 she he sald aloud this la Is your jour last day my week begins tomorrow mrs hardin adjusted adjust eda a precise pre c I 1 se napkin nae before she spoke 1 I think I 1 will keep the reins rein for a month this time her hedw words ora were reflective tive as though the thought were new naw 1 I git g e tamy my hand in just as allstop I 1 stop I 1 awill will be running out for firmi my visit in a few weeks it will be only liala aar for me to do 00 jt it us long ing as I 1 can again agnin we the ai a sense of subtlety t Y whenever I 1 gerty G er ty put on that air of childish confidential confident deliberation she hun r the plot ald t this was not far to seek her alster inlaw in ln law was passing 1 out the hot season to lier her its all ready beit gertys y a glance I 1 aas was winging birdlike over the tabled table nothing had bad been forgotten she gave gave a i little sigh elgh of elastic satisfaction hardin misinterpreted it IL 1 I ought ough tto fo be able to keep i a servant for ier I 1 awas it was like him to have forgotten the lawrence days he be was never aver n free f bec of the e s sense aase of obligation to the dainty little woman who was born bornt lie he felt for the purpled purple there was evad nothing too 90 good od ton for gerty gerfy he felt belf her unspoken disappointments lier her deprivations of course checan she can have I 1 no respect for me im a failure this give you an ak appetite demanded innes hearty heartily and rm im to be a lady tor for three pore more weeks the re remark markas was thoughtless A bright flush flash spread over gertys i lace face she caught an allusion to io her ber origin innes saw the blush and remembered the boarding house she could think I 1 of nothing to say the three relatives relative es sat down to that most uncomfortable i for fori table able travesty a social meal where sociability r oc Is lacking innes said it had beef a pleasant morning gerty thought it had been hot and then thed there was silence again innes began botell to tell them of bertuc her tucson visit when gerty laid down her y z I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 1 11 11 1 11 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 4 I 1 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 1 i A I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 nothing I 1 vail had I 1 been forgotten fork ive ili 0 meant to ask you you a hundred times did you yo u attend to my iny commission in los angeles I 1 I 1 1 I forgot to tell you I 1 rak raked adibe the town really 1 I did gerty 11 fot for there was w as a cloud on gertys retty pretty brow 1 11 I could have got you the other kind but bui you ya said you youdia did not want it 1 I should think ahlai not the childish chin was lifted 11 those complicated I 1 f things are always getting 0 out of order besides if I 1 had bad tin nn adjustable form be borrowing it I 1 anre imi re you gibout ji bout ds d r N b antl banded tom waking up bori bor i row your what gert please dont donle call me gert tom besought his ls w wife ife plaintively A figure I 1 wanted innes to try to get one for me in los ang angeles alei 1 I did try t beg began an idues v youra Is good enough for anyone why should you get another lie he was waa openly admiring the ilie ample bust swelling under tho the pink gingham dont tom innes tried to explain the since sincerity rif y of her search Sli she ahad had v visited every store which might bi be suspected of having bhavini 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