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SIX THE ALLIANCE HERALD, TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 1921 SYNOPSIS. riTATTrn T-t.tvlft wllli M father on miAll. v inun w.l ranrh. I ll ,Mh! ' r.-ml,e1 ll f eiKlitrpn it)i fP eitu.-Mionnl .Ivhiup-. jV."i''." riU-nt to II- nuio In wlilrh I'r ll.r.lv. Ifr Irene. ni l.irln lh oilnli t Im j, new element Into ,! life. I'r. UMy f I..r In .r..krn a.i.i l. l i.-roaA.ir ly .on flnV.J to hl h"V Tri.-nitsli'P. ami f"""; thine tnoic, rtovrln;is between Irene n lavld. Tfvc rCOW PUNCHER k By Rober J.C.Siead Kitchener, and other IOujMmmw fcy lri MrT fl;iy scouring wie coiliiTTy Tff U sauuie.' Slip would manage some way. Late that nifit she was busy with scissors and needle. CHAPTER II. " Tlitf following tin It ' decided thnt the automobile, which since th' accident bud laid upturned by the mm war, should ho brought to tht rnncl building. I:ivc harnessed his team and, lnstcnd of riding one of the horses, walked behind. driving by the reins, nnd accompanied by the girl, who lind proclaimed her nlilllty to ulcer the car. With the aid of the team and Iave's lariat the car was soon righted and wns found to be none the worse for Its de flection from the beaten track. Irene presided nt the steering-wheel, watch ing the rond w Ith great Intcntness and turning the wheel too far on each oc casion, which gave to her course, a somewhat wavy or undulating order, such as la found In bread knives; or perhaps a better figure would be to compare It to Unit rolling motion af fected by fancy skaters. However, the wean of her direction .corresponded with the mean of the trail and all went merrily until the stream was ap proached. Here was a rather steep descent and the car showed a sudden purpose to engage the horses In a con test of ppeed. She determined to use the foot brake, a feat which was ac complished, under normal conditions, by presulng one foot firmly agalust a contraption somewhere beneath the steering post. She shot a quick glance downward and, to her alarm, discov ered not one, but three, coutraptlon9, nil apparently designed to receive the pressure of a foot If oue could reach tliein and as similar as the steps of a Malr. This Involved a further hesita tion, and In nutomohlllng ho who hesi tates Invites a series of rapid experi ences. It was quite evident that the cur was running away. It was quite evident that the horses were runulng nwny, too. The situation as sumed the qualities of a race, and the only matter of grave doubt related to Its termination. Then they struck the water. It was not more than two feet deep, but the extra resistance It caused and the ex tra alarm It excited In the horses re sulted la breaking the lariat. Dave i.lung fast to his team and they were soon brought to a standstill. Having pacified them, he tied them to a post nnd returned to the stream. ,The car at In the middle; the girl bad put her feet on the seat beside her, and the pulft water flowed by a few Inches be low. She was laughing merrily when Iave, very wet In parts, appeared on the bank. "Well, I'm not wet, except for a lit tle splnshlng," she said, "and you are. loes anything occur to you?" Without reply he walked stolidly In to the cold water, took her In his arms and carried her ashore. The lariat was soon repaired and the car hauled to the ranch buildings without further mishap. Later in the day he said to her: "Can you rbiel" "Some," she answered. "I have rid den city horses, but don't know about these ranch animals. But I would like to try If I had a saddU" "I have an extra caddie," he aatd. But it's a man's. . . . They all ride that way here." She made no answer and the subject was dropped for the time. Rut the jnext morulng she saw Dave ride away, Without Reply . He Walked Stolidly , Into the Cold Water, Took Her In , Hie Arms and Carried Her Ashore. leading a borse by hla aide. He did not return until evening, but when be came the idle horse carried a saddle. "It's a strad-legger," he said when he drew up beside Irene, "but It's a girl's. I couldn't find anythln' else In the whole diggln's." "I'm sure it will do splendidly If I ran Just stick on," she replied. But another problem was already In her mind. It apparently had not occurred to Dave that women require special clothing for riding, especially If It's a "strad-legger." She opened her Hps to mention this, then closed them again, lie bad. been to enough trouble on her account, lie had aJread spent a whole Doctor Hardy recovered from his In juries as rapidly as could be expected and. while be chafed somewhat over p.yidlng his holidays under such cir cumstances, the time passed not un 'uipplly. A considerable acquaintanceship had .prung up between him ami the senior Klden. The rancher hud come from the I'ast forty V'rs before, but In turning over their memories Ihe two rren found many links of association: third persons known to them both; places, even streets and houses, common to their feet In early manhood; events of local history which each could recoil, although from different angles. And EMcii's grizzled head and stooping frame carried more experiences than would fill a dozen well-rounded city lives, and he bad the story-teller's art which scorns to spoil dramatic effect by a too strict adherence to fact. Hut no ray of conversation would he admit into the more personal a flairs of his heart, or of the woman who bad been his wife, and even when the talk turned on the boy he quickly withdrew It to another topic, as though the sub ject were dangerous or distasteful. Itut once," after a long silence following such a diversion, bad he betrayed himself Into a whispered remark, an outburst of feeling rather than a communica tion. "I've been alone so much," he said. "It seems I have never been anything but alone. And sooner or later it gets you It gets you." "Yon have the boy," ventured the doctor. "No," he answered, almost fiercely. 'That would be different. I could stand It then. Hut I haven't got him, nnd I can't get him. He despises me because because I take too much at times." He paused as though wonder ing whether to proceed with this un wonted confidence, but the ache In his heart Insisted on Its right to human sympathy. "No, It ain't that," he con tinued. "He despises me because he thinks I wasn't fair to his mother. He can't understand. I wanted to be good to her, to be close to her. Then I took to booze, as natural as a steer under the brandln'-lron roars to drown his hurt. But the boy don't understand. lie despises me." Then, after a long silence: "No matter. 1 despise my self." The doctor placed a hand on his shoulder. But Klden was himself again. The curtains of his life, which he had drawn apart for a moment, he whipped together again rudely, almost viciously, and covered his confusion by plunging Into a tale of how he Imd'.Ijpd a breed suspected of cattle-rustling on a little canter of ten miles with a rope about his neck and the other end tied to the saddle. "He ran well," snld the old man, chuckling still at the remlnls cence. "And It was lucky be did. It was a strong rope." The morning after Dave hnd brought In the borrowed saddle Irene appeared In . a sort of bloomer suit, somewhat wonderfully contrived from a spare skirt, and announced a willingness to risk life and limb on any borse that Dave might select for that purpose. He provided her with a dependable mount and their first Journey, taken somewhat gingerly along the principal trail, was accomplished without Incident. It was j the forerunner of many others, plung ing deeper and deeper Into the fast nesses of the foothills and even into the passes of the very mountains them selves. His patience was Infinite ami, alihouu there were no silk trappings to his courtesy. It was a very genuine and manly deference he paid her. She was quite sure that he would at any moment give his life, It needed, to de fend her from Injury and accept the transaction as a matter of course. Ills physical endurance was Inexhaustible and his knowledge of prairie and foot hill seemed to her almost uncanny. He read every sign of footprint, leaf, wa ter and sky with unfailing Insight. He hnd no knowledge of books, and she had at first thought him Ignorant, but as the days went by hhe found in him mine of wisdom which shamed her ready-made education. After such a ride they one day dis mounted In a grassy opening among the trees that bordered a mountain canyon In a crevice they found a flat stone that gave comfortable seating and here they rested while the horses browsed their afternoon meal on the grass above. Both were conscious of a grad ually Increasing tension In the at mosphere. For days the boy had been moody. It wae evident he was harbor ing something that was calling through hla nature for expression, and Irene knew that this afternoon he would talk of more than trees and rocks and foot prints of the wild things of the forest. "Your father Is getting along well," he said, at length. "Yes," she answered. "lie has had a good holiday, even with bis broken leg." - "Yon will be goln' away before long," he continued. "Yes." she answered, and waited. "Things abputhere ain't goln to be the Fame nTlcr you're" gnnr- i9 went on. He wore no rout, and the neck of bis shirt was open, for the tiny was warm. Had he caught hr sidelong glances, even bis slow, self-deprecating mind must have rea l their admiration. But he kept his eyes fixed on the green water. "Vnu see," he said, "before you came It was different. I didn't know what I wns mlssln', an' so It didn't matter. Not but what I was dog-sick of It at times, but still I thought I wns livln' thotight this was life, and, of course, now I know It ain't. At least, It won't be nfter you're gone." "That's strange," she said, not In direct answer to bis remark, but as a solil.iquy on It as she turned it over In her mind. "This life, now. seems empty to you. All my life seems empty to me. This set-ms to me the real life, nut here In the foothills, with the trees and the mountains, and and our horses, you know." She might have ended the sentence In a way that would have come much closer to him, and been much truer, but conventionality bad been bred In to her for generations and she did not find It possible yet freely to speak the truth. "it's such a wonderful life," she con tinued. "One gets so strong and hap py In It." "You'd soon get sick of It." he said. "We don't see notl in'. We don't learn nothln'. Iteenle, I'm eighteen, an' I bet you could read an' write better'11 me when you wns six." "Did you never go to school?" she asked. In genuine surprise. She knew his speech was ungrummatfcal, but thought that due to careless training rather than to no training at nil. "Where'd I go to school?" he de manded, bitterly. "There nln't a school within forty miles. Guess I wouldn't have went If I could," be added, ns an afterthought, wishing to be quite hon est In the matter. "School didn't seem to cut no figure until Jus' lately." "But you have learned some?" she continued. "Some. When I was a little kid my father used to work with me at times. He learned me to read a little, an' to write my name, an' a little more. But things didn't go right between him an' mother, an' he got to drlnkln' more an more, an' Jus' making h- of It. We used to have a mighty fine herd of steers here, but It's all shot to pieces. When we sell a bunch the old man '11 stay In town for a month or more, blowin' the coin and leavln' the debts go. I sneak a couple of steers away now an' then, an' with the money I keep our grocery bills paid up an' have a little to rattle In my Jeans. My credit's good at any store In town," nnd Irene thrilled to the note of pride in bis voice ns he said this. The boy had real quality in hlra. "But I'm sick of It all," he continued. "Sick of It, an' I w aqna get out." "You think you nre not educated," she answered,' trying to meet his out burst ns tactfully as possible. "Per haps you nre uot, the way we think of It In the city. But I guess you could show the city boys a good many things they don't know, and never will kuow, For the first time he looked her straight In the face. Ills dark eyes met then Jn clefn "red blood. They talked of many things that af ternoon, and when at last the lenth enlng shadows warned them It wn time to be on the wny they rode long distances in silenc". Both felt a sens which neither ventured to express thnt they hnd traveled very close In the world of their hopes and sorrows and desires. Continued in Next Issue) After spending the long end of the day in difcuysion the senate finally passed the Xorval language bill. The bill was changed fo much in committee that Senator Notval refused to spon sor it so his name was taken frum the bill. This bill re-enacts the Siman law i and adds some additional restrictions 1 which are supposed to make it more elfcctive. One of them is that no re- ! strictions may be placed on the use of I the English langxiage. MAWS BEST AGE A man is as old as his organs ; he can be as vigorous and healthy at 70 as at 35 if he aids his organs in performing their functions. 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And ride you could make more money riding for city people to look at than most of those learned fellows, with letters af ter their names like the tall of a kite. will ever see. But I wouldn't like you ' to make it that way. There are more useful things to do." He was comforted by this speech. but he referred to his accomplishments modestly. "Ridin' an shootin' ain't nothln'," he said. "I'm not so sure," she answered. "Father says the day Is coming when our country will want men who can shoot and ride more than It wih want lawyers and professors." "Well, when It does It can call on me," he said, and there was the pride in bis voice which comes to a boy who feels that In some way he can take a man's place In the world. "Them Is two things I sure can do." 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