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THE ALLIANCE HERALD, TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 1921
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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
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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.
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For the First Time He Looked Her
Straight In the Face.
her gr-y ones and demanded troth.
Irene," he said, "do you mean that?"
"Sure I do," she answered. "College
courses, and all that kind of thing,
they're good stuff, all right, but they
make some awful nice boys real
live boys, you know Into some awful
dead ones. My father sovs about the
best education Is to learn to live with
in your Income, pay your debts and
give the other fellow a chance to do
the same. They don't all learn that at
college. Then there's the things you
do, Just like you were born to It. that
they couldn't do to save their lives.
Why, I've seen you smash six bottles
it a stretch, you going full gallop and
whooping and shooting so we could
hanly tell which was which. 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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