P END,4;
FOURTH INSTALLMENT
The water in her pitcher was
fresh from the creek and cold.
Anne splashed In it vigorously, one
foot still tapping at odd moments
in time to an intermittently hum
med tune, but a disapproving puck-/
er had come between her delicately
marked brows. Now why did she
have to do that silly trick? Why do
anything which start anybody, even
Martha, wondering where she had
come from and what she had been
before she had stepped off the two
thirty-eight at Marston? She must
be more careful.
Dressing was a swift matter in
these days. Insinuating odori of ba
con and coffee were creeping in,
but she went out of doors first.
Over by the horse corral she heard
a sudden series of thuuips, like
dancing hoofs on hard ground.
Rounding the corner of the house
she caught sight of Barry Duanev
The dancing sounds came from the
prettiest pinto Anne had ever seen,
penned in the corral and making
playful rushes at the gate. On the
ground beside Duane was a saddle.
"Barry Duane, what are you do
ing " |
"Oh, hello!" He turned with a
guilty grin. "Do you mind having
visitors at this hour? I thought I'd
bring a pinto down and ask you to
exercise him occasionally. His name's
Comet. It's a great riding country
around here. I know some pretty!
good trails."
Her eyes shone. She tried to
frown, and made a bad job of it. |
"But you mustn't do such things.
It's awfully good of you to want
to, but I really cant?"
"Can't ride? I'll teach you in a
morning."
"Don't be so innocent. You know
"what I mean. You've taken hours
of your time and Petry's, and ham- [
mered and dug and sawed, and
made special trips to Marston on'
errands thata Iought to have look- \
ed after myself, and even brought
things down from your own ranch,
but when it comes to taking yourj
saddle horses?"
"Don't you like him?"
"Of course I like him. He's a
darling." |
"Then lie's yours. And don't think
that you are getting anything very
great, because I have a hundred
more running loose. Comet, come
and make friends with your new
The pinto arched his neck and
looked warily at the strange hand.
Anne reached over and ran her
hand down a satiny neck.
"Oh, you beautiful thing!" she
said softly. "How could anybody
part with you?"
Barry Duane looked down at her
with his nice smile.
"It doesn't have to be a complete
separation. I've been hinting that
I expect to come along when you
ride him. but I haven't had even a
nibble yet."
"You've got one now. I'm wild
to try him." i
"This morning?"
"Love to. Right after breakfast.
Have you had yours or will you
have some with us?" |
"Both, thank you. I like Martha's
coffee and I've been up since before
five. Comet, we stay."
Half an hour later he was out
again saddling the pinto for her and
Anne was making a quick change
into riding clothes.
Barry was waiting with the
horses. j
"All outfitted for the trail, aren't
we? I suppose that means that you
have ridden btfore?"
"Some.. .Not much," she add
ed honestly, "but I'm crazy about
it.'! _ |
The pinto danced delicately. im
patient to be off. but she held him
in while Barry swung himself into
his saddle. He nodded approvingly.
"That's just right. Keep a steady
hand on him and he will soon know
which one of you is boss. You'll
find that he has plenty of ginger,
but he's well behaved."
For the first half m'.le they
scarcely spoke. Annet let Comet out
a little. Pounding hoofs sounded
back of her and the long-striding
Captain soon came abreast. She
gave Barry a radiant look, and his
heart suddenly skiffed a beat or
two and went rocketing up into his
ears. f
t After a time they camera a high,
fiat that, was like a parkland.
"Like to stop?" he suggested.'
"This is one of the places I wanted
to show you . . . ."
They found an Inviting place to
sit. Anne sighed happily.
1 "And to think " she added lazily,
"that I'd planned to spend this
heavenly morning struggling with
a hoe."
"It's not a woman's work'," .he
insisted doggedly. The mere sug
gestion seemed to make him angry.
"If you need more help, let your
neighbors take a hand. Or if you
wont do that, Tranqulllno has a
nephew who will come by the day.
and 111 see that he doesn't over
I charge you. I hate the idea of youi
grubbing in the fields. It doesn t fit
you at all."
"I'm a hard'-workiflg' woman, you
I know, not a princess in an ivory
i tower."
| "You'd make a better princess
i than anyone I know."
I She caught a dark flicker in his
.eyes. A warning little bell chimed
somewhere in her head. Barry
I Duane was not the kind who made
careless love.
I The days ran by as swiftly as
j water slipping over a dam. There
was still plenty of work to be done,
I but the first furious onslaught was
over. Things were shaping up, in
doors and out. a
I Every morning Anne ran out to
| look at the new green of her alfal
' fa fields. There were hours In the
kitchen garden or out on the porch.
I Evenings she often sat with pencil
? and paper and thoughtfully pucker
I ed her brow, trying to figure crofits
and losses, the cost of stock and
' what she ought to do next year.
Barry was looking after some neg
lected work on his own ranch, but
every few days he found an excuse
to stop at Trail's End. The oblig
ing Boone Petry detoured to Trail's
End every time he drove in to Mars
ton and occasionally when he didn't.
Martha developed an uncanny pres
cience in guessing when Petry was
due and piling up errands and odd
joos for him.
They were out on the steps one
day whenPetry drove up, the old
car piled with supplies.
"There's your package from the
mail order house. Miss Anne, and
here's a letter for Martha. No let
ters for you or me. ^JShall I take
the groceries around bgck,Martha?"
He usually walked straight
through the front door to the kit
chen, as did everybody else, but to
day he flickered an eyelid at Mar
tha and tramped around to the back
door. Martha followed him.
"Look here. Martha, some of
those old hens in Marston are
talkin'."
"What's the matter with them?"
"Miss Annie's the matter. Mis'
Bagley, she cant get over the shock
of findln' that there wasn't any tag
on her coat, and Mis' Caswell at
the post-office, she says it's awful
queer that Miss Cushing never gets
letters from home like other folks."
"Well," said MJartha sharply,
what did you tell her?"
"What could I tell her?" Petry
scratched a worried head. Her bein'
a lady, I couldn't very well cram
her remarks .dftwn her throat, could
I?"
"No,' said Martha dryly. "Bein' a
man, you wouldn't know how. Now
see here, Boone Petry, the next
time you hear any sue hinterestin'
conversation goin' on, you just.slide
up and tell 'em you know for cer
tain. only you wouldn't tell any
body but .them, that Miss Anne
hasn't any folks except cousins she's
never seen .and she run away be
cause her guardian wanted her to
marry a rich old rate that she
shated.
Petry grinned. "All right, Mar
tha, just as you say."
Martha's mouth quirked briefly
and sobered again.
"Look here, do you suppose Bar
ry's heard any of this?"
"Dcn't believe so. If anybody's
ever said it to htm, he'd have sail
ed in and took 'em apart."
Martha looked worried. "No," she
said grimly, "he wouldn't take 'em
apart. He'd Just turn Icy mad and
freeze 'em until they cracked. And
he'd rage inside all the way home,
because he's awful fond of Miss
Anne."
Inside of the house a voice' was
singing, a lilting soprano. Petry
listened for a moment, eased the
box Softly to the table and tip
toed out again.
Anne was restless. She was
alone, for Martha had gone to
i Marston to spend the day, leaving
shortly after breakfast with Petry.
] At first it had been rather furl. She
i had roamed from the house to the
) creek and back to the house again,
but little by little things that she
1 wanted to forget had crept in.
She must not think of them; she
didn't want to. This was a new
life and she was going, .to be happy
in it. She was hafipy. Would she
(ever feel free to do the things that
other girls did?well, to marry, for
j instance? Evfe if she told the man
j first? But she couldn't tell. What
ever happened, she didn't dare to
?that . . . She wondered what Barry
Duane would say if he knew
She Jumped up suddenly and
gave herself an impatient shake.
, She would go out and saddle
Comet, and leave It miles behind
! For the first level half mile thaj
! swept along in an exhilarating
; burst of speed, but after that shr
j pulled the pinto down to a stead
, ler pace, and once turned to a stee
lier trail he bent down to businest
and climbed diligently.
"Hilx was the first time that qhe
had ridden for any great distance
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alone, and there was a thrill In It.
She meant to make the same circle
that she and Barry had traveled
on their first ride together.
Fir over an hour she rode slowly.
Then she reined in and dismount
ed. Momet watched her dith liquid
unblinking eyes as she climbed out
to a boulder of red sandstone. It
made a natural seat. *
For a long time she sat there.
The sun's rays were slanting from
the west. Little by little the warmth
and light were fading from her
face again. She jumped up abru
ptly. She sqddenenly realized how
low that sun was. "Comet!" she
called. "Come, boy, we're going
home."
No antwering whinny came ft>
her call. There was no sign of the
pinto.
Anne stood very still for a mo
ment telling herself that she wasn't
scared. It was her own fault; she
ought to have "tied him to the
ground." as Petry called it. She
gave an anxious glance at those
slanting rays and .turned quickly to j
her way.
A swaying of bushes on a lower (
slope caught her eye, and then'in,
an open space there was a flash of,
glossy piebald flanks. She called,
with all the strength of healthy |
I young lungs. The pinto caught the
sound, looked back and hesitated.
She was within a hundred feet of
him when he frisked caprlcously,
I broke into an easy canter and
stopped at a safer distance.
She could have wept with vexa
! tion. More slowly this time, Anne
followed him with ooaximg voice
and outstretched hand. This was
la nice game and Comet was feel
l ing coltish and gay. He let her
come quite near and then wheeled
! and cantered off again.
When she came to the next open
space there was no sign of the
i pinto. She stopped and called
1 again. There was no sound. The
| graceless'Comet had gone light
heartedly about his own business,
, and she must get back to the trail
and make her long way home.
The trail? The thought startled
her. She mado a turn, blankly
strange, and came suddenly on a
wall of rock.
It rose sheer, two hundred feet
; rr mere, directly in her path. She
turned and looked back uncertain
ly, wondering where the first wrong
turning had been. Back of her was
foe blank wall of cliff, and ahead
and on both sides stretched an end
less reiteration of trees and under
growth and .rocks tn bewildering
confusion. -v
There was no trail. She was lost
Barry lounged comfortably in a
| big chair and wondered why Petry
was bo late. He had been out in
the blaz'ng Junipero all day. but
?he knew that Petry had convoyed
Martha Larrabee in to Marston to
spend the, day. and the efficient
Martha would not have allowed any
uch late returning to her own du
, ties. Probably the old rascal had in
vited himself to supper at Trail's
End.
Barry was thinking of a shabby
little ranch house in a small valley,
where a girl was gallantly tackling
1 a htan's Job. was a queer occu
pation for a girl like Anne Cushing
to choose. Usually girls as pretty
and dainty as Anne wanted any
thing that kept them manicured
and permanently waved.
For . a moment the fading sunset
1 lights played a curious trick on
hirn. He saw a shadowy figure in
i the chair opposite him.' with lum
inous eyes and a curved moOth that
smiled at him. v He was always
i thinking of' Anne. And he had
known her only a few short
? weeks. " v
i . Steps came from the rear, heavy
and flurried, and Petry's head ap-j
peared. "Ain't Miss Anne here?"
"No." Surprise turned quickly to'
apprehension. "What's the matter? (
"I dunno exactly." Petry looked
increasingly uneasy. "You see, I
brought Martha home, but Miss
Anne, she'd gone out somewhere for
a ride. That was two hours ago.
Of course they ain't any reason
why she shouldn't go off for a ride
1 and come home late, but it kinda
bothered me."
j (To i'e Continued)
Letter Tells Of
Drought In West
The terrible conditions in the
drought stricken western states is
graphically described in a letter
which O. L. Simmons, leal cloth
ing merchant, received last week
from his brother. Rev. W. A. Sim
mons, who is pastor of a church
in Des Moines, Iowa, a section that
is on the border of the most
parched drought area.
The letter tells of the suffering
of both people and animals in
Iowa and neighboring states and
mentions a shortage of water as
far west at Colorado, a state that
draus much of its water from the
snow covered Rocky Mountains.
Another of Mr. Simmons relatives.
Rev. W. E. Simmons, is pastor of
the First Baptist church in Lamar
Colorado, and has recently been a
visitor in Des Moines.
In describing the drought, Rev.
Simmons states, "We are having a
blighting drought in twenty wes
tern states. It certainly is distres
sing. There are thirteen hundred
counties which will have to be fed
by the government for the next
year. Iowa will have a pretty good
crop in about half the state, but
from Des Moines south the crops
are burnt up .Cattle are starving for
food and water, and thousands are
being killed Just to relieve them of
their suffering. The government is
buying about tow hundred thou
sand every day for slaughter, or
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we are getting vegetables from
communities where they have had
plenty of rain, there being plenty
of everything in the markets, but
many people have nothing to pay
for food." * i
Rev. Simmons also tells o how
he and his wife celebrated their
"Golden Wedding" anniversary re
cently, and he recalls the fact that
he has spent fifty-six yfears In the
ministry. He is a native of this
section, but has been in the west
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Times, v ?
Short Sermons
Ilj J. B. Cnrrin
The Exercise Of Faith
There Is much more exercise of,
confidence, trust, or faith, which- )
ever we wish to call it,~\,han one
might at first thought suppose.
We trust inanimate things every
day. Such trust is exercised in
such little things as collar buttons,
shoe laces, matches, chairs and a
host of others. With out even
thinking of the fact we just depend
on them serving the purpose for
which thef are intended. In like
manner we trust dougs, horses and
other animals
We exercise confidence in manu
facturers and merchants in the
purchase of their goods. We trust
our lives with trainmen and bus
men when we ride with them. We
go to hospitals and allow ourselves
to be put to sleep and operated
on not knowing whether or not we
will come from the table alive.
Such an attitude .owards things
and towards men is neccessary and
becomes increasingly sb as civili
zation advances. The more we dis
cover, the more We achieve, the j
more we must exercise faith.
Paith or confidence in God is
also necessary if we are to receive)
enjoy, and use life as we have thel
privilege of doing. One who has
tried in vain to help those who have
no confidence in him realize to j
some extent how impossible it is
for God to bless as he desires those:
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who have no faith In him.
It was the lack of confidence In
God that first cat man off from
fellowship with him. He Is spoken
of as going In the cool of the day
and talking with Adam In the gar
den until Eve allowed the enemy
to persuade her to believe that God
was withholding from her someth- j
ing by which she would be benefit
ed and therefore was not worthy to]
be trusted.
The condition which the Lord
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lost confidence. We read that
God so loved the world that he'
gave his only begotten Son^. that
whcsover believeth in him "should
not perish, but have everlasting
life." So Itl ft thoife, who beHeve oil
or trust him who receive the bles
sing.
Why should not every one re
spond to the urge of the Spirit and
trust his life with Gpd7 If we can
trust Inanimate things, animals,
and people, we should not hestltate
to trust God. He is much more wor
thy to be trusted than they..
o '
In Remembrance Of
John Robert Jr. Jones
The death angels entered the
home of Mr. and Mfs. J. R. Jones
of near Christie on the 24th of.
March and took from them their
darling baby. His stay on earth
was short, -only four days, but long
enough to wind his hands around
their hearts. We all loved ycu
darling, but God loved you best.
He sent a bind of angels to take
you home to rest. We all miss you
darling, but none can take your
place, but we are always thinking
darling of your sweet loving face.
Oh, how we miss you darling, but
we all feel safe about you, for we
know Ood needed you to complete
his holy band^ Tlje gates were open,
darling here on earth where you
Ood needed you around His mighty
throne. Oh how me miss you
darling here o nearth where you
stayed, but you are with Jesus
where no tears are shed and no
pains are suffered. We all hope
some day to be with little Jr. He
has gone to Join his little brother
who passed away several years ago.
Little Junior leaves to mourn his
death a mother, Mrs. Bertha Joens,
a father, Robert Jones, three sis
ters, Lucy Jones, Vivian Jones and
Audrey Jones, one brother, James,
Jones. He was laid to rest in the
Jones cemetery near Christie.
By a friend, Maggie Saunders.
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