You tell me your story because of Leslie? Logans
mother hadnot long survived his father. She had told him that she liked him better
than anyof her other friends.
I should think youd be the happiest man in the
world, declared Sterl,feelingly.
Whom God has joinedtogether let no man put
asunder!
The range lifehe had led before his campaign suited
him better. As herode along through the shady, silent forest, he remembered Lucinda
with awarmth of pleasure.
At thesummit he turned for one last look. Crooks
campaign was about over and the soldiers were jubilant.
Months, isnt it, Sterl, since I rode beside you
like this?
Hammocks were strung for them in theshade, and they
lay back on pillows, wide-eyed. Three white men came out into the open, halting to
stare. And the next day the leader of the drovers, for once actuated byhaste, made
for the junction. He continued to mull over the yellow pages. I guessed where
Matazelsbunch was headed for.
Sterl, what were youtalking to Dad about? He
resisted thisidea, repudiated it, but it returned all the stronger.
It waslevel brushland, barren in dry seasons, rich
now after the rains.
You Indians will be taken care of, he said
presently. Larry, who was a good carpenter, often lent a helping hand. A few miles
from their source there were deep grassy valleys withheavily timbered
slopes.
Reason is that gold has been discovered in the
Kimberleys!
Wal, youd remember thet lofer, if you ever seen
him. Scarcely a mile back in the woods ran the road from. Apaches had once used this
beautiful site for a hunting-camp. Leslie, Ill tell Berylwhat a state Red is in over
her.
Rustlergangs have yet to settle in this section of
Arizona.
He did not know that they accounted for his
content. She slid off the rock into his arms, blind, weeping, torn asunder,
herslender hands clutching him. Say, anybody would think you girls expected to live
over heah with usfellers! He did not know that they accounted for his content. But
whatwith the timber wolves an hard winters we have tough sleddin.
Whom God has joinedtogether let no man put
asunder!
Wonder how old Geronimo is going to take this? Hell
bemissed if old Geronimo breaks out an goes on the warpath.