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JANUARY 12 1915
lemesamesetrosese
THE WEAK SPOT-
IN.THE BACK.
When the kidneys get ill the back
gives out
But the back is not to blame.
The ache comes from the kidneys,
which lie under tne small of th.e back.
Therefore, dull pain in the back, or
gel& twin,ges, are warnnigs of
dneys—warnings of leideey trouble.
Plasters and linitnents will not cure
a bad back, for they cannot reach the
kidneys which cause it.
Doan's Kidney Pills reach the kidneys
themselves. They are a skeial kidney
and bladder medicine. The heal the
diseased surface of kidneys and bladder,
and help them to act freely and naturally.
Mrs. Chester Romain, Fort Coulonge,
Que., writes: "I had been troubled. with
sore back for over four,years, and could
get nothing to do me any good until
heard of your Doan's Kidney Pills.
I got three boxes, and took them and
now I am completely cured."
Doan's Kidney Pills are 50c a box,
3 boxes for $1.25, at all dealers or mailed
direct on receipt of price by The T. Mil-
burn Co, Iiimited, Toronto, Ont.
When ordering direct specify "Doan's."
IF YOUR CHILD 18 oRpsA,
oOkEITIPATED
Look Mother! If tongue Is coated,
-cleanse little bowels with "Cali-
fornia Syrup of Figs."
Mothers can rest easy after giving
"California. Syrup of Figs," because ft
few hours all the clogged -up waste,
sour bile and fermenting food gently
moves out of the bowels, and you. have
a well, playful child agein.
Sick children needn't be coaxed to
take this harmless "fruit laxative."
Millions of mothers keep it handy be-
cause they know its action on the
stomach, liver and bowels is prompt
and sure.
) Ask your druggist for a 50 -cent bot-
tle of "California Syrup of Pies," which
contains directions for babies, children
of all ages and for grown-ups.
LEGAL.
R. S.•11ALS
Barrister, SoIlcitar, Conveyancer and
Notary Public. Solicitor for the Dom-
inion Bank. Office In rear of the Dom-
inion Bank, Sea -forth. Money to loan.
J. M. BEST.
' Barrister, Solicitor, Conveyancer and
Ndtary Poblic. Office up -stairs over
yealker'e furniture store, Main street,
Seaforth.
F. HOLMESTED,
Barrister, Solicitor, Conveyancer and
Farms or sale. Office, in Scott's block,
Main etreet, Seaforth.
PROUDFOOT", 1.1.A.YS & KILLORA.N.
Notary Public. Solicitor for th o Cana-
dian. Bank of Commerce. Money to loan.
Barrieters,Solicitors Notaries Public,
etc. Adlaney td lend In 'Seaforth on Mon-
day ef each -week. Office in Kida block.
VETERINARY
JOHN GRIEVE., V. S. .•
Horror gradua.te ef Ontario Veterin-
ary College. All diseases of Domestic
Animals treated. Calls promptly attend-
ed to and charges moderate. IVeterinat y
Denttstry a specialty. Office and resi-
dence on Goderich street, one door east;
of Dr. SceNt's office, Seaforth.
F. S ARBURN, V. SI
Honor graeluate of Ontario Veterin-
ottfy College, andhonorary member of
the Medical Association of the Ontario
Veterinary College. Treats diseaseg of
all Domeetic Animals by the most id
ern principles: Dentistry and Milk Fev-
er a epeciaky. Office opposite, Dick's
Slotel, Main ;street, Seaforth. All or-
• ders left at the hotel will receive prompt
taittention. Night calls received at the
toffice. ,
ME.DICAL
C. J. W. KARN,
j25 Richmond street, London, Ont.
Specialist : Surgery and Cenito-Urin-
ary diseases of men and women.
DR. ,GEORGE) -11EILEMANN.
tas teopa th lc Physician of Goderlch.
Specialist la .women's and children's
diseases, rheumatism, emits chronic
and mervcrus disorders, eye, ear, nose
ard throat. Consultation free. Office at
Commercial Hotel, Seaforth, Tuesday
and Frida.yst, 8 earn. till 1 p rre,
DE. F. 3. BURROWS.
Office and residence—Coderich .street,
east of the Methodist church, Seaforth.
Phone No. 46. Coroner for the County
of !Huron,
• DRS. SCOTT & MCKAY.
J. G. Scett, gra.duene en Victoria and
College of Physicians and Surgeons.
Anmeerber, and !member of the Ontario
Coroner for the County of Huron.
C. MacKay, honer graduate of Trinity
Urdversity, and gold medallist of Trin-
ity Medical College; member of the Col-
lege of Physicians and Surgeone, Ontario.
DR. R HUGH
Graduate of University of Toronto
Facitity of Medicine, member of Col-
lege of Physicians tancleturgeens of On-
tario; pass graduate ccurs..es in Chicago
Clincal School of Chictigo; Royal Oen-
thalmic Hospital, London, England,
Univereity Deng; Hospital, London
England. Office --Back of the Dominion
Bank, Seaforth. Phone No. 5. Night
calls anewered from reeldence, Victoria
etreet, Seaforth.
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illemeeneseenen. 'asesenemiseeseasislaft
be toola seat a litt14 hesitatingly.
"You see, I studied domeStic -science at
school, and I've never ha1 a chance to
apply it before." „
• "Here's your 'opportru*y," Redfield
assured, her. "My respect for ' the
science of domestics is growing. I
marvel to think what another Week
will bring forth. • / think I'll have to
come down again just to observe the
improvement in the place."
"It can't holt," Lize interjected.
"She'll -catch the western. .habits.
She'll sag, same as we all do."
"No, she won't," declared Rosse with
intent to encourage her, "V you give
her a free hand I predict she'll make
your place the wonder. and beast of
the county -side." .
"When do you go back to the moun-
tains?" Lee Virginia asked a little
, -. •
"Immediately lifter my luticheon," he
replied. I
'
• . She experi need a pang .of regre
and COUld DO help .showing it.a little
"Your taik he ped me," she said. "Ihr
deckled to st y and be of use to my
mother."
Rectheld ove heard this and turned
toward her.
"1 want 'Airs. IlecJe1c1 to know. you.
I'm sure her advice- ill be helpful. I
hope ,you'll eorde up and see us if you •
decide to settiOn-Sulphur or if you
dont."
el should like to do so," she said,
touched by the one as well as by the
words of his iunitation.
"Itedtield's house ie one of the few
completely civil zed-. homes in the
state." put in Ca anagh. "When I get
so weary of cuss vvorde and poaching
and graft that can't live without
killing some one 1 go down to Elk
Lodge and smoke and .read the super-
visor's London and Paris weeklies and
,recover my ioneeil .
\ - .
Redfield smiled.. "When I get Weak-
kneed or careless in the service and
feel my self respeetslipping away ,I
go up to Ross' cabin and talk with a
man who represents the impersonal,
even handed, justice of the federal
mw." 1
. . • • •
Ca v a nagh la ughed. "There! 7 Hav-
ing handed each other reciprocal boue
quets, we can new tell Miss Wether -
ford the truth. Each of us thinks Vern
well of himself, and we're both be-
lievers in the new west." .
"What. de yon mean by the new
west?" asked the girl;
"Well, the work you've been doing
here this morning is ', part of it," an-
swered Redfield. "It'sa kind of house-'
,
Airea4g. The old west was pictur-
esque and in a way manly and fine—
certain phases of it were heroic—and
I hate to see it all pass, but some of,
us began to realize that it was not all
poetry. The plain truth is my com-
panions for over twenty years were
lawless ruffians, and the cattle busis
• ness as we practiced it, in those days
Was founded on selfishness and dee
fended at the mouth of the pistol. We
wereeall pensioners on Uncle Sam and
fighting to keep the other fellow off
from having a share of his bounty. It
was all wasteful. half ; savage. We
didn't vant settlement; we didn't want
law; w didn't want a state. We want-
ed fre range. We were ,a line of pi-
rates from beginning to end, and we're
not wholly reformed yet."
Some one at the table accused Red-
field of being more of a town site
boomer than a cattleman.'
He was quite unmoved by this charge.
"The town site boomer at least believes
In progress. He does not go so far as
to shut out settlement. j don't care/
to have my children live the life I've
lived. Besides. what right have we to
stand Ip the way of a cOmmunity's
growth? Suppose the new life is less
picturesque than the old. 1We don't
like to leave behind us the pleasures
and sports of boyhood. bud we arow
up nevertbeless. I'm far ciore loyal
to the state as forest .sepereisor than
I was when I was riding with the catn
tlemen to scare up the nester."
At this moment Sam Gregg entered
the room, followed by a young wan in
an English riding suit. Seeing that
"the star boarder table" offered, a cou-
ple of seats, they pointed that way.
Stun was plehaly in a warlike frame of
mind and slammed his sombrero on its
nail with the action of a man beating
an adversary.
"That is Sam Gregg and his ,son Joe.
Used to be ranch cattleman, now one
of our biggest sheepmen," Cavanagh
explained. "He's -bucking the cattle-
men now."
Lee Virginia., studied young Gregg
with interest, for his dress was that of
a man to whore money came easy, and
his face was handsome, though rather
fat and sullen. In truth, he had been
brought into the room by his tether to
see "Lize Wetherford's girl," and his
eyes at once sought and found her. A
look of surprise and pleasure at once
it his face. •
Gregg was the greedy we checked
and restrained by the law. Every a .
man in the room knew that
bitter' opponent of the fore
he was '
st service
and that he "had it in" for the renger,
and some et them knew that he was
throwing more sheep into the forest
than his pernaits allowed and that a
lash with Redfield was sure ta cOme.
It was just like the burly old Irish-
man to go straight to the ta
is ble where
Virginia's eyes fell before the elrze
AUCTIONEERS.. 1
THOelAS BROWN.
Licensed auctioneer for th E counties
of Huron and Perth, Correspondence ar-
rangements for sale dates can be made
by callin,g up Phone 97, Seaforth, or
The Expositor office. Charges
ate and eatisfactian guaranteed,
JOHN ARNOLD,
Licensed aitetieneer ror the counties
of Heron and Perth. Afrangements for
_sale dates can be made Us calling ep
Phone 2 on 23 Dublin, or 41 Seaforth,
or the Expositor Office. Charges mod-
erate an d
satisfaction guarantee
B. gl. PHILLIP.1
of Huron and Perth. Being a practice,:
arteer and thoroughly understanding
the value of farm stock and implements
peticea me in a better position ,to re- '
min good pricee. Charges moderate. 1
Natisfacnen guaranteed or no pay. All !
order a ieft in Exeter will be promptly I
attended to.
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THE HURON EXPOSITOR . . 7
know what's the matter of me. It's.
his job to tell me I'm stela and I'm
scared of his verdiet."
"Nonsense!" be replied. "You can't
afford to put off getting him much
longer. Pna going back tonight. but
I11 be over again tomorrow. Why
don't you let me bring him down.? It
will save -you $12. And, by the %viten
• suppose you let me take Lee Virginia
Copyright, 1910, by Hamlin Garbind • home with me. She looks a bit de.
forest. or Ranger
of these two men, for. they had none
of the shyness and noneef the indirec-
tion of the ruder men she had met. -
Redfield did not soften ils words on
Gregg's' account. On the contrary, he
made them still taore cu ting and to
the line.
"The mere fact hat I I ve near the
open range or a 4atlonal forest does
not give me any rights in he range or
-forest;" he was saying as Gregg took
his seat, "I enjo the rlvilege ot
• these' governmeht grazin grounds,
and I ought to be erfeet1y willing to
pay the fee. These faress are the
property of the whele 'net' n. They
are .public lands and should yield a
revenue to the whdle natitn., It is
silly to expect the governm at to go
on enriching a few of us stockmen at
' the expense of others. I see this, and
I accept the change:"
"ter you've got rich at it," said
"Gregg.
. "Well, haven't you?" retor ed Red-
field. "Are you so greedy tha nothing
Will stop you." i
1 Gregg growled out: 'I'm no letting
ny of my rights slip. I'll have your
ead, Mr. Supervisor. 1,11 c ery my
.fil ht to the secretary."
"Very well," retuined edfield,
" arry it to the preside t if yo wish.
I simply repeat that y ur shee Mint
c rrespond to your per it, and if you
d n't send up and rem ve the extra
=Maher I will do it na self. don't
make the rules of the; de artme t. My
joh is to carry them out.
By this time every Person • the
roon was tense with interest. They
all knew Gregg and his imp Mous
methods. Some of the cattlemen the
roota had suffered from his greedSand,`
whie they were not partisans of the
sup rvisor, they were glad to see him
face his opponent fearlessly. -
0 delivered a parting blow: "Bull -
you and me are old timers, We're.
frog,
on the losing side. We belong- to ithe'
.'good old days' when the Fork was It
' 'man' town' and to be 'shot up', once
a w k 'kept us. in news.- But them
kick like steers over paying a few 41d,
t;
times are past. You can't ran the
range that way. any more. Why, man,
you'll have to buy and fence.your ovn
pas, in a few year's more or se
pay r nt same as I do. You stockmen
cents a head for five months' ra e;
you'll be mighty glad to pay a doll r
one Of these days. Take your medic' e
---:that' my advice." And she wejit -
hack tck her cash drawer. 1
Redfi ld's 'voice was cuttingly co
temptueus as he said quit calnil :
"You're all kinds of asses, y u shee
nien. you ought to ,pay th fee f r
your cattle with secret. joy. So lon
as you can get your stock aStur
(and In "effect guarded) by th govern
inent frem June to Novembe for
cents or even 50 cents per head you'r
in - luck. Mrs. Wetherford lb rIght.
We've ell been educated liaa bad
school: Utoo Sam has been or). lazy
to keep any supervision over 1iIs pub-
lic lands., He's permitted us g ass pi-
rates to fight and lynch and b rn one
another on the high .range (toiwhich
neither of us had any right), i
olding
back the real - user of the lancle-the,
farmer.
Gregg
vinced.
turn," he
the whole
gives you
"Congre
"There's
,
rant these
"What y
fending t
Redfield.
my rangers
mounted p
state in th
of sheep h
butchery oft sheep, would be perm', ted?.
Prom the vr-or- first the public lends of
this state have been a refuge foe the
criminal, a lawless no man's land' but
to Roosevelt and the
at least have a for
pot to, see that some
and order is manetai
may protest and ru
and you may send
tatives there, but you're
sure to lose.As free range monopo-
lists you are cumberers of the earth,. '
and all you represent must pass before
this.state can be anything but the by-
word it now Is."
The whole dieningereo_o_he was still as
andLeeTireinia, with a h
girl's vague comprehension of the
man's world,apprelienacte in Redfield's
speech a large and daring purpose.
Gregg sneered. "Perhaps you intend
to run for congress on that line of
talk."
as silenced, but not con -
It's a long lane that itas no
urst out: "Yon- think lyorkee, I
United States anny! I Who
all the authority?"
s and the president."
nothing in that bill.te war -
petty tyrannies of yotirs."
tt call tryannies I call de -
e public domain," replied
'If I had .my way I'd give,
the power of the Canadian
-pike. Is there any ether
s nation where the riming
erders and the who esale
now, thanks
forester, w
men on the
blance of la
You fellows
Washington,
paid eeprese
hief
e of
em -
ed.
to!
our
By HAMLIN GARLAND
1
iliftleass., ••
J • pressed. -An-outing will do her good.
menneemeeemeneemeemeeeeer She's taken hold here wonderfully."
. • Again the pang of loss touched her "Hasn't she? But I should have sent
.heart. "When will you come again?' her away the very first night. Pm get -
she asked in a low voice. . fting to depend on her. I'm plumb
"It is hard to say. A ranger's place foolish about her now—can't let her
Is in the forest. I am very seldom in out of my sight, and yet I'm off my
town. Just new the danger of fires is ° feed worrying over her. Gregg is get-
, great, and I am very uneast I may beg dangerous. Yotre can't fool me
not be down again for a month."
when it comes to nfnn. Curse 'em!
The table. was empty now, wethey They're all alike, every one. of them.
'd
were standing in comparative Isola- I won't have my girl mistreated, I tell.
tion, looking into each other's eyes
you that, ,I'm not fit to be her. mother.,
in
silence. At last she murmured: Now, that's the truth. Reddy, and this
rotten little back country cow town. is
"You've helped me. Pm going to stay
no place for he. Bett what can I do?
a little while anyway and do what I
can." She won't leave me so long as Pm
"I'm sorry I can't be of actual- serv-
-
sick, and every day ties her closer to
Ice, but I am a soldier with a work to
me. I don't know what -I'd de without
her. It I'm going to die I want her
do. Even if I were here I could,.
The standard leanlj.
• ness—all real Soap.
POSITIVELY the' kARGESISALE In CANADA
all permit of any study of the land-
scape, which went by as it dismissed
by the cbariot wheels of some con-
temptuous magician. Redfield's eyes
were mostly on the road in the man-
ner of the careful auto driyere but
when he did look up it was to admire
the color and poise of his seat mate,
who made the landscape of small ac-
count,
their own account. Soine of them bad;
the grace to go into partnership withi
some farmer and so elaim a smaini
bunch -of cows, but others suddenly
and, miraenlously acquired herds one'
their own.' From keeping within the;
law they passed to violent methods.
They slit the tongues of calves for the
purpose of separating them from their -
help you as regards the tow‘speople. I. by me when I take my dente, so you She kept the conversation to the de- mothers. Fieding be -could not suelnd
' 4
They all hate me quite cordially, but : see Just how I'm placed." sired point. "Mr. Cavanagh's work bossy would at last wander away from!
Redfield, and especially Mrs. 'Redfield, ' She looked yellow and drawn as she interests meyery much. It seems very his dam and so become a maverick. Ite!
can be of greater ain and comfort. ,- ended, and Redfield was moved by her important, tind it must be new, for I short, anarchy reigned on the range." i
He's 'quite often here, and when you i 'unwonted tendernessnever heard of e _forest ranger when ' "But surely my father had nothing:
are lonely and discouraged let him take ' "Now, let me advise," he began aft- I was a child." ' to do with this?" , I
yen up to Elk Lodge." . er a moment's pause. "We mustn't let "The forester is neW, .at least in ,. "No; your father up to this time hatt
He extended his hand, and as she
, home with me this afternoon and young
the girl get homesick I'll take her America," he answered. "My dear been on good terms with everybody.1
took it he thrilled to the soft strength lady, you are returned just in the Ile had a small herd of tattle down'
of it. "till next time," he said, "good .. bring her back along with a doctor to most momentous period in the. history ) the river, which he owned in comraonl.
l
luck." morrow." .
CHAPTER V.
VIRGINIA TAKES ANOTHER warm RIDE.
LEE VIRGINIA'S efforts to refine
the little hotel produced an
amazing change in Eliza Weth-
erford's affairs. The dining
room ' swarmed with those seeking
food, and as the pews of the girl's
_beauty went, out upon the range the
cowboys sought excuse to ride in and._
get a square meal and a glimpse of the
eq
old shack" into a marvel of cleattliness.
Ge erally they failed of so i much as a
glance at her, for she kept away from
°the dining room at mealtime. .
Lee Virginia was billy aware of this
male curiosity and vaguely .conscious
of the light which shone in the eyes
of some of them (men like Gregg).
She had begun to understand, too, that
her mother's reputation was a barrier
between the better class of folk and
herself. But as they came now and
egiiin to take a meal they permitted
themselves a word in her praise,
which she resented. "I don't want
their friendship now,"• she declared
bitterly.
As she gained courage to look about
her she began to be interested in some
of her boarders. '
So far as the younger men were con-
cerned, she saw little to admire and
much to hate. They were crude and
uninteresting rowdies for the most
part. She was put Upon her defense by
their glances., and she came to dread..
-walking along the street, so open and
coarse were their words of praise. .
Few of these loafers had the courage
to stand on their feet and court her
favor, but there was one who speedily
became her chief persecutor. This was
Neill Ballard, celebrated (and made
impudent) by two years' travel with a
.wild west show. He was tall, lean,
angular and freckled, but his horse-
manship was marvelous and Ms skill
with the ropi magical.
He had lost his engagement by rea-
son of a drunken brawl, and be was
now living with his sister, the wife of
a small rancher near by. Virginia de-
spised the other men, but she feared
this one, and quite justly.
•The Greggs, father and son, w
in open rivalry for Lee also,' but 10ferent ways. The older man, who
already been married- several ti
was disposed to buy her. hand in evhat
the
hed
and
oun-
y to
ase.
eedich
she
one.
he called "honorable wedlock," but
son, at heart a libertine, approac
her as one who. despised the west
who, being kept in the beastly c
try by duty to a parent, was read
amuse himself at any one's expei
He had no purpose in life but to f
his body and escape toil.
The chivalry- of_ the plains, of wh
Lee had read so much and which
supposed she remembered, was g
een" whose hand had witched "the
ere
din
lied
nes,
•
She doubted if it had ever existed
among these -centaurs. Why should it
Inhere in ignorant, brutal plainsthen
any more than in ignorant, brutal face
tory hands?
There, came to -her now and again
gentle old renchers—"grangers," they
would .be called—and shy boys from
the farms, but for the most part the
men site saw imbittered her, and she
kept out of their sight as much as pos- f
thle. Her keenest pleasures, almost
er only pleasures,layin the occasion- 111
1 brief visits Of Cavanagh as' he rode
n for his mail.
Lize perceived all these attacki on 80
er daughter and was infuriated by "r
them. Her brows were knotted with e°
c re as well as with pain,' and she in- "
c ssantly urged Virginia to go back to a
Sulphur. "I'll send you money to pay EIS
your board till you strike a job." But e°
to this the girl would not agree, and
the business by reason of her presence
went 'on increasing from day to day.
To Redfield -Lize one day confessed ,
er' pain. "I ouglit to send for that
ioctor up there, but the -plain truth la
'm afraid of I don't 'mint tn
•
"All right, but before you go I want
11 "He was ve11 thought of by all the
big outfits, and when the situation be
at
came intolerable and we got together,.
w,
at
let
to have a private talk..1 want to te
4 you something."
He warned her away from wh
promised to be a confession. "No
I now, Eliza, don't tell me anything th
requires that tone of voice. I'm a be
person to keep a seer -et, and you ling
be sorry for it I don't want to kno
• anything more about your busines
than I can guess."
"I .don't mean the • whisky trade,
she ex lain d. "I've cut. tbat all out
anyway. It's something more impor-
tant—it's about Ed and me."
"I don't want to hear. that either,"
he declared. "Let bygones be by-
gones. What you did then is ciutlaw-
• ed anyway. Those were fierce times,
• and I want to forget them." He look-
' ed about. "Let me see Miss Virginia
and convey to her Mrs. Redfield's in-
* siltation."
"She's in the kitchen, I reckon. G
right out.",
He. was rather,glad of a chance t
see the young reformer in action an
• smiled -as he came -upon her surround
ed by weeters and cooks, busilyesuper
intending the preparations Per th
noon meal, whieh amounted to a. tu
mint each day.
She saw Redfield, nodded and a few
I moments later came- tower,' him
flushed -and bearnirig with welcome
"I'm glad to see you again, Mr. Super
of the west. The old dominion—the with a man named Hart."
41 remember him." -
cattle range—is passing. The suprem-
acy, of the cowboy is ended. The cow
boss is raising oats. The cowboy -is,
pitching alfalfa and swearing horribly
as he blisters -his hands. Some of the to weed out the rustlers,eas these cat -
rangers at the moment are men of tle thieves were called, your father,;
western training, like Ross, but whose was approached and converted to a
allegiance is now to Uncle Sam. With belief in drastic measures He had
others that transfer of allegiance is not suffered less .than thef, rest of us bee
quite complete; hence the insolence of cause of his small held -and the fact
men like Gregg, who. think they can that he was very popular among the
bribe or intimidate these forest guards cowboys. So far as I Was concern,
and so obtain favors. The newer men the use of violent metheds revolted are college college bred, real foresters. But me. My training in the east had made
you can't know what it all meads till me a respecter of the law. The:lige
• you see Ross or some other ranger on the law,' I said. The law is all riglinn
his own heath. We'll make up a little they replied; 'the trouble is with these
party some clay and drop down upon rustlers. We'll hang a few of 'ex:nand
him and have hint show us about. It's that win break up the business.'" A
a lonely life, and so the ranger keeps Parts of this story came back to the
open house. Would'yoe like to go?" girl's mind, producing momentaryi
"Oh, yes, indeed. I'm eager to get &elms of perfect recollection. She
into the mountains. Every night as I heard again the voices of excited mei
arguing over and over the question or
"mavericking," and she saw her fee
ther as he rode hp to the house that,
last day before he went south. t
Redfield went on. "The whole plate
as developed was silly, and I wonder
still that Ed Wetherford, who knee%
the 'nester' and the cowboy so Well,
should have lent his- aid to it. The
cattlemen, some from Cheyenne, SOM4
from Denver „find afew frotn Nen',
York and Chicago, agreed to finance a/
a sort of vigilante corps composed or
men from the outside en the under-
standing that this policing body should
be commanded by OHO of their ow*
number. Your father was chosen sea-,
ond in COMIlland and was to guide the
party, for he knew almost every one of
the rustlers and could ride directly ti
theie doors."
"I wish he badn't done that,". mur-
mured the girl.
"I must be frank with you, Virginia.
I can't excuse that 'Whine. It;wassI
-
kind of treachery. He ifinst have beem
warped by his associates They con.'
vinced him by some means tbat it waa
his duty. and one fine day the Fork
was startled by a messenger who rode
nothing way has always left his range in to say that the cattle barons were
to the man who got there first. That coming with a hundred Texas bad meat
was the cattlegien. At first there was
grass enough for us all, but as we
built sheds and corrals about water-
ing places we came to claim rights on
the range.- We usually secured by
'fraud homesteads in the sections con-
taining water and so, gun in hand,
'stood off' the man who came after.
Gradually,, after much shooting and
• lawing, we parceled out the range and
settled down, coveting practically the
ewhole stete. Our adjustments were
not perfect, but our system -was work-
ing smoothly for us who controlled the
range. We had convinced ourselves
and pretty nearly everybody 'else that
the state was only fit for cattle graz-
ing and that we were the mast com-
petent grazers; furthermore, we were
In possession, and no man could come
In without our consent.
"However, a very curious law of our
own making was our undoing. Of
eourse the 'nester' or "punkin roller,'
as we contemptuousls called the small
farmer, began sifting in here and there
in spite oF our guns, but be was only a
mosquito iblte in comparison with the
tremble which our cowpunchers stirred
u4 Perhaps you remember enough
about the business to know that an armed and mounted. The storekeeperit
unbranded yearling calf without its distributed guns and ammunition
mOther is called a maverick?" leaders developed,. and the embattled:
'Yes; I remember 'that. It belongs 'punkin rollers,' rustlers and towns -
to the man who finds him and brands men rode out to meet theitivaders."-
him."
Th
v'ery nicely SO long as the poor cow- 'It was terrible. I went all day withel
d giii paled- with memory of
'Precisely. Now, that law worked
out eating, and for two nigbts
boy was willing to catch and brand Wt
hwere all too excited to sleep. It seem.
im for his employer, but it proved a
ed as if the world were coming to ate,
'joker' when he woke up and said te end. Mother cried because they;
.1
o see the sun go down oventhem won-
der. what the world is like up there."
° - Then be began very delicately to In-
d quire about her eastern experience.
There was not much to tell. In a love-
ly old town not far from Philadelphia,
where her aunt lived, she had spent
ten years of happy exile. "I was hor-
ribly -lonely and homesick at first," She
, said. ealother wrote only shlirt let-
ters, and my father never wrote at all.
_ I didn't know he was dead then. He
was always good to me. He wasn't a
, bad man, was
responded Redfield without
hesitation. "He was very like the rest
of us, only a little more reckless and
a little more partisan, that's all. He
Was a dashing horseman and a dead
shot, 'and so naturally a leader of
these daredevils. He was popular
with both sides of the con-troveray up
to the very moment when he went
south to lead the invaders against the
rustlers."
"What was it all about? I never utt;
derstood it. What were they fighting
abont?"
"In a sense it was all very simple.
You see, Uncle Sam in his careless, do
• h,
He bowed profoundly. "Mrs. Red
field sends by me a formal invitation
to you to visit Elk Lodge. She is no
quite able to take the long ride, else
she'd come to you." Here he handed
t her a note. "I suggest that you go up
with Me this afternoon, and tomorrow
we'll fetch the doctor down to see
your mother. What do you say to
that?"
Her eyes were dewy' with grateful
appreciation of- his kindness as she
answered, "That would be se great
, pleasure, Mr. Redfield, if mother feels
able to spare me"
"I've- talked with her. She is
ious to have you go."
Virginia was indeed greatly pleased
and pleasantly excited by this mes-
sage, for slie had heard much of Mrs.
; Redfield's exceusiveness and also -01
the splendor of her establishinent
She hurried away to dress with such a
flutter of joyous anticipation that Red-
field felt quite repaid for the pressure
he had put upon his wife to -.induce
her to write that note. • "You may
leave Lize Wetherford out of the
• count, my dear," he had said. "There
Is nothing of her discernible in the
girl. Virginia is a lady. I don't know
where she got it, but she'sa geutle-
woman by nature."
_ It" was hot and still in town, but no
sooner was the car in motion than
both heat and dust were forgotten.
Redfield's machine was not large, and;
as be was content to go at moderate
speed, conversation was possible.
He was of that sunny, optimistic,
ever youthful nature which finds de-
light in human companionship umdet
any conditions whatsoever. He accept-
ed thts girl for what she -seemed—a
fresh, unspoiled child. He saw noth-
ng cheap or commonplace in her and
vas -not disposed to impose any of het
Where wild doings 'upon her calm -
date He had bis misgivings as to her
uturo, That was the main reason wit/
e had said to Mrs. Redfield, "The girl
ust be helped.". Afterward he had
aid "sustaine,d."
It was inevitable that the girl should
on refer to the ranger, and _Redfield
as as complimenta.ry of him as she
uld wisb. "Ross hasn't 'a fault but
ne, and that's a negative one—he
oesint care a hang about getting on,
they Say over in England. He's
ntent just to do the duty of the mo-
ent. He made a good cowpunCher
d a good soldier, but as for ptorao-
tion—he laughs when I mention it."
• "He told me that he hoped to be
chief forester," protested Virginia.
"Oh, yes, he says that, but do yon
knew he'd rather be where he is,
riding over the hills, than live in Lon-
don. Yo -u should see his cabin some
time. It's most wonderful, really. His
walls are covered with bookshelves of
his own manufacture and chairs of
his own design. Where the. boy got
the skill I don't see. Heaven knows,
his sisters are conventional enough!
He's capable of being supervisor, but
he won't live in town and work in an.
office. He's like an Indian In his love
of the open."
11
. Redfield's voice was reined. "At any
rate, I intend to represetit the policy
that will change this state from the
sparsely settled battleground of a lot
° of mounted hoboes to a state with an
CASTo R IA honorable place among the other com-
monwealths. If this be treason make
the most of it." '
Cavanagh was disturbed, for, while
be felt the truth in' hie ieliet s words.
)
he was in doubt a to the policy of ut-
tering them. He r se. "I must be go-
ing," he said, witlenesmile.
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CHAPTER VI.
IN THE VIOLENT PAST.
ALKING about Cavanagh :was
quite too absorbingly interest-
ing to both Lee and Redfield to
RINbletotaiterie-alt4e:eisifelS?
, 'to clean out the town' and to put their
own men into office. This last wad
silly rot to me, but the people believed
it."
The girl was tingling now. "I rez
member! I remember the men *MS e
rode Into the town to give the alarm
1 was scared almost breatiness."
• "I .was 10 Sulpbur City and did not
hear of it till it was nearly all over,ta,
Redfield resumed, his speech showbiz
a little of, the excitement which thrille
ed through the girl's voice. "Well, the
first act of vengeance was so ill con-
sidered that it practically ended the
whole campaign. The invaders fent
upon and killed two ranchers, one of
whom was probably not a rustler at
all, but a peaceable settler, and thei
other one they Most barbarously
hanged. More than this, they attackei
ed and vainly tried to kill two settler*
whom they met on the road—Germa*
farmers, with no connection, so far asi •
known, with the thieves. These mall
escaped and gave the alarm. In ti
few hours the whole range was aliameil
with vengeful Bre. - The Forks, as yore
may recall, was lthe a swarm of bailee'
blebees. Every •man and boy wail(
his 'fellows, 'Why brand these mav-
ericks at $5 per head for this or that
outfit when the law says they belong
to the man wbo Inds them?"
Lee Virginia looked up brightly.
"That seem n right to me." 0.
"Ale yes, but wait! We cattlemen
had large herds, and the probabilities
were that the calf belonged to some
one of us, Whereas theicowboy, having
no herd at all, knew ehe Maverick be-
longed to some one's, herd. True, the
law said it was his, but the law did
not mean to reward the freebooter.
Yet that is exactly what it did At
first only a few outlawstook advan-
tage of it, but hard years came on, the
cattle business became less and less
profitable, we were forced to lay off
our men, and so at last the range
swarmed -with idle cowpunchers. Then
came the breakdown in our scheme.
The cowboys toOk to imaverickinz' on
wouldn't let her go with them. SIA
didn't know father was leading the.
Other army." -
--i"She mast have known. soon, for 114
Was reported that your father waif
among them. She certainly knew wheit
they were driven to earth in that lo
forte for they were obliged to restraid
her by force from going to your fa2i
ther. As I run over those furioad,
days it all seems Incredible, like a aud-1
den reversion to barbarism."
continued sz;,r Week,
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