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and gourds. This was received with
riotous demonstrations. She placed it
In the center of a table made of
planks. laid on trestles and, assisted
by the other girls, served the men lib-
erally from the bowl.
The guests showed the effects of
outdoor life and, trainiug. Their ges-
tures were full and free. The tones
of their voices were high pitched, but
they spoke more slowly than their
eastern cousins, as if feeling the neces-
sity, even when confined, of making
No every word carry. one
lolled in
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CHAPTER VII.
NTElinING the living room, Burl
found Echo surrounded by sev-
eral girls from Florence and the
neighboring ranches, who were
driy iug her almost • distracted with.
their' admiring attentions, for she was
greatly disturbed about her lover's in-
explicable absence. Had she been free,
• from the duties of hospitality she
would have leaped on her horse and
gone in search of him.
Echo's wedding attire, would seem as
+incongruous as.Jack's to the eyes of an
,easterner, yet it was entirely suited to
.the circumstances, for the couple In-
, tended as soon as' they were married
to ride to a little hunting cabin of
. Jack's in the Tortilla mountains, where
they would spend their honeymoon.
She was dressed in an olive green
.ricling habit which she had brought
from the east The skirt was divided
• and reached just below the knees. Her
blouse, of light material and brown in
• color, was loose, allowing free play for
Ler arms and -shoulders. High riding
^ boots were laced to the knees. A. sem-
:broro and riding gloves lay on the
-table ready to complete her costume.
Bud coldly acknowledged Echo's af-
fectionate and happy greeting and
" curtly informed her that Jack had ar-
trived.
She rushed out of doors, with a cry
-of joy.
Running across the courtyard toward
her lover, who aWaited her with out-
stretched arms, she began:
"Well, this is a nice time, you out-
,rageous"— Then Polly stopped her
with a mock serious look. "Wait a
tminute—wait a minute," the girl
«drawled as if reining in \a too eager
thorse. "Don't commence %ealith love
mantes before you get the hitch. Time
• enough after. He has been actin' up
somethie' scandalous with me."
Jack threw up his hands in protest,
hastily denying any probable „ charge
-that the tease
might make. "Why,
•haven't been saying a word!" be cried.
Polly laughed as she ran to the door.
"No, you haven't," she answered
• mockingly, as one agrees with a child Allen. "Take your dirty feet off my
whose feelings have been hurt. "He's tablecloth!" she commanded, making
• only been tellin' me he loved"— a threatening move toward the of-
Pautittg an instant, she pointed at fender.
Echo,, ending her sentence with a Allen restrained her, and Fresno
•.shouted "you."caused Parenthesis to subside by yell -
With her band on Jack's shoulder ink: "Get down often that table, you
Ecbo said: "folly, you are a flirt.
"You've too many strings to your how:' idiot! There's the bride an' groom
comin' in behind you. We can see 'em
"You mean I've too mony beaus to
the
through your legs, but we don't like
•my strings!" laughingly answered the that kin' of a frame."
• girl: Jack had slipped his arm about
"You'll have Slim Hoover and Bud Echo's waist. She was holding his
':Lane shooting each other up all on i hand, smiling at the exuberance of
• your account," chided Echo. I their guests. Buck McKee, who had
"Nothin' of the kind," pouted Polly. 1 been drinking freely, staggered to hie
"Can't a girl have friends? But I feet and hiccoughed: "Here, now, this
know what you two are waitin' for." here don't go—this spoonin' business.
"What?" asked jack. There hain't goin' to be no mush an'
"Yon want me to vamose. I'm hep. milk served out before the weddin"'--
"I'll yam." And Polly ran into the i ""Will you shut up?" admonished Slim
hitched to tell the men that the br de•
groom had arrived, but couldn't lie ' Hoover.
seen street" cried the belligerent Me -
seen until the bride was through with Kee.N "There cried
a man here can
Me-
an important interview with him. So shut upI'm BucknMcKee,aa can
she hustledhthem all into the living an' when I starts in on weddin' festivi-
am,
room, where the girls were.
This room was a long and low apart- tied I deal"—
tient, roughly plastered. The beavy' "This is one game you are not in on,"
ceiling beams, hewn with axes, were answered Jack quietly, feeling that he
u giving giving an old English ef- would have to take the lead in the sett
<tect, although this was not striven for, Clement of the unfortunate internists
but made under the stress of neces- tiou of the fun.
• sity. The broad windows were trel- "That's all right, Jack," McKee be-
•iised with vines, through which filtered Kan, holding out his hand. "Let by-
the sunshine. A cooling evening gones"—
breeze stirred the leaves lazily. The :Mei was In no .mood -to parley 'With
• chairs were broad and comfortable, the offender. McKee had not been in -
the workmanship of the monks of the vited to the wedding. The young
neighboring mission,. In the •corners bridegroom knew that if the first of -
stood squat earthen water jars of fense was overlooked it would only
Mexican molding. On the adobe walls encourage him and he would make
were hung trophies of the hunt, war trouble all the evening. Moreover, he
bonnets and the erudeIy made adorn
• disliked Buck because of his evil habits
ments of the Apaches. Navajo blan- and ugly record. ,
kets covered the window seats and "You came to this wedding without
were used as screens for sets of an invitee' exclaimed Jack.
shelves built into the spaces between m here," he growled.
the window's. "You're not wanted."
Polly carried in on a tray a large "What!' shouted McKee, paling with
bowl of vuneh surrounded bv glasses anger.
--- . Ttirining to its 'friend's, speaking
calmly and paying no attention to the
Children aroused desperado, Jack said: "Boys,
you all know my objection to this man.
• Dick Lane caught him spring before
Had Eczema•
last siitting the tongue of one of'Uncle
Jim's calves."
Treatment prescribed had no effect--+ "It's a lie!" shouted McKee, pulsing
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deer, niensely. It was a bit of human Coyne•
"Here's your gun," cried Slim, toss- dy totally unexpected. First they
lug the weapon toward hint. imitated the weeping women and then
McKee caught the weapon, mutter- laughed uprearlattsly at rads:
Ing "Thanks:' "Did you ever see such darned car -
"'It needs eleanin'," sneered the ryings on?" said the bridegroom in
'sheriff; disgust. "What have I done?"
Turning at the doorway, McKee said, "Shucks! All mothers is just like
"1 ballet much stuck on weddin'S, any- that," remarked Allen sympathetically..
way." Looking at Jack, he continued "They fuse If their girls marry, an'
threateningly, "Next time we meet they Russ if they don't. Why, my ma
it'll be at a little swaree uv my own." carried on sometbin' scandalous when
"Get!" was Jack's laconic and owl- Josephine roped me."
nous command. All of the men chuckled except Jack.
With assumed carelessness McKee "I'm appointed a committee," eon,
answered; "I'm a-getttn'. Well, gents, tined the old rancher, "to sit up with
I hope you all '11 enjoy this here pink you till the fatal moment"
tea, Say, Bud, put a piece uv weddin' "I'm game," responded Jack grimly.
cake in yer pocket fer me. I wants to "I know what's coming, but I won't
dream on it.' squeal."
"Who brought him- here?" asked "You'll git all that's a-comin' to
Jack, facing his guests, you," grinned Allen.
"I did," answered Bud defiantly.
Slim had maneuvered until he
"You might have known better," was reached the door, blocking Jack's way.
,Tack's only comment, As the bridegroom started to leave the
"I'm not saying who's to come and room he took his hand and with an
go. This isn't any of my wedding." assumption of deep dejection and sor-
laying her hand over his mouth and "Oh, dry up!' laughed Jack, pushing fall into some trap. The answers mad(
slipping into the seat beside him. the sheriff aside. Halting, he request by the boys did not seem, to fit par
"Well, let it go at that," said Jack, ed, "One thing I want to understand titularly well with what be expected
closing the incident. right now—if you're going to fling any .lad was accustomed to. The parses;
,
striking feature of the puneher"s phy4-
i-•al vii rneteristles for a label.
Parenthesis beamed on the minister.
•'i 1i•;rs barn on hotacbnck,'; he replied.
"That fellow there rutty n front tooth
Is Show Low," began Slim, speaking
Ilke a lecturer in a freak show. 'Tile
one without a front tooth is Fresuo, a
California product, This stere chap
with the water deb hair is Sagebrush
Charley. It makes bird sore when yeti
call him plain Charles,"
"Charley bele' a Chink name," sup-
pleionted its owner.
Silence fell over the group, for they
did not know what was the proper
thing to do next, A minister was to •
be respected and not to be made one
Of them. He must take the lead in
the conversation. Mr. Price was at
a loss to begin. Ile had not recoveited
fully from the roughuess of his wel-
Come, so Slim took the lead again.
"1: heard von nrear`* .tire up to Fior+
' encc" he announced, to the profound
astonishment of his hearers.
"Indeed," politely responded Mr.
Price, feeling the futility of making
Polly stopped further comment by • row bade him "Goodby," any further observation, He feared tt
his seat, but sat upright, as if still Ile rejoined Echo as he spoke. The old boots after me remove the spurs.' I could not make out whether the boyo
having the feel of the saddle udder guests reseated themselves. Mrs, ""This here's a stere enough event, were joking with him or whether their
hint, Allen laid her hand en. Jack's shoulder an' I'm goin' to tap the barrel an'
Toward women in all social gather- replies were unconscious humor or
and. said, "Just the same, it ain't right throw away, the bung. Wow!" shouts their part.
tags the cowboys act with exaggerated ""yep; I lost an election bet an' had
an proper for you to be together be- ed Sagebrtsh,
to go to church," answered Slim in all
chivalry; but, as Sagebrush would de- fore the ceremony without a chap-
scribe it, they "herd by theirylone- croute." yuni iL14 Price
some." There is none of the com- ""Nothin' that's right nice is everseriousness.
HE Rev. Samuel Price was The cowboys laughed, and Mr. Price
mingling of; sexes seen in the east. right proper," laughed Slim. the representative of the Chris- I lamely replied, "Oh, yes, l see."
At a dance the girls sit at oneoend of ""`Nell, its ain't the way folks does tian army in Pinal county, Ariz., ""It was a good show," continued
bile the men ,group Mrs. Allen tartly, TH ease,
the room, w back east, repliedat the time of our story. e
selves about the doorway until the lasing at the sheriff. Slim, doing his best to appear at
was long and lank narrow in the chest, The frantic corrections of his compan•
music strikes up. Then each will "Blast the east!" growled Allen, "We with sloping shoulders. Even life on
seize his partner after the boldest has clots dings in our own way out here." ions only made him flounder about the
made the first move. When the dance With. the plains could not eradicate the more. "Excuse me," he apologized. "l
a mischievous smile, Slim scholarly droop. His trousers were mean that I enjoyed it "
measure ends, the cowboy will rarely glanced at ills comrades and then sol- black, and they bagged at the knees. "Do you recall the subject of my
escort bis partner to her seat, but will emuly observed, "Still, I hear they does \Vhen riding his trousers would work discourse," inquired Mr. Price, coming
leave her to find her way to her chum, make the two coutractin' parties sit off up about his calves, showing a wide
while he moves sheepishly back to the alone by themselves"—to his assistance,
doorway, to be received by his fel-
expanse of white socks. For comfort - "Your what course?" asked Slim.
lows with
_._�.. .... 4h., ,,,,..tr ,,.,� i,,,,,i "What for?" aalsed Jack. he wore tin alpaca coat, which hung ""MY sermon?" answered the parson.
'Why, to give them the last bit of 10 o s e 1 y about `yell I yes,"
jests. At table cowboys carry on lit- quiet enjoyment they're goin' to have him, and for the
lit-
tle conversation with the girls. They for the rest of their lives," chuckled dignity of his
talk among themselves, but at the wo- Slim. profession the
men. The presence of the girls leads The cowboys laughed hilariously at only boiled shirt
another. The ice is long in them to play many pranks on one the sally, but Mrs. Allen, throwing her in the county,
for their habitual reserve is not king,,y arms about Echo's neck, burst into kith a frayed
tears, crying, "My little girl!" collar and white
worn off. Later in the evening this "What's the use of openin' up the string tie.
shyness is less marked« sluices now, Josephine?" The Rev. Mr.
waAs Jack and Echo entered the door- ." his Let her alone, Jim," drawled Slim. Price was liked
seat at Parenthesis the head had
of arisen
nt table and "Her feelin's is harrowed some, an' by the settlers.
was beginning, "Fellow citizens"— - irrigation is what they needs most." He never inter -
The outburst of tears was incompre- fered with, what
Confused cries of •"Sit down," "Let hensible to the bridegroom. Already they considered
him talk," greeted him. irritated by the McKee incident, he their relaxations,
Sagebrush bold up bis hand for $i- and he had the
fence. "Go ahead, Parenthesis," he took affront the display gents-
meat. He cried, "I don't want any saving grace of
cried encouragingly.crying at my wedding! �� humor.
Parenthesis climbed on a chair and "It's half my wedding, pouted Echo The guests were
put a foot on the table. This was too tearfully, per forming a
much for the orderly soul of Mrs. "Ain't I losin' my daughter?" sobbed scalp dance
Mrs. Allen. • about the table
"Ain't you getting my mother's son?" when he entered
the room. For a T Rev Scimuel
toifitom Paren- oriS
thesis was beat-
ce.
lug a bucket with a gourd and emitting
strange cries with each thump. The
noise and shouts confused the minis-
ter. As he was blundering among the
dancers they fell upon him with war -
whoops, slapping him on the back and
crushing his straw hat over his ears.
Slim was the first" to recognize the
minister. He dashed into the group
and, swinging several aside, cried to
the others to desist.
"Pardon me, but do I intrude upon a
scalp dance?" smilingly asked the par-
"" should sayes" replied the
sheriff, greatly relieved to think that
he was ouce more out of deep water
(To bo Continued).
snapped Jack.
The men howled with glee at the
rude badinage, which only called forth
a fresh burst of weeping on the part of
Mrs. Allen, in which the girls began to
show symptoms of joining.
Polly sought to soothe the trouble by
pushing Jack playfully to one side and
DR. CHASE'S OINTMENT his revolver and attempting to level It
Mrs. madeOscar tVaneotttrough St. Antoine, t his accuser. Hoover was too quick
Sack., writes:—" -"T have found Dr. for him Catching him by the wrist,
'• Chase's Ointment to be a permanent he deftly forced hitt to drop the mux-
euro for Eezonta and other skin dis- zle toward the floor.
i eases. One son, while nursing, broke With frightened cries the girls bud -
out with running watery sores all over died in :r corner. 'rhe other cowboys
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his head and around the ears. Many upset chairs, springing to their feet,
salves were prescribed to no effe0t. drawing revolvers halfway from hol-
The efave head breathe a inset `of 'as they+ did so.
.scabs and he suffered agony untold. strife
Iia became weak and frail and would Hoover had pressed his thumb Into
-rot eat and We thought tub Weald thcf bi:ek of Mctteo hand, fatting him
lose him, to open his fingers and drop his gun
f"i'rovidentialiy we heard of Dr. , be the table. Plains it un Hoover
t•Chase.'s Ointment and it seen diet- snapped the weapon open and emptied `� , Jack. An brier
,oat"hly cured him to is seven years the cylinders of the cartridges: Weil, I'll be"—gasped}sills, which I dig
«,old now ants sarong and well. An older Jack made no move to defend him "Jack Payson, yon 3(tat ought (0 be fihtshtd one box t reit stn ttuoh better 1
'Amy anis also mired a;f eczema by than self. He was aware his blends could ashamed of yourself Bald Polly, continued their use by taking two boxes.
1 people ter foot "You nasty mean I hainue recommend these pills to any
forcing hien to open �nfingers and drop
hisaying: "Oh, stop it all! Look here,
Echo Allen; you know your hair ain't
fixed yet."
'"Atli,' the minister due here at any
minute," added Mrs. Allen.
"Come along; we will take charge of
ye ' now," ordered Polly. The girls
gathered in a group about the bride,
bustling and chatting, telling her all
Men were brutes at times and, looking
at the fat sheriff, who blushed to the
roots of his hair at the charge, that
Slim Hoover wan the worst of the
lot. Mrs. Allen pushed them away
and again tell Weeping. on Echo's
shoulder. "Hold on now. They ain't
a soul goin' to no nothin' for her except
her mother," she whimpered.
"There she goes again," said Jack in
diegust
"He's gain' to take my child away
!rota me," wailed the mother.
Tears were streaming down Echo's
cheek. "Dani cry, mother," she wept.
"No, no, don't cry," echoed the gizlb.
"It's all for the beat," began Polly.
"it's all for the beat; let all for the
hest." chorused the °r-rtt0.
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"You sure have, Mr. Price," laughed
Slim. 'We hain't got to the scaipin!
part yet, but we're fixin' to dance off
Payson's scalp tonight."
Peering at him with nearsighted
eyes, Mr. Price extended his hand, say-
ing, "Ah, Mr. Hoover, our sheriff, is
it not?'
Slim wrung the parson's hand until
the preacher winced. Hiding his dis-
comfort, he slowly straightened out
his fingers with a painful grin. Slim
had not noticed that be had hurt the
parson by the heartiness of his greet-
ing. With a gesture he lined up the
cowboys for. introduction.
"Yes, sir, the boys call me Slim be-
cause I ain't." Pointing to the first
one in the group, he exclaimed, "This
is Parenthesis."
Mr. Price looked at the awkwardly
bowing cowboy in amazement. Tho
name was a puzzle to him. He could
not grasp the application. "The editor
of the Kicker," explained Slim, "called
him that because of his legs bein' built
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smile in spite of his efforts to be po-
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