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"WHAT'S YOUR ANSWER?"
Synopsis.— David Eiden, son of a
drunken, shiftless ranchman,
most a maverick of the foothills,
is breaking bottles
from his running cayuso when the
first automobile ho lias ever seen
arrives and Ups over, breaking tho
leg of Doctor Hardy but not injur
ing his beautiful daughter Irene.
Dave rescues the injured man and
brings a doctor from 40 miles
away. Irene takes charge of the
housekeeping. Dave and Irene take
many rides together and during
her father's enforced stay they get
well acquainted.
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CHAPTER II—Continued.
For the first time he looked her
straight in the fnce. His dnrk eyes met
her gray ones and demanded truth.
"Irene," he said, "do you meun that?"
"Sure I do," she answered. "College
coursdh, 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 says about the
best education Is to learn to live with
in your Income, pay your debts nnd
give the other fellow a chance to do
the same. They don't nil 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
at a stretch, you going full gallop and
whooping and shooting so we could
hardly 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. "Hidin' an' sliootin' ain't
nothin'," 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 will want
lawyers and professors.'
"Well, when It does It can call on
me," he said, and there was the pride
in his 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."
Years later she was to think of her
remark and his answer, consecrated
then In clean red blood.
They talked of many things that af
ternoon, and wfien at last the length
ening shadows warned them It was
time to be on the way they rode long
distances In silence. Both felt a sense
which neither ventured to express
that they had traveled very close in the
world of their hopes and sorrows and
desires.
The shadows had deepened Into
darkness, and the Infinite silence of the
hills hung about them us they dropped
from their saddles at the Eiden door.
A light shone from within, and Doctor
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For the First Time He Looked Her
Straight in the Face.
Hardy, who was now able to move
about with the aid of a home-made
crutch, could be seen setting the table,
while Mr. Eiden stirred a composition
on the stove. They chatted as they
worked, and there was something of
the joy of little children in their com
panionship. The young folks watched
for a moment through the window, and
In Dave's heart some long-forgotten
emotion moved momentarily at the
sight of the good-fellowship prevailing
in the old house. Irene, too, was think- \
ing; glimpses of her own butlered
home, and then this background of
primal simplicity, where the old cow
man cooked the meals and the fumons
specialist set the plates on the bare
board table, and then back of It all her
mother, sedate and correct, and very
much shocked over this mingling of
the classes.
"Well, you youngsters must have this
country pretty well explored," su id
Doctor Hardy, as they entered the
house. "Where was it today—the
prairies, the foothills or the real fel
lows behind?"
"The canyon up the river," said
Irene, drawing off her sweater. "What's
the eats? Gee I I'm hungry 1 Getting
pretty supple, Daddyklns, aren't you?"
"Yes. an' I'm sorry for It. miss." said
; the eld rancher, "not wlshin' him any
; harm, or you, neither. We was jus
talkin' it over, an' your father thinks
•tiough for the road ngain.
he's spry
Ain't ever goin' to he like it used to be
after lie's gone, an' you."
"We ll be sorry to go," said the doc
"Tliat's what I've been saying all
If misfortunes
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dny, and thinking, too.
can be lucky, ours was one of that
kind. I don't know when I've enjoyed
What do you say,
a holiday so much,
girl?" he asked, ns he rested an arm
her round, firm shoulder and looked
with fatherly fondness into the fine
brown of her face.
VI've never known anything like it,"
"It'S wonderful.
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life." Then with a sudden little screum
she exclaimed: "Oh, daddy, why can't
yon sell your practice and buy n
ranch? Wouldn't that be wonderful?"
"Your mother might not see it that
way," he replied and her eyes fell.
Yes, that was the obstacle,
would have to go hack to the city and
talk by rule, and dress by rule, and
behave by rule, and be correct.
"It's been a good time," the doctor
continued, when they had commenced
supper, "but I've already overstayed
iny holiday. I feel I can travel now,
and my leg will be pretty strong by
the time I am back east. If Dave will
oblige us by going to town tomorrow
and bringing back some one who can
drive a car, we will be able to start
the following morning. I will just take
the car to town, and either sell It there
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or ship it."
The following morning found Dave
early on the trail, leading a saddled
horse by his side. The hours were
leaden for the girl all that day and,
looking into the future, she saw the
specter of her life shadowed down the
years by an unutterable loneliness.
How could she ever drop it all—all
this wild freedom, this boundless
health, this great outdoors, this life,
life—how could she drop It all and go
back into the little circle where con
vention fenced out the tiniest alien
streamlet, although the circle Itself
might lie deep in mire? And how
would she give up this hoy who had
grown so Imperceptibly but so inti
mately Into the very soul of her being
—give him up with all his strength and
virility and, yes, and coarseness, If you
will, hut sincerity, too—an essential
man, as God made him—In exchange
for à machine-made counterfeit with
the stamp of Society? Deeply did she
ponder these questions, and as the dny
wore on she found herself possessed
of a steadily growing determination
that she would not follow the beaten
trail, let the by-paths lead where they
might.
Darkness, save for a white moon,
had settled over the foothills when the
boy returned with another young man.
The stranger ate a ravenous supper,
but was not too occupied to essay con
versation with Irene. He chose to call
her cook.
"Swell pancakes, cook," was his
opening remurk. "Can you find an
other for yours truly?"
She refilled his plate without an
swer.
"Used to know a glri mighty like
you," he went on. "Waitress In the
Royal Edward. Gee ! but she was
swell! A pippin I Class? Say, she
had 'em all guessing. Hnd me guessing
myself for a while. But just for a
while." He voiced these remarks with
an air of Intense self-approval more
offensive than the words.
Irene felt the color rise about her
neck and checks and run like nn over
flowing stream into her ears nnd about
her hair. It was evident that, for a
second time, Dave hnd chosen to say
nothing to strangers about her pres
ence nt the ranch. Her father and Mr.
Eiden were in Dave's room ; Dave hud
stopped eating, and she saw the veins
rising in his clenched fists. But- the
challenge was to lier, and she would
accept it ; she felt no need of his pro
tection.
"Fill your stomach," she said, pass
ing more pancakes ; "your head is
hopeless."
He attempted a laugh, but the meal
was finished in silence. The stranger
lit a cigarette and Irene went to the
door with Dave.
"Come for a walk," he whispered.
"The horses are tired, so let's walk.
. . . It's our lust chance."
She rau for her sweater and rejoined
him in a moment. They walked in
silence down a path through the fra
grant trees, but Dave turned from time
\ to time to catch a glimpse of her face,
white and fine ns ivory in the soft
light. He had much to say, but he was
tongue-tied under the spell of lier
beauty.
"You squelched him, all right," he
broke out, at length.
"Just in time, too, I think," she re
plied. "I was watching your hands."
He smiled a quiet but very confident
smile. "Reenie," he said, "that fellow
makes me sick. All the way out he
talked about girls. He's a city chap
an' wears a white collar, but he ain't
fit to speuk your name. Another min
ute an' I'd 'a' had 'lm by the neck."
He seized a spruce limb that stuck
across their path. It was the size of a
stout stick, but he snapped it with a
turn of his wrist. It was very tough ;
it oozed sticky stuff where he broke It.
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"His neck," he said, between his teeth, j
"jus' like that."
They readied an open space. Some
thing black
the ground. Dave lient over it a mo
ment, I lien looked up to her white,
clear face, white u«id clearer than ever
since witnessing the strength of his
ir was it red?—lay on
liute.
"It's a calf," he said, as calmly ns he
Half et up. Wolves, I guess."
"The poor, poor tiling !" she lireath
"The poor, innocent thing ! Why
did it have to die?"
"It's always the innocent things 'at
suffers," he answered.
"Always the innocent things," she
repeated mechanically.
She sprang to lier feet and faced him.
"Then .what about the justice of
God?" she demanded.
"I don't know nothin' about the jus
tice of God," lie answered bitterly.
"Ali 1 know- is the crittur 'at can't
could.
oil.
"Always—
run gets caught."
There was a long pause.
right," she said at length.
"It nin't right," he agreed. "But I
I see it here on the
livin' thing. I
I've been
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guess it's life,
prairies with every
guess I was like that, some,
caught. I guess a baby ain't respon
sible for anything, is it?
pick my father or my mother, did I?
But 1 got to bear it."
There was something near a break
In his voice on the last words. She
I didn't
felt she must speak.
"I think your father is a wonderful
old man," she said, "and your mother
must have been wonderful, too. You
should be proud of them both."
"Reenie, do you mean that?" he de
His eyes were looking
manded.
straight into hers.
"Absolutely," she answered. "Ab
solutely I mean It."
"Then I'm goin' to say some more
things to you," he went on rapidly.
"Things 'at I didn't know whether to
say or not, but now they've got to be
said, whatever happens. Reenie, I
haven't ever been to school or learned
lots of things I should 'a' learned, but
I ain't a fool, neither. I didn't learn
to break all those bottles in a day.
Well, I can lenrn other things, too,
an' I will, If only It will take me
across. I'm goin' to leave this old
ranch, some way, jus' as soon as it
can be arranged. I'm goin' to town
an' work. I'm strong; I can get pretty
good wages. I've been thlnkin' it all
over, an' was askin' some questions
in town today. I can work days an'
go to school nights. An' I'll do it—it
It'll get me across. You know what 1
mean. I ain't askin' no pledges, Ree
nie, but what's the chance? I know 1
don't talk right, and I don't eat right—
you tried not to notice but you couldn't
help—>but, Reenie, I think right, an' 1
guess rwith a girl like you that counts
more than eatln' and talkin'."
She had thought she could say yes
or no to any question lie could ask,
but as he poured forth these plain,
passionate words she found herself
enveloped in a flame that found no ex
pression in speech. She had no
words. She was glad when he went
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"I know I'm only a boy an' you're
only a girl. That's why I don't ask
no pledge. I leave you free, only I
want you to stay free until I have
my chance. Will you promise that?"
She tried to pull herself together.
"You know I've hnd a good time with
you, Dave," she said, "and I've gone
with you everywhere, like I would not
have gone with any other boy I ever
knew, and I've talked nnd let you talk
about things I never talked about be
fore, and I believe you're true and
clean and—and—"
"Yes," he said,
swer?"
"I know you're true and clean," she
repeated.
when I'm a woman and you're a man,
and then—then we'll know."
He was tall and straight, and his
shadow fell across her face, as though
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mother. She knew she stood at the ;
parting of the ways; that ail life for;
her was being molded in that moment. |
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neck and drew his lips to hers.
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(TO BE CONTINUED
It's the Calm Ones Who Get Fat.
"So you married that Miss Meek.
I remember her well, a quiet, shrink
ing sort of girl."
"Nothing shrinking about her; she's
twice the size she used to bo."— Bos
ton Transcript
WASHINGTON NEWS NOTES
Recent Happenings in This State
Given in Brief Items for
Busy Readers.
Commissioner of Agriculture Travels.
E. F. Henson, state commissioner of
agriculture, left March 29, for Aus
tralia to visit and inspect.
Bankers Meet in Spokane.
The annual meeting of northwest
group two of the Washington State
Bankers' Association will be held in
Spokane about the end of May.
Community Hall at Odessa.
ODESSA.—The Odessa community
hall committee has had exceptional
in getting stock subscriptions
success
for the proposed $20,000 community
hall.
Fred Fulton Won Fight.
SEATTLE.—Fred Fulton, Minnesota
heavyweight, knocked out Young Hec
tor, Bremerton, Wash.., in the first
round of a scheduled four-round bout
here recently.
Plans for $176,000 Pavilion.
SPOKANE.—Tentative plans for the
Western Royal Live Stock show pa
vilion, prepared by the architect, calls
for a structure that will cost approxi
mately $176,000.
Thieves Drug Hotel Guest.
SEATTLE.—Seven guests of the
New Washington hotel recently re
ported thieves entered their rooms
with passkeys and escaped with about
$760 in cash. The guests had been
drugged.
Pays $50,000 for Moxee Land.
YAKIMA.—The C. & H. Hog Grow
ers Syndicate, which began business
in Yakima valley a year ago, has pur
chased 1600 acres in the Moxee from
E. P. Sanford for $50,000. The ranch
will be stocked with hogs, it already
has necessary farm buildings.
Spokane Bank Robbed.
SPOKANE.—Within 50 feet of the
business heart of the city, an un
masked man held up the cashier of
the Fidelity Savings and Loan Asso
ciation Friday afternoon and walked
away with between $200 Oand $2500 of
the association's funds in his pockets.
Women's Club to Meet.
PULLMAN.—Plans are being laid
for the seventh semi-anual conven
tion of the northeastern district fed
eration of women's clubs, which is to
be held in Pullman April 10. Be
tween 30 and 40 out of town visitors
representing clubs of northeast
Washington are expected.
Sends Apples to East.
Apples in. the Oroville district are
being loaded in box cars and shipped
east. Three trains of 50 cars each,
two to Chicago and one to Cleveland
went reecntly. Another train of the
same size left Monday. A total of
1128 carloads remain in the Wenatchee
district to be shipped. To date over
12,000 carloads have been sent out
and 1144 cars of soft fruits.
.
Extent Electric Power Line.
Construction of a high power trans
mission line, estimated to cost several
hundred thousand dollars, from the
Lona Lake plant of the Washington
Water Power Co. to Chewelah will
be started shortly, according to re
ports. The line, which is expected to
carry about 5000 horse power, will
serve magnesite quarries and mining
properties in the Chewelah district.
Oppose Wheat Grade Change.
SPOKANE—On the call of William
II. Shea of the federal grain super
vision department of the United States
department of agriculture 30 repre
sentative grain men, millers, elevator
: men, warehouse men and farmers, who
! attended a meeting here, went on
! record as opposing any changes in the
I wheat grades until the industry lias
operated for a year without a price
guarantee by the government,
j grain men unanimously took the stand
1 that this is not the time to make any
changes in the standards.
Arrest Rail Men as Car Thieves.
The
SEATTLE.—Charged in federal in
dictments with having conspired to
steal merchandise to the value of-near
ly $50,000 from railroad freight cars,
Thomaa E. Jones, Edward Bourdell,
Creed L. Lane and Joseph Veague,
employes of the Northern I'acific road
living at Auburn, are held in lieu of
$5000 cash bail each,
rested at Auburn, a railroad division
point near here, by United States
deputy marshals. The
j named in secret indictments brought
I by a federal grand jury. Other arrests
j are expected, federal officials said,
The thefts, it is alleged, were commlt
I ted in the railroad yards at Auburn,
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RECENT DEATHS.
! REPUBLIC—Jessie
Richard Price.
! ma. Wash., in '72.
SPOKANE.—Beautiful floral trib
utes from hosts of friends were bank
ed in every room of the residence of
W. H. Ziegler Friday when his funeral
services were in progress.
I TACOMA—William D. Vaughan, ono
of the state's earliest settlera, at his
homç in Sellaooom after a residence
there tor 68 years. Mr. Vaughan ship
ped the first log boom from Washing
ton to San Francisco In the early days
and he was one of tho leaders of the
vigilantes at Steilacoom when that
town was one of the Important points
In the pionoer northwest. He was 89
years of age.
Ellen, wife of
She was born at El
PACIFIC COAST NEWS
Profiteering in Potatoes.
FRANCISCO. —Thousands of
SAN
sacks of potatoes are hoarded in Cali
fornia warehouses, according to a re
port following an investigation by tile
district attorney.
Woman Motorist Kills Girl.
PORTLAND, Ore.—Miss Rose How
ell, employe of a local department
store, was fatally injured hero Satur
day when struck by an auto driven
by another woman.
PORTLAND, Ore.—Mrs. Elsie Pol-1
lock, wife or W. B. Pollock, a merchant ! •
instantly killed
a cliff at
Falls Over Cliff, Killed.
of Yreka, Cal., was
Sunday when she fell over
Shepperd's Dell, on the Columbia l iver
highway.
Thieves Make a Rich Haul.
of
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. SAN FRANCISCO.— .lohn K. Noble
of Chicago reports to the police that i J*
lh |„..„- nnterml his miartment at a
thieves entered his apartment at a :
escaped
and
leading hotel Sunday
with cash securities and jewelry valu
ed at $12,000.
Plan Big Cattle Auctions.
YREKA, Cal.—Plans for marketing
cattle at big auction sales in Oregon
and California were formulated recent
ly at a .meeting at Montague, Cal., of
stock raisers from both states.
AI Burns Motorcycle Champion.
LOS ANGELES.—Albert Burns won
the 50-mile national motorcycle race
here Sunday. His time was 37 min
utes 13 seconds. Ray Wishaar fin
ished second and Ralph Hepburn
third.
Japanese Have Own Schools.
SACRAMENTO, Cal.—Answers to j
questionnaires sont out by the state
superintendent of public instruction to
county superintendents of schools rel-1
ative to Japanese schools indicate |
there are a number of such schools
in the state.
Winner in Los Angeles Race.
l.OS ANGELES, Cal.—Tommy Mil
ton Sunday won the lx>s Angeles
speedway championship and $5800 in
cash by driving 50 miles on the mile
and a quarter track in 26 minutes
52:20 seconds, an average of 111.8
miles an hour.
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Killed on a Funeral Trip.
LOS ANGELES, Cal.—Mrs. John L. !
Rogers of lxmg Beach was injured fa
tally in an automobile accident recent
ly while returning front iter husband's
funeral and died during the night The
automobile was demolished by an elec
tric train at a grade'erossing.
Would Help Uncle Sam.
BAKERSFIELD, Cal.—The Califor-j
nia oil field, gas well and refinery '
workers, in state conference here, dis- ,
cussing the new wage agreement, took !
cognizance of press dispatches telling !
of the navy department's apparent
inability to get sufficient fuel oil for
the government fleets, and sent a tele
gram to the president, the secretaries
of the navy and war, offering to de
velop and operate the lands of the
naval oil reserve to relieve tse short
age.
re
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on
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Oppose Mine Wage Increase.
TACOMA.—Washington's coal in
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TMC OLIVER OIL4Ut BURNCR
Liri-efl aof cooking or beating stove
• /editotc. Corns coal oil (kero*
oeoe: No coal or wood. Cooke
end bakes better. Cheaper. Keeps
yonr home warmer. You regi
name, ms «NI W« mtvhlrL
fires to «tart, no ashes, do e
pi*«, shoveling, poking and drag* IKé
ging of coaJ. Saves bourn of work
und loads of dirt. Simple. Safe. M
Lanllr put fa or taken out. No daaw*
uJata
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The Oliver Oil las Bi irncr makes
2 gdls oil equal 97 lbs coal
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SEND YOUR CREAM TOI
Hazelwood
Spokane
They are particular about your tenta
and weiurbt»; and your cans will be
returned, too.
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FREE to cream shippers
An Interesting booklet Bent free to
cream shippers without cost or obli
gation.
Write today.
J. B. Chaney, 124 N. Potft St.
Spokane, Wash.
Instructive and interesting.
MODERN TORCH CO.
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Paid for Hides, Tallow, Wool and Fur
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PACIFIC HIDE 4L FUR DEPOT
Joseph Thlebeo and C. T. Symmos
1101 Railroad Ava. Spokane, Wash.
diistry will bc * mrt the govenim
enforces the majority award of the
eoBt commission, Washington opera
tors say. The mines of this state, they
said, can not pay an increase of 2. r ,
per cenjt over the wages prevailing
before the coal strike. Some of tin
mines, it was asserted, were lopiny
money by paying the 14 per cent torn
porary increase. The Washington op
erators can not raise prices, for tin
trade would swing to the cheap,..
British Columbia coal.
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Electric Fish Stop.
YAKIMA.—A number of official.
recently tested thê Burkey electrical
fish stop, which is designed to keep
«sh from entering irrigation ditches
• in(1 thus Prevent an annual great lost
of young fish in such' canals. They
expressed themselves as satisfied that
the device, which throws an electric«!
current across the stream, is thor
oughly satisfactory.
The Seattle Automobile & Engineer
J* 1 ® school will soon be in their new
bllll(lnl K at Seattle. It occupies over
90000 8t|Uare feet The sch0(> , wU)
send literature of its various courser
on request It is in its ninth year
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Butler Milk is almost a neceetuty
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Mix t gal. of MILKOLAC with 4
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Put up in "0 and 00-gal. barrels
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ATTENTION
We are prepared to buy your hofje
and veal and give yon top market.
Alto to aarve you In oaae you need
good meat.
Welch*• Market, 710 Main., Spokane
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Hpoknne's High Claaa
Family Reataiirnnt
710-11-12-14 Hprugue Ave.