finrdy choose I hier own pace. Though she went at NR 9 | ady trot, a n ger in the re- ’ ; ! ~ : Hinaining automobile uid have . Ra ‘ a J A | rtaken i ft weliore dark, OWT town, The Story of an Army Officer on an Indian Reservation \ggage of By ROBERT AMES BENNET Te oto, Se pen without WAAAAIOUOOO0 LILO VOLVO OOOOH CHAPTER XVilI—Continued. | find some one more competent than! No, do not atte mpt to deny the facts, Redbear { a 1 | myself.” please. It will only add to the bitteér- | abusing Hardy at once addressed Vandervyn: “Will you not remonstrate against | ness. ! eying to keep from say “Be so kind as to open the safe an 1y | this unjust order?” she exclaimed. { ing harsher things. I cannot hide the CHAPTER XX. The Registr inngung (3 the COT. ¥ 3 before these commissioners every pub- “You forget that I nm a soldier,” he | fact that you have struck me a severe lic paper in the office. They decline to | replied. “Army life is a life of serv-| blow. It would be easler if you had show me their authority for an Inspec- [jce. You will now understai vhy | not insisted upon my « they are army wives.’ ‘ 18 tion of my accounts, herefor HE most army womer ‘my girls be- | night to be made the butt of 3 rs. Ah—but if : ma mur- sarie threw up her ng to conceal from any in-|myred Marie, a rg sunk with | binz with i nal You may hand every document | {ho drooping of ! ilken lids. “Alas be a magnificent land to vis- | rsous—-in mp gs bending to it him- {J nigsioners + ; iissioners aightened as if “Whore {a Yes 3 rey ! p vy DOT i 16 suddenn $s of the movement i back to him. is wine-flushed | th i the parior. I gone white. He m \ r were clinking glasses | Hy good-fel- || look of the man opposite, lowship. Dupont waveringly off a smile, { him the whisky bottle. He thrust | { k ard 1 he 186 ive still another announcement ard left the bouse, " ‘ : he sald, “one that you will | : nit to be still more pleas at CHAPTER XIX, You'll htf aby » ightful news of our talk to the chiefs. friend's summons \ fields of In Self-Defense. “You will do ' 0 interposed Vandervyn, lieve the commissioners will wish to vif hig iy Puiag nlone to the per- | ther early the next put off the powwowing until tomor t follows that ‘ha worl ; +. | making out row, Its' the Hy expires that he | is own head | plained the was mail- | He to her, . ‘ nu, he excha ition that ye shrank with 18 much as you le dinner, Lou-—you have no right!" she mur 1 policeman was waiting with the | ms . . | tiiur “ 11 rs He looked at Mar nile mw red. I will go { mare. Hardy gave him a coin and tinued: “Not until you have heard me. There | “My our 1 and distingul Captain Flo; “One last word, Dupont,” he said. about not cherishing enmity.” Vandervyn dy. The privilege and pleasure are Yet you must realize that your failure “How about Mr. Vi “How can you van?’ questioned “Thanks for the | mine to inform the distinzuishe ifi- | to tell me of your promise to hin “A | Dupont, nme a jeer from the i a ' i { t u hd 1 lown that cer that the war department has been | me to believe I had a fightls Mince. 1 “You need say nothing to him from hey stared t naer- | fi ‘ t outd : : : 8 y £ ot “Yan ¢ v Th ' "" . . i pleastd to relieve him of this irl 1 You—do not--asgk m me. Dut Hardy bent over in the | vyn standing at th OTT hh ny he 1 1ptal ey } SH fanelost i * 81 re 1:11 { : i ; detail to grant him pe Trini sion Hn |e faltere d. . es saddle to bring his stern face near | set in a evalcal smile, moved, He fi ned 1 it rie upont’s eves na diately to join his regiment, which isl What is there to explain?” he re-| the trader's “I advise you to watch “So you've quit seldiering ar ken | robe and few trinket a blanket rol, | set : at Vancouver barracks, Washington, | Joined. “You knew that I trusted! that young mun.” : g to preaching,” he sneered. and led her o und the h them tha "7 ¢ % *" ope . 4 $+ 44 nele 4 . he g : f . under orders to sall for Alaska. } sincerity utterly, a 3 were Dupont stood for some time staring “O-0-0li I" sighed Onna, no ' Cid diy | ping | { rd her to i All eyes turned upon Hardy. Some | willing to amuse 3 el i { after the officer. When he started for | crept toward the mockes, her hands |: hoe Je glinted with malice; others were cold, | While he was away, | his store, before which a crowd of In- | imploringly outstretehed, ww soft | ground ne 21 Marie's alone were sympathetic, Hardy I 4 “I—you have no right,” she sought dinns were waiting, his shrewd eyes | eyes brimming over with tears of nl 1 glanced around the table with an Im- | to defend herself, “I never led you | we : in re narrow with calcuintion, and his | ful entreaty., “Tell him-—tell perturbed look, and bowed to Vander. | 10 believe stubby forefinger was rubbing the griz- | {en't true! Tell him our marriage vyn. | “You told me nothing of that proms! zled hair under the brim of his hat. a real marringe! “Pray accept my acknowledgment |ise to hith. I tho ight you--what vou Hardy permitted the mare to choose “What a foss over a little thin of the kindliness with which you make | knew I thought you: a nll ose TOWN pace, that!” he rallied. : rt the rene oy ist, here it {g-<iny deed to you of a the announcemeny.” he sald, and he | weeks, every day low ean a woman As he neared the foot of the valley, The girl cringed bac iG san dona ni i \ with sever: full hi inter ot. : You've been Bint turned to smile gravely Into Maries | look so beautiful—secem so true and he saw Redbear and Olnna riding up | down, in slient anguish {ing and looking 80 confounded w ony troubled face. “1 could have nsked | loving In ev ery word and act-—and toy the creek from the road « rossing., The face. ret ' i . 4 3 ever wi te Yhoack dent to Redbens for time to carry out our irrigation | with the deepest feelings of a man as girl drooped In ner saddle as if (L A| “For shame, sir!" ered Iy. | the ! her Qistransht shidnee to at th ¥ . —— i i n that I thought I'd be ready for you” plans. Rut, doubtless, the bureau will | you dave nmused yourself with mine? | nearer view confirmed his suspicions. | “Have you no shred of docs oy pil tiie old chief what bad happened, § (TO BR CONTINUED) r whstinately. “That want t remember t 3 ww Vandervyn frowned, considered the oT a few moments, smiled, and a folded paper from an inner jn "Very well, I expected to wait unt) 1 reached the mine. But since you in. it oi
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