WHEN THE SCHOOL-MOM ARRIVED SPPPSddddddbddd dd dd (@ by D. J. Walsh.) Bd b PPh bir 4 T WAS shortly past noon when Joe Posson drove by the big blow-out, Glanclug at his watch he saw that he had scant time in which to veach Crystal City and bank the money his employer had entrusted to him before he must meet the train The new school-mom whom Missus Fanning had selected for the Big Ar royo district was coming In on the local and must be conveyed with care to the Fanning ranch. Joe felt deeply the importance of his two commissions, but his sense ol pleasant self-gratulation cooled as he saw another outfit approaching. “Old Man Sile Robbins to himself, The circumstance At their last meeting Sile a thrashing and said buckskins ‘em,” Raines’ handlin’ he wus untoward. Joe had prom: ised and he saw clearly that he would have no time for it now, “Just my Inck,” he muttered. “But I've got to attend to business even if { have to postpone the pleasure of tickin' Siles.” And he sighed because Wf a wasted opportunity—a sigh which was nipped short by a spreading smile For Le now saw that Sile ucked in under ff surprise. was not alone, T his shoulder was like an against the barren overripeness of the fall Only young wonun would wear a hat like : Where had Old Sile picked her up, and where was he for? As the distance see that the soung but pretty all taken te would be, nifty looking in that hulking, gums! Not that ired. Ther ‘one girl in the world for him was Dolly Bindi carried with hin Ww HOSE tooked little prairie, headed Joe woman fod and that Sile seemed up with her, Of course But what could little ploce of lessened could wis only to be such fA calico see § Jae 1 the Sile's way enough fess inn The Ra ide tle Fam nes mation frop dering gauze, rected at from unde tittle hat “Are you really Mr quired a sweet volce oming te awet me?’ Meet her! Creat crow! Could this be the school-mom? And Old Sile had Possem?” in “And were you her! Joe's jaw dropped and he burned with fresh “This is Miss Lucy Dow, le patron Joe swept off were fu of name was Lucey but he had from the resentment. Joe." said <1 Si 3 his hat, but ire The school mom Kine impression frow us Le ived letters he hind Fanning read she would be plain and middle-nged Ww Well, rece the heard Missus that both “You see,” the girl explained, as she bark a st! com hair, “1 hetter connec than | When | ar Crystal I don't Know for Mr Robbins me lunch" Joe snorted At Wes Howley's Md cbuck wagon! “And he of fered to take me to my destination ut now that we have met, Mr. Pos on.” turned earne<tls to Sile, “1 won't put furt tucked rand of silken, wlored made tions expected rived in what | ity should have done hut He Lunch! gave thet she yori) to any er trouhle, Ninve he was coming to go the rest of the way go on now, I'm most The girl's b It was as if she whi i queer fish Joe “He is eyes appealed to pered Please help Joe and pain Le stammeresd r up tlusl.ed betwixt pleasure “1—I'm sorry.” Sile eanght when him “Don’t you remember | told you Joe for Crystal City anyway?’ the “He's got to mall he grinned knowingly was hound he asked n letter’ - bank some money the left of forty-two hundred there told girl -*and bulge on He's You know | hoss paid it to That's right, Joe, | See that wide his coat? gent ms hose saw yon his yesterday it done” Joe's chest = taken breath Wasnt (ld Sile “Oh, Lucy's “I've always shoot at a word to death, you will her face “Oh. laws!” Sile laughed reassuring ly, “We carry guts when we are pesceable business.” “Don’t you? velled with He clenched his hands there a on earth that into? rudely In thing didn’t snoop pense don’t Miss tears quarrel I” were full of heard you westerners You'll frighten 80." She hlue eyes me covered don’t on Haven't either of you n firearm?’ Miss Lucy quavered, tim fdly peeping If Joe had not felt so much like wiping up the ground with Site he would have been ainised he poor little thing, he recalled. wos from somewl ore in Vermont, “rors your heart?" she persisted pinintively, ny ing hand on her own obviously palpitating breast. “Hope to die?” “Sure,” obligingly crossed his big hairy paws on his chest. Joe with conteniptuous toleration crossed his fnstantly Miss Lucy's other hand enme out of the deep pocket of her gray coat “Don't move,” she commanded crisp jy whils she handied the snub-nosed deadly thing of steel with convinclug ane Nile derstand I'm in dead earnest” “You're a queer school-mom,” sneered. “School-mom! I'd be ashamed to be anything so ornery. I'm blg Jake Dury's wife!” she snapped. “You-all heern of him? proudly. “Get out of that wagon,” she bade Joe, "1 want your team for my getaway. And hand over the money-—pronto!" Joe got out of the buckboard and she got in, He handed her his wallet. Sile might have grabbed her then, all business though she was, but all he could do was to shake and giggle. She seized the lines and whip and wus gone, “My poor horses!” groaned Joe. *1 wish they'd run away and break her neck, but she sure knows how to drive.” “Do you reckon she is that hell-cat Jake brouglt up from Tulsa?” quavered Sile, The very name of that bandit subdued him, “Pears it—got any speed in buckskins?"' Joe asked. you,” answered Sile, was of sight all the way. They entered Crystal City on two wheels scattering Jdogs and chickens in the narrow street. The local was in. Joe made for it, but the two dusty already moving. He ruled their windows with his glance, At one he caught a glimpse of a white face under a red hat which looked back at him with a grimace of rage and bate. The blacks stood reeking with sweat them was a tall, woman, Joe Big famous like those “Ii She show out coaches were and beside sensible, spectacied who gravely con sidered Joe as he approached, “1 reckon you are Miss Lucy Dow? he said. “1 am ring her she sald pointing to a trunk name Sile aj Catch peared. her at Larrl World's Finest Gems Bought 1} of the size jewels in possession and Rus in potentate i srtainly many of these fm ns ns we in fine they nre the the wealth of is right The gre the world in here proportion one-third we not only pos of gems of big quality ie that of the in Amerien—an astounding between half —and goss the grentest quantity the largest proportion but lard of than even of Europe Mies our stan far higher net only East but Many Fast wel 8 of the American plone wear tusxian for example, instead of gem of the celebrated gen stones which an not hiny, let Some of the emeralds in the are an would crown jewels, being what is properly termed s are the crystnl-—that is when an emerald crystal four long is found of the for. and although with fis the size whole Iarge _aNMme nches sSOme lapidaries will facet mons thir eign polish whole eno he and that img the Ie it may aneven in color, usions It is them, and very good qual iz to them more than a smal perfect grees ine! IrORSOY one over powering stone of not iy anppen hut few ol in i ing taste de the o1 beauty spot In tiny, unflawed intensely that constitutes the cut ont for as a cem and the rest discarded. That is why they approach tion command £1. O00) (0) not a high price that perhaps only part of the orig inal ervstal ent to produce that ounce A more that 16 crystal the hit he mands that great green trie emerald nse emeralds, if perf cnn almost an ounce when one renlizes one ten thousandth represented stone varies more In the mnst worthless at £5 n carat up to gems worth well over LINN) nn A warning to the to watch his step. — the Saturday However, no auality— from enarat. huyer Kunz in amatenr Dr Evening Post. Glenrge weOh, Daddy! It was nice and quiet in the movie theater. They sat near the center of the lower floor. 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