WHEN THE
SCHOOL-MOM
ARRIVED
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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. A star appearing in
person was doing a combination of
“shimmie” and “snake dance.” Little
Allen. nage three, decided to talk In
the far-reaching stage whisper of na
child. *1 like a dirl like that. | wish
i had a dirt like that” When the
chuckles had subsided, he added: “If
I had nn dirl like that 1 would take
her a ride In daddy's tar.”
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Migs liardy sald to a Dally Mall
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“Poor Tom He was a clever boy
but | never thought he would tnke
to writing, and } didn’t ike It when
he did. Writing, | think Is not a
respectable way of earning a living."
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