Evening Star Newspaper, December 15, 1926, Page 42

42 THE EVENING STORY s Crowing Hens. 3 LEANOR, where are you?" Mrs. Lane called through the house in sharp-toned vexation. ‘Dickie's _gone squirrel nting, mother,” Hazel answered bwn the front stairs. “What did you of her?” s left all the unwashed break- t dishes. The kitchen's a sight. *Ted Cox stopped in for her, and o was 80 excited about going I or't suppose dishes entered her leca,” explained Hazel. “When I fin- h dusting I'll do them,” she good- aturedly volunteered. 7t was 11:45 before Eleanor, in high oots, bloomers and one of Ben's flan- el shirts, bounded in at the open or of the kitchen, where Ani Fran- , a younger sister, and her mother re in the busy midst of getting the hoon dinner. Such a won-der-ful morning as ve had!™ truant glowingly “Ted Cox is the most He let me use his rifie ird time. And I almost got a cuirrel. Missed him by the tip of is tail as he flashed up a tree. Gee, Qf:u Fne gave her a look that ®poke sharper aisapproval than ords. i “rglennor," she said severely, “g0 upstairs and dress yourself properly before your father and Ben come in. “All right-o!” And with a coltlike toss of her $obbed head the 19-year-old daughter of the house strode from the room. “Well, Dick, what have you been up to today?” twinklingly smiled Mr. Jane as Kleanor, tubbed and in a gleaming white middy, took her be- Jated place at the dinner table. “Squirrels, dad. Only I wasn't quite wip to them. Not by the length of a tree trunk. Bu(t me and lhe" cev;x" boy the time of our young lives. lls“;‘Al'ld you walked off and left the breakfast dishes,” sald her mother, . ‘Hazel had them all to do besides her own worl Eleanor was constantly in hot ter. ':But 1 don’t sink in,” she roguishly confided to Ted Cox. “I splash. ‘And in spite of scoldings and sar- casm, such was the buoyancy of Bleanor Lane's spirits, she continued h. ”S:zh:ofla Ben’s Black Devil bare- back. She went whistling across the pasture where the bull: that constant- Jy saw red had his irritable being. She climbed trailless Monkey Moun- tain and clambered down the pre- cipitous side of Dead Man's Gulch‘. ‘And now when she and the Cox boy went hunting she no longer took turns at shooting with Ted's gun. She had saved up and bought a rifle of her own. heavens of new earth Swelling bud and opening biossom. Spring with its devastating hall- storm, followed by three nights of frost that laid a pall of death over the countryside. ;n de!l;yrflc!lnn'! aftermath, day day, when father and son of the ZLane household had gol;le :g ;lh:ér dl&d ragi: jabor In blights leld an oro ‘.“lhe “women folks” would hopelessly discuss ways and means of cutting down living _expenses—of somehow adding to the depleted family income. Eleanor had nothing to suggest. In fact, was seldom present at the family council. Instead, mounting Black Devil, she rode away for 2 ‘whole morning, a whole afternoon, at a time. “] can’'t understand such indiffer- ence” indignantly declared Mrs. Lane, one mid-June day. “Had any- Dody told me that a daughter of mine would act like Eleanor, I—" Spring, _with new n-washed blue and a of sprouting blade and W.&]J.SLOANE She broke off abruptly at sight of a tall, slender, boyish figure in riding 3 excitedly announced. “A jim-dandy one!" In astonishment they listened. She was to be forest ranger's as- sistant. To patrol the woods on the east side of Monkey Mountain and at given hours to visit the lookout on Sunrise Ridge, where she could scan the whole lower end of the canyon below. Three pistol shots the signal for fire-fighters if she needed help. “But how I had to work for it!" she laughed gleefully. *Fairly brow- beat the powers-that-be even to be put on a month’s trial. All because I'm a girl. As if T didn’t know as much about our woods as any ‘mre man'— or wouldn't be as clear-sighted and cool-headed!" The following week Eleanor, mounted on Black Devil, curried a shining satin, rode proudly off re- port to her chief, Peter Dillon, “who is perfectly sure I will lose my head at the first provocation,” she scorn- fully commented. “I can see it in his eyes. But I'll show him! The days flew by and every evening Eleanor came home more in love with her work than ever. But ,in spite of many camping parties in the canyon, there had been no fires to report; no opportunity to prove her qualification to meet an emergency. And now the trial month was nearing an end and the chances ten to one that a young man from Manzanita would get the permanent appointment. The day before the last day came, and even buoyant Eleanor started on_her rounds in glum despondency. It meant so much to her independ- ent, self-reliant spirit to make good; 8o much to the tender, loving woman heart of her, hidden deep in her scorn of sentimentality, to feel that she was a help and stay to her loved ones in the emergency of the family need. Nine o’clock came, 10, 11; then, one minute after Kleanor turned down from the lookout on Sunrise Ridge, three quick, sharp pistol shots rang out upon the wooded silence. ¥HE" EVENING STAR, At the foot of the trall Eleanor stood waiting for the men she knew would come in answer to her three pistol shots, although she would have “given her eye teeth” to jump upon the restive horse tied to the near-by tree and beat it before any one appeared. “But_you've been a ninny-minded idiot, Eleanor Lane,” she told herseif sternly, “and now you've got to take your medicine.” The nervous horse tied to the tree neighed, and around a sharp turn in the wood-road the first of the men galloped into view. At sight of him the crimson sprang into Eleanor's cheeks. It was Peter Dillon himself. She stood straight and stiff and deflant before him, but it was all she could do to steady her voice. “I'm sorry, but there's nothing do- ing. “A false alarm?” It made her furious that his tone was more amused than angry. “No alarm was intended,” she snapped. “I forgot about there being a signal. The three shots just hap- pened by chance.” All amusement went out of his face. “Do you mean to tell me—" His horse began to rear excitediv. and as it swung him across the trail leading down from the Lookout, Peter Dillon suddenly gave a start— a stare. . “What under the canopy is that?” he asked, pointing to a tawny ob- ject at the side of the trail. “A mountain llon that I found crouching beside a bush as I came down from the Lookout,” she casu- ally explained. “1t was you who killed it?” he asked in astonishment as he gazed a* one of the largest mountain Hons of his experlence shot straight through the temple. There was that in his volce that sent her heart leaping. “I was under the impression I killed it,” twinkled Eleanor, be it died of heart failure.’ “Miss Lane,” said Peter Dillon, ad- miration beaming in his eyes, “I take off my hat to you.” “I hope,” flashed back Eleanor, “it has my permanent appointment tucked somewhere in its lining!” And it hnd,T (Copyright. & The GIFT OF GIFTS . The Most Useful Xmas Gift That Can Be Given, Made by Dr. Freiot and Staff of Expert, Careful and Skilled Dentists. Plates and Our Long-Life Everlasting Bridge Work will be an appropl:iate SAHSFACHON ABSOLUTRLY GUARANTEED DI our silv .le—lnillt ty. er_and all-y ord. dnl fokine." b MAIDS IN ATTEND. ANCE ST R.. tood. 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