The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 30, 1902, Page 3

§ THE SUNDAY CALL. 8 Coming fnto the big sitting room, which ' see name 'em, and I'll bring 'em if I have . opened directly into the yard, he struck to lasso '‘em an’' drag 'emw)n at the end his foot against a footstool that was of a rope.” made of oyster cans set in a circle and He glanced down to see how she was covered with a piece of carpet cut to fit taking his garrulous attempt to amuse the shape of them. Ordinarily he’' would her. She was sound asleep, the shadow not have paid any attention to it, but of a smile on hep-lips. He slipped out of everything was changed now. He gave the room on tipfoe, tled dog to keep it a’vicious kick and sent it rattling to him from following and started out to the other side of the room. “My life,” shoot a squirrel—he'd have that soup he mentally soliloquized, *“is just like ready for Doily when she waked—he took that—a piece of old carpet full of emnty a strange pleasure in the thinking. He tin cans.” It was the first time he had went up on the side of the jagged spur of been in a mood of that kind; he was en- mountain which intruded into the valley, joying the misery of it. carrying his six-shooter in his hand, but He took the letter from his pocket and not a squirrel showed its head. He turned began to tear the envelope. Then he back toward the west walked along stopped and thought, then returned it to the wire fence till he ca to the end of his pocket unopened and went out into the lane. The brown grass and clover the back yard, where he took his pacifier and milk weeds stood hig! ek in of argument from his left hip side, it from end to end, while all itside cleaned and oiled it and loaded it anew: = was grazed to the ground. He went into Pretty Kermit Swimm came tripping it for the first time since it was bullt, out into the yard .where he was. She hoping to get a shot at a squirrel, and was singing off the exuberance of her tramped until he was tired. Men walked happiness. ““Who you loading for now, liitle In those days. A soft, warm, white Mav?” she stopped her>song to say, and fog, white as' a white cloud, began to roll gave his ear a tweak as she passed him in from everywhere and close arour by. He did not reply. She was too full him; it shut out the world from his sigh of her own gladness to notice the omis- S0 near it came he could almost reach out sion, and his broad hai brim hid his sul- and touch its fleecy whiteness. All the len face. way from the side of the jagged, rocky She was thinking of the long ride in the hiliside he had had a queer, instinctive moonlight with William Brandow and feeling that he was foliowed. After the the waltzes with his arm around her fog had closed around him he could dis- he did so that it didn’t suppose 1t made walst. Had she known, the song would tinctly hear a stealthy, gliding step on any difference who gave her the-létter, 80 have died in her throat. the dead clover. Whenhs stopped to listen she got it, though he neglected to tell this Lressed, beribboned, curled, ready to it gtopped; when he started it started; to Brandow. He wondered as he rode go, her mirror told her there would be no while he walked it glided behind him hid- away what had come over Maverick that prettier girl at the ball that night. den in the fog. Then he heard a tramping he didn’t want anybody to see his women vith hat and gldyes on she waited till before him; he stopped, and the tramping folk; Kermit and himself had been to the stars came out and the full moon that was ahead of him stopped. He was school together at the academy. The rose. She sat by her bedroom window. not afrald of anything that walked the academy, be it known, was built and and watched the road he was to come till earth, but the unnaturalness of every- maintained by the rich cattlemen for the it seemed to her an endless black ribbon thing and the fog-shrouded silence were edycation of thelr young people. The stretching out into the misty miles of depressing; besides, he could never find yoing man was of the younger genera- moonlight. A mocking bird lighted in the the way home In it nor kill a squirvel. tlon. Either Maverick or Brandow in- cottonwood tree at the well and sang Sudden as the changing of & theught the trusted with a lefter like that would have and whistled, and she and the mocking fog lifted and rolled away, and Maverick defended it with his life. bird seemed to have the world to them- stood face to face with Willlam Bra Maverick read the superscription on the selves. Brandow did not/come, nor came dow. Behind him the steaithily glidh envelope, and a cold, gray hue spread to her any word of excuse or reason why. step had changed to a measured swish, over his face and paled the sun tan of _Because of it Maverick's rage burned swish, swish, as of something moving his skin, He had thought the letter'was hotter within him. Kermit lost color and back and forth from side to side. The for his sister, but he read in Brandow's appetite as the weeks went by and he lane was too narrow for them to pass 1d iting, “Mrs. Dolly Swimm.” did not come. side by side; one must turn back or czawl T ity stopped in its own _ It came to pass that each man did through the wire fence. had been to blame, and the knowledge inefiiciency then was the secret of build his own fence, as Brandow had = Maverick, In his old, !mperative way, made him blame everybody but himself. Brandow’s friendship—sneaking a letter said, the result being a lane a mile and moticned Brandow to turn back. Brane . As he was opening the gate to turn his to his wife in the face of their gquarrel; a half long and not wide enough for two dow gave one startled glance at him and horse into the corral a young man he He recalled now many incidents that had men to walk abreast in it. beyond hi hen with a swiftness which } + knew came riding up in the long, loping had no meaning to him before. Brandow It began at thé point of a jagged spur only an eye could follow he caught the / gait of the tireless mustang and hastily had spent days and evenings at his home Of the Sierras and ended at nothing on weapon from his side and fired. ver- dismounted. He took a letter from an in- —when he himself was there and when he the dead level of the plain to the west. ich had but to raise his hand. As ner pocket and started for the house with was not—and he had thought it was for _ Poppies grew in it and spangled it with simultaneous shots rang out he h = it. verick called to him to stop and Kermit. “God!"—the word came through gold. The tall milkweed blossomed there, heavy fall and a struggling on the grouand demanded to know what it was he his shut teeth. He made up his mind at - and the wild red clover, the alfilaria grew behind him, and saw Brandow ch brought in such hot haste. that moment to shoot Brandow dead if rank around the posts of the fences headlong and lle stretched full length in The ' young man answered lightly: ever he set foot on his doorstep again. where the soll had been shoveled up. th: narrow lane. He walited to fall him- “That’s for the lady to whom it belongs He dropped the letter into his pocket; a Larks made their nests in it and sang eelf, vagu wondering why he did not— to say.” mirthi contemptuous smile distorted their songs to the blue sky. Maverick Brandow, as all the cc “From that fellow Brandow, I'll bet! He hated Brandow for sending and Brandow never spoke to each other dead shot. try knew, was & Give it to me.’ it, but despised tFs other more for yleld- again. The lane was between them. Mechanically he turned and looked § ' sa . “I was instructed ing it up so tamely. One, two, three, four the years slipped back: then the awfulness of it all awak- er it inta the hands of the lady He knew his sister Kermit was to go away. ..ermit married a stranger and d hi Dead in the dead clover rself, with Erandow to the ball that night at forgot the old love in a new one. e lion whose sunken laverick’s surpriss at Brandow's de- the Fifteen-Mile House; her dress had Willlam Brandow, on that never-forgot- t hunger had drtven fiance had turned to redhot rage. .ost him a cow's worth. ten night, ceased to attend balls or any t - see that it gets into the right His wife had asked him to take her to places of amusement. He was still the Mav had never been placed n & Y hands—give it to me.” "He tapped the the ball, but it was a ten-mile ride in the tallest and straightest of his fellows; his It hard for a man to roically when handle of the pacifier of argument w November night and he did not think it blue eyes had lost none of their bright- the ends of his fingers while he spokeé. a wise thing to do. He had ever a gentle ness; but the wavy black locks on his there are npne The young man whistied and handed over care for her health when it bothered him temples were streaking with gray. It He saw his the letter, stammering apologetically as to neglect it- was whispered ahout him that ha had inz there / comrade ly- membered that om 42 hat other su- tumn day when | stood face e he had called this friend a at no man s—at least un~ Glancing quick~ th he bent low about the you cam be a surprise your own kitchen with _that houseleepe it on the ¢ “Make soup plied. Ola X a le round hole his boot-heel there for many & day. ing after him in the of surprise, with his he thrust his hands wousers pockets, the distance between his insteps, & z stream of tobacco juice into a the thousand a. ole and ejaculated: “Well, I'll n which w ir set stiffly exclalming, ing poetry. Tafndr zaid Mrs. White his wife that niece had a ma : gent to her from plum back in the States that had a piece with his name signed to it. bflvcrlck “laid” for him at from the sleep In He went alone lay 1 stood on her long at the would fix every tself. It was on the easternmost edge of the o Brandow liked Maverick great valiey that stretched its unbroken SWimm, and defendeg him be- s T fhe Toothalis b5 e Tomn hind His bank, which Wap. w: Range end its length for @ thousand ,N&n many of his other friends i Maverick tolerated Bra st ¢ ;s miles. - i 1 0l ed Brandow with a rodeos, in town on Saturdays, faverick Swimm had always had his Palronizingair; but his left hip pacifier or and came home sorts of country. He was a “first set. &rument would have blazed at any tia- He carried a grim-lpoking paci- !dyver of hfm, and in heart (every man, his left hip, the han- Das some sort of a heart if you know to his right hand. His hOW to find it) he had a warmer fiend < zzied on more yearlings SHiP for him than for any other man. owned cows to mother {hem. He They had camped outtogether w th the cli- and insistently called Mate for a tent; had slept with their boots 2 notwithstanding that ©On and their saddles for pillows, and jeman in the country Waked with the rain on their faces Spanish word that The farmers had encroached more anded yearling. more upon the range o unexpected hour Brandow never seemed to sec him When hardwriting on they met In a crowd, and they g hig honor be | - aid not meet elsewhere. It WaS 5 reaq it, It was not a D vas taking on himself to do. lett spen, wide open—it lett the cluded that Brandow's c had turned him religlous. hour in which he took pos: his wife's letter Maverick cold to her and neglectful of her com- their two ranche and and then Brandow the cattle kings; was the younger had been iame lly settled on himself. the “no-fence” law was made in the teeth out that littl eci fort to u degree that beeame cruelty. N W f NF 0N “Maverick’ = known the re. Of their opposition, ana the cattle Kings It struck the cement ot il 5% ‘absences from home lengthened and APPROVED AETHODS OF COURTSHIP glon 7 % was mostly the best’ had (o fence or 'move. Maverick and frienusiip and broke it ame oftener; yet, in the paradox of his T that could'be said of him, and perhaps Brandow had decided to do something of _ When ~Brandow . resched homec nature his tenderness for her grew wit O a foreign statisticlan the world is the worst. He waxed rich-and important, both. that luckless day he sat down at once his neglect. indebted for some very Interesting and richer and more important. His hou: 1t wiil sometimes happen that a man will and spent a long time writing a letter, At times he had a desire to choke her— data in regard to the most approved was the biggest and whitest of any, his and then to kiss her feet. When he saw horses we: prtship | 1lized radually fading away and caught methods of courtship in eciv A lsttul, wondering look in her eyes countries. These data were compiled from he had the’notion strong in him to flght several hundred novels and romances, the Brandow with his fists and compel him bet o show how men propose fo Gofe and see her: At such. times he o e e propasain heard the rattle of the cans in the old %1 bt it e carpet-covered footstool, and ended by Tom one hun ypieal cases of ae- pitying himeelf. cepted declarations of loVe the statisti- One morning, returning from a longer clan obtained the following figures: sbsence than vusual, he found her lying Eighty-one of the one hundred men on the bed, her eyes 8o sunken, her yowed that they could not live any longer Checks s hollow, Her face 30 Pt iy Without the adored ones, seventy-two held Ritn Of the day he told her the lane was the ladles’ hands in a tight grip, sixty finished, and tKe saucy laugh with which kissed them on the lips, ten on she had sald: “1 suppose when you and the right hand, two on the tip Brandow kill each other you'll request t0 of the nose and one on the be burled one at one end of it and the shoulder; elghteen were so exeited that i ot bk 4 they could hardly \k, twenty-six lost e b e (o hob Dedaige, their eloquence through certain qualme o snt down by her and took her hand, She conscle twelve sald - in deep chest looked up to him expectantly, tones, “Thank God,” and elght frankly pass unhurt through battle and ambush, wWhich he gave into the keepin 0 e finest. his gentle-hearted through wreck and disaster on sea and youthful friend, with the Instrtetion nos wife the est woman and his young land and reach his home in safety to step to spare orseflesh in the delivering of it. sister, Kermit Swimm, the fafrest maiden. out some sunny morning and break his It is (rua that our friends blunder for us Hie dog could whip an sther ma dog. neck In the most trivial decident. It was more oft than our enemies do, Kermit Swimm loved Willlam Brandow: much like this with the friendship of . When Maverick Swimm reached home ghe likewise believed that he Joved her. these men. They 1Md hot words that same day he was in no friendly mood They had pot told It in speech, but in about the bullding of a fence between with anybody or anything. He knew he S THE SECRETS OF THE STARS REVEALED-% HIE week beginning bn Sunday, April 2, Wednesday—There will be im- March 81, Monday—Those wi March %, wiil be ruled by Saturn, portant changes in the business world day falls upon. this I Maroury aod Mant! i upon this day, Wholesale deales should a steady and profitable business year if H very harmonlous planetar realize large fnancial profits, aTM espe- risks and wpeculations are avoided. s siis dus il be nhcdcridren =born B Bl o Selcs. oxtraord puv;J’lfi-1ll.m:4-.A|«:-l||n‘.’;' 1.;”{?1;‘.-|:v'|”|rr’n?:."" ;‘zlv;m: ;v"'; l'n wnl"cnunrnnd wed and gstinate They will be strong of purpose 1 . - 00d Any pon whic . widows will have offers 3 , b 2 v 3 nappenings, wuch as strikes, ru- @ioaks open u littie up, will bo down at 10, " ApH 1, Tussday—Thoss whe celsprate (10 should succeed in the worif, Vs should become gifted dnte will experfence and actors, # A f war and rash movements by up at 12 and easy at 1 p, m their natal day upon this date hoys should become eminent lawyers. “Dolly,” he said, “I met ol Doo Cole admitted that they were Inexpressibly oravions, " There will be ex. Apil 8 hursday-this s & fevorable uvoit lnwlulu'yum Guarals Grmr the Ao sirls will ‘be qulck-witted and {nge- IS bt o happy. o ne in the business world, ar ay fo o 1 ‘on coming year, Young men should progress rol - Bhe Ald not say anything. By studying the conduct of one hundred & donls vid be consummated, snd legal documents should be signed from in business, Young women will have pro- hy:,:;'-n’liv’f'r..mflgafia mfi':.a’,’.‘;fl'm ;’,”] “1 wny I met ol’ Doo Cole out there.” men whose suits were rejected the statis- Thice e | Bunrrd ditha et resk 08 P B - Yonnt “Y-'f',hl- will be n highly respected and will succead in their “Dally,” he hesitated. “Dolly, Doc said teresting fgur Forty of them rushed & Deriance | eventful marital Nves ortunate year for thoke whose chosen lines, The girls will be quite for- here wusn't anything partic’lar the mat- {n o frenzy out of the room, twenty-one ;,::.:,-Ll‘t/’yl.‘:;‘vlm”»:‘I':-u‘::'y wrm‘ ar and pro- birthday falls upon this dnte, There will tunate in marringe. 1 bo subject to rapid er with you, but he d you'd die soon { something didn't happen—'" sald that life henceforth had no more Ho yot his teeth hard—then, “Tell me YAlue In their eves and they would sem- what it ts, Dolly, that you want to hap- it suicide, fourteen became suddenly pen, an’ Il see ‘tit happens!” tongue-tiad d irrational, stx ealmly re- She searched his face with her great, wigned themselves to the inevitable, five rlght eyes, then dropped the lids over avowed their Intention of Immediately (hem: a faint fiush crept over the pallor f her cheakw; ho #aw It and had his own ConuragnE (0 Americs, thres tore out here will be changes and meny varia on il i changes until ) 8 SaRy : be disapppointments and fliness for soms, April 1, Tuesday—The childr 0- 1 ‘H.“.l. :ulfl n:m ) got [, ¥ Thers will be losses for some, while d;ypwln 0 of n-l{lna vmtur«nm’r‘%’y“‘:fll 2 L Vel p.m. the market will be marked by others may acquire wealth through the powsess a dominant power and will be M r the contracting o Ve “\nAv-v,nv.'I u«u’:hq.u) death of n near relative, natural leaders, They will form friends bun pril 4, ¥rid Professional men should ~ April 8, Thursday—This will be a pros- eas y and will he fond of woocinl plens- Business, S e lon Sucten upon this perous and succewstul year for ll whome tires. 'fhe boys will be wuceeswful spect- ihin is Waster Bun ny. There will l..: wome stirring happen- birthday falls upon this date, Intors, Th lrrln will ma |ulml;,|m. i A8 Rt Pus- In court and Jaw circles, Those who employ’ will recelve promotion, Money rimonial alijances, week work before § p. m. should be suc- whould increass through fortunate iny. e misnlliane S " Auring the fores oeurn| ¢ April 2, Wednesday~These children will itte; rpreied By wome of thelr halr, two bit their lips till pl wrise unexpected wn Murict openw changeable, with & pudden B '.',‘,"} :,,3’.‘""‘.“3"’“"' ol a 37...',‘.' "rF 8wl laoh :"hu-r{:.l dll:rlnzb o s nrv.*y.l.url’;}' you want to see?’ the blood came, one stuck his hands into no; 1, Mttt pecs that should rise trom 0 to 1, Hncertain at 14 but P A Pridsy-Thoss who_celebrate Hid e el Juck executive ability bt you, May.” bis trousers pockets and whistied & popu- M Monday~There will be many Aprll "5 Gere thelr birthday to-day will find the coming financial lines, The boys will be fond of yaingh lar song and another looked up toward Bt plans materiuliged 400 Dow €n- xrniy noy, BAturday-—-Standard articles year u quiet and ‘uneventful one, X travel. The sirie wil) be talented musi- beaven and began to say the “Lord's’ Ueiness oantren amily enniol oung people will en- P 3 ursday. o children born ' : )f the ladies per cent knew before- Mirhet opers under o rather contrary Lt coniricts and important (Funw: counter pare tal” obJactian” i thelr love apan thix dato Wiil'he torvinata n el of igin, " One Naah' ot the aid” saney fse hand that the proposals Were sbout to be Influence, Btocks should rise by 11 o'clocl 100! ¢ 1 r undertnkings, e boys will be sue- ) . “ made to the Seventy of them sank, as ey g gl A0S B Wu”“ Pl i ' 0 Rl dn"y"?‘.‘ufi' u'p‘n‘nur(dh"]’rh"h 120" H"b' g "|'" financlors &nd (e .‘llf_h il m:.:‘lry uur:-;l krlr'r:mm'r:.”r eyes to his. “You—you Illmu h emb rrlunuu rlnlu'(h.- arms of the e market will be o ! k , ay whould avold appily, 4 oved ones, and only four fell gent! 'vmy’,wn riket will be marked by rapid g und 10, with u_changeable cloe, cltement and take all precaution possible I;rl Friday—Thefe children will bo ! ;‘r«‘:&u;ma hrl:nllpl'lli" the hand which on a chalr or sofa. " pourtsen 'ng’:',‘:s April 1, Tuesday~This is & good day up- Birthday nmlln’!‘l( 90{"!6»11" during the next twelve act and ambitious, They will be en- orehead and Rnlr .’,‘;"u:m ;;',:Iywm( mlr their bl t with _ their hands, gn whichi to push general commercial Af- March %, Bunday—Those who celebrate :’:f'.’,’,'x.';hmh‘a"r‘;nz:.3?1!:.'tlnyl cfl;-l:':'rodnu i -‘-’:’%}' -'-’nlr{'hl L S ] Shopia be / me an’ stay with you,” y ot The ek ot 1hE mil Py fatrs. Weotall merchants should find an in- ther birthdny upon this ate should take [ney celobrate \h aught self-control. The Dolly made no reply. oy e 06 _the men, twe sl 0 i Dk There should be & excellent cars oF thals bosith Socis ey celobrate their birthday this day. boys will rise to respected positions in g ; ¥ apeak to mamma, and one loosening of the moncy market upon thi next twelve months, There wil g Births, Uige and tho girls will'be recognized o- % l:o‘moeu::‘filnr;:!nlf,ru..fl‘:fl:u,w1';“,"':,,’"’;ZG DoTants T indyivae waaitt youre ook, date, Morkel opens very changeable noyances through letters and papers for The children born duri A e 4 Jetving & Niss: sagther wi e o s Ao 2 3 p 2 ng this week i . cetving i > - lown at X "v,"'“" up ut 1 p. m, Oll and potne, There will be changes in the fam- Anens extremely active :nlnd- wl:h ;‘nI! Aflwc":lit;ur.“kyum”' childfen will be 3 Dolly smiled a tired little smile and pat- ‘m‘; :u:m..-k| ge, ne . .. X mining stocks #hould be the most astive, iiy circle, Uirough marriages, for others, bitious, energetle " tomperamnnty ramy Srtlstie n appreciation of the ; ted hix hand. me, but you must do 1€ 16 & senticmualy 1 ‘And if there Is anybody you want to manner.’