The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 24, 1903, Page 7

r E z ke me . wonder gray eyer h her small su . ping from the v of childi smile ected me, did yer? byer little stay. ek O yes, T'll sta 1l ver pa gets well. How Do it Suit yer?' - He faug cheeks as he ¥ =hook er yellow head o ¥ “ swimming eyes she N s he's af he pleaded, takin ' she hesitated, ere. there now; T * Show me where y , & chances Is Ull stay from fidence reinstated, she led the ay with childish talk, and as the first the s ed upon the rufous cended steeply into the THE SUNDAY CALL then on the last afternoon, ¢engaged in a retro- ection of the past few months. lad” (they had lang since ac- €d Tessie as to his right name and er came strangely enough with no degree of su hollow prise or disappointment on her part), - Others S, ‘Bud, lad, yer've made us what we are, 1 lives mos’ time, an’ T an‘ refoosed all manner o' reward—es T hearn tell. I thought common wages.” There was a hoarsen ie job,” expostulaied in Wyman's voice and he swallowed with ed ‘that part of Lhe lraveler roughls diffieulty til he continued: *An’ 3 2 Through the uncarpeted haliway foot- wen't accept an Int'rest in ther property d the merry volce of the which goes to show yer more'n ther av “Whar'd yer sce { v d him at Carters ation week afore eck in an impatient please don’t cry declared H er in his strong sort of wa parent is, “Thet's south o’ Brent, ent?” Incredulousl n steps sounde He he. £ tle' k o child reached their ears rage ma We could patch sich mat e hes '('-u} A little home lay puel The sick man turned, a compassionate, hut worse nor thet—yer leave us term tered & the cottonwood and Wil- even despairing, -look overepreading his row, wheme e rocky gorge ) at rest did wan features Further articulation failed him and he apes t he was loth to intrude. He “Poor Uttie Tescie. She'll e so put out. glanced, to conceal his emotions, down glanced down at the ehild Da an’ day out she’s waited for Terry’ the steep rocky.canyon, which the reclin- Come on: pap: descende On Lor pard, sent ver n the weak q vo—Bud® | way—Brent lisappointment swept over the her would have been sufficient to T features . . e warrant the parents’ respect and i ght yer were. s mos’ time . T Ime gon N for this man ere E the de plant orter D ng his nged conva-i te the is and grasping his though em: forta b, 1field? e stranger drew a deep breath but repeating some subject from constant meditati yvonder, an’ now— up by now. Come on ther mour it_also un dyed a golden hue x finger they In his weak state a tear, uncontrolled, srmed the jasper ledges on the cliff crept slowly down his wrinkled cheek. ataracts of blood. he halted The stranger st in meditation, bis Bud Halleck looked down at little Tes- aced around Eray eyes surve the distant sandy siec as she drew closer to him and her nts of his plain with a squinting stare. tiny hand clutched his sleeve; then he As the other in a quick, hoarse vc Pm Terry Ask he turned saying, glanced at the wife and mother. H e calm, good-natured face had paled a t understand? She fle and her lip quivered; still she smiled ated face thinks thet's m me—an’ thinks lots o' bravely. gy Don’t tel! her diff'rent. It'll make the doorcase, he feel good. an'—she has so leetle pleas- hold ure here, I reckon. Understand?” It was all to happen so unexpectedly that the blow was more severe, Without warning he had anmounced his an’ welcome. The father d respond. but while - geparture, his reasons unexplained, his Hal Bunker. r his _sight grew and his lip quive: services unrecompensed. as info he knew On the following day they arose early rimonious tones of _ Then sed ar The morning. was beautiful; the gentle plant was ultimately preezes, swaying the underbrush. soft] d under operation. With the wafted the fragrance of ‘the mountaii- lapse of time a binding friendship sprang side ‘to their nos- er drew completed z From over the up betw this family and He. Tessie trile and the sin- was ever with him. and his regard for Sontle’s clear. tanks a-layin’ in be ruined I and in a subdued lescence Har physically una form his duties about the house. So it was that ‘yman was e to per an months went by Hal- sweet notes awoke the slumbering echoes of the canyon Sadly the Iittl ater hole.” nide ‘“plant’” bullt snallow lake It was a skillfully accomplished piece of work and as Wyman gazed—for it was his first vlew of the structure—the great- r grew I admiration for the { able will of the man and the praisewc exactness of his worl i was as m tiny, Wyman turned to his friend. He spoke in a sxad voice ‘An’ yer won't stay? -After all this? Come, jBud, listen to reason an’ stay a few months longer. What's the diff'rence ennyhow? An' we'll work 1 there s to be got outer the mount’in an’ pul kes for ther north then enthusias “why, dod blast my heart, lad, o’ months an’ yer none the wiser.” Halleck glanced at the lines of tanks, then at the little cabin lying far above 5 mae. ‘1 m”m;:’«; leck, habitually indu- among the varl-colored picturesque . s aesiond thel mbintaln vated e were. (0 shrubbery and reflected. »w- shafts of sunlight. .A - o immutable state The utside world held much for e <h nlight. A of things and posi him, meant much to- him. If he stled brush near by tion, labored con- went a new future seemed open ness poured forth its tentedly as in to him; If he stayed— sone L duty bound to the “Yes, Bud, stay for You dor to hire a man, do fulfiliment of his said you'd come and live w I uny the work; besides ey us and not go way. Don't b as a strange expres Therefore it you 'member, you said s sion 11 reatures—"besides was that, at right there c ? w coine—at least [ Deace with the Yes—B th Kkeg business— world y T about almost m 3 shaky on t he queried sharp- porch b ar e. He shore's 6 come.” Then, as if mistrustful before him g rterro- HULLO LITTLE GAL ]’ sAID. THE FOREMOST 2 § ] AR her face on ulder and her little-heart wo: break Orright, Tessie—come, now, den’ cry, little ‘un; I'll stay, an’ we'll go up to the mount'in yonder ap’ roll big roc down. I'll show yer how. Now, don’. er And Halleck patted her affectionat relinquished all for he An hour later, leaving her parents.and Bud-eajeulating on the future. develop- mernt of the property, Tessle, grown tired of the uninteresting. conversation. wan- deted along the mountainside.” Soon she ly. He had - found herself in the canyon bed. With a handful of flowers and h apron pocket ‘filled to bursting with peb- bles of peculiar color and design, to her childish notion, she hurried back toward “water short distance, She had procesded but however, when the liigible sound ears. ° was surprised to ses armed riding toward She awaited the object of their multaneously said the forsmost one 1w “All "lone Where's yer mamma and curred to h a man pa 50 ago, he s the ong ago that spokesman eld was coming p the cyanide and T used t go ‘all ovér ‘the s watch f One-day I saw a man gver there,” shs rected, thelr att ger, “and I spoke I told him apd_he said he t he was was. Then afterward mamma told me his name was wouldn't con good and kind ¢ Wi eck and that Bud has be o Dear Bi Over on t mamma ot weary sand ‘dune and sc fow long she conjecture; no more she knew one of his fellov led along. And eight she could rs flow. Good-by, leetle goln’ away. B we'll go to ther big rocks an’ gat show yer m’ leetl 1 to yer papa a me every day wha pod-by, leetle 1 Halleck was m their great od her tears she saw his head . and in a volce of an- ation to nod distanee or the swerving- trail her view ien the.sun raised himself above the range and spread his golden radiance over the mounta and far-off desert \e saw the child, lying as she had her face buried in her small hands e sand dur familfar voices reached her ears he moved not. From her recumbent ion she heard all, but it did not.s rise her. Her childish instinet ) have already unraveled the * arry Wyman was speaking: “Poor Bud—poor lad,.he cried like a babe certunly, but t place wera me to him be it to m’ score years more »w ha wed his arms an' §a 1 yer'w A s shfleld in s defe the , way he looke 1 an agony M the actly un tle wife—it He might eo: Bud. ( thing an’ se these parts. P belknown and whi ar o murder defense’s an ad—an’ she d A sob broke weeping mot Ha oor hed the the moun . 1t span yon ty-five t in width is made by a great across the gorge. -Se men say th. many ages since this as prostrated some terrific storm and fell acrosad t ny By the effects of the water' ar time it s passed through many stages of mineralization. and is now a wonderful ‘tree of solid agate. And there it lies. making an agate bridge over which men may pass from side to side. tree that