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" THE SUNDAY OTtEGOXIAN, PORTLAND, MARCH 19, 1922 3 Viable Blue Sage Flat's Infant Terrible Helps the New - Schoolma'am to Find Her Heart Under Strange, x Circumstances rnent In true "anxiety and wondered countably thirsty thejr became just - inward soul stiffened with embar- answer that question when hie inam- offered Sid, "all softy like on fine, calves In Deep Coulee and never saw what on earth he could say to turn about the time they reached the seat rassment. She wished violently that orata frowns?, and she had a bow of ribbon, little them. " off the shower. He removed his wide of learning. Half the rangeland knew ehe had refused him, as she had at He would put out of his mind all bit of ribbon, goldy colored, come- For the next two weeks the boy hat it was his best one, reserved for about those Individual, collapsible, first intended, memory of light little feet and' a where underneath in front. Shone was genuinely miserable. , Then cam his trips to. town and decorated by a brown paper drinking cups before two Why on earth hadn't she? Just slender, silken form. At -the very through." the electric word flashing round the next dance a miracle happened. Babe'n rltrht arm felt suddenlv be- lanches that Miss Ransome, still keen fahcy, spotted Band as a preliminary weeks. The Lazy X knew all about why hadn't she? precaution, and cleared his throat, them except Babe. " Wait until the next opportunity. In just about two seconds he got He displayed a cold, not to say just so, ''' the pep all right. frozen, indifference to -everything But no such mortificatioh was going The brown head lifted with a jerk connected with mental Improvement, on In the breast of the cowboy, and a convulsed face, streaked with & state of affairs entirely foreign to His grandiloquent renunciation of salt water, confronted him. his former habit. the downward spread palm that day Two beautiful wide, gray eyes When Miss Ransome had been a at the Flat seemed, since the danoe, beautiful even in their swollen and month at the Flat cowland felt a sud- somehow vague and unimportant. discolored lids behind their swimming den desire to dance. Dances were few The feel Of the little, sleek, brown Babe Cutler staved at home! reft. He was Jealous of that "soft on the uplift, was going to give ;uiear ranSeranVrso0me leVeTyea Highf'there Babe Cutler met his of providing a library for the us. of p eared ticuiar rangeiand some seven years back as a,' stripling- boy the . best Waterloo, acknowledged his defeat in dancer in the region was not presents tne lists of love. He turned sickly And it must be said ir lusfio.e that "fereen around the-lips and got o and if the new. girl noticed his absence l6ft the iaioti group. all the country! They all do this along In their first or second terms. Now, there was nothing In that good news to plunge him Into the nether most depths of gloom, but It did so plunge him. Geewhillikinsr acclaimed . Cuff, fen I- etarnri t him in ha lf-nnsi rail tt. - h.twu. hf fh a. ni-tr tn MA hnlv in th hind nf hi arm hurt Me gave HO Visible Sign. Sh nailed 1 es slr no was in lovo. astonishment. A trembling mouth shake a foot seemed to take the out- filled him with fatuous comparisons. down her former advantage with. Honest to goodness in love! was parted river genuine pearly teeth, fits simultaneously, and word went Wasn't a "skirt" in the country that more Smiles, more democratic klndli- He knew It for truth. He'd heard "Of all things!" snapped . Miss scurrying about the ranches that they felt so kind of light and straight ness, arid by daylight she could have of this kind that took sudden. Just a spraklicg eyed, "imagine th little girl Bsther Ransome. "Do you spy on were to "come ene, come all" to the and soft underneath. They were more had Just about anything she asked look, maybe, or a handclasp not to on tnat there platform sellln th' people's privacy out here? Go away store at Blller's Crossroads, the time- solid, thoBe other girls; you could r in that part of the country from mention a whole long dance number Doxes! Mistress of ceremonies! An' from that door!" honored scene of all festivities for 40 grip them good and hearty and swing the ale half of the population. and wdwie! you Were a goner. won't her box come high? Say, boy! Now It Is one thing tovgo trouba- years. . them wide on the corners. But this The Lazy X was loud in its adora- That was It. He was a goner he, if th' rest feel like I do about It, she'll dourlng gayly up to a brand new In- Esther rode beside Mrs. Tom, and girl, now holy smoke, you couldn't tlon and lifted Up its' voice and sang, poor fish, who only offended her every just have to move a whole Carnegie terest with a weather eye out for fu- her gray eyes were bright as the pull bo rough stuff like that on her. This eulogy was drivel to Babe, yet tlm he opened his feol mouth! right out here, she'll have so much ture friendships, and quite another stars themselves. And you may well Why, those little feet of hers would exquisitely interesting He rode far that day on the boss' money to spend!" to be sat upon like a toad and a helleve that thera were masked bat- simply fly off the floor 'f you swung He smoked and listened. business, but the boss' business suf- Babe rode far again, and his head . . i . i 1 1 1 hnlofAi-nnaltf . caterpillar and a worm. The fairly teries on every side as she entered her hard. You had to kind of loosen to each other in the exuberance or good-looking mouth of the young the long room Of the store. Comely up, let her turn herself, and follow young spirits released from the first man ln tne saddle shut with a snap matrons with their offspring in rows after all sort of respectful and at day's bondage in the little house on of its own and an imitation sunset beside them, buxom girls in ruffles your distance. And that wonderful the flat. The new schoolma'am drowned out his tan. and ribbons, their natural cheeks a soft, slippy feei of her watched them through the miserable With slow Insolence he brushed the trifle too bright, their figures a bit The openly.sung praises Of the new fclur that was threatening to blot out pim of the Pnsive sombrero, set it too sturdy for extreme grace, but echoolma'am which greeted his ears . - back on his head at careful angle, young and sweet withal,- viewed her at the Lazy X made him weary. He the world ln general, ana wonaerea Btralghtened up on his horse, and w'th eye as sharp as needles. who was supposed to be a connoisseur how on earth she was ever going to rode away When he was well out of "She's got on brown again," they on feminine charm smoked in pained stand nine months of them and this. slKj,t beyond the poplar trees he opined. "It's crepe de chine, ain't it? aloofness . and had no comment to A horrible panic was all Inside hen. spread an expressive hand palm down An' lt'a trimmed with coral. My, ain't make. Those youngsters had looked at and delivered himself softly of some it a swell combination!" "A fine stab you made th' other her in blank amaze when she put the choice and carefully-selected oaths. "She does her hair like a bob iflght, Lothario," they Jeered. "Reg- wot ior mnei no imjiaueu uo- rouea unaer, kiqi n, -.uizbksi v.uny uiar irozen race party. uci, jv cisively. "Good-night, nurse! Get 'tis so." aid 'Good floor" an' she said "Very' "White this time, her dress was." fered. He passed three unbranded first orthographical test. to the pri mary class, which consisted of the along home. Pronto. Though dam'f I "Yes an' Jier slipper are brown and you said- youngest two Baillies, and openly ana know What I'll tell those long-legged satin, an laid sakes, there's a run in "O, hell!" ea'd Babe, disgustedly. without permission told her that popinjays at th' bunkhouse." one of her stockln's! Clear up th' "Ain't there nothin' inside you poor i kuh-ah-tuh did not spell cat! The Pronto, eager eyed and shuffling, side, I do declare! Great goodness boobs" heads but wind? I'd tell a eldest Crawford boy informed her pa- told off the miles that lay between there's one ln th' other one, too!" fella!" ti tlv and with condescension) that tne Blue Sage Flat and the Lazy X ln "No! Lizzie, are you sure? Ain't It Miss Ransome walked along the t uy . all too short a time. . one of them clock things thy're put- stream's edge. All the trees were that feat was accomplished y see-ai- ..Well Lothario, did yuh meet th tin' ln the stockin's now there's a fJaming ln their autumn livery. The tee. They were a colossal wall raised mUe prInceasr. inquired Cuff Benson, little arrowhead at top." high skies of this prairie country against her and bound together by Bt0pping half way to the water A eigh of relief followed as it was were blue and clean. She felt peppy, that quickest of all contempts, that troug:n wltn a wash basin ln his hand, discovered that the damning runs brisk and businesslike as she stepped Y of a child for a teacher whom It ,.j notice you come from that direc- were clocks and no mistake. - along. Life was on tiptoe now. No ' thinks Incompetent. How on earth tIcn. Taken altogether the new school- more tears, no panic. The letters she was one going to break through that you notice too darn much," an- ma'am was as different from the gen- wrote home to that Kansas town with the newer methods? How was Bwere(j the rider pointedly. "Ain't oral run of her sex present as an ex- were full of references to her work she going to pierce the fog of Igno- there any other place to ride ln that quisite autumn leaf is different from and her methods, to her new friends ranee let loose upon them by their direction but Blue Sage Flat?" a plush-covered platform rocker. "and her Ideas of uplift as applied to . former teachers who had, without a "Um," mused Cuff, rubbing his chin; At first glance she seemed disap- the outlying districts. The eldest doubt, grounded them in spelling by peevedi en?" pointingly plain In her slim, trim Crawford boy trudged beside her. He letter instead of sound! Ha turned and raised a stentorian iress of brown with Its slight touches did not have to come so far out of his It was Incredible! And they wiped calj of coral. her l'ttle aleek head with its way, but there was a devilish pertl- . their litUe noses frankly on their Boys," he yelled, "here's Babe, rolled-under hair. Then, as lively nacity of antagonism Jn him that still , sleeves. They drank from a commu- come ln from th' Blue Sage Flat with masculine eyes took her in avidly,- sent him arguing upon any subject nity dipper ln the pail on the porch a grouch Btacked up a mile high, there was something different about she tried to Instill in him. Today it . without regard for hygiene. They come see." her yes, that was It, different. They had been the subject of wireless and stared at her open mouthed when she A haif dozen cqwboys, all washed didn't know what, but it was there, the lad had doggedly stuck to his told them, early ln the day, that It np jQr supper, came promptly with a. difference. query, "How can you talk on a wire was not sanitary to borrow each gimlet eyes ready tq search Babe's And how eweet and approachable if there ain't no wire? Huh!" other's chewing gum. "innerds" shamelessly. she was! , "I do wish. Henry, that you would So you can see, dear reader, that But they had their trouble for their Those who had nonchalantly passed go home now. You are far past the the new schoolma'am of Blue Sage pains. He unsaddled and turned the through the Blue Sage Flat and turnoff," she told him gently, but Flat was 19, that, ehe was a product pony into the corral, grinning with "knew her well" presented themselves Henry persisted. He hung behind of normal, that she was far very assumed good nature. with bows and scrapes, to be accepted mumbling at intervals about "no far away from her native heath on "What folks don't know won't hurt one and all for a waltz or one-step, wire'; and "numbskulls." this forsaken flat, and that this was 'em." he said, "an' this bunch's pretty The girl found herself swamped with ' The teacher was busily thinking of . the first day of the first term of her 8n fired healthy." partners. The Lazy X was large and her monthly examinations and almost first school. . Babe Cutler rode Ho more toward prominent on the list there almost forgot him. She was recalled vio- Therefore It la to be hoped you will the Blue Sago Flat, and he paid his to a man. lehtly by the boy's shrill squeak, excuse her when I tell you that the Det to Cuff and Sid Carroll with a "Great Scott. Babe. If you don't " ain't It?" last straggler the fat, square, bland- pensive readiness that did not escape hurry," warned Sid, "you won't get a " 'Isn't,' Henry, not faced Dlnklemelr In Its hood ana the Argus eyes of those worthies and chance before morning!" heavy stockings, though the time which roused in them a desire to "Why," drawled Babe coolly, "I was only Indian summer had hardly know its reason. don't know's I care a whole'lot." disappeared down over the slope into But lf Babe had ill luck in his the fringe of sycamores about the initial attempt to meet the school prairie stream that hedged the Flat ma'am, 'there were others who were when she laid her head down on her m0re fortunate. Sid, for instance. 'ain't.' Isn't what?" "Cowboy from Lazy X. Babe. 'At's Babe, sure's shootin'! Nvhafe "Eh? Say, wise boy, you losin your he comin" this way for? mind? Ain't no one died an' left yuh The schoolma'am blushed furiously, a legacy, have they?" She could have shaken the child. Lit- But Babe was already bowing elab- tie pest! Anger rose in her like a. tinpainted, ancient desk and cried. who came home one day a week later crately before a bunch of blushes and tide. She glanced ahead down the It was a pretty head, covered with grinning fatuously and full of the pink ribbons and didn't seem to hear, magic vista of leafy floor beneath the thick brown hair that had. Just schoolma'am's praises. This was a great dance. Lights and trees and beheld a common little enough curl in it to make It stand up "Gray eyes," he stated positively, lanterns glowed in rivalry to the range horse, caparisoned in saddle and fluff, and there was a pinky "gray for sure gray as smoke. An' 'youthful faces the spaces of the and rider. white neck below tne nuir. xnere hair! Say, mamma! It's brown an' were the tips of pink ears showing, curiy an- thick as Silver's mane!" too, for this schoolma'am did not be- . "Look here," interrupted Charlie lieve in Aiding those necessary adorn- Spikes, "why will yuh compare a lady ments entirely. Neither were her to that flea-bitten skate of vours?" raftered roof gave back the "shuff However, this was Pronto, good as shuff" of the gliding feet, and young gold and favorably spoken of wher hearts beat high. ever cow horses were mentioned here- "Dearie," beamed Mrs. Tom, "you've abouts, and he carried his dearly be got th" whole bunch locoed! How loved master gayly forward at a sensible dark skirts quite so short as t another time such referen to many times has Sid Carroll ast vou?" canter. They did make a gallant those she had seen back at home, nor silver, slim, willing, tough, and pretty "Five," said the schoolma'am, mod- picture had any cared to look for beauty in them, for Babe was lean and graceful and his blue shirt set off his dark eyes and the hair that shone black beneath the tipped som brero's rim. Nobody was looking, -however. They stopped respectfully and the hat came off. "Howdy, Miss Ransome," smiled her neat blouse quite so low at tne enough for any cowman to straddle, estly. "He dances well.' neck as those one met every day on would have brought instant fight out "An' Babe Cutler?" the streets of the towns. 0f his master. Now, however, Sid "I don't know." Score one more for the new teacher. waa too ful of his subject and passed Now, she knew well tnat the tallest. But now she had reached the jump- the insult over. straightest. handsomest boy in the fng off place of her courage and en- "An' th' little neck under th' hair house the one with the blackest durance, right now, at the first set- is white, like a candle when it comes eyes and hair,- the most indefatigable away of her race in the new life! It out uh th' box " dancer was Babe Cutler. Sid had had been coming all the nightmare "Tuh make me tired!" eaid Babe seen to that and that he did not ask week she had been at Tom Atkins" disgustedly. "There's a shade of pink her for a single step. She knew also Eabe as if there had never been house across the stream and down a in her skin." that he had looked down the aisle of thought of coldness between them, mile. It had been started when she A great and sudden silence fell on the Bie Sage schoolhouse once to "How do you do, Mr. er what did left her mother and all her friends ln the group. They regarded the speak- behold her ln ignoble tears. There they say your name was?" asked the little Kansas town so fair so er gravely. Sid put both hands on had been, on sober second thought, Mlss Ransome innocently. "I think frightfully far away. bis hips, and leaned forward. 1 nothing criminal in that. Any one 1 met you' didn't 17 s many, you True, Mrs. Tom was kind and sym- -is that so?" he inquired drawl- might ride by the Flat in fact, how know excuse me." . pathetic not without a certain tact, ingly. "An' where, and when, Lo- . many of these youngsters hadn't? But "See here, Miss Ransome." he said and the mile and a half walk through thario, did you find that out? I there was in her consciousness an frankly, "you're so sweet an' friendly the tall trees that spread along the thought you'd never met her?" uncomfortable sense of shame for her with everybody else. Why won't you stream was more than delightful. "Paid that bet pretty prompt, too, own hot words, and that was suffl- be friends w'th me?" True, also. Blue Sage Flat paid the didn't he?" soma one else wanted to cient to make her hold her hnart There was open and boyish yearn- know. "Seemed indifferent, sort of." trifle higher when, she passed him on ing in Babe's voice. Babe snapped the ash from hit the floor, to give her an added air of The schoolma'am, beingS and fem- cigarette and walked away, but the superiority toward him. inine, caught the note and In sp'te princely salary of $120 a month tor a teacher from "back east." These were assets. But the awful hunger of loneliness and the faces of the eleven back of his neck was red. Every one As far as Babe was concerned, there of herself thrilled to It. .That thrill wnom sne xearea utterly were Ha- of the bunch behind him saw it. Eaoh might have been no new girl ln the made her more angry with herself. ouiues tnat appalled her, . one iaid it up as suspicious evidence country. He Just didn't see her, so to "Friends," she eaid with dign'ty, So she clinched her hands on the of something untoward and dlscom- speak. But you can bet his com- "re people one Can trust," though desk's edge and, cried as she had fort, if possible, of their mate. . rades did, and took in all the signs. how the remark applied to the situa- longed to cry all that long week, with And in the meantime Miss Esther "There's somethin' happened," Cuff tion she did not specify, wailing sobs that cut the silence un- Ransome had, metaphorically, shaken told a couple of the Lazy X boys in "You could trust me," swore Babe ashamed. her sym shoulders and gathered up whispered confab when the night was eagerly. If somewhat diffidently; "if She was occupied completely and the reins of her new life as if that half over. ."Never saw his nibs so you want some one to trust, why, I'm did not hear the soft thud of a horse's first terrible panic had never been, plumb cold storaged in my life. Can't a ehinia' mark in that line. Cuff an' hoofs on the untrodden earth without, she was built of good stuff and had tell me he ain't seen her before." And Sid, why, wfen they want some one so that the rider who approached soon rallied her spiritual resources, they went in solemn file to Mnd him. to trust really trust they come to came abreast of the open door with she was already fitted into Mrs. "Babe," said Sid, "we're wise. You're me. On secrets I'm a Maxim sl an unobstructed view up th"e mean Tom's modest household as one of cared to ask her for a dance. Bet lencer " little aisle between the desks to that the family, and the beautiful walk you Silver against your Pronto you "I have no secrets," said Miss Kan young brown head. through the trees along the stream don't dare." some coldly.' The rider, too, was young, and he had cast, Its spell upon her. She had Now, what healthy male of 24 ever "No," hastened Babe, "of course had a cocksure face, ready to laugh conquered .the youngest Binkelmeir took anything like that? not. No really nice girl has " at a moment's notice. Also he had a positively, had coldly Informed the Babe flushed .and scowled. "Ah!" the gray eyes widened and bet with two others of his ilk to meet Crawford boy of his colossal igno "If you're so all-fired smart," he shone balefully. "And yet you sug the schoolma'am first. He was alert ranee in regard to the antiquated said. Introduce me." gest them to me?" and a trifle overconfident as he rode value of letters as compared to There was a crowd about Miss Ran- The cowboy groaned. Could you in across the sage, for he knew good sounds, and had battered down their some, as usual, but It fell apart for beat It? Wasn't he the poor fish, and well that he had a- way with wall of opposition like a soldier. ' the boys from the Lazy X and when proper, always bungfing! women; but that first glance into the Therefore she was cool and collected the girl looked up she met the same "I beg your pardon," he eaid, stiffly, house sobered him completely. and was already feeling herself mis- dark eyes she had seen before, though "I didn't mean " He drew rein and leaned sidewise tress of her destiny. they were as distant as moon "Good night," said the sohoolma'am, in his saddle, and his merry, dark she had also relegated the bucket For one heady moment she meant and lf there was the slightest possible eyes became distressedly grave. This from the back stoop "to a shelf and to refuse his stiff Invitation. Then Inflection on the second word she was was a pretty how-de-do. He had instituted a system of Individual her good sense triumphed, and when innocent of intentional slang, heard all about Miss Ransome. All drinking cups by means of some thick the music struck up Babe found him- r As she stepped out to' pass the little cow lads thereabouts ha. He knew paper, scissors, and a bit of glue, self drifting out with the little figure horse and the tall boy standing bare she had brown hair, that her eyes sitting up half a night at Mrs. Tom's in his arms,- its silken feel a new In- headed beside it there was a patter were not blue but gray, that she had to accomplish that end. She was toxicant. Babe made some rambling of feet in the dry leaves and a deris worn a brown tailored suit with low feeling that virtuous self-satisfaction remark, but her reply was go cool ive voice behind. shoes and silk stockings, all topped that comes with all uplift movements that he d'd not repeat the effort, and "Yah!" It Jeered. "Babe Cutler an' off by a saucy brown hat turned back when we are the uplifters. . they danced out. the number in a teacher! .Teacher an" Babe! Babe's from her face and lined with brown Those 'thus elevated don't aeem to strained silence. stuck on teaeher! Yah!" stitched pinlc Eet the same effect "What on earth's th' matter 'with Miss Ransome turned furiously. He knew she was a pippin and a At any rate she was that most de- Babe Cutler?" Mrs. Tom wanted to "Henry," she called Jn cold anger, peach and that Mrs. Tom had told lectable product of the whole world, know as the- rode home In the chilly "if you don't go straight home I shall Slim Acres that she was fond of a young girl just beginning a life dawn. "He only ast you once an' punish you tomorrow, very severely!" dancing and that she could play the work, for the first time self-support- him th' greatest lady's man in all th' "Gosh darn my luck!" said Babe piano and sing all the latest songs. ing, interested in her particular country.'" savagely as he swung back on Pronto So you can see it was somewhat of sphere, and the only one of her pe- But the schoolma'am was half and left that place on a run. "What a poser to be handed a wallop like the eultar kind within a radius of many asleep and did not answer. do I want to hang around for, any- spectacle before him of tears and man-infested miles. She was not so, far gone ln dreamy way?" honest to goodness sobs. It was odd how many male riders slumber, however, that she could not But that was more than he could. But It Is to the credit of the new- found it imperative to seek straying catch Mrs. Tom't guileless meaning answer. 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