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' ' of outline. i.. 4 _ _ lhného “$1 l.ul.\.1 Josmsorl. * ..... _ ..._ ooonislloo, fill. ltr the aueetme il!!! camo to .the doorway at the sod house and looked .wiettully across nie news. _ru to the southeast s uint plums ot Qnoke showed a blt ot_ rolling ground..-ans. presently she .was 'able to diem a toy train making its progress _toward the _west 1 Three puns of white stsaln,lPl‘ln¢ from in bent ot the cab. and presently there were home to her eal' three fsintblasin of the whistle in lt proportion to the absurdly diminu- tive appearance ot the locomotive. She slipped the big' white apron from Ier trim.waiot and waved it above ber Seed. Then a single short blast ot the :whistle announced that hor signal had - Presently tife train vanished into an- other cut in the rolling prairie, but 1 Myra did not return to her work. She I remained leaning against the rough hewn doorpost, looking out across the dreary waste of land. .When summer came and th! _waving gentle untiulatioe, Myra liked to pre- tend that it was an ocean across which her ship would presently come sailing to its haven of good hope. Dimly against the southern' horizon I line of purple against the blue of the sky ` marked the commencement of the loot- as far as the eye could see there _was only the telling prairie. Myra hated the low, lat surface even in the summer, .when the ocean of grain concealed its nakedness and gave the suggestion of s' mystic ocean, and in the early spring _with its broken surface and the brown grass of the fallow ilelds, her soul revolted at the .very sight of the ground. Yet-now she leaned against the doorpost and looked across the brown earth to _where she kaevii the single line ot the railroad 1 [|n‘ _ _ In the long summer ilaye she had two lialis tram' Jim' Purdy, for then ` it was still light enough when he came past anis to wave a' signal and to re- tzive &e answering toot that was to be heard only _whes the wind yvas trom the south. 'A11 other times only the pull! of steam from the _whistle told ot the signal. _ ' These _wero`sbout fiis only _'visits Ii Myra received. Robert Sackett was a close grained, sell! contained egotist, and young men were not made wel-_ follo at the adteti quarter section. Pluliy had come in spits_ot the surly lézoaption he had received from the fa- er ot the girl he loved. There had been long calls on pleasant summer nights and plans for .what they would do _when Jim should have completed his probation as engineer and should he given a regular run. Myra had promised to marry him when all this should come to pass. 1 _.They would live at the end of the division, where they _was s town of 10,000 inhabitants and _where the dreary monotony of the plains _war broken by the close proximity of the 1 mountains. Yet _when Jim had come to claim her hand, aglow with joy over his promotion, site had drawn back. . "I-cc.n’t leave dad,"fahe explained simply. "Mother told me to take care ot him, and I promised her that I _.wouid. Promises to the deed ¢an’t be broken, Jim." _‘ “But she didn‘t mean that you must spend your whole life and give up lyour own happiness just to make Mr. Beckett comfortable," the man denied. “Bite didn't mean that, Myra. She __in__§__w_ay. Your ps would be just as .well ssltiiiléifwith a hired c6oli;"'“_""' 1 Myra shook her head in negation even while she knew. that what Jim said was true. -In the summer when the crops _were in there were halt a ndosen men to cook for, and from morn- . ing until late in the night she toiled in 1 the,bot kitchen. ,In the winter Ssckett *spent much of his time-in the nearest _town, some eigbtem miles away, leav- ing Myra alone in the homestead. ' It was of these things she thought as she looked out across the billows of 1junlovely earth and wondered if per- haps ths sacrince was not in vain. It ».was much as Jim had said-Robert 1 Sacketi: would he as happy and as ‘comfortable under the ministratiens of a hired housewife. Day after day she had stood lu the doorway after Jim’s train had passed, wondering it perhaps she had not made more than the sacrifice that her mother had demanded and' seeking some sign by which sho might be _ guided. No sign camo, however, and 1 thcro _was only the gary prospect ef se unenotng'ro1ma= ‘ai-ocrory. 'wits no compensating _words of thanks and I alection. ` Her hands clinched as sho Wt ot the last two years. those y in which she might hare been Put-dy’s wife, when shemight have exchanged the dreary round of the quarter nee tion fora ,ceey_.homo in s`. town where the Rockies towered above them and sl! was not nat and deadly- monotonous She Hlldtood iiiereas the familiar team a cited to the heavy farm wag- on crept over the edge of the nearest 1 __,....1_ 1 ".1, aging W srlin covered with ill velvet lille the | onu helping or pie. but ue eta not punt. Y M115 but t0 th' H0113, salt and west _ should he left alone so much with no ~°“" "‘°"“ 7°" "°’° *° ‘°°k "t" mm Bass, Smells sndEe|s,specialiie _l 1, _ __ Sf? tors addruoed r11ly'a gamiiia; “It was into when I got through last night," he said sheepishly as he te- moved with care n demtiohn from the _wagon box and took it into the barn. Myra nodded underatandingly. It al- ways was late when her father con- cluded his simple business errands, too late to make it worth while to get back to the homestead that night. He salved his conscience with this time worn ilction and spent a roisterous night at the Eagle hotel. he left him to put up the tired bones, while she hurried into the house to read her letters and prepare dinner. ` Her soul stirred at the thought of the drudgery before her young lite for the sake ot' a man who left her alone in the sod house while he spent the night dissipating in town. Jim’a pleadings _ the letters into her workbox she prayed ` for n sign for her guidance. ' - ‘ When Sackett came in dinner was smoking on the table, and he pulled 11 The meal was enllvened by no gossip of the town. Sackett ate in stony al- lence, now and theu_ regarding his daughter from beneath his bushy eye- brows. Myra‘s hands clinched under the tablecloth as she noted the sign. It was a certain indication that lie had to confess some indlscretion which he knew he could not conceal from her. The last time it had been the loss of ‘ 1 the market money in an edort to beat a card sharper at three card monte. 1 Sackeit carefully finished oil! a sec- back his chair as a sign that he was through. The wrinkled cheeks red- ` timed under the tan, and his eyes grew smell and cunning. "I got to go to town again tomor- row," he announced. “I met the Wid- ow Lusk. and she says si1e’l\ marry me. She don‘t think it right that you mother to look after you." “Are you marrying the widow os my account?" asked Myra coldly. 3 | “The widow is a noe woman," de- i clared Sacilett, n twinkle of apprecia- ‘ tion in his heady eyes. “Ot course 1‘ll admit that I kinder like her, but site’s right when she nays you’re left too 'much alone. 1’il drive in tomorrow and bring her out." "l’ll go in with' yon," announced Myra as she gathered up the plates be- fore her and ross from the table. “I was praying for a sign, but I didn'l think that the _Widow Lusk would be the sign." “Sign for what?" asked Beckett cur!- ottsly. ~ 1 “A sign that it would be right for ms 1 to marry Jim." explained Myra. "Ho wrote the other day that any time I de- cided to say ‘yes‘ I only had to build two boniires where-he could see them and be in town the next night when he outbound overland over the now so he'll be expecting me tomor- | row." " That night the passengers ou' the eastbound overland sprang from their ` seats in alarm as tbe_whlstle shrieked demoniscally, and then they braced 'fthemselves for the shock of the colli- sion which nevér came. They could _not know that the young engineer had received a sign from Myra and that he knew that her slavery was at an end. y New York _Fish Ads Consignments Plolicl Prompt. Reb 'I ` I 1 (l»1corporntcd.l l07 Fulton Market New York Wholesale Commission Fish Dealers. FISH ed. Slen oils sent on appiicaiion. _ lS.B.W|LEY it SUNS. Iosios, Mase.. transfer Agents ‘ References. Greenwich Bank, Tntsi America, or any wholesale Fish house lhe United etes. z8drm8m. ' _ ?= Smelti, Eels and Quahaugs, Guarantees good prices and prompt returns. |43 Fulton Market, N, Y, 4 ll-ltldmwfrmltwptl. ' 0l1e11el1r11 Brothers Wholesale Commission Deal- _ers and Shippers, _ F‘EE§§_ .1._1§1§“ were hard to resist, and as she tucked 1 D ml chan. 'nh F grunt of satisfaction' L h & w 0 Tofishcrrnt-n Fish llealcrw'-~KiE]l}Tfd\~o* pulled the e division. I'm going out toil! the tires ` ,'.:. 1 r _ ' .-.1 ' -- 1 f 1 .. '~ ' 1 - .1 .1;,.',g,,' m- - - ‘ »'1t-Fo-:-. ,vi - ' 1 4 0 ' r " ' ' ' 'f ‘, -.._'»‘»f‘~‘~;4_B°.1 .» , I|»"“‘ :1.~.=::~\\..» co"Fi='°é‘é" WHAT H r SAID: “Mother never made such delicious coffee asthis" Wi-i.t'rS11r S/110: “Mother o never used Chase 8! 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