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back to New York to be married.”
THEY had lived a quarter of a cen-
"Married!" Doug stared. He felt a tury without knowing that the other existed, and now each had chosen ringing in his ears. He felt as though this isolated dude ranch in northern something more terrible than anything Wyoming to spend a summer vacation. he could ever imagine was happening. Her name was Doris Bursle and she "Married?" he repeated stupidly.
Her laughter was silvery, was brunette and blue-eyed and had a deep, husky voice. She loved horses married. You know, when two people and there was a quality of feeling in stand before a minister and take vows.
That sort of thing." her that went deep.
"But-but- "Then he stopped.
Yes,
. His name was Doug Stackpole and he was tall and blond and soft-spoken. But what? Why shouldn't she get He too loved horses and quiet places married? Was it so unusual, that a beautiful girl like Doris should have a in the mountains.
There was a gay crowd at the Wel- fiance waiting for her back home? Who come U that summer and Doug and was he to ask questions?
It He lay awake till dawn. He heard Doris joined in the fun-making.
He wasn't until one day three weeks after the ranch car being backed out. He their arrival that he found her sitting heard Doris' subdued good-byes.
She
her black horse on a hird promontory heard the car being driven away. Then which overlooked the valley. He had suddenly he say up in bed. She was come here seeking solitude. He would gone. Gone out of his life forever. It have gone quickly away with only the wasn't right. It wasn't fair. briefest of greetings, except that he knew he loved her. She had encour noticed something in her expression, aged him. Turning him down like this something that was akin to the way was wrong.
he felt, and for the first time he sen- Suddenly he was determined that he aed vaguely the depth of feeling which wouldn't be deprived of the right to tell her how he felt. He was going to she possessed.
So he lingered and presently they speak his piece, no matter what. Let their her laugh, if she. wanted, but in the both dismounted and sat with
By Richard Hill Wilkinson
backs to a boulder, the warm sun on years to come he knew he'd never re-
and then gret what he planned to do. their faces. They talked
There was another car in the gar- were silent, watching the shadows grow long in the valley beneath, and each age, a roadster that belonged to Helen
*--- The ̈ ̈* Simms, one of Doris' friends. was. curiously content.
After that they were together a keys were in the ignition. Doug got great deal, riding off alone, cooking in and tread on the starter. He heard their meals out of doors, watching the train whistle far up in. the hills sunsets and sunrises. Talking some when he came in sight of the station. times, more often silent. When they Doris was sitting on a trunk on the talked it was about books, and the tiny platform.. meaning of life and the grandeur of
nature.
a
Doug's eyes were a little wild, and The thing that happened was in- he hadn't shaved. His voice had evitable, Doug knew that it was hap- high pitch to it.
gfully dumbl”.
me
the "Look!" He grabbed her by the pening long before he allowed
and shoulders. "You can't get away with thought to take definite form when, toward the end of the summer, this, see?. Not without hearing he faced the fact and knew there was first. I love you! Oh, don't laugh and act surprised. If you do you're aw- no longer, use of denying "his love, a terror possessed him.
Doris From things he had overheard, from "Why, for goodness' sake!”
"Look! There's a minister wait- things he had sensed and finally from said. direct questioning of some of Doris' ing for the train. Would you like to friends he learned that Charles Bur- sley, her father, was worth ten million get married here and now, Doug? I
have the license.”. dollars and that she, his only child, Doug was in no condition to argue. would some day inherit it all.
But pretty soon he knew he was Out here in Wyoming this fact of married man, and they were driving her wealth made no difference. He back toward the ranch in Helen's car, could think of her and treat her as an and Doris was saying: "Wasn't-Helen equal. But he was no fool. His own sweet to leave her keys in the car? financial resources totalled $100, plus And wasn't it sweet of her to tell me his railroad' ticket back to the small
about all the questions you asked so I New England town where he taught could figure things out and arrange sociology in a tiny college. Coming everything? I'll bet you wouldn't have here to Wyoming was the result
of
years of dreaming and saving and hard married me otherwise, darling."
Doug was still in no mood for argu work.
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No Dong was a bright young man ing, A man with $100 In his pocket and he knew that once they were back for a honeymoon and a new, bride home it would be a great deal different. doesn't feel very Yargumentative. Things that were possible here, could
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never be possible there, and that was papers, Inc.) why Doug was afraid, Afraid because the knew that in two weeks it was all going to end and he wondered whether he had the will power, the strength of character to allow it to end, remember
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