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SHORT

STORY

A Letter to a Gentleman

BY

SAMUEL MERWIN.

(Concludal from Saturday.)

II.

halted the mules and approached the cart.

"You could walk in those," By the early morning light ho said, with some hesitation. Jimmy chartered a covered rond-"They're the smallest I could He produced a pair of sart; and built-up a little bulwark get of food-boxes and bales of cloth- Chinoso shoes-man's shoes. And ing and badding around the side he added, "I thought perhaps and roar of it, leaving just room you could tie then on, someway" for a single person to lean back comfortably against bistravelling pillow. This was for protection Icom stray missiles, in the event of difficulty with village moba on the way. Long before seven o'clock, and while the morning mist was still fresh on the air, they were off.

Misa Williams had seemed a bit dazed at first. She had even looked crossly at Jimmy when he reused her and sent John in with har breakfast. That was natural, he thought You real lady is not accustomed to being rudely awakened at an ungodly hour by a rough and dusty man. But when he helped her into the cart, with a sense of their danger con- voyed as reassuringly as he could

manage it, and she bousme cons- cious of an unusual and pleasing sense of being under the protect ing care of a respectful but vigorous young man, she gave Jimmy such a bright little nod and smile that he found it acces sary to turn away and shout roughly at John in the hearing of the aullen muleteers, thereby causing John to loso face to distressing degres.

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kopt away, sending John in with ter dinner and burying himself, would shout insolently at this side of the inn compound. She Occasionally a Mongol driver in one of the little cells at the white woman who walked ham-even had to poke out one of the bly in the dust and she would paper squares that walled in her shrink close to the cart-eo close room in order to call a low-voiced that once one of the maleteers good night to him. seized her arm to save her from the wheel. After what seemed to be a very long time, when her "And you've had no sleep for spirit had begun to droop a little nearly two days. Suppose we and her step had begun to flag, should get into trouble, and you she stopped the little cavolede should be to tired to help mo--' and peered wistfully in at the

"Nothing like that," ho broke in,

with an unconscious swagger. guess you needn't worry about

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"Yes, really."

Ele reached out as if to take her elbow, but a confusion of im- pulses left his hand poised in air. "Please don't stand there," ho said. You right get hurt." All day the three malos, one "I'm going to stand here until abead and two at the wheel, you get into the cart," she replied; shuffled along through the pow-and her lips drew together in a dary Icess. All day the spring straight line. less, seatless cart croaked and rumbled toward the cast. Now they were deep in a sunken road twenty, thirty, fifty feet below the level of the fields. Now they were oreaking along a reach of opon country, where were beggars peering out from foul caves in the loose. Now they were deep in a range of hills, skirting precipices of closely packed earth from which they could look down hundreds of feet into toy communities. Excepting a checkerboard, here and there, of little grain-fields, or an occasional cluster of trees about some conspicuous tomb, every thing-earth, hills, houses we a dingy gray-brown. And over sil ebimmered and wavered a late spring heat that grow steadily' oppressive ne the day more advanced.

Jimmy walked a good deal of the way. But now and then, when he saw that she was dozing, or sleeping outright, he seated himself on the front of the cart and restod there, with his fest dangling near the hoofs of one of

the wheel mules.

At noon they had luncheon, and rested an hour, at a crambling little caravansary, and then push- ed on. Again Miss Williams slept, this time quite peacefully.

Batatabout three o'clock, while he sat drowsily there on the front of the cart, leaning back against a box, he was aroused by a touch

en his arm,

"Oh," he cried, "excuse me!" And, nimbly, avoiding the wheel, he leaped to the road.

"Don't go," she called, lesning forward under the arch of matting. Please come back. You're tired. You rode all night, you know."

"Please don't mind me," he said awkwardly. I oughta't to have. I guess I got a little Bleopy,"

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that."

But she divined that he was weakening.

right around here?" she asked.

"Is there any special dangor

Not likely. It's in the big

And he nosivered" grully from the door of his cell (she could see him through the holo in the

"Good night." paper):

IIL Shauting was estir.

man who had so unexpectedly As the sun slid down behind and so generously assumed rethe western hillshoy were not sponsibility for her life. He lay gray-brown hills now, but a fer- sprawled among the boxes, one raced, castellated cloudland float arm thrown back, his cheek pilling in a sea of misty purple dust owed on it, his deep chest rising as the mule belle of the latest breathing. and falling rhythmically with his aniving caravan tinkled at the

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She decided not to disturb him. ger villages and towns that the Instead, she climbed to the front trouble usually comes, where of the cart, making a place for crowds can get together. The herself beside his fect; and for row, so far, has been at the rail-time she managed to sit erect, head at Shouting."

though weary after her tramp and

ian gate as the tea-kettle loco- motive, after its day's work, puff- and breathed its last beside

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the half-finished little station of

gray stone as the native carpen

tere descended from the skeleton structure of the new Warehouse

All right then." She step- exhausted with the heat. Finally by the track then, when there ped forward, with a smile. "You she, too sank into slumber, lying may not be able to rest later. aoroas his knees with her feet It's your duty to get what sleep drawn up under her skirts. you can now. Please for my So they found themselves when sake." And she rosted a hand on the cart halted for the night in

She made a whimsical little moue at him Perhaps you won't believe me, Mr. William Hondrickson, if tell you that I'd really like to change places with you. You really can't imagine how stiff one's joints get, in here all day."

He glanced doubtfully at here high-heeled shoes.

his arm.

It did look inviting in there under the arched matting.

"Well he desitated. "You'll stay right here by me, won't you?

I know" she said. They're good for walking. I almost ded in them yesterday when I vas bringing Sing in. Poor old Eng!!

She nodded brightly.

"And you'll wake me if any thing happens the first thing? And you won't let me sleep long?"

She looked soberly at him for a moment; then her mouth twitched and her eyes danced and, she laughed a clear laugh, more girlish than even Jimmy would have expected from that oddly mature, if still young and beautiful, face. Before he realiz. ed it, he was laughing too. For

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