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Updated: June 7, 2025
This was a beginning for all manner of fears. Dallas fought her own. But she could not conquer them. For they enlarged enormously, and changed to a premonition that ran riot. Listening and watching, she had suffered the previous night. Yet that suffering was nothing compared to the agony that stole into her heart and held it till she forgot Marylyn's presence.
"I know it's all right; it's got to be." She came part way to him, and stood where morning-glory vines climbed a lattice. "Marylyn's just been telling me," she answered. She raised her head, very intent upon the flagstaff. The light through the vines touched the outline of her face a firm outline, cut by a flying wisp of hair. "Dear?" he questioned. She glanced down at him, smiling through tears.
Her eyes beseeched him. He glanced at her. "It's worth a lot to know you feel that way," he said slowly. "But I'm afraid I can't do what you want. It's your safety that counts with me." Marylyn's face had been hidden, to shut out the dread sight of Matthews. Now she lifted it. She said nothing.
You can go to Bismarck, you know, or East, or anywhere." "I'd rather stay." "We'll stay right over there. Then, when the town comes, and it gets too populous if you like, and if Marylyn's not at this post we'll go farther up, to open country again." "We'll take your share of the Clark herd," she said. "I've got a fine little saddle-mare for you," he said.
And Dallas stayed with him, Marylyn's sleepy head pillowed in her lap. The elder girl felt strangely drawn to him. He returned the interest he inspired. Like Lounsbury, he marked the unusual character of this woman of the far frontier.
During the first few days that followed, Marylyn's heart beat pendulum-like between grief and dread. It was grief when, in a moment of forgetfulness, she found that she had set the table for three; or when, missing her father sorely for in the past year he had been much with her she spoke of him to Dallas.
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