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But the oddest thing to Kate was that wherever a particle could lodge, the whole stage was covered with a ghostly, grayish-white dust. While the loading went on, Sawdy arrived with the second passenger, Belle Shockley. She had, fortunately for Kate's apprehensions, not changed her mind. Belle herself was something of an added shock.
And so they would in regard to any locality; but it should be remembered that President Wilder advises for the latitude of Massachusetts, Messrs. Fuller and Carmen for that of New Jersey. I will give now the selection of the eminent horticulturist Mr. Morceau. Apples Early Harvest, Red June, Carter's Blue, Stevenson's Winter, Shockley, Buncombe, Carolina Greening."
Sawdy volunteered to save time by fetching Belle Shockley from the hotel, and while McAlpin and Lefever inspected and discussed the horses for the condition of which McAlpin, as foreman of Kitchen's barn, was responsible Kate stood, listener and onlooker. Everything was new and interesting. Four horses champed impatiently under the arc-light swinging in the street, and looked quite fit.
Down the trail they stopped in darkness and Bradley again clambered down from his box with the lantern to investigate. "'Z fur 'z I c'n see," he reported when he came back, "th' bridge is all right, but mos'ly under water." "Can we get across?" Belle Shockley asked querulously. Bradley answered with hesitation: "Why yes " "Oh, good!" "And no." "What does that mean?" snapped Belle.
But the street heard that Van Horn and Doubleday had had a quarrel at breakfast and that Doubleday in a rage had turned the prisoners over to the sheriff and asked to be released from his bail bond. No news more exciting could have reached Belle Shockley. She heard the story up street and ran halfway home to tell Kate, who remained in seclusion.
Over the fireplace in the reception room is a panel in relief, "The Progress of Wisconsin." The building is used a headquarters for Wisconsin visitors. The Iowa Building, Clinton P. Shockley, of Waterloo, IA., architect, is a classic structure, finished, like most of the state buildings, in the Exposition travertine.
But the suspicious, because they did not quite understand such a move, harbored their suspicions, and among the doubting was Belle Shockley shrewd and very much alive to the drift of things since her struggle with a cyclone. Had Belle, instead of Kate, been out at the ranch, things now coming along that Kate failed to see, would have told volumes to her.
Loyalty to her own and the intense partizanship of her nature, combined to urge her to sympathize with the fight of the range owners against the Falling Wall men. But in this attitude, Belle Shockley was a trial to Kate. Belle would not drag in the subject of the fight but she never avoided it; and Kate, even against her inclination, seemed impelled to speak of the subject with Belle.
"Belle Shockley for the Reservation," answered McAlpin, promptly, "if she ain't changed her mind, it bein' so late." Sawdy put a brusque end to this uncertainty: "She's down there at the Mountain House waitin' seen her myself not ten minutes ago." Scurrying away, McAlpin came back in a jiffy with the driver, Bradley.
Lefever went his way. From a shelf near where Kate, with clasped hands, sat in silence Belle took paper and ink in to Laramie and began to clear the table. At this unlucky moment the front door was opened swiftly and a boy from the butcher shop stuck his head inside. "Miss Shockley," he called, "the milkman is on the 'phone now, if you want him." Closing the door he ran back across the street.
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