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She made no reply, but passed on to her work, when the irate lady turned to where I was drawing water from a cooler, and asked, in a tone of high displeasure: "Who is that young girl?" "Miss Georgie Willets, of Jersey City," I replied. "And where is she going?" "To Fredericksburg." "By whose authority?" she demanded. "By authority of the Surgeon-General," I replied.
Georgie stood looking from one man to the other in speechless surprise; but I spoke to the man in the chair, saying: "How is it, sir, that you, an officer, in need of nothing, have trespassed upon our time and strength, when you know that men are dying by hundreds for want of care?" He began to apologize and explain, but I said to Georgie: "Come, Miss Willets, we are not needed here."
From the first it became evident that Willets would not be a boom town. It grew slowly and steadily until its fame began to trickle through to the outside world though it was a cattle town in the beginning, and a cattle town it would remain all its days. Therefore, because of its slow growth, there were old buildings in Willets. The frame station had an ancient appearance.
McCray because Willets was the county seat came to the office that had formerly been Moreton's, immediately following his election. He was slender, tall, and unprepossessing, and instantly created a bad impression. This news came to Ruth through her father, for she had not visited town since she had gone there to help Mrs. Lawler care for her son. She felt that she did not dare to leave the cabin.
The winter lethargy had been shaken off and Willets was a throb with life and activity. There was a warm wind blowing, bearing the breath of the new sage; doors were open; many horses were hitched to the rails that fringed the walk in front of saloons and stores; and there was over it all an atmosphere that seemed to be vital, electric.
He'd rather leave his hide on the fence than stay in the corral." "Well, he's all right," replied Senor Buck Johnson, "and if he ever gets back, which same I'm some doubtful of, his dinero'll be here for him." In pursuance of this he rode in to Willets, where shortly the overland train brought him from Tucson the five thousand dollars in double eagles.
Watching her closely, Lawler saw in her the signs of frivolity and vanity that he had failed to see that day when he had met her in Willets. Her attitude now revealed her as plainly as though he had known her all her days. She comprehended none of life's big problems; the relations of men to one another had not compelled her attention; the fine, deep impulses of sympathy had not touched her.
Then he'll hire a special train and run down here to fall on your neck!" McGregor came the next day. And he took Lawler back to the capital with him. Lawler stayed in the capital for a week, and when he returned he went directly to the Circle L. No word came from him, to Willets, during the summer.
"I'm sorry for them" says he. "It must he almighty hard scratchin'." Well, we rode the range for upwards of two year. In that time we saw our Texas friends name of Hahn two or three times in Willets, and heard of them off and on. They bought an old brand of Steve McWilliams for seventy-five dollars, carryin' six or eight head of cows.
Far out upon the clear, moonlit sweep of plain stretching toward Willets, she saw the shadowy figures of two horsemen. Moving swiftly, she went to the corral, caught her pony, saddled it, threw on a bridle, mounted and rode after the two horsemen, urging the pony to its best efforts.
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