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Bem er reed rari Sr Bee Sets. Seer cnt i = Ase = as oe re 3 Fert = ~ 4 | : : s 130, . Adventure sight. This read— After a bit, she got sleepy, and selected “Baby found at this spot.” A stick, one end pointed, the other notched and laid in the trail clearly stated: “Finder gone this direction. Follow the arrow!” A shred torn from her own dress and tied about the impromptu arrow would inform any distracted searchers that the “Finder is a woman,” thereby relieving any mother with two grains of common sense of need- less worry, and giving assurance that the little midget was safe and*in good hands, in A-1 condition. Her advertisement written, Inez started homeward, serenely content. with herself and the day’ s events. Reaching the jacal she opened a can of milk and set about the first duty of the desert-dweller te a guest—that of filling said guest’s aching void, pronto! GEORGE TWO-DEERS, with his i wife, his wife’s sister, Chaska, and = his tiny daughter, little Star-gleam, were on an auto tour in that part of the desert country. George was twenty-two years of age, his wife nineteen, and Chaska was fifteen. The Star-gleam was going on three. George and his wife were both products of the Indian school in California. Now he _ was “land-looking,” actuated by that uni- versal craving for a home of his own, which is a fixed obsession with all married folks, regardless of race, age or color. They were camped at a water-hole over a mile from the trail where Inez found the baby. Something had gone “funny-ways” with the flivver, and Mr. and Mrs.. Two-Deers were remarkably busy. Chaska took the little imp and went for a@ stroll. When she was within a couple of hundred yards of the private trail old Inez had worn in her pilgrimages to and from the trading- store the young Star-gleam had snatched at her string of beads. Naturally, the string broke. __. Chaska hurriedly set the baby down and » crawled about salvaging the wreckage. Having recovered the most of them, she eunencet re-stringing her-precious neck- e. That done—she fell asleep! _ Star-gleam became afflicted with “ pile er’s itch” and started. Tarn atte ‘ the middle of. a trail as her temporary boudoir. And old Inez annexed a baby! Later, when “dad,” “maw,” and “auntie” bulged in onthe scene, Inez realized that she had four fast friends. Star-gleam was the fastest! She swore by old Inez and promptly swore in her baby-prattle—at least, the sounds she emitted couldn’t be interpreted as anything else—at se one attempting to pry her loose! The upshot was that the Two-Deers out- fit moved-camp and took up temporary ~ residence about a hundred yards from the jacal of Inez. Within a week, George had found just what he was looking for. Any white man would have passed the place up in disgust. Not so Mr. Two-Deers. ~To his en- glamored sight the arid, barren stretch of earth which had taken his eye represented an embryonic paradise. Wherefore, he stepped on the gas and blew in to interview Kyle, the agent. Stopping in front of Brunson’s trading- store, he left his car and hurried across the street to the agency. Kyle, after the manner of Indian agents, was anything but cordial. stamp all too frequently transpose the word “authority” into “Autocracy.” And then people- wonder why the agent and the reservation Indians are in a state of perpetual, if thinly-veiled hostility toward each other! But if Kyle was brusk and overbearing, George was patient and persistent. Inwardly, Kyle cursed all education—. when applied to ‘The Wards of the Na- tion.” It gave them too clear an gs into their rights and—wgongs. ‘The interview terminated in Kyle giving his promise to run out in his car to the jacal of Inez, meet George there, and look over the desired location. And, for a wonder, he did, in less .than a week after George made application for an allotment. 3 Kyle had his short-comings as well as his long-goings. A pretty face—of the other sex—and he immediately qualified for the office of target for the “fool-killer.”’ ‘His first sight of Chaska took his-breath. She was a howling little beauty for a fact. (e(0) 0\(0)(6) ebooks AA) com Men of his