COMRADES
Wyoming, to be appreciated, should be explored on horseback and not viewed
from the observation platform of a limited train. Barren stretches of
sagebrush and cactus, and grim, ugly buttes guard too well the secret that
golden wheat-fields lie beyond them; the rugged, far-away mountains never
tell that their canyon-cut sides are clothed with timber and carpeted with
a thousand flowers; and tired, dusty travelers, quite unaware of these
things, find themselves actually longing for Nebraska to break the
monotony!
The half-dozen weary persons who on the afternoon of September 6th sat on
the observation platform of the Puget Sound Limited, together with the
scores who peered from its windows in vain search of something besides
sagebrush, were no exception to the rule. To a man, they were all giving
fervent thanks that Fate had cast their lots in California or New England
or, at the worst, Iowa. The assurances of the brakeman, who was loquacious
beyond his kind, that once past Elk Creek they would strike a better
country brought some much-needed cheerfulness; and Elk Creek itself
afforded such amusement and entertainment that they really began to have a
better impression of Wyoming. Apparently, there were civilized persons
even in so desolate an environment as this!
The sources of their entertainment, for they were several, stood on the
little station platform at Elk Creek. The central figure was a tall,
middle-aged man, whose hands were filled with trunk checks and tickets,
and to whom three very excited girls were saying good-by all at the same
time. Three boys, two in khaki and one in traveling clothes, were shaking
hands heartily; a fresh-faced young woman with marigolds at her waist
stood a little apart from the others and talked earnestly with a tall
young man; and a hatless, brown-haired girl in a riding suit seemed to be
everywhere at once.
"Oh, I can't bear to think it's all over!" the interested travelers heard
her say, as she embraced the three girls in turn. "It's been absolutely
the most perfect six weeks I've ever, ever known. Don't lose your quirt,
Vivian! And don't leave Allan's knife around, Mary. It isn't fair to tempt
even a porter. You'll write from every large place, won't you,
Priscilla?"
In spite of an amused and impatient conductor, the last-named girl turned
back for a last hug. Her hat was askew, her brown hair disheveled, and her
brown eyes full of tears, which were coursing freely down her cheeks.
"Oh, Virginia," she cried, "you're the biggest peach I ever knew!
Remember, you're going to think of me every night at seven o'clock. It'll
be nine for me in Boston, but I'll not forget. And it's only three weeks
before I see you again. That's a comfort!"
She hurried toward the waiting train, at the steps of which a boy in khaki
stood ready to help her.
"Good-by, Carver," she cried, shaking hands for at least the fourth time.
"I'm going to see your grandfather the very first thing and tell him what
a good sport you are!"
A mad rush for the observation platform ensued--the three girls, the boy,
and the young woman reaching it just in time to wave good-by to those left
behind. The brown-eyed girl swept the faces of her fellow travelers at one
glance, nodded to the interested brakeman with a surprised and pleased
smile, and then, just as the train began to move, hurried to the railing.
"Oh, Virginia!" she cried to the girl in the riding-suit. "What do you
think! I've got the very same brakeman! Doesn't that make the ending just
perfect?"
* * * * *
Two hours later a boy and a girl on horseback forded Elk Creek, rode up
the Valley, and to the summit of the highest foot-hill.
"I'm glad we rode up here," said Virginia. "I'm missing them already, and
to be up here with you helps a lot! Do you remember a year ago, Don? 'Twas
in this very spot that we planned and planned, and the day was just like
this, too--all clear and golden. It just seems as though every year is
lovelier than the last, and this one has been the very loveliest of all my
life."
"I guess," said Donald thoughtfully, leaning forward in his saddle to pat
MacDuff, "I guess it's been the best of my life, too, counting this summer
and all. Last year at school was great, with college always ahead--sort of
a dream almost true, you know. And then to have Jack and Carver here, and
all the girls with you, finished everything up just right. But the best
part of the year to me, Virginia," he finished hesitatingly, "was June
when you came back, and I found you weren't a young lady after all. I was
some glad, I tell you!"
Virginia's gray eyes looked at the mountains, swept the golden prairie
stretches, and lingered for a long moment on the cottonwoods which
bordered Elk Creek before they came back to Donald's blue ones.
"I'm glad, too," she said simply.
Pedro and MacDuff sniffed the September air and gloried in it. They were
impatient for a wild run across the brow of the hills, and wondered why
their riders chose to look so long at the mountains on such an afternoon
as this. If they sat so silently much longer, there would be no time to
make the mesa, to gallop across its wide surface, and at last, perhaps, to
have supper among the sagebrush with Robert Bruce. They felt somewhat
encouraged when Virginia began to speak.
"I've been trying to decide the very loveliest thing of all the year," she
said. "I mean from September to June. I don't know whether 'twas the
Vigilantes or Miss Wallace or Grandmother Webster, but I'm almost sure
'twas Grandmother Webster learning to love Father. The others were joys
for me, but that was one for all of us. Of course we know the loveliest
thing of this summer. Everything's been perfect, but Aunt Nan and Malcolm
the most perfect of all. Yesterday, when Grandmother Webster's letter
came, I just cried for joy, it was so lovely!
"I--I couldn't help comparing it with the one she wrote Mother about
Father," she continued, a little break in her voice. "I found
it--afterward--in Mother's things. She didn't understand at all then. I
guess it takes some people a long time to understand things. But I'm going
to try to forget that because Grandmother Webster knows now just how
splendid Father is. Besides," she finished thoughtfully, "it's going to be
very hard for Grandmother to give Aunt Nan up. I guess we can't even
imagine how hard it's going to be."
"Of course we can't I think it's fine of her to take it the way she does.
What relation will that make you and me?" he finished practically.
"Priscilla and I figured it all out. You're no relation at all--just my
uncle's brother. Makes you sound about forty-five, doesn't it?"
"It doesn't sound exactly young. When do you suppose it will happen?"
"Aunt Nan doesn't know. Malcolm says Christmas, but she says no, she must
have a year with Grandmother. So I think it will be in June--just after
school is out. Webster is lovely then--all filled with daisies and
buttercups and wild roses. And you'll come on, Don--of course you will.
And Priscilla will be there, and Mary and Vivian and Carver and Jack and
maybe Dorothy! I want you to see Dorothy. Oh, won't it be the happiest
time? I'm getting excited already!"
"The horses want to go," said Donald. "I'll race you to the edge of the
mesa. Come on!"
Five minutes later they looked at each other, red-cheeked and radiant.
"In together, just as usual," cried Donald. "There's never much
difference!"
"My hair makes me think of Priscilla," said Virginia, brushing back some
loose locks and re-tying her ribbon. "Wasn't she funny this afternoon when
she said good-by, her hat on one side and her hair all falling down, and
her eyes full of tears? I can't help saying all over and over how lovely
it's been. And now another year's beginning, and in two weeks more you and
I will go away to school again. I'm wondering," she finished thoughtfully,
"I'm wondering if next June, when we ride up here, you'll say that I'm not
a young lady after all."
"You don't feel you're going to be--too grown-up, do you?" There was
anxiety in Donald's tone.
"No, not in the way you mean," Virginia promised him. "Not ever like
Imogene or Katrina Van Rensaelar. But I _am_ growing up! I feel it coming!
It's just as though I'd met my older self and shaken hands with her before
she went away again, for, you see, she hasn't come to stay for keeps yet.
I think she came the first time when Jim went away, and then again at
Easter time when Miss King talked to us at Vespers, and then this summer
when Aunt Nan told me about Malcolm. That time she stayed longest of
all."
"I hope she won't be a lot different from you," said Donald. "I shouldn't
want to have to get acquainted all over again."
"You won't," Virginia assured him. "Only she knows a lot more than I know,
and she's told me a great many things already. That night on the mountain
she came and stayed with me while Vivian and Carver were asleep. I learned
so many things that night, Don. I'm just sure she taught them to me--she
and the night and the stillness." Her voice softened. "Somehow, away up
there on the mountain, life seemed such a big, wonderful thing--all full
of dreams and opportunities and surprises and--and comrades, all going
along the same trail. Don't you like to think of life as a trail--like the
kind that leads to Lone Mountain, I mean--all full of dangers and
surprises and beautiful things?"
"Yes," he said simply. His eyes as he watched her filled with pride in
their comradeship--his and hers.
"And, oh, that makes me think!" she cried excitedly. "I've forgotten to
tell you about the poem Miss Wallace sent me yesterday. You see, I'm
collecting lovely ones, and she's such a help in sending them to me. I
learned this one to say to you. Of course she didn't know, but it's just
like we were the Christmas before I went away to school when you were home
for the holidays. Don't you remember how we went for Christmas greens up
Bear Canyon in that big snow-storm and didn't get home until long after
dark, and how Jim and William were just starting to hunt for us? Listen! I
know you'll like it. It's called 'Comrades.'
"'You need not say one word to me as up the hill we go
(Night-time, white-time, all in the whispering snow),
You need not say one word to me, although the whispering trees
Seem strange and old as pagan priests in swaying mysteries.
"'You need not think one thought of me as up the trail we go
(Hill-trail, still-trail, all in the hiding snow),
You need not think one thought of me, although a hare runs by,
And off behind the tumbled cairn we hear a red fox cry.
"'Oh, good and rare it is to feel as through the night we go
(Wild-wise, child-wise, all in the secret snow)
That we are free of heart and foot as hare and fox are free,
And yet that I am glad of you, and you are glad of me!'"
"Don't you like it, Don?" she finished eagerly. "I do. I like it because I
think it shows the finest kind of friendship--the kind that makes you free
to do just what seems right and best to _you_, and yet makes you glad of
your friends. Miss Wallace calls it the friendship which doesn't _demand_,
and it's her ideal, too. I'm sure she was thinking of that when she sent
me the poem. And then I like it most of all because it makes me think of
that Christmas, and the good time we had. Don't you like it?" she
repeated.
In her eagerness she was all unconscious that she had given him no time to
reply.
"Yes," he said. "I should say I do like it. I guess I'll copy it, if you
don't mind. And, Virginia," he added, hesitating, "you don't know what our
comradeship means to me. You see, when a fellow goes away to college the
way I'm going, it helps him to be--to be on the square in everything, if
he has a comrade like--like you've always been."
But there was no hesitation--only gladness in Virginia's frank gray eyes
as she looked at him.
"Oh, I'm so glad!" she cried, her face flooded with happiness. "That's the
very kind of a comrade I want to be, Don! I like to feel just as it says
in the poem:
"'That we are free of heart and foot as hare and fox are free,
And yet that I am glad of you, and you are glad of me!'"
THE END
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Partners of the Tide. By Joseph C. Lincoln.
Passionate Pilgrim, The. By Samuel Merwin.
Patricia Brent, Spinster. Anonymous.
Patrol of the Sun Dance Trail, The. By Ralph Connor.
Paul Anthony, Christian. By Hiram W. Hayes.
Pawns Count, The. By E. Phillips Oppenheim.
Peacemakers, The. By Hiram W. Hayes.
Peddler, The. By Henry C. Rowland.
People's Man, A. By E. Phillips Oppenheim.
Peter Ruff and the Double Four. By E. Phillips Oppenheim.
Poor Man's Rock. By Bertrand Sinclair.
Poor Wise Man, A. By Mary Roberts Rinehart.
Portygee, The. By Joseph C. Lincoln.
Possession. By Olive Wadsley.
Postmaster, The. By Joseph C. Lincoln.
Prairie Flowers. By James B. Hendryx.
Prairie Mother, The. By Arthur Stringer.
Prairie Wife, The. By Arthur Stringer.
Pretender, The. By Robert W. Service.
Price of the Prairie, The. By Margaret Hill McCarter.
Prince of Sinners, A. By E. Phillips Oppenheim.
Promise, The. By J. B. Hendryx.
Quest of the Sacred Slipper, The. By Sax Rohmer.
Rainbow's End, The. By Rex Beach.
Rainbow Valley. By L. M. Montgomery.
Ranch at the Wolverine, The. By B. M. Bower.
Ranching for Sylvia. By Harold Bindloss.
Ransom. By Arthur Somers Roche.
Real Life. By Henry Kitchell Webster.
Reclaimers, The. By Margaret Hill McCarter.
Re-Creation of Brian Kent, The. By Harold Bell Wright.
Red and Black. By Grace S. Richmond.
Red Mist, The. By Randall Parrish.
Red Pepper Burns. By Grace S. Richmond.
Red Pepper's Patients. By Grace S. Richmond.
Red Seal, The. By Natalie Sumner Lincoln.
Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary, The. By Anne Warner.
Restless Sex, The. By Robert W. Chambers.
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Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu, The. By Sax Rohmer.
Return of Tarzan, The. By Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Riddle of the Frozen Flame, The. By M. E. and T. W. Hanshew.
Riddle of Night, The. By Thomas W. Hanshew.
Riddle of the Purple Emperor, The. By T. W. and M. E. Hanshew.
Rider of the King Log, The. By Holman Day.
Rim of the Desert, The. By Ada Woodruff Anderson.
Rise of Roscoe Paine, The. By Joseph C. Lincoln.
Rising Tide, The. By Margaret Deland.
Rocks of Valpre, The. By Ethel M. Dell.
Room Number 3. By Anna Katharine Green.
Rose in the Ring, The. By George Barr McCutcheon.
Round the Corner in Gay Street. By Grace S. Richmond.
St. Elmo. (Ill. Ed.) By Augusta J. Evans.
Second Choice. By Will N. Harben.
Second Latchkey, The. By C. N. & A. M. Williamson.
Second Violin, The. By Grace S. Richmond.
Secret of the Reef, The. Harold Bindloss.
Secret of Sarek, The. By Maurice Leblanc.
See-Saw, The. By Sophie Kerr.
Self-Raised. (Ill.) By Mrs. Southworth.
Shavings. By Joseph C. Lincoln.
Sheik, The. By E. M. Hull.
Shepherd of the Hills, The. By Harold Bell Wright.
Sheriff of Dyke Hole, The. By Ridgwell Cullum.
Sheriff of Silver Bow, The. By Berton Braley.
Sherry. By George Barr McCutcheon.
Side of the Angels, The. By Basil King.
Sight Unseen and The Confession. By Mary Robert Rinehart.
Silver Horde, The. By Rex Beach.
Sin That Was His, The. By Frank L. Packard.
Sixty-first Second, The. By Owen Johnson.
Slayer of Souls, The. By Robert W. Chambers
Son of His Father, The. By Ridgwell Cullum.
Son of Tarzan, The. By Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Speckled Bird, A. By Augusta Evans Wilson.
Spirit of the Border, The. (New Edition.) By Zane Grey.
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Spoilers, The. By Rex Beach.
Steele of the Royal Mounted. By James Oliver Curwood.
Still Jim. By Honore Willsie.
Story of Foss River Ranch, The. By Ridgwell Cullum.
Story of Marco, The. By Eleanor H. Porter.
Strange Case of Cavendish, The. By Randall Parrish.
Strawberry Acres. By Grace S. Richmond.
Sudden Jim. By Clarence B. Kelland.
Sweethearts Unmet. By Berta Ruck.
Tales of Secret Egypt. By Sax Rohmer.
Tales of Sherlock Holmes. By A. Conan Doyle.
Talitha Cumi. By Annie J. Holland.
Taming of Zenas Henry, The. By Sara Ware Bassett.
Tarzan of the Apes. By Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar. By Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Tempting of Tavernake, The. By E. Phillips Oppenheim.
Tess of the D'Urbervilles. By Thomas Hardy.
Texan, The. By James B. Hendryx.
Thankful's Inheritance. By Joseph C. Lincoln.
That Affair Next Door. By Anna Katharine Green.
That Printer of Udell's. By Harold Bell Wright.
Their Yesterdays. By Harold Bell Wright.
Thieves' Wit. By Hulbert Footner.
Thirteenth Commandment, The. By Rupert Hughes.
Three Eyes, The. By Maurice Leblanc.
Three of Hearts, The. By Berta Ruck.
Three Strings, The. By Natalie Sumner Lincoln.
Tiger's Coat, The. By Elizabeth Dejeans.
Tish. By Mary Roberts Rinehart.
Tobias O' the Light. By James A. Cooper.
Trail of the Axe, The. By Ridgwell Cullum.
Trail to Yesterday, The. By Charles A. Seltzer.
Trailin'. By Max Brand.
Trap, The. By Maximilian Foster.
Treasure of Heaven, The. By Marie Corelli.
Triple Mystery, The. By Adele Luehrmann.
Triumph, The. By Will N. Harben.
Triumph of John Kars, The. By Ridgwell Cullum.
T. Tembarom. By Frances Hodgson Burnett.
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Turn of the Tide. By Author of "Pollyanna."
Turnstile of Night, The. By William Allison.
Twenty-fourth of June, The. By Grace S. Richmond.
Twins of Suffering Creek, The. By Ridgwell Cullum.
Two-Gun Man, The. By Charles A. Seltzer.
Under Handicap. By Jackson Gregory.
Under the Country Sky. By Grace S. Richmond.
Underwood Mystery, The. By Charles J. Dutton.
Uneasy Street. By Arthur Somers Roche.
Unpardonable Sin, The. Major Rupert Hughes.
Untamed, The. By Max Brand.
Up from Slavery. By Booker T. Washington.
Valiants of Virginia, The. By Hallie Ermine Rives.
Valley of Fear, The. By Sir A. Conan Doyle.
Valley of the Sun, The. By William M. McCoy.
Vanguards of the Plains. By Margaret Hill McCarter.
Vanished Mesenger, The. By E. Phillips Oppenheim.
Vashti. By Augusta Evans Wilson.
Virtuous Wives. By Owen Johnson.
Voice of the Pack, The. By Edson Marshall.
Waif-o'-the-Sea. By Cyrus Townsend Brady.
Wall Between, The. By Sara Ware Bassett.
Wall of Men, A. By Margaret H. McCarter.
Watchers of the Plains, The. By Ridgwell Cullum.
Way Home, The. By Basil King.
Way of an Eagle, The. By E. M. Dell.
Way of the Strong, The. By Ridgwell Cullum.
Way of These Women, The. By E. Phillips Oppenheim.
We Can't Have Everything. By Major Rupert Hughes.
Weavers, The. By Gilbert Parker.
West Wind Drift. By George Barr McCutcheon.
When a Man's a Man. By Harold Bell Wright.
Where the Trail Divides. By Will Lillibridge.
Where There's a Will. By Mary R. Rinehart.
White Moll, The. By Frank L. Packard.
Who Goes There? By Robert W. Chambers.
Why Not. By Margaret Widdemer.
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Window at the White Cat, The. By Mary Roberts Rinehart.
Winds of Chance, The. By Rex Beach.
Wine of Life, The. By Arthur Stringer.
Wings of Youth, The. By Elizabeth Jordan.
Winning of Barbara Worth, The. By Harold Bell Wright.
Winning the Wilderness. By Margaret Hill McCarter.
Wire Devils, The. By Frank L. Packard.
Wishing Ring Man, The. By Margaret Widdemer.
With Juliet in England. By Grace S. Richmond.
Woman From "Outside," The. By Hulbert Footner.
Woman Gives, The. By Owen Johnson.
Woman Haters, The. By Joseph C. Lincoln.
Woman Thou Gavest Me, The. By Hall Caine.
Woodcarver of 'Lympus, The. By Mary E. Waller.
Wooing of Rosamond Fayre, The. By Berta Ruck.
World for Sale, The. By Gilbert Parker.
Wreckers, The. By Francis Lynde.
Wyndham's Pal. By Harold Bindloss.
Years for Rachel, The. By Berta Ruck.
Yellow Claw, The. By Sax Rohmer.
You Never Know Your Luck. By Gilbert Parker.
You're Only Young Once. By Margaret Widdemer.
Youth Challenges. By Clarence Budington Kelland.
Zeppelin's Passenger. By E. Phillips Oppenheim.