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TUB STOIIY SO FAIII Tcn-year-old
Ken McLaughlin given an opportunity to '
chooie any yearling on hit family's Wy-
oming ranch picks the (Illy of a "loco"
mare named Rocket. Ills faUier a re-
tired army officer Is disappointed by
Ken's cholco and by his ion's failure In
school nut he Is pleased at the change
In Ken since he has had a colt of his
own. When Fllcka the filly Is badly
hurt trying to Jump the corral fence Ken
takes the opportunity to care tor her and
to make friends with her. Ken's mother
and father quarrel when she tries to Ml
blm she has seen a wildcat. Nell goes
Into town to a movie tn get away and
regain her poise.
Now continue with the story.
CHAPTER XVI
Holling along the Lincoln Highway
at about sixty miles an hour five
miles faster than her usual pace
Nell had a delicious sense of escape.
In Cheyenne she crept along the
streets marveling ot the Neon lights
that outlined the features of every
booth hot-dog stand shop and res-
taurant. The streets were almost
as bright as day.
At the theater she saw Ginger
Rogers and Fred Astaire in a dance-
team picture; and here she was
lost in delight. Her real life was
completely erased. Bock again in
the days of college proms and holi-
day dances she danced the hour
through and came out of the theater
in a daze hardly knowing where she
was or at what point her life was to
be picked up again.
Now she must get home it was
nearly eleven o'clock.
It took her a long time. She had
to open the window hang her head
out looking down at the front wheel
trying to keep it right on the center
line of the road. It seemed three
times the actual distance of twenty-
five miles before she turned off the
highway and drove in under the
Goose Bar Ranch sign.
Rob was sitting in the arm chair
by the radio absorbed by a playlet
he was listening to. One knee was
hooked over the arm of the chair.
His boots were off slippers on the
heather brown Socks that were
drawn up over the cuffs of his rid-
ing breeches. He was smoking.
Seeing her he smiled and nodded
then held up a hand for silence not
wanting to miss a word of what he
was hearing. "Mind if I hear this
out?" he said softly.
"Not at all" Nell answered stiff-
ly and went upstairs to bed.
Half an hour later he Joy in bed
beside her smoking a last cigarette
in the darkness. It seemed to him
that the walnut bed was vibrating
slightly. The tremor emanated from
Nell. Lying there her back turned
to him she was tense from the
back of her neck to her toes.
Rob finished his cigarette ground
out the stub in the ash tray on the
table then rolled over and put his
arms around her. He held her tight
to him one arm under her neck.
With the other hand he pressed her
head against him smoothed her hair
laid his cheek against it as he so
often did kissing it softly.
It took a long time for her trem-
bling to stop.
When it had he said quietly
"What frightened you up in the Sta-
ble Pasture?"
She didn't answer.
"Was it the wildcat?"
"Yes."
"I heard you shoot twice did you
"No that was cottontails I was
shooting at."
"Did you get the cottontails?"
"I shot them but the 'mountain
lion got them."
"What happened?"
"You know the rock up there that
I call the Sunset Rock because I
so often climb up it to look at the
sunset?"
"Yes the one in the woods a lit-
tle way that comes up out of the
earth sharp and jagged like the top
of a mountain poking through."
."Yes. Well I had shot the two
rabbits and the light was fading
and there were beautiful colors in
the sky. I thought there must be a
fine sunset if I could get up out of
the woods to a high place and see it.
So I thought I would climb up the
Sunset Rock. It's so steep in places
you have to go up on your hands and
knees you know hanging on"
"I know."
"So I set the twenty-two against
a pine tree near the base of the rock
and tied the legs of the two rabbits
together with that narrow black rib-
bon I hod around my hair and I
hung them on a jagged stump of a
branch that stuck out of the trunk
of the pine tree."
"How high up?"
"Not very high. Just opposite my
face. And then I climbed up the
ro'ck and stood up there looking at
the sunset. When it was over I
came down on the opposite side of
the rock and walked around the
base of it to the place I had left the
gun and the rabbits but before I
got there I met the lion face to face
not ten feet away ho was coming
around the rock too. And he had
my rabbits in his mouth."
"I'll be darned."
"We just stood facing each oth-
er." "Were you scared?"
"Not then. Just so surprised. We
neither of us moved for a moment
then he just melted away. It wa3
galling dork it just seemed as jf I
blinked my eye and he wos gone.
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and started to run home. Then I
remembered I shouldn't run and I
tried to walk. I kept looking behind
me. I was in a regular panic."
"I knew he was around here."
"How'd you know?"
"I sow footprints the other morn-
ing." "Where?"
"In the corral."
"In the corral!"
"Yes four perfect prints in that
patch of earth that gets the damp-
ness from the water trough"
Nell Was silent thinking of the cat
stalking out from the woods across
the open space to the corrals.
"The Stable Pasture that's pret-
ty close Rob."
"There's lots of game up there
Nell. The woods ore full of deer."
It was true. Several of the hoy
crew had told of seeing deer when
they went up to the Stables early in
the morning; and Nell herself one
day just pretending that the shape
of some twigs and branches and
little shrubs were the delicate
shapes of deer suddenly saw that it
was true. A group of five docs and
fawns stood there motionless under
her eyes.
"It's strange that the men didn't
sea the prints of the mountain lion
too."
"Gus saw them. He was with me.
I told him to rake them over. 1
didn!t want the men to see them
and .talk about it."
"Because of Ken?"
"Yes. He's gone through enough
this summer without lying awake
'Then he just melted away."
worrying about the cat with school
only ten days away."
At that moment they both jumped
and Rob leaped half out of bed. A
scream tore the air rising from the
Hill across the Green going up in a
snarling crescendo to a pitch of ear-
splitting ferocity then ebbing slow-
ly away in heart-rending sobs.
Profound silence followed; the
deep stillness of the range as if it
had never been broken.
Rob struck a match lit the can-
dle by the bed and turned to look at
Nell.
She was sitting bolt upright her
eyes wide and dark and her lips
parted in an expression that was
slightly hysterical.
"Did you ever hear such a sound!"
she said.
Rob shook his head. Then a mo-
ment later said "Beautiful wasn't
it?"
Nell nodded violently. "It was gor-
geous" They sat still listening wondering
If the cat might scream again while
the flame of the candle flickered
and the long shadows danced on
ceiling and walls.
Nell slipped out of bed. "Gimme
the candle. I just want to see if
that woke the bpya."
She came back a moment later.
"Both of 'em dead to the world.
We won't tell them Rob."
"Of course not."
"I wonder if any of the men
heard."
Not a chance. It's midnight. Lis-
tenwhat do you say we go down-
stairs? I can't sleep after that. I'll
moke you some hot chocolate. I
think you should have had some-
thing to eat anyway after your eve-
ning in town and the long ride back
what did you see? A good show?"
TIToy belted robes about them
went down to the kitchen and Rob
mado chocolate; for each cup one
square of bitter chocolate and two
spoons of sugar and a rup of milk
a thick smooth drink topped with
Guernsey cream.
They sat down at the table to
drink and Nell had a chanco to tell
about the show about the fog about
what she had seen in town. She
naver felt that she hnd quite com-
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When they went up to bed an
hour later all her nervousness was
gone. As she blew out the candle
she said "Drat that wildcat he's
got my hair-ribbon."
The afternoon that Ken finished
copying his composition he went
over to the Post Office with his
mother in the Studebaker and
dropped the long envelope contain-
ing his neat three pages of writing
and his mother's letter into the mall
box.
Driving back to the ranch he sat
silent aware of peculiar feelings
within himself. It was another
achievement something that might
amount to quite a good deal in the
estimation of his father and Mr.
Gibson. It was to be kept a secret
from his father until Mr. Gibson's
answer came.
"Of course he may not answer"
said Nell. "He may just tell you
when you and Howard get there."
This made school feel very near.
And that made Ken think about
Flicka. He had never dreamed that
at the end of the summer "Flicka
would still be lame and half sick.
He hated to leave her that way.
After he had gone no one would
care for her so devotedly. She
would have to shift for herself. She
would need her rations of oats for
a long time yet to put the flesh
back on her bones. She had been
getting so thin lately thinner it
seemed every day. And her coat
was losing its fine color and sheen.
Rob had no eyes and no thought
for anything but the haying and
the weather. The extra men had
gone; Rob and Tim and Gus were
storing the baled hay in the barn;
stacking the loose hay in long loz
enges that gradually took on shape
and style the sides forked down un-
til they were smooth and perpendic-
ular the tops shaped in rounded
ridges to shed rain and snow. Each
time they got one stack topped they
stretched long strands of baling wire
over it to bind it to the earth and
hung heavy railroad ties on the ends
of the wire. This kept the wind from
blowing the stacks away.
The weather still held; but each
night the banks of cloud that crept
over the sky were heavier and
sometimes thunder rumbled inter-
mittently for hours.
Nell dropped her sewing in her
lap and looked out of the window
Jier brows knotted with anxiety and
"distress." " y
The filly won't pull out of it Rob
had said when the little mare was
first hurt; and he was right. Flicka
was going to die. If Rob knew if
perhaps he had known ever since
the generalized infection had poi-
soned her blood stream and he had
given her the shot of serum he had
said nothing; and when the men
talked about her he pretended not
to hear. But Ken how could he
have failed to see that every day
left the little filly with less fierh
less strength less life? Nell remem-
bered a friend whose baby had been
wasting away and yet because of
the daily care and closeness the
warmth and little smiles and tiny
arms still clinging did not knowMJ
until the very end.
Ken did not know.
Soon Flicka began to go down In
flesh so rapidly that almost over-
night she wasted away to nothing.
Every rib showed. The glossy hide
was dull and brittle and was pulled
over her skeleton as if she was a
dead horse.
For convenience of unloading the
big hay wagon was left near the
cow-barn corrals every evening;
and one morning as McLaughlin and
Howard and the men were walking
down to it Gus leading one of the
work teams which was to be har-
nessed into it Ken was walking with
them carrying the can of oats un-
der his arm. He was going to take
Flicka her breakfast.
The little mare was waiting for
him at the gate of the corral.
When McLaughlin saw her he
stopped walking and a look of hor-
ror spread over hi3 face. "What is
that?" he shouted.
They all stopped walking and
looked at her and Ken with a face
as white as paper looked back at
his father. "It's Flicka" he whis-
pered. "She's been getting awfully
thin."
"Thinl" roared McLaughlin.
Gus shook his curly head sadly.
"Ay bin thinking she's not goin to
pull out of it" he said.
"Pull out of it? She's dead al-
ready." McLaughlin turned to glare at
Ken. "How long has she been like
that?"
"She's been going down awful fast
the last few days" faltered Ken.
"It's de fever" said Gus. "It's
burnin her up."
Tim said "It's an awful pity. She
was a nifty little filly. Hard luck
Ken."
McLaughlin looked ot her again.
She was nickering for Ken. Her
head was up looking at him. She
was just bones nnd'a dull lustreless
hide.
"Thai's the end" roared Mc-
Laughlin. "I won't hove a thing
like that on my place."
He walked on to harness the team
and Ken went slowly to FKcka and
down the path to the stream with
the little creature hopping at his
heels. He poured the oats in her
feed box and she dipped her nose in
and ate them.
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Ford, Robert C. The Bartlett Tribune and News (Bartlett, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 41, Ed. 1, Friday, July 7, 1944, newspaper, July 7, 1944; Bartlett, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth76838/m1/3/: accessed July 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Bartlett Activities Center and the Historical Society of Bartlett.