She represents the hitch which is sure to develop early in the history of
every live enterprise."
"Indeed?" I said. And if Harshaw talked with her on business, I didn't see
what his talking had to do with the face inside her bonnet.
"I don't say that it's always on business," Tom threw in significantly.
"Who is the lady in the pink sunbonnet, and what is your business with
her?" I demanded.
"I question the propriety of speaking of her in just that tone," said Tom,
"inasmuch as she happens to be a lady--somewhat off the conventional lines.
She waters her own stock and milks her own cow, because the old Indian girl
who lives with her is laid up at present with a fever. Her father was an
artist--one of the great unappreciated"--
"So that was her father painting the Snow Bank?" I interrupted.
"Her father is dead, my dear, as you would have learned if you had listened
to my story. But he lived here a good many years before he died. He had
made a queer marriage, old man Decker tells me, and quarreled with the
world on account of it. He came here with his disputed bride. She was
somebody else's wife first, I believe, and there was a trifling informality
about the matrimonial exchange; but it came out all right.
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