The Greatest Westerns of Charles Alden Seltzer. Charles Alden Seltzer
curves. Then his arms went around her, and she leaned against him, her head against his shoulder, while she wept softly.
An hour later, standing side by side in the open doorway of the cabin, Sheila and Dakota watched in silence while Langford, having signed a confession dictated by Dakota, mounted his pony and rode slowly up the river trail toward Lazette.
He slowly passed the timber clump near the cabin, and with bowed head traveled up the long slope which led to the rise upon which, in another time, Sheila had caught her last glimpse of the parson. It was in the cold, bleak moment of the morning when darkness has not yet gone and the dawn not come, and Langford looked strangely desolate out there on the trail alone—alone with thoughts more desolate than his surroundings.
Sheila shivered and snuggled closer to Dakota. He looked down at her with a sympathetic smile.
“It is so lonesome,” she said.
“Where?” he asked.
“Out there—where he is going.”
Dakota did not answer. For a long time they watched the huddled form of the rider. They saw him approach the crest of the rise—reach it. Then from the mountains in the eastern distance came a shaft of light, striking the summit of the rise where the rider bestrode his pony—throwing both into bold relief. For a moment the rider halted the pony, turned, glanced back an instant, and was gone.
THE END
The Boss of the Lazy Y
Chapter I. The Home-Coming of Calumet Marston
Chapter II. Betty Meets the Heir
Chapter III. Calumet's Guardian
Chapter IV. Calumet Plays Betty's Game
Chapter VII. A Page from the Past
Chapter XV. A Meeting in the Red Dog
Chapter XVIII. Another Peace Offering
Chapter XIX. A Tragedy in the Timber Grove
Chapter XX. Betty Talks Frankly
Chapter XXI. His Father's Friend
Chapter XXII. Neal Taggart Visits
Chapter XXIII. For the Altars of His Tribe
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