Her Father's Daughter

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rs of she family, but such a fine specimen she seldom had found and she could not recall having seen it in all of her botanies. Opposite the plant she worked out a footing, drove her stick deep at the base of a rock to brace herself, and from the knapsack on her back took a sketchbook and pencil and began

le that I can come a few simoleons with you.

uby-throated hummingbird, and across the bottom of the sheet the lace of a few leaves of fern. Then she returned the drawing and pencil to her knapsack, and making sure of her footing, worked her way forward. With her long slender fingers she began teasing the plant loose from the rock and the surrounding soil. The roots penetrated deeper t

decorating the canyon side and the road around her; but high in one hand, without break or blemish, she triumphantly held aloft the rare Cotyledon. She shrugged her shoulders, wiggled her toes, and moved her arms to assure herself that no bones were broken; then she glanc

to Linda's assistance. Her dark cheeks were red with mortification, but she

of the young men, "and we thought you mig

lithe slender figure, viv

will please to observe that there isn't a scratch on Cotyledon, and I brought her down-at least I think it's she-fr

unger of the men, "to know whe

down mountains reduced to an exact science. I'll bet you co

ecious," said the young man

this family I have ever seen. Don't mistake this for any common stonecrop. It looks to me like an Echeveria. I know w

n help you?" inquired t

at him, and her impression was

the way down. Then I am going to carry Coty to the car line in a kind of triumphal march, because she is the rarest find

expertly making her way up the canyon side. "Here, let me do that," offered the younger man. "You rest until I collect your belongings." Linda glanced back over her shoulder. "Thanks," she said. "I

ving the young men to enter their car and drive a

doing next?" asked the elder o

" said his friend. "And as for what she is doing, it's probable that every high-s

gh-school kid, but did you notice that she is go

rly," answered the younger man. "And I noticed also th

s, soil and blue-eyed grass. All along its length grew willows, and in a few places white-bodied sycamores. Everywhere over the walls red above it that vegetation could find a footing grew mosses, vines, flowers, and shrubs. On the shadiest side homed most of the ferns and the Cotyledon. In the sun, larkspur, lupin, and monkey flower; everywhere wild rose, holly, mahogany, gooseberry, and bayoneted yucca all intermingling in a curtain of variegated greens, brocaded with flower arabesques of vivid red, white, yellow, and blue. Canyon wrens and vireos sang as they nested. The air was clear, cool, and salty from the near-by sea. Myri

en doing to yourself

steep that it leans the other way. I pretty well pulveriz

ching a cake cutter and beginning hurriedly to s

absently rubbing her elbows and her knees. "Seems to me it's

hen Miss Eileen has got sudden notice that there is going to be company again and I hav

seating herself on the nearest chair an

ll, there is Mr.

t our house, Eileen is perfectly capable of setting it

st that," said Katy "Eileen is a might

read and milk, bread heavily stressed. She can manage to get every cent of the income from the property in her fingers, and a great big girl like me has to go to high school looking so tacky that even the boys are beginning to commen

irst, then Linda picked them both u

rt to help me any?" asked

few minutes to take a bath and step into

was filled with fresh flowers and ready for occupancy. The door of her sister's room was slightly ajar and she pushed it open and stood looking inside. In her state of disarray she made a shocking contrast to the flowerlike figure busy before a dressing table. Linda was dark, narrow, rawboned, overgrown in height, and forthright of disposition. Eileen was a tiny woman,

t idea?" demande

looking and not married, and he thinks he would like to settle somewhere near Los Angeles. Of course John would love to have him in Lilac Valley because he hopes to build a

he thinks now that he is in l

nned to a hair line, and her li

he said, "is how you can be

aughed

ison and John are ou

perfectly wonderful to have an author for a neighbor, and he must be going to build a real house, because he has his architect with

ugged her

hn Gilman's house," she said. "I have heard him say a dozen t

trand of hair and set the

s have changed sligh

her by a common grief without realizing exactly how it is happening. She certainly must know that you have taken her lover, and I have not a doubt but that is the

r, "you are positively insufferable. Will you

off without my valued assistance, and before I agree to assist, I'll know ONE thing.

open note lying on

barely had time to fill the vases and dust, and then I ran up to d

uch about them, you must have been expecting them, and in a measure prepared for them at any tim

to study' idea in her head I have scarcely seen her. She had an awful job to empty the house, and pack such things as she wants to keep, and she is working overtime on a

d mother, and our father and mother were, and how we children were reared together, and the good times we have had in these two houses-and then the awful day when the car went over the cliff, and how Marian clung to us and tried to comfort us, when her own health was broken-and Marian's the s

looked at her keenly. Linda's

t into mine this minute if you don't say you will go and

said: "All right, since you make

a. "Then I'll help Kat