The Sky Pilot

the Foothill country was prehistoric, and his influence was, in consequence, immense. No one ventured to disagree with

ible speed the style and customs of the aristocratic Old Timers, and to forget as soon as possible the date of his own arriv

ey foresaw ploughed fields and barbed-wire fences cramping their unlimited ranges. A school became necessary. A little log building was erected and I was appointed schoolm

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l meant children, in whom his soul delighted; and in the teacher he would find a friend, and without a friend he could not live. He took me into his confidence, telling me that though he had volunteered for this far-away mission field he was not much of a preache

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was the day fixed for the great baseball match, when those from "Home," as they fondly called the land across the sea from which they had come, were to "wipe the earth" with all c

for 'The Pain Killer' a week from Sunday, at 2:30, Home vs. the W

e Stopping Place Parlor, a week from Sunday, imme

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uity in the two, and an unc

enjoying the excitement it produced and the comments it called forth. It was the advance wave of the gre

licking, roistering crew, the Company of the Noble Seven, the missionary's coming was viewed with varying degrees of animosity. It meant a limitation of freedom in their wildly reckless living. The "Permit" nights would now, to say the least, be subject to criticism; the Sunday wolf-hunts and horse-races, with their attendant delights, would now be pursued under the eye of the Church, and this would not add to the enjoyment of them. One great charm of the country, which Bruce, himself the son of an Edinbu

could hardly affect them even remotely. A dozen years' stay in Montana had proved with suffici

ved with his little girl Gwen and her old half-breed nurse, Ponka. The approach of the church he seemed to resent as a personal injury. It represented to him that civilization from which he had fled fifteen years ago with his wife and baby girl, and when five years later he

to move back," he s

inking of his grazing range,

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ilently pointed

won't hurt y

he answered savage

ght of his eyes. "Pity to stop her studies." I wa

uess she's all she wants for the Foothills, anyway. What's the use?" he add

ng anything," knowing well that the one thing an old-timer hates to

ain't much to keep him, anyway," and he rod

ering how he would end and what would come to his little girl. And I made up my mind that if the missionar