The Way of the Wind
tment was not in his nature, besides which, Seth loved the wind,-but humming a little tune, something soft and reminiscent about his old Kentucky home, with its chorus of "Fare you well, my lady," w
riderless; but as his eyes became accustomed to dust
hich had the effect, together with the haze produced by the
p his mule
ith a sudden rein that sent him back on h
le and stood before Seth, a tall, slim girl of twelve, a girl of complexion brown as berries, of dark eyes heavily fringed with thick lashes and
-like teeth, of an exaggerated white in
," she
said Seth
ken manner of the p
ah
lona," sh
ona w
I ain't got n
rie dogs that stand on their haunches and bark, and yet are ever mindful of
ou come frum
es from here," she answer
we?" ask
n't my real father. He's
and on plough, waiting for her
id ne
out, be there?" she ventured presen
mighty scarce. One about e
im out of her big dark eyes
hbor of your
Seth with ready Southern cor
and pointed t
e miles away," she
h long?" a
lanation, "we blew down. Father and his wife and me. Never had no
sleeve acro
she sighed, "without no neighbors. Ne
u move, then?
s moved. Father likes it here, but I g
truck an ans
s wheah I live. My wife's theah all by herself. She's lonesome, too. Maybe
mane of her broncho, and swung herself into
the girl come out of the Nowhere, as she had come upon him,
ied. "I will
rairie to Celia's door, the girl, laughing at the idea o
, Southern, aristocratic, in sharp contrast with th
imated bronze of the untrammelled West emphasized by the highlights of sunshine glimmering on curl and dimple, on br
he prairies, necessarily elevated in defiance of the w