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They found Seabeck and Floyd Carson and another cowboy at the Cove, just preparing to leave Marthy, it transpired, had wanted to make her will, so that Billy Louise would have the Cove when Marthy was done with it Billy Louise cried a little and argued a good deal, but Marthy had not lost all her stubbornness, and the will stood unchanged

When Ward understood all of the circunaled Seabeck to follow him; and there he counted out five hundred dollars froold-harvest and with a few crisp sentences compelled Seabeck to accept the money (At that, Seabeck stood a loser by Charlie's thievery, but no one knew it save himself, since he never mentioned the matter) Billy Louise and Ward were married just as soon as Ward was able to make the trip to the county-seat, which was just as soon as he could walk comfortably with a cane

They stayed the winter in the Cove, and a part of the spring Then they buried griray old Marthy up on the side hill near Jase, where she had asked theone

They were very busy and very happy and pretty prosperous with their three ranches and what gold Ward washed out of the gravel-bank while they were living up on Mill Creek, so that he could prove up on his claiain, or of Buck Olney--and they never wanted to

If you should soh a certain portion of Idaho, youcabins which prove how impossible it is for a couple to live in three places at once If you should be so fortunate as to h the canyon and point out to you her cave and Minervy's It is possible that she ht also show you the washout which always h when they passed it And if you ride up over the hill and along the upland and down another hill, you cannot fail to find the entrance to the Cove; and perhaps you will like to ride down the gorge and see the little Eden hidden away there You may even ride as far as Mill Creek; but you will be told, very likely, that no one ever found any gold there And if you should ards to Billy Louise and Ward--who never calls himself a football these days