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RGOSY -and Railroad Man's Magazine Vel CVII ) SATURDAY, MAY 3, 1919 No. 3 1e uke o gue % ly George Washington Ogden l Author ef “The Listuner,” ote. CHAPTER I. THE ALL-IN-ONE. OWN through the Bad Lands the Little Missouri comes in long wind- ings, white, from a distance, as a frozen river between the ash-gray hills. At its margin there are willows; on the small forelands, which flood in June when the mountain waters are released, cottonwoods grow, leaning toward the southwest like captives straining in their bonds, yearning in their way for the sun and winds of kinder latitudes. Rain comes to that land but seldom in the summer days, in winter the wind sweeps the snow into rocky cafions; buttes, with tops leveled by the drift of the old, earth- making days, break the weary repetition of hill beyond hill. But to people who dwell in a land a long” time and go about the business of getting a living out of what it has to offer, its won- ders are no longer notable, its hardships no longer peculiar. So it was with the people who lived in the Bad Lands at the time that we come among them on the vehicle of this tale. To them it was only an ordinary country of toil and disappointment, or of opportunity and profit, according to their station and success. To Jeremiah Lambert it seemed the land of hopelessness, the last boundary of utter defeat as he labored over the uneven road at the end of a blistering summer day, trundling his bicycle at his side. There was a suit-case strapped to the handle-bar of the bicycle, and in that receptacle were the wares which this guileless pedler had come into that land to sell. He had set out “from Omaha full of enthusiasm and youth- * Copyright, 1919, by G. W. Ogden. Ali rights reserved. 1 Arcosy 353 COMICEDOO S CO in