The Freedom Call (Freedom, Okla.), Vol. 21, No. 48, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 9, 1943 Page: 2 of 8
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THE STORY SO FAR: Ten-year-old
Ken McLaughlin given an opportunity to
choose any yearling on his family's Wy-
oming ranch picks the fiUy of a "loco"
mare named Rocket His father a re-
tired army officer is disappointed by
Ken's choice and by his son's failure in
school But be is pleased at the change
In Ken since be has had a colt of his
own When Flicka the filly is badly
hurt trying to jump the corral fence Ken
takes the opportunity to care for her and
to make friends with her Ken's mother
and father quarrel when she tries to tell
him she has seen a wildcat Nell goes
Into town to a movie to get away and
regain her poise
Now continue with the story
CHAPTER XVI
—
Rolling along the Lincoln Highway
at about sixty miles an hour five
miles faster than her usual pace
Nell had a delicious sense of escape
In Cheyenne she crept along the
streets marveling at the Neon lights
that outlined the features of every
booth hot-dog stand shop and res-
taurant The streets were almost
as bright as day
At the theater she saw Ginger
Rogers and Fred Astaire in a dance-
team picture and here she was
lost in delight Her real life was
completely erased Back again in
the days of college proms and holi-
day dances she danced the hour
through and came out of the theater
in a daze hardly knowing where she
was or at what point her life was to
be picked up again
Now she must get home—it was
nearly eleven o'clock
It took her a long time She had
to open the window hang her head
out looking down at the front wheel
trying to keep it right on the center
line of the road It seemed three
times the actual distance of twenty-
five miles before she turned off the
highway and drove in under the
Goose Bar Ranch sign
Rob was sitting in the arm chair
by the radio absorbed by a playlet
he was listening to One knee was
hooked over the arm of the chair
His boots were off slippers on the
heather brown socks that were
drawn up over the cuffs of his rid-
ing breeches He was smoking
Seeing her he smiled and nodded
then held up a hand for silence not
wanting to miss a word of what he
was hearing "Mind if I hear this
out?" he said softly
"Not at all" Nell answered stiff-
ly and went upstairs to bed
Half an hour later he lay in bed
beside her smoking a last cigarette
in the darkness It seernvd to him
that the walnut bed was vibrating
slightly The tremor emanated from
Nell Lying there her back turned
to him she was tense from the
back of her neck to her toes
Rob finished his cigarette ground
out the stub in the ash tray on the
table then rolled over and put his
arms around her He held her tight
to him one arm under her neck
With the other hand he pressed her
head against him smoothed her hair
laid his cheek against it as he so
often did kissing it softly
It took a long time for her trem-
bling to stop
When it had he said quietly
"What frightened you up in the Sta-
ble Pasture?"
She didn't answer
"Was it the wildcat?"
"Yes"
"I heard you shoot twice—did you
get a shot at him?"
"No—that was cottontails I was
shooting at"
"Did you get the cottontails?"
"I shot them—but the mountain
lion got them"
"What happened?"
"You know the rock up there that
I call the Sunset Rock because I
so often climb up it to look at the
sunset?"
"Yes—the one in the woods a lit-
tle way that comes up out of the
earth sharp and jagged—like the top
of a mountain poking through"
"Yes Well I had shot the two
rabbits and the light was fading
and there were beautiful colors in
the sky I thought there must be a
fine sunset if I could get up out of
the woods to a high place and see it
So I thought I would climb up the
Sunset Rock It's so steep in places
you have to go up on your hands and
knees you know hanging on—"
"I know"
"So I set the twenty-two against
a pine tree near the base of the rock
and tied the legs of the two rabbits
together with that narrow black rib-
bon I had around my hair and I
hung them on a sagged stump of a
branch that stuck out of the trunk
of the pine tree"
"How high up?"
"Not very high Just opposite my
face And then I climbed up the
rock and stood up there looking at
the sunset When it was over I
came down on the opposite side of
the rock and walked around the
base of it to the place I had left the
gun and the rabbits but before I
got there I met the lion face to face
—not ten feet away—he was coming
around the rock too And he had
my rabbits in his mouth"
"I'll be darned"
"We just stood facing each oth-
er" "Were youscared?"
"Not then Just so surprised We
neither of us moved for a moment
then he just melted away It was
getting dark—it just seemed as if I
blinked my eye and he was gone
I stood listening couldn't hear a
thing Then I got terribly scared
and started to run home Then I
remembered I shouldn't run—and I
tried to walk I kept looking behind
me I was in a regular panic"
"I knew he was around here"
"How'd you know?"
"I saw footprints the other morn-
ing" "Where?"
"In the corral"
"In the corral!"
At that moment they both jumped
and Rqb leaped half out of bed A
scream tore the air rising from the
Hill across the Green going up in a
snarling crescendo to a pitch of ear
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"Then he just melted away"
splitting ferocity then ebbing slow-
ly away in heart-rending sobs
Profound silence followed the
deep stillness of the range—as if it
had never been broken
Rob shook his head Then a mo-
ment later said "Beautiful wasn't
it?"
Nell nodded violently "It was gor-
geous" They sat still listening wondering
if the cat might scream again while
the flame of the candle flickered
and the long shadows danced on
ceiling and walls
Nell slipped out of bed "Gimme
the candle I just want to see if
that woke the boys"
She came back a moment later
"Both of 'em dead to the world
We won't tell them Rob"
"Of course not"
"I wonder if any of the men
heard"
"Not a chance It's midnight Lis-
ten—what do you say we go down-
stairs? I can't sleep after that I'll
make you some hot chocolate I
think you should have had some-
thing to eat anyway after your eve-
ning in town and the long ride back
—what did you see? A good show?"
They belted robes about them
went down to the kitchen and Rob
made chocolate for each cup one
square of bitter chocolate and two
spoons of sugar and a cup of milk
a thick smooth drink topped with
Guernsey cream -
When they went up to bed an
hour later all her nervousness was
gone As she blew out the candle
she said "Drat that wildcat—he's
got my hair-ribbon"
The afternoon that Ken finished
copying his composition he went
over to the Post Office with his
mother in the Studebaker and
dropped the long envelope contain-
ing his neat three pages of writing
and his mother's letter into the mail
box
Driving back to the ranch he sat
silent aware of peculiar feelings
within himself It was another
achievement something that might
amount to quite a good deal in the
estimation of his father and Mr
Gibson It was to be kept a secret
from his father until Mr Gibson's
answer came
"Of course he may not answer"
said Nell "He may just tell you
when you and Howard get there"
This made school feel very near
And that made Ken think about
Flicka' He had never dreamed that
at the end ofa the summer Flicka
would still be lame and half sick
He hated to leave her that way
After he had gone no one would
care for her so devotedly She
would have to shift for herself She
would need her rations of oats for
a long time yet to put the flesh
back on her bones She had been
getting so thhi lately—thinner it
seemed every day And her coat
was losing its fine color and sheen
Rob had no eyes and no thought
for anything but the haying and
the weather The extra men had
gone Rob and Tim and Gus were
storing the baled hay in the barn
stacking the loose hay in long loz-
enges that gradually took on shape
and style the sides forked down un-
til they were smooth and perpendic-
ular the tops shaped in rounded
ridges to shed rain and snow Each
time they got one stack topped thty
stretched long strands of baling wire
over it to bind it to the earth and
hung heavy railroad ties on the ends
of the wire This kept the wind from
blowing the stacks away
The weather still held but each
night the banks of cloud that crept
over the sky were heavier and
sometimes thunder rumbled inter-
mittently for hours
Nell dropped her sewing in her
lap and looked out of the window
her brows knotted with anxiety and
distress
The filly won't pull out of it Rob
had said when the little mare was
first hurt and he was right Flicks
was going to die If Rob knew—if
perhaps he had known ever since
the generalized infection had poi-
soned her blood stream and he had
given her the shot of serum he bad
said nothing and when the men
talked about her he pretended not
to hear But Ken—how could he
have failed to see that every day
left the little filly with less flesh
less strength less life? Nell remem-
bered a friend whose baby had been
wasting away and yet because of
the daily care and closeness the
warmth and little smiles and tiny
arms still clinging did not know it
until the very end
Ken did not know
Soon Flicka began to go down in
flesh so rapidly that almost over-
night she wasted away to nothing
Every rib showed The glossy hide
was dull and brittle and was pulled
over her skeletoh as if she was a
dead horse
For convenience of unloading the
big hay wagon was left near the
cow-barn corrals every evening
and one morning as McLaughlin and
Howard and the men were walking
down to it Gus leading one of the
work teams which was to be har-
nessed into it Ken was walking with
them carrying the can of oats un-
der his arm He was going to take
Flicka her breakfast
The little mare was waiting for
him at the gate of the corral
When McLaughlin saw her he
stopped walking and a look of hor-
ror spread over his face "What is
that?" he shouted
They all stopped walking and
looked at her and Ken with a face
as white as paper looked back at
his father "It's Flicka" he whis-
pered "She's been getting awfully
thin"
"Thin!" roared McLaughlin
Gus shook his curly head sadly'
"Ay bin thinking she's not goin to
pull out of it" he said
"Pull otit of it? She's dead al-
ready" McLaughlin turned to glare at
Ken "How long has she been like
that?"
"She's been going down awful fast
the last few days—" faltered Ken
"It's de fever" said Gus "It's
burnin her up"
Tim said "It's an awful pity She
was a nifty little filly Hard luck
Ken"
McLaughlin looked at her again
She was nickering for Ken Her
head was up looking at him She
was just bones and a dull lustreless
hide
"That's the end" roared Mc-
Laughlin "I won't have a thing
like that on my place"
He walked on to harness the team
and Ken went slowly to Flicka and
down the path to the stream with
the 'little creature hopping at his
heels Ile poured the oats in her
feed box and she dipped her nose ir
and ate them
(TO BE CNTIN)ED)
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LESSON TEXT—Numbers 10:11 12 29-36
GOLDEN TEXT—Come thou with us and
we will do thee good—Numbers 10:29
There is a time to wait before
God to be instructed and prepared
for holy living Th Lre is also a time
for action When God says "Move
forward" His people are to arise
and be on their way
Israel who had now been more
than a year on the 'way from Egypt
to Canaan had been resting for a
time at Mt Sinai there receiving
instruction and being organized into
a nation They had set up a place
of worship in their midst and now
they were ready to go on That is
God's will for His people They
are to
I Move Toward the Goal (vv 11
12)
God had a schedule He wanted
them to move forward on a certain
day (v II) Since the Jewish re-
ligious year referred to here began
with the spring equinox this was
about the middle of May The dry
season was ahead—a good time to
travel
Those who think the purposes of
God for men are nebulous and un-
certain and that He has no real
plan for us are obviously mistaken
His plan is good and acceptable and
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and fire to move before us We do
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One who will tell every responsive
soul when and where to go
The important thing is to obey
promptly and willingly and we shall
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H Bring Others With You (vv
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Those who go up to the promised
land should not go alone they should
bring others with them
Moses who had been in touch with
the family of his father-in-law
(known both as Jethro and Raguel
or Reuel) now sees the value of
having with him his brother-in-law
who was so acquainted with the
great and terrible wilderness
through which they were to pass
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guide and helper
In giving him the invitation how-
ever Moses stressed the opposite
thought—that it would be good for
flobab if he came with them That
was doubtless true but it was not
the right approach
Men do not respond to the oppor-
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things as readily as to the challenge
to usefulness The motive of acquisi-
tion is strong but the best folk are
not as interested in what they can
get as what they can give
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its value as a place of refuge and
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occasion The ark which common-
ly was found in the midst of the
people now moved out before them
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ence As they went out into the
wilderness (which Deut 1:19 calls
"great and terrible") it was as
though God Himself went before
them
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"Captain of Our Salvation" Jesus
Christ is not One who i tarries in
safety at the rear and sends up or-
ders for us to attack life's prob-
lems He goes before us!
The pillar of cloud hovered over
the people as though to give them
shelter from the beating sun of the
desert God is mindful of the road
His people must travel and in His
loving-kindness provides for their
protection and care
When the ark went forward their
leader Moses addressed God in the
stirring words of verse 35 The peo-
ple whose God is the Lord may
count on Him to scatter their ene-
mies All of human life is either a jour-
ney or a battle and often it is both
We must arise and make valiant
war against the forces of evil if we
are to move forward for God But
we must recall that our foes as
Christians are also God's foes
The battle is not ours but God's
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