The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-08-14

Again 7 WAS betrayed. "Oh, be still
This is the very place fer game" Th'
hasiy whisper left my lips with an arrowJ
hiss. She gave little gasp as il an arrow
lnOeed had struck her dearest | CRIED
aloud, fer the hunt YVES forgotten. She
turned with bright look, but her eyes
shOne with tears. II didn't mean to- she
said simply. II didn't see any, and Idldn'i
think they'd scare. ] was just little BIZ
afraid myself
burned with remorse. But for The
prudish hunt we should have had a settle
ment then ana there, but cedar skiifs are
sensitive in matters Of decorum and ever
threaten indiscretion with the duckine
stool. Checked in my loverly impulse BY
q FESTIVE lurch, the words that were in my
heert fell back unutte~ed.
1--WE have been moving very slowly
explained. with Rudelike fiuency, land the
Shannore can be heard more than a mile
away. Besides, at the head OF the rapids
they say shere is a small, bare island, Just
where the suck sets IN and the rpples be-
gin to play Keep above that, and with q
good boot and q steady arm there isn't a
shadow Of danger" She turned implor
ing, but was silent; soon she resumed her
WOnted manner.
II suppose it's really chen aoire, she
unused. Almost everything seems to
have started French up here. but it hash I
stayed French. Aud Of course there's a
creepy legend about somebody this dread
ful beast has swallowed. Oh, don't, DON'T
leJ US 50 near himl We're just the ones
that these black death dogs raven after
we are so happy. oearn
We'll turn back at the first sound OF his
bark. And now look sharp for venison; il
is now or never"
II can fancy that I near him at this
minute. But lll be still and watch. OH
What is that" she cried.
] followed her gaze. lit looks like a
dead Dough fioating.n
but why urged she excitedly, 'does
it keep moving out into the rivert'
/ looked more closely. at is a deer
swimming-the rarest chsnce''-I shouted.
and drove forward the wallowing boat
with all force.
We are the children Of a predatory race,
and the sight OF escaping game rouses un-
was as wild as /. crouching in the bow.
painting with eagernoss, her cheeks out.
flaming the dawn-for the moment she was
but beautiful beast of pray.
Our lsborine victim was now within easy
range but the long line of his back and
head, just level with the water, made d
difficult aim. TRY bimlp ] cried, and he
quick rife rang out, but the bullet splashed
3 foot beyond its mark. The animal was
nearing a low sandbar in mid channel. ]
had thought TO run him down before he
reached it. but a sudden eddy swerved US
aside, and already "a he began 10 emerge
we had passed him. watt waitrs ]
cried 'for full flank"
Maoge In tumultuous excitement had
risen &c her feet The deer for one instant
paused TO shake OF the encumbering drip.
The moment was come; with paddle tigh I
gripped and rigid / steadied the frail craft
again the rife Dealed The deer with a
spasm Of pain and effort bounded high and
fell headlonR into the stream beyond.
s'Seel Seel' she screamed, "he's hit.
be struggles; be can't swim. Look. now
the current whirls him ~
"Oh. Madge, sit down. entreated. ano
az ] spoke the frenzy left me- I turueF !
quick glance behind. From the head Of
narrow shoal, now falling quickly aste-n
two long. low divergent pillows stretched
down. EMBEDDING US a. they rolled ana
swayed like the grasping arms of some