Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1895-11-10

made and ascend the clif The part
Of the way she had TO climb among the
rocks. BY chance she found the object
Of her search, Harold Fuhr. he was
occupying a small tent. had a gun and
ammunition, and proiessed 10 be en-
joying quiet hunt This point of the
mountains was accessible. but being OF
any known trail and seldom explored.
Their meeting was a little awkward al
first. but FUhr had come here with
purpose. and it served him well TO use
Myrtle in his plan. He declared that
he had been searching for her that be
hadalways been intending tor5turn, bu.
had feared that she did not really care
for him. with other lies Of the same sort.
Nyrtle's nature was a passionate un-
reasoning one. She soon felt her own
fascination for him, and revealed all
that had passed. including the dislike
Of her husband because Of the revela-
ti0n of his crime Harold Fuhr listen
ed and he seemed to feel even more
than her share OF anger at the story Of
the act of the unfortunate Louis. He
suggested 10 Myrtle that she leave her
husband. as could be independent. He
then gave her 10 understand that if She
were free he would know greater hap
piness than to make her his wife.
Myrtle listened with plasure to these
pr0testations. and forgetting the lesson
of The past and the really honest
devotion OF her husband, promised 10
go away with Fuhr the following even
ing She was 10 leave the ladder
against the cliff as if placed there by
accident, and was to climb up in the
night and meet him at the summit. As
soon as it was light they would hunt
the trail and get away.
The night come. but it was dark with
heavy clouds. Louis had returned from
town and he was out OF spirits and de-
pressed. He heard q story which had
alarmed him, though none told r. think
ing it concerned him. IL was of man
who had appeared in the place and told
his 6rrand so freely that some thought
he was insane. His son. he said, had
been killed I'm an overturned car. and
he had long been hunting the train
VIeczer. whom he now believed to be
living somewhere in these mountains
WAS ever q search so wild as this?'
they asked On that night Louis lay
thinking about this but at last, eX-
haus-ed by his long trip, fell asleep.
Myrtle. ready dressed, with a little bum
die i'm her hand stood at the foot of the
ladder ready TO ascend, when she heard
footsteps on the rungs above Some
moments passed a sudden flash of
lightning illumined the place. 1t
showed Fuhr descending the ladder
with Myrtle at its base and the face of
Louis. who. alarmed by his wife S alb
sence. was peering from the door. If il
could only have illumined their
thoughts as we'll revealing the armed
man. his eyes wild with desire as he
thought himself so near revenge for the
death of his son; disclosing the woman,
with her passionate, unreasoning at-
lection. showing the ranchman, troub-
Ted and uneasy. always imagining eve
rv strange shape was the ghost Of that
murdered boy In another moment
there was a loud crash from above. as
if the earth were rent in twain. The
men instantly OWNED the meaning of
t. A cloudburst i'm the mountains.
Would iJ touch them2 Even as they
all raised their questioning faces TO-
ward heaven. the answer came like a
deluge: wall of water fell upon them.
and never more would their storm
tossed hearts know revenge or love or
fear.
That was five years ago. Nature
with her kind hand has covered over