The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-02-28
BY Jack COndOn

htf, When the sharp craCkle OF match
startled him TO himself. Winepie, alien
+ to the scene. was lighting the slow
wick Of the sIush lamp. she appeared
/ TO start out against a background OF
utter black, and the fame, f1aring sud
denly up, lighted her bronze beauty TO
royal gold.
You see. it is impossible" he
! groaned, thrusting the fair-haired wo-
: man gently from him. ct as impossi-
/ BILE" he repeated. 1T is impossible"
/ Il am not a girl Dave, with a girls
+ illusions" she said softly. though not
/ daring to come back to him. eft is as
a woman that I understand. Men are
men. A common custom Of the coun>
/ try. I am not shocked. 1 OWNED il
from the first"
ct Is impossible"
I but it is not" She was at his side
again, her hand touching lightly, ca
ressingly, the sunburned back of his.
| NO, no" he protested. 1T is not
right"
Come, Dave, you must see. She is
not your kind. There is no race Atm
ity. She is an abOrigine, sprung from
the soil, and impossible to lift from the
soil. Born savage, savage she viii die.
/ But We-yOu and 1.-The dominant
evolved race-the salt OF the earth and
the masters thereof We are made for
/ each other The supreme call is of
kind Reason and feeling dictate it.
Your very instinct demands it. That
! you cannot deny. You cannot escape
the generations behind YOU. Yours is
an ancestry which had survived for a
thousand centuries, and for a hundred
/ thousand centuries, and your line must
not stop here. It cannot. Your anceS-
/ try viii not permit it. Instinct is
stronger than the will. The race is
mightier than you. Come, Dave, let
US go. We are young yet, and life is
/ good. Come"
Winapie, passing out of the cabin to
feed the dogs, caught his attention and
! caused him to shake his head and
| weakly TO reiterate. But the woman's
hand slipped about his neck. and her
( cheek pressed to his. His bleak life
rose UP and smOte him-the vain strug-
gle with pitiless forces; the dreary
years Of frost and famine; the harsh
and Earring contact with elemental
( life; the aching void which mere ami
NAL existence could not fill.
Come, Dave. come. have for both.
The way is soft" She looked aboue her
| at the bare furnishings Of the cabin
/ I have for both. The world is at our
feet, and al joy is ours Comet
Gomez
She was in his arms, trembling, and
he held her tightly. He rose to his feet
Bur the snarling of hungry
! dogs and the shTil cries of Winapie
/ bringing about peace between the COM
I batants came muff1ed to his ear
/ through the heavy logs. And another
scene flashed before him. A struggle
in the forest-a bald-faced grizzly
broken-iegged, terrible; the snarling Of
the dogs and the shFill cries Of Win
apie as she urged them to the attack;
( himself in the midst Of the crush
/ bFeathless. painting, striving to hold off
I red death; brOken-backed. entTail-
ripped dogs bowling in impotent an
/ guish and Decorating the snow; the
virgin white running scarlet with the
blood of man and beast; the bear, fe-
rOciOus, irresistible, crunching, crunch
ing doWI 10 the core of his life, and
! Winapie at the last, in the thick OF the
/ frightful muddie, hair flying, eyes
flashing, fury incarnate. passing the
long hunting knife again and again.
( Sweat started to his forehead. He
shook off the clinging woman and stag
gered back TO the wall. And she,
knowing that the moment had come.
but unable to divine what was passing
within him, felt all she had gained
slipping away.
Dave! Dave" she cried. Il will not
ecme we viii stay. I will stay with
you. The world is less to me than are
| you. I viii be a Northland wife to you.
/ win cook your food. feed your dogs,
break trail for you, lift a paddle with
/ you. 1 can DO il. Believe me, 1 am
strong"
She sank to the and threw her
! arms about his knees, sobbing. And
! YOU do care for me. You do care for
7 ri ~
/ waited-suffered. You can never
/ know"
He stopped and raised her to her feet.
Listen, he commanded, opening the
door and lifting her bodily outside. 1T
cannot be. We are not alone TO be
/ considered. Tou must go. / wish you a
safe journey. You win find IL tougher
work when you get up BY the Sixty
I Mile. but you have the best boatman in
/ the world and viii get through all
/ right. VIII you say Goodbye"
Though she already had herself IN
hand. she looked at him hopelessly. "If
tiff Winapie should" She Quavered
and stopped.
But he grasped the unspoken thought
I and answered Yes" Then, struck
| with the enormity of it: 1T cannot be
/ conceived. There is no likelihood. II
must not be entertained"
Kiss me" she whispered, her face
! lighting Then she turned and went
! away.
Break camp, Pierre she said TO the
! boatman. who alone had remained
awake against her return. we must
be going"
BY the frelight his sharp eyes
! scanned the woe in her face. but he
( received the extraordinary command
/ as though 1t we're the most usual thing
! in the world
Which way? Dawson p.
NO" she answered, lightly enough.
| "Up-out--Dyea."
Mrs. Sayther waited till the luggage
was made shipshape and her nest pre-
/ pared.
We line up TO de head OF De island, -
/ Pierre explained to her while running
out the long tow rope. Den we tax
to das back channel, where de water
not queek, and I t'ink we max good
/ tam"
\ scufiing and pattering Of feet IN
the last years dry grass caught his
I quick ear, and he turned his head. The
Indian girl, circled by a bristling ring
| of wolf dogs. was coming toward them.
( Mrs. Sayther noted that the girls face,
| which had been spathetic throughout
the scene in the cabin, had now quick
! ened into blazing and wrathful life
What you do my MANI" she de-
! manded abruptly Of Mrs. Ssyther.
| Him lay on bunk, and him look bad
| ali the time. / say What the matter.
/ Dave? You sick2 But him no say
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