The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1907-08-08


and glance into his face.
what Is ft7D she questioned, with:
quick catching Of breath, reading that
which she could not clearly interpret
In his shocked expression
Nothing OF consequence" and he
family e~ndeavored to smile. al sup
pose I must have hsen dreaming also,
and most unpleasantly. No; please do
not look down: It would only
your head to reel, and our upward
climb is not yet completed Do youi
feel strong enough now to make an
other attempt te reach the tep?"
"Can WEI" she questioned heIplessly.
w car, simply because VI must"
and his white teeth shut together arm
ly. There IL NO possibility OF retr&c-
ing our steps downward, bat with the
help of this daylight we surely ought
to be able to discover some path lead
ing up"
He ROSE cautiously t. his feet, press.
ing her more closely against the face
of thu cliff, thus holding her in com
parative safety while preventing her
from glancing back into the dizzy
chasm. The most dificult portion Of
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fore them. More than once they tot
merely by desperate clutchings at rock
or shrub, yet never once did the man
loosen his guarding grasp of hin com
panion. Pressed tightly against tie
smooth rock. feeling for every crevice.
every slightest irregularity of surface.
making use of creeping tendril or
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incl of the way, these two creepsrs
at last attained the opening to N little
galley, and sank down. faint and trern-
bling. The girl glanced furtively Mt
him, the long lashes -shadowing the
expression of her lowered eyes. In
spite of deep prejudice she felt INA
PEELED to like this man; he accom-
plished things, n he didn't talk.
1t was nothing nor serious than q
hard and toilsome climb after that q
continuous struggle testing every mus
Gle, straining every sinew, causing
both to sink down again and again.
painting and exhausted. NO longer stim-
uIated by imminent peril. The narrow
cleft they followed led somewhere
away from the exposed front OF the
precipice, yet arose steep and Jagged
before them. It was bridged finally BY
n cedar trunk. which Hampton
wrenched from out its rocky footholA.
and the two crept cautiously forward,
to emerge where the sunlight rested
golden at the summit. They rank face
downward in the short grass barely
conscious that they had finally wen
their desperate passage.
Slowly Hampton succeeded In up
lifting his tired body and his Keeling
head, until he could sit partially xp-
right and gaz ~uzsteadily about. The
girl yet remained motionlsss at his
feet, her thick hair, a mass of red gold
In the sunshine, completely ~concealing
her face, her slender figure ~quivering
to sobs of utter exhaustion. Before
them stretched the barren plafA,
brown, d~esolate, drear, Offering n all
its wide expanse ne hopeful promise
cf rescue. With hand partially shad-
ing his aching eyes from the binding
glare, the man studied its every ex-
posed feature, his face hardening
again into lines of stern d~eteSnina-
ton The girl stirred from her posi-
@sM, AAA9sag back her heavy hair
vim o1o hand, and locking ~ Int liz
face with yes that read ut once AiS
disappointment.
"Have-have you any water left?"
she asked at last, her lips parched and
burning as II from W.
He shook the canteen dangling for
gotten at his side. There may bsfa
few drops" he said. handing 1t to her.
although scarcely removing his AxsA
gaze from on that dreary plain. we
shall DO obliged to max those trees
yonder; there ought to be water there
In plenty, and possibly we may strike
a-trail."
There was nothing more said 30
tween them. Like TIVE autoRatoRA.
they started on across the parehaa
grass, the heat waves rising IN 9aMe
ing rs they stumbled forwRrA NeithsB
realized HMtil hen 10Y thoroughly
that hard climb up the rocks, he
strain of continued peril, and the lo4G
abstinence from food had slapped tlea1
strength, yet to remain where tAey
were meant certain death; all hogs
found its center amid those distant
reckoning trees.
No can explain later how snch
deeds are ever accomplished; how the
tortured soul controls physical weak
ness, and compels strained sinewseto
perform the miracle of action when
all ambition has died. Hampton sure
IL must have both seer and Known tor
he kept his direction. yet never aftee
wards did he regain any clear neNss