Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1907-10-25

Imt They settle down for summers
stay.
CHAPTER v.-Chip and Ray are in
love. but no one realized this but Cy
walker. Strange canoe marks found on
lake shore IN front OF Their ca6is-
CHAPTER VI-strange smoke is seen
Iacross the lake. Martin and Levi leave
Ear settlement to get officers to arrest
Mcclure, who is known as outlaw and
ESCAPED murderer
CHAPTER vII-Chip's one woods
friend, Tomah, an Indian, visits camp,
Ray believes he sees bear on the
ridge
CHAPTER VI1I--chip Is stolen by
Pete Bolduc and escapes with her in
canoe.
CHAPTER Ix.-Chip is rescued by
Martin and Levi as they are returned
from the settlement Bolduc escapes.
CHAPTER Viii.
Old Cy's suspicious were correct. 1t
was neither bear, deer, nor wildcat
that Ray saw skulking along the
ridge, but the half-breed
Believing Chips father had taken
her out of the wilderness, or more
likely upstream to find a place with
these campers, he had come here to
seek her. To find her here, as he of
course did, only convinced him that
his suspicious were true and that her
father had thus meant to rob him.
Two determined impulses now fol-
lowed this discovery: First, to make
the girl he had bought a prisoner,
carry her into the woods, and then,
when the chance came, revenge him
self on Mcclure. No sense of law, or
decency even, entered his calculation.
He was beyond such scruples, and
what he wanted was his only law
The fear of rifles, which he knew,
were plenty enough at this camp, was
the only factor to be considered For
days he watched the camp from
across the lake, hoping that the girl
he saw canoeing with boy so often
might come near enough for him to
make capture. Many times, when
darkness served, he padded close to
where the cabin stood, and once land
ed and watched it for hours
Growing bolder, as the days wore
on, he hid his canoe below the outlet
Of the lake and taking advantage of
this outcrOpping slate ledge with its
many assures, secreted himself and
watched
But some shelter, at least to cook
and eat in, he must have, and this he
found in distant creyasse of this
same ledge, and from this he sneaked
along back of it until he could hide
and watch the camp below. From this
vantage-point he saw that the girl nc
longer went out upon the lake, but re-
NAMED near the cabin; then, later. he
noticed the two men leave the lake one
morning This encouraged him, and
now he grew still holder, even de-
scending the ridge and watching those
remaining at the cabin, from a dense
thicket.
From this new post he saw that but
one man seemed on guard, and almost
was he tempted to shoot him from
ambush and make a dash to capture
his victim. Cautious and cunning, be
still waited a chance involving less
risk.
And now he saw that certain duties
We're performed by these people; that
one man and the boy always started
the morning fire; that the girl invari-
ably went to the landing alone for wa
ter at about the same time. Here for
the moment she was out Of sight from
either cabin, and now in this act of
hers, he saw his opportunity to land
from his canoe near this spot before
daylight, and hide in the bushes firing
ing the shore here and below the bank,
watch his chance and seize and gag
her before an cutlery could be made,
10 tie her hands and feet and to push
the other canoe out into the lake, thus
avoiding pursuit until they could get a
good start, was an easy matter.
1t was risky, of course. She might
near or see him in time to give one
scream. The old man who had said
foolish things to him, and now seem
ed to be on guard, would surely SEND
bullets after him as he sped away
nut once out of the lake, he woulc
o0 sdie. IL was dangerous act; ye
me other two men might return any
gay, and with this in prospect, this
wiley half-breed now resolved to act
Old Cy was UP early that fata
morning. Somehow a sense of i'm
pending danger. haunted him, and call
ing Ray, he unlocked the cabin doc
and began starting the morning fire
ne wanted to get breakfast out of tn
way as speedily as possible, and thel
visit this ridge, feeling almost sur
mat he would find where this hall
OFeed had been watching them.
When Ray came out, and before tn
hermit or Chip appeared, Old Cy hui
fIed over to the ice-house. and nov
Onlp came forth as usual, and with