New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-05-31

which GRAY handed to him improvIsed sphnts,
shaped and followed out 50 as to mt as evenly as
which he made by cutting up his belt Then he
spent fully three hours getting the disabled man
cut Of the fallen timber.
When making camp that night Smith prepared
. heavy mattress of boughs for the sergeant to lie
n but his pain great to allow HIM to sleep.
Next morning he took off his cartridge belt and
handed it with the revolver to the outlaw Here,
Smith" he SAID; they are more use to you than
t me now
Without a word Smith took them, strapped them
IN turned and dsappeared among the trees. Be
fore noon he came back with a hare, owl, and
three grouse; and with the news that the Beaver
River flowed in the very next valley
'That's our only way out, he SAID . an III
few davs the current ought to carry US down 70
Fort Mackenzie The trader III charge IS a doctor,
an he fix you up.
by evening Of the following day they were camping
- on the bank of the Beaver River Though the
sergeant had done manfully on lmProv1sed CrutcheS
Smith had carried him his back more than halt
the wav That evening the outlaw wandered tar
up stream in search of logs with which to make a
raft Finding a stranded treetrunk, he gradually
worked it into the river, and spent the greater
part Of the night flashing dritwoOd on either side,
with the help of long strips OF willow bark soon
after daylight he managed to XII tour ducks ana
after cooking them for breakfast, made the con-
stable as comfortable possible on the rCkety,
wave washed raft. Then he showed off for Fort
Mackenzie.
the raft out into the current An there's only
one rapid between here an the fort, an that's at
the Gap. If the water low, we can make 1t; but
when it S high no one but a dead man ever made
the run
All dav they drifted down the winding river as
# flowed between the mountains and the hills he
grandeur of the lofty peaks on either SIDE made the
men feel if they were nothing more than para
sites clnging tiny tw1g and Wh1rled along a
swollen stream; their individual lives seemed to
chem of scarcely more Importance In silence they
passed the hours of the day, and each realized how
itte difference it would make to the world if he
was never heard of again. They were hushed and
awed by the majesty OF Nature ana Oh the all pow"
erf,i Being whose will she Obeyed.
smith do you believe in Cod" the sergeant
asked
Never, when I'm among the boys in town
rep1ied the outlaw but when I'm nOthin more
than = louise clingn to a foatin' straw. | sure do
That's it exactly" exclaimed the constable
"and it's just the same in barracks After a
moments reflection he continued, The only athe
ISIS | ever knew not the men that lived in the
woods or on the mountains either; they were al
WAYS those who could farther than the four
walls of their little in the crowded city It's
IN the ctv that men forget there is a God"
For some hours the river had been rapidly rising
The intense heat of the last few days had melted
the snow the mountains swiftly that in a
single day the little brooks among the hills had
swelcd into riotous rivers. All night long Smith
kept the raft under way, and the chilly dawn found
him still at work. Already the river had risen some
thirty feet, and carrying the raft along at a
speed that threatened to wreck it at every mo-
ment. BY they had passed the ford where
the trail crossed for Fort Mackenzie. But the ford
was under twenty feet of water.
It'll be hell at the Gap to-day said Smith so
we'd best lay off above an wait till the water falls
This cool an cloudy Weatherl stop the flood so by
to morrow ought make the fort in safety
Soon they swept into narrow canon, whose
high, rocky, almost perpendicular walls shut IN the
river for the next four miles, ending what is
locally known the Gap. There the banks stood
held back the river like a great suice and there a
raging torrent reared Immediately beyond the