Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1909-05-14

.sThe most ronGcTul thing has hop- !
pCncd," she bean i
not. He will come, and shall KNOW
him. For a year ! have felt that the
time was growing short, and now
know it,
mo. no." Alluna cried. I'VE have
no strangers here. No white men eN-
cent the soldiers and this one have
come in wear. This is but little
trading post
at was yesterday, but it isn't to-
day. Lee has made a strike, IKE th'
one George Carmack maze Oh tht
KIondike. He came to tell ME ana
Poleon. and we are going back WIN
him tonight, but you must say MOTH
ing or it will start stampede
"Other men will come-a great many
If them?" Intercepted Aluna fearful
IL. ignoring utterly the momentouS
news.
Eyes. Flambeau will be another
Dawson if this find is what Lee THINKS
II IS. | stayed away from the upper
country because knew crowds OF men
would come from the states, ana l
feared that he might be among them'
but it's no use hiding any longer.
There's no other place for us to 60 IL
Lee has got a mine I'll have the one
next to 1t. for we will be the first ones
on the ground. What happens AFTER
that won't matter much. You four VIII
be provided for. We are to leave III an
borr one at time, to avoid COM
ment." 90,
"But why cid this man step hereF
insisted the woman. why did he not
stav on the steamboat and 60 to DaW-
SOM"
Hes a friend of Lees. He is going
with u.s." Then he added almost Ill a
whisper, Before we return | snail
know"
AUuna seized his arm. promise TO
come back, John! Promise that you
will come back even If this should be
the man."
81 promise. Don't worry, little wO-
man. I'm not ready for a reckoning
yet"
AS he turned away she laid her hand
on his arm and said:
IF YOU do not know him he VIII NOT
know YOU. Is il not 500?
Eyes"
"Then the rest is easy"
But he only shook his head doubt
fully and answered, perhaps; az
not sure" and went inside, where lie
made up light pack of bacon, noul
and tea, pail or two, cofeepot ano
o irving pan. which he rolled inside
} robo of rabbit skin and bound abou
IN turn with light tarpaulin. 1t dlo
not weigh thirty pounds in all. Selec'
ing a new pair Of water boots, NJ
stuffed dry grass inside them, olieo VI
his six shooter. then slipped out th'
back way and in five minutes was ma
don in the thickets. Half an hou
later having completed detour O.
, the town, he struck the trail to the In
terror. where he found Poleon Doret
, equipped in u similar manner, resting
beside q stream, singing the songs OF
his people.
When Burrell returned to his quar-
, tiers he tried to mitigate the feellnS o.
, lonesomeness that oppressed MN D1
tackling his neglected correspondence
J Somehow today the sense of his 1soia
y ton had come over him stronger thai
1 ever His rank forbade any intimac!
with his miserable handful OF men
I whc had already fallen into the mo
v notony of routine, while every 1rienu
I " overture he made toward the cit
o zens Of Flambeau was met with dls
trust and coldness, his stripes or ONO
seeming to erect barrier and 1nduc
a nm ostracism stronger and more com
plete than if they had been emblem
of the penitentiary. Even Doret an
the trader seemed to share the genera
feeling: hence the thought of the Ions
" lonesome winter approaching reduce
the lieutenant to a state or black az
+ spondency, deepened by the knoWleds
that he now had an open enemy l
4 camp In the person Of Runnion. Incl
- TOO. he had taken morbid d1sllke
the new man, Stark. SO that all i'll a
8 the youth felt he had good reason to
e in the dumps this afternoon. liner
y was nothing desirable in this place
t, everything undesirable-except Necl
q Her presence in Flambeau went IL
r toward making his humdrum existent
bcarable, but of late he had foun
lie himself dwelling with growing ser
r BUSINESS on the unhappy circumstance
n of her birth and had almost made U
b. his mind that it would be wise not
see her any more. The tempting vlsic
e. Of her in the ball dress remained v1Vi
Is " In his imagination, causing III
" hours of sweet torment. There was
Il, sparkle. a fineness, gentleness, abo'
st her that seemed to make the few W
So men he had known well dull and cor
re monplace, and even his sister, who
r. till NOW ha had held as the perfecti(
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