Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-01-09

den change as had bsen constant to
remembrance, and abiding ia his de
termination for five swift moving
years. The world tor him had stopped
It's progress In ons brief momsnt Eve
years back-ths rest WINS silence.
What had happened since then out
yonder where people were mated he
did not know and he did not greatly
care.
In HIS visits to the settlements he
asked no questions, he bought NO pa
pers, he manifested No interest In
the world; some things In him had
died In one fell moment, and there
had been, az set, no resurrection. Yet
lffe, hope. and ambition do not die.
they are indeed eternal. Resurgaml
Life with Its tremendous activities.
its awful ~anxieties, its wearing strains,
it's rare triumphs, its opportunities
for achievement, for service; hope
with its Nominations, its encourage
ments, Its expectations, ambition
with its stimulus, Its force, its power;
ASia, &IS6lC6t III d3tp f9F1, it1<h fEAl10-
all three were latent In him. In touch
with a woman these had gone. Some
thing as powerful and as human must
bring them back.
It was against nature that q man
lowered ~ he should SO live to HIM
self alone. Some Voice should cry In
his soul in it's eerements of futile re-
morse. vain expiations and benumbing
recoIlections gonre day he should
burst these grave clothes self-wound
about him and be once more a man
and a master among men, rather than
the hermit and thesrecIuse OF the soli-
Etudes.
Flo did not allow these thoughts to
come into his life; indeed, 1t 10 quite
likely that he scarcely realized them
at all yet; such possibilities did not
present themselves to him. Perhaps
the ma was a little mad that morn
ing, maybe4he trennbled on the verge
of a hreak--upward. downward, ]
know not so It be away-unceascious-
ly as he strobe along the range that
morning.
He had been walking for some
hours, and as he grew thirsty 1t oc-
Cured to him to descend to the level
Of the brock which he heard below him
and of which he sometimes caught
a flashing glimpse through the trees.
He scrambled down the rocks and
found himself in q thick grove of
pine. Making his way slowly and with
great diffculty through the tangle OF
fallen timber which lay in every d.
r~ection, the sound of a human voice,
the last thing on earth to be expected
In that wilderness, smote upon the
fearful hollow OF his ear.
Any voice or any word then and
there would have surprised him, but
there WAS a note of awful terror In
this voice, a sound of frightened APP
peal. The desperation in the cry left
him 20 moment for thought, the der
mand was for action. The cry was
not addressed to him, apparently, but
10 God. yet It was he who answered
sent doubtless by that Overlooking
Power who works In such mysterious
ways His wonder to performi
He ieaped over the intervening
trees TO the edge OF the forest where
the rapid waters ran. To the right
of him rose q huge rock. or cliff, IN
front of him the canon bent sharply
60 Lns norla. and beneath iim q lew
rods away a speck OF white CLEANED
above the water OF 9 deep and still
pool that he knew.
There wa a woman therei
He had time for but the swiftest
glance: he had surHaised that the voice
a not that OF a mans voice Instant
ly he heard IT. and now he was cure.
She stood white breast deep in the wa
ter staring ahead of her. The next
second he saw what had alarmed her
"a Grizzly Bear. the largest. fiercest,
most forbtdaing speciman he had ever
seen. There were q few of those mon
sters still left In the range; he him.
self had killed several.
Tbs woman. had not Q him. He
was . silent man by long habit. ae-
cnstonled to saying nothing. he said
nothing uDW. But Instantly aiming
from the hip with q wondroug skill
and q perfect mastery OF the weapon,
and indeed 1t was a short range for
go huge a target. he pumped bullet
after bullet from his Winchester into
the evil monarch Of the mountains.
The first shot did FOR him, but maxi
ing assurance double and treble sure,