The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-10-04


had promised to inaugurate a thor.
ough and extensive search to solve the
mystery Of her death. which he felt
| was certain. in the spring, when the
weather permitted humanity to have
| free course thvough the mountains.
! Mr. Stephen Maitland found a GER
! tain melancholy satisfaction In being
at least near the place where neither
! he nor am one had any doubt his
! daughters remains lay hid beneath
! the snow or ice on the mountains in
the freezing cold. Robert Maitland
had no other idea than that Enid g
| body was in the lake. He intended to
/ drain tan engineering task of no
! great ditliculty-and yet he intended.
| also, to search the hills for miles on
either side of the main stream down
which she had gone. for she might
/ possibly have strayed away and died
of starvation and exposure, rather
than drowning. At any rate, he
would leave nothing undone to dscov-
, err her
He had strenuously opposed Arm.
strong's recklessly expressed inten-
ti0n of going into the mountains i'm
mediately to search for her Arm
strong was not easily moved from any
purpose he entertained. or lightly to
be hindered from attempting any en-
terprise that he projected, but by, the
time the party reached Denver the
winter had set in, and even he real
lied the futility of any immediate
search FOR a dead body lost in the
mountains. Admitting that Enid was
dead. the conclusions were sound. of
course
The others pointed out to Armstrong
that if the woman they all loved had
by any fortunate chance escaped the
cloudburst, she must inevitably have
persisted from cold. starvation and ex-
posture in the mountain long since
There was scarcely a possibility that
she could have escaped the flood, but
il she had. it would only to be de-
voted to death little later If she
was not in the lake. what remained Of
her would be in some lateral canon.
1t would be impossible to discover
her body in the deep SHOWS until the
spring and the warm weather came.
When the SHOWS melted what was con-
cealed would be revealed. Alone, she
could do nothing. And admitting again
that Enid was alone, this conclusion
was as sound as the other.
that Enid Maitland was yet alive, ex-
cept, perhaps, her father, Mr. Stephen
Maitland. They could not convince
him, he was so old and set in his opin-
ions and so utterly unfamiliar with the
conditions that they tried to describe
to him, that he chung tC his belief in
spite of all, and finally they let him
take such comfort as he could from
his vain hope without any further at
tempt at contradiction.
In spite of all the arguments. how
ever. Mr.. James Armstrong wac not
satisfied. He was as hopeless as the
rest, but his temperament would not
permit him to accept the inevitable
calmly. 1t was barely possible that
she might not be dead, and that she
might not be alone. There was scarce
up enough possibility of this to justify
suspicion, but that is not saying
there was none at all
Day after day he had sat in his Of
flee denying himself to everyone and
refusing to consider anything. brood
ing over the situation. He loved Enid
Maitland, he loved her before, and now
that he had lost her. he loved her still
more,
CTO BE CONTINUEDJ