Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1912-02-14
up the canon now. l take IT,

| quicker the better as you say, and
we can head off George and the 9TH
ers that way"
They searched the pile eagerly, pry-
ing under it, peering into it, upsetting
it, so far as they could with their
naked hands, but with little result, for
they found nothing else They had to
camp another day, and next morning
they hurried straight over the noun
tains, reaching the settlement almost
as soon as the others Maitland with
furious energy at once organized a re-
lief party. They hurried back to the
logs, tore the jam to pieces, searched
| it carefully and found nothing. To
drag the lake was impossible It was
hundreds Of feet deep and while they
worked it frOze. The weather had
changed some days before, heavy
SHOWS had already fallen; they had to
get out Of the mountains without
| further delay or else be frozen up to
die. Then and not till then did Matt
land give up hope He had refrained
from wiring to Philadelphia, but when
he reached a telegraph line some ten
days after the cloudburst, he sent a
long message east, breaking to his
brother the awful tidings.
And in all that they did he and
Kirkby, two Of the shrewdest and
most experienced of men, showed
with singular exactitude how easy it
is for the wisest and most capable
of men to make mistakes, to leave the
plain trail, to fail to deduce the truth
from the facts presented. Yet it is
difficult to point to a fault in their
reasoning, or to find anything left I'M
done in the search!
Enid had started down the canon;
near the end of it they had discovered
one Of her garments which they could
not conceive any reason for her TAX
ing off. 1t was near the battered body
of one Of the biggest Grizzlies that
either man had ever seen, it had evil
dence of blood stains upon it; still,
they had found no body, but they
I were as profoundly sure that the man
gled remains Of the poor girl lay with
in the depths of that mountain lake
as if they had actually seen her there.
The logic was all fiawless.
Tt SO happened that OH that NOvem-
Der morning, when the telegram was
approaching him, Mr.. Stephen Matt
land had a caller. He came at an I'M
| usually early hour. Mr.. Stephen
Maitland, who was no longer an early
riser, had indeed just finished his
breakfast when the card Of Mr. James
Armstrong Of Colorado was handed to
him.
This, I suppose" he thought test
lily, sis one Of the results of Ends
wanderings into that God-forsaken
land. Did you ask the man his bust
ness, James?" he said aloud to the
footman
eyes, sir. He said he wanted to see
you on important business, and when
I made bold to ask him what bust
ness, he said it was none of mine, and
for me to take the message to you,
sir"
'Impudent," growled Mr. Maitland
eyes, sir, but he is the kind of a
gentleman you don't talk back to, sir"
well, you go back and tell him
that you have given me his card, and
should like to know what he wishes
to see me about, that I am very busy
this morning and unless it is mat
ter of importance-you understand"
Eyes, SIR
81 suppose now I shall have the
whole west unloaded upon me; every
vagabond friend of Roberts and peo-
pie who meet Enid" he thought, but
his reveries were shortly interrupted
by the return of the man.
eff you please, sir" began James
hesitatingly, as he re-entered the
room, she says his business is about
the young lady, sir"
"Confound his impudence!" ex-
claimed Mr.. Maitland, more and more
annoyed at what he was pleased to
characterize mentally as western as
surance. "Where is hep"
'In the hall, sir"
''Show him into the library and say
I shall be down in a moment"
Very good, sir"
It was a decidedly wrathful individ-
ual who confronted Stephen Maitland
a few moments afterward in the Ii
brary, for Armstrong was not accus-
toned to such cavalier treatment, and
| had Maitland been other than Ends
| father he would have given more out
ward expression at his Indignation
over the discourtesy in his reception.
''Mr. James Armstrong, I believe"
| began Mr. Maitland, looking at the
card in his hand.
eyes, sir"
''Er-from Colorado"
eAnd proud Of it."
"Ah, I dare say. believe you wish
ed to see me about"
your daughter, sir"
"And in what way are you concern
ed about her, sir?"
81 wish to make her my wife,"
| Great Cod" exclaimed the older