The Mena weekly star., 1912-05-16
ioopyright. 1911. By W. @. chapman.)
Continued from last issue)
CHAPTER x.

Nm the NO OIuCS VI TIC goOFs
THE cabin contained a large and a
email room. In the wall between
.bam there was doorway closed by
an ordinary batten door with wood
on latch and no lock. Closed it served
~ hide the occupant of one room
from the view of the other. otherwise
n was but feeble protection. Even
had II possessed lock, vigorous
man could have burst 1t through In
These thoughts did not come very
clearly to End Maitland. Few
thoughts of any kind came to her.
Where she lay she could see plainly
the dancing light of the glorious fire.
She was warm. the deity wrapped
bandage, the healing lotion upon her
foot had greatly relieved the pain In
that wounded member The bed was
hard but comfortable, much more so
than the sleeping bags TO which of
late she had been accustomed.
Few women had gone through such
experiences, mental and physical, as
had befallen her within the last few
hours and lived to tell the story. Had
1t not been for the exhaustive strains
OF body and spirit to which she had
been subjected. her mental faculties
would have been on the alert and the
strangeness of her unique position
would have made her so nervous that
she could not have slept
For the time being. however, the
physical demands upon her entity
we're paramount; she was dry. she
was warm, she was fed, she was free
from anxiety and she was absolutely
unutterably weary. Her thoughts
were vague, inchoate. unconcentrated.
The fire wavered before her eyes, she
closed them in few moments and
did not open them.
Without thought without a care,
she fell asleep. Her repose was COM
plete, not dream even disturbed the
profound slumber into which she
sank Pretty picture she made; her
lead thrown backward. her golden
hair roughly dried and quickly plait-
ed in long braids, one Of which fell
along the pillow while the other
curled lovingly around her neck. Her
face in the natural light would have
looked pallid from what she had gone
through, but the fire cast red glows
upon 1t: the fltful light fiickered
across her countenanoe and some
times deep shadows unrelieved ao-
centuated the paleness born of her
sufferings.
There is no Hight that plays SO
many tricks with the imagination. or
that so stimulates the fancy as the
light of an open fire. In it's sudden
outbursts 1t sometimes seems TO add
life touches TO the sleeping and the
dead. Had there been any eye to see
this girl, she would have made de-
lightful picture in the warm glow
no eyes to look. however. save those
which belonged to the man on the
other side of the door.
On the hither side Of that door IN
the room where the fire burned on the
hearth, there was rest In the heart Of
N"N CNt0RAAts Oi t4tG 1at th@t ct0O
where the fire only burned In the
heart, there was tumult. Not outward
and visible, but inward and spiritual.
and yet there was no lack Of apparent
manifestation Of the turmoil in the
mans soul.
Albeit the room was smaller than
the other. It was still of good size
He walked nervously up and down
from one end TO the other as cease-
iessly as a wild animal impatient of
captivity stalks the narrow limits OF
his contracted cage. The even tenor
Of his life had suddenly been diverted.
Ine ordinary sequence of his days
mad been abruptly changed. The pri-
vacy OF five years which he had hoped
and dreamed might exist as long as
ne, had been rudely broken IN upon
humanity, which he had avoided,
from which he had fed. which he had
cast away forever, had found him.
Abiit, excessit, evasit. erupitl And. 10,
MS departures were all In vain! The
world with all its grandeur and It's In
significance, with all fits powers and
us weaknesses. with all its opportu-
hiues and its obligations, with all its
Joys and its sorrows, had knocked at
MS door; and that the knocking hand
was that OF q woman. but added to
MS perplexity and to his dismay.
ne had cherished a dream that no
could live to himself alone with but a
memory to bear him company, and
rom that dream he had been thun,
ueFously awakened Everything was
changed. What had once been easy
haa now become impossible. He
might send her away, But though he
s"ore her 70 secrecy abe would have
20 tel her story and something OF hia:
NC world would learn some Of Il and
seek him out with Unsuitable curios-
ity to know the rest
Ayes as keen as his would present.
search and scrptinize the noun
..s'ns where be had roamed alone.
ney would see what be had seen.
aha what be haa found Mankind,
se'aaasting. would swnrn and hive
slon the bills and fight and love and
DFeed and die. Great God.
'e eoulo of course Move en-. but
"heref And went he uhifhersoexer
II niEht be would now Of necessity
W witA him another memory
~-.en would not dwell within his
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