Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1912-03-28

thrills the girl but she hesitates, ana
Armstrong goes egst on business with
sout q definite answer,
Z cHAFTER III. Enid hears the story
of mining engineer, Newbod whose
wife fell off cliff and was so seriously
hurt that he was compelled to shoot her
to prevent her being eaten by wolves
CHAPTER Iv.-Kirkby the old guide
who tells the story. gives Enid package
Of letters which he says were found on
letters and at Kirkby's request keeps
them.
, CHAPTER V--While Enid Ia bathing
In the river In fancied solitude, a big
bear appears on the bank and is about
TO plunge into the water to attack the
girl when a shot rings out and the ami
NAL is killed by strange man.
CHAPTER vI.-Enid Is caught in a
storm which wipes out her party's camp.
She is dashed upon the rocks and in
1ured. The strange man who shot the
bear finds, her unconscious and carries
her to shelter.
CHAPTER yIT.-dembers OF the camp
Ing party realizing that Enid Is lost In
the storm institute frantic search for
the missing girl
CHAPTER vIII-No trace of her is
found and word Is telegraphed to. her
father. James Armstrong Is asking the
father for Ends hand when. the telegram
arrives expressing the belief that the
girl is dead. Armstrong says he will find
her. and Maitland agrees to their mar
riage II he succeeds.
CHAPTER Ix.--Enid regains conscious
ness In the hut of the man. who had
rescued her from the bear and he
dresses her foot which had been severely
injured.
CHAPTER X-The girl spends fairly
comfortable night. but her host in the
next room restless one MS he lives over
days that are gone. He has some secret
in his life.
I CHAPTER XI.--Elorning finds Enid re-
freshed and ready for the substantial
breakfast the man has prepared for her
CHAPTER XII.-Her rescuer goes in
search of Ends party but returns at
nIghtfall alone and unsuccessful: In. his
absence she discovers books which show
him to be man Of education.
CHAPTER xIII.-Enid finds that she
must remain In the mountains until her
foot is better and the mountain trails
passable, or permit her companion to
leave her alone for week while he goes
him remain with her. "a
CHAPTER XIV. = A whole month
.Iissss = fore rinld's foot is thoroughly
She Is In love with the strange
silent man who ffftfuaesv himself as
little as possible on her ~netice.
CHAPTER Xv.-The man hmes TO a
realization CT HIS love for her Ibut natur-
/ally In. that strange solitude the rcls-
lions OF the gir and her rescher become
ipApatural and strained.
given way to his desires. But he
all these things in his heart, pom.
Ddered them and made no sign.
Did she ask beauty in her lover?
All, there at last he failed. Accord
ing to the canons of perfection he
did not measure up TO the standard
His features were irregular, his chin
"a trife too square, his mouth q
thought too Arm, his brow wrinkled a
little; but he was good to look at TO:
lie looked strons, lie looked clean and
he looLed true. There was about
him, too, that stamp of practical ef
flciency that men who can, do things
always have. You looked at him and
you felt sure that what he undertook
that he would accomplish, that de
cision and capability were incarnatt
in him.
But after all the things are sail
love goes where it is sent, and
], at least, am not the sender
This woman loved this man Meth
er because nor in spite of thesC
: qualities. That they were might
account for her affection, but II they
had not been, it may be that that af
fiction, that that passion, would hay,
.inhabitated her heart still. No on,
can say, no one can tell how or why
those things are. She had loved hin
while she rsged against him and hat
ed him. She did neither the one MOI
the other OF those two last things
now, and she loved him the more.
Mystery is a great mover; there 4
nothing so attractive as a problem W,
'cannot solve. The very situation O
the man, how ho came there, wha
he did there, Why 10 remained there
questions to which che had yet NJ
-znswer, stimulated her profoundly
Because she did not know she ques
tioned in secret; interest was arouse,
and the transition to love was easy.
Propinquhy too, is responsible TO
rDzny an affection "The ivy cling
TO the first met tree" Given a maj
End woman heart free and throw
them Together and let there be deeen
kindness on both sides, and It Is al
most Inevitable that each shall low,
The other. Isolate thom from tn
world, let them see no other compan
ions but the one man and the on
woman, and the result becomes NOR,
inevitable.
Yes, this woman loved this man
She said in her heart-and / an
not one to dispute her conclusions
Ihat she would have loved him ha,
ne been one among millions to stan,
before her, and il was true. He wa
the complement of her nature. The,
differed in temperament as much q
In complexion, and yet In those dil
ferences as must always be to max
perfect love and perfect union, Their
were striking resemblances, necessar
points Of contact.
There was no reason whatever VIII
Enid Maitland should not love thi
man. The only possible check upo,
her feelings would have been he
rather anomalous relation to Arm
strong. but she reflected that she ha
promised him definitely nothing