Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-07-30


things before him and rose to his feet
once more. Come, give me another"
he said, ''it isn't in the power of wo-
man to stand against a love like
mine"
Isn't it?"
NO, indeed"
Louise NewboId did," she answered
very quietly but with the swiftness
and the dexterity OF a sword thrust
by master hand, mighty arm.
Armstrong stared at her in open
mcuthed establishment
What do you know about Louise
Rosser or Newbold?" be asked at
last.
"All that l want to know"
And did that damned hound tell
your"
If you mean Mr. Newbold, he new
err mentioned your name, he does not
know you exist"
Where is he now?" Numbered the
man.
Have no fear" answered the wo-
man calmly, he has gone to the set
! Elements to tell them | am safe and
| to seek help to get me out of the
mountains"
'Fear!" exclaimed Armstrong,
| proudly. Il fear nothing on earth For
years, ever since | heard his name in
fact | have longed to meet him. |
want to know who told you about that
woman-Kirkby?
He never mentioned your name in
connection with her"
But you must have heard it some
where cried the man thoroughly be-
wildered. The birds of the air didn't
tell it to you. did they?"
she told me herself" answered
Enid Maitland
She told you? Why. she's been
dead in her grave five years. shot to
death by that murderous dog OF hus-
band of hers"
"A word with you. Mr. Armstrong"
said the woman with great spirit
You can't talk that way about Mr..
Newbold; he saved my life twice
over, from bear and then In the
cloudburst which caught me in the
canon"
That eyens up a little." said Arm
strong. Perhaps for your sake l will
spare him."
You" laughed the woman con-
temptuously. Spare him? Be advised,
look to yourself. if he ever finds out
what l know, don't believe any power
on earth could save you"
oh" said Armstrong carelessly
enough, although he was consumed
with hate and jealousy and raging
against her clearly evident disdain.
Il can take care of myself, l guess.
Anyway { only want to talk about
you, not about him or her Your faith.
err"
rs he well?"
We'll enough. but heart broken,
crushed. ] happened to be in his house
in Philadelphia when the telegram
came from your uncle that you were
lost and probably dead l had just
asked him for your hand" he added,
smiling grimly at the recollection.
uu ueu no TiSuI 70 40 tHdI.
81 know that"
1T was not it is not. his to give"
Still when | won you | thought it
would be pleasant all around if he
knew and approved"
And did he?'
Not then, he literally drove me out
of the house, but afterwards he said
if | could find you | could have YOU:
and, by Heaven. l have found you and
l will have you whether yor like 1t or
not"
Never cried the woman decisive
ly.
The situation had got on Arm
strong's nerves, and he must perforce
show himself in his true colors. His
only resources were his strength, not
of mind but of body He made anoth-
er most damaging mistake at this
juncture.
I'VE are alone here, and | am mas
ter, remember" he said meaningly.
Come, let's make up. Give me a kiss
for my pains and"
Il have been alone here for a month
with another man" answered Enid
Maitland who was strangely unafraid
in spite of this threat. "A gentleman,
ne has never so much as offered to
touch my hand without my permits
sion; the contrast is quite 10 your dis
advantage"
Are you jealous of Louise Rosser?"
asked Armstrong suddenly seeing that
he was losing ground and casting
about desperately to account for it,
and to recover what was escaping him.
why. that was nothing, mere boy
and girl affair."" he ran on with a spe-
cious good humor as If it were all
triae. The woman was. | hate to
say it, just crazy In love with me, but
| really never cared anything espe
cially for her; it was just a harmless
sort OF Irritation anyway. She after
ward married this man Newbold and
that's all there was about it."
The truth would not serve him and
IN his desperation and desire he stalk
ed everything on this astounding lie.
The woman he loved looked al him
with her face as rigid as mask.
You won't hold that against me.
will your pleaded the man. Il told
you that I'D been a man among men.
yes. among women. too. here in this
rough country. and that I wasn't
worthy of you; there are lots of things
in my past that ought to be ashamed
of and I am, and the more / see you
the more ashamed l grow, but as for
loving any one else, all that I've ever
thought or felt or experienced before
now is just nothing"
And this indeed was true. and even
Enid Maitland with all her prejudice
that millions of people. now leading
a precarious existence, could support
themselves in rn-,forf