The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1912-08-17

compromising It's cause, he helped
out her lame and halting sentence.
II know the canon we'll" he said.
i think know the place to which
you refer. Is 1t just above where the
river makes an enormous bend upon
itself?'
Yves, that is 1t. In that clearing
we have been camped for two weeks.
MY uncle must be crazy with anxiety
to know what has become Of me,
and T.
The man interposed. "
II will go there directly" he said.
ut is now half after ten. That place
is about seven miles or more from
here across the range. fifteen or TWEEN
ty by the river. / shall be back by
| nightfal1 The cabin Ia your own
He turned away without another
word.
Wait" said the woman IT am
afraid to stay here. .
She had been fearless enough before
in those mountains, but her recent ex-
| perience had somehow unsettled her
nerves.
There is nothing on earth to hurt
you, I think" returned the man.
There isn't human being. SO far rs
know, in these mountains
Except my uncle's party?''
| He nodded.
But there might be another-bear,s
she added desperately, forcing herself.
Not likely; and they wouldn't come
| here II there were any. That's the
first grizzly have seen in years" "
| he went on, unconcernedly, studiously
looking away from her, not to add to
her confusion at the remembrance OF
that awful episode which would OBJ
trude itself on every occasion. you
can use rife or gum"
She nodded. He stepped over to
/ the wall and took down the Winches.
ter which be hande
"This one is read Tor service. and
you will find reWss ,r on the shelf.
There is only one pos gible way Of &C.
cess to this cabin ;eestaat's down those
rock stairs. ONO one woman. 9
GA2iel, Sn, ~ ssS1 w SSAAA
hold It against an Amy s. =
Couldn't go with you r
On that foot"
Enid pressed her wounded foot upon
the ground. It wasssnot SO painful
when resting, but 81 found she could
not walk q step OMIT without great
suffering.
Il might carry you part of the way,
said the man. Il carried you last
/ night, but it would be impossible, all
of it,
Promise me that you will be back
by nightfall, with Uncle Bob and"
81 shall be back by nightfall, but ]
| can't promise that / will bring any
body with me. y
You mean p
"You saw what the cloudburst near.
| " did for you," was the quick an.
swer. IF they did not get out of that
| pocket, there is nothing left Of them
now
But they must have escaped per
sisted the girl, lighting down her
alarm at this blunt statement Of posi-.
BILE peril. Besides, Uncle Robert and
most Of the rest were climbing one OF
the peaks, and
IS "They will be all right, then; but II
| / am to find the place and tell them
your story, ] must go now
He turned, and without another
word or backward glance, scrambled
down the hill. The girl limped to the
brink Of the cliff over which he had
plunged and stared after him. She
watched him as long as she could see
him, until he was lost among the
trees. II she had anybody else to de.
pend upon, she would certainly have
felt differently toward him; VII u
Uncle Robert, and her aunt, and -
children, and old Kirkby, and the rest
surrounded her, she could hate that
man in spite of all he had done for
her, but now she stared after him de
terminedly making his way down the
| mountain and through the trees. II
was with difficulty she could restrain
herself from calling him back.
& he Silence was must OppTGSSlfG
the loneliness was frightful She had
been alone before In those mountains
/ but from choice; now the fact that
there was no escape from them made
the sensation very different one.
! She sat down and brooded over her
situation until she felt that If she did
not do something and in some way di
vert her thoughts she would break
down again. He had said that the
cabin and its contents were hers. She
resolved to inspect them more close
| ly. She hobbled back into the great
room and looked about her again
There was nothing that demanded
careful scrutiny. She wasn't quite
sure whether she was within the pro
prieties or not, but she seized the old
Lest and most worn Of the volumes on
the shelf. 1t was a text book on min.
| ing and metallurgy she observed, and
opening it to the fly leaf, across the
mage she saw written in a firm, Wig
orous masculine hand name, will
liar, Berkeley NeWhold." and he