Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1912-04-04
lcopyright, iDil, By W. q ohapman.)

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Copyright ipil BY W. G chapman.)
Is SYNOPSIS.
CHAPTER I-I5dith Maitland frank.
free and. unspoiled young Philadelphia |
kirl, y taken to the Colorado mountains
by her uncle. Robert Maitland. James |
Armstrong, Maitland's protege, falls in /
love with her. u
thrills the girl. but she hesitates, and |
Armstrong goes east on business with |
out definite. answer.
CHAPTER IIr.AEnid hears tho story
OF mining engineer, Newbold, whose
: wife fell off cliff and was so seriously |
hurt that he was compelled to shoot her !
to. prevent her being eaten by wolves |
while he went for help.
CHAPTER Iv--Kirkby. the old guide
who tells the story, gives Enid package |
OF letters which he says were found on
the. deRd- woman's body. She reads the
letters and at Kirkbys request keeps
them.
CHAPTER v--while Enid is bathing
In the river in fapcied solitude, a big
bear appears ON the bank and Is about
girl when shot rings out and the ami
NAL Is killed by strange man.
CHAPTER vI.-Enid is caught In
storm which wipes out her partys 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 yII.-Members of the camp
Ing party realizing that Enid is lost in
the storm institute a 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
rlage IL he succeeds.
CHAPTER Ix.-Enid regalns 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 a restless one as he lives over
days that are gone. He has some secret
in his life.
CHAPTER XI.-Morning finds Enid re-
freshfd 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-End finds that she
must remain in the mountains until her
foot Is better and the mountain trails
ma an mr.
leave her alone for week while he goes
IN search OF help. She decides to have
him remain with her.
EEAPTER XIV A whole month
= IA -urrnrv- f7nid's foot Is .-tiiUfuusniy'
|<ti and in the meantime she discovers
that she Is in love win tne strange
1ilent man who intrudes himself az
Iila--as hossIDle on her notice.
CHAPTER XV.-The man comes to q
ally in that stsange solitude the rela-
lions of the girl and her rescuer become
unnatural and strained.
The man did not help her, he could
not help her. He just stood and
looked ct her. She fought valiantly
for self-control a moment or two and
then. utterly oblivious to the betrayal
Of her feelings involved in the quos-
tion-the moments were too great for
consideration of such trivial matters
she faltered.
"You mean there is some other wo-
MANI"
He shook his head in negation.
81 don't understand. There was
some other woman?"
Eyes"
"Where is she row?'
Dead"
''But you said you were not Free,
He nodded.
ibid you care so much for her that
now-that now"
enid" lie cried desperately. "Be.
lieve me, never knew what loXe
was until I met YOU"
The secret was out now; II had
been known to her long since, but
now 1t was publicly proclaimed.
Even man as blind, as obsessed, as
he could not mistake the Joy that II.
J Illuminated her face at this announce,
ment That very Joy and satisfaction
produced upon him, however, very
different effect than might have been
anticipated. Had he been free, in,
deed, he would have swept her to his
breast and covered her sweet face
with kisses broken by whispered
words of passionate endearment. In
stead OF that he shrank back from her
and 1t was she who was forced e
take up the burden of the CONVERSE
ton.
"You say that she is dead" she be
gan in sweet. appealing bewilderment
"and that you care so much for me
and yet you"
81 am murderer" he broke ou
harshly. "There is blood upon m!
hands, the blood of woman whC
loved me and whom, boy as was
thought that l loved. She was my
wife, killed her"
Il "Great God" cried the girl amazed
4 beyond measure or expectation b.
this sudden avowal which she hat
once suspected, and her hand Instinct
lively went to the bosom of her dresi
where she kept that soiled, watel
stained packet Of letters, ARE yol
that man?'
Il am the man that did that thing
but what do you know" he aske,
quickly, amazed in his turn.
~ "old Kirkby. my uncle Robert Matt
land, told me your story; they sal,
that you had disappeared from tn
haunts Of men-"
"And they were right. What els
was there for me TO DO? Although II
nocent of crime, l was blood guilty
l was mad No punishment could b
visited upon me like that imposed b.
the stern, awful, appalling fact.