Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-09-05

Though the trees and across it like an
arrow from a bow.
In five minutes he was at the foot
of the giant stairs. Kicking off his
snow shoes, he scrambled I'D the
broken way, easily finding in the snow
trail which had evidently been
passed and repassed daily In a few
moments he was at the top of the
shelf. A hard trampIed path ran be-
tween high walls of snow to a
door!
Behind that door what would he
find? Just what he brought to
it, love and hate, he fancied. We
usually find on the other side of
doors no more and 40 less than
we bring to our own sides. But what
ever was there there was no hesita-
ton in Armstong's course He ran
toward it, laid his hand on the latch,
and opened it.
What creatures of habit we arei
Early II that same morning, after one
vain attempt again to influence the
woman who was now the deciding and
determining factor, and who seemed to
be taking the mans place, Newbold,
ready for his journey, had torn him
self away from her presence and had
plunged down the giant stair. He had
done everything that mortal man could
do for her comfort; wood enough to
last her for two weeks had been taken
from the cave and piled in the kitch-
en- and everywhere so as to be easily
accessible to her; the stores she al
ready had the run of, and he had fit
ted stout bar to the outer door
which would render it impregnable to
any attack that might be made against
it, although he saw no quarter from
which any assault impended.
Enid had recovered not only her
strength, but a good deal of her nerve
That she loved this man and that he
loved her had given her courage. She
would be fearfully lonely, of course,
but not so much afraid as before. The
month Of immunity in the mountains
without any Interruptions had dissi-
pated any possible apprehensions on
her part. It was with sinking heart,
however, that she saw him go at
last.
They had been so much together
IN that month; they had learned what
love was. When he came back it
would be different. he would not come
alone. The first human being he met
would bring the world to the door of
the lonely but beloved cabin in the
mountains world with its cues
lions, its inference, its suspicious. its
denunciations and its accusations!
Some kind of an explanation would
have to be made, some sort an an
swer would have to be given, some So
luton of the problem would have to
be arrived at. What these would be
she could not tell.
Newbold departure was like the
end OF ar era to her. The curtain
dropped; when it rose again what was
to be expected? There was no com
fort except in the thought that she
loved him. So long as their affections
matched and ran together nothing
else mattered. With the solution of it
all next to her sadly beating heart she
was still supremely confident that
love, or God-and there was not so
| much difference between them as to
make it worth while to mention the
| one rather than the other-wouId find
the way.
Their leave taking had been singu-
larry cold and abrupt She had real
/ lied the danger he was apt to incur
and she had eXacted a reluctant prom
Use from him that he would be careful.
Don't throw your life away, don't
children are unusually bright owing