The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-08-07

10 TUNED away Without anull6.
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walt asId Tho woman. q an
iafrald to stay here
She ha1 bean ieasle1g enough befor,
in llIpse nlnintalnG. 3D. / her recent *
ylnence lad somehow unsettied hel
nerves. "a
There a nothing on earth 70 hnft
you, ! think = returned the man
There Int q human being. 30 far a,
! s]tnoW. ID these tnountaing.g -
! & Except tmy uncie's yparty7.,
q He n6dded.
But there might be another bear,
she. added desperately, forcing herself
Not likely: and they wouldn't come
here IL there were any. That's the
first grizzly l have seen in years
he went on. unconcernedly, studiously
looking away, from her. not to add tc
her confusion at the remembrance OF
that awful episode which would OBJ
trude itself on every occasion. "You
can use a. rifle or gum" 49, =
She nodded. He stepped over tc
the wall and took down the Winches
ter which he handed her. ~
"rhis one is ready for service, and
you will find. asreyolver on the shelf
There ig only one possible way, Of &C
cess to this cabin; that's down those
rock stairs. One man, one woman, q
child, even, with these weapons could
hold 1t against an army"
Couldn't go with YOUR
.eon that footys Siisi :Sif7,.,, {,
Enid pressed her wounded foot upor
the ground. It wss not 60 painful
when resting, but she found she could
not walksa step on II without great
suffering.
= might carry. you part of the way
said the man. IL carried you last
night but Il, would be impossible, al
Off, ,I's ~.
! Promise me that you Will be bacl
by nightfall, with Uncle Bob, and"
y shall be back by, nightfall, but
can't promise that will bring any
body with me-" Il
you mesn?.
s'You saw what the cloudburst near
" did for you," was the quick an
swer. "lf they did not get out Of that
pocket there ia nothing left of them
now,
but theySmust; have escaped per
sisted the girl fighting down her
alarm at this blunt statement OF posi-
BILE Perila Besides, Uncle Robert and
most Of theEresti were climbing one Of
the peaks, and--n 49,. 4,,
They will be all right, then; but Il
Lam 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 llmped to the
brink Of the clif 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; when
Uncle Robert, and her aunt, and the
children, and old Kirkby. and the rest
surrounded her, she could hate that
man in spite OF all he had done flor
her, but now she stared after him, de.
termlnedly making his way down The
mou1taln and through the trees. II
was with difficulty she could restrain
herself from calling him bf Tx.
The silence was most oppressive,
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 avery different oness,.,
She sat down and. brooded over. her
situation until she felt that II she did
not do something and In some way ,dl:
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