The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1912-08-30

40 BIO uSSlIdL6U III COuIuSlOQ, perhaps
comprehending its cause, he helped
out her lame and hating sentence.
I know the canon WELL" he said.
I think I know the place to which
you refer. Is 1t Just above where the
river makes an enormous bend upon
itsslf!"
Yes. that is it. 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"
The man interposed.
Il will 60 there directly" he said.
TT 10 now half after ten. That place
10 about seven miles or more from
here across the range, fifteen or TWEEN
" by the river. I shall be back by
nightfall The cabin is your own"
He turned away without another
word.
WATT" said the woman. Il am
afraid to stay here"
| She had been fearless enough before
in those mountains. but her recent ex-
periencs had somehow unsettled her
nerves.
There is nothing on earth to hurt
you, I think" returned the man.
There isn't a human being, so far as
know, in these mountains"
Except my uncle's party?"
He nodded.
But there might be another-bear,"
she added desperately, forcing herself.
mot 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 q rife or gun?''
She nodded. He stepped over to
the wall and took down the Winches.
ter which he handed her.
This one is ready for service, and
you will find a revolver on the shelf.
There 10 only one possible way Of &C.
cess to this cabin: that's down those
rock stairA One man, one woman. a
child, even, with these weapons could
hold II against an army"
Couldn't go with you?"
ION that foot?"
Enid pressed her wounded foot upon
the ground. It was not so painful
when resting. but she found she could
not walk step on it without great
suffering.
"I might carry you part of the way"
said the man. II 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"
7 shall be back by nightfall. but
can't promise that will bring any
body with me-"
You mean7"
You saw what the cloudburst near
y did for you." was the quick an
swsr. IT they did not get out Of that
pocket there is nothing left Of them
! now"
But they must have escaped" per-
sisted the girl, fighting down her
alarm ut this blunt statement Of posi-
Bile peril Besides, Uncle Robert and
most of the rest were climbing one of
the peaks. and"
''They will be all right, then; but If
am to ind the place and tell them
your story, must 60 now"
He turned, and without another
word or backward glance. scrambled
down the hill. The girl limped to the
hrfn& ~ fhA o1f%p oya- u,hloh =. l.s
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 for
her. but now she stared after him de-
terminedly making his way down the
mountain and through the trees. IT,
was with difficulty she could restrain
herself from calling him back.
Ia 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 vas no escape from them made
the sensation . very different one.
81 She sat down and brooded over her
sttuatioa until she felt that II she did
not Do something and In some way di. |
Vert her thoughts she would break
dow. sgain. He had said that the