Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1912-02-15

||||If|iiIuit yOuI1K FTllduelDnld
ken to the Colorado mountains |
1c|e. Robert Maitland. James
Maitlands protege, falls in |
I<cH If.--His persistent wooing
'It sirl. but she hesitates, and
goes east on business with
|'nite answer.
YER lII.7-EnId hears the story
- ''|.nE engineer. Newbold, whose
1I q elm and was so seriously
he was compelled to shoot her
LENT her being eaten by wolves
went for help.
-. sTER Iv.-Kirkby, the old guide
.IIs the story. gives Enid package
<tre which he says were found on
lad woman's body. She reads the
md at Kirkby's request keeps
|FTER v.--while Enid is bathing
liver In fancied solitude. big
@upears on the bank and Is about
"nBe Into the water to attack the
*1en q shot rings out and the ami
% Killed by strange man.
.s was chilled to the bone by her
MESS sojourn, albeit 1t had been
1arcely more than a minute in
cy water, and yet the blood
.I to her brow and face, to every
en part Of her in waves as she
.'.ht Of It. 1t was a good thing
81 She cried; she was not q weep
Ing Woman. her tears came slowly as
a rule and then came hard. She rath-
b prided herself upon her stoicism,
but In this instance the great depths
81 her nature had been undermined
and the fountains thereof were fain
70 break forth.
How long she lay there, warmth
coming gradually to her under the d.
[ect rays OF the sun, she did not know,
and It was a strange thing that
caused her to arise. 1t grew suddenly
dark over her head. She looked up
and rim OF frightful black, dense
clouds had suddenly blotted out the
sun. The clouds were lined with gold
and silver and the long rays shot
from sbehind the somber blind over
HE yet uncovered portions of the
,heayen, but the clouds moved with
no Irresistible swiftness and steadi-
ness Of q great deluge. The wall OF
them lowered above her head while
they extended steadily and rapidly
across the sky toward the other side
Of the canon and the mountain wall.
: A storm was brewing such as she
had never seen, such as she had no
.expefience to enable her to realize its
InplIgn possibilities: Nay, It was now
al hand. She had no elew, however.
Of what was toward, how terrible a
<effr wed i i 81 = a hiteaef-
| unconscious OF all the menace OF
hour. her thoughts flew down the
*1n TO the camp. She must hasten
|ere. She looked for her watch
.Ich she had lifted from the grass
|.I which she had not yet put on.
~ grizzly had stepped upon it, 1t
vas irretrievably ruined. She judged
Iom her last glimpse of the sun that
4 must now be early afternoon. She
rose to her feet and staggered with
Weakness; she had eaten nothing
since morning, and the nervous shock
and strain through which she had
sone had reduced her e q pitiable
tonditiolf X
Her luncheon had fortunately es-
capped unharmed. In big pocket OF
Aer short skirt there was small
Task OF whiskey, which her Uncle
Robert had required her to take with
her. She felt sick and faint. but she
knew that she must eat II she was to
make the Journey, difficult as It might
prove. back to the camp. She forced
herself to take the first mouthful OF
bread and meat she had brought with
her. but when she mad tasted she
needed no further incentive, she ate
20 the last crumb; she thought this
was the time she needed stimulants,
too. and mingling the cold water from
the brook with little Of the ardent
spirit from the flask, she drank. Some
u the chill had worn on, some Of the
fatigue had gone.
She rose TO her feet and started
down the canon; her bloody sweater
stu lay on the ground with other
things OF which she was needless. II
had gFewH colder, but she realized
that the climb down the canon would
put her stagnant blood in circulation
and all would be well.
Before she began the descent OF the
pass, she cast one long glance back
ward whittier the man had gone
Whence came he, who was he, what
had he seen. where was he now? She
thanked God for his interference IL
one breath and hated him for hil
presence In the other,
ThelEhole sky was new black with
llIitlhg clouds. lightning dashed abov,
{ ben head, muttered peals Of thunder
tefrlncally pminous. rocked through
the silent hills. The noise was low
and eubdued, but ALMOST continuous
VIA q singular and uneasy feeling
that she was being observed, sh,
started down the canon, plunging des
perately through the trees, leaping tn
brook from side to side where 1t mar
rowed, seeking ever the easiest way
NShe struggled on. painting with sud
ZEN inexplicable terror almost as ba,
that which had overwhelmed he
hour before-and growing NOR
'eeyery moment, to such a tragi
q lAb Gay and its happening
r.
or ~ awful experience reall
n to be that day. The fate
1ried with Ner-bodily fear, out
raced modesty, Mental anguish an
IS. To terror Of the storm,
Tho clouds seemed to sink love-
..''| they almost closed about hel
p. gray ghostly arms reached on
NrfIaId her. II grew darker and darl
ID the depths of the canon. sh
,.Itamed aloud-in vain
spadenly the polling thunder peal
enUated, balls Of fire leaped ou