Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1912-03-21

She Loved to Stand in the Full Fury
OF the Gale.
calm and storm Yet 1t made no diff
ference what was spread before the
woman's eyes, what glorious picture
was exhibited to her gaze, she could
not look at 1t more than a moment
without thinking Of the man. With
the most fascinating panorama that
the earth's surface could spread be-
fore human vision to engage her at
tentlon, she looked into her own
heart and saw there this man!
Oh, she had fought against it at
first, but lately she had luxurlated
in it. She loved him, she loved him!
And why not? What is it that won.
en- love in men! Strength Of body?
She could remember yet how he had
carried her over the mountains in the
midst Of the storm, how she had been
SO brayely upborne by his arms to his
heart. She realized later what task
that had been, what feat Of strength.
The uDrooting Of that sapl.ng and the
overtuning Of that huge Grizzly were
child's play to the long portage up
the almost impossible canon and
mountain side which had brought her
to this dear haven.
Was 1t strength OF character she
sought. resolution, determination?
This man had deliberately withdrawn
from the world, buried himself In this
mountain, aud had stayed there deal
to the alluring call OF man or woman;
he had had tho courage to do that.
Was it strength OF mind she adj
mired? Enid Maitland was no mean
| judge of the mental powers Of heI
acquaintance. She was just a. iull O!
life and spirit and the JOY Of them as
any young woman should be, but she
had not been trained BY. and thrown
with the beat for nothing. Noblesec
oblige! That his was a mind well
stored with knowledge CT tie most
Varied sort she easily and at once
| perceived. OF course tho popular
books Of the last I've years had raised
him by, and Of such Ike knew nothing
but he could talk intalligculy, inter
estingly entertainiugiy upon The great
Classics. Keats and Shakespeare were
his most thuAbed volumes. lie had
graduated from Harvard as q civil
engineer with the highest horors o
his class and school aad the Youngest
man to get his sheeps.in! Enid Matt
land hersolf-vGs woman OF broad
culture and wide reading and she dc
libcraieiy set herself 10 falom TIL.
mans capabilities. Not iu.seWenuy
much to her surprise, sometimes L
her dismay, but generally 60 her sat
isfaction, she found that she had NJ
plummct with which to sound his
greater derths.
Did she seek in him that inc flow
or of good btoel.rg, soutere5s an,
consideration? Where could she fu,
these qualities better displayed? sh,
was absolutely alone with This rlS1
entirely in his power shut oil froa
the world and rs interference as el
fectually as ii .ttey had both beal
abandoned in an Ice doo at tic Norll
Pole or cast away on some lone'y Is
land in the South Seas, yet she Eel
as safe rs If she had been In her owl
house, or her uncle's, with every PRO
lection that human rover could give
He had never presumed upon the 81
uation in the least degree, he neva
once referred to the circumstance
Of their meeting in the remotost way
he never even discussed her rescu
from the food, he never told her hoy
he had borne her through the rain 4
the lonely shelter of the hills, aud Il
no way did he say anything that IN
most keenly scrutinizing mind woul,
torture into an alluslon' to the roo
and the bear aud the woman. Tn
fineness of his breeding was never ST
well exhibited as in this rolicencs
More often than not II Is what h
does not rather tAsa what he doe
that indicates the nun
1t would be folly ID deny that h
never thought OF thea tb!rgs. aa
he forgotten them there Noald be Il
merit in his silence; but to remen
Der them and TO keep stiil-aye, tina
showed the mani lla would close hi
eyes in that LITTLE room on the otho
side of The door aud see again In
dark pool her whito shoulders, he
graceful arms, tho lovely face wit
Its crown OF sunny hair rising aboy
the rushing water, He had lstene
to the roar Of the wind through tn
long nights, whonsshe thought hin
| asleep II she Thought OF him at al
} and heard again tlh scream of IA
5 storm that had brought her TO M
arms No snow drop that 4ouoho
his cheek when ho was abroad o,
reminded him Of That night ia IN
cold rain when he had held her olol
D and carried her ON. gia could not S
I and mend her boot without remon
bering that white foot before whlc
he would fam have Frustrated hin
Q self and upon which be would ha,
Q pressed passionate ldssos II ho ha
Continued next week)