Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1912-05-09

CHAPTER XV.-The man comes to
realization Of his love fol. her, but natur-
ally In that strange solitude the rela-
lions OF the girl and her rescuer become
unnatural and strained.
CHAPTER XVI-The stranger tells of
q wife he had who is dead. and says he
has sworn to ever cherish her memory
by living In solitude. He and Enid how
ever. confess their love for each other.
She learns that he is the man who killed
his wife In the mountain.
CHAPTER XvII-Enid discovers the
writer OF the letters to Newbold's wife to
have been James Armstrong. Newbold
decides to start to the settlement for
help.
CHAPTER XVIII.-The man is racked
by the belief that he Is unfaithful to his
wife's memory, and Enid Is tempted to
tell him OF the letters In her possession.
CHAPTER XIX.-Armstrong accom-
panied by Kirkby and Robert Maitland.
start out on systematic search for
some trace Of Enid. They find n note
that Newbold had left In the deserted
cabin. and know that the girl is in his
keeping.
CHAPTER XX.-Newbold returns from
hunting game and sees a man near the
hut 1t Is James Armstrong who has at
last located the missing girl, and he en-
tiers the cabin.
CHAPTER XXI.-Armstron pleads his
love for Enid, but she reminds him of
grows insulting and Enid orders him
from her presence. Newbold returns OPP
portunely.
CHAPTER XXII.-He discovers the
truth about Armstrong and would have
KILLED him but for Ahe Interference OF
Kirkby and Maitland, who came upon the
scene.
He could no longer doubt Arm
strong's final testimony to the purity
Of his wife, although he had burned
the letters unread. and by the same
token he could no longer cherish the
dream that she had loved him and him
alone. Those words that had pre-
ceded that pistol shot had made II
possible for him to take Enid Matt
land as his wife without doing violence
to his sense of honor or his self-re-
spect. Armstrong had made that
much reparation. And Newbold could
not doubt that the other had known
what would be the result Of his speech
and had chosen his words deliberately;
score that last action to his credit. He
was sensitive man, however; he
realized the brutal and beast-like part
he and Armstrong had both played be-
fore this woman they both loved, how
l~tAey had battled like savage animals
and how but for lucky interposltion
he would have added murder to his
other disabilities.
He was honest enough to say to him.
self that he would have done the same
thing over under the same circum'
stances, but that did not absolve his
conscience. He did not know how the
woman looked at the transaction or
looked at him, and he had not enjoyed
one moment alone with her. In all
that had transpired since that morn,
ling in the hut, the four had naturally
and inevitably remained inseparably
together.
They had buried Armstrong in the
snow, Robert Maitland saying over
him o brief but fervent petition In
which even Newbold Joined. ENID
Maitland herself had repeated elo
quently to her uncle and old Kirkby
that night before the fire the story Of
her rescue from the food by this man
how he had carried her In the storm
TO the hut and how he had treated hel
SINCE and Maitland had afterwards