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


calm and storm. Yet It made no diff.
ference what was spread before the
%omanrs eyes. what igl6fious picture
was exhibited to- her gaze, she could
not look at 4 more than a moment
without without thinking Of the man, With
the most Originating panorama that
the earth's, surface could spread be.
fore human Vision to engage her at.
tsntion, she Looked. Into her own
heart and say. there this mani
q Oh, she, had fought against It AT
first, but lately she, had 1pxpriated
" \ She loved him. she loved hint
And And why neot2 What IA It that WON.
en- love IN men!i Strength of body?
she could remember yet how he had
carried her over the mountains iR the
midst nil1 Of the storm, how she. had been
50 bFasYely upb9Fne by his arms to his
heart eess She, realized later What a task
that had been, what q, feat ,of strength.
The ppFopting, of that sppilng and the
eyertgrgnips ,of that huge Grizzly, were
ehild's play to the long portage up
ths almost impasssble canon and
mountain Side which b had brought her
70 this dear haven. 81 4 Ill!
itWIas II strength Of character she
! s9Nght resolution, determinatlop?
f fl5 man had deliberately withdrawn
f tIs thssiR9rld, buried himself In. this
mountain nov and, had stayed, there deaf
I t99 the aliqsing call ofmsn OF woman;
!, he bad had the courage TO do that.
Was It strength OF. mind she ad-
mired? Enid Maitland was no mean
Judge Of the mental powers Of her
acquaintance. She was just as full Of
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 best for nothing. Noblesse
'obllge! That his was q mind well
stored with knowledge of the most,
varied sort she easily and at once
perceived. or course the popular
books Of the last FIVE years had passed
him BY and Of such he knew nothing,
but he could talk intelligently, inter.
estingly, entertainingly upon the great
classics. Keats, and Shakespeare were
his most thumbed volumes. He had
graduated from Harvard az s,a civil
engineer with theRh highest h6iiorgE Of
his class and school and the youngest
man to get his sheepskin! Enid Matt.
land herself was woman.pf broad
culture and wide reading and she de.
liberately set herself to fathom this
mans capabilities. Not infrequently,
much to hor surprise. sometimes to
her dismay. but generally to her sat.
fsfaction, she found that she had no
plummet with which to sound his
greater, depths. ts'!
Did she seek in him that fine flow.
er OF good breeding, gentleness and
consideration? Where could she find
those qualities better displayed? She
was absolutely alone with this man,
entirely in his power, shut of from
the world and its Interference as Of.
fectually as II they had both been
abandoned In an ice foe at the North
Pole or cast away on some lonely is
land In the South Seas, yet she felt
as safe as II she had been in her own
house, or her uncle's, with every pro-
lection that human power could give.
He had never presumed upon the SIT.
uation in the least degree, he never
once referred to the circumstances
Of their meeting In the remotest way,
no never even discussed her-reseue
from the. flood, he never told her how
he had borne her through the, rain to.
the lonely shelter, Of the hills. and in
no way did he say anything that the
most keenly,,scrutinizing mind would
torture into an allusiop to the pool
and the bear and the woman. The
tineness Of his breeding was never go
well exhibited as In this reticence.
More often than not It is what he
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