Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-07-09

had befallen her. Robert Maitland
had promised to inaugurate a thor
ough and extensive search to solve the
mystery of her death, which he felt
was certain, in the spring, when the
weather permitted humanity to have
free course through the mountains.
Mr.. Stephen Maitland found a GER
tain melancholy satisfaction in being
at least near the place where neither
he nor any one had any doubt his
daughters remains lay hid beneath
the snow or ice on the mountains in
the freezing cold. Robert Maitland
had no other idea than that Enid 5
body was In the lake. He intended to
drain .it-an engineering task of no
great diffieulty-and yet he intended,
also, to search the hills for miles On
either side of the main strear, down
which she had gone, for she might
possibly have strayed away and died
of starvation and exposure, rather
than drowning. At any rate, he
would leave nothing undone to discov-
er her.
He had strenuously opposed Arm
strong's recklessly expressed inten-
ton of going into the mountains i'm
mediately to search for her. Arm
strong was not easily moved from any
purpose he entertained, or lightly to
be hindered from attempting any en-
terprise that he projected, but by the
time the party reached Denver the
winter had set in, and even he real
lied the futility of any immediate
search for dead body lost In the
mountains Admitting that Enid was
dead, the conclusions were sound, OF
course.
The others pointed out to Armstrong
that If the woman they all loved had
by any fortunate chance escaped the
cloudburst, she must inevitably have
persisted from cold, starvation and ex.
posture In the mountain long since.
There was scarcely a possibility that
she could have escaped the food, but
if she had, it would only to be de.
voted to death little later If she
was not In the lake, what remained OF
her would be in some lateral canon
1t would De impossible to discover
her body in the deep SHOWS until the
spring and the warm weather came
When the SHOWS melted what was con.
cealed would be revealed. Alone, she
could do nothing. And admitting again
that Enid was alone, this conclusion
was as sound as the other.
Now no one had the faintest hope
that Enid Maitland was yet alive, ex
cept. perhaps. her father, Mr.. Stephen
Maitland. They could not convince
him, he was so old and set in his opin
ions and so utterly unfamiliar with the
conditions that they tried to describe
| to him, that be chung to his belief In
| spite of all, and finally they let him
take such comfort as he could from
his vain hope without any further at
| tempt at contradiction.
! In spite of all the arguments, how
ever, Mr.. James Armstrong was moi
| satisfied. He was as hopeless as the
! rest, Sut his Temperament. would not
| permit him to accept the inevitable
/ calmly. 1t was barely possible thai
she might not he dead, and that she
might not be alone. There was scarce
up enough possibility of this to justify
suspicion, but that is not saying
| there was none at all.
Day after day be had sat in his of
fee denying himself to everyone anC
refusing to consider anything, brood
ing over the situation. He loved Enic
Maitland, he loved her before, and now
that he had lost her. he loved her still
more.
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