Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1912-05-02

lllssHatisns BY Ellsworth Yong
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Copyright. 1911, BY W. q. Chapman.)
SYNOPSIS.
CHAPTER Edith Maitland. a frank.
gree and unspolled young Philadelphia
GIRL, Ii taken to the Colorado mountains
BY her uncle, Robert Maitland. James
Armstrong, Maitand's protege, falls in
love with her.
CHAPTER II.-His persistent wooing
thrills the girl. but she hesitates, and
Armstrong goes east on business with
out definite answer.
CHAPTER III.-Enid hears the story
OIL mining engineer. Newbold, whose
vile VIE feil OF cliff and was SO seriously
hurt that he was compelled to shoot her
to prevent her being eaten by wolves
wffie- Inc went for help.
CHAPTER Iv.-Kirkby, the old guide |
who tells the story. gives Enid a package
OF letters which he says were found on |
the dead woman's body. She reads the |
letters and at Kirkby's request keeps |
them.
CHAPTER v.-whIIe Enid is bathing
In the river In fancied solitude, a big |
bear appears on the bank and Is about |
to plunge Into the water to attack the |
girl when a shot rings out and the ami |
NAL Is killed by a strange man.
CHAPTER vI-Enid is caught in q |
storm which wipes out her partys camp |
She Is dashed upon the rocks and in |
1ured. The strange man who shot the |
bear finds her unconscious and carries |
her to shelter.
CHAPTER vII.-Members Of the camp !
Ing nartV realizing that Enid 10 lost In |
the storm institute frantic search for
tho missing girl.
CHAPTER vIII.-No trace of her Is
found and word Is telegraphed to her
father. James Armstrong Is asking the
father for Ends hand when the telegram
arrives expressing. the belief that the
girl Is dead: Armstrong says he will find
her. and Maitland agrees to their mar
riage II he succeeds.
CHAPTER Ix.-Enid regains conscious
ness In the hut OF the man who had
rescued her from the bear. and he
dresses her foot which had been severely
injured.
CHAPTER x.-The girl spends a fairly
comfortable night, but her host in the
next room a restless one as he lives over
days that are gone. He has some secret
In his life.
CHAPTER XI.-Mornlng finds Enid re-
freshed and ready for the substantial
breakfast the man has prepared for her.
CHAPTER xII.-Her rescuer goes in
search of Ends party. but returns at
nightfall alone and unsuccessful. In his
absence she discovers books which show
him to be man OF education.
CHAPTER xIII.-Enid finds that she
must remain In the mountains until her
foot IL better and the mountain trails
IIUu IN EI n EFfalf hAR nm NIL N.
leave her alone for week while he goes
IN search Of help. She decides to have
him remain with her.
CHAPTER XIV. "A whole month
passes h.tore Enid's foot is thoropshly
n ana m thS meantime abe discovers
That she Is In love with the strange
i'is' sss N s:f ns s%s'f as
CHAPTER xv.--The man comes to a
realization Of his love for her. but natur-
ally In that strange solitude the rela-
lions OF the girl and her rescuer become
unnatural and strained.
CHAPTER xvL-The stranger tells OF
= 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 IL the man who killed
his wife In tho mountain.
CHAPTER XvII.-Enid discovers the
writer OF the letters to Newbolds 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
aell him OF the letters In her possession.
CHAPTER Xrx.-Armstrong accom-
panied BY Kirkby and Robert Maitland.
start out on. a systematic search for
some trace OF Enid. They find note
that Newbold had left In the deserted
cabin. and know that the girl Ii In his
Keeping.
CHAPTER XX.--Newbold returns from
hunting game and sees q man near the
hut. II 10 James Armstrong, who has at
last located the missing girl, and he en-
ters the cabin.
CHAPTER XXI.--Armstrong pleads his
love for Enid. but she reminds him OF
his affection for Newbold's wife. He
grows. insulting and Enid orders him
portunely.
CHAPTER XxiI.-He discovers the
truth shout Armstrong and would have
killed him but for the interference OF
+ Kirkby and Maitland, who came upon the
scene.
Armstrong was beside himself with
fury at her words, and Newbold's cool
indifference to him personally was un.
endurable. In battle such as he waged
he had the mistaken idea that any.
thing was fair. He could not really
tell whether II was love Of woman or
hate Of man that was most dominant;
no saw at once the state OF affairs be.
tween the two. He could hurt the
man and the woman with one state.
ment: what might be its Interior effec,
be did not stop to consider, perhaps II
be had he would not then have cared
greatly. He realized anyway that
since Newbold's arrival his chance
With Enid was gone; perhaps wheth
:, or Newbold were alive or dead It wat
y gone forever; although Armstrong did
not think that, he was not capable Of
q thinking very far into the future II
= his then condition, the present bulket
too large for that.
Il did not think after that kiss II
the road that you would go back OF
me this way, Enid" he said quickly.
Tho kiss in the road" cried New
bold staring again at the woman.
you coward" repeated she. with
one swift envenomed glance at tn,
other man, and then she turned to hel
lover. She laid her hand upon hi
arm.s 4he lifted her face up to him
"AA God Is my Judge" she cried. hel
voice rising with the tragic intensit!
OF the moment and thrilling with in
dignant protest, "he took II from m,
like the thief and the coward he wal
and he tells It now like the liar he Is
We were riding side by side, I wa