Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1912-04-25

CHATTER ILLS persistent wooinB |
thrills the girl, but she hestates, and |
Armstrong goes east on business with
out definite answer.
CHAPTER III.-Enid hears the story |
of a mining engineer, Newbold, whose |
wife fell off cliff and was so seriously |
hurt that he was compelled to shoot her J
to prevent her being eaten by wolves
while he went for help.
CHAPTER IV.-Kirkby, the old guide
who tells the story. gives Enid package
of letters which he says were found on
the dead woman's body. She reads the
letters and at Kirkbys request keeps
them.
CHAPTER v.-while Enid is bathing
In the river in fancied solitude. big
bear appears on the bank and is about
to plunge into the water to attack the
girl when shot rings out and the ami
NAL Is killed by strange man.
= CHAPTER VI.-Enid Is caught IN a
storm which wipes out her party's camp.
She is dashed upon the rocks and in
tured. The strange man who shot the
bear finds. her unconscious and carries
her to shelter.
CHAPTER VII.-Members Of the camp
ing party realizing that Enid is lost In
the storm institute a frantic search for
the 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 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
4 in his life.
CHAPTER XI.-Morning finds Enid re-
y freshed and ready for the substantial
breakfast the man has prepared for her.
CHAPTER KILLER rescuer goes in
search of Ends party, but returns at
4 absence she discovers books which show
him to be man of education.
CHAPTER XIII.-Enid finds that. she
foot is better and the mountain trails
Il passable, or permit her companion TO
leave her alone for a week while he goes
IN search of help. She decides to have
IttnuH WIN
CHAPTER XIV. : A whole month
##resAs, b~foIo--EiEfd'B f,De By
.crr~fhd in the meantime sHS discovers
i that she is in love with the strange
silent man who intrudes himself as
little as possible on her notice.
CHAPTER xv.-The man comes TO a
realization Of his love for her, but natur-
ally in that strange solitude the rela-
tions Of the girl and her rescuer become
unnatural and strained.
CHAPTER xvI.-The stranger tells OF
a 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 tn,
writer OF the letters to Newbold's wife 4
have been James Armstrong. Newbolt
decides TO start to the settlement fo
help.
CHAPTER XVIII.-The man is racket
by the belief that he is unfaithful to hi
wife's memory. and Enid is tempted {,
tell him of the letters In her possession
CHAPTER XIX.-Armstrong accom-
panied by Kirkby and Robert Maitland
start out on a systematic search 70
some trace OF Enid. They find not
that Newbold had left In the deserte
cabin. and know that the girl is In. hi
keeping.
CHAPTER XX.-Newbold returns fron
hunting game and sees man near tn
hut. II IL James Armstrong, who has n
last located the missing girl, and he en-
ters the cabin.
CHAPTER XXI.-Armstrong pleads hi
love for Enid. but she reminds him o
NJ. 10 no Npifa II
grows insulting and Enid orders hir
from her presence. Newbold returns op
portunely
He had gone to the corral and shalI
en- down food enough for them which
n II had been doled out to them da!
by day would have lasted longer thar
the week he intended to be absent; o
course he reaii- d that they would ca
It up In half that time. but even 81
they would probably suffer not TO,
great discomfort before he got back
All these preparations took some III
tile time. 1t had grown somewhat lat,
in the morning before he started
There had been fierce storm raging
when he first looked out and at he
earnest solicitation he had delayed hi
departure until II had subsidized.
His tasks at the corral were at las
completed; he had done what he coul,
for them both, nothing now RENAME,
but to make the quickest and safes
way TO the settlement. Shoulderinl
the pack containing his axe and gul
and sleeping bag and such provision
as would serve to tide him over III
It'll he reached human habltations, h
set forth. He did not look up to tn
hut, indeed he could not have seen
for the corral was almost directly bC
meath II, but II Il had been in full vie'
he would not have looked back, b
could not trust himself to, every &
stinct, every impulse In his soul woul
fain drag him back to that hut and
49, the woman. II was only his will an
did he but know II, her will that mad
him carry out his purpose.
He would have saved perhaps ha
n mile on his journey II he had gor
straight across the lake to the mout
Iof the canon. We are creatures
habit He had always gone arour
the lake on the,famlllar trall and u
consciously he followed that trail tn
morning He was thinking Of her |
he plodded on in mechanical WI
while the trail followed the border
the lake for time, plunged into Il
woods, wound among the pines, at lea
reaching that narrow rift In the Q
circllng wall through which the riv
flowed. He had passed along the ira