The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-05-23

Bya Jean Xavier Bonneau
yr by ID

big buekskn horse--a powerful man. dark almost ful
ilood with fierce, square jawed face and steady
thoughtful eyes. One watching him long would have
thought that he like 4 forge fire, capable in con
srairt lat destructive if earthquake should Sc
the internal forces free.
lie conversed with the men in terse monosyabes
and then set ont for the mountains that stood brstns
in warlke attitude OF protection the hr points perc
ing the blue OF the sky.
Then began a fantastic flight and pursuit The mar
found the fugitive wise in all the knowledge OF wood
craft She lodged and ran hiding IN rocks and III The
tops OF trees, underneath water falls, IN the dens OF
bears and in crevasses OF cebound traesS peaks For
month she had the better OF it. But Paul Finlay
understanding the language of the mountains with a
brain keen hers and body stronger followed her
trail closer and closer until al last the trees and lakes
abandoned and revealed her hiding place.
tie came upon her in the evening near the loot OF
the range. The valley lay below, all pink and gray
with green boughs traced the sunset, She had been
working downward the last few days, and filled
with desperation and had reached lake that nesting
between the verdure-clad peaks waered the deer and
the raven. When Paul saw her he gave short sound
Of relief and Joy
She was sitting on the edge Of the water with her
bruised feet projecting into the curling waves. About
her still cung the yellow shawl. torn and faded / he
handkerchief had fallen from her head TO her neck,
freeing the gstenng jet hair that flooded her shout
She gazing wide-eyed on the tremendous rise OF
the mountains beyond her, and her long, inky lashes
reached her thick low, level brows The mysterious
eyes straight nose, and thick under lip had recalled to
many white that nomadic people. strange. Sc
creve, and fascinating, who wander from one end OF
heard of them He only knew that she was different
from the Of his tribe, and feeling OF uneasi-
upon him.
Turning suddenly she saw him and sprang panther
like, her feet. then faced him in great wearness
waiting for him. Paul squatted down his heels, and,
laying his gun across his knees commenced eisurey to
roll a cigarette
"You gon' take me now, Paul Finlay7" she asked In
her soft drawing English 1t hlled him with surprise
10 note the dunes the misery the aequescence in her
voice
AIR he nodded in assent.
After while she said in her dull draw, You
member that dead lynx by the cedar nghd one week
AIR He still rolled his cararete
u kill him cause he goin kill you tead nighd, Paul
Fnlay. You sleepin and ! his eyes shine
and kill him" She turned her head YEARLY You
nod KNOWN was near thad time Paul Finay"
The man looked up, startled. The girl went on with
increasing weariness: There gread stone thad
was loose and was KNOWN thad you would be comm
thad way after me soon and thad it might come down
you. | carried trees and lay them thad stone
nod roll on you, Paul Finlay"
The cigarette fell from his fingers he sat looking at
the darkenng water Att at once he spoke, gruffly,
fercely and also in English nstinctiyey knowing she
did not understand to any great extent The language OF
his tribe
reservation an goin' tax you back. Me, mus tax
you back; boun by de law dis Ian tax you back"
naked loot on the other. "Whad they goin do with me-
Paul Finlay" she asked. "Whad those white peoples
gon' do with me"
Bu goin give back all the money she said. All
those gold noneys-then they don put me in thad jail
Paul Finlay" Her last sentence starting in certainty,
changed the end TO wistfu pleading.
4 got nothin to do bout dat money, said Paul Il
JUS goin tax you back OATS what got to do--dats
de law
He rose to carry out his intentions reaching for her
little hands that hung inerty by her sides She raised
Il nod goin back. Paul Finlay," she said "I maybe
nod goin With that She pushed him suddenly unex-
pectedly into the lake
OF course Paul was a fine swimmer He would have
nal ken am ed aft his
raced after his tired quarry capturing her before She
vas ont Of sight, but that he struck his head on
stone he went and before he up the water
vas red around the place where he went down When
the surface his unconscious face dropped
backward and the girl it, from the plase where She
mas climbing, up the almost perpendicular mountain
side above him She struggling wildly to reach the
op OF the ridge looking back in uncontrolled terror.
Size saw him below her going down again in the
he turned back and pulled him out upon the sand
When he came to his senses he cursed her but he
lellrium which took as its principal halucnaton
insane fear OF the girl He knew at the time nothing
y 'Ae rescue ne oiiy reahzeu tAa ms present eohuluoh
as her fault hs death must be her desire. When
e slept She placed food and water beside him
One day " hen he opened his eyes he gazed around
N the mountains and forests as il he had come to
ew and unseen land. lie found the girl leaning over
lu her face very near She had her little hands
ither side oi his head and gazing at him with
much tenderness. He lay for long looking up into
Ter singular face hen he shut his eyes to try and
make it out The Wild maeniuss of lis fever dreams
anne NudltS Ddth re oHktd ttgaiIlSNc dld Ot seem
nor ful Of hatred her ewes we're soft and
entle All at once he felt her thick hair upon his
aked bre-st.
She had lain her head upon him. 4 thrill crept
Trough him. causing every nerve to tngle And thus
he hunter and the hunted came 10 dwell together in
unity.
As tie days went by Paul ceased to curse this strange
ih. Tie cursed himself instead. and the day came
hen be cursed only the law AZ first he thought he
ouli never go back but would stay up there in the
ilden f9r,resses Of the mountains with her forever
Iu, Die realized that this utterly impracticabe
hat would be sent 70 search for him. perhaps were
-aNtiug ALREADY. At ast the problem grew upon him
such strength that be sat all day with his head in
is bands thoughtful, moody. and miserable he girl
ly near him. watching him. almost succeeding in read
g every thought that through bis tortured brain
He belonged To- a simple ehd-like tribe one hat has
YER been direct He could see no way out lie, the
herif had been sent TO catch tiis woman and
e DID not wish to. could not and what 70 hap
en-
She was far from simple The very complexitv Of
sr had brought things 20 this pass. Sic realized
Don thai she alone must hnl the solution o he present
redicaIucut
Paul Fnlay" She said Ct goin' go down and give