Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-01-08


down and die In tho water, when =
sudden aplashing below her caused
her to look down the stream.
She was 70 agitated that ehe could
make out littie except that there was
. mar crossing below her and making
directly toward the body of the bear.
He wes a tall black bearded man, she
saw bo carried a rife. he looked neith-
er to the right nor to the left, he did
not bestow q glance upon her. She
could have cried aloud In Thanksgiving
for his apparent obhviousnesa to her
as she crouched now mock deep In ths
~benunbing cold. The man stepped on
the bank, shook himaelf like = great
dog might have done and marched
0vsr to the bear. He uprooted GBmall
nearby pine, with the ease Of = Hsr.
cuIes-and she had time to mark and
marvel at 1t In spite OF everything
and then with that ~ . lever he I'M
eoneernedly and easily heaysd tho
body Of the monster from on her
clothing. She was 10 As4rn latsr what
. feat OF strength It was to move that
inert carcass weighing much more
than hall = ton.
Thereafter he dropped tho ptne trse
BY the side OF the dead erissly and
without a backward lock trxmped
swiftly and steadily MP the ana
through the trees, turning at the point
OF It and was instantly lost to sight.
HIS gentle and generous purpoas were
obvious sven to the frtghtened. agi-
r4ted, excited girl.
Tho woman watched him until na
disappeared, . few seconds longer,
and then shs hurled herself through
the watsr and stepped out upon the
shore- Her sweater which 1he hear
had dragged forward In its advance,
lay on top Of this rest of her clothes,
covsred with blood. She threw it aside
and with nervous, frantic snerxy, WED.
cold, though she was, she jerked ON
In some fashion enough clothes to
cover her nakedness and then with
more leisurely order and with neces-
sary care she got tho rest OF hsr ap-
parel In its accustomed place upon her
body, and then when 1t YVES all over
she sank down prone and prostrRte
upon tho grass by the carcaas of ths
now harmless monster which had sc
nearly caused her undoing, and shiv'
cred, cried and sobbed as ii her heart
would break.
She was chilled to the bone by her
motionless sojourn, albeit it had been
for scarcely more than a minute in
TIT icy water, and yet the blood
rushed to her brow and face, to every
hidden part OF her In waves as she
thought Of 1t. 1t was a good thing
that she cried; she WAS not a weep
ing woman, her tears came slowly as
q rule and then caIne hard. She rath
or prided herself upon her stoicfsm
but in this instance the great depths
OF her nature had been undermined
and the fountains thereof were fair
to break forth.
How long she lay there, warmth
coming gradually to her under the di
rect rays of the sun, she did not know
and II wal q strange thing that
caused hsT to arise. It grew suddenly
dark over her head. She looked III
and = rim of frighttul black, dense
clouds had suddenly blotted out ths
sun. The clouds wers Tined with gold
and ailyer and the ieng rsys shol
from behind tho s0Haber blind ovel
the yet uncovered portions OF the
heaven, but tho clouds moved with
sn1 irresistible swaItacss and stead
ness OF a great de1ugs. Tho wall o1
them lowered above her head while
they extended steadily and rapid.
across the vky toward tho other side
OF the canon and the mountain wall.
A storm was brewing such "a she
had never seen, such rs abe had No
experience to enable her to realize Its
malign possibilities. May. 1t was now
at hand. She mad no Chew, however
cf what was toward, how terrible .
danger overshadowed her. Frightened
but unconscious OF ali the menace oi
the hour, her thoughts new down the
canon to the camp. She must hasten
there. She looked for her watch
which she had lifted from the grass
and which she had not yet put on,
The grizzly had stepped upon 1t, Il
was irretrievably ruined. She Judged
from her last glimpse of the sun that
It must o be early afternoon. She
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