The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1913-06-05
Harry Irving Greene
Continued from Thursday
CHAPTER XIII,

Continued from Thursday
CHAPTER XIII.
The Search.
March lying fat upon the rocks
Arst stirred uneasily 40 q sleeper
~ho gradually awakes. moaned and
thsa slowly pushed himself to q halt
aDs1ght posture, sitting in the dazed
manner Of one Just recovered from an
Anaesthetic. He looked around and
ahove. Beetling cliffs and ragged
mountain tops surrounded him, q deep
gorge lay at his feet. the dropping sun
&ras sending It's horizontal rays into
Ais eyes. He looked himself over. His
clothing was torn, his hands and
knees lacerated, his head humming
}fke taut wire vibrating in the wind.
He tried to recall, struggling to COM
pei his memory to yield its secrets as
pne might attempt to drive his limbs
10 some great physical effort, but his
brain, partially paralyzed by the bull
let which had raked his hand, respond
I'd but feebly. Bewildered he tried to
think It out step by step.
Where was he? He cast his eyes
Dver the jagged mountain crests that
arose on every side like the waves Of
, tempest dashed sea. He had seen
them before-he was sure Of that
but where? Strive as he would he
sould not recall. Who was he? Vain
" he tried to remember but his per-
Donality had wholly escaped him
oven his name and place Of abode
were blank in his mind. Why was he
here in the midst Of this jumbled
chaos Of barren mountain peaks? Not
. CLINT Of recollection answered him.
He was as lost as one would be who
suddenly born of full growth found
himself adrift in space possessed Of
his full faculties but with no past and
therefore with nothing to remember.
He looked at his hand, one finger Of
which was encircled by heavy seal
ting. It looked familiar to him-sure-
b he had seen that ring before-but
where? Mechanically he searched his
pockets and found therein an envelope
addressed to Alan March. The name
was as familiar to his eyes as was
fhe ring and hand, yet he was totally
unable to place 1t. He thrust the pa
per back into his pocket and arose,
Internationally he was upon a great
height and instinct told him that he
should get down as quickly as pos.
pible. Automatically he began the de-
sesnt, his unfeeling legs finding the
my clumsily. his brain benumbed. hi
throat dry az the waste that lay about
him.
Ho went az one In a dream, slidingi
Ucrambling, sometimes for minute1
lying PROSTATE az stone rolled from
beneath his feet and tripped him into
. tall. Eventually he reached the bot
tom Of the canyon and there he found
Q stream. clear, musical, cold as ice!
born Of the everlasting SHOWS Of the
great peak which had fathered and
mothered 1t. He plunged into it as a
seal leaves q rock, wallowing In itr
Icy GOODNESS. drinking deeply. sub.
merged himself. Its liquid GOODNESS
washed the haze from his brain and
no crawled forth refreshed and invig.
GRATED. In q twinkling he remem.
beged. i
He looked back at the tremendous
slide which he had Just come down,
crowned by It's inaccessible top which
arose steep as wall and to the eye al
1ansurmountable to the foot as the side
Of = giant bastile. Yet Tolliver had
said that he had once been to its top
and would now go again. But Tolliver
was now insane and little dependence
could be placed upon his statements.
Yet Doris was undoubtedly somewhere
up there and at the mercy Of that
merciless flying thing that had led
them all day long in that fearful pur.
B.it Desperate and despairing though
hs was he forced himself to reason
calmly. To return to the bottom Of
the cliff and beat blindly about it as a
beetle attacks q window pane would
be a waste Of time, each minute Of
which was priceless. He must return,
wire the aviators and with their help
assail the height from the air. It
would take at least a days time to do
this. twenty.four hours Of maddening
suspense to be endured. yet 1t seemed
his only hope Of eventually rescuing
her in case she remained alive. Az
to what might happen to her in that
interval he dared not think. but per-
~hAps after all Tolliver might reach
tho summit, and Tolliver loved her
also and despite bis madness might
be depended upon to protect her to
his last gasp. Perhaps for the task
In hand his madness was even In his
favor. since It might give him add.
tional strength, desperation and Gun.
ming. Drenched and shivering from
his icy bath. he went scrambling of
over the boulders.
The sun sank and the darkness be-
came intense Guided by instinct
alone. be scaled the opposite side Of
the canyon. often dragging himself
upward by pure strength Of limb. more
than once sending loosened rocks
crashing downward to the bottom In
3aaping flight, their roar accentuated
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