Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1913-01-17

/ point of view she had frank liking
| for handsome, stalwart men. CaVen'
/ dish was neither, but none knew bet.
ter than Polly that where he was most
lacking in appearance he was richest
| in substance. He carried scars hon.
orably earned n those differences ne
had been prone to cultivate with less
generous natures; for his scheme OF
life did not embrace the millennium.
Thank God, you got here when
you did" said Darlington.
I'VE was some pushed TO time, but
we done It," responded the earl mod
estly. He added, What now?-do we
make a landing?"
'No-unless it interferes with your
plans ZOE to- I want to get around
the next bend before we tie up. Later
Wen all go back. Can l count Cd
your"
You shorely can. / consider This
mere as sociable neighborhood as ]
ever struck. 1t pleases me Well
Folks are up and doing hereabout.'
Darlington looked eagerlT around In
search Of Betty. She was sitting on
an upturned tub, pathetic enough
figure as she dropped against the wall
of one of the shanties with all her
courage quite gone from her. He
made his way quickly to her side.
"La!" whispered Polly in Chills and
Fever's ear. IF that pore young thing
yonder keeps widow it won't be be-
cause of any encoura cement she gets
from Mr.. Darlington. If ever seen
marriage in a mans eye seen 1t in
his this minute!"
"Bruce!" cried Betty, starting up as
Darlington approached. ooh, Bruce.
| am so glad you have come-you are
not hurt?" She accepted his presence
without question.
| 1--WE are none Of us hurt, Betty" he
| said gently, as he took her hand.
He saw that the suffering she had
undergone during the preceding
twenty-four hours had left its record
/ on her tired face and in her heavy
! eyes. She retained a shuddering con-
| seriousness of the unchecked saVagery
| of those last moments on the keel
boat; she was still hearing the oaths
| of the men as they struggled together,
I the sound of blows, and the dreadful
] silences that ha0 EO1loWed them. She
turned from him, and there came the
relief of tears.
There, Betty, the danger is over
| now and you were so brave while Il
lasted. | can't bear to have you cry!"
Il was wild with fear-all that time
on the boat, Bruce" she faltered be-
they would find you out. could only
wait and hope-and pray"
Il was i'll no danger, dear. Didn't
! TIE girl tell you I was to take the
/ place of a man Slosson was expect
ing? He never doubted that | was
| that man until a light-a signal il
! must have been-on the shore at the
head of the bayou betrayed me"
Where are we going now, Erucei
Not the way they went" and Betty
| glanced out into the black void where
| the keel boat had merged into the
! gloom.
NO, no-but we can't get the raft
back upstream against the current,
! SO the best thing is to land at the
| Bates plantation below here; then az
! soon as you are able we can return to
/ Belle Plain said Darlington.
There was an interval broken only
! by the occasional sweep of the great
!! steering oar as Cavendish coaxed the
raft out toward thu channel. The
] thought of Charley Norton's murder
rested on Darlington like a pail
! Scarcely a week mad elapsed since he
quilted Thicket Point, and In that
i week the hand of death had dealt
with them impartially, and to what
| end? Then the mfles he had traversed
! in his hopeless journey up-river trans
| lated themselves into division OF
time as well as space. They were
! Just as much further removed from
! the past with its blight of tragic ter
ror He turned and glanced at Betty.
| He saw that her eyes held their steady
| look of Wistful pity that was for the
| dead man; yet in spite of this, and in
| spite OF the bounds beyond which he
| would not let his Imagination carry
| him, the future, enriched with sudden
promise, unfolded itself. The deep
sense of recovered hope stirred with
| in him. He knew there must come
day when he would dare to speak OF
| his love, and she would listen.
/ SITS best we should land at Bates
| DIace-we can get teams there" he
| went Cd to explain. And, Betty,
wherever we go wen go together.
| dear. Cayencish doesn't look as II he
| had any very urgent business of his
| own, and reckon the same is true
of Yancy, SO / am going to keep them
| with US. There are some points to be
cleared up when we reach Belle Plain
some folks who'll have a lot to ex
/ plain or else quit this part of the
state. And / intend to see that you
| are not left alone until-until / have
I a. w;0h$ IN fnko care OF v0,1 frr- GOOD