Bogalusa enterprise. [volume] (Bogalusa, La.) 1914-1918, 1915-12-16
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But even as he stood before tho h..
of this old ruftian Count Freder;oA,s
eye caught sight of something which
caused his heart to leap
1t was little object, an unimnorto,.
item which might have escaped AM
other eye than his. Yet his gaze We.
drawn to it irresistibly.
1t was bit of cloth, a torn trifle ~
soiled and sea-encrusted checkersa
cloth, a portion of womaaIs earh
Count Frederick recognized il At ono.
as part of the dress skirt in which
he had last seen Kitty Gray CARRIED
There was no mistaking it. He knor
it as we'll as the pattern of bis own
apparel.
She had been here! The mysterious
white woman was Kitty Gray
Now indeed Count Frederick ~
Gretzhoffen became the man of action
Away now with doubt and despair--
and welcome again the fierce resolve
of brave man determined to live and
conquer, determined once more IN
achieve the dearest purpose of hin
life! {,
He caught from the post of the door
which had torn off this fragment Of
cloth, and held it before the gaze Of
the chief-before the eyes of all his
men. They knew what he meant when
he demanded to see the wearer Of this
bit of cloth. They dreaded the sight
of his anger, fell back before the men.
ace of the little steel tube, unfamiliar
as it was to Them They knew that this
man would kill unless he found that
which he sought-the captive but now
rescued from the doom Of fire.
Frederick's own men fell in behind
him. and right lusty contest directly
arose between these two factions or
tribes, whichever they may have been.
AS for Frederick himself, he had not
time for matters of this sort. He hur-
ried to hut after hut, tore aside roof
after roof, wall after wall, hunting for
the woman whom above all things he
most desired to see. He did not find
her. His questions brought no re-
spouse.
Drawn by a horrible suspicion Of the
meaning of this fire built at the brink
of the pit, he hurried thither to Join
the group of lingerers there, and now
by mere chance found confirmation
and found hope as we'll.
/ He saw the print Of small blot
heel in the sand, other footmarks Just
beyond-it was trail. Yes, yes, che
had been there. But the footprints
ceased. The trail ended as though the
maker of it had flown up into the air.
Beyond, the imprint OF large and mis-
shapen feet still led.
! Count Frederick now turned savage.
ly upon these gibbering creatures
about him, and the meaning Of bio
demand was perfectly apparent to-
them. Threatening to throw them
into the fire which they had prepared
for another, he got from them shrieks
of protest, much shaking of the head
in denial. and much pointing on
toward the forest which lay ahead.
Some came to him and showed him
the two lines Of footprints, the one
line continuing on. and pointed to the
forest, although themselves not ven.
turing to follow.
With a new terror in his heart, yet
feeling a conviction that Kitty Gray
still lived, he did not pause to wreak
a present vengeance upon these crea-
lures, but hurried on along the broken
trail.
The doglike craft of one or two OF
his own band Of savages aided him.
Net stacking speed, they pointed out
where the trail ran. Now and again
Count Frederick could see on the
earth the imprint of the woman's feet
where for a time she had rested OF
teen put down. At length, at the brink
of the abyss before which Kitty cray
Sc recently had stood, he saw the dou'
Bile imprint again-where both captive
and captor had stood and looked
down.
The trail led on, and down, whittier
meme could guess. Frederick OF Gre'1.
hoffen did not stop to guess, Du'
plunged forward impulsively. VINO
ever or whatever might be this crea'
ture which had carried her on ne1e
at least was his lair. =.
The dusty floors Of the cavern, ~
by the flare CT such torches as tnes
found ready for such work, still re-
tanned the record. Captor and cap''s
had walked here. Deeper and deepe'
into the caverns under the hill tne'
, followed the trail, until at length tns
, distracted eyes of Count Frederic
saw on ahead something to give n'l
pause. 49,.
!. He saw Kitty Gray standin'' al'e
, apparently unhurt, in a vast apa's
Z ment of these subterranean vaults. "
r yond, the floor seemed to break on ~,
to what depth he could not guess ~