Omaha daily bee., 1916-08-02

Cleo to put her loot ior time in the
icy water, After bathing the ankle
with whisky in lieu of alcohol, he
skillfuIly bandadped il was strip
torn from the bottom of her skirt,
and, lifting her in his arms, carried
her back to the niche in the rocks.
where Hook was already asleep and
snoring. Then, after gathering a
fresh supply of firewood, he crawied
into the niche. which. as he had pre-
dicted. was comfortably warm. and
stretched his aching body on the
boughs beside Cleo. Twice during the
night he softly stole out and replcn-
ished the fire. Creeping silently back
in order not to awaken his com
panions. he bent for a moment over
the sleeping girl Never had he seen
such a picture of loveliness and inno-
cence. Her figure. he noted, was so
slender as to be almost boyish; her
glorious hair had tumbled down and
formed about her head a golden
aureole; her blouse was urfasteued at
the neck and the Pickering freight
revealed her snowy throat. Even as
Hope gazed, spellbound by her
beauty her eyes opened, and she
murmured slecpily, Il love you, dear
est
Awakened by the morning sun,
they breakfasted on the remains of
the chocolate and more wild black
berries and started down the noun.
tain. Their progress was slow, how
ever tor Cleo's ankle still caused her
sueh pam that she was able to walk
only win the assistance OF her com
pan'ons' GRADUALLY the country which
tney were travelling became less
roush; the vegetation more luxuri-
ant the pines and mrs gave way to
i've OAKS, inc fock-Waiied canyons
became ravlnes' ana the ray'nes ran
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