Evening star., 1916-09-24

limpid pools of blue, out Of which her
terror was slowly dying away.
She whispered his name. In her look
and that whisper there was unutterable
alteration. 1t was for him she had been
afraid. She was looking at him now as
one saved to her from the dead, and he
felt the thrilling pressure of her hands at
his blood-stained cheeks.
A sound behind them turned his head,
and fifty feet away he saw the big grizzly
ambling cumbrously from the cabin. They
could hear him growing as he stood in
the sunshine, his head swinging slowly
from side to side like monstrous pendu-
lum-in his throat the last echoing of that
ferocious rage and hate that had destroyed
their enemies. And in the same moment
Baree stood in the door, his lips drawn
back and his fangs cleaning, as if he ex-
pected other enemies to face him.
Quickly David drew the girl beyond the
boulder from behind which he had opened
the fight, and down on to a soft carpet Of
grass thick with the blue of wild violets.
The big rock shut out the cabin from their
vision.
aRest here, little comrade,' he said,
"I must return to the cabin. Then-we
will CO."
"Go!n
She repeated the word in the strangest,
softest whisper he had ever heard, as if in
it all at once she saw the sun and stars,
the day and night, Of her whole life. She
looked from his face down into the valley,
and into his face again.
"We-will co." she repeated, as he rose
to his feet.
She shivered when he left her, shud-
dered with little cry which she tried to
choke back even as she visioned the first
glow of that wonderful new life that was
dawning for her. David knew why. He
left her without looking down into her
eyes again, anxious to have these last
terrible minutes over with. At the open
door of the cabin he hesitated, little sick
at what he knew he would see. And yet,
after all, it was no worse than it should be:
it was justice. He told himself this as he
stepped inside.
1t was Henry's rifle he picked up. He
searched for cartridges then. 1t was
sickening task. He found nearly fifty of
them on the three, and went out with the
pack and the gun. He put the pack over
his shoulders before he returned to the
rock, and paused only for moment when
he rejoined the girl. With her hand in
his, he struck down into the valley.
"A great justice has overtaken them,"
he said, and that was all he told her.
AT the edge of the green meadows below
they stopped where trickle of water
from the mountain-tops had formed
deep pool, and, following this trickle
little up the coulee it had worn in the
course Of the ages, David found shell
tered spot and stripped himself. To the
waist he was covered with the stain and
CRIME of battle
In the open pool Marge bathed her face
and arms, and then sat down to finish her
toilet with David's comb and brushes.
When he returned to her she was radiant
glory in the gold and brown fires of her
disentangled hair. He stood step off and
looked at her. his heart filed with won-
derful JOY, his lips silent. He watched
her unseen as she ran out her glowing
tresses under the strokes Of his brush.
And once-ages ago, it seemed to him
now-he had thought that another woman
was beautiful. and that another woman's
ulory was her hairt He fe1t his haart c;nn