Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1918-01-02
SYNOPSIS.


CHAPTER 1.-THE story opens in the
town Of Granville, Ontario, where Miss
Hazel Weir lis employed as q stenograplier
e the office Of Harrington ana Bash. She
~ engaged TO JACK Barrow. Il young real
estate agent and the Wedding day Is set.
While walking with him one Sunday they
meet Mr.. Bush, Qazeps employer, who for
ne first time. seems to notice her at
traetivenesS. Shortly afterward, at his re-
Guest she becomes his private stenog-
faphcr. After three months Mr. EtIsh
marriage, which Hazel declines.
snd after a stormy scene in the office
Hazel leaves her employment, Mr.. Bush
Yarning her he would make her sorry for
eefusing him.
CHAPTER II-Bush makes an effort, by
gift OF flowers to compromise Hazel in
e minds Of her friends She returns
en-. The next day Bush is thrown from
IS horse and fatally hurt He sends for
lazei, who refuses to see him before he
dies. Three days afterward II is an
nounced that be left q legacy Of $500 to
azel in repsration for any wrong /
zee what construction will be put upon
ne words. Bush had his revenge.
CHAPTER I1I--Jack Barrow. in a fit
q jealous rage. demands from Hazel an
'.planation of Bush's action. Hazeps pride
= hurt. and she refuses. The engage
nent IS broken and Hazel determines to
cave Granville. She sees an advertise
eadows,. British Columbia. and secures
lie situation.
Continued from yesterday,
She spent that evening going thor
ighly over the papers and writing
5fers to various school boards, taking
chance at one or tw0s she found In
e Manitoba paper, but centering her
pes on the country west Of the
ociSies. Her savings in the bank
mounted to three hundred odd dol
rs, and cash in hand brought the
i'm to a total Of three hundred ard
xty-five. AT any rate, she had sufsi-
ient to insure her living for quite
long time. And she went to he'd
cling better than she had felt for
80 weeks.
Very shortly hereafter--almost, 1t
amed. by return mail-Hazel got re-
les to her letters of inquiry. The
ct that each and every one seemed
mt on securing her services aston
ned her.
Elt the reply from Cariboo Mend
VS.. y. G., the first place she had.
ought of. decided her. The member
the school board who replied held
nth the natural beauty OF the coun-
y as much as he did the advantages
{ the position. The thing that per
CPS made the strongest appeal to Ha-
q was little kodak print Enclosed
j the letter, showing the schoolhouse.
The building itself was primitive
rough, OF logs, with a pole-and-sod
oof. But 1t was the huge back
round, the timbered mountains rising
o snowclad heights against cloud
ass sky, that attracted her.
She sat for long time looking at
he picture, thinking. Here was the
concrete. visible presentment of some
hing that drew her strongly. She
found an atlas, and looked up Carl
900 Meadows on the map. It was not
10 be found. and Hazel judged it to be
a purely local name. But the letter
odd her that she would have to stage
it hundred and sixty-five miles north
from Ashcroft. B. c.. where the writer
would meet her and drive her to the
Meadows.
"yVhat countryl" she whispered.
It's wild; really. truly wild; and ev-
erything I've ever seen has been
AIMED and smoothed down, and made
nminently respectable and conven-
tional long ago. That's the place.
That's where I'm going, and I'm going
it blind. I'm not going to tell any
one-not even Kitty-until, like q
bear, I've gone over the mountain to-
see what can see.'
Within an hour Of that Miss Hazel
Weir had written to accept the terms
offered by the Cariboo Meadows school
district, and was busily packing her
trunk.