Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1918-12-12

II should say not:" he drawled. "Not
it would make any difference to
me. But I'm very sure you don't want
to turn up there in my company"
"That's true" she observed. "But
all the clothes and all the money I
have in the world are there"
"Don't let money worry you," he said
II have got plenty to see you
through. And you can easily buy
clothes."
They were now ten days on the road.
Steadily they climbed. reaching up
through gloomy canyons where toam-
ing cataracts spilled themselves over
sheer walls Of granite, where the dim
and narrow pack trail was crossed and
%recrossed with the footprints of bear
and deer and the snowy-coated noun
tain goat.
Roaring Bill lighted his evening fire
at last at the apex of the pass. He had
Travelled long after shutdown, seeking a
camp ground where his horses could
Craze. The fire lit up huge frs. and
high above the fir tops the sky was
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atmosphere. They ate, and, being
weary, lay down to sleep. At sunrise
Hazel sat up and looked about her in
silent, wondering appreciation. All the
world spread east and west below.
She adjusted the binoculars and
peered westward from the great height
where the camp sat. Distantly, and
far below, the green of the forest broke
down to a hazy line of steel-blue that
ran in turn to a huge fog bank, snow.
white in the rising sur
"There's a lake." she said.
"No. Salt water-a long arm of the
Pacific" he replied. "That's where
you and I part company-to your very
great relief, I dare say. But look off
in the other direction. Lord, you can
see two hundred miles! If it weren't
for the Babine range sticking UP you
could look clear to where my cabin
stands. What an outlook!
II told you, I think, about prospect
ing on the head of the Mas last spring.
I fell in with another fellow up there.
and we worked together, and early in
the season made a nice little cleanup
on a gravel bar. I have another place
spotted, by the way, that would work
out a fortune if a fellow wanted tC
spend a couple of thousand putting ir
some machinery. However, when the
June rise drove us off our bar, I pulled
clear out of the country. Just tool
a notion to see the bright lights again
And 1 didn't stop short of New York
Do you know. I lasted there just one
week by the calendar. 1t seems funny
when you think of it, that a man Will
three thousand dollars to spend SHOULD
get lonesome in a place like New York
But [ did. And at ihe end Of q week
flew. I had all that money burning m,
pockets-and. all told, I didn't spent
five hundred. Fancy a man jumpin!
over four thousand miles to have
good time. and then running ava,
from it. 1t was very foolish OF: me,
think now. Well, the longer we liv,
the more we learn. Day after tomor
row you'll be in Bella Coda. The can
merry steamships carry passengers OF
a fairly regular schedule to Vancou
yer. How does that suit you?'
every H." she answered shortly.
"And you haven't the least twinge o
regret at leaving all this?'
II don't happen to have your peculia
point Of view,'' she returned. 9Th
circumstances connected with my CON
ing into this country and with my stay
ing here m such as to make me anS
ious to get away"
"Same old story" Bill muttered ur
der his breath.
"What is it?"" she asked sharply.
ooh, nothing" he said carelessly
and went on with his breakfast prepa
rations. .
The evening of the third day fror
there Bill travelled till dusk. Whe
camp was made and the fire started
he called Hazel to one side, up on a lii
tie rocky knoll, and pointed out a hal
dozen pin points of yellow glimmerin
distantly in the dark.
=, "That's Bella Coola," he to-" he
"And unless they've made a ,.ct
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