Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-02-22

Don't let money worry you" he SAID
briefly, 81 have got plenty to see you
through. And you q easily buy
clothes"
They were now ten days on the road.
Steadily they climbed, reaching up
through gloomy canyons where foam
ing cataracts spilled themselves over
sheer walls of granite, where the dim
n 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
studded with stars, brilliant in the thin
atmosphere. They ate, and, being
weary, lay down to sleep. AT sunrise
Hazel sat up and looked about her il
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 Il hazy line of steel-blue that
ran in turn to a huge fog bank, snow
white in the rising sun.
There's q lake" she said.
"NO. Salt water-a long arm of the
Pacific" he replied. "That's where
you and [ part company-to your very
great relief, I dare say. But look off
in the other direction. Lord, you can
sec. two hundred miles! IF it weren't
for the Babine range sticking up yon
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.
l fell in with another fellow up there,
and we worked together, and early in
the season made q nice little cleanup
OF a gravel bar. I have another place
spotted, by the way, that would work
out a fortune if a fellow wanted to
spend a couple of thousand putting in
some machinery. However, when the
June rise drove us off our bar, I pulled
SANttl "a VI LIZ ocG IOOn
q notion to see the bright lights again
And I didn't stop short of New York
Do you know, l lasted there just one
week by the calendar. 1t seems funny
when you think of it, that a man witt
three thousand dollars to spend should
get lonesome in a place like New York
But l did. And at the end of a week
| 49, T I'D al +I,4 ,o-,o -, -,
pOckets-and, all told, I didn't spenC
five hundred. Fancy a man jumping
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 OIL
a fairly regular schedule to VancOu
yer. How does that suit you?"
every WELL" she answered shortly.
"And you haven't the least twinge 0
regret at leaving all this?'
81 don't happen to have your peculia
point of view" she returned. 9TH
circumstances connected with my com
ing into this country and with my stay
ing here are such as to make me anz
ious to get away"
Same old story" Bill muttered ur
der his breath.
"What is it?" she asked sharply.
ooh, nothing" he said carelessl,
and went on with his breakfast prept
rationS.
The evening of the third day frol
there Bill Travelled till dusk. Whe
camp was made and the fire starteo
, he called Hazel to n side, up on.a Ii
: tie rocky knoll, and pointed out a ha.
dozen pin points of yellow glimmerin
!, distantly in the dark.
That's Bella Coola," he told he
! "And unless they've made q radio;
, change in their sailing schedules thel
, should be a boat clear tomorrow
noon"