Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1918-01-09
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tcir 4 NuS pihiuS away uoAlH VI luDSt
mountains, bound for the head of the
Mas to prospect for gold"
They were camped in a notch on the
tIptop Of long divide, thousand feet
| above the general level. A wide valley
! rolled below, and from the height they
overlooked two great, sinuous lakes
and multitude of smaller ones.
I've been wondering Hazel said.
"This country somehow SEE AS differ
ent. You're not going back to Cariboo
Meadows, are your
Bill bestowed a look of surprise on
her.
/ IT should say not !" he drawIed. "Not
that 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
briefly. II have got plenty to see you
through. And you can easily buy
clothes"
They were now ten days on the road.
Steadily they climLed, reaching up
through gloomy canyons where foam
ing cataracts spilled themselves over
I sheer wallis of granite, where the dim
and narrow pack trafl was crossed and
recrossed with the footprints Of bear
land deer and the snowy-coated noun
4 tain goat.
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Roaring Bill lighted his evening fire
at last at the apex Of the pass. He ha,
Travelled long after shutdown, seeking g
| camp ground where his horses coul
Craze. The fire lit up huge frs, an
high above the fir tops the sky wa
studded with stars, brilliant In the tllil
atmosphere. They ate, and, befn
weary, lay down to sleep. At suni.is
Hazel sat up and looked about her i
silent, wondering appreciation. All TIL
world spread east and west below.
She adjusted the binoculars ans
peered westward from the great heigh
where the camp sat. Distantly. an
! far below, the green of the forest brok
down to q hazy line of steel-blue thr
ran in turn to a huge fog bank, snow
white in the rising sun.
There's a lake." she said
mo. Salt water-a long arm OF Til
! Pacific" he replied. .That's wher
you and part company---to your veF
great relief. dare say. But lock o.
in the other direction. Lord, you en-
| see two hundr milesi If it weren
for the Babine range sticking up 70
could look clear to where my cabi
| stands. What an outlook!
| II told you, think, about prospect
! ing on the head of the Mas last spring
Iffell in with another fellow up there
and we worked together, and early In
the season made nice little CLEANUP
on gravel bar. / have another place
spotted, by the way, that would wori1
out fortune If fellow wanted to
| spend couple of thousand putting ii
some machinery. However, when tlat,
! June rise drove us Off our bar, pulled
clear out of the country. Just tool
a notion to see the bright lights again.
And didn't stop short of New York.
Do you know, lasted there just one
| week by the calendar. 1t seems funny
| when you think of 1t, that man wifi
three thousand dollarsto spend shouls
| get lonesome in place like New York
But did. And at the end Of week ]
flew. / had all that money burning M.
| p0ckets--and, all told, I didn't spent
| Ave hundred. Fancy man Jumping
over four thousand miles to have {.
| good time. and then running ava,
from 1t. 1t was very foolish of me, J
think now. Well, the longer we live
the more we learn. Day after tomor.
row you'll be in Bella Coda. The can
merry steamships carry passengers OH
a fairly regular schedule to vancou.
yer. How does that suit your"
Every WELL" she answered shortly.
"And you haven't the least twinge OF
regret at leaving all thisT
Il don't happen to have your peculiar
point of view." she returned. "The
circumstances connected with my com
ing into this country and with my stay.
ing here are. such as to make me anx'
ious to get away"
Same old story" Bill muttered I'm.
der his breath.
''What is itr she asked sharply.
"Oh, nothing" he said carelessly
and went on with his breakfast prepa-
rations.
| The evening OF the third day from,
\ there Bill travelled till dusk. When
camp was made and the fire started
he called Hazel to one side. up on a lit.
tie rocky knoll, and pointed out half
dozen pin points of yellow glimmerina
distantly In the dark.
'That's Bella Coola." he told her.
"And unless they've made a radical
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