The Prescott daily news., 1918-04-17

u Woihan can't always put ;n. 'iings Last fall you hurt my pride aso aus words scared me to death by corrn, anu nearly m that lawless, headlong s fash,ne 'ae of yours, But you seemed to ,On knom of how I felt about it, and vnn onow just fairer than any man sUa oUa played would have done under tbo Knew cumstances. I didn't realiza aie ,a clr. got back into the civilized world unul then all at once found mvso,s u ', And for you-and for ese old fono .onslng the mountains and all. So ef's z sd and back" came
 "Wise girl" he l-'gsed ber .u never be sorry, hope. Ii too. ioul nerve. too. It's a long trail fron, a some to the outside. But this north nefs try-it gets in your blood-it eOun' blood's red-and I don't tbinL q. your any water in your veins littlo na aeles Lord! I'm afraid to let eo of person fear you'll vanish into nothing 'Ju ,. iof Hindu fakir stunt" "Ae
 "No fear" Hazel laughed .r,r. pony tied to tree out tbero sO. four Siwashes and a camp outAt n" auu by Crooked lake. If I should v..,ss 0,v. I'd leave a plain trail for you to I,sa ss, low" 'o''
 "Well," Bill said, after a sbo,. fence, tits a hundred and forty m,,s. to Hudson's Bay post where ths,s,. n mission and preacher. Let's ho oa our way and get married. Then w.m come back here and spend our bons.. moon, eh7"
 She nodded assent.
 Are you game to start fin half .n hourT he asked. holding her of .t arms length admirinxly.
 I'm game for anything, CT wouldn't be here," she retorted.
 "All right. You just watch an er. hibition of speedy packing" Bin dc. clared-and straightway fell to wort.
 Hazel followed him about, helpine to get the kyaks packed with food. They caught the three horses, and Bill stripped the pony of Hazel's ridIna gear and placed a pack on him.
 Hes your private mount hence. forth" Bill told her laughingly. "You'll ride him with more pleasure than you did the first time, won't your
 Presently they were ready to start planning to ride past Limping Georse's camp and tell him whither they wers bound. Hazel was already mounted Roaring Bill paused, with his toe h the stirrup, and smiled whlmsically at her over his horses back.
 "I forgot something" said he. and went back into the cabin--whence hs shortly emerged. bearing in his hand sheet of paper upon which some thing was written in bold angular characters. This he pinned on the door. Hazel rode silk close to ses what 1t might be. and laughed amused. ly, for Bill had written:
 "Mr. and Mrs. William Wagstatf will be at home to their friends on and after June the twentieth"
 He swung up into his saddle, and they logged across the open. In the edge of the first timber they pulled up and looked backward at the cabin drowsing silently under It's sentinel tree. Roaring Bill reached out ono arm and laid 1t across HazePs shouf ders.
 Little person." he said soberiI there's the end of one trail, and the beginning of another-the longest tran either of us has ever faced. How cs~ 1t look to you7"
 She caught his fingers with quick hard pressure.
 "All trails look alike to me- sn' said. with shining eyes, just so " hit them together"
 "What day of the month S un" Billf Haze asked.
 Haven't the least idea" ne Ar swered lazily. 'sTime is Of no con., Quence to me at the present momen'.
 They were sitting on the warm saiI before their cabin, their backs propps. comfortably against a log' wa.e% 'r.. the sun sink behind a distant sAyun. all notched with purple moun'a,s. upon which snow still fingered ne''.s .s them a smudge dribbled ~'sp ,n x smoke sufficient to ward of p .r lential swarm of mosquitoes ana O.s. .s., flies. In the clear. thin air .. S., M altitude the occasional voices oi "g .hs bird and animal life was abroau 'n ..,,h wild broke into the evening husn "os. " astonishing distinctness-a ione ,.sr,rs winged above in wide circles u.. M had his harsh and solitary cry ne .s M ,o lost his mate, Bill told her. Far ,0n,ns on ,s the bush fox parked. The c'sarod e's flight of the wild ducks from oloS Os ,n. lake to a chain of swamps paSs..n ,.n :. termittently over the clearing wn't WI Inc