Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-06-17
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BY AV / u ND ER.S1ON

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aimsy yestments. they were stained
and S%srneared with blood. Truly the
Red Mask did not coniine his nsvil-
that cav could have told-and, the
roaming whirlpool where the waters
from the branch pitched into the
river!
His game!l
For a. moment he was strongly
tempted to stay where he was till the
monster returHedYth following night
and then.:rid the Flatwoods of him.
and trust what evidence he already
had to prove his case,
lButsa better plan had been forming
ever since he came into the cave. and
There was muchalsyeH to be done;
though the .cavefwould have made a
good hiding plhcetsdurinE the coming
dayI : was ~ provided q bandit did
That. coming day! How to get
through 1t till another night! Once
1.-THE thought crossed him to go back to
the Jail, crawl through the window,
and. let himself be found there in.the
morning. But love of liberty was
strong, and besides, the temper of the
town. was uncertain. No, it wouldn'e
do-neither the a v nor tho Jail.
He decided to- take his chances in the.
Iopen woods, and let the man hunt
srun~its course. Il n -. ~.
After az somewhat critical search
of the pocket back Of the hay, using
the utmost pains to conceal every
out the candle before a tell-tale
length of it had burned away, and,
carefully ,groped his way down the
passage.
The moment he came in sight OF
the waterfall he knew the moon was
up. Its beams fell through the glanc-
ing water ana bathed the mouth of
The auivering Skinner Of it baffled,
distressed the eyes. Looking up he
could see the thin. broad blade of wa
ter slipping over the shelving edge of
the rock. Fed by springs back in
the hills. it's flow was constant from
year to year: 1t fell so evenly as to
hide completely the mouth of the
concealed itatnore effectively.
But the Pearlhunter wasted little
of the precious remainder of his night
in prof1tless reflection. Selecting a
spot that be Judged to be about right
for the take-off, he leaped at the
on the fiat roc outside. 1t was like
breaking through the crust of Gre
alton into a new world. Marveling at
the small amount of water that had
chung to him, he sprang over the two
intervening rocks to the shore.
The moon was we'll up. 1t would
have betrayed him had there been
the front ofAthe cabin, raised the
latch, entered and closed the door
Knowing how we'll the visitor who
had just precede6him had\blinded the
windows, he did not hesitate to light
the candle. y
The table, with its. unwashed dishes
and leftover food, still stood near the
south window just as he had left it
the morning before. S%natching up
some cold biscuits and strips OF fried
Il bacon. he hurriedly made six sand
wiches and stuffed them into his
pockets. A small looking glass hung
on the wall near the table. He paus-
The bandage around his head. A
small spot of red stained 1T through,
but the cut seemed to have stopped
, bleeding. He winked his swollen eye
wider open and blew out the candle.
Resting at the spring long enough
to eat two Of his sandwiches, he
drained a gourd. of water, crossed the
away up the bluffs into the deep
I, woods.
A mile and more north of the wa
. ~terfall, Wolf Run bends west to lou
=. BILE and twist and loop through a tan
gle of hills and gylches known as Fox
, Den, the widest and most inaccessi-
!, BILE district Of the Flatwoods. The
, ,Pearlhunter had heard of the place,
: He resolved to take his chances there,
+ But it would be difficult to- sa.
whether this decision was arrived at
: entirely because of the broken and
. tangled wildness of the. place. Pos
= sibly another, though no less weighty,
. element entered into the c%onsidera-
: ton. The spot was not great distance
= above the three-gabled cabin.
a Making a wide detour, therefore
: even we'll beyond the pond whe,u he
= dug the elecampane, roots, he picked
his way dow into this tangled laby-
y irinth of cliff and scar, wading fol-
: more thar a quarter of a, mile. as 4
last ~precaution, down the branch and
into the very heart of II jumbled
" fastness-the citadel OF wolves anc
3 foxes. -. 81 I. =.
! Away up the bare. front Of a cliff
= his eye, as he waded. lighted or tho
mouth of what appeared to be q, cleft
8 lin the rock. Wolf Run washed against
h a narrow ledge at the. very foot Of this
. ,cliff. He leaped' out OF the water UP
r on this ledge. 1t looked like an. i'm
h possibility to climb the cliff, for it wal
+ well-nigh perpendicular. But tner,
h was no other way to reach the cleft