Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-06-02
CHAPTER yI1I-(Continued.)

Inc Iron ITay WOIldl u1GS SuuUeHlS.
CHAPTER VIII-(Continued.)
At the moment, a young woman
with a basket on her arm came out OF
la grocery a-block UP the street and
walked rapidly down toward the
saloon. The man just inside the cor
apparently was watching for her.
She seemed to know hat he would be
thereto dread that he would be-to
judge by the way she hurried past.
The mar stepped out on the sidewalk
as the girl came opposite and tried
to stop her. He even stepped in
front of her. She turned out around
him and, with a bare wore or two in
response to his efforts to engage her
i'll talk, hurried rapidly on.
He stood looking after her till she
was a block or more down the street
road would be the better word,
Since the River Road formed the one
street of the village-and then de-
liberately followed. <
All thoughts OF the cabin at, Fallen
Rock, of the Boss sprawled over d
table at the Mud Hen, instantly fed
the mind of the Pearlhunter. His
his slow eyes came a quickened in
~terest. He hardly knew why he fol-
lowed. He simply found himself
walking after hem.
She was probably some girl in
from the country-from the woods.
He did not know her, but he did
know the man that followed her
marked how she hurried by the sa-
loon,s ~ahndSeher~evident anxiety to esq
cane the unavoidable encounter.
They had passed ME outskirts Of
the village and were we'll down the
River Road that led to the deep
woods about Fallen Rock when he
allowed himself to come in sight of
en- them, possibly . without exciting
suspicion, his way lying the same as
theirs. But the hard circumstances
of life had taught the P~earlhunter
many q handy lesson-keen' observa-
ton: a still tongue; self-reliance;
caution. And he knew the man he
followed. Given that same bit OF
knowledge-the chance discovery
that came with the picking UP of the
red mask in the old cabin-the FLAT
woods would have been up in arms.
) But that information he could not
give. for the very good M Sub
stantial reason that 'he had no proof.
/ So he deemed it best to keep out OF
J sight and bide his time till the mar
he followed disclosed his full inten-
tons.
e The River Road, as it follows along
, under the brow of the cliffs below
Buckeye, makes many turns. The
girl and her pursuer were walking
e fast when the Pearlhunter peeped ou1
!, around a turn and looked after them
= BY running at sue times as tho
winnings Of the road hid him.. he
a had caught up with them as near al
was prudent. The girl was walking
very rapidly. 1T was plain that she
knew she was being followed. 1t wa:
. equally plain that she did not wan
" her bursuer to know that she knew
o it. But walk as fast as she would
the man following her walked just
bit faster.
Nearly a mile below the village
Wand half that distance above Fallel
Rock, the River Road angles abrupt!
Z to the north through a cut in tn
st cliff and leads back into the leve
4 highlands. Just where the roa'
turns a path leaves it, crosses a di
II !lapidsted rail fence running alsn
the east line of the warbritton lands
and enters the woods. The girl too
'e this path. She was in the act o
d climbing the fenceslow and broke,
!. where the path crossed it-wher
with a prodigious step or two, tn
man following caught up with he
and took hold Of the BASKET.
"Allow me to assist YOU" he sait
j T a 1AHIO ~
had darted behind a clurnp of haze
es growing rank along the side of tn
le road, could just distinguish tn
ID words.
Without. answering, the girl spran
to the ground on the opposite side G
D. the fence. but without letting go c
the basket. Neither did the other le
on the top rail Of the fence. he vault
If ed lightly over. The Pearlhunte
seized the favorable instant to stes
i. neaxer. The %sunbonnet hid the girl
l~face~so that he could not see 1t, bu
!, he fancied the plump brown hand Q
- the basket handle was trembling. TIL
smile on the face Of the man cans
y ing persistently to the other side {
basket mean things that a smil
" has no business to mean.
~. why do you always avoid me?
voice was low, soft. musicale
musical. Surely it's no crime for
man to admire a pretty girl. 18th
cat may look at the queen 20
70 know" t.
re- He laughed. Something altoeethe
different from mirth in that laugh
tn something altogether different fro,
mirth behind It. The girl mad r
reply-if the heaving Of her boso'
1e Egave, any index to her ~ s 81
ID probably could not repls sac 9
ne You ignore me there In the vi
l1ge,"s he pursued. But but here ]
It. the woods-well. It's out here in til
gu woods. You've got to--Hel1"
= The exclamation VIA surprised OF
OF him. The girl had suddenl
dropped her side OF the basket an
whiried. But quick a. she was, h
st 10 the ground he seized her arm
followed some muttered word