Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1921-04-07
CHAPTER ~.


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1T. -, H.. Df,il, In NOR i'm
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g.. ,,...,.,,,.f,,.. ,I,.,,, -, ri.bt She had
moab ~ nm lp,yl,l,, nov She
a., IL. ,.,,., .,,.i,,..;,,., stride.
ann; a.. I.., I.,,,,. rr,,, tho windows
.,r Ga. b,,,s, .v,r, srrn lost in the
uin,,, hrbipd her II MAS one of those
sil,n, brr.fIl,>s ni.ht~ with which
mo- mnuutaincrr is entirely marquaiuI-
al and for , LONG Time the only sound
shp cnuId hear MIS- her own soft
rr,,pn I'm ,b. MIN, Needles. The frees
themselves were muriuulr>~. That
prculiar sound. not greatly different
from nhHt Of running water which the
wind often makes in the pine tops.
M. entirely lacking. Not that She
COULD hr deceived 10y it-as stories
tell that certain trndrrlcrt. dying "l
thirst ia the barren hills. have been.
But she ALWAYS liked the sound; .nd
She missed it ESPECIALLY tonight.
She felt THAI if she would stop Ia
listen. there would hr many faint
sounds In the thicketS those little
huShcd noises that the wild things
make to remind ni.ht-wandcrcrS of
their presence. Hut She did not in
the least care 10 hear these sounds.
They do moi tend toward peace OF
mind on a long Walk over the ridges.
Tn, wilderness began at once.
Whatever influence toward civiIiZa-
-, -. r.,,I,.,r. I,,,,,,, b,J brnu-bt tu
thp Willis chopppd off as beneath
hIoJ. in rhe first fringe of pines. This
il ,Ifor,tbpr characteristic of the Drr-
gnn forests They are much too biz
aud too old to hc tanned in any large
degree by the prrsrnce of one house.
M an. krrv This fact better than
rnn,v himself who, in a hard viz.
ter of four wears before. had looked
on nf his window to find the wolf
mack ranged i'm hungry circle abou,
his house. Within two hundred wards
after she had PASSED through Ter IA.
rbrr's door, she was perfectly awar,
that The wild was stirring ANA thrnh-
hiu. with life about her At first Sl"
tried very hard Ia think of other
things. But the attempt wasn't en-
tir,ly a success. And before she had
covered the first of he twelve niles,
The sounds that from the first had
been Knocking at the door of her con
.ciouSncsS began Ia make an entrance.
If q pprson ,iCS still lohg enough, lie
and the flow of his .. his
n los. ANY sound o.. . ~
-: make it%alf
.- IS this way with a ,ulIar
Noise that crcpt up through the silence
from the trail behind her She
wouldn't give il any heed at first. But
in a very little while indeed. il grew
81. insistcnt that she could no LONGER
DISREGARD il.
some living creature WAS truttin.
ulonr on the trail behind. keeping AL
rruximotely the same distance be-
4
FOREGOING any attenpt 10 ignore it,
she SET her cool Young mind To think
inn, what manner of beast If might he.
rs sion WAS not greatly different from
thot of q large ,ou-pXccpt pnSSihlv a
l,, vouId have made slightly mare
poiso Yer she couldn't even he sure
Of this bosic premise hrcauSe this
,uip,,I vbotnver # mirbt br. had ot
Or, .oauiprIv moved with utmost
,,,.,ior lint NOW took loss caro- with
r.. to-, thor Is customary with ia.
villa drr,zars or the woods \ wolf
Cow i,.tonce can simnIv drift when il
IL. nj IN. ,iIon,.o of , co,,,,.,r -
., ro,,o yat unIess ber nursunr vare
=. In- which seemed entirely upIikaIv
3, - certainly. ono of those tvo Shc
III I,o,.a Iil,aI yarv urcb IN holiovo
a. .,,,, ,.os ,bot of old Wolf tho
~ suddenly curious os IA what tbis
"a, nh ~ bors mich, ba. h,t sbo
,,,,,,I,I,,., hrirr bsrseIf I'm ,ccont tho
~, Wei ov.ont whom ,,,oupd.d ,r
,.,,,,orol is tho mast omf,bIa crno-
-, &, tbo ororop ,rooIs and IL
MD Give bcr almost , sensn of So.
nit, 20 have him w,ddIirr ,Ionr
roni,1 nor Tho wolves and copo,r
-.,,,,,,,,,I,,r;,,c, ia, arms or wo,f ,ro,Id
..,t A., uo,rIv :, curious put upror-
,,,ro,,I, tho bIocI. ln,r bod pe,,ar
-, s,,cb a ,Iin,, +, tho p,.nor, of
MOI, ord II no had Ia wouId hove
,o, -, f,irIv sortIv whom h. Is st,II,.
tn,, Lu, u.bcn no i obIicod IN tr,t--
b, MD Lo oI,lfr.J ~ ia to l,oo,
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