New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1921-03-04
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Who'll. rroinu of tho Divide In her in
gar1. tn. v.udin, trails had bpcn hcI
nt..rr,,,ud ,rl Inns, ago She had nc
ouirnJ rho nnuufaiu.rr'S sixth sens,
for trnvpr~iuo tbpm nj night. She ha,
Mood ,r inyt ~krovledgp NOW. 81,
Skinned iu,o brr free swinging stride
and th, r,.t Leoms from the window,
of III. hans. rera soou lost in IN,
ojues hrhiud hnr II was II OF tlos,
silent brrathIe,s NIGHTS with whicl
no mouuuinr,r is entirely uuacquaint.
cd and for a tong ripr the only sound
she could hear wus her own soft
tfamp i'm fine pine needles. The trees
themselves were m~otionleSs. That
pcculinr sound not greatly different
from thur of running water which the
wind often uukcs IN the pine tops,
WIS entirely lacking. Not that she
could be- deceived hy it-as stories
tell that certain teudcrfcct, dying of
tiiirSl in 'hr barren hills, have been.
But she always liked the SuulIu anu
she missed II especially tonight,
She felt that if she would stop 10
listen. there would be many laIht
sounds in the thickets-thoSe little
huehed noises that the VIVA rhll'eS
make to remind night-WandererS II
Oheir presence. But she ana NOT III
the least care to hear ines" So'IiluS'
They do not tend toward peace 81
mind on a long walk over the ridges
Nv. .fII ..., IAtrnp pt nDrp
Whnlrvrr influence toward civiliza-
ion her fathers house had brought to
Che wild, chopped off as h"ncaih n
hladr in the first fringe of pines. ms
Is altogether Characteristic of III" )re-
gon forests. They are much too big
and too old TO be tanned in any large
degree by the presence of one mouse.
No one knrW this fact better llah
Lennon himself who, in Il nara WIN
Ter of -four years before, had looked
out of his window to find the VOL
pack ranged in n hungry circl" abou
his house. Within two hundred wards
after she had passed through h"r Ia
thcr's door. she was perfectly aware
that the wild was stirring ana thr"o-
bling with life about her. At frst she
tried very hard to think of other
things. But the attempt wasn't en-
tirely n success. And before she fad
covered thr first of the twelve miles,
Che sounds that from the flrSt had
been knocking ut the door of her con
sc|iouSnrsS began to make an entrance.
IL ,.,a,,, tina GtilI lnnu RInnph no
can usually hear his heart beating
and the flow of his blood in his
arteries. Any sound, no mntter q
faint viii make itself heard mt last.
II was this way with Il very peculiar
noise that crept up through the silence
from the trail behind her. She
wouldn't give it any heed ut first. But
In n very little while indeed, it grew
SO insi~tcnt that she could no longer
disregard It.
Some living creature was trOtting
along ON the trail behind, keeping ap-
proyimatrIy the same distance be-
tween Them
FOREGOING any attempt TO ignore 1t,
she set her cool oln mind to think
Ing what manner of beast it might he.
It's stem was not greatly different from
Chat of n large dog-eXcept possibly ii
dog would have made slightly more
nois, Yet she couldn't even be sure
Of this basic premise, because this
enimol whatever II might be, had at
first seemingly moved with utmost
hut now took less care with
IFS stem than is CUSTOMARY with the
depiz.ns Of fine woods. A wolf
Gar instance can simply drift when #