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

ton of LaHdy IIildrcth.
He sorCcd himself To go nearer. The
huzzardS were almost done, and one
white bone from the shoulder gave I'M
miStakahlo evidence of the passage of
II bullet What had happened there
after. hc could only guess
lie got back quickly on his horse.
He understood. now. why nothing had
been heard of the evidence that Landy
IIiIdrcth was In turn over 20 the
courts as 10 the activities Of the arson
ring. Some onc-pruhahly Bert Gram
Ston himSclf-had been waiting On the
trail Others had come thereafter.
And his lips set In his resolve to let
this murder measure in the debt ne
had to pay CranSton.
The Icnn0N house seemed very ST.
lent wien. almost an hour later. h"
turned his horse into the corral. He
had rather hoped that Sn0whird would
hc ut the door 10 meet him. The dark
ness had Just fallen. and all the lamps
were lighted. He strobe into the Nv
ing room. warming his hands an In
slant beside the fireplace. The fire
needed fuel II had evidently been
neglected for nearly an hour.
Then he called Snnwbird. His voice
echoed in the silent room. unanswered.
He called again. then went To look for
her At the door of the dining room
he found the note that she had left
for him.
II told. very simply and plainly, that
her father lay injured in his bed. and
he WIS To remain and do what he
could for him. She had gone for help
To the ranger station.
lie lrapcd through the rooms 10 Len
nox's door. then went I'm on tiptoe.
And the first thing he saw when he
opened the door WAS the Grizzled
mans gray face on the pillow.
you're home early. Dam he said.
GLOW many did you get?"
1t was entirely characteristic
Shaggy old Wool is too proud TO howl
over the wounds that lay him low, and
this gray old bear on the bed had par
taken of his spirit.
Good Lord Dan answered. How
badly are you hurt?"
Not 81 had but that Tin sorry that
Snovhird has gone drifting twelve
miles over the hills for help. It's
dark rs pitch"
And It was. Dan could scarcely
make ont the outline of the somher
ridges against the sky.
They talked on. and their subject
was whether Dan should remain TO
take care of Lennon. or whether he
should attempt Ia overtakc SnOwbird
with the horse. OF course the girl
had ordered him tn stay. LcnnoX, on
the other hand. said that Dan could
not help him in the least, and desired
him to follow the girl.
I'm not often anxious about her"
he said slowly. "But II Is n long walk
through he widest part of the hi
. ,idc. Sni way-I can't bar accidents
light Mt like to think of her
r-. .....f g alone"
... Ca" what had lain he
g trail. Dan felt the same. He
,ard. long ago. thu Gny animal
.. zee tasted human Ses its
Tn men and is nevt~ trusted
~. Some wild ana rat still
ated the ridges had. the last
,,nth. done Just that tn. He left
rhr room and walked solly to the
dac
ght lay silent and mysterious
.. t.. Divide. He stood listening.
... had started OHly m nOGr be-
I'D ii WAS unlikely that she
E. I'D have travcrSed more than two
miles If the Stecn trail in that time
Although the horse ordinarily did not
climb n hill more swiftly than Il hui
man being, he didn't doubt hut that
he could Ovprtake her before she
went three miles farther. But where
Law his duty-with the injured nan
in the house or with the daughter on
her GRAND Of mercy II the darkness?
Then the matter was decided for
him. So faint that 1t only whispered
ot the dim, outer frontiers of hearing
n sound came PrickinG through the
darkness. Only his months of listen
ing to the faint sounds of the forest
and the incredible silence Of the night
enabled him TO hear II at all. But he
knew what it was, the report of Il
pistoI. SnOwhird had met an enemy
in the darkness.
CTO BE CONTINUED