The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1921-01-28

strings that held 1t and whipped them
into a knot. Then the girl stepped
back. The man crawled through the
window-with extreme care not to
scar the ground outside.
II is past all knowing how her hands
happened to get into his. He bent his
head and laid bis face upon them ;
suffered them to slip out Of his fingers
at last; and turned away.
He was gone on the instant-gone
as a shadow goes-never knowing
that for long and long the dull window
framed 4 white face listening for
some sound of him to come back out
Of the night.
The woodcraft of the ~Pearlhunter
was profound. 1t was about all life
had taught him, but II had taught him
that. With the logical precision of a
schoolmaster passing from one step of
a problem to another. IL led him
straight 10 The trail Of the man he had
been following a short time before
which. OF course. took him In the d.
rection of Fallen Rock. The man he
followed had doubtless gone back to
the village by this time. This prob
ability he had already estimated and
set down in his reckoning at its
proper value. But he had another pur-
pose in turning his steps toward Fall
en- Rock. He was deliberately going
back TO the cabin.
With every caution TO leave no trail.
he picked his way through the woods
to the edge Of the bluffs, stole over
and down toward the cabin. The first
AZ the black bulk of Ii. squat
ted in the deep gloom under the up
standing rocks. brought him to in
pause. There was a light with
in. He crouched down in the bushes
10 consider what this unexpected cir
,umstance meant before venturing an
step.
No sound came from the cabin. The
was intensely still. Not an oar
the river. The waterfall alone
retted the silence. The P%earlhunter
himself in the weeds and
and foot by foot worked his
way until he was able at last to bring
lis face level with the tiny opening.
With his eye close. the chink afforded
tolerably clear view of the interior
f the cabin. He barely restrained a
ry at what he saw.
STOPPED over the small, ha~ir-covered
runk. his hat off, stood the Red Mask. :
lie had pried open the lid and had 1
lid the contents of the trunk out
18th seeming carr in rather neat |
caps upon the floor. In his hand he J
the picture of the I~on-Gray-
The P~earlhunter's gorge rose at see
lg his mothers picture in such hands.
nd his breast burned to dash into the v
ibin and settle his score with the .
.lcrilegious wretch once and for all. q
ut 1t was not his to do as he pleased u
lat night. His activities for the mo-
ent were limited to keeping his eye :;
st to the chiDk. =
The man by the trunk Strengthened. 81
the picture to the candle and
God looking long upon it. He laid it II
his lips. again and again, as If he al
ould drink up the beautiful face F"
ON the card. He pressed the picture r.
his bosom; held it again to the
ndle and whispered to 1t in tones or
at did not carry to the ear of the K
nazed listener. He strobe up and sa
wn the room; and there was on his !"
a look that no man had probably
er seen there before, and probably
,uld never see again. l..
long moments he reused him
+, unbuttoned his vest, and put the do
carefully away in an inner
cket. The watcher outside the wall
need; his lips drew together In a ~
Use line. But there was much to be =,
N just then. The man inside had
en-, crossed the floor, put the things Wv.
* in the trunk, closed the lid and ~
ked up his hat. Next moment the ny
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