Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1922-07-14


voice had a deep tone * menace in ii;
he seemed to consider and decide
something about her. There's farm
house about mile back; I'm going TO
take you over there and leave you with
those people"
Il will not go there!"
He swore. "Ili carry you, them
She shrank back from him as he
lurched toward her with hands out
stretched To seize her; he followed
her. and she avoided him again; II his
| guilt and terror had given her mental
ascendency over him, his physical
strength could still force her TO his
will and, realizing the impOssibility
Of eyading him or overcoming him.
she stopped.
mot that" she cried Don't touch
~
"Come with me. then :" he command
| ed; and he went to the door and laid
his snowshoes on the snow and
stepped into them, STOPPING and tight
ening the straps; he stood by while
she put on hers. He did not attempt
again to put hands upon her as they
moved away from the little cabin to-
ward the woods back Of the clearing;
but went ahead, breaking the trail for
her with his snowshoes. He moved
forward slowly; he could travel, IL he
| had wished, three feet TO every two
| that she could cover, but he seemed
not wishing for speed but rather for
delay. A deep, dull resonance WIS
booming above the wood; II doomed
again and ran into a rhythm. No
longer was 1t above; at least it was not
! only above: 1t was oil about them
here, there, to right and to left, before.
| behind-the booming Of the Drum
Doom was the substance OF that sound
Of the Drum beating the roll OF the
! dead
Henry had stopped in front Of her,
half turned her way; his body swayed
and bent to the booming Of the Drum,
as his swollen lips counted its sound
Ings. She could see him plably In the
moonlight, yet she drew nearer to him
| as she followed his count. Twenty
one" he counted-''Twenty-tw The
drum was still going on Twenty
four-twenty- ive-twenty-six! Would
he count another7
He did not; and her pulses, which
had halted. leaped with relief He
moved on again, descending the steep
side Of a little raFine. and she fol-
] lowed. One of his snowshoes caught
| IN q protruding root and. instead OF
| slowing TO free II with care. he pulled
1t violently out. and she heard the dry,
seasoned wood crack He looked down.
swore; saw that the wood was not
broken through and went on; but as
he reached the bottom Of the slope. she
leaped downward from little height
behind him and crashed down upon his
trailing snowshoe just behind the heel.
The rending snap OF the wood came
| beneath her feet Had she broken
through his shoe or snapped her own.
| She sprang back, as he cried out and
swung in an attempt to grasp her; he
lunged TO follow her, and she ran
few steps away and stopped At his
next step his foot entansled In the
mesh of the broken snowShoe, and ne
stopped, cursing, TO strip 1t OF and
hurl it from him; then he tore OF the
one from the other foot. and threw II
away. and lurched after her again; but
now he sank above his knees and floun-
dered in the snow. She stood for a
moment while the half-mad. half
drunken figure struggled toward her
along the side OF the ravine: then she
ran 10 where the tree trunks hid her
from him. He gained the top or the
slope and turned In the direction she
had gone: assured then. apparently.
that she had flown in fear OF him. he
started back more swiftly toward the
beach. She followed keeping cut OF
his sight among the trees.
To twenty-six. he had eOunted-to
twenty-six. each time, That told that
he knew one was living among those
who had been upon the ferry. What
one? II could only be one Of two to
disrnay him so; there had been only
two on the ferry whose rescue he had
feared only two who. living. he would
have Ter lie upon this beach which he
had chosen and set aside Tor his pa
troll, while he waited for hn 70 diei
She forced herself on. unsparingly. /
ms she saw Henry gain the shore ami
as, believing himself alone. he hurried |
northward. She could not rest; she
could not let herself be exhausted I
Merciless minute after minute she
raced LIN thus A dark shape--a ng-
IRE lay stretched upon the lee ahead
Beycnd add still farther out. some
thinr which seemed the fragments o.
8 lfshoat tossed up and down where
The waves Numbered and cleaned az
roe edge of the foe.
Ilengys pace qulckensd hses Qa'ek'
ened desperately. TOO. she ief me
SHELTER ~ ghe trees and scraAoied
down fhs steer pitch ~ the pies,
shouting crying aloud iiepFy turned
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aasset hlm VIA ) fasN and - be
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