Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-10-04
WHO'S WHO N THE STORY
BY Mary Roberts Rimehi

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LESLIE WARD. EH.abeth's b-o,her~tn-'a,o..
Mr.. AND MRS. WHEELER. tvptcai Amsrs-
can Parents.
, WALhiE SAYRE, a rich, youth Uhoss so
! C,niiv. select ,n0thcr WtshfS htn, 20 moTro
/ Elisabeth. ,ctth Whom he is smsttc"'
|WlIH the sounds and ana Ms MS. own ",s move, n,sS.
air on his face, the feel Of the pine
needles under his stoCkinGed feet
brought him hacl; to sense and nor
mality. Some creature Of the wilder.
ness, deer or hear. perhaps, had
been moving stcalthily UurSide N"
cabin. and it. was sound hr had heard,
not Il gaze he bad felt lie was rather
Cynically amused at himself. lie Went
back into the cabin. closed the door,
and stopped to turn his boots over be-
fO"e the fire.
Il wns while he was STOPPING that he
heard horse galloping off along the
trail
He did not 60 70 sleep again. Now
and then hc considered til" possibility
OF its having been his own animal,
somehow freed Of the rope and fright
enrd By the same thing that had fright
Cnei him. But when with III" first lght
he went outside. his horse. securely
hobbl"d, wns grazing ON o." N'ant
pasture not far away.
Before he cooked his breakfast he
made minute examination Of the
ground beneath the wall, but the earth
was hard. and broken branch or two
might have been caused by his horse.
He had no skill in wood craft. and in
the broad day his alarm seemed most
absurd. Som" free horse on the range
had probably wandered into the vicin-
ity Of the cabin. and had made off again
on a rot. Nevertheless he made up his
mind not 70 remain over night, buy to
look about after breakfast, and then
start down again.
lie worked on his boots. dry and hard
after yesterdays wettirg, fried his bn-
con and dropped some crackers into
some sizzling fat, and ate quickly. AZ
ter that he went out 20 the trail and in
spected il. lie had an idea that range
horses were mostly unshoi and that
perhaps the trail would reveal some
thing. But it was unused and over
grown. Not until he had gone some dis
tnnce did he iind anything. Then in II
snail bare spot he found in the dust
the iinprints Of horses shoes. turned
down the trail up which he had come.
Even then he was slow TO read into
the incident anything that related TO
himself or TO his errani. He went over
tho various contingencies of the trail:
ranger on h!s wav 70 town; II forest
fire somewhere; u boiatol hound from
the newspaper pack He was convinced
now that human eyes lad watched him
for some time through the log wall the
night before. but i" could not connect
them with tie business in hand.
10 set resolutcly NboUt his business,
which was tO turn up. somehow. some
way. proof oi th" truth Of Maggi"
DonQ,dSon'S dying statement. To be-
gin with then ne accepted thQt state
mont. to find where il would lead him,
and i led him eventually 20 III" hr0krn-
down stove under the fallen roof Of the
lean-tO.
He deliberately set himself n work.
at first 20 reconstruct the life in the
cabin. ,Tud would havc had the lower
bunk. David the upper. The Nn","ton