Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1922-12-01

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Alone
Bruce she cried, "come back soon
soon. Don't leave me 10 die alone.
I'm not strong enough for that"
He whiried, took two PAGES back,
and his arms went about her. He had
forgotten his injury long since He
kissed her cool lips and smiled into
her eyes. Then az once the furries
l hid him
The girl climbed up into the
branches Of fr tree In the thieket
beyond a great gray form tackled back
and forth, trying to locate scent that
a second before he had caught but
dimly and had lost II was the Killer,
and his temper was lost long ago In
the whirling snow.
His anger was upon him, partly from
the discomfort of the storm, partly
/ from the constant, gnawing pain OF
/ three bullet wounds In his powerful
body. Besides, he realized the pres
ence OF his old and greatest enemy
those stall, slight forms that had
crossed him SO many times. that had
stung him with their bullets, and
whose weakness he had learned
And then all at once he caught
the scent plain. He lurehed forward.
crashed again through the brush and
walked out into the snow-swept open
Linda saw his vague outline, and at
first she hung perfectly motionless.
hoping TO escape his gaze She had
been told many times that grizzlies
cannot climb. yet she had no desire
to see him raging below her. reaching.
possibly trying to shake her from the
limb
He didn't seem TO see her. His eyes
were lowered; besides, # was never the
grizzly way to search the branches Of
tree. The wind blew the message
that he might have read clearly in the
opposite direction She saw him walk
slowly across the snow. head low
cred. a huge gray ghost In the snow
furries not one hundred feet distant
Then she saw him pause, with lowered
head.
In the little second before the truth
came to her, the bear had already
turned Bruee's tracks we're some
what dimmed by the snow, but the
Killer interpreted them truly. She
saw too late that he had crossed them.
read their message. and now had
turned into the clouds Of snow to trace
them down.
For az instant she gszed ar him In
speeches. horror; and already the
hurries had almost obscured his gray
figure. Desperately she tried TO call
his attention from the tracks She
called. then she rustled the branches
as loudly as she could But the noise
Of the wind obscured what sound she
made. and the bear was already too
absorbed In the hunt to turn and see
her. AS always. In the nearing pres
ence OF Zoe. his rage grew upon him.
S0bblDg. Linda swung down from
the tree. She had 10 conscious plan
o. aid 70 her lover She only had
blind instinct 70 seek him. 20 try 10
warn him Of his danger. and az least
10 be aifh him AZ the death. Tie sre4f
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