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| "Where is that packet?"
II haven't it."
Where is liz"
She shook her head slightly.
You had a packet" he insisted
fercely. Look here! Regard" and
he spread out a penciled sheet in
Clinch's hand:
Jose Quintana:
"You win. She's got that stuff
with her. Take your damn junk and
let my girl go.
Mike C1inch."
Well" said Q%uintana, a thin,
strident edge to his tone.
My father is mistaken. 1 haven't
any packet"
The mans visage behind his mask
flushed darkly. Without warning or
ceremony he caught Eve by toe
throat and tore open her shirt.
Then, kissing and cursing and
painting with his own violence, he
searched her brutality AND without
mercy-fung her down and tore off
her spiral puttees and ven her
snoe and stockings, now apparently
beside himself with fury, putting,
gasping, always with a fierce, nasal
sort of whining undertone like an
animal worrying its kill.
"Cowardly BEAST" she painted,
fighting him with all her strength
filthy, cowardly beast!-" striking
at him, wrenching his grasp away
sratching at the descorded clothing
half stripped from her.
His hunting knife fell Gathering
and she fought to get it, but ne
struck her with his open hand,
knocking her down at his feet, and
stood glaring at her with every
tooth barred.
80" he cried. II give you ten
minutes, make up your mind, tell
roe what you do with hat packet"
He wiped the blood from his face
where she had struck him.
you don't know Jose Q~uintana.
No: You shall make his acqudin-
lance. Yes!"
Eve got up on naked feet, CULVER
ing from head to foot, striving to
button the gray shirt at her throat.
"Where?" he demanded, besiae
himself.
Her mute lips only frightened.
"Ner' well, by God" he cried. ~
go make some fire. You like it,
Ell? We shall put one toe in the
fire until it burn off. Yes? En-?
How you like it? Eh?"
The girls trembling hands con
tinued busy with her clothing.
"So!" he said hoarsely, you re-
main dumb! Well, then in ten min
utes you shall talk!"
He walked toward her, pushed
her, savagely aside and strobe on
into the spruce thicket.
The instant he disappeared Eve
caught up the knife he had drop
ped, knelt down on the blanket and
fell to cutting it into strips.
The hunting knife was like a
razor; the feverish business was ac-
complished in a few moments, the
pieces knotted, the cord strained In
a desperate test over her knee.
And now she ran to the precipice
where, ten feet below, the top of a
great pine protruded froN the gulf.
On the edge of the abyss was a
spruce root. 1t looked dead, wedsed
deep between two rocks; but with
all her strength she could not pull
it out.
Sobbing, b~reathless, she tied her
Blanket rope to this, threw the
ether end over the cliffs edge, and,
not giving herself time to think, lay
fiat, grasped the knotted line, swuag
off.
Knot by knot she went down.
Hallway her naked feet brushed
the needles. She looked over her
shoulder, behind and down. Then
teeth clenched, she lowered herself
steadily as she had learned to do In
tho school gymnasium, down, down,
until her legs came astride a pine
limb.
1t bent, swayed, gave with her
letting her sag to a larger hmb be-
- NUT e,0 a1acnad latino on
her rope.
An hour later, Trooper Stormont
Of the state constabulary, sat his
horse in amazement to see a rag
ged, breathless, boyish figure speed
ing toward him among the tamaz
racks, her naked feet splashing
through pool and mire and sphag-
num-.
she flung herself against his stirrup,
sobbing, hysterical, and elinging to
his knee.
Take me back" she stammered,
take me hack to daddy! l CART
-go on-another step"
He leaned down, swung her up to
his saddle in front, holding her
Graded in his arms.
Lille STILL" he said cody; you're
al. right now"
For another second he sat look
ing down at her. at the desheveied
hair, the gasping mouth-at the
rags clothing her, and at the Hat
packet clasped convulsively to her
breast.
Then he spoke in a low voice to
his horse, guiding left with one
knee.
Continued in our next issue)