Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1922-01-12
continued From Last Issue.
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| l' ''ulu N'l luust NNItNt' on Iiu't
| Already % seemed tu him that be- had
! been upon the Journey endless hours
lie didn't know how Ear he had come.
The only Thought he had left was al.
ways tU count his terrible five steps
and count five more
Ou and on. through the long hours
But the tight was almost done Ex.
hausiion and hunger. but cold most II
IAN, We're swiftly breaking him down
The time came at last when he could
no longer get upon his feet. And now.
Ike Tithunus who could not die. he
crawlod along the snowshoo trail ON his
hands and knees
- can't 60 on b., told himself
Yet always his muscles made one
movement more.
Suddenly hr missed the trail His
hand CROPPED Boa vain over the white
crust and h. started 90 creep forward
again
Bur slowly the conviction grew upon
him that hc was crawling in q small
circles the very circle he had lust
made Some way h. had missed the
snowshoc trail.
Slowly be- sank down Boa the snow.
Mn
When the southwest wind struck the
home cabin. Nirginia's first thought wa
for Bill
liarold's first thought WAS also of
Bill. He knew what the wind could
do 10 snow crust His ewes cleaned
with nigh anticipations rwousy inter.
twincd with the remembrance of the
dark cavern he had entered Yesterday.
the gravel laden with gold
IL only wish I hadn't Ict him go. 90
The girls tone was heavy and dull
But We had to have supplies
We could have gone out on that
grizzly meat"
The afternoon that followed was end.
lessly long and lone. Her heart sank
AZ every complaint ~ the wind. and she
dreaded the fan OF the shadows
An through the hours OF curly night
she slept only al intervals
She Weakened before dawn. and the
icy, winter stars were pccring through
the cabin window
Shivcring she slipped quickly into
her clothes Then she lighted a candle
and put on her snowshocs. She nutshell
across the little space OF snow to the
mems cabin
She knocked ON Hnrold's door
Who's there sleepy voice an
swcrcd
ITS Virginia. I'm up and dress
cd bid Bin come back"
Bin? No-and what on earth are
yuu up this early for Forget about
Bill and go back to bed
Listen. Harold -h, pleaded "'Dor
tell me a. 60 back Co bed feel
know something happened to hun
/ And-and-I want NDu to 60 out and
look Tor him
Harold had u0 desire 90 rescue BIN
Besides. ho was angry and bitterly
Jealous 40 her concern for him
You d,. ,h-yuud like to send me
out ON bitter night like this on r.
FOOLS erand such ~ that Where BE-
there cabin along the Way-vou'd
only kin nv without helping him"
You won't 60, them
Don't De- foolish. Virginia"
/ Angry words rose Ia her throat but
she suppressed them
She went swiftly 10 her cabin nut
on her warmest clothing. and as BiU
had showed her rolled a compaci mack
I fur her hack.
She took little package II food
nourishing chocolate and dried meat -
I the whiskey flask that had been her
salvation the night ~ the river experi.
ence and a stub of candle for nre.
building
Then. with newer backward look
she started away. down th, dim wind
blown. snowshoe trail
Ky
New that the fight was dom, HW IA,
quite calm and peaceful in IN. drifs
The pain ~ the cold and tho wrsek ,f
exhausted muscles were quite gone
~ WAS face o. face with the flaming
truth. and b. knew his fate
I ON the trail that h, had made nj, tb..
out journey. and which h, had tried 81,
vain.v Co follow hack Vrrinn am.
nushing toward him
% was a long hard. nervencking
trek
Finally where the trail entered the
spruce thicket. her keen Ewes n,,d.
oui a curious. black shadow aeains, the
snow
The heart In her breast turned 10 lr,.
hcr blood SEEMED 10 So stiI in her veins