The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1925-04-29

nv" horc IKE case Ol SHeli-SHOt
bie and that the injury to her head hi
the been only contributing cause.
the lie made her a crutch next mornin
and by the afternoon, she felt we
De- enough to hobble few steps abol
~. the camp. The accident which ha
OF temporarily ungeared her memoir.
eli seemed to have wrought a strang
change In her nature She was n
lc- longer wildly anxious to push on {
her destination; she accepted Lee as
1r ract In her life, and showed how com
pletely she trusted him. despite tn,
intimacy In which they were botf
lie living.
e lie was sure that her memory
IS would suddenly come back to her COM
II pletely. And. memory did come back
L IN dreams, as with shell-shocked pa
g tlents, but only to vanish with the
: waking.
AT night Lee, lying near her beneath
another rough shelter Of boughs that
> ne had made for himself, would hear
her tossing and moaning, and occas-
lonally uttering fragments Of unintel-
ligible sentences.
Day merged into day. Lees rib was
healing well, and the girl was begin
ming to set her foot to the ground. At
nrst she was dependent upon him in
nearly everything. He helped her to
take her first steps without the crutch.
leaning upon his shoulder. They were
always together.
| II IL
snip. 1t was that comradeship of
which Lee had always dreamed And
1t was the more wonderful perhaps,
because the girls severance from the
past gave 1t a sort of unreality, as If 1t
were little piece Of paradise which
they had Snatehed for themselves out
or rhe sum total Of human happiness. s
b soon she began to assume charge of
the camp and the cooking. And Lee, I
lying at her feet, listening while she G
talked, or lying awake at night be-
meath his shelter, in the dread of hear
ing ner moan, came at last to realize o
that his feeling for her was becoming a
something more than the mere enjoy Il
ment of her companionship. f.
He loved her, he sometimes admit
ted to himself; and when a word or 81
glance OF his would send the blood
mantl1ng Into her cheek, he dared to 81
mink that his love was returned. In
ana now he cared no longer whether d,
Ter memory of the past ever came
'ack to her. Almost better to let her 81
I've IN ignorance of all that had dis kr
ressed her.
lie began to dread the inevitable TO
lay when remembrance would come on
blot out their paradise. Only ",
tile Incident would be needed, some 10,
TUE shock that would knit the ray TO
led ends Of memory, and then we
Then what would lie before them?
another thing to be apprehended
as the day. so near now. when tbev hr,
ust leave their woodland paradise sbt
utuinn mad returned wonderfully, but reu
lere was sharper tang in the air or1
lcn morning, everything was dead /.
ID Ice formed every night upon the ro,
'oi beneath their little spring. :.
And 1t seemed now as If Lees
arch for Pelly would have to be pro- 49,
acted through the winter months =.
MS inquiries at the mission proved NOS
litiess, 1t would mean returning to
title Falls for sleigh and Dogs Il
Fhen there was the matter of the
ee Traders. plee
Leo wo,ld find h,. her,
)ugh. seer
no ro,, hro,, "Yo,
day, Il often feel as IL were on
very verge Of remembering. And : you
en- wake In the morning, lust for on'
instant I feel different person. as 'nat
had remembered. And am WIN
aid OF remembering. 1t is as n re- IL IN
would bring back some
lg terrible with 1t. Who am -" attae
on are Just you," said Lee, smil- Blu
That's enough for me- alarm
Where did we meet?" know
n the range" poseC
was alone? And then had -, beyoI
dent and was thrown from NV talkiI
e? And you, too? II Is ca str,, since
now that lived in large cir, yet
long ago. and that was so glad It's c
ct back to the woods. Rut u,horo week
riding? That's the big prob care
that we have to solve. ISM It3p range
looked at him earnestly. lee" "Nc
said solemnly. sometimes I homo benin,
yer shall remember" 'Bu
e made no plans. leaving everv- meet
to Lee and nothing was decided 9Th
ne middle of the second week che or fou
walk fairly well, her strength "Ob
come back, and the little perIod still II
ysium was drawing to its end In that
as Inevitable that the problem avs
~. dear,
d Lee as far as the lake shore IT, v,h
had been no signs of the Free ,oo, :,
RS, and Lee was convinced tbot end =,
mad long since abandoned all tha Tn.
oo,,,., II was Won last wi
summer In the November air ~. -
was still touch of fire In tho ~ ~,
OF birch and maple. tbe uast