The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-02-03
Chapter s2
LOVE HEALS WOUNDS

t1fOupQ the ITeeS-lIleI 0lCLli rounded a sharp bend in the trai and came out in plain view ol what had been the old washout He brought up with such violent abruptness that the shock sent him staggering backward little.
 On the very edge of the chasm now a swift, madly whirling tor rent, bearing on it's surface black debris, logs, uprooted trees, hoy cred the white, ethereal figure ot Anne poised as between earth and sky. Her hair was flung loose to the wind; her filmy robe whipped in graceful little circles and eddies about bare, white ankles.
 Glenn crept noiselessly and stead ily forward on hands and knees. He dared not speak or call out to her. He had guessed already from her pose, from the singular cry which he had heard, that she was not her self. He knew that the slightest sound, whisper, the cracking of twig might send her hurting down over the precipice on which she swayed so perilously.
 When he was still more than a yard away, she suddenly flung her arms high over her head and be- gan to sway rhythmically to and frc-just as she had done the other night when he had been standing on. the bank below to catch her ir his arms. At last, his fingers clutehed the fluttering tip of hei white robe, closed about her ankles then locked conyulsively about 'hel knees. A cry full of terror camt from her throat as he circled hci with his arms. Then he drew hei back from the death which had called so alluringly out of the treacherous whirlpool below,
 He sank back with her against a tree trunk, trembling with the vio- lence of his reaction Then he let her down against the ground stripped off his coat and wrapped her in it. He lifted the arm with the bandage on 1t and it fell back heavily. He tore a handkerchiei into strips and bound the wound more tightly.
 "Anne, dearest" he entreated leaning down very close to her "try to remember-try to tell me what has happened"
 But she only stared back at hin blankly. Presently he lifted hei in his arms and started back to. ward the cabin. "Try to tell me wnat-has happened" he repeated slowly and very distinctly, close te her ear.
 For answer, there was only small, cold hand fumbling uneer- tainly at his coat, up to hi' tflroat-then questioningly, caress- ingly across his face-as the blinc feel for resemblances. Then witt a sigh of complete reassuranee, sht let the hand fall again.
 It was many days-days anC nights of anxiety and almost in tolerable suspense-before Glenr knew the whole truth. Part of it that Anne had known nothing about the gold, he learned fron Sheb, who went tiptoeing noisil, about the cabin like -jointet ghost. Delphine, who ruled tn household with a rod of iron am never permitted the one-time ma jor domo so much as peep at he immaculate Kitchen, had not faile' to impress upon his mind that was he and he alone who cause all the trouble.
 Had he not. put the bullet int her mad-moiselle's arm in the frs place? Had he not disobeyed tn Nj 8leuT GleIlIl OIGclo dDOut DAAiA6 ing her home and getting a doc tor? Had she, Delphine, not bee thus obliged to go away and leav her beloved mistress at the mere of the pig of a M'sieur Morse? Ha not all these causes brought about that madame should get tn unspeakable infection in her arn the fever and everything else?
 The Lodge had been closed no for some time. It was settlin back already into that abandone vacant-window aspect which had worn before it's recent rejuve nation. Burkhalter and the ranch CTS had found neither Morse ne Douglas there on the occasion their unsolicited visit. From a old man whom they routed out the servants quarters-Jarvis ha' 1t seemed, been left to finish tn packing-they had learned on'