Daily British Whig (1850), 11 Mar 1914, p. 12

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Tty it on one corn, Blue-jay | For Corns 1 15 and 25 cents-- at Druggists Bauer & Black, Clicage and New York | Makers of Physicians' Supplies iei Kid with © heavy, turn or welt sole, on ecial, well fitting lasts manufactured by Utz & ann Clo., Rochester, N. af yew A week later a little band of men on snow shoés, wrapped in furs to their eyes, every one heavily burdened with a pack, staggered into the clearing where once had been pitched the Nait- land camp. The place was covered with snow, of course, but on a shelf of roek half way up the hogback, they found a comparatively level clearing, and there, all working like beavers, they bullt a rude hut which they cov- ered with canvas and then with tight ly packed snow, and which would keep the three who remained from freezing to death. Fortunately they were favored with a brief period of) pleasant weather, and a few days served to make a sufficiently habitable camp. Maitland, Kirkby and Arm-| itrong worked with the rest. There Was no thought of search at first; thejr lives depended upon the erection of a suitable shelter, and it was not until the helpers, leaving their burdens be- hind them, had departed, that the three men even considered what was to be done next, "We must begin a systematic search tomorrow," sald Armstrong decisive ly, as the three men sat around the cheerful fire In the hut. "Yes," assented Maitland. "Shall we 80 together, or separately?" "Separately, of course. We are all hardy and experienced men. Nothing is apt to happen to us, We will meet here every night and plan the next . day's work. What do you say, Kirk-! by } , The old man had beén quietly smok- ing while the others talked. He smiled at them in a way which aroused their curiosity and made them feel that he hid news for them, "While you was puttin' the finishin' touches on this yere camp, I come acrost a heap o' stuns that somehow the wind had swept bare, there was a big rift in front of it which kep' us from seein' it afore; it was built up in the open w'ere there was no trees, an' in our lumberin' operations we wasn't lookin' that a-way. [ came acrost it by any chance an--" "Well, for God's sake, old man," cried Armstrong, impatiently, "what did you fund, anything?" "This," answered Kirkby, carefully producing a folded scrap of paper from his leather vest, Armstrong fell on it ravenously, and 4s Maitland bent tg, him, they both read these words he firelight "Miss Enid Maitland, whose foot is 80 badly crushed as to prevent her traveling, is safe in a cabin at the head of this canon. 1 put this notice here to reassure any one who may be seek- ing her as to her welfare. Follow the stream up to its gource. "WM. BERKELY NEWBOLD." "Thank God!" exclaimed Robert Maitland, "You called me a fool, Ki Armstrong, his roles do you think of it how?" "It's the fools, find," s sapiently, "that gener'ly Providence seems to be over 'em." "You said you chanced on this pa- per, Jack," continued Maitland. "It looks like the deliberate intention of Almighty God." "I reckon s0," answered the other, simply "You see He's got te look after all the fools on earth to kee Dp 'em from doin' too much damage to their- selves an' to others in this yere crook- ed trail of a world." "Let us start now," strong. ""Tain't possible," said the old man, taking another puff at-his- pipe, and ouly a glistening of the eye betrayed ¢ that he felt; otherwise his phlegmatic calm was unbroken, his de- meanor just as undisturbed as it al ways was. "We'd jest throw aw ay our lives a-wanderin' round these yeré mountains in the dark. We've got to have light, an clear weather. Ff it should be snowin' in the mornin' we'd have to wait until it sed "I won't wait a minuté, id Arm- strong. "At daybreak, weather or no weather, I start" "What's your hurry, Jim?" continued Kirkby, calmly. "The gal's safe: one day more or less ain't goin' to make no difference." "She's with another mad," answered Armstrong quickly. "Do you know this Newbold?" ask "Whe id Kirkby ts there, a-watchin' urged Arm- od Maitland, looking at the note again. "Xo. not personally, but § have heard of im." "1. know quickly, "an' vor he's the feller th married Louise Rosser. "That man!" "The very same." . "You say you never saw him, Jim? asked Maitland. *{ repeat 1 never met him". sald Armsirong, flushing suddenly; "but 1 kuew him wife. "Yes, you did that--" drawled the wed him t shot his wife, that 4 old mountaineer, "What do you mean?" flushed Arm- girong. . # mean that you knowod ber, that's in- Bil" answered the old man with an uocent Wr that was almost childlke, When the others woke up in suipty. Kirkby crawled out of his own Warm nest, opened the door and peer ed out into the storm. "Well," he said, "I guess the dam fool bag bext God thie time it don't "What Do You Mean?" Flushed Arm. | t JA month, Armstrong £titted his teeth at the thought, He 81d not undervalue the persomaiity of Newbold - He had never happened to Bes lim, but' ke had heard 'eficugh about Lim to understapd hits quali tes #2 1 man The tie that bound Armstrong to Rnid Maitland was a | SIrong one, but the tie by which he bield her to him, if indeed hé held her at all, was very tenuous and easily broken; perhaps ft was broken al- ready, and so he hated him still more and more. Yon Indeed, his animosity was so great and growing that for the moment he took no joy in the assurance of the girl's safety; vet he was not altogether an unfair man, aud in calmer moment: he thanked God in his own rough wa that the wowmaif he loved was alive av Well, or nad been when the note wae written. He rejoiced that she had not been swept away with the flobd or that she had not been lost in the mountains and forced to wander on finally to starve and [reeze and die. In one mo lJuent her nearness cansed his heart to throb with joyful anticipation. The certainty that at the first flush of day he should dfeek her again sent the look to me as if aven He could save Rim now." 3 "But we must go after him at once," wged Maitland, @ Tor yourself," answered the old man, throwing wider the door. "We've less we give the Almighty the job o lookin' after three instid o' one" CHAPTER XX. warm blood to his cheeks. thoughts would be sneceeded by the knowledge that she was with his en- omy. latest love as he had robbed him of the first? that 80L 10 wait 'til this wind dies down, un: | was to le quietly in bis sleeping bag | and wait until the morning. But those Was this man to rob him of the Perhaps the hardest task Wigs ever laid upon Armstrong 50 soon as the first indication of dawn showed over the crack of the door he slipped quietly out of his sleep tha : that fate was about to play him the meanest .and most fantastic of tricks. The Converging Trails. * the feeling of himself seemed the others, to him sleeping bag and without disturbing the others drew on his boots, put on his heavy fur coat and cap and gloves, slung his Winchester and his snow shoes over his shoulder, and without stopping for a bite {0 eat, goftly open- ed the door, stepped ont and closed it Newbold had Leen alone in the world, i the solitude, he would have hated him Lim," answered Kirkby | w, Bob: § Many times before in his crowded life he had loved other women, or so he characterized his feelings, but his pas- sien for Louise Rosser Newbold had been in a « 8 by itself until he had wet Enid Maitland. Between the two there bad been many women, but these tWo were the high points, the rest was lowland Onee before, therefore, this Newbold bad cut in abead of him and had won the wonign he loved Armstrong had cherished a hard grudge against him for a long time, He had not been of those who had formed fhe rescue n party led 'by old Ki y and Maitland which had buried tlie poor woman on the great ¢ in the deep canon. Before he *k to the. camp the whole affair was over and Newbold had departed. Luckily for him, Arm- strong had always tho , for He had been so mad with grief and rage a and jealousy that if be had come across him, helpless or not, he would have killed him out of hand. Armstrong had soon enough forgot: ten Louise Rosser, but he had mot forgotten Newbold. All his ancient an- imosity had .flamed into instant life again, at 'the sight of his name last aight. "The inveteracy of his hatred had been Iu no way abated by the of time, it seenied. Everybody in the mining camp had supposed that Xewhold had wandered off and perished in the mountaing, else Armstrong might have pursued him and hunted him down. The sight of his mame on that piece of paper was outward and visible evidence that he still lived. Tt had almost the shpek of a resurrection, and a resurrection to hatred rather than to tove. - If s lapse h 9 if Armstrong had chanced upon him in @ Just as he did, but when he thought p that his ancient enemy was with the woman he now loved, with a growing intensity beside swhich his former re- sentiment seemed weak and feeble he hated him yet the more, He could not tell when the notice, which he bad examined carefully, was written; there was iio date upon it but he could come to only one conc sion. © Newbold niust have found Er Maitland alone in the mountains very h the sleeping bag was. after him, bottom: of the canon, although a few pale gleams overhead indicated 'the near approach of day. still, too. mountain wind and snow, It was quite dark in the It was quite There were clouds on the top heavy with threat of The way was not difficult, the direc- tion of it, thay is. Nor was the going very difficult at first; the snow wis frozen and the erust was strong enough to bear him. He did mot need his snow shoes, and, indeed, would have had little chance to use them In the arrow, broken, rocky pass. He had lipped away from the others because he wanted to be first to see the man and the woman, witnesses to would have come on later, of course; but he wanted an hour or two in pri He did not want any that = meeting. They ate with Enid and Newbold without ny interruption. His conscience was not clear. Nor could he settle upon a course of action. How much Newbold knew of his former attempt to win away his wife, «how much of what he knew he had told Enid Maitland, Armstrong could not surmise. Newbold's ' place and imagining that the engineer had possessed entire in- formation, he decided that he must Putting himself into ave told everything to Enid Mait- land as soon as he had found out the uasi relation between her and Arm- strong. And Armstrong did not believe the woman he loved could be in any- body's presence a month without tell- ing something about him. Still, it was possible that Newbold knew nothing, and that he told nothing thérefore, The situation was paralyzing to a man of Armstrong's décided, determin- ed temperament. He could not decide pon the line of conduct he should ursue, . His course in this, the most critical emergency he had ever faced, must be determined by efrcumstances of which he felt with savage resent- ment he was in some measure the sport, chance what ought to be subject to his will. Of only one thing he was sure-- He would have to leave to e would stop at nothing, murder, ly- ing; nothing, to win the woman, and to settle his score with that man. There was really only one thing he could do, and that wv o i ar By er AMD Up the canon. \He had no idea how far it. might be or how long a journey he would have to make before he reached that shelf on the high hill where stood that hut in which she dwelt As the ©row flies, & could not be' a great distance, but the canon dlgzagged through the mountains with 4s many curved and angles as a light- ning flash. He plodded op, therefore, ing over places where a misstep In the snow or a slip on the icy rocks would have meant death or disaster to him. He had gone about an hour, and had perhaps made four miles from the camp when the storm burst upon him, It was now broad day, but the sky was filled with clouds and the alr with driving snow. The wind whistled down the canon with terrific force. It was with difficulty that he made any headway at all agalust it. It was a local sterin; J [1f he could have looked through the snow he would have discovered calm- bess on the top of the peaks. It was one of those sudden squalls of wind and snow which rage with terrific force while they last, but whose rage was limited, and whose violent dura- tion would be short. A less determined man than he would have bowed to the inevitable and sought some shelter behind a rock until the fury of the tempest was spent, but there was no storm that blew that could stop this man 30 long as he had strength to drive Against it. So he bent his head to the with furlous haste, recklessly speed-{ (Yet: Canada Bread Co. | 6% First Mortgage Bonds PARTICULARS ON REQUEST lerce blast and struggled om. There vas something titanic and magnificent bout this iron dstermination and per- sistence of Armstrong. The two most sowerful passions which move human- ty were at his service; love led him 'nd hate drove him. And 'the two vere so intermingled that it was dif- icult to say which predominated, now me and now the other. The resultant of the two forces, however, was an mward move that would not be de- ied, ~ His fur coat was soon covered with snow and ice, the sharp needles of the storm cut hig face wherever it was ex- posed. The wind forced its way through his garments and chilled hinf '0 the bone. He hud eaten nothing since the night before, and his vital ity was pot at its flood, but he pressed on, and there was something grand in his indomitable progress, RKxcel sior! Back in the hut Kirkby and Maitland sat around the fire waiting most impa- tiently for the wind to blow itself out and for that snow to stop falling through which Armstrong strggled forward, As he followed the windings of the canon, not daring to ascend to the summit on either wall and seek short cuts across the rang®, he was sensible that he was constantly rising, SPECIAL - ATTENTION... We are now taking stock and have a large quan- tity of Men's Suits, Boys' Suits, Men's Pants, which we will sell for 25 per cent. off for cash. 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Ie would not have dared to unbutton his t to glance at his watch, and jt is difficult to measure the flying minutes in such scenes as those through which he pass. ed, but he thought he must have gone at least seven miles in perhaps three hours, which he fancied had elapsed, his progress in the last two having been frightfully slow. Every foot of advance he had had to fight for. Suddenly a quick turn in the canon, 8 passage through a narrow entrance between lofty cliffs, and he fodnd him- self in a pocket or a circular amphi- theater which he could see was closed on the farther side, The bottom of this, enclosure or valley was covered with pines, now drooping under tremendous burdens of snow. In the midst of the pines a lakelet was frozen solid; the ice was covered with the same daz- zling carpet of white. He could hive seen nothing of this had not the sudden storm now stopped as precipitately almost as it had ber gun. 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