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It was moments before com- plete consciousness of her situation came to her. The surprise was yet too great, she saw things dimly through a whirl of driving rain, of a rushing mighty wind, of a seething sea of water, but presently it was all plain to her again. She had caught no fair view of the man who had shot the bear as he splashed through the creek and tramped across .the rocks and trees down the canon, at least she had not seen him full face, but she recognized him immediately. The thought tinged with color for a mo- ment her pallid cheek. When the man had withdrawn him- self from the world, he had inwardly resolved that no human being should ever invade his domain or share his solitude, and during his long sojourn in the wilderness his determination had not weakened. Now his coming desire was to get this woman whom fortuneâ€"good or illlâ€"had thrown upon his hands to his house without delay. There was nothing he could do for her out there in the rain. Every drop of whiskey was (one, they were Just two half-drowned, sodden hits of humanity cast up on that rocky shore, and one was a helpless woman. “I fell into the torrent,” she said feebly, putting her hand to her head and striving by speech to put aside that awful remembrance. A‘ Her high boots were tightly laced, of course, but he could see that her left foot had been badly mauled or sprained; already the slender ankle was swelling visibly. He examined it swiftly a moment. It might be a sprain, it might be the result of some violent thrust against the rocifs, some whirling tree trunks might have caught and crushed her foot, but there was no good in speculating as to causes, the present patent fact was that she could not walk; all the rest was at that moment unimportant. This unfortunate accident made him the more anxious to get her to a place of shelter without delay. It would be necessary to take of! her boot and give the wounded member proper treatment. For the present the tight shoe acted- as a bandage, which was well. me '2" “You didn’t fall in," was the an- swer, “it was a cloudburst, you were caught in it.” “I didn’t know.” “or course not, how should you?” “And how came I here?” The man nodded. “That’s twice you have saved my life this day,” said the girl, forcing herself, womanlike, to the topic that she hated. “It’s nothing.” deprecated the oth- er.!9 “i don't know.” “Let me help you.” He rose tc his feet, reached down to her, took her hands in the strong grasp of his own and raised her lightly to her feet in an effortless way which showed his great. strength. She did not more than put the weight of her body slightly on her left foot when a spasm of pain shot through her, she swerved and would have fallen had he not caught her. He sat her gently on the rock. “My foot,” she said piteously. “I don’t know what’s the matter with it." “Do you know where your cam: in?” he asked an int. He did not wish to take her to her own camp, he had a strange instinct of possession in her. In some way he felt he had obtained a right to deal with her as he would, he had saved her life twice, once by chance, the other as the result of deliberate and heroic endeavor, and yet his honor and his manhood obliged him to offer to take her to her own people if he could. Hence the question, the an- swer to which he waited so eagerly. “It’s down the canon. I am one of Mr. Robert Maitland’s party.” "About q fully and.) “It may be nothing to you, out It 18 {‘I‘T‘zlt deal to me,” was the answer. v.1 now what is to be done?” "We must get out of her at once,” id the man. “You need shelter. “i";ms lucky enough to pull y'ou “It may be nothing to you, but it is A Romance of Colorado The man nodded, he didn’t know HOW d nothing You jump into the flood for Mania where * yo! CHAPTERIX. By Cyrus Townsend Brady Can you w abc VB alk ?” n ADI “It will be four miles away, then'," said the man. The girl nodded. “I couldn't carry you that far," he murmured half to himself; “I question if there is any camp left there any- way. Where was it, down by the wa- ter's edge?” “Yes.” “Every vestige will have been swept away by that, look at it," he pointed over to the lake. faltering. “Then I think I must have come at least five miles from the camp this morning." “What must we do?” she asked in- stantly, depending upon his greater strength, his larger experience, his masculine force. "I shall have to take you to my ‘uneasy troubled sleep. He did not know whether she slumbered or . whether she had fainted again. He did not dare to stop to find out, his ; strength was almost spent; in this last 'effort the strain imam his muscl a was almost as great as: it had been 3:: the whirlpool. For the secmzd tiimt that day the sweat stood out on his forehead, his legs trembled under him. How he made the last five hundred feet up the steep wall to a certain broad shelf perhaps an acre in extent where he had builc his but among the mountains, he never knew; but the int remnant-d.“ tore-g "m amt www- “Is it far?” _ “About a mile or u mile and a half from here." “I can’t walk that far." “No, I suppose not. You wouldn’t be willing to stay here while I weht down and hunted for your camp?" The girl clutched at him. “I couldn’t be left here for a mo- ment alone,” she said in sudden fever of alarm. “I never was afraid be- fore, hut nowâ€"” “All right," he said, gently patttng her as he would a. child. “We’ll go up to my camp and then I will try to find your people andâ€"” “But I tell you I can’t walk.” “You don’t have to walk,” said the man. He did not make any apology for his next action, he just stooped down and, disregarding her faint praiests and objections, picked her up in his arms. She was by no means a light burden, and he did not run away with her as the heroes of romances do. But he was a man far beyond the average in strength, and with a stout heart and a resolute courage that had always carried him successfully through whatever he attempted, and he had need of all his qualities, physi- cal and mental, before he finished that awful journey. The woman struggled a little at first, then finally resigned herself to the situation; indeed. she thought swiftly, there was nothing' else to do, she had no choice, she could not have been left alone there in the rocks in that rain, she could not walk.‘ He was doing the only thing possible. The compulsion of the inevitable was uprm them both. They went slowly, the man often= stopped for rest, at which times‘ he would seat her tenderly upon some prostrate tree, or some rounded boul-i der, until he was ready to resume his; task. He did not bother her with ex. planation, discussion or other conVer- sation, for which she was most thank- ful. Once or twice during the slow progress she tried to walk, but the slightest pressure on her wounded foot nearly caused her to faint. He made no complaint about his burden and she found it, after all, pleasant to be upheld by such powerful arms; she was so sick, so tired, so worn out. and there was such assurance of strength andsafety in his firm hold 01 her. By and by, in the last stage of their journey, her head dropped on ~hle shoulder and she actually fell into an He Ptared at Her In Great Alarm. m DURm CHRONICLE “This is my house.” he ma. “w. are home.” “Home!" sohbed the girl. "Under shelter, then," said the man. 4 “You are very tired and very sleepy. but there is something to he done; you must take on those wet clothes at once, you must have something to eat, and I must have a look at that foot, and then you can have your ‘ sleep out.” The girl stared at him, his program, if a radical one under the circum- ;stances, was nevertheless a rational one, indeed the only one. How was it to be carried out? The man easily . divined her thoughts. mm, which soon gave way to m i lurance. She had not tainted. than was a little tinge of color in but check that had rubbed up against his rough ‘3, hunting coat; she wu “loop, her rex- ' ular breathing told him that. Bleep In stood up and stared at her in nut was of course the very best of medi- cine: for her, and yet she should not be allowed to sleep until she hnd got rid of her wet clothing and until Iomething had been done for her wounded toot. It was indeed .21 em- bamuing situation. “There is another room in this house, a store room. I cook in there." he said. “I am going in there now to get you something to eat; meanwhile you must undress yourself and go to bed." when he finally opened the unlatoheil door with his foot. carried her in the log but and laid her upon the bed or bunk built against one wall of the cabin. Yet the way he put her do'n wee characteristic of the men. Thet lat \rnniig'e of strength hed served him well. He did'not drop her u 3 ion thoughtful and less determined men might have-done. he laid her there no gently and ae tenderly u it she weighed nothing, and u if he had car- ried her nowhere. So quiet and easy was his handling of her that she did not wake no at once. He surveyed her for e few momente wondering how beet to begin. Then realizing the necessity for immediate ection, he bent over her and woke her up. Again ehe stared at him in be- wilderment until he spoke. “Wait,” said the gixl, lifting herself on her arm. and as she did so he lift- ed his head and answered her direct gaze with his own. “I am a woman. absolutely alone, entirely at your mercy; you are stronger than I,I have no choice but to do what you bid me. And in addition to the nat- ural weakness of my sex I am the more helpless from this foot. What do you intend to do with me? How do you mean to treat me?” “A‘s God is my judge,” said the man quietly, “just as you ought to be treated, as I would want another to treat my mother, or my sister, or my wife”â€"she noticed how curiously his lips suddenly tightened at that wordâ€" “if I had one. I never harmed a wom- an in my life.” he continued more earnestly, “only one, that is,” he cor- rected himself, and once again she marked that peculiar contraction of the lips. “And I could not help that,” He went to a rude set of box-like shelves draped with a. curtain, apparo eatly his own handiwork, against the wall, and brought from it a long and somewhat shapeless woolen gown. _ He bent down to where her wound- ed foot lay extended on the bed. “You can wear this to sleep in," he continued. “First of all, though, I am going to have a look at that foot.” If was a bold. a splendid question. and it evoked the answer it merited. he added. “I trust you,” said the girl at last. after gazing at. him long and hard as if to search out the secrets of his very soul. “You have saved my life and things dearer will be safe with you. I have to trust you." “I hope,” came the quick comment, “that it is not only for that. I don’t want to be trusted upon compulsion." “I don't like to out your only pair of shoes,” he said as he made a slight motion to draw it 01!, and then observing the spasm of pain, stoppe 1. “Needs must." he continued, taking out his knife and slitting the leather. “You must have fought terribly for my life in the flood," was the answer. “I can remember what it was now, and you carried me over the rocks and the mountains without faltering. Only a man could do what you have done. I trust you anyway.” The boot laced up the front, the short skirt left all plainly vlslble. With deft fingers he undid the soddcn knot and unlaced it, then stood hesi- tatlngly for a moment. “Tha;1i§ou,;' saidthe man briefly as be bent over the injured foot again. 110 did it very carefully so as not to ruin the boot beyond repair, and finally succeeded in getting it off without giving her too much pain. you. His manner,'matter of fact. business like, if he had been a doctor one would have called it professional. distinctly pleased her in this ll‘Vll-u' find unusual position. Her stnckn 3‘ was stained With blood. The man rc to his feet, took from a rude hornsâ€" made chair a light Meximu bitmkei and laid it consideratcriy across the girl. .- “Now if you your stool-fir? T can be done.” It for over a. chair hack “3. up" " blanket a hft‘e and CI‘LIJI ed the 1100? little 19):. ‘ once that if. was not an «31!. sprained ank‘m but it seemed m .. . that her- tacit" '72“? r-‘wjglx ‘ tween two tossing; logs, and had be ex andud. ltmmnllnful. anging 1P. can manage to was out of his arms. QM nfi not and off ain. scr- act. ’10? ”:21. i1 L" gar- lui“ kt [lip out. For a sicond time that day Enid Maitland unOussed herself and thin time nervou ,nnd in~ great haste. She was a too excited and. ap- prehensive "recall the painful cir- cumstanc . dent upon her first dierobing laid the trusted the man abs .y', 'yet she would' not have been 11 if she not looked mos anxiously town thnt closed doom He made plenty of no!’ In the othr room, bustling that u if to reaqfure her. , , She could not rest the Mt of her body on her 1 giant, lid getting rid of her ' it} ea wu I some- what slow am in,: to of her hurry, ; ~ 1org 50 b hér extreme nerr“ 115,1, 1'1 1 {32'1"11 he gave her Was f3." ‘4' i but 80ft {12:11 ”fit“: i * ”van. It (37:111- (r'l. _ etc-1y. Leav- lh: I. 1‘ ., .. 1. where 1‘11- " 0999 ooooooooooo¢Monnwowo mmwowowmwm» Call at I oooooooo.ooooooooooyo.oooo«oooooooooooooooo§oooooooo Ho Walked Nervously Up and E‘- out. For a sicond Mamand unOusse time nervou She was a cumstanc . diarobing . at man abs ' had fal anythin the fob used to m wouio net take so long to heat as a sprain. The little foot. normally so white, was now black and bin. and the skin had been roughly torn and broken. He brought a basin of cold water and a towel and washed oi! the blood. the girl fighting down the pain and successfully stifling any outcry. “Now," he said, “you must put on thin gown and get into bed. By the time you are ready for it I will have some broth for you and than V. will bandage that foot. I shall not come in here for some time, you will be quite alone and safe." 99 QOOOOOOOOOOOOQOOOOOQOOOO 000099000OOQOOOQOOOOOOO§O’ He turned and left the room, ting the door after him h In . A. ROWE : M. GLASER, Garafraxa St., Durham Live Poultry Wanted Continued on page 7. OYSTERS AND FRUIT IN SEASON We also buy Raw Furs, Fox Skins, Mink Skins. Coon Skins, Skunk Skins, Musk Rat and Weasel. The highest pl‘ij for prune skins ; 0cher at highest value. For all’kinds 61' Bakery Good: Cooked and Cured Meats. 'We are gremred to paw the highest prices in cwsh or Lra e fag live poultry. 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