The Inola Register. (Inola, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 4, 1912 Page: 3 of 10
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Knld M«ltland. h frank, fr* e and un-
#p"il*d young Philadelphia Kirl, la taken
to he Colorado mountains by h* r unrle.
Robert Malt land J un *a Armstrong!
Mai Hand's prott K*. falla In love with her
H:s persistent woolnit thrills the girl. but
she h -aitatt-a, and Armstrong go4-s « aat
©n business without a d.flnlte answer,
knld hears the story of a mining engi-
neer. Nawbold. whfMM wife fell off a cliff
and whs ao w -rl« usly hurt that he was
comp^IN to shoot her to prevent h# r b*-
Ing euten by wul ♦*« while he went for
help. Klrkby. the old guide Who tella th«
•tory. glvea Knld a pirkage of letti ra
which he nays wore found on th* dead
Woman's body 8h«' read a the letters and
*t Kirk by'a re<jueat keeps them.
CHAPTER IV.—Continued.
Surveying the great range sbe won-
't' dered wbere the peak climbers might
be. Keen sighted though she was, she
could not discover them. The crest
that they were attempting lay In an-
other direction bidden by a nearer
•pur. She was In the very heart of
the mountains; peaks and ridges rose
*11 about her. so much so that the gen-
«raj direction of the great range was
lust. She waa at the center of a far
flung cocavtty of crest and range. She
marked one toweling point to the right
of her that rose massively grand above
all the others. Tomorrow she would
climb to that high point and from Its
lofty elevations look upon the heav-
ens above and the earth beneaih.
aye anil the waters under the earth
far below. Tomorrow!—It Is gen-
erally known tbat we do not usually
attempt the high points In lire's range
at once, content are we with lower al-
titudes today
There was no sound above her; the
rushing water over the rocks upon
the nearer side she could rear Taint-
ly; there was no w ind about her to stir
the long needles of the pines. It was
very still, the kind of a stillness of
body wblcb Is the outward and visible
complement of that stillness of the
soul In wblcb men know Uod. There
hud been do earthquake, no storm,
the mountains bad not heaved beneath
her feet, the great unci strong wind
had not passed by, the rocks bad not
been rent and broken, yet Enid caught
herself listening as If (or a voice The
thrill of majesty, silence, loneliness
was upon ber She stood—one stands
when there Is a chance of meeting
Cod on the way, one does not kneel
until he comes—with her raised hands
clasped, her head uplifted In exulta-
tion unspeakable. God-conquered with
.her face to heaven upturned
"I will lift up mine eyes to the
hills whence Cometh icy salvation.''
her heart sang volcelessly. "We praise
thee. oh. God. wo magnlly thy holy
name forever," floated through her
brain. In great appreciation of the
marvelous work of the Almighty shap-
ing master band. Caught up as it
were Into the heavens, her soul leaped
to meet Its maker. Thinking to llnd
God she waited there on the heaven
.kissing bill
How long the stayed she did not
realize; she took no note of time; tt|
did not occur to her even to look at
the watch on her wrist, she bad swept
the skyline cut off as It were by the
peaks when first she came, and when
at last the turned away—even dlvm-
«st moments must have an end—she
looked not backward She saw not a
little cloud hid on the horizon behind
the rampRrt of the Hgeg. as It were,
no bigger than a n an's hand, a cloud
full of portent and which would alarm
#reatly the veteran Klrkby in the
camp and Maitland on the mountain
top Both of them unfortunately were
unable to see It, one being on the
other side of the range, and the other
deep in the canon, and for both o!
them as for the girl the sun still
abone brightly
The declivity to the river on the
upper side was comparatively easy
and Knld Maitland went slowly and
thought fully down to It until she
reached the young torrent She got
her tackle ready, but did no casting,
as she mude her way slowly up the
ever narrowing, ever rising canon
She waa charmed and thrilled by tbe
wild beauty of the way. tbe spell of
tbe mountains was deep upon her
Thoughtfully she wandered on until
presently she came to auother little
ampbltbeater like that where the
camp was pitched, only smaller
Rtrange to say. tbe brook or river
here broadened in a little pool per-
haps twenty feet across; a turn had
thrown a full force of water against
tbe huge boulder wall and in ages
of effort a giant cup had been bol-
lowed out of the native rock Tbe
pool was perhaps four or five feet
deep, the rocky bottom worn smooth.
The clearing was upon tbe opposite
•ide and tbe hanks were beavliv
wooded beyond tbe spur of the rock
which formed the back of the pool
She could see the trout In It. She
made ready (o try her fortune, but
before she did ao an Idea came to
her—daring, unconventional, extraor-
dinary. begot of Innocence and laex
perlence
The water of course was very cold,
but she had been accustomed all ber
season. She knew that the only pe
pie In that wilderness were the mem-
bers of ber own party, three or them
were at the camp below; the others
were ascending a mountain miles
away The canon was deep sunk, and
she satisfied herself by careful obser-
vation tbat the pool was not over-
looked by any elevations far or near.
Her ablutions in common with
those of the rest of the campers bad
been by piecemeal of necessity. Here originally, but now t
*asa" opportunity for a plunge In a I gray Ills body was
natural bath tub She was as certain
that she w-ould be under no observa-
tion as If she were In the privacy of
her own chamber. Here again Impulse
determined the end In spite of ber
assurance there was some little ap-
prehension In the glance tbat she cast
about her, but It soon vanished. There
was no one. She was absolutely
alone The pool and tbe cbance of
the plunge had brought her down to
earth again; the thought of tbe en-
livening exhilaration of tbe pure cold
as If be'did not know quite what to
make of the white loveliness of this
unwonted apparition flashing so sud-
denly at blm out of tbe water, this
strange Invader of tbe domalj of
which he was sole master and lord
paramount, stood a great, monstrous,
frightful looking grizzly bear Lrsua
Horribllis, Indeed
He wbs an aged monarch of the
mountains, reddish brown in color
hoary dirty
massive and
burly, bis legs short, dark colored and
Immensely powerful. His broad square
bead moved restlessly. Ills fanged
mouth opened and a low hoarse growl
came from tbe red cavern of bis
throat He was an old and terrible
monster who bad tasted the blood of
man and who would not hesitate to
attack without provocation, especially
anything at once so harmless and so
wbltely Inviting as the girl in tbe
pool.
The girl forgot tbe chill of tbe water
I
distant heaven, the appeal went forth
accompanies by the mightiest con
juration known to man
"For God's sake, help!"
How dare poor humanity so plead,
the doubter cries What Is It to Uod
if one suffers, another bleeds, another
dies? What answer could come out of
that silent sky? Sometimes the Lord
speaks with the loud voice of men s
fashioning. Instead of in that still
whisper wblcb Is bis own, and the
sound of which we tatl to catch be
cause of our own ignoble babble
Tbe answer to her prayer came
with a roar In ber nervous frightened
ear like a clap of thunder Ere tbe
Grst echo of It died away, it was suc-
ceeded by another and another and
another, echoing, rolling, reverberat
ing among tbe rocks In ever diminish-
ing but long drawn out peals
On tbe instant the bear rose to his
feet, swayed slightly and struck as at
an Imaginary enemy with his weignty
paws A hoarse, frlghtlul guttering
roar burst from his red slavering jaws,
then he lurched side ways and fell
forward, fighting the air madly tor a
moment, and lay still.
With staring eyes that missed no
detail, she saw that the brute had
been shot In the bead and shoulder
three times and tbat be was appar-
ently dead Tbe revulsion that came
over ber was bewildering; Bbe swayed
again, this time not rrora the thrust
of the water, but with sick lalntness
The tension suddenly taken off. un-
strung. tbe loose bow of her spirit
quivered helplessly; the arrow or her
life almost fell Into the stream.
And then a new and more appalling
terror swept over her Some man bad
fired that shot Actaeon had spied
upon Diana With this sudden revela
tlon of ber shame, the red blood beat
to the white surface In aplte of the
chill water. The anguish of that mo-
ment was greater than before She
could be killed, torn to pieces, de-
voured. that was a small thing, but
tbat sbe should be so outraged In ber
modesty was unendurable. She wished
the hunter had not come She sunk
lower In the water for a moment lain
to hide In Its crystal clarity and reai-
not beBtow a glance upon her. Sbe
could have cried aloud in thanksgiving
for his apparent obliviousness to ber
as she crouched now neck deep in tbe
benumbing cold. The man stepped on
the bank, bbook himself like a great
dog might have done and marched
over to the bear. He uprooted a small
nearby pine, with tbe ease of a Her-
cules—and she had time to mark and
marvel at It In spite of everything—
and then with that as a lever be un-
concernedly and easily heaved the
body of tbe monster from off her
clothing She was to learn later what
a feat of strength It waa to move that
Inert carcass weighing much more
than half a ton.
Thereafter he dropped the pine tree
by the side of the dead grizzly and
without a backward look tramped
swiftly and steadily up the canon
through the trees, turning at the point
of It and waa Instantly lost to sight
His gentle and generous purpose were
obvious even to the frightened, agi-
tated. excited girl
The woman watcher him until be
disappeared, a few seconds longer,
and then sbe burled herself through
tbe water and stepped out upon tbe
shore Her sweater which the bear
bad dragged forward In its advance,
lay on top of tbe rest of ber clothes,
covered wltt blood She threw It aside
and with nervous, frantic energy, wet.
cold, though she was, sbe Jerked on
In some fashion enough clothes to
cover her nakedness sod then with
more leUurely order and with neces-
sary care sbe got the rest of her ap-
parel In its accustomed place upon her
body, and then when It was all over
she sank down prone and prostrate
upon tbe grass by tbe carcass of the
now harmless monster which bad so
nearly caused her undoing, and shiv-
ered. cried and sobbed sg If her heart
would break.
She was chilled to the bone by her
motionless sojourn, albeit It bad been
for scarcely more than a minute In
that Icy water, and yet the blood
rushed to her brow and face, to every
hidden part of her In waves as sbe
thought of It. It was a good thing
that she cried; she wag not a weep
"Helpl For Cod's Saks!"
water dashing against ber own sweet
warm young body changed the cur-
rent of ber thoughts—tbe anticipa-
tion of It rather
Impulsively she dropped her rod
upon the grass, unpinned ber bat.
threw the fishing basket from her
shoulder. She waa wearing a stout
swearer; that, too. Joined the rest
Nervous hands manipulated buttons
and the fastenings In a lew moments
In the horror of that moment. Alone,
naked, defenseless, lost In the moun-
tains. with the most powerful, san-
guinary and ferocious beast of the
continent In front of her, she could
neither fight nor fly; she could only
wait his pleasure He snuffed at her
clothing a moment and stood with
one fore loot advanced for a second
or two growling deeply, evidently, sbe
,k. . thought with almost superhuman
the sweet figure of youth, of beauty, keenness or perception, preparing to
?h n? °f .,nnocence brightened leap Into the pool and seize upon her
tbe sod nnd shed a white luater upon
the green of the grass and moss and
pines, reflecting light to the gray
brown rocks of the range So Eve
may have looked on gome bright Eden
morning A few steps forward and
this nymph of the woods, thig naiad of
the mountains, plunged into tbecl«nr.
cold waters of the pool—a water
gprlte and ber fountain'.
CHAPTER V.
The Bear, ths Man and the Flood.
The water was deep enough to re-
ceive her dive and the pool was long
enough to enable her to swim a few
strokes The first chili of tbe Icy wa
ter was soon lost in the vigorous mo-
tions In which she Indulged, but no
more human form, however hardy and
Inured, could long endure tbat trlgid
bath. Reluctantly, yet with tbe knowl-
edge tbat she must go. alter one more
sweeping dive and a few magnificent
strokes, she raised her bead trom the
water lapping her white shoulders and
shaking her race clear from the drops
of crystal, faced the shore. It was do
loneer untenanted. «he was no longer
alone
What she saw startled and alarmed
ber beyond measure Planted on ber
clothes, looking straight at her, bav
Ing come upon her In absolute al-
leuce, nothing having given her the
least warning or his approach, and
now gazing at her with red. hungry,
evil, vicious eyes, the eyes ol the
■M
She Screamed Aloud.
across the sky toward the other side
of the canon and the mountain wall.
A storm was brewing such as she
had never seen, such as she had no
experience to enable her to realize its
malign possibilities. Nay. It was now
at hand. She had no clew, however,
of what was toward, how terrible a
danger overshadowed her Frightened
but unconscious of all the menace of
the hour, her thoughts flew down the
canon to the camp she must hasten
there She looked for her watch
which she had lifted from the grass
and which sbe had not yet put on.
The grizzly bad stepped upon It, If
was Irretrievably ruined. She Judged
from her last glimpse of the sun that
It must now be early afternoon. She
rose to her feet and staggered with
•'•''hess; sbe bad eaten nothing
since morning, and the nervous shock
and strain through which sbs bad
gone had reduced ber to a pitiable
condition
Her luncheon had fortunately es-
caped unharmed. In a big pocket of
ber short skirt there was a small
flask of whiskey, which her Uncle
Robert had required her to take wit*
her. She felt sick and faint, but she
knew that she must eat If she was to
make the Journey, difficult as It might
prove, back to the camp She forced
berself to take the llrst mouthful of
bread and meat she had brought wltn
her, but when she nad tasted sbe
needed no further Incentive, she ate
to the last crumb; she thought this
was the time she needed stimulants,
too. and mingling the cold water from
the brook with a little of the ardent
spirit from the flask, she drank. Some
of the -hill bad worn off. some of the
fatigue had gone
She rose to her feet and started
down the canon; her bloody sweater
still lay on the ground with other
things of which she waa heedless It
had grown colder, but she realized
that the climb down the canon would
put ber stagnant blood In circulation
and all would be well.
Before she began the descent of the
pass, she cast one long glance back-
ward whither tbe man had gone.
Whence came he. who waa be. what
had be seen, where was be now? Sh«
thanked God lor bis Interference la
one breath and hated him for us
presence in the other
The whole sky was now black with
drifting clouds, lightning flashed above
her head, muttered peals of thunder,
terrifically ominous, rocked througn
tbe silent hills. The noise was low
and subdued, but almost continuous.
W leh a singular and uneasy feeling
that she was being observed, she
started down the canon, plunging des-
perately through the trees, leaping the
brook from side to side wbere It nar-
rowed. seeking ever the easiest way.
She struggled on. panting with sud-
den Inexplicable terror almost as bad
as that which bad overwhelmed her
an hour before—and growing more
Intense every moment, to such a tragic
pass had the day and Its happenings
brought ber
Poor girl, awful experience really
was to be hers that day The fates
sported with her—bodily fear, out-
raged modesty, mental anguish ana
now the terror of tbe storm
The clouds seemed to sink lower,
untl. they almost closed about ber.
Long gray ghostly arms reached out
toward her It grew darker and dark-
er In the depths of the canon. Bbg
screamed aloud—In vain
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
covetous filled with the cruel lust r
Ute to taking a bath at the natural | desire and carnal possession, and yet
Vmperature ot the water at whatever , with a glint ol surprise In them, loo
The rush of the current as It swirled
about her caused her to sway gently,
otherwise she stood motionless and
apprehensive, awfully expectant Sbe
had made no sound, and save lor that
low growl the great beast had been
equally silent There was an awtul
fixity In the gaze sbe turned upon hltn
and be wavered under IL It annoyed
him It bespoke a little of the dom
inance or the human Hut sbe was
too surprised, too unnerved, too de*
perately frightened to put forth tbe
full power of mind over matter I'here
was piteous appeal in ber gaze I'he
bear realized this and mastered her
sufficiently.
Sbe did not know whether she was
In the water or In the air; there were
but two points upon which her con
sclousness was focuaaed Id tbe vast
ellipse of ber Imagination Another ... ,. .
moment or two and al! coherency " | dress andTt would'a0.".,I"'. *° T """ lns,ance depth. ; appeared wltbhlnT-riT^^Vil
thought would be gone The grizzly 8be ,,m g„ir.t, ,inr« Ih h ber n,,,ire bll<1 undermined "-nee of that Instrument Is enough to
still unsettled and unesgy belore ber saw swiftly, since tbe huge moo I and the l.-n — to
sT
oud.
tied as she did Dow frightfully cold | itifc woman, her tears came slowly as
* et* ®,,hou*h fr©*«? a rule and then came bard She rath i an ;nvestlgation of Darls' room
>he I !r.P.r,ded "erse" UIH,a ber stoicism. J have found that tbe mouth orgs, dts
Gon« to Stay.
Ro^th Tarkington was telling stor-
ies to a group of college graduates In
a New *ork club, when one of tbe
party guddenly Inquired: "What has
become of Davis?"
He has gone out of town on busi-
ness for a few days. I guess." ra-
llied another of the party.
He has gone for a long whll*," ob-
served Mr Tarkington, with a smile
Davis is one of those men who leave
unmistakable evidence of their pur-
poses Whenever Davis goes away to
stay a long period be takes with him
an old mouth organ, which he loves
dearly to play while be occasional 1 y
nlbblja at gingerbread I have Bade
awful glance, but not deterred by ft. | clones'"1 ""en " <'<'ad he*l> °° : '° b"""( ,°r,t'
liii-tiA.I It. i ^ I vlUtntfB. IIaw Inn«
turned Ita great head aldewaya a lit-
tle to escape tbe direct Immobile
glare brought his sharp clawed root
down heavily and lurched forward
Scarcely had a minute elapsed In
which all this happened That huge
threatening heave of the great body
toward her relieved the tension She
found voice at last. Although It was
absolutely futile, she realized as she
cried, her released lips trained tbe
loud appeal
"Help! for Ood's sake"
Although sbe knew the cried but
to the bleak walls of tbe canon, the
drooping pines, the ruaolng river, tbe
and the fountains thereof were fain i tall me what Davis' plana are
I htoalf mi "•
u«e?7o".' I?'h tt,,n I dually to he^uTder"^*
e to tell, bad happened In but a reel rayg or the gun. sbe did not knew
few seconds Seconds sometime in and It was a strange thlug that
elude hours, even a llle-tlme. in their caused her to arise It grew suddenly
brief composition Sbe thought It i dark over her head. She looked up
would be just ea well tor her to gink and a rim of frightful black denae
down and die In tbe water, when a clouds bad suddenly blotted out the
he?' fn 1'P "hln" h;IOW ber *un The cloud «"•« lined with g„,d
her to lock down tbe ttreaiu Rnd silver and tbe long rava "hot
•KM",ed ,h*t • could | from behind the aotnber blind over
era! hours to dry air sot
.U. r« tn. oody or the bear the Irresl.tlble swirtneaa and ateadr ' K*'wslrtt-'hUt *£L " C*nt °'
or a great deluge The wi^o "
The party learned soon after tbat
Davis bad left for Wisconsin te re-
tide permanently.
Absorb Watsr Through the Shin.
Experiments bsvs been made with
frogt which tend to afeow that thoae
anlmalt rapidly absorb water through
the pores of the akin. Empbaala la
laid by certain authorities upon tbe
fact that frogs never take water by
make out little "excepT lha, there was ' I^vet unco^Ved'Zt'ns o'r T °° b*,n« 'or seV
a man crossing below her and making heaven, but the clouds moved wite ' nit! hou,'T ,°1<|rT1 ■lr •om* '">ga e*
directly toward tbe body of tbe near" tbe V|'r'ealMlbie • wt'ftneaa ' K.^w^Vbut *2. ""I™1 °!
i [hem i —?
•' W rUM "°r " - I sxteuded steadily and rapid.,'| tVr'X,^ luC.rT^"
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