Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1912 — Page 2

3YNOPSIS. Enid Maitland, a frank, free and unspoiled young Philadelphia girt. ta taken to the Colorado mountains by her uncle, Robert Maitland. James Armstrong, Maitland’s protege, falls In love with her. His persistent wooing fhrffia the girt, but she hesitates, and Armstrong goes east on business without a definite answer. Enid, hears the story of a mining engineer. Newbold, whose wife fell off a cliff and was so seriously hurt that he was compelled to shoot her to prevent her being eaten by wplvea while he went for help. Klrkby, the old guide who tells the story, gives Enid a package of letters which he says were found on the dead woman's body. She reads the letters and at Kirkby’s request keeps them. CHAPTER IV.—Continued. Surveying the great range she wondered where the peak climbers might be. Keen sighted though she was, she could not discover them. The crest that they were attempting lay In another direction hidden by a nearer spur. She was lb the very heart ot the mountains; peaks and rldgeß rose all about her, so much so that the general direction ot the great range was lost. She was at the center ot a tar finng cocavity ot crest and range. She marked one towering point to the right ot her that rose massively stand above all the others. Tomorrow- she would climb to that high point and from its lofty elevations look upon .the heavens above and the earth beneath, aye and the waters under the earth far below. Tomorrow! —It Is generally known that we do not usually attempt the high points In life's range at once, content are we with lower altitudes today. There was no sdund above her; the rushing water over the rocks upon the nearer side she could hear faintly; there was no wind about her to stir the long needles of the pines. It was very still, the kind of ,a stillness of body which is the outward and visible complement of that stillness of the soul in which men know God. There had been no earthquake, no storm, the mountains had not heaved beneath her feet, the great and strong wind had not passed by, the rocks had not been rent and broken, yet Enid caught herself listening as If for a voice. The thrill of majesty, silence, loneliness was upon her. She stood —one stands when there la a chance of meeting God on the way, one does not kneel until he comes—with her raised hands clasped, her head uplifted in exultation unspeakable, God-conquered with her face to heaven upturned. “I will lift up mine eyes to the hills whence cometh my salvation," her heart sang voicelessly. “We praise thee, oh, God, we magnify thy holt name forever," floated through her

brain, In great appreciation of tbe marvelous work of the Almighty shaping master hand. Caught up as It were Into the heavens, her soul leaped to meet Its maker. Thinking to find God she' Wilted there on the heaven kissing hllL How long she stayed she did not realize; she took no note of time; It did not occur to her even to look at tbe watch on her wrist, she had swept the skyline cut oft as It were by the peaks when first she came, and when at last she turned away—even dlvlnest moments must have an end —she looked not backward. She saw not a little cloud hid on the horizon behind the rampart of the ages, as It were, no bigger than a man’s hand, a cloud full of portent and which would alarm greatly the Veteran Klrkby In the stamp and Maitland on the mountain top. Both of them unfortunately were nnable to see it, one being on the other side of the range, and the other deep in the canon, and for both of them as for the girl the sun still shone brightly. The declivity to the Hver on the upper side was comparatively easy • md Enid Maitland went slowly and thoughtfully down to it until she reached the young torrent. She got her tackle ready, but did no casting, as she made her way slowly up the ever narrowing, ever rising canon. She was charmed and thrilled by the wild beauty of the way. the spell of the mountains was deep upon her. Thoughtfully she wandered on until presently she came to another little amphitheater like that where the camp was pitched, only smaller. ptn»ngw to say, tbe brook or river here broadened in a little .pool perhaps twenty feet across; a turn bad thrown a full force of water against tbe huge boulder wall and in ages Of effort a giant cnp had been hollowed opt of the native rock. The pool was perhaps four or five feet deep, the rocky bottom worn smooth. Tbe clearing was ujffin the opposite ‘ side and the banks were heavily wooded beyond the spur of the rock which formed tbe back of the pool. . ohe could see the trout in it. She made ready to try her fortune, bat before she did so an idea came to her —daring, unconventional, extraordinsry, begot of innocence and InezThe water of course was very cold, #nt she had been accustomed all her life to taking e bath at the natural I temperature qt the water at whatever

season. She knew that the'only people In that wilderness were the members of her own party, three of them were at the camp below; the others were ascending a mountain mUes away. The canon was deep sunk, and she satisfied herself by careful observatlon that the pool was not overlooked by any elevations fan or near. Her ablutions in common with those of the rest of the campers had been by piecemeal of necessity. Here was an opportunity for a plunge in a natural bath tub. She was as certain that she would be under no observation as If she were In the privacy of her own chamber. Here again impulse determined the end. In spite of her assurance there was some little apprehension in the glance that she cast about her, but it soon vanished. There was no one. She was absolutely alone. The pool and the chance of the plunge had brought her down to earth again; the thought of the enlivening exhilaration of the pure cold

water dashing against her own sweet warm young body changed the current of her thoughts—the anticipation of it rather. Impulsively she dropped her rod upon the grass, unpinned her fiat, threw the fishing basket from her shoulder. She was wearing a stout sweater; that, too, joined the rest Nervous hands manipulated buttons and the fastenings. In a tew moments the sweet figure of youth, of beauty, of purity and of Innocence brightened the sod and shed a white luster 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 some bright Eden morning. A few steps forward and this nymph of the woods, this naiad of the mountains, plunged into the clear, cold waters of the pool—a water sprite and her fountain!

CHAPTER V. The Bear, the Man and the Flood. The water was deep enough to receive her dive and the pool was long enough to enable her to swim a few strokes. The first chill of the Icy water was soon lost in the vigorous motions In which she Indulged, but no more human form, however hardy and Inured, could long endure that frigid bath. Reluctantly, yet with the knowledge that she mast go, after one more sweeping dive and a few magnificent strokes, she raised her head from the water lapping her white shonlders and shaking her face clear from the drops of crystal, faced the shore. It was no longer untenanted, she was no longer alone. What she saw startled and alarmed her beyond measure. Planted on her clothes, looking straight at her, having come upon her in absolute silence, nothing having given her the least warning of his approach, and now gazing at her with red, hungry, evil, vicious eyes, the eyes of the covetous filled with the cruel lust of desire and carnal possession, and yet with a glint of surprise la them, too,

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as if he did not know quite what to make of the white loveliness of this unwonted apparition flashing so suddenly at him out of the water, this strange invader of the domain of which he was sole master and lord p&rafiibiuft, stood a great, monstrous, frightful looking grizzly bear. Ursus Horribllis, indeed. He was an aged monarch of the mountains, reddish brown In color originally, but now a hoary dirty gray. Hls body was massive and burly, his legs short, dark'colored and immensely powerful. Hls broad square head moved restlessly. His fanged mouth opened and a low hoarse growl came from the red cavern of hls throat. He waß an old and terrible monster who had tasted the blood of man and who would not hesitate to attack without provocation, especially anything at once so harmless and so whitely inviting as the girl in the pool.

The girl forgot the chill of the water

“Help! For God's Sake!”

in the horror of that moment. Alone, naked, defenseless, lost in the mountains, with the most powerful, sanguinary 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 an<R stood with one fore foot advanced for a second or two growling deeply, evidently, she thought with almost superhuman keenness of perception, preparing to leap into the pool and seize upon her. The rush of the current as it swirled about her caused her to sway gently, otherwise she stood motionless and awfully expectant. She bad made no sound, and save for that low growl the great beast had been equally silent There was an awful, fixity in the gaze she turned upon him and be wavered under it It annoyed him. It bespoke a little of the dom:' inance of the human. But she was too surprised, too unnerved; too desperately frightened to put forth the full power of mind over matter. There was piteous appeal In her gase. The bear realised this and mastered her sufficiently. She did not know whether she was in the water or in the air; there were but two points upon which her consciousness was focussed in the vast ellipse of her Imagination. Another moment or two and all coherency of thought would be gone. The grizzly still unsettled ami uneasy before her . awful glance, but not deterred by It, turned Its great head sideways a little to escape the direct immobile stare brought his sharp clawed foot 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 realised as she cried, her released Ups framed the loud ani>eaL I;- it. “Help! for Gods sake.** Although she knew she cried but to the bleak walls of the canon, the drooping pines, the rushing river, the

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distant heaven, the appeal went forth accompanied by the mightiest conjuration known to man. “For God's sake, help!” How dare poor humanity so plead, the doubter cries. What is It to God 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 which is hls own, and the sound of which we fall to catch because of our own Ignoble babble. The answer to her prayer came with a roar in her nervous frightened ear like a clap of thunder. Eire the first echo of It died away, it was succeeded by another and another and another, echoing, rolling, reverberating among the rocks in ever diminishing but long drawn out ifeals.

On the Instant the bear rose to his feet, swayed slightly and struck as at an Imaginary enemy with hls ( weighty pawß. A hoarse, frightful guttering roar burst from his red slavering Jaws, then he lurched side ways and fell forward, fighting the air madly for a moment, and lay still.

With staring eyes that missed no detail, she saw that the brute had been shqt In the head and shoulder three times and that he was apparently dead. The revulsion that came over her was bewildering; she swayed again, thlß time not from the thrust of the water, but with sick faintness. The tension suddenly taken off, unstrung, the loose bow of her spirit quivered helplessly; the arrow of her life almost fell Into the stream. And then a new and more appalling terror swept over her. - Some man had fired that shot. Actaeon had spied upon Diana. With this sudden revelation of her shame,/the red blood beat to the white surface in spite of the chill water. The anguish of that moment was greater than before. She could be killed, torn to pieces, devoured, thas was a small thing, but that she should be bo outraged in her modesty was unendurable. She wished the hunter had not come. She sunk lower in the water for a moment fain to hide In its crystal clarity and real-

ized as she did how frightfully cold she was. Yet, . although she froze where she was and perished with cold she could not go out on the bank to dress, and it would avail her little, she saw swiftly, since the huge monster had fallen a dead heap on her clothes. How all this, although it takes minutes to tell, had happened in but a few seconds. Seoonds sometimes include hours, even a Life-time, in their brief composition. She thought It would be just as well for her to sink down and die in the water, when a sudden splashing below her caused her to look down the stream. She was so agitated that she could make out little except that there was a man crossing below her and making directly toward the body of the bear. He was a tall black bearded man. she saw he carried a rifle, he looked neither to the right nor to the left, be did

not bestow a glance upon her. She could have cited aloud in thanksgiving for hls apparent obliviousness to her as she crouched now heck deep in the benumbing cold. The man stepped on the bank, shook himself like a great dog might have done and marched over to the bear. He uprooted a small nearby pine, with the ease of a. Hercules—and she had time to mark and marvel at It in spite of everything — and then with that as a lever be unconcernedly and easily heaved the. body of the monster from off her clothing. She, was to lenrn later what a feat of strength It was 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 was instantly lost to sight. Hls gentle aild generous purpose were obvious even to the frightened, agitated, excited girl.

The woman watched him until he disappeared, a few seconds longer, and then she hurled herself through the water and stepped out upon the shore. Her sweater which the bear had dragged forward In Its advance, lay on top of the rest of her clothes, covered with blood. She threw it aside and with nervous, frantic energy, wet. cold, though she was, she Jerked on in some fashion enough clothes to cover her * nakedness and then with more leisurely order and with necessary care she go,t the rest of her apparel in Its accustomed place upon her body, and then when It was all over she sank down prone and prostrate upon the grass by the carcass of the now harmless monster which had so nearly caused her undoing; and shivered, cried and sobbed as If her heart would break.

She was chilled to the bone by her motionless sojourn, albeit It had 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 she thought of It. It was a good thing that she cried; she was not a weep-

She Screamed Aioud.

ing woman, her tears came slowly as a rule and then came hard. She rather prided herself upon her stoicism, but in this instance the great depths of her nature had been undermined and the fountains thereof were fain to break forth. How long she lay there, - warmth coming gradually to her under the direct rays of the sun, she did not know, and it was a strange thing that caused her to arise. It grew suddenly dark over her head.. She looked up and a rim of frightful black, dense clouds had suddenly blotted out the sun. The clouds were lined with gold and silver and the long rays shot from behind the. somber blind over the yet uncovered portions of the heaven, bat the clouds moved with the irresistible swiftness and steadiness of a great deluge. The wall of them lowered above her head while they extended steadily awl rapidly

across the sky toward the other side of the canon end 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 she had not yet put on. The grizzly had stepped upon it, it was Irretrievably ruined. Shis judged from her last glimpse of the sun that It must now be early afternoon. _ She rose to her feet and staggered with weakness; she had eaten nothing since morning, and the nervous shock and strain through which she had gone had reduced her to a pitiable condition. Her luncheon had fortunately escaped unharmed. In a big pocket qf her short skirt there was a small flask of whiskey, which her Uncle Robert had required her to take with 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 herself to take the first mouthful of bread and meat she had brought with; her, but. when she nad tasted she needed no further Incentive, she ate to the last crumb; she thought thisj was the time she needed stimulants,! too, and mingling the cold water from the brook with a little of the ardenti spirit from the flask, she drank. Some' of the chill had worn off, some of th» fatigue had gone. j She rose to her feet and started! down the canon; her bloody sweater still lay on the ground with other, things of which she was heedless, lb' had grown colder, but she: realized! that the climb down the canon would! put her stagnant blood in circulation! and all would be welL

Before she began the descent of the! pass, she cast one long glance back-1 ward whither the man had gone. Whence came he, who was be, what had he seen, where was be now? She thanked God for his interference In one breath and hated him for his 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 through the silent hills. gfThe noise was low; and subdued, but almost continuous.] With a singular and uneasy feeling; that she was being observed, she started down the canon, plunging desperately through the trees, leaping tbe brook from side to side where it narrowed, seeking ever the easiest way. She struggled on, panting with tfudden inexplicable terror almost as, bad as that which had overwhelmed her an hour before—and growing more Intense every moment, to such a tragic pass had the day and Its happenings brought her. Poor girl, awful experience really was to be hers that day. The fates sported with her —bodily fear, outraged modesty, mental anguish and now the terror of the storm. The clouds seemed to sink lower, until they almost closed about her. Long gray ghostly arms reached out toward her. It grewt&arker and darker in the depths of tbe canon. She screamed aloud —In vain. (TO BE CONTINUED.)

Gone to Stay.

Booth Tarkington was telling stoc*| lea to a group of college graduates In a New Tork club, when one of the! party suddenly inquired: “What has become of Davis?" ! “He has gone out of town on bust-! ness for a few days, I guess,” replied another of the party. “He has gone for a long while," ob-, served Mr. Tarklngton, with a amfla.i “Davis is one of men who leave unmistakable evidence of their pur- 1 poses. Whenever Davis goes away to stay a long period he takes with him. 1 an old mouth organ, which he lores dearly to play while he occasionally nibbles at gingerbread. I have mad* an Investigation of Davis’ room, and; .have found that the mouth organ disappeared with hint. The presence or absence of that instrument is enough to tell me* what Davis’ plans are." . The party learned soon after that Davis had left for Wisconsin to reside permanently. '

Absorb Water Through the Skin.

Experiment* have been made with frogs which tend to show that those animals rapidly absorb water through the pores of the skin® Emphasis la laid by oertain authorities upon the fact that frogs never take Water by the month. On being exposed for several hoars to dry air some frogs experimented with lost 14 per cent of their weight, hot this was nearly all regained within 14 hours wbsh they, were placed in a dish containing w* ! ter only ana centimeter in depth V