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Mondav. .Tulv 15, 1907. THE LAKE COUNTY TIMES. -----------------J away. Hampton did not smile, but his square jaw set, and he clinched his hands. He had no fear that she might fail him, but for the first time In ail his life he questioned his own courage.

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(Continued.) "I was unwilling to leave you here alone," he answered, quietly, "and hope to discover some means for getting you safely hack beside tke others." "Eut I didn't want you," and there was a look of positive dislike in her.

widely opened eyes.

"Didn't want me?" lie echoed theso

unexpected words in a tone of com

plete surprise. "Surely you could not desire to be left here alone? Why didn't you want me?"

"Because I know wno you are!" Her

voice seemed to catch in her throat.

He told me. You're the man who

shot Jim Eberly."

Mr. Hampton was never of a pro

nounced emotional nature, nor was he

person easily disconcerted, yet he

flushed at the sound of these impulsive words, and the confident smile de

serted his lips. For a moment they sat thus, the dead body lying between, and looked at each other. When the

man finally broke the constrained silence a deeper intonation had crept

into his voice

"His name was Gillis, wasn't it?" The girl nodded wearily. "Post-trader at Fort Bethune?" Again the rumpled head silently acquiesced. "What is your name?" "He always called me 'kid,' " she admitted unwillingly, "but I reckon if you have any further occasion for addressing me, you'd better say "Miss Gillis.' " "Heaven preserve me!" he exclaimed good naturedly. "but you are certainly laying it on thick, young lady! However, I believe we might become good friends if wo ever have sufficient luck to get out from this hole alive. Darn if I don't sort of cotton to you, Uttto girl you've got some sand." For a brief space her truthful, angry eyes rested scornfully upon his face, her lips parted as though trembling with a sharp retort. Then she deliberately turned her back upon him without uttering a word. For what may have boen the first and only occasion in Mr. Hampton's

CHAPTER III. Between Life and Death. The remainder of that day. as well as niech of the gloomy night following, composed a silent, lingering horror. The fierce pangs of hunger uo longer gnawed, but a dull apathy now held the helpless defenders. One of the wounded died, a mere lad, sobbing pitifully for his mother; an infantryman, peering forth from his covert, had been shot in tie face, and his scream echoed among the rocks iti multiplied accents of agony; while

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"My girl." he said gravely, and not i audacious career, he realized his utter

without a suspicion of pleading, "this helplessness. This mere slip of a

is no place for me to attempt any de- ! tea-headed girl, this little nameless fense of a shooting affray in a gambling ! walf of the frontier, condemned him house, although I might plead with i 6 completely, and without waste of

some justice that Eberly enjoyed the ' words, as to leave him weaponless, honor of shooting first. I was not M"- Hampton was a thorough-going aware of your personal feeling in the sport, and no quality was quite so apt matter, or I might have permitted to appeal to him as dead gameness. some one else to come here in my j He glanced surreptitiously aside at stead. Now it i3 too late. I have t ber once more, but there was no sign never spoken to you before, and do so ! of relenting in the averted face. He at this time merely from a sincere de- j rested lower against the rock, his face sire to be of some assistance?" upturned toward the sky, and thought. There was that in his manner of Jt was no spirit of bravado that gave grave courtesy which served to steady j rIse to his reckless speech of an hour the girl. Probably never before in all i previous. It was simply a spontaneous her rough frontier experience had she ; outpouring of his real nature, an un-

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been addressed thus formally. Her closely compressed lips twitched nervously, but her questioning eyes remained unlowered. "You may stay," she asserted, soberly. "Only don't touch me." No one could ever realize how much

those words hurt him. Not until he j

had completely conquered his first unwise impulse to retort angrily, did he venture again to speak. "I hope to aid you in getting back beside the others, where you will be less exposed." "Will you take him?" "He is dead," Hampton said, soberly, "and I can do nothing to aid him. But there remains a chance for you to escape." "Then I won't go," she declared, positively. Hampton's gray eyes looked for a long moment fixedly into her darker ones, while the two took mental stock of each other. He realized the utter futility of any further argument, while she felt instinctively the cool, dominating strength of the man. Neither was composed of that poor fib which bends. "Very well, my young lady," he said, easily, Btretching himself out more comfortably in the rock shadow. "Then I will remain here with you; it makes small odds." Excepting for one hasty, puzzled glance, she did not deign to look again toward him, and the man rested motionless upon his back, staring up at

the sky. Finally, curiosity overmastered the actor in him, and he turned partially upon one side, so as to bring her profile within his range of vision. Her dark, glowing eyes were lowered upon the white face of the dead man, yet Hampton noted how clear, in spite of sun-tan, were those tints of health upon the rounded cheek, and how soft and glossy shone her wealth of rumpled hair. Even the tinge of color, so distasteful in the full glare of the ?un, appeared to have darkened under the shadow, its shade framing the downcast face Into a pensive fairness. Then he observed how dry and

parched her lips were. "Take a drink of this," he insisted heartily, holding out toward her as he spoke his partially filled caateen. She started at the unexpected sound of his voice, yet uplifted the welcome water to her mouth, while Hampton, observing it all closely, could but remark the delicate shapeliness of her hand. "If that old fellow was her father," he reflected soberly, "I shou?d like to have seen her mother." "Thank you," she said simply, handing back the canteen, but without lifting her eyes again to his face. "I was so thirsty." Her low tone, endeavoring to be polite enough, contained no note of encouragement. "Was Gillis your father?" the man questioned, determined to make her recognize his presence. "I suppose so; I don't know." "You don't know? Am I to undersind you are actually uncertain whether this man was your father or not?" "That is about what I said, wasn't it? Not that it is any of your business, so far as I know, Mr. Bob Hampton, but I answered you all right. He brought me up, and I called him 'dad' about as far back as I can remember, but I don't reckon as he ever told me he was my father. So you can understand just what you Dleaso."

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in their places, scarcely venturing to stir a limb, their roving, wolfish eyes the only visiblo evidence of remaining life, every hope vanished, yet each man clinging to hi3 assigned post of duty in desperation. There was but little firing the defenders nursing their slender stock, the savages biding their time. When night shut down the latter became bolder, and taunted cruelly those destined to become so soon their hapless victims. Twice the maddened men fired recklessly at those dancing devils, and one pitched forward, emitting a howl of pain that caused his comrades to cower once again behind their covers. One and all these frontiersmen recognized the inevitable before dawn the end must

come. No uselesa words were spoken; the men merely clinched their teeth and waitod. Hampton crept closer in beside the girl while the shadows deepened, and ventured to touch her had. Perhaps the severe strain, of their situation, the intense loneliness of that Indianhaunted twilight, had somewhat softened her resentment, for she made no effort now to repulse him. "Kid," he said at last, "are you game for a try at getting out of this?" She appeared to hesitate over her answer, and ho could feel her tumultuous breathing. Some portion cf her aversion had vanished. "Come, Kid," he ventured finally, yet with new assurance vibrating in his low voice; "this is surely a poor time and place for any indulgence in tantrums, and you've got more sense. I'm going to try to climb up the face of that cliff yonder, it's the only possible way out from here, and I propose to take you along with me." She snatched her hand roughly

away, yet remained facing him. "Who gave you any right to decide what I should do?" The man clasped his fingers tightly about her slender arm, advancing hi3 face until he could look squarely into hers. She read in the lines of that determined countenance a inllexible resolve which overmastered her.

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"I Can't Help Him, But Ther Remains a Chance for Your Escape." preme carelessness with which he regarded the future the small value ho set on life. He truly felt as utterly indifferent toward fate as his words

signified. Deeply conscious of a life long ago irretrievably wrecked, everything behind a chaos, everything before worthless, for years he had been actually seeking death; a hundred times he had gladly marked its apparent approach, a smile of welcomo upon his lips. Yet it had never quite succeeded in reaching him, and nothing had been gained beyond a reputation for cool, reckless daring, which he did not in the least covet. But now, miracle of all miracles, just as the end seemed actually attained, seemed beyond any possibility of being turned aside, he began to experience a desire to live he wanted to save this girl. His keenly observant eyes, trained by the exigencies of his trade to take note of small things, and rendered eager y this newly awakened ambition, sci med the cliff towering abova them. He perceived the extreme irregularity of its front, and numerous peculiarities of formation which hadescaped him hitherto. Suddenly his puzzled face brightened to the birth of

an Idea, liy neavens! it might b done! Surely it might be done! Inch

by inch he traced the obscure passage seeking to impress each faint detail upon his memory that narrow ledge

within easy reach of an upstretched

arm, the sharp outcropping of rock-

edges here and there, the deep gash

as though some giant ax had cleaved

the stone,those sturdy cedars growin

straight out over the chasm like the bowsprits of ships, while all along the way, irregular and ragged, varied rifts

not entirely unlike the steps of a crazy

staircase.

The very conception of such an ex

ploit caused his flesh to creep. But ha

was not of that class of men who fall back dazed before the face of danger. Again and again, led by an impulse he was usable to resist, he studied that precipitous rock, every nerve tingling to the newborn hope. God helping them, even so desperate a deed might be' accomplished, although It would test the foot and nerve of a Swiss mountaineer. He glanced again uneasily toward his companion, and saw the same motionless figure, the same somber face turned deliberately

announced calmly. "You can go on ahead." They crept among low shrubs and around the bowlders, carefully guarding every slightest movement lest some rustle of disturbed foliage, or sound of loosened stone, might draw the fire of those keen watchers. Every Inch of their progress was attained through tedious groping, yet the distance to be traversed was short, and Hampton soon found himself pressing against the uprising precipice. Against that background of dark cliff they might venture to stand erect, the faint glimmer of reflected light barely sufficient to reveal to each the shadowy outline of the other. "Don't move an inch from this spot," Toe whispered. "It wouldn't bo a square

deal. Kid. to leave those poor fellows to their death without even telling

them there's a chance to get out."

She attempted no reply, as he glided noiselessly away, but her face, could

he have seen it, was not devoid of ex pression. This was an act of gener

osity and deliberate courage of the

very kind most apt to appeal to her

nature, and within her secret heart there was rapidly developing a respect for this man, who with such calm assurance won his own way. Then, suddenly, that black curtain was rent by jagged spurt3 of red and yellow flame. Dated for an instant, her heart throbbing wildly to the sharp reports of the rifles, she shrank cowering back, her fascinated gaze fixed on those imp-like figures leaping forward from rock to rock. Almost with the flash and sound Hampton sprang hastily back and gathered her in hi3 arms. "Catch hold, Kid, anywhere; only go up, and quick!" She retained no longer any memory of Hampton; her brain was completely terrorized. Inch by inch, foot

by foot, clinging to a fragment of rock here, grasping a slippery branch there,

drawn and haggard when the first gray dawn found ghastly reflection along the opposite rock summit, and with biurred eyrs be watched the faint tfnge of returning light steal downward into the canyon. At last it swept aside thase lower clinging mists, as though some Invisible hand had drawn back tho night curtains, and he peered over the edge of his narrowresting place, gazing directly down upon the scene of massacre. With a quick gasp of unspeakable horror. ho shrank so sharply back as to cause the suddenly awakened girl to start and glance into his face. "What is it?" she questioned, with quick catching of breath, reading that which she could not clearly interpret in his shocked expression. "Nothing of consequence," and be faintly endeavored to smile. "I suppose I must have been dreaming also, and most unpleasantly. No; please do not look down; it would only cause your head to reel, and our upward climb Is not yet completed. Do you feel strong enough now to make an

other attempt to reach the top?" "Can we?" ehe questioned helplessly. "We can, simply because we must," and his white teeth shut together firmly. "There is no possibility of retracing our steps downward, but with tho help of this daylight we surely ought to be able to discover some path leading up." He rose cautiously to his feet, pressing her more closely against the faco of the cliff, thus holding her in comparative safety while preventing her from glancing back into the dizzy chasm. The most difficult portion of their journey was apparently just before them. More than once they tottered on the very brink, held to safety merely by desperate ciutchlngs at rock or shrub, yet never once did the maa loosen his guarding grasp of his companion. Pressed tightly against tho

smooth rock, feeling for every crevice.

occasionally helped by encountering a ; every slightest irregularity of surface, A u i . i m , m a l I . - .....

uccpci 6u iu me iutc ui tuw making use of creeping tendril or pice, her movements concealed by the : dead branch, daring death along every

Never Once Did the Man Loosen His Grasping Grip of His Companion. has come for deciding which of these

alternatives you prefer." "If I select your bullet rather than the rocks, what then?" "You will get it, but in that case you will die like a fool." "You have believed me to be one, all this afternoon." "Possibly," he admitted; "your word 3 and actions certainly justified some such conclusion, but the opportunity has arrived for causing me to revise that suspicion." "I don't care to have you revise it, Mr. Bob Hampton. If I go, I shall hate you just the same." Hampton's teeth clicked like those

of an angry dog. "Hate and be j damned," he exclaimed roughly. "All i

I care about now is to drag you out ol here alive." "Well, if you pat It that way," she said. "I'll go." "Come on, then." he whispered, his fingers grasping her sleeve. She shook off the restraining touch of his hand as if it were contamination and sank down upon her knees beside the Inert body. He could barely perceive the dim outlines of her bowed figure, yet never moved, his breath perceptibly quickening, while he watched and waited. Without word or moan she tent yet lower and pressed her lips upon the cold, white face. The man caught no more than the faintest echo of a murmured "Goodby, old dad; I wish I could take you with me." Then she stood stiffly uprishtfacljjsbim.. Tin ready now." she

Ecauerea ceaars, sne tonea reverisniy j up. The first time she became aware that Hampton was closely following was when her feet slipped along a naked root, and she would have plunged headlong into unknown depths j had she not come in su'den contact j

pered, panting heavily. "We can be

no safer anywhere else." Shots and yells, the dull crash of blows, the shouts of men engaged in a death grapple, the sharp crackling of innumerable rifles, the inarticulate moans of pain, the piercing scream of sudden torture, were borne upward to them from out the blackness. All

at once the hideous uproar ceased with i

a final yelping of triumph, eemlngly reechoed the entire length of the chasm, in the midst of whicn one single voice pleaded pitifully, only to die away in a shriek. The two agonized fugitives lay listening, their ears strained to catch the slightest Sound from below. Hampton's ears could discern evidences of movement, and he heard guttural voices calling at a distance, but to the vision all was black. These uncertain sounds ceased, the strained ears of the fugitives heard the crashing of bodies through the thick shrubbery, and then even this noise died away in the distance. Yet neither ventured to stir or speak. It may bo that the girl slept fitfully, worn out by long vigil and intense strain; but th man proved less fortunate, his eyes staring out continually into th black void, hi3 thoughts upon otur days. His features wero

inch of the way, these two creepers at last attained the opening to a littla gulley, and sank down, faint and trembling. The girl glanced furtively at him, the long lashes shadowing tho expression of her lowered eyes. Ia spite of deep prejudice she felt im-

with his supporting shoulder. Faint. peiiel to like this man; he accomand dizzy, and trembling like a leaf of j piished things, and he didn't talk, an aspen, she crept forward onto a j u wag nothing more serious than a somewhat wider ledge of thin rock, j hard and tol3sorne climb after that, a and lay there quivering painfully from ' continuous struggle testing every mushead to foot. A moment of suspense, ' cle Btramlng every einew, causing and he was outstretched beside her, both to gink dowQ agaia and agaiQt resting at full length along the very , panting and exhausted, no longer stim-

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Remain perfectly quiet," he whis- j from the exposed front of tho

precipice, yet arose steep and Jagged before them. It wa3 bridged finally by a cedar trunk, whic'a Hampton wrenched from out its rocky foothold, and the two crept cautiously forward, to emerge where the sunlight rested golden at the summit. They sank fact! downward in the short grass, barely conscious that they had finally wca their desperate passage. Slowly Hampton succeeded in uplifting his tired body and his reeling head, until he could sit partially upright and gaze unsteadily about. Th girl yet remained motionless at his feet, her thick hair, a mass of red gold in the sunshine, completely concealing her face, her slender figure quivering to sobs of utter exhaustion. Beforo them stretched the barren plain, brown, desolate, drear, offering in all its wide expanse no hopeful promise of rescue. With hand partially shading his aching eye3 from the blinding glare, the man studied its every exposed feature, hi3 face hardening again into lines of stern determinat'oTi. The elrl stirred from her position, flinging back her heavy hair with one hand, and looking up into hi face with eyes that read at once hu disappointment. Tr be continued.)