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BY BERTRAND W. SINCLAIR
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HAZEL PASSES WINTER IN THE WILDS WITHOUT SIGHT
OFJWfWHITE PERSON OTHER '
, THAN “ROARING BILL”
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-Synopsis.—Miss-Hazel \ypir Is eiyfrWfyed jis a stenographer in tbd
/Office »>f Harrington Sc Rush at <»rnnvllle, Ontario. She is engaged to
.lark Harrow, a young real potato agent. Mr. Rush, Hazel's employer, >
suddenly rfqtiees her attractiveness and a! once makes her ld.s private
stenograpHjsr. After three months Rush proposes marrij&ge. Hazel
refuses, and after a* stormy .scene,- In which Rush waffi* her he will
make her sorry for her action. Hazel leaves tin- otn<V ; never to return.
Shortly after this Rush is thrown fr.pm.hls horse and kllkrir Publica
tion of his will discloses that he,* left Hazel .$, r »,(XX) in “reparation for
any wrong I may have done her.” * Jack Harrow, in a jealous rage,
demands an explanation, and Hazel, her pride hurt, refuses. Hazel’s
engagement Is broken and, to escape from her Surroundings, she se
cures a position as schoolteacher at Cariboo Meadows, in a wild part of
British Columbia, There, at'a hoarding house, she tlcat sees “Roaring
Rill’’ WagstafT, a well known character of that country. Soon after her
arrival Hazel loses her way wjdle walking in the woods. She Wanders
until night when she reaches “Roaring Rill’s” rump fire in the woods.
He promises to take lo r home in the morning, hut she is compelled to
spend tlo* night in-Du* wood's. After wandering In Dm wuojls ail the
next day. "Roaring Rill” tlmillyCdmlfs that heris taking Hazel to his
cabin in the mountains. Hazel finds upon their arrival at the cabin
that^he cannot hope to escape front the wilderness before spring.
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CHAPTER VI.—Continued.
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Rut within the cabin they were snug
4 and warm. Rill’s ax kept the woodpile
\}dgh. The—two fireplaces shone ~rcfl
shore bf a fair-sized lake, on the far
ther side of which loomed the conical
lodges of an Indian camp.
“You sabe now?” said ho as they
-crossed the ice. "This hunch generally
the twenty-four hours through.. Of -ttoujea^ifl hero about this time, and
flour, tea, coffee, sugar, beans and such stays fill spring. I get the squaws to
stuff as could only he gotten from the wash for me. Ever see Mr. Indian on
—outside helmil a plentiful supjdy. Po
tatoes and;-certain vegetables that h*
his native heath?”
Hazel never had.
and she was duly
had grown In activated patch behind ! Interested, own if a trifle shy of the ently he went over to the stable,Jed
the cabin were stored In a deep cellurl
He could always sally forth and get
meat. And the Ice was nXbar to fish-
to the window.. The encrusting frost-
had vanished from the panes. They'
were wet to the touch of her fipgers,.
She unhooked the fastening, and swung
the window out. A great gust of damp,
warm wind blew strands of hair across
her-face. She leaned through the ease
ment, and drops of cold Avatar struck
Jiccdgire neck. That which she had
heard was the dripping eaves. The
Chinook wind drafted its'spring song,
■and the bare.boughs of the tree beside
the cabin waved and creaked the time.
-At dawn the eaves had. ceased their
drip,-and the dirt roof lay hare to the
cloud-banked sky. From the southwest
-the wind still blew strong and warm.
.The thick winter garment of the earth
softened to slush, and vanished with
amazing swiftness. Streams of water
poured down every depression. Pools
stood between the house and stable.
Spring had leaped strong-armed upon
old Winter and vanquished him at the
first onslaught:
All that day the Chinook blew, work
ing its magic upon the land. When day
broke again with a clearing sky, find
the sun peered between the cloud rifts,
his beams fell upon vast areas of
brown and green, where hut forty-eight
hours gone there was the cold revelry
of frost sprites ujMvh far-flung fields-
of snow. Patches of earth' steamed
wherever a hillside lay bare to the sun.
From some mysterious distance a lone
crow w inged his way. and. perching on
a nearby treetop, cawed raucous greet
ing.
Hazel cleared away the breakfast
things, and stood looking out the kitch
en window,' Roaring Rill sat on a log.
shirt-sleeved, smoking his piper Pres-
m
out his horses^ and gave them their lib
erty-* For twenty minutes or so he
stood watching their mad capers as
they ran and leaped and [tranced hack
and forth over the clearing. Then he
rifle
Hazel washed her dishes and went
outside. She did not know why, hut
all at once a terrible feeling of utter
forlornne^s seized her. It was spring
v
red brother who stared so fixedly.. She
entered a lodge with Rill, and listened
to him make laundry arrangements in
broken English with a withered- old
beldame whose features resembled a
ham (that had hung overlong in the walked off into the timber, his
smokehouse. Two or three blanketed over his shoulder. X
bucks squatted by the fire that sent its
hi lie smoke streaming out the apex of
the lodge.
“Heap line squaw l” one suddenly ad
dressed Hirfx “Where you ketchum?"
Rill InughedXjit Hazel's confusion
“Away off.” He gesturt‘1 southward,
and the Indian grunted some unintel
ligible remark In his own tongue—>at
which Roaring Rill laugheiXoguln.
Before they started home Bill suc
ceeded In purchasing, after much talk,
a pair of moccasins that Hazel cone
ceded to be a work of art. what with
the dainty pattern of beads and the
j ornamentation of colored porcupine
'quills. Her feminine^, soul could not
j cavil when BilL-Hmist them In the [ dnyswhen
• pocket of her coat, even If her mind away from
—and also It was spring in other lands.
The w ilderness suddenly took on fhe hear him stir in the outer room.
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characteristics of a prison. In which
she was sentenced to solitary confine
ment. She rebelled against it. rebelled
against her surroundings, against the
manner of her being there, against
evervt.hing. She hated the North, she
wished to he gone from It, and most
Nqf all she hated Bill WaestnlT for con
straining her presence there.
AllXe heaviness of heart, all the re-
sentmenNshe had felt in the first few
e followed him perforce
away from Dbriboo Meadows, came
“I do—I dot” she cried vehemently.
“Haven't I told you often enough? /1
dinn’t come here Willingly, and I won't
stuy. I will noth I have a right to
live my life in my oivft way, and it’s
not this way.” -■■■■-.-"j---
’‘So." Rearing BIB began elfeniy,
“springtime with you only mennS get
ting back to work. You want to get
hack Into the muddled rush of peopled
places, do you? You-want to be where
you can associate with fluffy-ruffle.
pompadoured girls, and be properly in
troduced to equally proper young men,.
Lord, but I seem to have made u mis
take! And, by the same token, i’ll
probably pay for It—In a way r you
wouldn't understand if you lived a
ilimisjind years. Well, set your mind
at rest. I’ll take you out. Ye gods and
little fishes, hut I have sure been a
fool!” >
He sat down on the edge of the table,
and Hazel blinked at him, half scared,
and full of .wonder. She had grown
so used to seeing, him calm, imperturb
able, smiling cheerfully no matter what
she said or did, that his passionate out
break amazed her. She could only sit
and look at him. x *
He. gpt out his^cigaret’ie materials.
Rut his fingers trembled, spiljing the
tobacco. * And when lie tore thd\paper
In his efforts to roil it., he dashed pa
per and all into the fireplace with
something that sounded like an oath,
and walked out of the house. Nor did
lie return till the sun was Well down
toward the tree-rimmed horizon. When
he came hpek he brought in an arm
ful of wood and kindling, and began to
build, a.-fire. Hazel came out of her
room. Rill greeted her kerencly.
“Well, little person,” he said, “I
hope youTt perk up now.”
"I’ll try.” she returned. “Are you
really going to take me out?”
Rill paused with a match blazing in
his fingers. . X
“I'm not in the hnnit of saying tilings
I don’t mean,” he answered dryly.
“We’ll start in the morning.”
The dark closed' in on them, and
the.y cooked and ate supper in silence.
Rill remained, thoughtful and abstract
ed. Then from some place among his
books he unearthed a map, and, spread
ing it on the table, studied it a while.
After that he dragged In his kyaks
from outside, and busied hltnself puck-
ing them "with supplies for a journey—
ten and coffee and flonr and such
tilings done up in small canvas sacks.
And when these preparations were
complete he got a sheet of paper and a
pencil, and fell to copying something
from the map. He was still nt that,
sketching and marking, when Hazel
went to bed. •
By all the sign? and tokens. Roaring
Rill WagstafT slept none that night.
Hazel herself tossed wakefully, and
during her wakeful moments she could
And a
when you think of:it, that a man with
thrive thousand dqllars to spend should
get lonesome In a pln<;e like New York.
Rut I did. And ’at the end of a' week I
flew. I had all that money burning my
pockets—and, all told, I didn’t spend
five -hundred. Fancy a tnan jumping,
over four thousand miles to hrive a
good time, and then running -away
from It. ‘It was very foolish ,of me, I
think now. Well, t,he longer we live
the more we learn. Day after tomor
row you’ll be in Bella Coola. The can
nery steamships carry passengers on
a fairly regular schedule to Vancou-'
v-*r. How does that suit you?”
‘Very well,” she unswered shortly
•And you haven’t the least twinge of
regret at leaving all this?’
“I don’t happen tc have your peculiar
point of view,” she returned. “The
circumstances connected with my com
ing into thls'couniry and with my stay
ing here are sach~nsf“f6 mil^e me anx
ious to get away.'"
"Same old story," Bill muttered un
der his breath.
“What is it?” she asked sharply/ ,
“Oh, nothing.” he said carelessly,
and wenf on w ith his breakfast prepa
rations. — ~
The evening of the* third day from
there Bill traveled till dusk. When
camp was made and"t‘he fire started,
A NERVOUS
BREAKDOWN
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Miss Kelly Tells How Lydia
E. Pinkham’s Vegetable.
Compound Restored
Her Health. .
Newark, N. J.—“For about tbres
years 1 suffered from nervous break
down and got so
weak 1 coula hardly
stand, and had head
aches every day. I
• tried everything 1
could think Of und •
was under a phy
sician’s care for two
years. A girl friend
had used Lydia E.
Pinkham’s Vege
table Compound and
she told me' abou£*
jit. From the first
I day I took it I began x
to feel better anS
^ now I am well and
. v ' able to do most any
\- kind of work*' I
have be'en recom-"
mending the Com
pound ever since and give you my per
mission to publish this letter ”—Miss
Flo Kelly, 476 So. 14th St., Newark,
N. J. •
The reason this famous root and herb
remedy, Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable/
Compound,/Was so successful in Mias
Kelly’s case was because it went to the
root of her trouble, restored her to a
normal healthy condition ar.d as a result
her nervousness disappeared. 'y .,
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“That’s Bella Coola Over There,” Hs
Said.
he called Hazel to one side, up on a lit
tle rocky knoll, and pointed out a half
dozen pin points of yellow glimmering
distantly in the dark.
“That’s Bella Coola,” he .told her.
“And unless they’ve made a radical
change in their sailing schedules there
should be a boat clear tomorrow’ at
noea,” ’
Inflamation Swellings
<>f all kitvls in livestock can be
duicklv reduced by uviiiK Ok. David _
Rohe ins'
Antiseptic Poultice {j£
One pic kaxe makes ten pounds ol
I’ouVtlce. -
1 Head the Practical Heme Veterinarian
Bead for rw twiohl.i on Abortion lo tone
If no dealer in your town, write
Dr Eavid Roberts' Vel Co , 100 Grand Arenue, Waukesha. Wit.
CONSTIPATION
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No drriira. me<1tcme*.e-Ofr<'f:frpt*H*iK-e*of any klnd—
No dletlnu. uia>Mtire, or water eur*-h, but an article •
.<tf (tails usfc and triMiu* n*t. prepared in a certain
way which anyone cun ilo at home I cur-d niy.+elt
after afiyenr!* of -ufleout.apil wautev.ery suBtrer.ic
know about It. Hend 25c. (corn) for full particulars.
FRANCES E. WORSS, 1315 W. York Ave., Spokane. Wash.
PARKER’S
HAIR BALSAM
A toilet preparation of merit.
Helps to eradicate dandruff.
For Restoring Cotor and
Beauty to Grit or Faded Hair.
J tOc. anall.OO at Uni.-wirta
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iEASY MATTER TO EXPLAIN
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Bill’s Ax Kept the Woodpile High.
ing, for he would cut a ’hole, sink a
small .net. and secure overnight a
week’s supply of trout and whiteflsh.
Thus their material w'unts were pro
vided for.
was set against'accepting any peace back to her wlthj redoubled force that
hark
,tokens nt Ills hands. ! afternoon. She wt ^
In the nearing sunset they wept house, now gloomy wlifiout a
home through the frost-bitten woods, slumped, forlornly into axhnir
cried herself into a condition n'pproneh-
into, the
fire,
and
•where the snow crunched and squeaked
under tflelr feet, find the branches
broke off with pistol-like snap when
they were bent aside.
A hundred yards from the cabin Bill
challenged her. for a race. She refused
to rivi. and he picked her up bodily,
and ran with her to tin* verv door. He
n>pr<
ing t
irur hysteria. And she was sitting
her head bowed on her hands.
Rill returned from his hunting,
sun sent a shaft through the
ere.
wh>h
The
south
As time passed Hazel gradually Ti^Tber a second before lie set her
shook off a .measure of her depression
thrust her uneasiness and resentment
into the background. As a matter of
fact, she resigned herself to getting
through the winter, since that was in
evitable. She fell into the way of do
ing little things about the house, find
ing speedily that time flew, when she
busied herself at some task in the in
tervals of delving ib Roaring Rill’s
library. r
On one of*these days Hazel came Into
the kitchen and found Rill [tiling tow
els, napkins, and a gro^L quantity of
other soiled articles on an outspread
tablecloth. i
“Well,” she inquired, “what ure you
going to do with those?”
“Take ’em to the laundrylie
i.mghed. "Collect ytfur dirty duds, anil
bring them fortV
"Laundry I’L-Flazel echoed. It seemed
rather a fur;-fetched joke.
“Sure! You don’t suppose we can
perxjh’tm forever without having
tldngs wqsliy*d T -4o yumT’ he replied. “4t*
don’t niiniNluiUseworkr hut I do draw
the line at a uNmdry job When I don’t
have to do it.xJio on--get jour
clothes
So she hroiiL'Iit nut her^Rcunmlatlon
window, a shaft which rested on her
.drooping h<\fid. Roaring Rill walked
slowly up behind her and put his hand
on tier shoulder.
“What is it, little person?” he asked
gently. V
She refused to answer. - • •
"Sa.\’’ he bent~n little lower, "you
kfiow what the Tentmaker said:
"Come fill the cup, and In the Are of
spring
Yoiir winter^ garment of repentance fling.
The RinPof Time has but a tittle way
To flutter—and the Bird is on the wing."
of garments, ail'd laid them o}h<he pile, satiun. they would sit with a hook on
bit her si*)** of- riie fireplace that roared
defiance to the stopm-gods without. ,
Arid sometimes Hazeh would find her-
seirxundering why Roaring Rill Wag-
staff cotrtd not have come J into her life
in a differ?h<nianner, As it was—she
ruwer,“never wtnjjd forgive Him.
down,-itud Hazel's face whitened. She
could feel his breath on her cheek, and
she could feel ids arms quiver, and the
rapid bea* of his heart. For an instant
she thought Roaring Bill WagstafT was
about to make the^colossal mistake of
trying to kiss her. ~ - - ! T /
Rtlf he set her gently on her feet nud
opened the door. And by the tim£ he
had his outer, clothes off and thiTfires--- - Lifi* s too short to wa?t6 anj of it
started up he was talking whlVnsically
about their Indian neighbors, and Ha
zel breathed more freely. The clear
est Impression fftlfTshe had, aside from
her brief panic, was of his strength. He
had run with hr£ as easily a^s If-she
-had been a child.
After that (hey went out many times
together. Rill took her hunting, lnit,i-
a-ted her into the masteries of rifle
shooting, and the„manipulation of.a
s i t-shooter. ,_I k‘ t a tight her to'walk on
snqwshocs. lightly o\(-r Die surface of
the crusted snow, through which other
wise she floundered. A sort of trtice
fBvc-e ho’wcinvUu^w,-and the days drift-
ed ivy withdftt untoward incident- Rill
tehded toj his horses, chopped wood,
carried water. She,took ujion herself
Die care of the house. And; through
the long o.Veniugs. in default of ponver-
in being psqlessly v iiiiser.nble. Come on
out a ml go for a ride on Silk. I’ll take
you up a mountainside, and show you
a waterfall that TeiipsT three hundred
feet in file clear. The woods are wak
ing up and putting: on their Faster hon-
I nets. There’s beauty everywhere. Come,
along!” _ yx
Rut she wrenched herself away
fr<Hii him. ' '* — —- *X
"I want to go home!” she wailed. “I
hate you and the North, and 'every-
full hour before daylight he called her
to break-fast.
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"This time last spring.” Bill, said to
her. “I was piking away north of those
mountains, bound for the head of the
Naas ter prospect for gold-.”
They were camped In a notch on the
tiptop of a long divide, a thousand feet
above tho general level. A wide valley
rolled below, and from the height they
overlooked two great, • sinuous Jak >8
and a -multitude of smaller ones*
"I’ve been wondering.” Hazel said.
"This country somehow seems differ
ent. You’re not going hack to Cariboo
Meadows, are you?” <
Bill bestowed a lonk of surprise on
her.
“I should say not!” he drawled. “Not
ft>at it would make any difference to
me: But Fm very sure you don’t want
to turn up there in my company.”
“That’s'true,” she observed. “But
jili the clothes and all the money I
have in the world are there.”
Similarity of Spelling That Really
Looked Suspicious Quite a Simple
Thing, According to Tommy.
CHAPTER VIH.
The^Drone of the Hive.
A 11* >i *1 maM *-J' .I'eo i i ed i In- t«.* 11 *»xy -
ing in'll- mve tu'oniing I’i'iiiii a pupil:
“hear -or- I’lv«-<e ' i-skcoose little
A black cloud of smoke was rolling ,„ r tli > ai.Lens v'eMidny as lie
wnz 11 w ill- 11 :i 11< 1 the dm Tog fulled i.ie
to kepi- Jiiin in .lii il. -So 111ej him stay
liome. ^llllrv n-*pli\cl\ . Misses
Smith.” »—^--*
The nuisii-i^was a trill.- .suspicious.
up from the funnel of the Stanley D.
ns Rill WagstafT. piloted Hazel from the
grimy Bella Coola hotel to the wharf.
“There ain’t many passengers.” he
told her. "They’re mostly cannery
men. Rut you’ll have ‘the cnptain’8
wife to chaperon you. . She happens
. to fre making the trip." - : ^
When they were aboard and the
cabin hoy had shown them to What
Id
"teriily.
dhL . if..
“win
\ au
And you can easily buy
was dignified by the name of state
room. Bill drew a long envelope from
his pocket. •-* “
“Here.” he snl^. “Is a little money. 1
I hope yon won’t let any’ foolish pride
stand in the w ay of using it freely. It
came easy to me. I dug It out of Mother
Earth, and’there's plenty more w here
it came from. Seeing that I deprived
you of access to your own money and
all yoqr personal belongings, you are
i "PonT let money Worry you.” he said entitled fn this'any_way you look at It.
brfefly. “I have got plenty fo see you And T want to throw in a hit of gra
tuitous advice—In case you should con
clude to go hack to the Meadows. They
probably looked high and low for yoti.
Rut there is no chance for them to
learn,where--.von actually did get to
unless you yourself tell them. The
most plnusible~exj7.ination--and If yoii
go there you-must'make some explana
tion—would be for you to say that yon
got lost-*-which Is ♦rup enough—and
that you event a*''ty fell in with a
party, of Indians, and later mv con
nected up with p party of whDe
people who were traveling qoustyvard.
That you wintered with them, and thi*y
up huge firs, and put you on a steamer and"sent you to
the sky was ! Vancouver when spring opened.
•’Tommy. ' said
W In Li- 11 Lll—tli ill-?"
“-Wily——hh+Dc-.
|||*-ILSC. sir."
"Well. Tunis! sa>
•.['(•lliug 'is
ing \nu gciieriillx gix *• iu«." • .
Rill Toiiiiuv was cniuil In itive■rveca
sion. •
"i i s- sjr " • id
that sonic
I'ciuarkaMv I j k > - jin-
if the
crymic suys-that.
conccf’iicil. I'm tin
in-. i-liH-rny.
i- far as s|»»• I
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image of mv
ing is
mot h-
i-’r.”- 1 .oii.iiim Tit I’.it
through,
clothes.’’
They.were now ten days on theirnnd.
Steadily they qlimhed. reaching up
through gloomy canyons where foam
ing cataracts spilled themselves over
sheer.walls of granite, where fhe dim
and narrow park trail was crossed and
recrossed -with the footprints of bear
and deer and the snowy-coated moun
tain goat. „/
Roaring Bill lighted his eveming fire
at last at the apex of fhe pass. He had
traveled long after sundown, seeking a
camp ground where his horses could
graze. The fire lit
lijgh above the fir tops
The Escape.
Bill tied up tlie four corners (T
tablecloth.
“Now,” said lie, “let's see if we can't
fit you out fur a more or less extended
- walk, rou stay in tin- house altogether
too much these days^ That’s bad busi
ness. Nothing lik* exercise’ in the
'^frc'sh air.”X ' A ' .
Thus .in-a-few minutek Hazel fared
forth; trapped in Bill’s fur coat, a fiiip-
eaw-d cap on her head, and ori> her feet
several, pairs of stockings inside moe^
easius that Rill had - procured fnmi
some mystewous source a day,or two
before.— ‘ 7 —^ ’ . /
The day vi s sunny, albeit the air
was hazy with multitudes/of floating
frost paHIcle*, and the train}* through
the forest sp-edilj* hr/mjjht the fuses
hack to her cheeks. > - v
Bill carried the bundle of linen on
his back, and trudged steadily ^Jtj&ugh
the woods. Bat the riddle of his desti
nation ^as sc* n read to her, for a pwo-
ualla walk Ff.iught them out on Die
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CHAPTEI
The Fires of Spring
Tliete came a day when the metallic 1
brilliancy went out of tiW sky, and
became softly, jr.lstily blue.- All that
forenoon Hazel prowled Yestlessly out
of doors wkIntuit cap Or coat. There
was a new feel tn the air. The deep
winter snow had suddenly lost, its
harslinewa.
Toward evening ji mild breeze fresh
ened from the southwcst, A♦ t<-a«’elock
a gale'whooped'riotously through thi-
trees. And af midnight Hazel wakened |
to a sound that she had not heard in
stlidded'with stars, brilliant in the thin J -/“That. I guess, is ah.” he eonelwM
atmosphere. Thev ate. ahd, being [slowly. “Only I wish” he caught her
weary, lay down jto sleep. At aunriwtBT the‘shouiders and shook her gerutiy I
Hazel sat up and looked about her in —“I s ure do wish it emild have heen_j
silent, wondering appreciation. All the ] different, d.tle persor. Maybe som*;
world spread east and west below, j tl,m ‘ w ^ f ‘ n - L r et TesD.e.^ for human
She 'adjusted the binoculars and | companionship ami come out to cavort
[leered westwaM.from.the great height 1 D* foo bright I'VlitL for n while, I may
where the camp sat. Distantly, and.! pass^vou on a" VfrerTsnntew’hnT. ■ T>ii
far below, the green of the forest broke I world is very *-piall. .Oh-, yi's^— when
dawn to a hazy line of .steel-hluh that ! vou ^uih>-\i\er go tqxlio Lady
nin in-turn to a huge fog bank, snow sn, ith. It s a nice qi t ieF hotel ih ths
li J M I II > M ' .''V** ' » I » j /
e say. Rut look off.[-/“Hood-by !”,
[ton. Lord, yoiecfm^j^walked mil. a
ailes! 1 If ik^/'^en’t ' V!IS alfe.-i
.“I Hate You and the North and'Every.
r *- -4hing In It.”
thing In'it.- If y.oiTye got a spark of
manhood left Ln you. you'll take me out
of here.!* r. ~
Roaring Rill hacked away from her.
. . “D»-v*»u mean that?' Honest Injun?’
QkQOtii^ .She rose and groped her way h« asked incredulously, y
white in 1 the rising sun.
“There’s a lake." she said.
“No. Salt water—a long arm of the
Pacific.” he"heplibd. “.Thiit’s where
you and I part company—to ynjir very
great relief. I dan
in the other direction
See two hundred miles m
for the Bnhiije range sticking up j°u
' contd look riear^o /wTiere my cabin
stands. What an outlook.! . ,
“I told you,x think, ghout prospect
ing on the tfead of the'Naas last spring.
I fell in with another fellow up there,
^i-iid we worked together, and early in
mason made JHnlee little cleanup
on n g'rayel bar. I have another place
spotted, by. the .way. that would, w ork
out -a fortune if a fellow wanted To *
sjMUuha couple of thousand putting In
some machinery. However; wtyen Jjje ,
-June rise drove uff o’fF our harr I puJl?d
clear out of tire country, ’S’ust took
A notion to'see the bright lights again. -
And I'didn’t stop short of New York.
Do you know, I lasted there Just-o«e
, week by Lte calendar.. It seems funny, I
West end. Any na(^"driver kDovvs.th*'
place.” •
He dropped his IhluLv and looked
stiiadilwJlft her for :* few seconds
stepdffy- and 1 longingly
J^^'T.ood-hy!”. he said abruptly—and
nd tliiwti iiif gangplank
fdy beini' c.**st h*(*se, and
away up the- wharf '.v; t Lout a hack*
-ward ^glance:- - ✓
The Stanley D/s s»tefl woke this , *,
echoes along the wooded shore. A
throbbing that shook her from stem
to stern betokened the first turnings
of the serew. And slovyly she hacked
into deep water nrfd swunfc wide for
the outer passage. . •
, In the spring Hazel gets her
freedom and then when the has
It she exercises the prerogativeT.
that has been woman's since the
world begap. WhaVahe did is
disclosed in the next installment.
iTO HE CONTINUED*
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