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.1 . • • WtQE TWO BARNWELL SENTINEL, BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA ‘Tve born <lolng pretty well Intely," he said. "I came out*-here on n d<*nl that Involved about fifty thousand dol lars. , I closed It ujt Just this morning— and the commission Would Just about buy us that little house we hud planned' once. Won’t .you let bygones be by- <^. 0 rgp, his fat klooteh. und two half- tour Siwashes, and a camp outfit pver Ccfyngjit dtj LITTLE. b&OWf i Co il HAZEL GETS HER FREEDOM AND THEN FINDS .THAT SHE DOES NOT WANT IT. ; ' — Synopsis.—Miss Hazel Weir, n stenographer, living at (Jrartvllle, Hfifarlo, Jjt.piaee<Lixnder n cloud, by circumstances for which site Is onttrelytilariieless, To escape from the groundless gossip that pursue^ her, she secures a position as schoolteacher at Cariboo Meadows, in n wild part of British Columbia..' There, at a boarding bouse, she first sees “Roaring Bill" Wngstnff, a well-known character of that country. Soon after her arrival Hazel loses her way while walking In the woods. She winders'.until night when she reaches "Jtoarlng Bill’a”', camp fire in the woods.. He promises to take, her homo In the* morningr brit she is. comp* lied to spend the'night in the woods. After wandering In the woods.jiil the next day, “Roaring Bill" finally admits that he is taking Hazel to his cabin in the mountains. -Hazel finds upon their arrival at the cabin that she cannot hope to escape from the wilderness before spring. During the mng winter “Roaring Bill "'treats Ilazcl-with the greatest Tespect. He tells her he loved her and tries to induce her to marry him. but she refuses. In the spring he takes her to Bella Coo la, where she can get a boat to Vancouver. 3K CHAPTER VIII—Continued. Hazel went out to the _r;iiL Bill Wagstaff had disappeared, but present ly she caught sight of him standing on the shore end of the wharf, his hands thrust deep In his coat pockets,-staring after the steamer. Hazel waved the - envelope that she still held In her hand. Now that she was Independent of him. she felt magnanimous, forgiving—and suddenly very much alone, as if she had dropped hack into the old, dopress- - tng Granville atmosphere^ BiiLho gave no answering sign save that he turned on the Instant and went up the hill to where his horses stood tied among the huddled buildings. And within twenty minutes the Stanley D turned a Jutting point, and Bella Coola was hist to view. Hazel went back Into her stateroom and sat down on the berth. Presently she opened the envelope. There was a thick fold of bills, her Ticket, and both were wrapped In a sheet of paper pen ciled with dots and crooked lliiesj. She laid It aside and counted the,.money. —v “Heavens!” she whispered. “I wish he hadn’t given me so much. I didn’t need all that." For Roaring Bill had tucked atdozen one-hundred-doilnr notes In the enve lope.. And. curiously enough, she was not offended, only wishful that he had been less generous.. ThenIjlie"took up the map, recognizing it ns the sheet of paper Bill had worked over so long their last night at the cabin./ It great deal more clear—to her, for be had marked Cariboo Meadows, the lo cation of bis cabin, and Bella Coola. and drawn dotted lines to Indicate the way he had taken her in and brought her out. .She put away the money and the map, and bestowed a- brief scrutiny upon herself in the cjibin mirror. Six months In the wild had given her a ruddy color, the glow of perfect phys ical condition. But her garments were tattered and sadly out of date. The wardrobe of the steamer-trunk lady had suffered In the winter’s wear. She was barely presentnble-Jn the outing" suit of corduroy. The Stanley D„ up»>n the evening Of the third day, turned into Barnard Inlet and swept across a harbor speckled with shipping from all' the Seven Sens to her berth ut the dock. So Hazel came again to a city—n kindly on teaching as a means of ljvo- UhoioL A nrtT stenographers seemed to be In demand. Wherefore, she rea soned that wages*would he high. With the list In her purse, she. Went down on Hastings—which runsJlke a huge ar tery through the heart of the city, with lesser streets crossing and dlvergi. ing. ; But she made no application for em ployment? For on the corner of Has tings and Seymour. os- she gathered her skirt in her hands to vrosg-vthe afreet, norneone mught her b^ffhe arm gones, HaZjeT "It might be possible,Jnrk,“ she ah r swered slowly, “if It Were not for the fact that you topic? the most effective means a man £Ould have taken to kill every atom tn affection I had for you? I don’t feeT-Wtter uny more—I. simply don’tJfeel at all." “But 'you will,” he said eagerly. “Just give me a chance. I was a hot headed. Jealous fool, but I never will he again. Give me a chance, Hazel." “You’ll Irtivift to make your own chances," she said dellbei*afeT>7"i■ re fuse to bind myself In any wny. Why 'should I put myself out to make ytw happy_when you destroyed all the faith T Juki In-you? And I don’t think I’m going to care—except, perhaps, in a friendly way.” And with that Barrow had to be content. At dusk of the following day she and. Loralne Marsh sat in a Pullman, flat tening their noses against the car win- dow?~ taking a last look at the envi rons of Vancouver as the train roiled through tlie outskirts of the city. Ha zel told herself that she was going honfie.^ Burrow smiled friendly assur ance Over the seat. Even so, she jvas restless, far from content. There was something lack ing. At half after eight she called the porter and had him arrange her section for the night. And she got Into tied, thankful to he by herself, depressed without reason. v* • She slept for n time, her sleep bro and cried ; < - . “Well, forevermore, If it isn’t Hazel Weir!” And sfie turned to find herself facing Loralne Marsh—a Granville " school chum—and Loralne’s mother. Back of them, with wide and 1 startled eyes, loomed Jack Barrow./ He pressed forward while the two women overwhelmed Hazel with a flood of 'exclamations and questions, and extended his hand. Hazel accept ed the overture. She had long since gotten .over her resentment against him. She was furthermore amazed to find that she .could tneei his eyp and take his hand without a single flutter of her pulse. It seemed strange, but she was glad of it. . • They stood' a few minutes on the A W corner; then Mrs. Marsh proposed that they go to the hotel, where they could talk at their leisure and in comfort. Loralne and her mother took the lead. made the North more cloar-n H,,rr,,w ™><urally fell into step with Hazel. “I’ve been wearing sackcloth and' citv^ thuf re#red and bellowed all* Its manifold noises In \h,cr ears, long grown accustomed to a vast and brood ing silence. Mindful of Bill’s parting word, she took a hack to , the Lady smith. And even though the hotel was removed from tin* business li*»nrt of the city, the rumble of the 'city’s her culean labors reached her f; i' into' the night. At last she .fed p-sba'p,.-and dawn of a clear spring day awakened lor. '? She ate her breakfast, and- set forth on a shopping tour. To such advan tage. did she put two. of the huiuTred- dollar bills that by noon she was ar* raved In a semi-tailored shit of gray spring hat. shoos and gloves to match She. felt once mor< at ease, less ron-]dly scion 4 - that people stared at her frayed the green and pcae* ful vista of fun s' and curious hahilLmeuvs. ',Vji.b a 'com-1 3nxl take, with The Ha bint Tftnge lying - pleti* tn.-firTvr-tTigr^n'' p'*ir<'Tt:’v>rt - and ; purp - m-^-ti-h—She wondered )! Roar~ n trunk in will- h to'sjorelt forwar ded big ‘‘ell Wagstaff would Tver, under to hei hotel, her hutii diate netivltv i : \.v e rrin'; <1 iinco ; 'have looked on her tide o i with tti a.fhi, angry* dis'nnt that lb rttov l ad once -betrayf-d. Harrow’s a;,«itii-ic 1 was that of a little boy who nshes. Hazel,” he said humbly. “Short ly after you left, somebody on'one of th.e papers ferreted out the truth of that Hush affair, and the* vindictive old hound’s reasons for that compromising legacy were set . forth. Hush appears to have kept a diary—and kept It post ed up to the.day of his death—poured out all.his feelings on paper, and re peatedly asSerfed that he would win you or ruin you. And It seems that that night, after you refused to come to him when he was hurt, he called In his lawyer and made that codicil—and spent the rest of the time' till he died gloating over the chances of It be smirching your character.” “I'Ve grown rather indifferent about it.” Hazel .replied impersonally. ‘‘Rut he succeeded rather easily, Even you, who thould have known me better, were ready to believe the very worst.” “I’\o paid for it," Harrow pleaded. “You don’t know bow I’ve hated niyself for being sin h a cad. Hut it taught me a- Te-^sotj—if -j-tui’ll- Tmt- hbm a grudge again ' me. I’ve wondered and .worried b-mt you,’ disappearing the way you did. Where have v <u been,, and how l ave yoh been getting on? You surely Took wvli/’ He bent rn admiring - glance on her. “Oh, I’ve i> en every .place/^and I can't-cmtiplalh about not getting-oTV^ shy .ahswered carelessly. For the life of In. r. ‘Jit.v.couli! net. whnt they can do until they are com-- polled to try, and upon this, her second. Journuy northward, the truth of that statement grew more putent with each passing duy. So trailing north, with'.old Limping grown Slwnsh youths, Hazyl' bore steadily across country, driving as straight as the rolling h*pd alloNved, for the'cnblri that snuggled I:» a woodsy basin close up to the- peaks that- guard Pine River pass. • There came a day when brief uncer tainty become sure knowledge at sight ing through the fire-thinned spruce. Her heart fluttered for a minute. Like a homing bird, by grace of the rude map and Limping George, she had /come to the lake where the Indians had crimped in the winter, and she could have gone blindfolded from the lake to,Roaring Hill s cabin. She urged her pony through the light timber growth and across the little meadows’where 4 the rank grass, and strange varicolored flowers were springing up under the urge of the warm spring sun. Twenty minutes brought her to the clearing.. Silk and Satin arid Nigger, loafing at the sunny end of the stable, pricked tip theirCars at her approach, aiyl, she knew that Roaring Hill was home again. She tied her horse to a sapling and drew nearer. Tlie-cnhln-door stood• wide. A hriet paniOjgized her. .She felt a sudden shrinking, a wild desire for headlong flight.’ Rut it passed. She knew that for good,.or ill she would never turn back'. * ’ ~~ - (in the soft turf her footsteps gave forth no sound. She gained the door way silently as a shadow. Roaring any water I:, /ritjr reins, little person. Lord! I’m afraid to let go of you for fear you’ll \urfish into nothing, like a Hindu fakir stunt." / ‘ * O? , , *No fear," Hazel laughbdr ‘Tt&'got n pony tied to. a tree out there, apd "£*3 -Sl-l , ... .... » - Bid faced the end of the long room, but ken into by morbid dreams, and evejfc. , ... „ . - , . ^ . , ,, . _ _ . . TTT-M-e did not s*m' her. for In* was slumped tually she wakened to find her eyes full of tears. -She did not know why she should cry, hut cry she did till her pil low grew moist—and the heavy feeling in her breast grew, if anything, more intense. . She .switched on -the tiny, electric bulb over* her head, and fumbled In her purse for another handkerchief. Her fingers drew forth, with the bit of linen, u folded sheet of paper, which seemed to hypnotize her, so fixedly did she remain looking at it. A sheet of plain white paper, marked with dots nnd names and crooked lines that stood for rivers, with shaded patches that meant mountain ranges ,she had seep—Hill YVagstaff’s map.. , She Stared at it a long time. - Then she found her time table, and ran along the interminable string of station by Crooked lake. If I should 7 vanish I’d leave a plain trull fof Vou to fol- !»»■’ . IN THE SPRING • ••YVell,". Bill said, after a short si* ' , , lencC, “It’s a hundred'and forty miles wifi be the great test of a life and death to q Hudson’s Bay poat-where there’s J^rfday Hfe^t^ii the'ei.rmg * a oilsslon and a ptceacher. Tct’s be on time ’ that brings ill health. One. of the oui way and get marbled. Then-'we’ll -chief reasons why the run down man of a L-shaped body of water glimmer-^ and spend our honey- ^ lw hT'speit moon, )- nearly 'all his' hours for the paet four or She noftjc! assent. “Are- you t'ue to start In half an hour?" he asked, holding her off at ni*m’8 length admiringly." ‘Tin .game for anything, or I wouldn’t be here," she retorted. - . • f “All right. You just watch an ex- ; ihihi^ion of speedy packing.”’ Bill de clared—and straightway fell tp. vyork. Hazel follower him about, helping to get the kynks parked with food. They caught the three ’ hf)rs<*s.„un(l Bill stripped the pony of Hazels .riding gear and placed a pack on Kim. Then he put her saddle on Silk. “He’s your private mount hence-^ forth.” Hill told her laughingly. “YouTl ride hlih with pmro pleasure than you did the first tipie, won’t you?” •Presently they* were* ready to start, planning to ride past Limping George’s camp and tell him whitlier They were bound. "Hazel. was already moupted. : The Vir;(in Roaring Hill paused, with his toe in tilocd in cir fl five* months penned up within the walls— of House, ftictaryvor ottiee. It is the rea son for our_ diminished resistance—that is, lack —of-ottT-door life, coupled with perhaps over eating, lack of good cxer rise, insufficient sleep, and const lpatipn. In other words, we keep feeding the furnace with food but do noV take. oUti the “clinkers,” and i>ur tire docs' not burn brightly. Always keep the liver active. — There is nothing better for health than taking an occasional mild <laxative, per haps once a week; such a oue a* you .can get at arv drug store? madie up of May-apple, jalapr—.-aloes, * (sugar-co.ited, tiny, easily taken ), which lias stood the test of fift,v years of approval— namely,. Dr. Pierce’s. Pleasant • Pellets. Hut "fof the “Spring Fever *’ the- general run-dnwn— condition, the' lack sof ambition, the “blue<,” one" should take* a -course of- treatment every spring; such a standard tonic as Dr. Pierce’s Golden Myheiil .’Dis covery. .now to'he’had in tahlcn form in sixty cent', vials. Watch the people go plodding al-our the street. There's- ne - spring, no vitalitv. A \itahrmg tonic such as fills vez<'tabb- c ' r.i-t of nr" Pierce's ,*ou the power t" f-n-i e yo-urself ItVtd braiin resff >nJs to .tl-.e new ctrcuUfton, atel finis you’re" > he stirrup, nnd "smiled whimsically at to -make "a t’n t iu*:»i f nst ‘S*agnation «!T*"b , * .. ... holds vo i in bond:*e«- Trv it now. Pen t her over his horses buck. watt" **i*.-lerc- is tTte 71 iy to l.egi.t. Gain a “I forgo! something."" said Tic. and little “pepd’ ahdTamth nnd liVe. Vim ..*,u - . .- vitality oiT Us. i "i nil- <u»t-po .na >•• «♦ \\a*nt back into. the. cabin—whence he ^ j_,T Ji ... j, .j.,,.. not 'sprit r -up 1 a in the big chair before the fireplace. whence he shortly emerged, heating in his hand a .sheet of pa pel upon which some-, thing was written in- hold, angular ..-l i he ■-< Ti '• ibis spi :n:; sj ' it '■ ton! *.’ and you ga . 1,'ill O I b'cvp bis chin sunk on his bnwVwj. stariii|p-vuvn. a( . t ,. rs> This he pinned cm the straight ahead with absent eyes. door. Hazel rode Silk close to see help making cKmph-risonx botween the *• - * • ... • i man 1> 'side her'atid another who'jshe j guessed would by now b** bo iling up 1 c-timt' overloiju- ’ ! * eve -1 of the. (li vide-TUat'over loi fKeil -an Meadows was wiped j distinctly wus j;t an end, and sue hm t bin'-' of be • next- move. . 1 Arid, bron trbt face .to fnbewith that. 1 -she found. lu>r < If, at. something of a loss She irria ■ ces * e To go back to -G-irlboo ..Jl'rdov. •* .-yon to i^et what few persoji.tU f •''asures she had left behind C’arVbcp off the slatwh..-. far as she cerro’d. Nevertheless, -he must make ; her way. &unehbw she must find a means to return the unused portion of -■ 'he— to her—-enormous sum Roaring Bill had plnecd In h: r hands. She must make her own,living. The question that treubbd .her was: How, and where? She had Her trade at her fin ger dnds. .did the storjed office build- logs of Vancouver assured her that , any efficient stenographer could find had’broken some plaything irTVfit of niiiger and v> ;is now • wo.d-iiHy tfying to j put t! o pim - (. ".etb. r again. ;It amoaed 1; -Jn<‘ ■ d. it : levied her a tin Christian-* satisfaction was-enn- s.neoijhe was n- ; b., niiftire of a meek or'fQrgiving sj. ri't. , Hazel i'sited with tlie three,of them In the hotel pari dr f.-r a mawT r - 0 f two hours,* went to Luncheon 'w’ttft them, and at luncheon Loralne Marsh' i brought up the sTTOJect of her coming home .fo Grnriville wl>h them. "The Bush Incident wits dismissed and dis missed. On the question" of returning Hazel was noncommittal. Of course youTLTorne! We won't Roaring Bill Took Her in His Arms. names' till she found Ashcroft, .from whence northward ran the- Appian way of British Columbia, the Cariboo road, over which she had journeyed by stage. She noted the distance, and the liniit- ed’.w hour of arrival, and looked at her watch. Then a feverish activity took hold of her. She dressed, got her suitcase from under the berth, and stuffed articles into It,, regardless of order. ~T~ r. That done, she set her suitcase In the aisle, and curled herself in the berth, with her face pressed close against the window. A whimsical smile -played about her mouth, and her fingers" tap-tapped ' steadily on the purse, wherein was folded Bill Wag- staff’s map. And then out of the dark ahead a »lush r ,«if Tights. winked briefly, the shriek of the limited’s whistle echoed up. and down the wide reaches of the North Thompson,* niul the coaches Yume to a stop. Hazed funk one look toTuiike sure. Then she got softly into the neffeyTook up her suitcase, and left the car. AT. the steps she turned to give theca-f^poj*T£r a.message.’ _ “Tell Mrs. Marsh—the lady-in 1 olver five,” siiP~saH, with a dollar to quicken bis faculties, “that Miss Weir hud to gn. b;-r-£. SttJ* I Will Write SOOH and explain.” " ; . " y ■ She stood back in the shadow* of the station for a few*, seconds., Th.eJ.im- ited’s- stop was brief. When the. red lights went drumming down the track, took tip her suitcase .and walked uptown to" the hotel where she had tar ried overnight once before. — • The clerk showed her to a room. She threw her suitcate on th’e bed and turned the key in the lock. Then she went over, and, throwing up-the win dow to its greatest, la-ight, sat down and looked steadily toward the north, smiling to herself “I can find him," she suddenly said aloud. “Of course I can find him!” . And with that sfie blew a kisjj from her finger tips out toward the dark" and silent North, pulled down the shade, and weut quietly to bed. In all the days she bad been with him she had novel* seen him look like That. That weary, iw.pi.l. the wry twist of his lips, wrung her heart and drew from her a-yearning little’ whisper. “Bill!” * He Came out of his ehair like a pan ther. And when hiK eyes beheld her in the doorway he stiffened in his tracks, staring, seeing, yet reluctant to believe the evidence of his vision. His brows wrinkled. He put up one hand and absently ran it over his cheek. “I wonder if I’ve got to tlie point of seeing things,” he sHid slowly. “Say, little person, is it your astral body, or is it really you?” “Of course it's me.” she cried tremu lously.* and with, fine disregard for her habitual preciseness of speech. . He came up close to her and pinched her -arm with a gentle pressurtv-as if he had to feel the material "substance of her before he could believe. And then he put his hands on -her-shoul ders. as he had done on the steamer j "Haven’t the least idea,” he an- that day at Bella Coola, and looked j swered lazily. “Time is of no conse- long and earnestly at her—looked till quence to me at the present moment.” a crimson wave rotfe from her neck to -"They were sitting on the warm earth the roots of her dark, glossy hair. And before their cabin, their hacks propped with That Roaring Bill took her in his j comfortably against a log, watching arms, cuddled her up close to him. nnd j the sun sink behind a distant skyline kissed her, not once but many times, all notched with purple mountains’ iii’ou really and ^ruly came hack, j upon which snoW still iiiigered. Beside little person." he murmured. “Lord them n smudge dribbled m wisp of Lord—arid yet they* say the day of , smoke sufficient to war'd .off a pesti- mirncles is pn$t,” I lential swnrjm of mosquitoes and bWiek “You didn’t think I would, did you?” flies. In the clear, thin air of that she asked, with her blushing face snug- altitude the occasional voices of what gled ngainst Ills sturdy breast. "Still, i bird and animal life was abroad in the you gave me « map so that-I could ; wild broke into the evening hush with find the place.” i astonishing distinctness—a lone goose i‘Thnt was just taking a desperate winged above in wide circles, uttering chance. No, I never expected to see his harsh nnd solitary cry. He had A Welshman's Prayer.__ A siiii-plc-fnliided man in a -Welsh coni' valley is-a «"liai’:n"tcr in bis \vn\.- Ho always insNisoiy lakin ,r Ills llli:ii- - Tlie mountain \v« j*i> s-us . loss than tin* grain ouy shoes. y climb ufton/woF M samt what it ruight be, and laughed ainused- ly, "tfit Bill had—writ top .’ j 7 j a t he dT'votiopal. ser\ iocs of His chapel. “Mr. nnd Mtk: William Wngstnff will jjj s prayer tin- other night wus mmu■-*- ■ be at home to their friends on and u j. ( . ,| liv: - A |„,i u i,,\ ilmu after June the twentieth." hast^licard about that old kaiser. I He swung up into his saddle, and r0JM j in t |„t p U p e r that his throat i-^ they Jogged across the Open. In the j p m p ;1I1) | t ],. lt i^. | ia s dillicult.v in edge of the first timber they pulled pn^thing. WA*I1. Lord, tliou kimwost up und looked backward at- the cabin ! I ’ar.liit WeMt^rn-Mal1y drowsing silently under its sentinel tree. Roaring Bill reached out one arm and laid it across Hazel’s shoul ders. -* “Little person," he said soberly, “here’s th»i> end of one trail, nnd the beginning of another—the longest trail either of us has ever faced. How does it look to you?” , She caught his fingers with a quick, hard pressure. * "All trails look alike to me," she said, with shining eyes, “just, so we frit them together.’’, *' * * * -V • • "What day of the month is this. Bill?” Hazel asked. — Strength Gave Out Mrs. Schmitt Was Miserable From Kidney Trouble Until Doan's Came to Her Assistance. Now Well. change Schhntt kidneys gavt> out. during the el Iil~."~ Kl,V - Mi - M ugau tlia ;\lab inn \ v - . Hreok- V3 lvn. N. Y. as rf-rit were bed, sliarj). work. Bnt she looked .up as, she Ti ea r of-leaving ypti ht'hlnd. So you walked the streets , at the high, ugly walls of brick and steel and stone, and her heart misgave her. At nightfall she went up tu her room and threw herself wearily on the bed She was tired, body and spirit, ami lonely. Her brief Pxperienc^" in Cari boo Meadows bad not led bet* to look can .consider that settled/* Loralne Marsh declared at last. “W’e’re golhg day after tomorrow. So is Mr. Bar- row.” - . Jack ^walked with her oat to the Laitysmiith, and, among other things, told her how he happened to be in the coast city. J \ CHAPTER IX. J An Ending and. a Beginning. Cmonsn iuusl.v, by natunil assimila tion. so to speak. Hazel Weir "had ab sorbed more woodcraft than she real ized in her over-winter stay In the high latitudes. Jllll Wagstaff had once told her that few. people know just you again, unlosS bv accident,”"he said honestly. “And I’ve been crying the hurt of it to the stars all the way hack from the" eodst. ’ I only got hore yes terday. I pretty near passed up com ing hack at- all. I didn’t see how I could stay, with everything Ito remind me af you. Say, hut it looked liken lonesome hole. I used to love thi,s place—hut I didn’t love it last night. It seemed about tip* most eheerless nnd depressing, -spot I could have picked. I think I should have ended up by-touching a match to the whole business and hitting the - trail to some new country. I don’t know. I’m wot weak. But I dpn’t think I could have stayed -here long." They stood silent in the doorway for j a long-interval. Bill holding her close ! to Min. and she blissfully contented, 'careless and unthinking ofrilie-future, so filled was she with joy of the pres-' ent. V “Do you love me much, little per son?" Bill asked, after a little. She nodded Rigorous assent. , ’ “Why?" he-desired to know. L “Oh. just because—because you're a man. I suppose," she returned mischie vously. "The world’s chuck-fjull of men," Bill observed?"" . . "Surely.” she looked up at Mm. “Bi\t they’re not like you. Maybe it’s bad policy to start In flattering you. hut there aren’t many men of your type. Billy-hoy; big and strong and capable, and at „the.same time kind ami patient, and able to understand things, things a woman can’t always put into words. Last'fHll you hurt myjiridV and nearly scared-ine to death by carrying uie. off in that lawless, headlong fashion of yours.’ But you seemed to know* just how I felt about Jt T and yoq playtal fairer than apy man I ever., knew would have done under the sit me cir cumstances. I didn’t realize it until I got hack into the civilized world. And then all at once I found niyself longing for you-ramf for these old forests nnd the mountains and all. So I came ttmek” . • “Wise girl,” he kissed her. "You’ll never be sorry, I hdfo*. It took wyne nervfc. t<x>. Iris.a long trail from her? W the outside. But this north coun try—if pets in .your blood—if yotir brood’s red—aad X don’t* thiak ’here’s lost his mate. Bill told her. Far off in • rlie bush a fox harked. The evening flight "of the wild ducks’from Crooked lake to a chain of swamps passed In termittently over the clearing with a J sibilant whistle of wings. To all tho wild things, no less than to the two w ho watched and listened to the forest traffic, it" was a land of peace^.and plenty. ------ :* "We ought To go up to the swamps tomorrow* ahd rustle some-duck eggs,” Bill observed irrelevantly—his eyes fol lowing the arrow flight of a mallard flock.— But his wife wai counting aq- dililv. checking the days off on her fingers. ''*** - Hn. Sch.nitt M> L...-k •hvl alii pilliicd hrokfii. W lira 1 mxvol in diilting caught lue an • -- niy , ivl 1 t\rtn. M‘>ri*mi.’*‘ 1 ivv ^tiff fill -wte aid it frit as ’if Ihm' *weiiiht# wi re tie 1 ti - 'We. J so worn out 1 oftiu camp near' fall ing from dizziness .and fla-lH»s <.f fire would com*' before my eye-, blinding ine. "’1 had the,, jjt° st von * hi-Vdac'hes a ml mv kidneys didn’t act regularly. The sri rt et ion- passed too .often a n«l ca Ustl 1 much d 1-tress. I vi .is hardlv al >lc to' d. • m> hou -evvork and just to walk ups ta irs took all-mv Vtrc ngl h. ‘.‘As soon a« I began taking DQdn'S Kirlney Pills, I improved- and • six boxes jme in better health - than I ■bad enjoyed for years;’V/ M rs,- Schmitt gave (he f*-pegoin>j st'.itea'ient in 10 H> nnd 1 on YpTH fi. 1917? she said. “Mv eure has been permanent. I keep Dnnn's on hand, however, and take, a few doses 6cca- sion.illv/^ — ■ Get Doan’s at Any Store, 60c n Boi DOAN’S “p 1 ,™" FOSTER-MILQURN CO., BUFFALO. N. Y. “Roaring Bill” and Hazel, start on a long trip into the mountains in search -of gol4. 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