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'• "1 Page Two THE BARNWELL PEOPLE, BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA. The Free Traders I LOVE YOU SYNOI’SIS. — Aiulertnin. Roy al Canadian Mounted Police B*“r- Keant, la »«*nt to Stony ItaiiKe to aiTfat a mart uaim-d Pally for murder __LLe JH al*<o inatructed to look aft^r Jhu Rath way, reputed head of the "Free Ttadera," illicit li'iudr runnera. At Little Falla he flu da Pelly la credited with ItHvinK found a Kold mine, and la misalnc At the hotel appears a Kiri, obviously out of place In the rnuKli surrounditiKs. A lialf- breed. Pierre, mid a eonipanlon. "Shorty,'" annoy the Kiri. An- dersdn interferes in her b<-half. The pirl acts out for Siston Lake, which is also Anderson's objec tive. He, overtakes her and the two men with whom he had trou ble the night before 1 . She is sus picious of him and the two men are-hostile. Pierre ahd Shorty ride on, Anderson and the Kiri follnwItiK. In the hills the road is blown up. before and behind the two Anderson, with his horse, Is hurled down the moun tain side, senseless. RecoverlrtK consciousness, Anderson finds the Kiri has disappeared, hut he concludes she is alive and prob ably in the power of Pierre and Shorty, on foot he makes his way to Siston Lake. There he* finds his companion of the day tiefore, and Rathway, with a Kiri, Kstelie, a former sweetheart of Anderson's, who had abused his confidence and almost wrecked his life. Rathway strikes Fstelle, and after a fiKht Anderson, with Estelle's help, escapes with the Kiri. Anderson's^ companion's mind Is clouded and she is suf- feritiK with a dislocated knee. Anderson sets the knee and makes the Kiri its comfortable as possible.—He has a broken, rib^ By Victor Rousseau (Copyright by W. G. Chapman.) W.N'U Service. CHAPTER VII—Continued ‘‘Whorp atu 1? What has hap pened?" site asked. Lee stny at once that she had no consciousness of anything that had occurred since the catastrophe, and probably it would lie some time before the memory of that came hack to her. He must protect her against the shock of the realization until she was able to hear it. “Your horse threw you," lie an swered. “You hurt your knee and cut your head. You will have to keep still for awhile, and we shall have to re main here for a few days. Are you in much pain?"- “My head aches, and my knee—yes, it does hurt a little. It isn't broken, is It?" “It was dislocated. I had to set it.” “Oh!" A faint color crept Into her cheeks. There was a little silence. “Are you a doctor, then?" “No, I was Just a humble orderly and stretcher bearer on the western front,” Lee answered. “But you see, it had to be attended to, and so I— well, I did it. After you’ve drunk some tea I’m going to he an orderly again and rehtvjulage your head.” “But my hair—my hair ^ You cut my hair-off!” she exclaimed, putting her hands up to her head. "Was that necessary?” “You were caught by the hair under your horse, and there was danger that it might roll on yon at any moment,” Lee prevaricated. She patted her head again, felt the Jagged locks about her neck, and looked at him with eyes In which a little mirth appeared. "Thank you, Mr. Barber,” site said. "I'm so glad you take it in that way. I was afraid you might lind it dif- ficult to forgive me." ’ “I might, only—well, you see, I’ve been thinking of having it bobbed for some time, only I .never got around to It; I don’t think you made a very ♦ lean job of it, did you?" They- laughed, hut she was'weak, and after she had drunk the tea Lee made fer her, she fell asleep until the l aid dli; uL ...LLa—uideumua,—hv a-hh'b time Lee had completed the shelter over her. * • ' , - H ‘‘Better?’’ la* asked, wlieu she awoke. She nodded. “You dt«>n't look nearly so swimmy now,” she said. “Ahd Tm net In much pain. But will I have to lie here on my back for days?" "As a matter of fact, the sooner you try to walk the better. I’m going to cut a serviceable crutch for you, and you'll be aide to hobble about the camp Just as soon as you feel inclined to." ‘'But you're not hurt, arc'" yon?" asked the girl. '‘Your left arm seems stiff." “I hurt my .side a little, buF it'll la* tjn right in .a few days,"'Lee answered. She wrinkled her forehead. "Do' you know," she said, "I don't quite remember falling. I was riding, you say? Were we both riding? Then where are our horses?” » J "They were badly hurt,” said Lee. "It became necessary to put them out- of their suffering." - The girl was trying hjrd to remem ber. “A had tall, then? How did It happen? A bad fall in tins forest?" “A little distance back. I carried you here. We fell down' a rocky slope.” “Oh!” She remained silent a little, evidently trying to remember. Then she smiled. “You have been wonderfully good to me. You know I trusted you the minute I saw you, and I wasn't the least bit frightened, waking up and finding myself altftfe here In the forest with you.” hope you ,wlll be able to bear the waiting here." said Lee. “We’ll go on Just as soon as it’s possible.” (“But I’m not really In any hurry,” tbe girl answered. It was odd how reewnciled she seemed to be now, and how the future had ceased to trouble tier. “It's sojglorious to be In the woods again, and at tlds time of the year above everything. It's such a long time since I was in the woods be fore. I've been living in a big" city, youw know—nothing hut Mocks of houses and asphalt and stone. I felt tike a prisoner there.” And Lee wondered again at her ac quiescence in this new turn of fate. "Now—may I wash that cut in your head and tie It for you?” “Yes, doctor," sTm* smiled at him. He boiled the bandage, wjashed the cut in ladled wWer, and retied the strlp-hf cotjHin about It. The girl was still too weink to talk very much. But it was tile most wonderful thing that had ever happened to* him, sitting there with her in that'intimate com panionship, forgetting that she had been at odds with him, putting aside all the memories of contlict, forgetting, too, that she was a woman, seeing In tier only a comrade. Af*er awhile Lee made some cakes in ’the ashes of the fire, and cooked some bacon. The girl was able to eat a little, and he felt his appetite re turning. Undoubtedly he had gone through the worst of it. „ Agoin they sat In silence, till the girl said; "Do you know, I have fprgotten your name!" He had not told her, hut ho said, “Lee Anderson.” Anderson was a common enough name in the district, and would convey notldng to her. And ns she seemed still to he fret- ing or puzzling,*Lee laid his hand on hers and said : "You musn't worry. We shall go on Just as soon ns It's possible to.” “That’s Just what I’ve been wonder ing about,” site answered. "It's very ‘Where Am I? What Has Happened?” She Asked. silly of me, but—where is it that we are going?" And, as Lee looked at her in as- onishment, she went on: "It's curious, you know, Mr. Ander son. hut I don't seem exactly to re member where we met, either, or why I left that place*—where was it? That dg city whose name’s slipped 1 my UJ we came to the woods—came hack to the woods, you know," sin* corrected. "And then, who am I? I had my mime on the tip of my tongue a mo ment -ago, and I’ll know soon, I sup- pose, but it's—just now it all seems to be confused, somehow." And then Lee realized that her memory of the past was completely obliterated. CHAPTER VIH While Memory Slept No. the girl had^not completely for- gottetv for It was not exactly a blank to tier. She had a vague recollection of a number of tilings, but everything I appeared to bo shadowy and con fused, and when she tried to piece it together, tin* fragments ^slipped out of her grasp. It was in names and places that* the laps* chiefly occurred, including her own identity, and it was this fact that gave Leo cause for meditation. ^ She had lived in tin* forests in child hood, she se< med to recall a visit to them of recent years; at any rate, she had all the-woodcraft of one to .whom the forest was home. She had been educated in a convent, she thought, and had been living for sev eral years in a large city, studying. * She thought she had been studying to he a medical missionary among the Indians. „ - Thus she was not cut off from that association of habits, tastes, nad ex-.i perienees that goes to make the per son a lit yj^&he did not feel that ihe had lost very much, and it was always as If she were upon fhe point of remem bering everything. , Out of this vague, blurred dream she had awakened to find herself in the woods with Lee, without the kaowl- edge of how or why she had come there. It might have been the concussion from tiie fall, hut Lee. after pondering over tiie case, decided that it was much more like a case of shell-shock, and that the Injury to her head had been only a contributing cause. He made her a crutch next morning and by Hie afternoon, she felt well enough to hobble ft few steps about the camp. Tiie accident which had temporarily ungeared her memory, seemed to have wrought a strange, change in her nature. •She was no longer wildly anxious to push on to her destination; she accepted Lee ns a fact in her life, and showed how com pletely she trusted him, despite the Intimacy in which they were both living. He was sure that her memory would suddenly come back to her com pletely. And, memory did come back in dreams, as with shell-shocked pa tients, hut only to vanish with the waking. At night Lee, lying near her beneath another rough shelter oL houghs that tie had made for himself, would hear her tossing and moaning, and occas ionally uttering fragments of unintel ligible sentences. Day merged into day. Lee’s rib was healing well, and tiie girl was begin ning to set her foot to tiie ground. At first she was dependent upon him in nearly everything. He helped, her to take her first steps without tiie crutch, leaning upon his shoulder. They were always together — It was so wonderful a companion ship. It was that comradeship of which Lee had always dreamed. And it was tiie more wonderful, perhaps, because tiie girl's severance from the past gave it a sort of unreality, as if it were a' little piece of paradise which they had snatched for themselves out of the sunt total of human happiness. ' Soon she began to assume charge of the camp and the cooking. And Lee, lying at her feet, listening while she talked, or lying awake at night be neath ids shelter, In the dread of hear ing her moan, came at last to realize that his feeling for her was becoming something more than tiie mere enjoy ment of her companionship. He loved her, he sometimes admit ted to himself; and when a word or glance of his would send the blood mantling into her cheek, he dared to think that his love was returned. And now lie cared no longer whether her memory of tiie past ever came back to her. Almost better to let her live in ignorance of all that had dis tressed her. He began to dread the Inevitable day when remembrance would come to hint out their paradise. Only a little incident would lie needed, some little shock that would knit tiie rav eled ends of memory, and then— Then what would lie before them? ■Another tiling to he apprehended was tiie day so near now, when they must leave their woodland paradise. Autumn had returned wonderfully, hut there was a sharper tang in the air each morning, everything was dead and ice formed every night upon the .pool beneath their little spring. And it seemed now as if Lee’s search for Belly would have to he pro tracted through the winter months. If his inquiries at the mission proved fruitless it would mean returning to Little Falls for a sleigh and dogs. Then there was the matter of the Free Traders.- * Lee would find his hands full soon enough. "Do you know, Lee,” said the girl one day, “I often feel as if I were on tiie very verge of remembering. And when I wake in the morning, just for an instant' I feel a different person, as if I hud remembered. And I am arraul «'! renieniiiering. IJps met. And they looked at each other in all the thrill and glory and surprise of It. It* was all so simple, so incredibly dear and true. "You, woman of mine, without a name, who have come to me out of nowhere because I wanted you! How long have you 'known ?’V 1 - “I've known almost since the begin-- nfng that if you cared as mud) as I do, Lee, you must love me more than I thought it possible to Iove.”_/' He looked at her incredulously, and between them the pale wraith of Es telle floated for Just a moment. He had trusted her. He had vowed never to trust again in any woman. Then it was dissipated in the sun shine of their love. “Do you care enough to trust yourself to itfe and take the chnnct-of what the future may "bring to us?” "I love you enough to trust you alto- get lier, Lee," she answered. ' But there was just the shadow of a little fear In her eyes. “Oh, my dear. I am afraid, awfully afraid of tiie time when—when I remember. Do you know that since I knew I loved you, and thought you cared for me, I have sometimes prayed that I may never remember? I have'been afraid of what may lie lying in wait for us, waiting to overwhelm us, as If It grudged our happiness." “You must not let yourself grow morbid.” But I*ee, too, felt the wings of that shadow of fear beat past him. “There is nobody else?” lie asked. “We shall not find that we have been tricked, like that? It would be unbear able.” “No, no! I'm sure of that, Lee; surer than that I stand here, that 1 have never loved anybody else. I know that so well, Lee; for if there had been, I should have felt It by instinct. however—deep—down within me tiie memory of him lay hurled. No, t is as if re membrance would bring back some thing terrible with it. Who am l?"i* “You are just you," said' Lee, smil- ng. "That's enough for me." “Where did we meet?" "in tiie ntnge." "I was alone? And then, I had an accident and was thrown from my horse? And you. too? It is so strange. I know that I lived in a large city not long ago. and that I was so glad to get back to the woods. But where whs i riding? That's the big. prob lem that we have to solve, isn't, it?" She looked at him earnestly. “Lee," she saiii solemnly, “sometimes I hope I never sldill remember.” She made no plans, leaving every thing to Lee. and nothing w as decided. By the middle of the second week, she could walk fairly .well, her strength had come hack, and the little period- of elysium was drawing to its end. It was inevitable that the problem should lip' faced. For tiie first time site had accom- panieiLI.ee as far as the lake shore. There had been no signs of tiie Free Trailers, and Lee was convinced that they had long since aliandnimri all hope of finding them. It was a won derful evening. There was a haze of Indian summer in tiie November air, there was still a touch of fire in the leaves of birch and maple; the west was iTidinnt with tiie sunset clouds. And, standing there beside her, Lee knew at last—knew for sure that this fove was eternal, and the former love only the/frale shadow that It had chst before , Tt. He ttirned toward her and read the same knowledge in her eyes. “Dear—” he said. He took her In his arms, and she lay there, confident, happy In the knowledge that she was his. She put her arms about his neck and their love isn't like that; It doesn’t lose it- self like that. There is nobody but you—nevpr anybody hut you. •“But what I'm afraid of is timt jNomething else, something terrible may come between us—” "There’s nothing else that could separate us." “If you were engaged?" Lee would no sooner have deliberately stolen an other man’s sweetheart than his wife. To him love was a tiling of eternity. It was either a very young man’s view or a very idealistic one's; yet there are men of'mature minds who hold that doctrine; that was why the af fair of Estelle had broken Ids life. “Suppose I had become engaged to someone I didn't love, Lee?” “You couldn’t. You don’t think"— she felt thrilled by tiie consternation in his voice—“that you—you have,; den rest?’’ “No, I—I'm sure I haven’t. But," she persisted, “I Just felt curioufc to know what We would do, in case." "Oh, then—why, I suppose we'd have to go'to him and tell him that we loved each other, and then, of. course, he would release you,” answered Lee, looking troubled. “Still, we don’t have to think of that possibility, dear, do we!” “Of course not, Lee," she answered. But again lie saw that she knit her brows in perplexity, and lie knew tliut- she w:as thinking, thinking, trying to reunite those ravelled strands of mem ory. "You don’t live in the range, Lee, do you?" asked the girl presently. “No, I live at Manistree. That’s a long distance away. I’ve just come here on business.” “Won’t you tell me what your busi ness is?” Lee hesitated. “Well, it’s secret in a way, though I’m . not under any pledge." His instincts were to tell tier, and yet tiie training of eight years seemed to seal his lips against her. "You see, I’m acting for othprs." “Why, llien of course I wouldn’t ask you to tell me, Lee," she answered. "Only I have a curious sort of feeling that your business may he bound up with me in some way, that peril a ps “Till you return, no matter bo3 long, Lee," she answered simply. "Even If you remembered? matter what you remember?’’ “Even if I should remember. But, p ( , e *’^.(), e note of fear came into her voice again—“when the time < nines that I remember, I want you with me^. , L-tmTlio oppressed sometimes-—" hen . awake in the morning, always. I , seem to have been traveling in my j dreams all night in horrible pla< es, among hateful people. I seem to iH\e some terrible duty laid upon me. something that 1 must carry out, a though It kills me. And then—I awake to you. “But one tiling I know beyond ev erything in tiie world, and that is that there could never have been anyone hut you, Lee, dearest r^nev^r M the whole world. So take me, Lee. and shield me with your love, and be all in this world to me, for I shall ne\er love anyone but you.” “I ll take you to the mission, dear, and when I come back, I shall take you south with me, and you shall for get all your fears," answered Lei*. So they put their troubles aside, and ail the uncertainties of tiie future, and were sublimely happy in their love Yet, happy as lie was, Lee realized that it would, he well for them when lie had placed her in the care of Father McGrath at the mission. Only then would tiie load of anxiety be re moved from him. Thursday, March 26, 1925. How’s Your Liver? Ogretta, N. C—“I contracted ma- Ugretia, o '-; .* mrul fever, while in Oklahoma, and all at once my whole . system began to decline. There seemed to be almost every, thing wrong with me, espe cially indiges tion and bad liv er trouble. I tried several doctors, but none seemed to give me any re- I came back to North hen, I began taking Dr. Medical Discovery, lief. Finally (Carolina. T1 Pierce’s Golden *•**-**•'-—• —*n»vu»ciy, took it about one month, and I have never had chills since. The terrible liver trouble and indigestion which 1 had are gone and I am enjoying good health.”—Walter R. Martin. All dealers. Tablets or liauid. RESINOL Soothinq And He&linq for Rashes and Chafinq CHAPTER IX Joyce Comes Home IT BEATS ALL How Those Old, Creaky, Stiff Joints Limber In tiie middle of the night a wild storm sprang up, bringing with It a driving snow. Its violence blew down their two shelters almost simultane- dehris of- Right Up With Joint-Ease “I don’t think there’s 'much danger attached to it.” But she caught that “imMi" with alarm. "A little danger, lie**? You know, I couldn't bear you being- ex posed to danger. But—what is there beyond the range? Y«ou see. I've been talking to you about tiie range ever since I first heard you speak of it, and yet I don’t really know where we are. It’s curious,* too. because for (lie first week after my illness, I didn't seem to care. Is there a city beyond tiie range?” “No, thank God, all tiie cities lie behind us. Nothing but forest." “But are you going to see someone, meet someone?" r . . “There’s a Moravian mission three or four days’ Journey qway." "Dli, are you going there?" She was still unsatisfied, still looking at him in that wistful way. . . “Yes, I am going to take you there, dear, and leave you in the care of Father McGrath, who is in charge of it,-while I am away. He will take . . ... ... —..v 11 / t la 'L> A good care .of you. He is a fine man, and well known for his worn among the Indians. When the old prtpst died last winter, Father McGrath was sent for,;ail the way from Labrador to take his place. * '“I think,” he added, “that we shall be able to start In three or four days now. We want to be off before the weather changes.” “How long will you be away, Lee?” "Perhaps la week—or longer.” And he wondered, as he spoke, whether It would be a week—or a whole winter. He held her hands and looked into her eyes. “Have you faith enough In me to be willing to wait quietly there even If—If I should be gone for more than a week?” he asked. misly, Involving them In h~ boughs and branches. They made light of their troubles. Lee succeeded in getting some sort of protection up, n’nd the remainder of that night they crouched beneath it, happy, in spite of the snow that piled up all about them. When morning came, they looked out on a white world. It w\)S freez ing hard, and the spring had dwindled to a thread in a basin of ice. I/ee very quickly had a fire burning and tea ready. But It looked as If winter had come to stay. They had had a rude awakening from their para dise. It seemed essential to push on as soon ns possible. In fact, without snowshoes they were likely to find themselves seriously inconvenienced in tiie event of a heavy fal). Lee meant to prosecute his in quiries at tiie mission, and, In case nothing came of these, to go to Little Falls, load up, and then return. “I’m sure I'm well enough to start today, Lee.” said the girl that morn ing, as they discussed tiie situation. "We could start off slowly, you see. and then if it did snow heavily, it would l»e much more of a strain on me later on, without snowshoes, than now, when the traveling is easy, wouldn't it! So we ought to try to get to tiie mission within a day or two.” Lee agreed, and they decided to push on slowly that .day by the trail beside the lake. The mission was near the head of the lake, about two days’ journey away. M ost of the consents of the pack were left behind. Lee had to travel us light as possible; hut fortunately, his rib was fairly set. and tiie tight bandage which he wore around it eliminated serious danger of its breaking again. When they stopped for the noon meal they had several miles to their credit. The girl's knee had given her no trouble, and both were JuMlant. That day they covered a good fifteen miles—almost a short day’s journey. When they camped, the girl said: “Do you know, Leik I am almost certain that I have passedviJiis way before. It all looks somehow familiar to me, and yet somehow as if I’d seen it In a dream. Yon remomlo rock we passed in tiie middle of the stream? Weil, I had a feeling all the time that we should come to it as wj rounded the bend." “And you have no idea whether you ever lived in thi? 4 region or jwt?” he asked. “No, dear. I'm ineUrfed to tiling, though, that I may ImYe done so. Per haps I was at scliMU at that very mis sion you spoke/of. If I was, someone there will be sure to recognize me. 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