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Show f" " r 11 hi in- - miii -11 mi ii i 1 ii ji liui m nm t', S - - I m est felW Haw i me 0)afec;Cd4ge A Vbo trarc ctit and CcnqttcrcJ 7 lrJ2y ICyruiy TsHlHSIia "U Author . '.-TW Better Mah fcart and "'S Xv. f.V. to fftwayV A3 Tj aA . ; about him and be onco more a man and a master among men, rather tlmn the hermit and the recluae of tbe solitudes. soli-tudes. He did not allow these thought! to come Into hit life; indeed, it In quite likely that he scarcely realized them at all yet; such possibilities did Dot present themselves to blui. Perhaps tho man was a little in ad that morning, morn-ing, maybe be trembled on the verge of a break upward, downward, 1 know not no It bo away unconsciously unconscious-ly as he strode Hong tbe range that morning. He had been talking for some hours, and as he grew thirsty It occurred oc-curred to him to descend to the levol of the brook which be heard below him and of which he sometimes caught a flashing gllmime through the trees. He scrambled down the rocks and found himself In a thick grove of pine. Making bis way slowly and with greut difficulty through the tangle of fallen timber which lay In every direction, di-rection, the sound of a human voice, the lust thing on earth to be expected In (hut wilderness, smote upon tho fearful hollow of his car. Any voice or any word then and (lure would have surprised him, but there was a note of awful terror In tills voice, a sojnd of frightened appeal. ap-peal. Tbe desperation In the cry left him no moment for thought, tbe demand de-mand was for action. The cry was not addrenc-d to him, apparently, but to Cod, yet It was be who answered cent doubtless by thnt Overlooking Power who works In such mysterious ways His wonder to perform! He leaped over the Intervening trees to the edge of the forest where tho rapid waters ran. To tbe right of him rove a huge rock, or cliff, la i shivering In the water, whose sen tlon so far as a mere man could, h thoroughly understood and appreclal cd, and whose modesty he fain wouli nnre, having not forgotten to be i gentleman In five years of his own sc clety high test of quality, that. He climbed out upon the bank, ur rooted a small trco, rolled the bea clour of the heap of woman's clothlni and marched straight ahead of him u the canon and around tbe bend. Thereafter, being a man, he did no faint or fall, but completely unnervet he leaned against the canon wall Jropped his gun at his feet and stone there trembling mightily, sweat be dewing his forehead, and the swea' had not como from his exertions. . It one moment the whole even tenor 01 Ins life was changed. The on glimpse he had got of those white shoulders, that pallid face, that golder head rulsed from the water, had swept him back five years. He had seer once mure In the solitude a woman. Other women he bad seen at a dls tance and avoided In his yearly vlsiti to the settlements. Of course, thes had passed him by remotely, but here he was brought In touch Intimately with humanity. Ho who had taken life hnd saved It. A woman had sent him forth; was a woman to call him back? He cursed himself for his weakness. He shut his eyes and summoned other memories. How Idng be stood there he could not have told. Ho was fighting fight-ing a battle and It seemed to him at last that he triumphed. Presently tho consciousness came to him that perhaps per-haps he had no right to stand tlere Idle; It may be that tho woman needed need-ed him; perhaps she had fainted In tbe water; perhaps. He turned to- i SYNOPSIS. f.nU Multland, frank, free ami (in. polled youny, I'hllad-lphU lrl. In taker to the Colorado mountain by her unele, Knlert MhIUhiiiI. Jmn Armalrocm Mallland'a protK. falls ' love with In" Ilia perllent Wooing llirllln the Kirl. mil ho healliilea, and Annul ron guea 'H! on biiNln-s without a ilrHrnt answer Knld hears lh alory of a itilnln njft-nwr. njft-nwr. New hold. wIiohh wife ft-ll on a illn and was o aerloualy hurt that he ' mnp-llrd lo shoot ht-r lo prevent her inn eaten hy wolv wlitlt he wmt toi hulp Klrkhy, the old ie"lde who lella th lory. ulv-a Knld a piirkaw of Mtrri wluili lie day a were found on the flea" woman body. Hhe rt-mla the lettera ami at Klrkby'a r-)i-t kn-p them. Wbll bathlna; In mountain; aiifttin Knld la at-Urkod at-Urkod by a t-Hr. whlcli la royaturloinly hot. A atorrn adds to tlia alrl's terror, CHAPTER V (Continued). Suddenly the rolling thunder poali eoncentrated, balls of tire leaped oul of the heavens and struck the rnoun tains where she could actually set thrn. There were nut words to dfr crlhe the tretuenitous crashing which seemed to Srtlnler the hills, to be succeeded by brief periods of si lence. to be followed by louder and more terrlllc detonations. , In one of thone appalling alternations alterna-tions from sound to silence she beard a human cry an answering cry to her own? It came Itom the hills he-kind he-kind her. It must proceed, she thought, from the man. She could not meet that man, although she rraved human companionship as never before, une did not want his. She could aot bear It. P.etter tbe wrath of Uod. the fury or the tempest. Heedless of the sharp note of warn tug. or appeal, In tho voice ere It was drowned by another roll of thunder, she plunged on In the darkness. The fanon narrowed here; she made her ay down the ledges, leaping reck-tesiply reck-tesiply from rock to rock, slipping, falling, grazing now mm side, now Hie other, hurling herself forward wltn shite face and brulxed body and torn hands and throbbing heart that would fain burst Its bonds. There was once an-ancient legend, a human creature, menaced by all the furies, pitilessly pursued by every malefic spirit of earth and air; like Mm Ibis sweet young girl, Innocent, lovely, erstwhile sappy, fled before the storm. .Then tbe heavens burst, and the fountain of the great deeps were broken open and with absolute lit- teralness the Hoods descended. The bursting rloDds, torn asunder by the wild winds, driven by the pent-up lightning within their black and turgid breasts, disburdened themselves. The water came down, as It did of old hen God washed the face of tbe world, in a flood. The narrow of the canon was filled ten, twenty, thirty feet In a moment by the cloud burst Tbe black water .rolled and foamed, surging tike tho r'plds at Niagara. Tht body of tho girl, utterly unprepared, unpre-pared, wa caught up In a moment and flimg like a bolt from a catapult down the seething sea filled with tbe trunks of the trees and the debris of the mountains, tossing about humanly In the wild cnnruslon. Hhe struck out strongly swimming more because of ibe Instinct of life than for any other reason. A helpless atom In the boiling boil-ing flood, growing every minute greater great-er and greater as the angry skies disgorged dis-gorged themselves of their pent up torrents upon her devoied head. ' " CHAPTER VI. Death, Lift and the Resurrection. The man was coming back from one of bis rare visits to the settlements Abesd of blui be drove a train of burros who, well broken to tbelr work, followed with docility tbe wise old leader In the advance. The burros era laden with his supplies for the PI roii hlng winter. The season was late, the mountains would soon be Im-paassble Im-paassble on account of tbe snows. In-1eed In-1eed he rhxio the late season aiwsy for bis buying In order that be might sot be followed, and It wa bis hab- n to buy In different places at different years that his repeated and expected presence at one spot might not arouse suspicion. Intenourse with his fellow nien was confined to this yearly visit to a set-Uement, set-Uement, and even that was of the briefest nature, confined alway to the business In hand Kven when busy la tbe town he pitched a small tent In tbe open on the outskirts and dwelt apart. No men there In those t'ays pried Into tbe buslnesa of other men too cloeely. Curiosity was neither safe nor necessary. If be aroused transient tran-sient Interest or speculation It soon died away. He vanished Into "tbe taoutitala and as be came no more to that place, be wa soon forgotten. Withdrawing from hi fellow men and avoiding their society, this man in nev.'r so satisfied as when alone ta the silent bills. His heart and spirit rot with every step b made away from tbe main traveled road or tbe anre difficult mountain trails. For several day be Journeyed through tb mountains, choosing lb wildest and most Inaccessible part tor bis going. Amid tbe -aaons and yak be threaded hi way with un erring accuracy, ascending higher and hlgl.er until at last he reached the . mountain aerie, the lonely hermitage, 1 where he made bis home. There be reveled In hi Isolation. What bad t been punishment, expiation, had at t last become pleasure. Civilization was bursting through r the hills In every direction, railway J were being pushed hither and thither, the precious metals were being dls- covered at various places and after l them came hourds of men and with 1 them God save the mark women; ! but bis section of the country had ' hitherto been unvlslted even by hunters, hunt-ers, explorers, miners or pleasure seekers. He was glad, as be had i grown to love the spot where he had t made his home, and he bad no wish to . bo forced, like little Joe, to move on, , One a man who loved the strife. , noble or Ignoble, of the madding ( crowd, ho hud grown accustomed to , silence, habituated to solitude. Winter . and summer alike be roamed the mountains, delving Into every forest, exploring every bidden canyon, sur-, sur-, mounting every Inaccessible peak; no storm, no snow, no condlilon of wind i or weather daunted him or stopped bim. He hnd no human companionship companion-ship by which to try bis mettle, but nevertheless over the world of the material which lay about bim bo wa a iiuut-r as bo was a man. lit found some occupation, too, In the following of old Adam's Inheritance; Inherit-ance; during the pleasant month of summer he made such gardoi as he cr.uld. His profession of mining engineer en-gineer gave bim other employment. Hound about him lay treasure Ines-tlmali'e, Ines-tlmali'e, precious metals abounded In the hills. He bad located them, tested, (tnnlyzed, estimated the wiallb that wa bis for tbe taking It wa as valueless val-ueless to hi in as the doubloons and golden guineas were to Selkirk on hi Inland. Yet tho knowledge that It was there gave him an energizing sense of potential power, unconHclously enormously enorm-ously flattering to hi self et fern. Sometimes ho wandered to the extreme ex-treme verge of tho range and on clear days saw far beneath bim the smoke of great cities of the plains, lie could be master among men as he wa a master among mountains, If be choKo. On such occasions bs laughed cynically, scornfully, yet rarely did be ever give way to such emotions. A great and terrible sorrow was upon bim; cherishing a great passion bo had withdrawn himself from the common lot to dwell upon It. From a perverted sensa of expiation, in a madness of grief, horror and despair, be had made himself a prisoner to bis Idea In Ibe desert of the mountain. Pack to bis cabin he would hasten, and there surrounded by bis living memories deathless, yet of tbe dead!, he would recreate the past until dejection de-jection drove bltn abroad on the bill to meet God If not man or woman. Night day, sunshine shadow, heat-cold, storm calm; thee were hi life. Having disburdened his faithful animals ani-mals or their packs and having seen them safely bestowed for the winter In '.be corral he had built near the base of the cliff upon which his rude home was situated, ho took bis rltle one morning for one of those lonely walks across the mountains from which he drew uch comfort because he 'ended the absence of man conduced con-duced to the nearness of God. It wa a doluMon as old nearly a tbe Christian Chris-tian religion. Many bad made themselves them-selves hermit In the past In remorse for sin and for love toward Ood; this man had burled himself In the wilder-lies wilder-lies la part for the first of these causes. In other part for the love of woman. In the days of swift and sudden sud-den change he had been constant to a remembrance, and abiding in his determination de-termination for five wlft moving year. The world for him had topped It progress In one brief moment five year back the rent wa i)ence, What had happened since then out yonder where pop'e were mated he did not know and be did not greatly care. In hi visits to the settlement be asked no questions, be bought no papers, pa-pers, be manifested no Interest In the world; some thing In blui had died In one fell moment, and there had been, as yet. no resurrection. Vet life, hope, and ambition do not die, they are Indeed eternal. Ilesurgam! Life with Its tremendous activities. It awful anxletle. It wearing (train. It rare triumph. It opportunities for achievement, for service; bop with It Illuminations. Its encouragements. encourage-ments. It expectation, ambition with It tlmulu. It force. It power; and greatest of all. love, Itst-lf alone-all alone-all three were latent In him. In touch w ith a woman these had gone. Son e-thlng e-thlng as powerful and as buman must bring them back. It wa against nature that man dowered as he should so Uve to bim elf alone. Borne voice should cry In hi sou! In It cerement of futile remorse, re-morse, vain expiation and brnumMng recollection; om day be should burst these grave clothe self-wound i- to him. He wa prepared to wltl draw Instantly should circumstance : warrant, and he wa careful so to cot J ceal himself a to give no possible or porttinlty for her to discover hi i- scrutiny. With a beating heart and euge " eye be searched the pot There la; r the bear and a little distance awa; prone on the grass, clothed but wheth ' er In her right mind or not he couli not tell, lay tbe woman. For a mornen 1 aS he bent a concentrated, eager gazi 1 upon her he thought she might havi fainted or that she might have died ' In any event he reflected that she hat strength and nerve nnd will to havi ' dressed herself before either of thes ' things hnppened. She lay motlonlesi r under his gaze for so long that b ' finally made up hi mind that com ! mon humanity required aim to go t ' her assistance. He rose to hi feet on the Instant ' and saw the woman also lift bersell from the grass as If moved by a slml lar ImpulKe. In hi Intense preoccu pat Ion he had forgot to observe the sign of the times. A sense of the overcast sky came to him suddenly ai It did to ber. but with a difference He knew what wa about to happen hi experience told bim much more as to tbe awful potentialities of the tempest than she could possibly Imag fne She must be warned at once, she must leave the canon and get up on tho higher ground without delay, Ills duty was plain and yet be did It not. He could not. Tbe pressu-e upon him wn not yet strong enough. A half dozen time a he watched her deliberately sitting there eating, he opened hi mouth to cry to her, yet he could not bring himself to It A strange timidity oppressed him; lyltcd him. held him back. A man cannot stay away five years from men and women and be himself with them In the twinkling of an eye. And when to that Instinctive and acquired reluctance reluc-tance against which be struggled In vain, he added the assurance that whatever his message be would be unwelcome on account of what had gone before; he could not force himself him-self to go to her or even to call to her, not yet. He would keep her under un-der surveillance, however, and If the worst came he could Intervene In time to rescue her. He counted without his cost, hi usual Judgment bewildered. bewil-dered. So he followed her through the tree and down tne bank. Now he wa so engrossed In her and so agitated that bis caution slept, lils experience wa forgotten. The storm In his own breast wa so great that It overshadowed the storm brewing brew-ing above. Her way was easier than bis and he bad fallen some distance behind when suddenly there rushed upon him the fact that a frightful and unlooked for cloudburst was about to occur above their head. A lightning flash and a thunder clap at last arrested ar-rested hi attention. Then, but not until then, he frung everything to the wind and amid the sullen and almost continuous pen I of thunder he sent cry after cry toward her which were lost In the tremendolia diapason of sound that echoed and re-echoed through the rift of the mountain. "Wait," he cried again and again. "Come up higher. Get out of th canon. You'll be drowned." Hut he had waited too long. The storm had developed too i ipldly; she wa too far ahead of and beneath him. Sne heard nothing but the ound of a voice, shrill, menacing, fraught with terror for her, not a word distinguishable; distinguish-able; scarcely to her disturbed soul even a hun.an vole. It seemed like the wjerd cry of some wild spirit of the storm. It sounded to her overwrought over-wrought nerve so utterly Inhuman that she only ran tbe faster. Tbe canon swerved and then 'doubled 'dou-bled back, but he knew It direction, losing sight of her for the moment be plunged straight ahead through the trees, cutting off the bend, leaping with superhuman agility and strength over rock and log until he reached u point where the rift narrowed between be-tween two wall and ran deeply. There snd then the heaven opened and the Hood came and beat Into the open maw of that vast crevice and filled It ln an Instant. A the deluge came roaring down, bearing onward the sweeping and scouring of the mountains, he caught a glimpse of ber white desperate face rising, falling, now disappearing, now coming Into view again, In the foamy midst of the torrent He ran to the cliff bank ai d throwing aside bis gun he scrambled down the wall to a certain cer-tain shelf of the rock over which th rising water broke thinly. Ordinarily It was twenty feet above the creek bod. Praclrg himself against a Jagzed projection he waited praying The canon was here o narrow that he could have leaped to the otb"r side nd yit It was too narrow for him to reach ber If the water did r.ot sweep her toward b'.s fet. It was a;i done In a second ForiuLatcly a r'oJftloo on tbe other !Je tbr Uir force of the i- torrent toward him and with It cam the woman. i- She wa almoat spent She bad been truek by a log upheaved by some mighty wave, her hand wer moving feebly, her eye were closed, r she was 'rownlng, dying, but Indomlt-ir Indomlt-ir ably battling on. He stooped down f and a a aurge lifted her, be threw - hi arm around her waist and then b 1 braced himself against the rock to t sustain tbe full thrust of the mighty 9 flood. As he seized her she gave way i suddenly, a If after having done all . thnt she could there was now nothing I left but to trust herself to hi band i and God's. She hung a dead weight on hi arm In the ravening water i which dragged and tore at ber madly. He wa a man of giant strength, - but the struggle bade fair to be too much even for him. It seemed a If the mountain behind bim wa giving way. He set hi teeth, he tried de-f de-f perately to hold on, he thrust out hi . right hand, holding her with the oth-. oth-. er one, and clawed at the dripping i rock In vain.' In a moment the tor-, tor-, rent mastered bim and when It did so , It seized him with fury and threw bim like a stone from a sling Into the seething vortex of tho mid stream. ) Hut In all this he did not, or would , not, release her. Such was the swiftness of the motion! mo-tion! with which they were wept downward that he tvad little need to wlm, hU only effort wa to keep hi head above water and to keep from being dashed against the log that tumbled end over end or whirled1 sideways, or were Jammed Into clusters clus-ters only to burst out on every band. He struggled furiously to keep himself him-self from being overwhelmed In th seething madness, and what wa harder, to keep tbe lifeless woman In his arms from being stricken or wrenched away. He knew that below the narrow where the canon widened the water would subside, the awful fury of the rain would presently cease. If he could steer clear of tbe rock in the broad he might win to land with ber. The chances against him were thousand thou-sand to nothing. Dut what are chance In the eye of God! Tbe man In hi solitude had not forgotten to pray, his bablt stood bim In good J tead now. He petitioned shortly, 'j brokenly. In brief unspoken words a , he battled through tbe long dragging seconds. Fighting, clinging, truggllng. praying, pray-ing, he was swept on. Heavier and heavier the woman dragged In an unconscious un-conscious heap. It would have been easier for him If he had let her go; . he would never know and be could then escape. The Idea never once occurred oc-curred to him. He had indeed withdrawn with-drawn from hi kind, but when one depended upon him all the old appeal of weak humanity awoke quick response re-sponse in the bosom of the strong. He would die with the stranger rather rath-er than yield ber to tbe torrent or admit himself beaten and give op tbe fight. So the conscious and tbe unconscious un-conscious struggled through the narrow nar-row of the canon. Presently with tbe rush and burl of a bullet from the nioutb of a gun. they found themselves In a ahallow lake through wblch the water still ruBhed mightily, breaking over rocks, tigging away shallow-rooted treea, leaping, biting, Snarling, tearing at the big wall spread away on either tide. He had husbanded some of hi strength for this final effort, this last chance of escape. Delow them at the other end of this open th wall came together again. There the descent wa hrper than before and th water wa-ter ran to the opening wltb racing peed. Once again In the torrent and they would be ewept to death In aplte of all. Shifting hi grasp to the won an hair, now unbound, he held ber with one hand and wam bard wltb the other. The current atlll ran swiftly ' but wltb no gigantic upheaving wave a before. It wa more wy to avoid floating timber and debris, and on one tide where the ground sloped aome-what aome-what gently the quick water flowed more slowly. He struck out desperately desper-ately for It, forcing himself away from tbe main stream Into the shallow and ever dragging the woman. Wa It hour or minute or aecond after that he gained the battl- and neared tbe shore at tho lowest ede? (TO HE CONTINUED.) Dictograph. The dictogrsph consist of a series of sensitive metal plate set In a bard rubber cylinder. In It elemects It I a telephone transmitter magnified, l ied In a business way It enable a man to lt st his desk In bl private office alone and talk off bl correspondence corre-spondence without the tenographer being present The tenogrpher may bt in the next room or on tbe other side of tte building, but she bear th word a distinctly as though h were at hi elbow, and ret then down Ts dlrtorrarh rrorrlsea to be Of g-eat erv!re In detective work. : nd I airs!y telrg tied in thai I re. ;VC - vsC-V-C -' f ' '; " ' - & 53 He Cauaht a Gllmos of Har Whit. Oesocrat Face. front of bim the canon bent sharply lo the north, and beneath bim a few rods away a speck of white gleamed above the water cf a deep and atlll pool that be knew. There wa a woman there! He bad time for but the awlftett glance; he had surmised that tbe volru was not that of a man' voice Instant ly he heard It, and now be was sure. She stood white breast deep In the water wa-ter stating ahead of her. Tbe next second be saw what had alarmed her a Grizzly Hear, tbe largest, fiercest, ; most forbidding speclman be bad ever seen. There were a few of tboee monsters mon-sters still left In the range; be himself him-self had killed several. The woman had not seen him. He was a affent man by !ong bablt, accustomed ac-customed to saying nothing, be said nothii.g now. Hut Instantly aiming froi the hip with a wondrous skll1 and a perfect mastery of tbe weapon, and Indeed It was a short range for so bunt; a target, be pumped bullet after bullet from bis Winchester Into the evil monarch of the mountains. The firt shot did for him, but msk-Ir.g msk-Ir.g assurance double and treble sure, he fired again and again. Satisfied at last that the bear was dead, and observing ob-serving thM he had falieo upon tre clothes of lb bather, h turned, dt cended the stream for a few yards until be came to a place where It was easily fordable, steppd ihroegh It without a g'.aic toward t'e woman ward the bend which concealed him from her and then he stopped. Had be any right to Intrude upon ber privacy? He must of necessity be an unwelcome visitor to her; he had aur-prised aur-prised her at a frightful disadvantage, he knew Instinctively, although the fault was none of his, although be had saved ber life thereby, that she would bold him and him alone responsible re-sponsible for tbe outrsge to her modesty, mod-esty, and although he had seen little at first glance and had resolutely kept hi eye away, the mere consciousness conscious-ness of her absolute helplessness appealed ap-pealed to him to what was best and noblest in him. too. He must go to her; yet tay. be might not yet be clothed. In which event. Hut no. he muni be dressed, or dead, by this time, and In either case he would have a du'y to dlscharse. It devolved uren bim to make sure of her safety; he web In a certain sense responsible for It. until !ie got bark to her friends, wherever they might be; but be terimdd himself that otherwise be did not want to see ber agla. that he did rot wish to know snytblrg sboiit her future; that he did not care whether It was well or III i:th her; and It was only s'ern obligation which drove bim toward her oh. fund an1 foolish man! He cop.prrrid with hlnnelf at last by climbing the r'dge that had shut oft a vlw of the rxl. and look-lij look-lij - down at the place cemorabi |