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Show fir rv llP J TJnn&lFie Slry cFN Certain Tvrsons ) U Ufo Urank out and CqthjuctcJ "1 ( A RoTToanocYof, CoTqrsllo lXpy ( Cyrqs To u mend xPrfl3y . 33F Utftttr Man?arijy and -. . . s Sr-v. the W0uayrf" A Spr " wv. jwfjsfi-1 . " V - ''-t-J Uuitfvtfos V ejlaiJor tH 'Youth? t-ryrjfV it fry1 V.O.CIiihmiii v t l polled to spend (he night alone la thai rsbln, sh felt that ihe could not endure en-dure u. Bbe was never gladder ol anything In her life than when eh saw him suddenly break out of the wooda and Hart up the steep trail and for a moment her gladness til not tempered by the fact which ihe waa presently to realize with great dismay, that aa be bad gone, so hi now returned, alone. CHAPTER XIII. The Castaway! of the Mountains. The man wss evidently seeking ber, for so soon ss be caught sight of bei he broke Into a run and came bound Ing up the steep ascent with the speed snd agility of a chamois or a mountain sheep. As be approached the girl rose to ber feet and supported berseU lakelet was rimmed with Ice on the shaded side. This enchanting little body of water was fed by the melting snow from the crest and peaks, which In the clear, pure sunshine and rarl-fled rarl-fled air of the mountains seemed to rise and confront her within a stone's throw of the place where she stood. On one fide of the pretty lake In the valley, or pocket, beneath, there was a little grassy clearing, and there the dweller In the wilderness bad built a rude corral for the burros. On a rough bench by tbe side of the door she saw the primitive conveniences to which be bad alluded. The water was delightfully soft and as It bod stood exposed to the sun's direct rays for some time, although the air was exceedingly crlxp and cold, It was tempered sufficiently tov be merely cool and agreeable. She luxuriated la It for a few moments, and while she had her face burled In the towel, rough, course, but clean. beard a step. 8ho looked " - in time to see Lh mail lay down upon the bench a small mirror and a clean comb. lie said nothing as be did so, and she had no opportunity to thank hltn before be was gone. The thotiKhtfulness of the act affected her strsngely, and site was very glad of a chance to unbrald ber hair, comb It out and plait It again. She had not a hair pin left, of course, and all the could do with it was to replalt It and let It bang upon her shoulders. Her coiffure would have looked very strange to civilization, but out there In tlio mountains, It was eminently em-inently appropriate. Without noticing details, the man felt the general effect as sho limped bnck Into the room toward the table. Her breakfast was ready for her. It was a coarse fare, bacon, a baked potato, po-tato, hard tack cr.sped before the Are, coffee, black and strong, with augur, but no cream. The dishes matched the fare, too, yet she noticed that the fork was of silver, and by her plate there was a napkin, rough dried, but of fine linen. The man had Just set the table when she appeared. "I am sorry I have no cream," he said, and then, before she could make comment or reply, be turjied and walked out of the room, his purpose evidently belrg not to embarrass ber by bis presence while she ate. Enid Maltland had grown to relish the camp fare, bringing to it tbe appe- as she would to put It out of ber mfnd. Well.' she was a fairly sensible girl; the matter was passed, It could not be helped now, she would forget It as much as was possible. She would recur to It with mortification later on. but the present was so full of grave problems that there was not any room for tbe past. CHAPTER XII. A Tour of Inspection. The first thing necessary, she decided, de-cided, when she bad satisfied her hunger hun-ger and finished her meal, was to get word of her plight and her resting place to ber uncle and the men of the party, and the next thing was to get away, where she would never see this man again, and perhaps be able to forget for-get what had transpired yet there was a strange pang of pain In her heart at that thought! No man on earth had ever so stimulated stim-ulated her curiosity as tbla one. Who wes be? Why was he there? Who was the woman whoHe picture be bad so quickly taken from ber gaze? Wby had so splendid a man buried himself alone In that wilderness? Those rejections re-jections were presently Interrupted by tbe reappearance of the man himself. him-self. "Have you finished V he asked, unceremoniously un-ceremoniously standing la the doorway door-way ss be spoke. "Yes. thank you. and it was very good Indeed." Dismissing this politeness with a wave of his hand, buttaklug no other notice, be spoke again. "If you w ill tell tue your name" "MRitlund, Enid Maltland." "Miss Maltlcndr The girl nodded. "And where you came from, I will endeavor to find your party and see what can be done to restore you to them." "We were camped down that canon at a place where another brook, a large one, flows Into it. several miles, I should tblnk, below tbe place where" She was golngvto say "where yoV found me," but the thought of the way In which be had found her rushed lover ber again; and this time, with bis glance directly upon ber. although It was as cold and dispassionate and Indifferent as a man's look could well 6YN0P6IS. Entd Maltland, a frank, fro snd unspoiled un-spoiled youns- I'hliadelphta Kirl, la taken to the Colnrmlo niuunlalna by her unrla, Itoherl Maltland. Jnmea Arnialron, Maltland'a proles, full In love with her. His pereljiterit wooing thrills tha irl. but alia healtutea, and Arrmtron sura eaat on bualneaa without a ilettnlte anawer. Knld hear th etory of a mining- anal-leer, anal-leer, Nfwbold, whose wife fell oft a cliff am! waa an eertuuely hurt that ha waa . compelled to alnot her to prevent hr be. In eaten by wolvea while ha went for help. Klrkby, Ihe old guide who lella the aiory, alvea Knid a pHiknae of lettera which he aaya wera found on the dead woman'a body, fcha read, the leitrra and at Klrkbr'a reiueHt krepa lln-m. While bathing- In mountain iirtam Knld la at-trkel at-trkel by a bear, which la mvmerlotialy ahot. A atorm add to th alrl'a terror. A audden ri.-hiKO tranafunn brook Into rasing torrent, whii-h we-pa Knld Into Surge, where he la reariied by a mountain moun-tain hermit after a thrilling enperlem-e, ("ainpera In great confualon upon dlacnv-Ing dlacnv-Ing Knid'a nbaence wh-n the atorm breaka. Maltland and old Klrkby go In aearch of the girl. Knld rtlwovera that her ankla ta aprx'ned and that aha la unable un-able to walk. Her myaterlona reacuer earrlea her to ht camp. Knld goe tu aleep In the atranae nian'a bunk. Miner eooks break fuel for Knld. after which they go on tour of Inxuei'tlon. CHAPTER XI. (Continued). "I will go and cook you some breakfast break-fast while you get yourself reudy. If you have not washed, you'll find a bucket of water and a basin and towel outside the door." He went through the Inner door as suddenly as be had come through the outer one. Ho was a man of few words, and whatever social grace he might once bave possessed, and In more favorable fa-vorable circumstances exhibited, was cot noticeable now. The teudcrness with which he had caressed her tbe eight before had also vanished. Ills bearing had been cool, almot harsh and forbidding, and his manner was as grim as his appearance. The conversation had ben a brief one, and ber opportunity for Itmpectlon of him consequently limited. Yet she bad taken him In. He was a tall, splendid man. No longer young, perhaps, but In the prime of life and vigor. His complexion com-plexion was dark and burned browner by long exposure to sun and wind, winter win-ter and summer. In spite of tbe brown, there was a certain color, a hue of health In his cheeks. His eyes were hazel, sometimes brown, sometimes I ray, and sometimes blue, she afterward after-ward learned. A short thick closely cut beard and mustache covered the lower part of his face dlegulsed but not hiding the squareness of bis Jaw and the firmness of bis lips. He had worn hla cap when he entered, enter-ed, and when he took It off she noticed no-ticed that bis dark balr was tinged with white. He was dressed In a leather leath-er hunting suit, somewhat the worse tor wear, but fitting him In a way to (lve free play to all his muscles. His Movements were swift, energetic and rrtceful. She did not wonder that be tad so easily hurled the bear to one tide and had inanugod to carry her no light weight, Indeed! over what she dimly recognized must bave been a horrible trail, wblcb, burdened as he wss, would bave been Imposaib'e to a man of less splendid vigor than he. Tbe cabin was low ceiled, and as the sat looking up at him, be bad tow-rred tow-rred above her until he seemed to nil it Naturally, she bad scrutinized bis every action, as she had bung on nls every word. Ills swift and somewhat some-what startled movement, bla frowning as be had seized tbe picture on which ihe bad gazed with such interest, roused tbe liveliest surprise and curiosity cu-riosity In her heart Who was this woman? Wby was he 10 quick to remove the picture from ber gaze? Thought rushed tumultously tumult-ously through ber brain, but she realized real-ized at once that she lacked time to ndulg them. She could bear him moving about In the other room. She threw aside the blanket with which ihe bad draped herself, changed the andnge on her foot, drew on the Seavy woolen stocking which, of :ourae, was miles too big for ber, but a-hlch easily took In ber foot and inkle encumbered as they were by the rude, heavy but effective wrapping Thereafter she hobbled to the door snd stood for a moment almost aghast at the splendor and magnificence before be-fore ber. He had built bis cabin on a level sbelf of rock perhaps fifty by a hundred ect In area. It was backed up agalnt an overtowerltjg cliff, otherwise tbe rock ell away In every direction. She divined di-vined that th descent from the shelf nto tbe pocket or valley spread before e,er was tdeer. except off to the t ight, where a somewhat gentler sc- I illvlty of hnge and broken boulders i gave a practicable ascent a sort of t titanic stairs to th plsc rerched t )n th mountain aid. Tbe shelf wss I absolutely bar sav for th cabin i snd a few huge boti'ders. There wer c a few sparse, stunted trees further up t en th mountain sld above; a few t hand red feet beyond them, however, t ram tbe timber line, after wblcb s f there wss nothing but th naked t rock. Pelow several hundred feet lay a s r ear, emerald pool, wboa edges wer I KTderl by pines, where It wss not I W to. trd br tlaS cUSs. Already th ing, to shine and dazzle In his face. As she healtsted In confusion, perhaps comprehending Its cause, he helped out her mute and halting sentence. "I know the canon well," he said. "I think I know the place to which you refer. Is It Just above where the river makes an enormous bend upon Itself?" "Yes. that is it. In that clearing we have been enmped for two weeks. My uncle muet be crazy with anxiety to know what has become of me, and" The man Interposed. "I will go there directly." he said. "It Is now half after ten. That place Is about seven miles or more from her across the range, fifteen or twenty twen-ty by the river. I shall be buck by nightfall. The cabin Is your own." He turned away without another word. "Walt." said the woman. "I am afraid to stay here." She hnd been fearless enough before In those mountains, but ber recent experience ex-perience had somehow unsettled ber nerves. "There Is nothing on earth to hurt you, I think," returned the man. "There Isn't a human being, so far as 1 know, in the mountains." "Except my uncle's patty?" He noddt'd. "but there might be another hear, she added desperately, forcing herself. "Not likely; and they wouldn't come here if there wer any. That's the flrat grizzly I have swnin years," he went on, unconcernedly, studiously looking away from her, not to add to her confusion at th remembrance of that awful episode which would obtrude ob-trude Itself on every occasion. "You can use a rifle or gun?" She nodileJ. Ho stepped over to the wall and took down the Winchester Winches-ter which ho banded her. "This one Is ready for service, and you will find a revolver on the shelf. There Is only one possible way of a cess to this cabin; that's down those rock stairs. On man, one woman, a child, even, with these weapons could hold It against an army." "Couldn't I go with your "On that foot?" Knld pressed her wounded foot upon th ground. It was not so painful when resting, but she found she could not walk a step on it without great suffering. "I might carry you part of the way," sail, the man. "I carried you last night, but It would be Impossible, all of It." "Promise m that you will be back by nightfall, with I'ncle Hob and" "I shall be back by nightfall, but I can't promise that I will bring anybody any-body with me." "You mean?" "You aaw what the cloudburst nearly near-ly did for you," was tbe quick answer. an-swer. "If they did riot get out of that pocket, there Is nothing left of them now." "Hut they must have escaped," persisted per-sisted tbe girl, fighting down her alarm at this blunt statement of possible possi-ble peril. "Hesldes, Uncle Hobcrtand most of the rest were climbing one of the peaks, and" "They will be all right, then: but If I am to find the place and tell them your story, I must go now." He turned, and without another sord or a backward glance, scrsmhled Sown tbe hill. The girl limped to tbe tirlnk of the cliff over which he had plunged and stared after him. Khe watched him as long as she could see .lm, until he wss lost arming the rees. If she bad anybody else to de iend upon, she would certainly have relt differently toward him; when L'nrle Robert, and ber aunt, and the rhlldren, and old Klrkby, and the rest lurrounded ber. she could hate that nan In spite of all he bad dne for ler, but now she stsred after bltn de-ermlnedly de-ermlnedly making bis way down the nountaln and through th trees. It vas with difficulty she could restrain lerself from railing him back. Th silence was most oppressive, b loneliness wss frightful. She had een alone before In those mountains, ut -from choice; now th fact tbst her was no escsp from them mad he sensation a ery different on. She aat down and brooded over ber Ituatlcn until she felt that If she did lot do something and In some way dl-ert dl-ert her thoughts she would break , lown again. He had said that the abin and Its contents were hers. She ' eaolved to lnect them mor cloae- , r. 8b hobbled back into the great ; ootn and looked about her. again, i ber was nothing that demanded , areful scrutiny. Eh wasn t qui i ur whether eh was within the pro- rteU or no', but she seized the old i st and most worn of th volumes on i b sbelf. It was a text book on mln- i ig and metallurgy, she observed, and pnlng It to th By leaf, acroaa th t ag sb aaw written la a firm, vlg- j rous masculine hand a nam. "Wit- am Berkeley NwboJd." and be- t ath ths words. Thayr Hall. Har-rd." Har-rd." and a dat torn va years i . The owner of that book, w hether the present possessor or not, had been a college man. Say that be bad graduated gradu-ated at twenty-one or twenty two, he would he twenty-eight or twenty nine years old now, but If so, wby that whit hair? Perhaps, though, th book did not belong to th man of the rabln. She turned to other books on the shelf. Many of them were technical books, which she had sufficient general gen-eral culture to realize could be only available to a man highly educated, and a special student of mines and mining a mining engineer, she decided, de-cided, with a glnnce at those Instruments Instru-ments and appliances of a scientific character plainly, but of whose actual use she was Ignorant. A rapid Inspection of th other books confirmed her In the conclusion that the man of th mountains was Indeed the owner of the collection. There were a few well worn" volumes of poetry and essays, Shakespeare, a llible, Huron, Marcus Aurcllus, Eplcte-tus, Eplcte-tus, Keats, a small dictionary, a compendious com-pendious encyclopedia, Just the books, she thought, smiling at her conceit, that a man of education and culture would wont to have upon a desert Island Is-land where his supply of literature would be limited. The old ones were autographed as the first book she bad looked in; others, oth-ers, newer additions to the little library, li-brary, If she could Judge, tbelr condition, condi-tion, wer unsigned. Into the corner cupboard and the drawers, of course, she did not look. There was nothing else in th room to attract her attention, save soma plies of manuscript neatly arranged on one of the shelves, each one covered cover-ed with a square of board and kept In place by pieces of glistening quartz. There were four of thi-se plies and another an-other half the size of th flmt four on the table. Thenc, of course, she did not examine, further than to note that the writing was In the same bold, free hand as th signature In the books. If she had been an expert she might bave deduced much from th writing; as It was, sb fancied It was strong, direct, manly. Having completed her Inspection of this room, she openod th door and went Into th other. It was smaller and less Inviting. It had only on window, and a door opened outside. There was a cook stove here, and shelves with cooking utensils and granltewsre, and more rude box receptacles re-ceptacles on tbe walls which were filled fill-ed with a bountiful and well selected store of canned goods and provisions of various kinds. This was evidently evident-ly the kitchen, supply room, china closet. Khe saw no sign of a bed In It, and wond'Ted where and how the man bad snent tbe night. liy rights, her ml ml should have been Oiled with ber undo and his party, end In their slarm she should have shared, but she was so extremely comfortable, except for her foot, which did not greatly trouble ber so long as she kept It quiet, that she felt a certain cer-tain degree of contentment, cot to say happiness. The adventure was ao romantic ro-mantic and thrilling save for those awful moments In the pool especlslly to th soul of a conventional woman who hsd been brought up In tbe most humdrum and stereotyped fashion of the earth's ways, and with never an opportunity for th development of the spirit of romance which all of us exhibited som time la our life, and which, thank (od, some of us never lose, that she found herself revelling In It She lost herself In pleading Imaglna Hons of tales of her adventures that she could tell when she got back to i her uncle, and when ah got further back to staid old Philadelphia. How shocked everybody would b with It all there! Of course, she reaolved I that she would never mention one episode ep-isode of that terrible day, and she bad somehow absolute confidence that thli man. In spit of his grim, gruff tacr turnlty, who had shown himself so ex- I reedtngly considerate of ber feelings. ' would never mention It either. ' She bad so much food for thoucht that not even In the late afternoon of tbe long day could she force her mind ' to the printed rases of th book sh had taken at random from th sbelf which Isy open btfor her, where she ' sat In the sun, her hesd covered by an old "Stetson" that she had ventured ' to appropriate. Sh bad dragged a ' bear skin out on th rocks In th sun I snd sat curled up on It half reclining I igalnst a boulder watching th trail, t Ihe Winchester by her side. She had f-s'en so la'e a brrskfazt that sh hsd 1 mad a rather frugal lunch out of ( whatever bad taken ber fancy In th 1 itor room, and sh was waiting most inxiously now for th return of th nsn. Tb season was late and th sun tank behind th peaks quit early In I b afternoon, and It grew dark and 1 -bill long brfor tb shadows fell upon be dwellers of th lowland. Enid drew th bear skin around ber t md waited with an vr growing ap- e.a.4v If ek amU Ik -. I t ml liilf i : th Watched Him as Long a Sh Could Be Him. In Spit of His Hand Sh Swayed. upon th boulder against which she had been leaning, at the same Urn i tendlng her hand to greet him. "Oh," she cried, her.volc rising nervously as ha drew near, "I am so i,lad you are back, another hour of loneliness and I bellev I should hav gon crazy." Now whether tbst Joy In his return was for him personally or for him abstractly, ab-stractly, he could not tell; whether she was glad that he had com back simply because he wss a human being who would relieve her loneliness or whether ah rejoiced to see him Indl vldually, was a matter not yet to b determined. He hoped the latter, b believed tb fotmef'. At any rate, h caught and held her outstretched hand In the warm clasp of both bis own. Burning words of greeting rushed to bis Hps torrentlally; what he said, however, wss quite commonplace, common-place, as Is often the rase. Word thought and outward speech did not correspond. "It's too cold for you out here, you must go Into th bouse at once," h declared masterfully, and sb obeyed with unwonted meekness. The sun had set and the nlgbt air hsd grown suddenly chill. Still holding hold-ing her hand, thry started toward th cabin a few rods away. Her wounded foot was of little support to her and the excitement had unnerved ber. In spite of his hand she swayed; without a thought he caught her about tb waist and half lifted, half led her to the door. It seemed as natural as It was Inevitable for htm to assist her In this wsy. and In her weakness and bewilderment be-wilderment sh suffered It without comment or resistance. Indeed, ther was such strength and power In hla rm, she w as so secure there, that sh liked it. As for him, his pulse wer hounding at th contact; but for that matter even to look at her Quickened Ms heart beat. TO BE CONTINUED.) Drsinsg of th Zuydsr Zs. A great project Is again before th people of Holland tbe draining of tb Zuyder Zee. Tb sea, which, as every in knows. Is at th north of Holland ind covers an area of to.OQO hectares, 1 hectar being practically two acres ind a half. Just half a century ago a schem to Iraln tb southern portion of tb sa vss first mooted and although It reel re-el red considerable support th oppo-iltlon oppo-iltlon wss greater, but now an asso latlon has been formed and a bill will . Introduced Into tb chsmber. Th romoters see tbst with aa Increased Kipulatlon means muat b takoo ta nlarge th country and this reclama-la reclama-la of th sea Is suggested aa capable if accomplishment If th sea Is eon-luered eon-luered ther ar several lak which aa b dealt with later. Ovrhard. "lieigbot" ssld Dlldad. as Jlmpsoa-erry Jlmpsoa-erry Caibe by la bis motor car. 1 1 lab 1 had a motor car." "Oh. nonseaa. Bill." ald Slathers. What's th as? Yoa coulda't a, ord to ke It" "No." aald Blldad. "hut I could at aM mmii It" Uuawi U'kl it of good health and exertion. Sb sad never eaten anything that tasted 10 good to her as that rude meal tbat nornlng. 7et sh would hav enjoyed h trimming, smoking coffe pot on t better, she thought. If he hsd only ibared It with ber. If sh bad not been om pel led to eat It alone. Sh has-ened has-ened ber meal on that account deter n!tid as soon as sh had finished ber rakfat to seek th man and hav om definite understanding with lira. And. after all, sb reflected that ih was better aloe than la his iresenc. for ther would com ateat-ng ateat-ng Into her thoughts th distressing plsod of tb mom Is. bfor. try b. tb recollection of th meeting ci to which sb bad been about to allud r rushed over her with an accompany I Ing wsv of color which heightened r her beauty a It covered ber with T sbam. ci Sb could not reallz tbat beneath si hi mssk of Indlfferenc ao doliber- pi ateiy worn, th man was as agitata i as she, not ao much at tb rmem- tl branc of anything that bad trans- In pi red. hut at th sight tb splendid ptctur. of tb woman a ah stood pi ther In th littles cabin than. It seam- 01 d to him as If ah gathrd up la 11 ber own person ail tb radlaao and at light and beauty, all th parity and vi freshness and aosaador as the saarw |