Show when also the fall animal she rode on would and He when he had fallen his dead brother back ou the trail and then she sny the boy would inevitably perish Well It jras his life or hers! The decision was forced upon her And perhaps after all it was Just as well to get rid of tbera both and have done like “She Is Gone Then?” SYNOPSIS A foollwh become young tenderfoot fascinated with the bold artful wife of a 'drunken prospector In a western mining town They prepare to elope In a blinding blizzard but are confronted by the maudlin husband He la shot by the wife but the chivalrous boy pnls a note to the body taking the crime upon himself PROLOGUE— Continued The Storm Without The woman's first thought when she stepped outside the door was that at all hazards they must go back The wind almost swept her away only the steadying grasp of the boy better prepared than she for the attack of the storm enabled her to keep her feet Yet the presence of that ghastly thing on the floor which was affecting even her Iron nerve prevented their return Whatever happened they must go on! The door of that shelter was closed to them forever by the dead or dying tenant She realized however that their chances of escaping freezing to death In this mad endeavor were so small as to be practically none Well fate had forced her into this position She would follow the path she had chosen whatever might be at the end of the way was well nigh impossible Speech The boy staggered on past the 'window and she followed until the lee Between of the house was reached a great drift and the wall in a little open space the horses were tied was The boy a natural horseman He had picked out the best two broncos In the camp If any animals could take them to safety these could Not yet chilled by the fierce cold they untied the shivering reluctant terrified horses from the wooden pins driven into the chinks between the log walls of the house to which they had been hitched mounted them and round the their way drift threading started southward on their awful ride They left death behind them — and lo! before and on either death loomed hand Except where the storm was broken drifts had not yet formed by houses The wind was too terrific it swept But the level prairie clean away from the shelter of the house they got of full the force it Although they were thickly clad In wool and fur the pressure of the storm drove their garments against their bodies and soon Ailed them with icy cold There was no help for it no relief from it They had to bear it They could only bend their backs to it and keep on trusting to the endurance of their horses The woman judged that it had been about one in the morning when they tad started The Overland Limited an through the station at three No dorses that lived could have made that IS miles In two hours under those conditions It was more than probable however that the limited would be greatly delayed by the storm and if they kept going steadily they would At any rate be likely to catch they when they reached the station would find food fire and shelter If their horses did not give out It on foot turned adrift were not they it Gasped the Boy the storm and snow and left to plod until they fell and slept and froze and died they would perhaps get in on away More than the boy all experienced these possibilities were present to her She did not pray she could ask nothing of God but she went warily and carefully helping the horse where she could As give over and bewith it She reached fore the boy realized what was happening she caught his hand tore his fingers from the saddle strap and Unthrust him violently backward he prepared unsuspecting could offer no adequate resistance lie reeled and fell supine In a deep and drift She struck the overwhelming horse heavily with the whip that hung from the saddle bow and the animal She knew forward plunged wildly that she was safe unless he should try to shoot her for ho was too weak and too exhausted to catch her The boy’s senses were quickened InAftto Instant action by her conduct er the first moment of surprise he knew at once that she was deliberatehim to die in the snow ly abandoning A hot rush of blood in spite of the cold swept over him He thrust his hand within his coat and dragged out a weapon He raised it and trained it on the woman’s back and for the moment his hand did not tremble Then there rose before him that other he had lived gory figure Though some months on the wild frontier and had seen more than one man killed there be had never been connected even as an with the murder before accessory after the fact and the horror of it was still upon him He lowered the pistol though he could easily have shot her dead Such treachery on the part of a woman would have killed some men not so this boy In that moment he became a man He saw himself a fool he determined that he would not also see himself a coward Clenching his fists and summoning bis strength he followed afoot in the southward woman’s wake He walked — If that be the word for his progress — with his head down and He bis body bent lower and lower took long rests between the steps By and by he fell forward on his face The sensation of delicious rest and drowsiness that swept over him wooed him to lie still and die but there were still sparks and remnants of manhood He shook off his and courage in him desire to sleep at last and strove frantically to rise Finding that he could not he crawled forward on his bands himself and knees slowly working over the snow covered ground round the drifts like a great animal There was no use Humanity could not stand the strain any longer One more movement he made and just as he was about to sink down forever he heard a long deep hollow mournful sound He stopped interested dimly wondering what if could be Whatever it was it meant life of some kind It came from directly In front of him It nerved him to further effort the last vesSummoning a tige of his strength he advanced for her companion he did not little farther He knew what it was now It was these matters very much considHe kept going toward the a locomotive eration He lifted his head and saw lights south to the railroad station because He was divined It that the faintly was to that be done the only thing Another however rode with him if station the train the Overland LimShe would get on it and go not with her Before his eyes was ited! What mattered it? ever present that gory grizzly spec- away! And what of himself? There was tacle of a human form the red blood there was life! He actually rose welling from its breast redder still help to his feet and wavered on By hapfrom the white snow with which he chance the contour of the ground py was surrounded That awful figure had caused the space between him beckoned him on He was younger and the lights to be swept comparafiner better than she He was more It was not now fool than knave she was all knave tively bare of snow difficult he walking yet staggered like Her thoughts went forward to what was before her but his went back- a drunken man Ah! the lights were moving before ward to what was behind his they danced and flickered After a long time it seemed to them The eyes train was going! He broke into that the fierceness of the storm was a reeling run hoarse whispers on his somewhat abated The wind was cerfrozen lips Too late! but the drifts were tainly falling He stumbled and fell across the car steadily rising and their progress tracks dimly conscious of the lights was more difficult every moment for 'the departing train He had Just that cause Their very souls were of and strength enough numb with the awful cold Still they sense enough Some one on went forward slower now and more to cry out as he did so the station platform heard his voice slowly ever How far they had come what time Men came toward him he was lifted It was where they were neither he up and carried into a warm room nor she could tell It seemed to them Something burning yet deliciously reboth that they had been hours on the viving was poured down his throat “The woman!" he gasped out lookThe woman was sure that they way must have compassed the greater part ing up in the faces of the station agent and his helper bending over of the journey when her horse sudhim denly stumbled and fell Her bron“She took the limited not five mincho's matchless endurance had at last utes ago" said the man staring at him been exhailsted by the terrible strug“The train was two hours He lay dying curiously gle of their Journey where he fell and nothing she could and a half late or she’d never have do could get him up again The boy got It” “She’s gone then?” gasped the boy bad stopped of course when her horse “Yes” bad fallen He had dismounted and “Thank God she got away!” he murhelped her to rise He had assisted her vain efforts to get her own played mured as he lapsed Into complete unconsciousness out horse on its feet The two now stood staring at each other in dismay There was good stuff in the boy "You must take my horse” said the He was glad the woman had escaped In spite of all - He did not want anboy at last human being’s life on his hands other The woman nodded With his assistance she climbed slowly and painCHAPTER took the reins fully into the saddle from the boy and started on Her The Loneliness of Mr Gormly companion caught hold of the stirrup To his and leather great surprise George Gormstaggered forward by her side found himself The going was now infinitely ly sometimes feeling harder for the remaining horse The lonely and the oftener so as he grew woman immediately realized that with older Every man who has a natural this almost dead weight plunging liking for women — and what true man through the deep drifts and dragging has not?— yet who has no intimate at the stirrup leather the friendships with or relations to the heavily remaining bronco would soon be ex- other sex is likely to find himself in that state of mind sooner or later hausted She had meant to play fair with Gormly was sufficiently aged he was r him but It could not be And so for although he looked much He was sufficiently a long time the trio plodded on in this younger expehe had dealt with women for way the woman nerving herself to a rienced frightful action as best she could She a straight quarter of a century alhesitated to do it She was reluc- though he had neither loved nor marHe was sufficiently self reried one tant — But oo horse that ever lived could liant he had built up by his own unstand Buch a strain She knew that it aided efforts the greatest retail merwould be a matter of minutes now chandise business of bis day and gen eration He was sufficiently ent— for he had done It alone— to have been above tue ordinary feeling of loneliness Nevertheless he was temlonesome and at this peramentally particular moment desperately so He had drifted Into New York some 25 years before utterly unheralded unnoticed He had begun by filling a small clerkship in a little dry goods store He kept at It until he owned the store and after that a larger store on a better street He had developed a genius for trade and an executive ability in accord until the original little shop had expanded into a building covering a block on the principal thoroughfare of New York city and its owner had become a power In finance — a merchant prince Such was George Gormly He was too a scrupulously honest man He sold good goods without deceit Things were as he represent-ethem He established principles ol In his dealings that accommodation were unique when they were first stituted In New York He made no dishonest dollars His money whs good everywhere because it was untainted He prospered exceedingly one expansion another following of any kind Eschewing speculation and devoting himself strictly to the business he found himself In middle life the head the foot the sole owner of the greatest enterprise of the kind that the world had ever seen This had not been achieved lightly He had brought It about because with absolute singleness of heart he had put every ounce of strength and time and talent which In him amounted to genius at the service of his affairs Time talent and genius do not always produce such results fortune still must be considered In the game OpHe had favored Gormly portunity had succeeded In everything beyond his own or anyone's wildest dreams He might have gone on indefinitely In his mercantile operations without attracting special attention to himself had It not been for one personally fact That momentous happening was his meeting with Miss Haldane It had 'come about In a commonMiss Haldane place way enough deeply Interested In social settlement work and being brought In contact thereby with some of the poorer employees of the great Gormly establishment had concluded to call on the proprietor thereof to see If she could not induce him to make some adequate contribution to the work she had bo much at heart Like every other business man In New York Gormly was overwhelmed by chariH1b business was one table demands He emthing his charity another ployed a special secretary to look aft er the eleemosynary end of his affairs There were two reasons why the secretary felt himself unequal to deal with Miss Haldane and her demands The first reason was Miss Haldane herself She was a member of the oldest and most exclusive circle In New York society Her family was one of the richest and most esteemed in that hive of and other peo- ple The second was the magnitude of Miss Haldane's demand She wantdollars ed something like a million This amount appalled the secretary She realize that a man like Gormly Indeed most men If they had the power would much rather give a million than a dime to an undertaking that Still Gormly havappealed to them ing devoted hlB attention so exclusiveheretofore was ly to his business rather staggered by the magnitude of the amount He would have been more staggered by it had he been less so by Miss Haldane herself Thou Miss Haldane had beauty sands of people — women that is and She had some few men — have that more she had presence and personHundreds of men and some ality few women have these Those who have all three In either sex are rare and come to view infreWhether it was Miss Halquently dane’s undoubted beauty or Miss Haldane’s exquisite breeding and manner or Miss Haldane's force of character and determination that most imor whether his instant him pressed was due to the Influence subjugation of all three Gormly could not tell as He was given to By analyzlonely people usually are ing himself he learned to analyze others Introspection and observation had been great factors In his success Here again his experience was at fault for Miss Haldane defied analysis as the of a breath of summer compounded thousand balmy scents cannot be resolved into Its elements save by the to Its hard scientist who is Insensible fragrance (TO BE CONTINUED) The Wonder About Us Let not care and humdrum deaden us to the wonders and mysteries amid which we live nor to the splendors We need not translate aud glories ourselves In Imagination to some other sphere or state of being to find the marvelous the divine the 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