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Show t SOUTH CACHE COURIER. HYRUM, UTAH Sr 4 i ke Hie i 1 Pads fi dto By EDISON MARSHALL I mnwiwwwwwinvwi FirwwtminiinwnwmmwfwMW Copyright by Little. Continued, self-gaine- Brown & Co. 1920, CHAPTER III later they heard Cranstons laughter er really cared much about living beas he vanished around the turn of the fore. Ill try now, and youll tee- Is extremely doubtful if a plainsman would have possessed this knowledge. But a plainsman has not the knowledge of life itself that the mountaineer has, simply because he does not see it in the raw. And lie has not half the intimate knowledge of death, on absolute requisite of The mountaineer knows life in its simple phases with little tradition or convention to blur the vision. Death is a very intimate acquaintance that may be met-iany snowdrift, on any rocky trail ; and these conditions are very deadty to any delusions that he has in regard to himself. lie acquires an ability to see just where he stands, and of course that means n. - This quality had something to do with the remarkable record that the mountain men, such as that magnificent warrior from Tennessee, made In the late war. Cranston knew exactly what Snowbird would do. Although of a higher order, she was a mountain creature, even as himself. She meant exactly what she said. If he hadnt climbed from Dans prone body, she would have shot quickly and very straight. If he tried to attack either of them now, her finger would press back before he could blink an eye, and she wouldnt weep any hysterical tears over his dead body. If he kept his distance, she wouldnt shoot at all. He meant to keep his distance. But be did know that he could insult her without danger to himself. And by now ills lips had acquired their old curl of scorn. Ill go, Snowbird," he said. Ill leave you with your sissy. But I guess you saw what I did to him in two minutes. "1 saw. But you must remember hes sick. Now go. If hes sick, let him stay in bed and have a wet nurse. Maybe you can be that. The lids drooped halfway over her gray eyes, and the slim finger curled more tightly about the trigger. Oh, I wish I could shoot you, Bert she said. She didnt whisper it, or hiss it, or hurl it, or do any of the things most people are supposed to do In moments of violent emotion. She simply said It, and her meaning was all the clearer. But you cant. And Ill pound that milk-soof yours to a jelly every time I see him. Id think. Snowbird, that youd want a man. He started up the trail; and then she did a strange thing. Hes more of a man than you are, right new, Bert, she told him. Hell prove it some day. Then her arm went about Dans neck and lifted his head upon her breast; and in Cranstons plain sight, she bent 'and kissed him, softly, on the lips. Cranstons answer was an oath. It dripped from his lips, more poisonous, more malicious than the venom of a snake. His features seemed to tighten, the dark lips drew away from his teeth. No words could have made him such an effective answer as this little action of hers. And as he turned up the "trail, he called down to her a name that most dreadful epithet that foul tongues have always used to women held in greatest scorn. Dan struggled in her .grins. The kiss on his lips, the instapt before, had not called him out of his halfconsciousness. It had scarcely seemed real, rather just an incident in a blissful dream. But the word called down the trail shot out clear and vivid from the silence, just as a physicians face will often leap from the darkness after the anesthesia. Something infinitely warm and tender was holding him, pressing him back against a holy place that throbbed and gave him life and strength; but he knew that Ibis word had to be answered. And only actions, not other words, could bp its payment. All the voices of his body called to him to lie still, but the voices of the spirit, those higher, nobler promptings from which no man, to the glory of the breed from which he sprung, can ever quite escape, were stronger yet. He tugged upward, straining. But he didnt even have the strength to break the hold that the soft arm had about his neck. Oh, if I could only pull the trigIf I could she was crying. ger only kill him Let me, he pleaded. Give me the pistol. Ill kill him And he would. There was no flinching in the gray eyes that looked up to her. She leaned forward, as if to put the weapon In his hands, but at once drew it back. And then a single Bob cauvht at her throat An Instant trail. For long minutes the two of them were still. The girl still held the mans head upon her breast. The pistol had fallen In the pine, needles, and her nervous hand plucked strangely at the leaves of a mountain flower. To Dans eyes, there was something trancelike, a hint of paralysis and insensibility about her posture. lie had never seen her eyes like this. The light that he had always beheld in them had vanished. Their utter darkness startled him. He sat up straight, and her arm that had been about his neck felt at her side. He took her hand firmly in his, and their eyes met. We must go home, Snowbird, he told her simply. Im not so badly hurt but that I can make it. She nodded; but otherwise scarcely seemed to hear. Her eyes still flowed with darkness. And then, before his own eyes, their dark pupils began to contract. The hand he held filled and throbbed with life, and the fingers closed around his. She leaned toward him. Listen, You heard Dan, she said quickly. the last thing didnt you that he said? I couldnt help but hear, Snow- bird. Her other handsought for his. Then if you heard payment must be made. You see what I mean, Dan. Maybe you cant see, knowing the girls that live on the plains. You were the cause of his saying it, and you must answer It seemer to Dan that some stern code of the hills, unwritten except in the hearts of their children, Inexorable as night, was speaking through her lips. This was no personal thing. In I p 1 water. "And because I had kissed was your fingers, for ever and ever I to your fight only your subject, living In the fights maybe with a dream end to kiss your fingers again. When hillyou bent and kissed me on that same: the was side for him to see It that I was sworn to you, and nothing mattered In my life except the service and love I could give you. And Its more than you ever dream. Snowbird. Its all yours, for your battles and your happiness. The great pines were silent above them, shadowed and dark. Perhaps d they were listening to an age-oland service vows of story, those worth by which the race has struggled upward from the darkness. But I kissed you once before, she reminded him. The voice was the just a whisper, hardly louder than wind. in the leaves the of stir But that kiss didnt count, he told It wasnt at all the same, i her. loved you then, I think, but it didnt mean what it did today. she leaned toward And what on his, does it full her eyes him, mean now? All thats worth while In life, all that matters when everything is said that can be said, and all is done that And it means, please can be done. God, when the debts are paid, that I may have such a kiss again. she told him, Not until then, whispering. Until then, I make oath that I wont even ask it, or receive it if you should give it. It goes too deep, dearest and it means too much. This was their pact. Not until the debts were paid and her word made good would those lips be his again. There was no need for further words. Both of them knew. , In the skies, the gray clouds were gathering swiftly, as always in the mountains. The raindrops were falling one and one, over the forest. The summer was done, and fall had come in earnest. oh. Snowbird, wait and trust me: I understand everything. Its my own fight when you kissed me. and be cried down that word in anger and jealousy, it put the whole thing on me. No one else-ca- n make him answer; no one else has the right Its my honor, no one elses, that stands or falls. He lifted her hand to his lips and d kissed it again and again. And for the first time lie saw the tears gathering in her dark eyes. But you fought here, didnt you, Dan? she asked with painful slowness. You didnt put up your arms or try to run away? I didnt come till he had you done, so I didnt see. She looked at him ns If her whole joy of life hung on his answer. Fought! I would have fought till I died! But that isnt enough. Snowbird. It isnt enough just to fight, in a case like this. A mans got to win! I would have died if you hadnt come. And thats another debt that I have to pay only that debt I owe to you. She nodded slowly. The lives of the mountain men are not saved by their women without incurring obligation. She attempted no barren denials. She made no effort to pretend he had not incurred a tremendous debt when she had come with her pistol. It was an unavoidable fact A life for (TO BE CONTINUED.) a life is the code of the mountains. Two things I must do before I can Beggar" Not In Heorew. ever dare to die, he told her soberly. of the proverbs of the old Jews One One of them Is to pay you ; the other withIs to pay Cranston for the thing he was, Whoever brings up a child steal. to him up snid. Maybe the chance will never out a trade brings come for the first of the two ; only Fll However high a family was in social of the Jews pray that it will. Maybe It would be position, It was thetohabit a trade, as know to teach every boy kinder to you to pray that it wouldnt; it would when see the he day might I yet pray that It will Maybe I can with his labor to him for pay that debt only by being always be necessary to was every It give hands. sought ready, always watching for a chance to save you from any danger, always man the capacity to take care of himno poor trying to protect you. You didnt self, so that there should be come in time to see the fight i made. people in the land. So successfully Besides I lost, and little else mat- was this policy carried out that it has ters. And that debt to you cant be been said that the word beggar does paid until sometime I fight again for not exist in the Hebrew tongue. ! Hear And He gasped from his that, Ireland ! Hear that, Italy you and win. weakness, but went on bravely. "Ill all this sprang, not from climate or never be able to feel at peace, Snow- condition, but from the application of bird, until Im tested In the fire before the Mosaic economy to the education your eyes! I want to show you the of the people. Henry Ward Beecher. things Cranston said of me are not true that my courage will stand the Age of the World. The reckoning of time among all natest It wouldnt be the same, perhaps, tions reaches back to practically the with an Eastern girl. Other things same period. Chinese, Indians and matter in the valleys. But I see how Egptians all assume that the earth it is here; that there is only one was 80,000 years old before It could standard for men and by that stand- have assumed the state in whjch it is ard they rise or fall. Things in the now. The oldest book of Chinese anmountains are down to the essen- nals does not commence its historical tials. record from an earlier time than that He the Trojan war. Neither do the of and paused struggled for And I know Indians carry back their historical age strength to continue. what you said to him, he went on. more than 5,000 years. According to as I was, I rememscriptural chronology, in that way of ber every word. Each word just seems reckoning it, whicluappears the most to burn into me, Snowbird, and Ill probable to most historians, almost make every one of them good. You 8.000 years may be added to the Insaid I am a better man than he, and dians computation. sometime it would be proved and its the truth Ancient History. Maybe in a month, maybe in a year. Im not going to die from Ancient history begins with the first this malady of mine now, Snowbird. recorded history and extends to the Ive got too much to live for too fall of the Roman empire, 476 A- D., many debts to pay. In the end, Ill including ail the historical events inprove your words to him. cluded in the Bible. The prehistoric Ills eyes grew earnest, and the hard period Is the period about which nothfire went out of them. Its almost as ing is known, either from the Bible or if you were a queen, a real queen of other sources. It has no limits, and some great kingdom, he told her, scientists, historians and archaeolotremulous with a great awe that was gists give varying opinions as to Its stealingover him, as a mist steals over probable extent 1 Health Comes to you and the children if you have Dr. Pierces Golden Medical Discovery in the house. For and grownfashioned old ups this vegetable is still tonic and blood-makused bv the million bottles every year. It was first used by everybody 50 years ago and is still safe and sane because it contains no alcohol or narcotic. It is made np of Blood root, Oregon Grape root, Queens root, Stone root, Cherry Bark, without alcohol. 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Feeling, however, that an orderly retreat would wreak havoc with the mens morale, the general, in a flash of inspiration, posted this order : Advance at once to the rear and American Leretake Fanchonville. Weekly. gion Where the Ancients Excelled. Elijah was fed by the ravens-Thbeats carrier pigeons, is boasted. he New York Herald. Sure Relief 6 IE Its Bell-an- s Hot water Sure Relief LL-A- WS FOR INDIGESTION I - I Guess YowSaw What some I Did to Him. dim, way, it went back to the basic code of life. People must fight their own fights, The laws up here, she told him. of the courts that the plains people can appeal to are all too far away. Theres no one that can do it, except you. Not my father. My father cant fight your battles here, if your honor is going to stand. Its up to you, Dan. You cant pretend that you didnt hear him. Such as you are, weak and sick to be beaten to a pulp in two minutes, you alone will have to make him answer for it I came to your aid and now you must come to mine. Her fingers no longer clasped his. Strength had come back to him, and his fingers closed down until the blood went out of hers, but she was wholly unconscious of the pain. In reality, she was conscious of nothing except the growing flame in his face. It held her eyes in passionate fascination. His pupils were contracting to little bright dots in the gray Irises. The jaw was sdtting, as she had never seen it be- fore. Do you think, Snowbird, that youd even have to ask me? he demanded. Dont you think I understand? And It wont be in your defense only my own duty. But he is so strong so weak and you are I wont be so weak forever. Z nev- - OF HUMAN BODY routine ones automatically and those requiring judgment being cared for at More Complex and In Greater Har- - the same time through other channels. 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