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Show ' hf v'. THE RICH COUNTY NEWS, RANDOLPH. UTAH arson ring. Yet It was curious that no word had been heard of him. ' As far as Dan knew, neither the courts nor the forest service had taken ac ' tion. He hurried on, four miles farther. The, trail entered the heavy thickets, and he had to ride slowly. It was as wild a section as could be found on the whole Divide. And just as he came to a little cleared space, three strange, dark birds flung up on wide-spreadi- wings. He knew them ' , CHAPTER 3- i - IV. Snowbird felt very glad of her inti- Bate, accurate knowledge of the whole region of the Divide. In her Infancy the winding trails had been her playground, and long, ago she had acquired the mountaineer's sixth sense Tor traversing them at nightShe had need of that knowledge now. She slipped into her free, swinging stride ; and the last beams from the windows of the house were soon .lost in the pines behind her. It was one of those silent, breathleq nights with which bo mountaineer is entirely unacquainted, and for a long time the only sound She could hear was her owm soft tramp in the pine nteedles. The trees themselves were motionless. That peculiar, sound, not greatly different from that of running water which the wind often makes in the pine tops, Was entirely lacking. Not that she could be deceived by it as stories tell that certain tenderfeet, dying of thirst in the barren hills, have been. But she always liked the sound; and she missed it especially tonight. She felt that if she would stop to listen, there would be many faint sounds in the thickets those little hushed noises that the wild things make to remind of their presence. But she did not in the least care to hear these sounds. They do not tend toward peace of mind on a long walk over the ridges. The wilderness began at once. Whatever influence toward eivjliza-tio- n her fathers house had brought to the wilds chopped off as beneath a blade in the first fringe of pines. This is altogether characteristic of the gon forests. They are much too big and too old to be tamed in any large degree by the presence of one house. No one knew this fact better than Lennox himself who, in a hard winter of four years before, had looked 'out of his window to find the woff pack ranged in a hungry circle about his house. Within two hundred yards after she had passed through her fathers door, she was perfectly aware that the wild was stirring and throbbing with life about her. At first she tried very hard to think of other things. But the attempt wasnt entirely a success. And before she had covered the first of the twelve miles, the sounds that from - the first had been knocking at the door of her con-- , sciousness began to make an entrance. If a person lies still long enough, he can usually hear his heart beating and the flow of his blood in his "arteries. Any sound, no matter how faint, will make itself heard at. last. It was this way with a very peculiar noise that crept up through the silence from the trail behind her. She wouldnt give it any heed at first. But In a very little while indeed, it grew so insistent that she could no longer disregard it. Some living creature was trotting along on the trail behind, keeping approximately the same distance between them. Foregoing any attempt to ignore It, she set her cool- young mind to thinking what manner of beast it might be. ' Its step was' not greatly different from that of a large dog except possibly a ' dog would have made slightly more noise.Yet she couldnt even be sure of this bpsic premise, because this animal, whatever it might be, had at first seemingly moved with utmost caution, but now took less care with Its step than is customary with the wild denizens of the woods. A wolf, for instance, can simply drift when it wishes, and the silence of a cougar is a name. Yet unless her pursuer were a dog, which seemed entirely unlikely It was certainly one of these two. She would have liked wry much to believe the step was that of Old Wolf the bear, suddenly curious as to what this dim light of hers might be ; but she couldnt bring herself to accept the He. Woof, except when wounded or cornered, is the most amiable creature im the Oregon woods, and it would give her almost a sense of security to have him waddling along behind her. The wolves and cougar, remembering the arms of Woof, would net be nearly so curious. ' But unfortunately, the black bear had never done such a thing in the memory of man, and if he had, he would have made six times as much noise. He can go fairly softly when he is stalking, but when he is obliged to trot ns be would be obliged to do to keep g human figure a qihewith cracks twigs like a rolling log. She bad the impression that the animal behind had been passing like nmoke at first, but wasnt taking the trouble to do It now. on the The sound was a soft pat-pobliterated entirely l,,fUsometin)es but always recurring when she began relieve tuut she had only fancied ,.! presence.-- Sometimes a twig, ratn- on I i m cracked beneath .V night-wandere- a heavy foot, and again find again she heard the brush crushing and rustling as something passed through. Sometimes, when the trail was covered with, soft pine needles, it was practically Indistinguishable. The animal was approximately one hundred feet behind. It wasnt a Volf, she thought. The wolves ram in packs this season, and except In winter were more afraid of human beings than any other living creature. It wasnt a lynx litof those curiosity-devoure- d tle felines that will mew all day on a trail and never dare come near. It was mqeh too large for a lynx. The feet fell too solidly. There were no dogs in the mountains to follow at heel; and'she had no desire whatever to meet Shag, the faithful- hybrid that used to be her guardian in the hills. For Shag had gone to his rest several seasons before. Two other possibilities remained. Ope was that this follower was a human being, the other that it was a cougar. Ordinarily a human being is much more potentially dangerous to a woman in the hills at night than a cougar. A cougar is an abject coward and some men are not. But Snowbird felt herself entirely capable of handling any human foes. They would have no advantage over her; they would have no purpose in killing from ambush; and she trusted to her own marksmanship implicitly." While It is an extremely difficult thing to shoot at a cougar leaping from the thicket, a tall man standing on a trail presents an easy target Besides, she had a vague sense of discomfort that if this animal were a cougar, he wasntacting true to form. He was altogether too bold. 'The animal on the trail behind her was taking no care at all to go silently. He was simply along, , - - y; swift-walkin- i. at once. Ail. mountaineers come-tknow them before their days are done. They were the buzzards, the followers of the dead. And what they were doing in the thicket Just beside the trail, Dan did not dare to think. Of course they might be feeding on the body of a deer, mortally wounded by some hunter. He resolved to ride He glanced by without investigating. up. The buzzards were hovering in the sky, evidently waiting for him to pass. Then, mostly to relieve a curious sense of discomfort In his own mind, he stopped his horse and dismounted. The twilight had started to fall, and already flts first grayness had begun to soften the harder lines of forest and hill. And after his first glance at rhe curious white heap beside- - the trail he was extremely glad that It had. But there was no chance to mistake the, thing. The elements and much more terrible agents had each wrought their change, yet there was grisly evidence in plenty to show what had occurred. Dan didnt doubt for an instant but that it was the skeleton of Lndy Hildreth. He forced himself to go nearer. The buzzards were' almost done, and one white bone from the shoulder gave unmistakable evidence of the passage of a bullet. What had happened thereafter, he could only guess. He got back quickly on his horse. He understood, now, why nothing had been heard of the evidence that Landy Hildreth was to turn over to the courts as to the activitiesj of the arson ring. Some one probably Bert Cranston himself had been waiting bn the trail. Others had come thereafter. And his lips set in his resolve to let this murder measure In the debt he had to pay Cranston. The1 Lennox house seemed very silent when, almost an hour later, he turned his horse into the corral. He had rather hoped that Snowbird would be at the door to meet him. The darkness had just fallen, and all the lamps were lighted. He strode into the living room, warming his hands an instant beside the fireplace. The fire needed fuel. It had evidently been neglected for nearly an hour. Then he' called Snowbird. His voice echoed In the silent room, unanswered. He called again, then went to look for her. At the door of the dining room he found the note .that she had left for him. It told, very simply and plainly, that her father lay Injured in his bed, and he was to remain and do what he could for him. She had gone for lelp 4 ' to the ranger station. He leaped' through the rooms to Lennoxs door, then went in on tiptoe. And the first thing he saw When he opened the door was the grizzled mans gray face on the pilloyv.' Youre4 home early, Dan, hefisald. Hovt many did you get? It,- was entirely , characteristic. Shaggy old Woof is too proud 'to howl over the wounds that lay him low, and this gray old bear on the bed haft partaken of his spirit. How Good Lord,! Dan answered. badly are you hurt? Not so bad but that Im sorry that Snowbird has gone drifting twelve miles over the hills for help, . Its dark as pitch. And- It was. Dan could scarcely make out the outline of the somber . ridges against the sky. They talked on, and their subject was whether Pan should remain to take care of Lennox, or whether- he should attempt to overtake Snowbird with the horse. Of course the girl had ordered him to stay. Lennox, on the other hand, said that Dan could not help him in the least, and desired him to follow the girl. Tm not often anxious about her, he said slowly. But It Is a long walk through the wildest part of the Divide. Some way I cant bar accidents tonight'' I dont like to think of her on those mountains alone. And remembering what had lain beside the trail, Dan felt the same. He had heard,- long ago, that any animal that once tasted human flesh loses its fear of men and is never to be trusted again. Some wild animal that still hunted the ridges had, in the last month, done just that thing. He left the room and walked softly to the door. The night lay silent and mysterious over the Divide. He stood listening. The girl had started only an hour before, and it was unnkely that she could have traversed more than two miles of the steep trail in that time. Although the horse ordinarily did not climb a hill more swiftly than a human being, he didnt doubt but that he could overtake her before she went three miles farther. But where lay his duty with the injured man in the house or with the daughter on her errand of mercy" in the darkness? Then the matter was decided for him. So faint that it only whispered at the dim, outer frontiers of hearing, a sound came pricking through the darkness. Only his months of listening to the faint sounds of the forest, and the incredible silence of the night enabled him to hear it at ail But he knew what Jt was, the report of a pistol'. Snowbird had met an enemy in the darkness. (TO BE CONTINUED.) - - PREVENT DISEASE OF at his ease. He acted as If the fear that men have instilled in his breed was somehow missing. And that is why she instinctively tried to hurry on the trail. ' Thestep kept pace. For a long mile, up a barren ridge, she beard every step it made. Then, as the brush closed deeper around her, she couldnt hear It at all. She hurried on, straining to the silence. No, the sound was stopped. Could it be that the animal, fearful at last,, had turned from her trail? And then for the first time a gasp' that was not greatly different from a despairing sob caught at her throat. She heard the steps again, and they were in the thickets just beside her. wholly - Two hours before Snowbird had left the house, on her long tramp to the ranger station, Dan had started home. He hadn't shot until sunset, as he had planned. , He rode one of Lennoxs the only piece of horse-flesthat Bill had not taken to the valleys when he had driven down the live stock. She was a pretty bay, a spirmare that could whip ited, high-bre- d about on her hind legs at the touch of the rein on her neck. She made good time along the trail. 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