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Show Wf c' irViiBw - -- ,. w' WW ' vef v THE RICH COUNTY NEWS, RANDOLPH, UTAH Ha Viice f te Why Castoria? IPads By EDISON MARSHALL I ' SAAMAMdUkA4k4 I. imiias Copyright, CHAPTER II Continued. 21 j Father and I are to stay here? What elsecan you do? He went back to his traces and drew the sled 100 yards farther. He didnt seem to see the gaunt wolf that backed off Into the shadows as he approached. He refused to notice that the pack seemed to be steadily growing bolder. Human hunters usually had guns that could blast and destroy from a dis-- , tance ; but even an animal Intelligence could perceive that these three seemed to be without this means of Inflicting death. A wolf is ever so much more intelligent than a crow yet a crow shows little fear of an unarmed man and is wholly unapproachable by a boy with a gun. The uglytruth was simply that In their increasing madness and excitement and hunger, they were becoming less and less fearful of these three strange humans with the sled. It was not a good place for a camp. They worked a long time before they cleared a little patch of ground of its snow mantle. Dan cut a number of saplings laboriously with his ax and built a hre with the comparatively dry core of a dead- tree. True, it was feeble and flickering, but as good as could be hoped for, considering the difficulties under which he worked. The dead logs under the snow were soaked with water from the rains and thaws. The green wood that he cut smoked without blazing. No more time to be lost, Dan told Snowbird. It lies in your hands to keep the fire burning. And dont leave the circle of the fire light without that pistol in your hand." You dont mean, she asked, unbelieving, that you are going to go out there to fight Cranston unarmed? Of course. Snowbird. You must keep the pistol. But it means death; thats all it means. What chance would you have against a man with a rifle? And as soon as you get away from this fire, the wolves will tear you to pieces. And what would you and your father do, if I took it? You cant get him into a tree. You cant build a big enough fire to frighten them. Please dont even talk about this matter, Snowbird. My mind's made up. I think the pack will stay here. They usually God knows how know who is helpless and who isnt Maybe with the gun, you will be able to save your lives. Whats the chance of that? You might with one cartridge kill one of the devils; and the others but you know how they devour their own dead. That might break their famine enough so that theyd hold off until I can get back. Thats the prize Im playing for. And what if you doiit get back? He took her hand in one of his, and with the other he caressed, for a single moment, the lovely flesh of her throat The love he had for her spoke from his eyes such speech as no human vision could possibly mistake. Both of them were tingling and breathless with a great sweet wonder. Never let those fangs tear that softness, while you live, he told here gently. Never let that brave old man on the sled go to his death wTith the pack tearing at him. Cheat em, Snowbird 1 Beat 'em the last minute, ifJno other way remains Show em whos boss, after all of all this for- broken, the law has been kept. It was cowardice. Yet he knew he must keep and this way now. It wouldnt have been a tight grip on his him oost haste not of a let the as kiss such have and just necessity boys girls always had in the moonlight. It meant his victory. He crept forward, step the symbolic renunciation of the debt by step, placing his snowshoes with that Dan owed Cranston a debt that consummate care. (When he was one in his mind might possibly go unpaid, hundred yards distant he saw that which no weight of circumstance could Cranstons camp was situated beside make him renounce. a little stream that flowed into the His longing for her lips pulled at river and that like the mountaineer the roots of him. But by the laws of he was he had built a large lean-t- o his being he couldnt claim them until reinforced with snowbanks. The fire the debt incurred on the hillside, burned at its opening. Cranston was months ago, had been paid; to take not in sight; either he was absent them now meant to dull the fine edge from camp or asleep in his lean-to- . of his resolve to carry the issue The latter seemed the more likely. Dan made a wide detour, coming in through to the end, to dim the star that led him, to weaken him, by bend- about thirty yards behind the construcing now, for .the test to come. He tion. Still he moved with incredible didnt know why. It had its fount in caution. Never In his life had he posthe deep wells of the spirit. Common sessed a greater mastery over his own sense cant reveal how the holy man nerves. His heart leaped somewhat keeps strong the spirit by denying the fast in his own breast; but this was flesh. It goes too deep for that. Dan the only wasted motion. It isnt easy to advance through such thickets withkept to his consecration. He did, however, kiss her hands, out ever a misstep, without the rustle and he kissed the tear out of her of a branch or the crack of a twig. eyes. Then he turned into the darkCertain of the wild creatures find it ness and broke through the ring of easy; but men have forgotten how In the wolves. too many centuries of cities and farms. It is hardly aehuman quality, and a CHAPTER III: spectator would have found a rather ghastly fascination in watching the Dan Failing was never more thanklithe motions, the passionless face, the ful for his unerring sense of direction. hands that didnt shake at all. But He struck off at a there were no spectators unless the angle between their late course and a little band of wolves, stragglers from direct road to the river, and he kept the pack that had gathered on the hills it as if by a surveyors line. All the behind watched with lighted eyes. (Ad devices of the wilderness the Dan went down at full length upon ridge on ridge that looked just alike, the snow and softly removed his snow inclines that to the casual eye looked shoes. They would be only an impedilike downward slopes, streams that ment in the close work that was sure vanished beneath the snow, and the to follow. He slid along the snow snow-miblowing across the face of crust, clear to the mouth of the lean-to- . the landmarks could not avail The moonlight poured through and against him. showed the Interior with rather reA half dozen of the wolves followed markable plainness. Cranston was him at first. But perhaps their fierce on a sprawled, eyes marked his long stride and his pallet near ths rear wall. powerful body, and decided that their There was not the doubt of half-sittin- shuddering an instant at a menacing shadow that moved within 60 feet of the fire. Then goodby, Dan! she told him. And she stretched up her arms. The thing I said that day on the hillside doesnt hold any more. His own arms encircled her, but he made no effort to claim her lips. Lennox watched them quietly ; in this moment of crisis not even pretending to look away. Dan shook his head to her entreating eyes. It isnt just a kiss, darling, he told her soberly. It goes deeper than that. It's a symbol. It was your word, too, and mine; and words cant be broken, things being as underthey are. Cant I make you stand? She nodded. His eyes burned. Peras far as haps she didnt understand, was brain of the actual functioning But she reached 4ip to concerned. him, as women knowing life In the concrete rather than the abstract-h- ave always reached up to men; and she dimly caught the gleam of some eternal principle and right behind his words. This strong man of the mountains had given his word, had been witness to her own promise to him and to herself, and a law that goes down to the roots of life prevented him from claiming the kiss. Many times, since the world was new comfort happiness life itself have been contingent on the breaking of a law. Yet In spite of what seemed common sense, even though no punishment would forthcome If It were She nodded, 1 among mothers. A remedy ESPECIALLY prepared for Infants and Children and no mother would think of giving to her remedy that she would use for herself, baby half-iyin- better chance was with the helpless man and the girl beside the flickering fire. They turned back, one by one. Dan kept straight on and in two hours V without consulting a physician. ' Children Cry For PER CENT. AtGOHOL-- 3 Preparations, I similatinthcFood bjr tmtheStomachsandBmms Have You Tried It? Thereby Promoting Cheerfulness and RcstCffltaus nor neither Opium, Morphine Mineral. Not Narcotic SeTtru JbcMhSdtt JuuseSw Warn Everybody has read the above headline; how many believe it? in the home, and has that dear little mite not just right felt the comforts that come with Castoria? You have heard the cry of pain. cry for Fletchers Castoria? Try it. Just help baby out of its trouble tomorrow with a taste of Castoria. Watch the difference in the tone of the cry, the look in the eye, the wiggle in the tiny fingers. The transformation is complete from pain to pleasure. Try it. Youll find a wonderful lot of information about Baby in the booklet that is wrapped around every bottle of Fletchers Castoria. Have you a little-on- e when its stomach was the use of Fletchers Have you heard them Sd JvifMdSnjar mtttrgmnnanr ff A hcipM Remedy Diarrhoea Constipation and and. and Feverishness Loss of Slehp ndtindffiereftoa-inJganty- - g e tree-boug- h Signatory0 GENUINE slightest the mans wakefulness. Dan heard him stir, and once as if at the memory of his deed of the day before he cursed In a savage whisper. Although he was facing the opening of the lean- to, he was wholly unaware of Dans presence. The latter had thrust his head at the side Of the opening, and it was in shadow. Cranston seemed to be watching the great, white snow fields that lay in front, and for a moment Dan was at loss to explain this seeming vigil. Then he understood. The white field before him was part of the long ridge that the three of them would pass on their way to the Cranston had evidently anvalleys. ticipated that the girl and the man would attempt to march out even if he hadnt guessed they would try to take the helpless Lennox with them and he wished to be prepared for There might be sport to emergencies. have Wvth Dan, unarmed as he was. And his eyes were full of strange conjectures in regard to Snowbird. Both would be exhausted now and helpless Dans eyes encompassed the room: the piles of provisions heaped against the wail, the snow shoes beside the pallet, but most of all he wished to locate Cranstons rifle. Success or failure hung on that. He couldnt find it at first. .Then he saw the glitter of its barrel in the moonlight leaning against a grub box possibly six feet from Cranston and 10 from iffi(taoAmCoMPae' CASTORIA ALWAYS Bears the Signature of NKW YORN. 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Have you ever noticed a fish out of water, gasping and flopping about the ground? Of course. Well, that fish doesnt yearn for its native element any more than the av- Sure erage theatrical star craves publicity. Birmingham Relief Age-Heral- himself. est. Her eyes widened. You mean? I mean that you must only spend one of those three shells in fighting off the wolves. Save that till the moment you need it most. The other two must be saved for something from habit had become almost universal. This was the inception of, and the reason for, the introduction of Fletchers Castorja, and for over 30 years it has proven its. worth, received the praise of Physician! everywhere and become a household word st 1 else. by Little. Brown & Co. self-contr- - . 1920, I i YEARS ago Castor Oil, Paregoric, Drops and Soothing Syrups were the remedies in common use for Infants and Children; Castor Oil so nauseating as to be almost impossible and the others all containing Opium in one form or another, but so disguised as to make them pleasant to the taste, yet really to stupify the child and give the of from pain. relief appearance It required years of research to find a purely vegetable combination that would take the place of these disagreeable, unpleasant and vicious remedies that Keep the Fire Burning. crossed Cranstons doubt but that he ston in his camp, if at all. The man trail. He didnt would find Cran- he found the camp had certainly returned to it immediately after setting fire to the buildings, if for no other reason than for food. It isnt well to be abroad on the wintry mountains without a supply of food; and Cranston would certainly know this fact Dan didnt know when a rifle bullet from some camp in the thickets would put an abrupt end to his advance. The brush grew high by the river, the elevation was considerably lower, and there might be one hundred camps out of the Sight of the casual wayfarer. If Cranston should see him, mushing across the moonlit snow, It would give him the most savage joy to open fire upon him with his rifle. Dans keen eyes searched the thickets, and particularly they watched the sky line for a faint glare that might mean a camp fire. He tried to walk It wasn't an easy thing to silently. do with awkward snowshoes; but the river drowned the little noise that he made. He tried to take advantage of the shelter of the thickets and the trees. Then, at the base of a little ridge, he came to a sudden halt He hqd estimated just right. Not two hundred yards distant, a camp fire flickered and glowed in the shelter of a great log. .He saw it, by the most astounding good fortune, through a little rift In the trees. Ten feet on either side, and it was obscured. He lost no time. He did not know when the wolves about Snowbirds camp would lose the last of their His heart leaped. The best he had hoped for for the sake of Snowbird, not himself was lhat he would be nearer to the gun than Cranston and would be able to seize it first But conditions could be greatly worse than they were. If Cranston had actually had the weapon in his hands, the odds I feave W. L of battle would have been frightfully against Dan. It takes a certain length of time to seize, swing, and aim a riFRECKLES fle; and Dan felt that while he would be unable to reach it himself, Cranston could not procure it either, with Endurance out giving Dan an opportunity' to leap and patience upon him. 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