Show i WPG With SOME INCIDENTAL The woman gered into the room It bad been when be entered the screamed slightly and stepped toward cabin while the other man’s similarly the snow wounded figure was red with rage The young man forced the door shut and though he was covered and even turned and faced her He tore off bis a drunken man could scarcely miss at fur cap and hrew It on the floor He such range he nevertheless drew his stretched out his Icy gauntletted own weapon But before be could hands toward her To reach the cabin raise It there was a sudden movement he had been compelled to face the back of him The man In the doorblizzard His face was white yet way turned sharply The woman shrank back bleeding "What!” he cried to his wife "You from him would you—" “Is this my welcome?" he said In a At that Instant the boy was convoice manly enough In spite of his scious of a sudden flash of light and a youthful aspect The room was sharp detonation so "You're so wet and cold” said filled with noise a little cloud of uvarmrroM By DewootiNMaytu cmmmr 1909 mmmnc mm 4 m$mm the woman "The horses?" smoke blew down on him Standing with 'They’re outside" returned the bis own pistol butt clasped tight In his "But you didn’t think of venturboy holiday and had lingered on through PROLOGUE hand he saw the min In the the winter fascinated by her exuber- ing In this blizzard? Why It’s like reel The arm that held his doorway weapon hell Itself or would be If bell was ant attractiveness and flattered by BEdropped to his side A QUARTER OF A CENTURY With a convul cold!" ber bold and artful pursuit of him slve movement he pulled the trigger FORE “I'd risk anything" said the woman She had thought to amuse herself in The bullet burled itself In the floor You while the man sank her dreary wretched sordid life by flercoly !to get away from him! The Storm Within down on his his fresh frank ogen admiration The won’t fall me now?" knees swayed a moment a frightful The atom was one of the worst "But my God girl!" answered the look In his eyes and then pitched forthat had ever burst from the moun- woman's drunken husband had cared little at first but lately under the boy with that assumption of superior ward on hls face and lay still tains and swept across the plains sneers and Innuendos of his age which so satisfied his pride “well "Good God!” whispered the boy The wind came In wild bursts of tre- jibes he had become fiercely die In this blizzard" companions mendous Even In the lulls turning to hls companion "you've shot speed Then'ln maudlin fury be had "No” persisted the woman “See jealous him!” which were only comparatively such storm forbidden comes the boy the house and had the He stared at the woman who still straight from the It blew perhaps 20 miles an hour The fierce blasts the littl were laden with fine sworn that he would kill him on north Our way Is due south we’ve clasped only to keep It at our backs” sight snow— frozen spindrift from a white weapon she had used with such ter "All right” said the boy cheerily rtble effect The woman thereupon swiftly made ocean of cold! Needles of Ice sharpHe winand mind of to her out turned thraldom stared of up break the the was hls life or your life or “It er than their prototypes of steel cut the bare flesh of those whom evil for- her matrimonial bond and In the dow “You’ve no Idea how terrible it mine" was the answer "I did It for tune kept abroad on such a night young stranger’s company or by his Is though" you” she said quickly seeing a look “I don’t care" She agency to leave the country of horror and repulsion spreading over Bringing the blood to the freezing “Get ready then” neither desired nor Intended to be the face of her companion skin The onslaught of the scream-fatied to the boy a half dozen “I’m ready” she replied "See!” “Yes— yes! I know" he replied years tempest drove the hapless cattle She lifted the skirt of her dress and "but—" than she mad with pain and terror The thick younger In civilization Oncq "Come we must get out of here It would be showed him a pair of horseman’s snow compelled them to huddle toto from him she boots with a pair of her husband's Immediately" break easy away sufat and last to shelterless gether “Of course Thereafter she had no fear trousers tucked tightly In them “It’s of course” whispered fer freeze and Ue In the pitiless hur- knew but with ber beauty her wit and her a good thing he has a small foot” she the boy nervously "we can’t stay here ricane with her utter unscrupulous-nes- s sneered now” courage 'Rr'here the foothills lose “Curse him!” "I’d she could make her way in the said the boy “Drag him Into the room and shut In the prairie lay huddled a litto settle with him before we go” the doorl” tle town or camp Every door and win- east which she had never seen And like “You’ll settle with him enough” The lad hesitated dow was shut and barricaded against this was the night on which they had said the woman cynically "when you agreed to take their departure you afraid?” "Arq sneered the the searching storm - woman making as If to do so herself take me away from him” Since her husband's wild outbreak In one of the poorest and most misShe turned and took down from not" was the answer “Certainly erable shanties on the outskirts of the of jealousy she had seen the bpy only once Interview In one of nevertheless overcoat a was that the fur but the pegs boy heavy surreptitious town a woman waited alone A comof death with more tear than mon kerosene lamp stood on a table they had concocted their plans Her The boy assisted ber to put It on before the window set there as If in husband spent the greater part of the From a holster hanging on the wall he had ever felt for any one living Yet something had to be done and at whenever he had any money she drew a small nights signal once in gambling revolver and drinking at the saThe house a mere shack which loon “I'm ready’ she said again Forcing himself to the task at last By a lucky chance a short time shook 'and quivered under the treForus start then” cried the boy he stooped down seized the man by before In an all night trial with “Let mendous assaults of the storm and tune he bad won over stepping forward turned him over on hls the shoulders something have blown It bad 11000 down If been might On the Instant a whirl of wind dls-- face and dragged him farther Into the The bulk of It In bard cash not been buttressed and protected by The room Then he shut the door heaps of snow yet threatening to overtwo stared a moment at the prostrate whelm It contained but one room In figure the corner farthest from the- door “He's not dead yet" said the boy stood a tumbled A rickfrowzy bed slowly ety chest of drawers a kitchen table a “No but he soon will be” The rusty cook stove a few uncertain woman stooped over and unbuttoned chairs of the plainest and cheapest the man's coat and waistcoat “There I” were all the rest of the furquality she said pointing a ghastly hole niture A few clothes hung from pegs “I struck him fair in the breast driven in the boarded wall A saddle Would to God It’d been in his black In one corner a pickax and shovel a "Don’t you see heart!” she added heavy quirt and a rifle hanging from that we must go now and quick I beneath a shelf sufllciently pegs Come we can’t delay any longer” out the avocations of the pointed “I'll take the blame on myself owner we’re caught” said the boy “It was Yet she was a woman who whatmy fault and you saved my life” ever her outward circumstances “That's noble of you” returned the showed no poverty of spirit She woman Indifferently “but we won't be raged up and down the room as a caught” prisoned tiger paces the narrow “Well then I’ll save your reputaof his cage she Sometimes tion before I go” continued the other paused and stopped by the window to quixotically rest her head beneath her hand on There were a few tattered books on the sash and peer eagerly passionHe took one down tore the shelf She ately out Into the falling snow out the flyleaf drew a pencil from could see nothing and after having scribbled hls pocket on It a few stared with Increased disappointment words sgned it held it to the woman and further mutterlngs of angry to read laid the leaf down on the she would resume her restwords and then body of the dying man less backward and forward march turned to the door He opened it and Had theye been any spectator when the woman followed him out into the she assumed that picturesque position night at the window where the light howThe room was very still Except ever It failed to Illuminate the snow for the long slow faint and fainter threw her own face and person in high breathing of the man there was not relief the observer would have been a sound within the hovel surprised at the coarse and yet not Death hovered over him the long unattractive beauty of her face and The morning found night through She was full lipped and deep figure him still alive yet barely breathing bosomed tall lithe strong Her on He was trembling the eternal cheeks were full of color her hair verge later In the day when men seekblack and coarsely crisp and curly ing him burst Into the room They Her hands which she clasped and unfound the letter of confession still clasped nervously were large and lying where It had been placed They reddened by toll but they were shaperevived the man sufficiently by stimBut there was neithly nevertheless ulants to enable him to speak a preger refinement nor goodness In her nant word or two before hls lips face There were great possibilities closed forever of evil which experience could have the bullet that had The confession detected Hers bad been a hard life killed him the empty revolver and and It had made her a hard woman the man’B last words solemnly attestShe was perhaps twenty-fivyears were carefully ed by those present old but looked older preserved by the leader of them all For hours the woman had waited in They might be useful some day who that hut alone It had been storming knew? For the rest It was evident "You Are Going on a Longer Journey Than You Planned” He Panted badlv when she began ber vigil and The boy and the what had happened the violence of the tempest had inNo woman were gone from the camp closed to them that the door had sudcreased until she feared that no hu- Btlll reposed In the chest of drawers was made for them none was search conto could turned face the That with what denly opened boy They man soul could brave It That she The blizzard bad spent a drunken Infuriated leering figure possible much wanted some one to at- tribute would provide for the expenses was but time the that by prairie the journey She had got It out He had on a short thick fur Jacket tempt It that she very keenly ardent- of A covered deep with drifted snow unwhich left his hips completely and tied It up in a little canvas bag ly longed for that was quite evident A heavy revolver had dan- period of intense cold supervened It covered Even It lay on the table near the lamp Great Is the power of love was hardly within human possibility in his He Paholster Union south gled it miles — the dragged Fifteen Its counterfeit that which passes for that the two fugitives could have got It !n the eyes of the ignorant and In- cific railroad ran across the continent out as be spoke and trained it on the They must be buried safely away It bad been her plan to ride thither boy experienced — may stir men and womto the southward in the somewhere “You’re going for a longer Journey en to mighty deeds This woman and take the first train eastward vast drifts Spring might reveal their themselves In Chicago and than you planned!” he panted thickly losing waited the arrival of one who fancied as he strove to steady the weapon and fate It might remain forever a secret himself a modern Perseus about to re- thence by whatsoever route pleased So far as the denizens of the country cover the other lease another bound and helpless An- them making their way to New York of the tragedy-o- ne were concerned be boy was fumbling at the s Whether her husband would pursue dromeda from a devouring monster the numberless ones of the frontier— He of his coat His own revolver her or not she could not tell - Whether the man who fatuously or two it was forsince was not as It was over ' In a day Instantly filled that role — or the boy rather for would be without the money have been and would have gotten be had not reached man's years or she meant to take all with ber He should (TO BE CONTINUED) estate — would arrive before her hus- would hardly be able to follow her been had he been a native to the But If he did that was a west band was the problem that filled the very soon Slightly Modified “Fumble at ’em you fool!” cried risk she must take In view of the blizwoman’s mind the habit Little Viola had dleveioped In the present the boy the man “Before you get ’em open Engrossed zard raging she might have wondered cf bolding ber thumb in her mouth futhe all about at I’ll shoot dead I don’t now It do you In case whether either of them thought nothing Mother had reeven while eating woman’s cause I want you to taste death and sorted to all sorts The predicament of methods to sought the house they could find it or ture reach it alive If she had stopped to bulked so large to his Immature Imagi- hell as long as possible before you correct the child and finally in desperanation that there was nothing else on go Into ’em You thought you’d make consider that phase of the possibilition said: There was no other hori- a fool out of me did you and you the horizon ties she would have been profoundly first the Viola thing you know you And his one too you — glad had both ventured and had both zon than she in fact will swallow your thumb and then He flung a frightful mordant word desire was to get her away to free wandered on in the night until beaten what will you do?” at his wife which stung not less bedown and mastered by the spirit of her ’Wall mother I should hate to swalAnd now this storm bade fair to cause It was in large measure undethe storm so that the searchers after low It because I’d have a heaven of a served at least so far as the boy was time without it” its violence had abated might find render the wholb plan impossible his temper she fear- concerned them frozen to death as many another Misunderstanding Why Viola" said the astonished ‘Til settle with you when I get matber "where did you hear an poor 'fellow was found frozen there- - 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