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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Signal, 1913-3-20, Page 6Te WMDAr MARCH 11, LEP THE BIGI A L ; GODERICH' ONTABII, T. Swarts' Livery and Back Stables MONT14MAL .*Mair J Car Orr THE 8teuaaa '11U'KS MEET ALL TRAINS AND : PA88RNORR : BOATS Passengers called for in nay part of the town for all trains at G. T. R. or C. Y. R. depots. Prompt service and careful atten- Our Livery and Hack service will be found up - to -d to in every respect. Your petronadesolicated. T. SWARTS Phone 107 Montreal Street ROUERT WILSON The Maseey-Harris Agent has 5 Cutters to clear our at coat price. If you need a cutter come and see what we have. We have the FLEURY PLOWS JOHN DEERE PLOWS VERITY PLOWS ,. MASSKY-HARRIS and MELLOTTE CREAM SEP- ARATORS BAIN WAGONS and SLEIGHS GRAY'S, CANADA CAR- RIAGE and MOUNT FOR- EST 10U0OIES OM/ HOMESTEAD FERTILIZER. Try a few hundred—it will pay you. I have jus? received a carload of the famous Frost Fence and Gates and Steel Fence Posts. When you are in town come in and see what we have. The Massey llarrisSnop Hamilton Street, (;oderich, Ont. Remember that Pinder is selling all his Stoves and Ranges ■ in mosticases below cost prices. Call and see them. W. R. Pinder Hamilton St. The Cbalice of Coinage Being the Story Who Drank of o4 romance of Certain Persons it and Conquered of Colorado By Cyrus ToUnsend Brady author 01 "The Kingandthe Man,'. ""The Island of Regeneration," toe"TheBetter Nan,' "Hearts and the High- way," i Irway, "As 'the Sparks Fly Up- ward,' tic. Illustrations by FFY1.sworth Younger we.°a"ab`.r'a`i s°1G _t► CHAPTER XIII. The Castaways of the Mountains. The man was evidently seeking her, for so/soon as he caught sight of her he 'broke into a run and came bound- ing up the steep ascent with the speed and agility of a chamois or a mountain sheep. As he approached the girl rose to her feet and supported herself upon the boulder against which she had been leaning, at the same time ex- tending her hand to greet him. "Ob," she cried, her voice rising nervously as he drew near, "I am so glad you are back, another bour of Ionellness and 1 believe I should have gone crazy." Now whether that joy in his return was for him personally or for him ab- stractly, he could not tell; whether she was glad that be bad come back simply because be was a human being Who would relieve her loneliness or whether she rejoiced to see him Indi- vidually, was a matter not yet to be determined. He uoped the latter, he believed the former. At any rate, he caught end held her outstretched hand in the warm clasp of both his own. Burning. words of greetlnj rushed to his lips torrentially; what he said, however, was Quite common- place, as i, often the case. Word thought and outeard speech did not correspond. "It's too cold for you out here, you 4nust go Into the house et once," he declared masterfully, and she obeyed with unwonted meekness. The sun had set and the night air bad grown suddenly chili. Still hold- ing her hand, they started toward the cabin a few rods away. Her wounded. foot was of little support to her and the excitement- bad unnerred her, in spite of hie, hand she swayed; without a thought lie caught ber about the waist and half lifted, half led her to the door. It seemed as natural as it Was laevitable for tem to assist ber in 'this way, and in her weakness and be- wilderment she suffered it without comment or resistance. Indeed, there was s b strength and power in his arm. Eee was so•secure there, that she liked it. As for him, his pulses were bounding at the contact; but for that 3natter even to look.at her quickened bis heart beat. Entering the main room, he led her gently to one of the chairs near the table and immediately thereafter light- ed the fire which he bad taken the precaution 1.3 by before his departure. { atalestedleaveetatarMareMorteletereeeleAseseei ICE CREAM The most delicious flaeors.with the best and purest Cream. serv- ed at the BALMORAL CAPE. Or- ders by telephone for Ice Cream in bulk or in bricks attended to promptly. Telephone M. F. E. BURDETTE OrivemeereireMeatereeee COAL Having purcbaaed the busi- ness formerly conducted by F. Barlow Holmes, we pur- pose dealing In Coal, Wood Line, Cement Fire Brick, Ete. We will handle Serentos and Lehigh Valley Oo.l, two lines which are recognised as the beet we wish to give tam people of Oodencb and vielmity the best serviow dbh, NMI Mall be to Wm from all of Mr. awe' embowers and may others 11b Irish anything is our All orders left with n Ja :f mai est street' peemlry to. Br' vaskilkdkill •Dams No. ?a Tares et A. T. IR.. Sebe. serest In %pate of'HI. Hand the Swayed. It bad been dark in the cabin, but the Are soon Ailed It with glerloas light Abe watched him et bis task aad as be rose from the hearth queWssed ow tell me," she began "you found—" "First your supper, and them the /tory," he answered, turning toward the door of the mitre roots. "Ne," pleaded the girl. "can't you mei that aothiag In of any tmportaocw to ms but the story? Did you And the camp?" "1 Lound the place where It Dad been." "Where It had heist" 'There wasn't a single melte of it left- 'that whole pocket, 1 knew it �, bad mem resort alma by the "Set Kirkby, aad Mra. Maltlaad std—+" 'Ting weren't therm" I 'Dli tem Mardi far them?" Vat t e.n't ren bees drwwasd," rot enema 5.,.- N bagaa reeneer- -•"Mirkbyr n ...tarof Inas. "DM ds roe be., hiim r peened the f!n r Ono MAN ems.' M[ 4a meal welsh tgi darkly at his admission. "1 naysn-t sees him for eve years." So that was the measure of his iso- lation, thought the woman, keen for the slightest evidence as to her com- panion's history, of which, by the way, he meant to tell her nothing. "Well'?" she asked, breaking the Dataae. "Kirkby would certainly see the cloud bunt coming and be would take the people with him 1n the camp up on the hogback near it. It is tar above the flood line; they would be Quite sate there." "And did you look for them there?" "I did. The trail had been washed out, but I scrambled up and found un- disputed evidepce that my surmise was correct. I haven't • doubt that all who were in the camp were saved." "Thank God for that," said the girl, greatly relieved and comforted by his reassuring words. "And Robert Mait- land and the rest on the mountain, what do you think of them?" "1 am sure that they must have escaped, too. 1 don't think any of them have suffered more than a thor- ough drenching in the downpour and that they are all safe and perhaps on their way to the settlements now." "But they wouldn't go back without searching for me, would theyr cried the girl. "Certainly not. I suppose they are searching for you now." "Well then—" "Walt," said the man. "Yon start- ed down the canon, you told every- body you were going that way. They naturally searched in that direction, they hadn't the faintest idea that you were going up the river. "No." admitted Enid, "that is true. 1 did not tell anyone. I didn't dream of going up the canon when 1 started out in the morning, it was the result of a sudden iinpuise." "God bless that—" burst out the man, and then he checked himself, Gushing again darkly. What had he been about to say? seta gashed across his own Whet int tato the woman's mind at the sale time when she heard the laoompletsd sentence; but she, too, checked the question that rose to her 1pa "This to the way I agar* it," eon- tlaued the man hurriedly to cover up hl. oonfuslon. "They fancy them- selves alone In these moaatains, which. saw for ms,. the are; they be- lieve you to have gone down the can- oe. Rlrkby with Yrs. Maitland and the others waited pn the ridge until Itr. Maitland and his party joined them. They couldn't have saved very Enact to eat or wear from Ute camp, they were miles from a settlement; they probably divided into two parties, the larger with the woman and chil- dren. started for home, the second went down the canon searching for yatr dead body!' `And had it not been for yon," cried Bre plr. impulsively, "they had found "0-4 permitted me to be of service to you," answered the man, sung%. `1 can follow their speculations exact - fly; up or down, they believed you to have been to the canon when the shoed bunt. therefore then was only one place and one direction to search Aad that wast' "Down the canon r 'Khat did you do then?" "i west down the canoe myself. I think i saw evidence that lose one Bad preceded me, too." "Dad you overtake th.m r "Osrtatnly not, thsy traveled sa rapidly as i; they mast have started 'darty in the morning and they had several hours the advantage of ms." "But they must have stopped some- where for the night and—" "Tea," answered the man; "it I had slily myself to madder, I should have pressed on through the night and overtaken them when they camped." "Only yourself?" "Yoe made me promise to return a bare by nightfall. I deet know wheth- er 1 seoaid have obeyed you or sot. I %apt ea aa long as I dared and still leave myself time ti get beak to you tar dint." Rho bad no ides of the daapsrate Mead be bad made to Ma her wltle t was still daylight "If yea hadn't come what yea did. 1 should leave 4114." cried the girl Ma - piteously piteously 'Ten did perfectly s' t. I dot thick I r e sewsr4; 1 Me set. 1 sever wee sew Were, bete—" "Deet agates. « egged` M En.. N's sot aaevmary: 1 m distlesnd ev- Mytkieg yee feel. It was it bad gives yea say wird sbe book asset that i left ea Areolae their I wee afraid that pee /light spat nm aged ter that tams! bed "Ix waep't'tltlrlmII Tamed tae t16F,1rt111k hid whoa.is sea what Sogdian. toe est het Nina I began to t'ev- ersthlag. I rja w myself let aloe», here la these moue alta. lriplslrs. waned- wttheed a human betel to speak to 1 could not bear 1t" "Bot 1 have bees lure aloes for lee years.: said the semi primly. "That's different. I don't know why you have chosen solitude, but 1—" "Yoe are a womaa," returaed the other= "and you have suffered, that a wouata for everything." "Hank you,.' said Bald, gratafalty. "Aad 1 am so glad you cans* back to "Back to you," reiterated the mart, sad theta he stopped. It he had al- lowed his heart to speak he would have said, Back to you from the very sada of the world. "But I want you to believe that I honestly did not leave the trail Instil the ultimate moment." be added. 9 do believe it;" she sxteaded ber hand to his "You have bees very good to me, I trust you ab.olutsly." And for the second time he took that graceful, dainty, aristocratlo hand 1n his own larger, stronger, firm" er grasp. His face flushed agate; un- der other circumetanoes sad la other days perkap. hei might have kissed that band. As It wan he only held' It for a moment and then/gently re-, leaned it "And you think they are searching. for nor she asked. "1 know it. I ant sure of what I myself would do for one I love --1 loved. I mean, and they--" "And they will find mer The man shook his head. "I am afraid they will be convinced that you have gone down with the flood. Didn't you have a cap or-" 'Tea," said the woman, "sad a renter. The bear you shot covered the sweater with blood. I could not pat It oa again." As she spoke she flushed a glorious erimson at the remembrance of that misting, but the man was looking away with studied care. She thanked Mtn in her heart for such generous and kindly consideration. "They will have gone down the stream with the rest, and it's just pos- sible that the searchers may end them, the body of the bear, too. This river ends in a deep mountain lake and I think it is going to snow; it will be frozen hard tomorrow." "And they will think ms—then?" "I am afraid so." 'And they won't come up here?' ' "It is scarcely posalble." "Ohl" exclaimed the woman faintly at the dire possibility that she might not be found. "I took en empty bottle with me," said the man, breaking the silence, "In which 1 had enclosed a paper saying that yon were here and safe, save , for your wounded foot, and giving direction bow to reaob the place. I built a cairn of rocks in a shel- tered nook in the valley where your camp had been pitched and lett the tightly corked bottle wedged on top of it. If they return to the camp they could scarcely fail to see it" "But if they don't go back there." "Well, It was just a chance." "And if they don't end met" "You will have to stay here for a while; until your 'toot gets well enough to travel, anyway," returned the man, evasively. "But winter is coming on; you said the lake would freeze tonight s.rd if it snows?" "1t will snow." The woman stared at him appalled. "And In that cane--" "1 am c?ri!d," was the slow reply, "that cou al!' have to stay here." • He hesitated In the face of her white, still face—'all winter," he added, des- perately. "My 'Cod," exclaimed the girl, "alone, with you?" "Miss Maitland," said the man, reso- lutely, "I .might as well tell you the ! truth. I can make my way to the set- tlements now or later, but it will be a Tournay of perhaps a week. Then pill be no danger to me, but you will have to stay here. You could not go with enc. If I am say judge you couldn't , Possibly use your foot for a mountain journey for at least three weeks, and by that time we shall be snowed in as effectually as If we were within the arctic circle. But if you will let me go alone to the settlement I da luta' back your uncle, a woman to cep you company, before the trails kYpasatble. Or enough men W make It praelfeable to take you through the cations sad down the bilis to your home agate. I could not de that alone even ff you were well. 1a the depth of *biter." The girl shook her bead stubbornly. "A week alone in there mountains and I should be mad," she said deco• glvely "it isn't to be thought of." "It meat be thought of, ergot the tsaa, "You dont understand, it la isttber that or spend the wtater here irfth me." The woman basked at him steadily. `Aad what haw 1 to fear from year �,?olaked. 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