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THE SIGNAL : GO0RR!CH -0
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The Cbairde of Cour i t - •..s'o•Ylg glaaoe .t ata. Class'
/ kfm that u M cher*, tmpoast-
Being the Story of Certain Persons
Who Drank of it alld Conquered
9'
cA `Romance of Colorado
By Cyrus TTof2�insend Brady
(Author of "Tit King and the Nan,-
" he
an,'"The Island of `R'generation," "`Che
`Better Nan,' "Hearts and the Htg -
way, " "As the Sparks Fly Up-
ward, ' e:c.
Illustrations by Ellsworth Young H.t°;,("arve
Now no or,.- h:,,i the laintest hope
khat Enid ]la:tiend was yet alive, ex -
Irene. perhaps. her father, Mr. Stephen
;Maitland. They could not convir.ee
;him, be was FO old and set in his opin-
ions and so utterly unfamiliar with the
kondilions that they tried to describe
'to hem, that he clung to his belief. in
spite of all. and finatly they let hart
;take such comfort a41 t could frc
!kis wain hope without any further a
'tempt at contradiction.
In spite of all the argumen's, ho
ever. ]ir. James Armstrong was no
!satisfied. He wai as hopeless as th
rest. but h!s temperament ee•t:d no
(permit him to accept the in�-vitabl
'calmly. It was barely possible the
'she might not be dead, and that sh
:might not be alone. There was scarce-
'up
care
'up enough possibility of this to justify
'a suspicion. hat that is not s...yin
there war/ none at al!.
t Day after day he had sat in his of
ifice•denying himself to everyone an
!refusing to consider anything. brood
Aim over the situation. He loved Enid
aitland. he loved her before, and nt,
tthat he had lost her, he loved her stip
,more
Not altogether admirable had been
James Armstrong's outwardly succe
W1 career. in much that is high and
;noble and manly his actions—and his
jcharacter—had often been lacking, but
Sven the Lase can love, and sometime
'love transforms, if it be given a
fiance. The passion of Cymon for 11,h -
genie, made a man and prince out of
rustic boor, and his real Jove for
(Enid Maitland might have done more
tfor Armstrong than he himself or any-
one who knew him ao be i -aa, and
few there were who had such
knowledge of him, 'dreamed was
possible. There was one thing that
love could not do, however; it
could not make him a patient phil-
osopher, a good waiter. His rule of
•Ufa was not very high, but in one way
was admirable. In that prompt, bold
desire action was Lis ehiefest cbarao-
.tertstic.
On this certain morning a mon
',after the heart -breaking disaster. his
,power of passive endurance bad been
to the vanishing point. The
'great white range was Clung in his face
(Uke i challenge. Within Its secret re-
cesses lay the solution of the mystery.
'Somewhere. dead or alive; beyond the
soaring rampart was the woman he
loved. It was impossible for him to
✓ remain quiet any longer. Common
sense, reason, every argument that
lad been adduced, suddenly became of
•no weight He lifted his head and
stared straight westward, his eyes
rept the long semicircle of horizon
•across which the mighty range Was
,drawn like the chord of gigantic arc
or the string of a mighty bow. Each
'white peak mocked him, the insolent
aggression of the range called him tr
.resletibly to action
"By Heaven," be ,'aafd under his
breath, rising to his feet, "winter or
no winter, I go."
Rubert Maitland had offices in the
/lame building. Having once come to a
determination, there was no more un-
certainty or hesitation about Arm-
strong's course. In another moment
he was stat:dit.g in the private room of
'its friend. The two men were not
alone there. Stephen Maitland sat in
• low chair before another window
removed from the desk somewhat.
staring out at the range The old
mss was huddled down In bis seat
every lint of his figure spoke of grief
and despair. Of all the places in Den -
Ter, be liked best his brother's Mlles
fronting the rampart of the moun-
tains, and hour after hour he sat there
euletly looking at the summits, eome-
'tlmes softly shrouded in white. some-
times swept bare by the hero* winter
ales that blew across them, some -
:times shining and sparkling so tbat
!the eye scarce sustain their refiectioa
the dazzling sun of Colorado; and
other times seen dimly through
"mists of whirling snow
�Oh, yes. the mountains challenged
Im also to the other side of the
range. His heart yearned for bis
��''kltd, bot he was too old to make
e attetr.pt. He could only sat and
"Maitland," be began, -I can't stand
it any longer. I'm going into the moun-
tains."
"You are mad!"
"I can't help It. I can't sit here
and face them, damn them, and re-
main quiet "
"You will never come out alive."
"Oh, yea. 1 will; but 1f I don't.. I
..k swear to God I don't care."
t- f Old Stephen Maitland rose unatead-
, illy to his feet and gripped the back of
w. 1 his chair.
t "Did I hear aright. sir?' he asked.
e with all the polished and graceful cow -
1 tesy of birth and breeding which never
e.ldeserted him in any emergency what-
soever. "Do you say—"
e "I said I was gorse into the motile
e tains to search for her."
"It 1s madness," urged Robert Mait-
land.
But the old man did not bear him.
"Thank God!" be exclaimed with
d deep feeling. "1 have sat here day aft-
er day and watched those mighty hills..
and i have said to myself that if I'
�. had youth ;:red strength as 1 have love,
1 I would not wait."
"You are right," returned Arne
strong,. equally moved, and indeed it
ss
would have been bard to have heard
and seen that f..ther, unresponsively;
"and I am not going to writ, either."
t ''I understand your feelings, Jim,
and yours, too. Steve," began Robert
s Maitland. arguing
against his own euro-
th
ay and watt with ruck faint and fad -
bops as be could still cherish as-
tir* bresk up of the spring cans•
the rest he troubled nobody; he.
y botked,blm, nobody marked h1m,
minded ata. Robert �tattlaad
raeseeted his buetsses a little more ;
1y, a tittle mere g.ptfy, that was
Tel the prssssce of bin brother .
. livlag grief sed a this( ro-
ta
..
to bins. Although be was quite
be blamed himself. Re bad
Mews bow be bad wows t. love
Lulea bene be bad Mgt b '. itis
Messed kis Mur. and
be teem sat where be was at
w hew be weld bees else 111 -
ft wee a btlrMea mid begs.
le lbw She esee ea
hrwerteggiel
Hosts, "even if she escaped the flood.'
she must be dead by -this time."
' "You needn't go over the old argu-
ment, Hob. I'm going into the moun-
tains. and I'm going now. No," he
continued swiftly, as the other opened,
bis mouth to interpose further objec-
tions, "you needn't say another word.
I'm a free agent, and I'm old enough
to decide what I cZn do. There is no
argument. there 1s no force, there 1s
Flo appeal. there is nothing that will
restrain me. 1 can't sit here and eat
my heart out when she may be there."
-But It's impossible!"
"It 1■ impossible. How do I know
lt.hat there may not have been some-
body In the mountains; she may have
(wandered to some settlement, some
nter's cabin, some prospector's hut." ''
t we were there for weeeks and
ins, no evidence of buman-
tau
"Hu
,saw nota
rite
"I don't care.
,filled with secret n
,by within a stone's th
see into; she may be In
I suppose she is dead, and it
!itch, this hope; but 111 never bel
until I have examined every squ
'rod within a radius of 50 miles from
your camp. 1'11 take the long chance,
.the longest, even"
"Well, that's all right," said Rob-
Iert Maitland. "Of course, I intend to
do that as soon as the spring opens;
tbut what's the use of trying to do it
'now!"
"It's use to me. I'll either go mad
bare to Denver, or I must go to seek
/or her there."
"But you will never come back 1f
you once get In those mountains alone"
"I don't care whether I do or not
it's no use, old man. I am going, and
;that's all there is about it."
' Robert Maitland knew men. He ree-
ognized finality when he beard it, or
'when be saw ft, and It was quite art
t that be was in the presence of it
then. it was no use to say more.
"Very well." be said. "I honor you
for your feeling, even if I don't think
much or your common sense."
. "Damn common sense," cried Arm-
strong. triumphantly. "It's love that
'moves me now."
At that moment there was a tap on
the door A clerk from the outer c( -
tee bidden to enter, annouaoed that
old Kirkby was in the ante room.
"Bring him in," directed Maitland,
Seager to welcome him.
He fancied that the newcomer would
The mountains are
ooka you could pass
row, and never
one of them.
's all fool -
eve it
re
tu•doubtedty assist kin is dlsssedtag
Jrmottoes from his foolhardy, sole
/enterprise
Monts', old man," drawled Kirkby'
f"'Howdy, Armstrong, ay respects to
!you, sir," he said, staking kis vote a
little as be bored respeottully towage
NMr. Stephen Maitland, a very sympa-
ttlb.tic look in the old trosti.susaas's
nes at the sight of the bereaved 1s-
er.
''Kirkby, you've come h 'the vary
wick c: time " et oboe began unbent
pialdtad.
"hilus glad td be Johsayostbe
ipot." MOW the older man.
"Armeare.g here," eostlsued the
*Met epee ifs purpose. `says
can't waft tanto tis spring bol the
maim, bele pass bMe tie Mar
sew to leek ter sttdl.`
Kirkby didn't love Armstrong Me
itIdel cars ter lin s Inde bit. bet
there heed « aw .s g la the bag hs.i
mem eimef ahs le Me eat►
0.bleb be met the rookies@ ebe leas- at
the annotate est the sed sae sad
aN
nit too hsrty'-roafii+-aa. talar Sow is to decide oa what's t• be
"I tell
ale, that k. Nabs ams Mt* for aotb-
png. cad I want yea to tell him the
*ems thing Toa thew more about
eke mountains tkaa either of es."
"Mr. Kirkby," quavered Regime Matt-
i
toad, "allow me. I doe't wast to hi-
, Iueace you against your batter judg-
anent, but if you could sit here as I
Iaaes done, think that maybe she
there, al. t perhaps alive stat, and
In need. y, _ would not nay a wort 10
deter him "
• "Why, Steve;' expostulated Robert
' Maitland, "surely you know I would
Fisk earthing for Enid. Somehow, it
seems as !f I were being put in the
belfah position by my opposition."
"No, no," said his brother. "It isn't
That You have your wife and chil-
idres, but ties young man—"
• "Well, what do you say, Kirkby! Not
chat it mates any dtf'erence to me
%what anybody says. Come, we are
wasticg time," Interposed Armstrong,
.who, now that he bad made up bis
•mind, was anxious to be off.
"J'm Armstrong," an'wcred Kirkby,
decidedly. "I never thought much 0'
'you :n the past, 1 think sense
:-ou've put out Beta fart projlek of
Ovum. that I'm entitled to call you a
Ilarrn fool, w'ich you rre, and I'm an -
:Aber, for I'm goin' into the mountains
with you."
"Ob, thank God!" cried Stephen
Maitland fervently.
' "1 know you don't like me," answer-
ed"Armstrong. "That's neither bent
nor there. Perhars goat have cause to
;dislike me. perhaps you have not. I
don't like you any too well myself, but
there's no man on earth I'd rather
have go with me oa a quest of this
'kind than you, and there's my hand
pn it."
Kirby shook it vigorously.
• "This ain't committin' myself," he
Said cautiously `So far's I'm con-
e'erned, you ain't good enough for Miss
Maitland. but I admires your spirit,
iermstrong, an' I'm gotn' with you.
Tain't no good. 'twon't produce nothin',
•most likely we'll never come back
ben; but jest the same, I'm gotn'
along. Nobody's goin' to show me the
trail: My nerve and grit. w'en It
Comes to belpin' a young female like
.that girt is as good as anybody's. I.
smote. You're her father," he drawled,'
ton turning to Stephen Maitland, "an'
1 ain't no kin to her, but, by gosh, I
believe I can understand better than
tiny one else yere what you are feelin'."
"Kirkby." said Robert Maitland, omit -
tag at the other two, "you have gone
rlean back on me. I thought you had
more sense. But somehow I guess Lt's
contagious, for I am going along with
'you two myself."
"And I, cannot I accompany you'"
leaded Stephen Maitland, eagerly
raging near to the other three.
"Not much," said old Kirkby prompt- ,
ley. "You
Ulan. You
6uther. Yo
now shoes;
-ould do, y
-Without sa
larich I'm
three
kis this
Bob ]li
paid, I won
t got the stren'th, of
't know them mountains,
.¢ be helpless on a pair o'
hers ain't anything you'
lest be a drag on us,.
' aaytking,ebout myself,
'modest for that. there
r men in Colorado to
than Jim Armstrong
an'— Well, as L
tion no other names.'
t"Oodbbier] 7oq all, gentlemen." fele
ered' tepb%a'Maitland. "1 think per -
pa, I may4ave been wrong, a tittle
}diced against the west You air
en that would do honor to any family
o say society in Philadelphia or nay
kers else.' _ .
"Lord lo►t ye," drawled Kirkby, his
twinkling. "There ain't no three
rtaon the Atlaetle seaboard that ken
tcb up with two of us yere, to say
' of the third."
"W B," said Robert Maitland, "the
MK
"fp plan,' soli Armstru*g. "ta to go
to the old tease.
(
"Teo." said Mirkby, "that's a good
Taint of deepartare, as say swamis' hi—
ther down Cabs trod way Asad to say;
aa' wen's seat?
'T am golds up the casae lacteal at
down." salt the mut. with a hank of
:nagiratba.
"Tat ai]'t no bad idea, lather,'
1 r sette 1 1 ho aid man -We biased e
Croord over pee:ty thoroaday *solo,
he ersca *ebbe w e tan find some-
tbing up ft.'
"And what de you propose to tabs
with your naked Maitland..
"What we can carry on the backs all
ben. We will make • camp come-.
inhere abont where you did. We est gee;
bnougb husky men up at Momism wbi
will pack in what we want, and with;
that as • Dams we will explore the up-.
Per reaches of the range."
And when do we start!"
"Tbete 1. a train for Morrison to
two hors," answered Armstrong, "We
�t"
pan get what we want in the way of
-ping bags and equipment between
sow and then, if we hkirry about It"
"Ef we are goin' to do 1t, we might'
tea well gtt a move on us," aaaeeted
*lrkby, making ready to go
"Right," answered Robert Maitland
grimly. "When three men set out to
`7a`ak• fools of themselves, the sooner
trey get at 11 and get over with
It the better. I've got some Dual -
pew matters to settle. You two
get what's needed, and 111 bear my
share.'.
A week later a little band of men on
snow shoes, wrapped in Lura to their
oyes, every one heavily burdened with
a pack, staggered -into the clearing
There ce had been .wtchsd the Malt -
E Tt, BA t'ONTINCHDI
IOW TO RESIST
Gaskin Coombs and Cold..
NNW ' vl,paotes masa and eases
bsgdly *oar math ootid; It's only wise
the system is rum down and ettalttty
low that colds and coughs get is test-
holL
New Mal u reasssable that=
right ww to Sere a maid is 1•
`. ap your strewth midst
Mr'. Mile Parietal, of East Dur-
ham,
arham, N. a. lama: I took Yiaot Dor a
dumb: Beed which had lashed two
MIS. had the ooegb net wily Rhap
g eared, bet 1t MLR up my strength
ea well.'
The mama Mimi leper ef8osdoes 1a
Ana Seem i Imams it contains to a
ash Cat■ esee.nast.d fora an the
s edl.aal Curettes eleawts of Sod
liver oil, with teal. Wood-bsfldlas
iron added.
Chnafe muds and odds yield to
*Ind became 1t bends up the weak-
ened, ran-dewa system.
Toncan pt year most' back say
CM* 11 Vinci does not de all we Ms.
H.('. Dunk*. Drumm iet.Goderieb.
Johnny on the Spot.
The Wingbani Advance reports :—
Thule soliciting produce for the \% m.
Davie* Co. in the vicinity <1 Rivers -
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