The Herald, 1910-03-25, Page 7lie knew that it would not be long
until night would olose in upon them
again. The foree,t was seareely more
than ten sinker long each way; why,
then, had they not reached the raiment-
aan road ere thief he asked himself in
dismay, over and over again.
"Are we almost there, Joe?" asked
Norine et length, as though reading the
troubled thoughts that he was striving
so diligently to keep from her.
"We ought to strike into the mount -
• road at any moment now," he re-
plied, en&eavoring to speak cheerfully.
"It aulmoet seems to me as though we
had passed ticbs 'v'ery spot before," mur-
mured Nomane, glancing around critical-
ly.
"Ali spots in a demise forest like this
appear pretty much the alame," he de-
clared.
But Norine stopped. short.
"We have been here before, Joe," she
said, her face paling perceptibly.
"This is the spot where the snake
was; don't you see him hanging over the
branch of that tree—just where you
flung Isms?"
It was, indeed, but too true. They had
traversed for long hours in a semicircle
from the time they had resumed their
journey after Norine's thrilling experi-
ence.
"Heaven help us both; you are right,
Norine," he answered, with the sound of
tears in his voice. "I thought I was
going due east. How could I have made
such a fatal error?"
They had proceeded but a short dis-
tance further ere they came upon the
tall tree in which they had found shelter,
with the three fallen Pawnees buried in
the snow beneath it.
They looked into each other's troubled
face, unable to utter a word.
"Forgive me, Norine," was all that
Joe could say in broken accents.
"It was through no fault of yours that
it happened, Joe," she answered, mak-
ing the bravest kind of an effort to keep
back her tears. "Everything happens
for the best. No doubt if we had gone
any other way we would have been
murdered by some roving bands of Paw-
nees."
"It is most kind of you to overlook it
in that way," he answered huskily. "You
are an angel not to turn on me with
bitter words of reproach—such as I de-
serve."
She looked up into his troubled,
grieved face, forcing a smile to her lips,
as she answered lightly:
"We have at least derived one benefit
from our long tramp, as you must admit.
We have been enabled to take the cramp
out of our limbs."
Joe did not reply; his heart was far
too heavy.
Another night up in the tree! God in
heaven! could any prospect be more hor-
rible to contemplate?
For himself he cared nothing; but
Norine—ah! how would she ever be able
to endure it without breaking down alto-
gether?
It was clearly evident to him that
there was no other way than passing the
long hours of the night up in the same
tree again, waiting for the light of an-
other morrow to proceed.
In the midst of his sad reflections a
thought came to him like an inspiration.
He remembered once hearing of a hunter
who overcame just such an obstacle as
confronted him now by laying several
heavy fallen branches across the almost
level boughs of the trees, making thus a
sort of rude platform up in the tree,
where he could stretch himself out and
sleep in comparative comfort, and out of
the reach of the roaming, howling beasts
of the forest, who were unable to reach
him so far up in his eyrie among the
topmost branches.
With alacrity Joe set about construct-
ing two such landings, Norine watching
hint with wide open, puzzled eyes.
He soon had them as secure as they
could possibly be made, and when he
helped Norine up to her place of shelter
she rewarded his labor by declaring the
scheme an excellent one, assuring him
that she could rest there without fear.
Thus the long hours of the night
dragged their slow lengths by, Joe tak-
ing fitful naps by fits and starts, listen-
ing long and earnestly every little while
,to hear the faint sound of Norine's
breathing from above.
As for himself, he dared not trust
himselfto sleep lest some unforeseen
danger confront them and need all his
. energies to battle with it.
His fears proved to be well rounded,
for in the wee small hours of that never -
to -be -forgotten night his sharpened ear
caught the sound of moccasined feet ap-
proaching.
Ile realized that it was a prowling
band of Pawnees, and as they halted
under the great tree for a moment he
gathered from their conversation that
the chiefs had given up the hope of cap-
turing the fugitives, and had ordered the
braves all back to their wigwams, where
they were to be summarily disciplined
for not bringing back the two who had
so cleverly eluded the vigilant Pawnees.
Then they fell to discussing vigorously
what course they had taken, and by
listening intently Joe soon learned that
the main road, of which he had been in
search, was scarcely two miles distant
from that very spot, and that by follow-
ing an almost hidden path that lay
alongside of a row of stunted bushes it
could be reached with little difficulty.
Soon afterward the Pawnees resumed
their journey, much to Joe's infinite
relief.
Ho could have cried out aloud in his
joy. He could scarcely wait for daylight
and Norine to show some signs of
awakening to impart to her the wonder-
ful news. But when hour after hour
passed and all was as still as death
amid the green boughs among which she
rested, he began to grow alarmed.
Could anything have happened to her?
he asked himself, a strange chilliness
creeping over his heart.
Softly he called up to her: "Norine!
Norine!"
There was .no answer—no sound save
the beating of his own heart broke the
unnatural stillness.
"Norine!" he called again; "Norine!"
After what seemed to him an age of
weary waiting, and just as he was about
to sob aloud in the horror of his agony,
she answered him.
"For a moment I did not know where
I really was, Joe," she said. "I thought
that I was home, and that the tree and
your voice were some strange, weird
dream which I could not shake off! Is
it really daylight again—has another day
dawned7"
"Yes," he answered, "and I have good
news for yau. Make haste to eat the
rest of the rations, and we will set out
for the mountain road. I know where
to find it now, thank God!" and he pro-
ceeded to eagerly tell her all that had
transpired while the oblivion of sleep
wrapped her in its merciful mantle.
"I almost feared, when you did not
answer when I called you, that you had
frozen during the long hours of the night,
or had met some other fate equally as
horrible."
"I think that I would have succumbed
to the cold had it not been for the Paw-
nee blanket. I am greatly grieved to
discover, too, that you wrapped your
own about me as well. You went with-
out that I might not feel the terrors of
the bitter cold. Why did you do that,
Joe?. It was not merciful nor kind to
yourself," she added, gravely.
"I am well repaid, seeing you so thor-
oughly refreshed, Norinyl" ne answered,
huskily. "No sacrifice is too great for
me to make for you."
She hid her face in her hands and
wept. Little by little she was begin-
ning to realize the mighty magnitude of
thie man's love for her. And she pitied
him—ay! pitied him from the depths of
her soul, for she told herself that she
could be nothing to him while life last-
ed. A dark, handsome, debonair face
came between them. She loved Clifford
Carlisle even as Joe loved her, and if
her love could never be returned, she
would go down to her grave unwedded.
She was beginning to believe, against
all judgment. that Clifford Carlisle could
explain away her harrowing doubts and
why he had left her to the mercy of the
half-breed.
Perhaps they had overpowered him
by superior numbers and taken her forc-
ibly from him! It was as unjust as it
was cruel to doubt him until she saw
him again and gave him the opportunity
of telling his own side of the story. Ah,
if poor Joe had but dreamed what was
passing in her thoughts he would not
have cared for life or freedom!
CHAPTER XXXIV.
Let no soul say: `This is a bitter lifel"
Or, old and gray: "I weary of the,strife1"
Turning aside with sad or scornful lips
To words allied that tell of hope's eclipse
Long as there dwells in any earthly spot
One heart that dwells with love unshak-
en not;
For no soul's storm -weathering anchor's
gone
While love lives on!
Nor in God's plan may overthrow befall
To any man who, losing elsewhere all,
Yet claims, alone, one constant heart
beat still
That to his own gives a responsive
thrill;
In this is might that fears no ill to
meet,
Makes day of night, or victory of de-
feat,
Fronting elate the darkness as the
dawn—
i+or love lives on!
Wo must pause for a few moments
and review the thrilling events that were
taking place in Hadley.
When Norine's grandfather discovered
her flight, his grief was so intense that
every other woe was overshadowed by
it; he forgot the peril of the villagers
and his dear old wife and himself, for-
got everything save that the dearly
loved ewe lamb had strayed from the
fold and had wandered none knew
whither,
He put on his greatcoat and grasped
his lantern, saying:
"You must go to the Town Hall, where
the women folk of the 'village are gath-
ered together, while 1 Fo to search for
Norine, Do not mention to any one
what has happened," he. added, "for it
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"You expect to find her with the
handsome stranger?". queried his old
wife, with tears 7'1 her voice, her old
hands trembling pitifully.
"1 shall look- for her at Barrison Hall,"
he answered. "If I do not find her
there, the handsome stre:'ger must point
out where she has gout or --or "
He did not finish the sentence, his
voice dying slowly D.ry in a muttered
curse—a curse which steeled to rend his
very soul in twain.
There was so much commotion on the
streets that no one noticed that old
Daniel Gordon parted silently from his.
wife at the town house door and struck
into a path that led over the hills to
the other end of the village.
It was quite an hour's tramp through
the drifting snow, but the old man,
whose heart was on fire with a bitter,
burning rage, scarcely heeded the long,
desolate journey, until he found himself
standing, for the second time that
night, in front of the towering gates of
Barrison Hall.
He did not Hesitate as before as to
what course he should pursue, but walk-
ed straight up the broad path and knock-
ed loudly and heavily upon the door.
Again it was Miss Austin who an-
swered the summons, and she looked,
as she felt, greatly surprised to behold
the visitor of scarcely tic•e hours be-
fore standing upon the 'now -covered
porch.
Before she could expceee her surprise
the old man said with intense emotion,
which he did his best to keep in abey-
ance:
"Go to Mr. Ciiffore tarlislc and say
to him that I am he: e :or my Norine;
tell him just that and more."
"You are here for bur Norine!" ex-
claimed Miss Austi ar amazement.
"What in the world you mean, my
good man? 1 do no 'omprehend your
words ix: the least. sure you."
"He will know," .faimed old Mr,
Gordon, smiting hi ands together
fiercely. • "She has g e to him. If it
be his ln$ention to ole e with her. I say
to him naw that he, better be dead
than attempt it; of an that I am, 1
would follow ,him t e end of the
woah�, bue;tthat 1 w•. le find him and
wreak my vengeance seen .him."
li'.isseaktieti;a had homed deadly pale;
sla!a cPeaned heavily against the frame-
eintle ef, the door for support, clutching
her hands tightly together.
'What is this? Le' me understand it
clearly and fully. Do you mean to in-
fer that Mr, Clifford Carlisle is—is mak-
ing love to any young woman in Had-
ley, and that it has gone so far that—•
that you fear that they have eloped to-
gether? Step into the hall here, where
it is warm, and tell inc tie whole story,
quickly—ay, with great haste, for mo-
ments are precious."
"It is Carlisle wh I must see at
once," replied Daniel irdon.
• "Nay, you cannot' him, for he is
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not here. But perhaps I can help you
to find him if you tell me your story
with great despateh,"
There was not moult to tell, said as tl:e
story WBS, and in a few heartbroken
sentences he toll of that fleet unfortu-
nate meeting of the handsome, debon-
air sta'anger with little Norine, end bow
he had kept the acquaintance uup, .pledg-
ing her to secr000y concerning it to fur -
taker leis own designs; and how he man-
aged to meet the guileless, thoughtless
little maiden day after day, until he had
won her truet ng li,ttiie heaxt from her.
The upshot of the matter was, little
Norine had fled, and Daniel. Gordon felt
beyond a doubt that ehe had fled to her
lover. That he bad no serious inten-
tions regarding Norine, Oaalisle haul
coolly admitted, adding that he had
made love with quite as mueh ardor to
half a dozen village girls. But Norine
had stoutly refused to believe that her
lover had uttered these words when
they were told to her that evening af-
ter he had reached his oottage home
from Ms visit to the master of Barrison
Hata.
"I shall never believe that Clifford
Carlisle loves any one on earbh but me,"
Norine had dedlaured, "He has told me
no over and over again with his own laps
and he will make me, and no one elate,
his bride."
An exclamation of the deepest rage
fell frown Miss Austin's lips.
"If he told your Norine, or any other
girl that, then he leans been false to me—
and I trusted hint so! Provo to me the
truth of what you say, ttheu lie and the
people of Hadley will hear from me, and,
if I do open my lipe, I can make an as-
tonishing disclosure. Clifford. Carlisle
wall wish that he had never played with
fire in the shape of Floriee Austin. Ay!
I can w"esalc a fierce vengeance upon
hum!
"If he thinks bemuse he has come in-
to
nto p•ossesslon of all the Barrison money
—end I haven't a dollar—that lie can
play fast and loose with me, he will find
that he is very much niistaheu. I have
told you that Clifford Carlisle is not
here, and in telling you so I have spok-
en the truth; he is at this moment mak-
ing leis way to the railway station to
take the train that will bear him East..
We had planned that I should join him,
I starting to -morrow. We can easily
overtake him by taking n. erces cut to
the station. Come, I will go with you,
and if I find that he hes a woman com-
panion with him, he shall feel the full
force of Floriee Austin's vengeance!"
Daniel Gordon had listened to her
words with diamtay as he looked at her.
She seemed. transformed from a woman
to a veritable fiend incarnate.
Not another word did she utter, but
with all speed donned hes- long, heavy
cloak and hood, and, drawing a veil over
her ra Ae-dicstorted face, announced that
she was ready, and that if they expect-
ed to intercept the flying Clifford Car-
lisle they would have to make all Ipos-
slble haste.
"You know these paths better than I
do," she said, briefly; "take the lead
and I will follow. llenlembe i', we have
less than twenty minutes to make the
journey. Ho left Barrison hall less than
a quuwrter of an hour ago; it takes but
half an hour longer to resell the station,
so, melees we make all haste, he will
have boarded the twain in spite of us."
On rearHing the depot they found that
the train which was true would not
reaoh Iiadiey that night; it was half
buried in an embankment of snow some
hundred miles army, their despatches
had informed them,
"Had any passengea:s intending to go
East learned art thee• ;" Mss Austin ask-
ed, eagerly.
"Yee; a gentleman has just left the
station, who burl been mightily disap-
pointed over the state of offairs, if his
deep cursing was 011 indication of it,"
the station piaster replied.
"Was he alone?" queried Mise Austin,
and old Daniel Garden in the same
breath.
That the station master did not know,
he was so entirely engroescd by the tele-
graphic despatches that were coming in
at that moment.
"He has; returned, of course, to Barri-
son Hall," said Miss Austin. "You shall
return -with nae there, and he shall an-
swer us both. If your granddaughter
was with hem, of course she must have
returned home; under the circumstances
they would probably make the appoint-
ment for two days later, when they
wouuid. merit no difficulty in getting off.
Don't you see?"
Daniel (xo•rdani shook .his head, saying,
tremulously:
"If Norine was with the rascal —
w'diich 1 have every reason to believe
then the ticketing of the Eastern bound
express was an intervention from hea-
ven."
"%Men. en. they returned to Barmison Hall
Uiey found that Clifford, Carlisle had
not returned there.
"Come back to -morrow," said alias
Austin.
Daniel Gordon looked at her wonder-
ingly.
You cannot remain here," he said;
"you must come with are to the town
hw,li, where the reset of, the women and
children are."
"What do you mean?" she asked,
sharply, beginning to think that the old
mans thoughts were wandering.
Wheat he told hes' of the expected at-
tack of the Pawnees and the grave dans
ger that would result from it, her hor-
ror knew no bounds.
"•Ash! That is why Clifford Carlisle
made up his mind so suddenly to leave
Iltulley," elle cried, adding, with eyes
fairly blazing: "He never told me of the
charger lee was leaving me in. 1 nee
through it all now. He wars sure we
would all be massacred—and. the dead
could tell no tales,"
Mechanically sagas auccompenied Daniel
Gamlen to the only place of safety that
the village people had providedh
Teo daye• and.. two nights they re-
mained banded "together, and as ye: the
Pawnees had 'not come. rhe excitement
nazi high; not a man, woman or child
dared aloes' eyes in sleep.
' During Oft two clay's nothing was
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seen or heard from Norine or Clifford
Carlisle. The villagers never gage a
thought to the handsome stranger, and
the blacicsmvth and his wife uttered no
word Miss Austin was silent, too, but
she was laying her plans for the mighti-
est vengeance that a woman ever delft
out to a false, fickle lover—clearly ex-
emplifying the old adage, that no re-
venge is so bitter, so cruel, as love to
hatred turned.
In those long hours Rorke Austin
learned the truth; Clifford Carlisle had
never loved her, and wished to be.rdd of
her.
CHAPTER XXXV.
Miss Austin had been quite correct in
her surmise; it had been Clifford Car-
lisle's intention to rid himself of her;
she knew too much about him for his
peace of mind; he would be constantly
in fear of her divulging the secret of
the spurious will.
If the Pawnees attacked Hadley they
would make a clean sweep of the village,
she would share the fate of the others
and there would be no ono to tell the
tale.
Even when he promised Chowsky to
lead the Pawnees in the massacre
against the villagers, he promised him-
self secretly that he lvould only do so
providing he could riot in the meantime
make his escape from Hadley.
He had no relish to be in the thick of
a skirmish, with the weapons of either
party against him.
"I did not come out into this western
wild for this," he muttered to himself.
"I came to get the Barrison millions; I
accomplished what 1 came for, and I
have no business here and hour longer,
so the quicker I leave the place behind
me the better."
(To be continued.)
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