Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, October 6, 1913, Page 7

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(Continued from Page 2.) dcross him, heéljTess or nof, “he would have killed him out of hand. Armstrong had soon enough forgot- ten Louise Rosser, but he had not forgotten Newbold. All his ancient an- imosity had flamed into instant life again, at the sight of his name last night. The inveteracy of his hatred had been in no way abated by the lapse of time, it seemed. supposed that Newbold had wandered off and perished in the mountains, else | Armstrong might have pursued him and hunted him down. The sight of his name on that piece of paper was outward and visible evidence that he still lived. It had almost the shock of a resurrection, and a resurrection to hatred rather than to tove. 1If! Newbold had been alone in the world, if Armstrong had chanced upon him in the solitude, he would have hated him Just as he did, but when he thought that his ancient enemy was with the woman he now loved, with a growing intensity beside which his former re- sentment seemed weak and feeble he hated him yet the more. He could not tell when the notice, which he had examined carefully, was written; there was no date upon f{t, but he could come to only one conclu- sion. Newbold n:ust have found Enid Maitland alone in the mountains very shortly after her departure, and he had her with him in his cabin alone Everybody in the mining camp had | the canon with terrific force. It was with { one and now the other. | of the two forces, for at least a month, Armstrong gritted his teeth at the thought. He did not undervalue the personality of Newbold. He had never happened to see him, but he had heard enough about him to understand his quali tles as a man. The tie that bound Armstrong to Knid Maitland was a strong one, but the tie by which he held her to him, if indeed he held her at all, was very tenuous and easily broken; perhaps it was broken al- ready, and so he hated him still more and more. Indeed, his animosity was so great and growing that for the moment he took no joy in the assurance of the girl's safety; yet he was not altogether a0 unfair man, and in calmer moments he thanked God in his own rough way that the woman he Joved was alive and well, or had been when the note was and forced to wander on finally to starve and freeze and die. In one mo- ment her nearness caused his heart to throb with joyful anticipation. The certainty that at the first flush of day he should seek her again sent the warm blood to his cheeks. But those thoughts would be succeeded by the knowledge that she was with his en- emy. Was this man to rob him of the the first? Perhaps the hardest task that was ever laid upon Armstrong was to lle quietly in his sleeping bag and wait until the morning bottom of the canon, pale gleams overhead indicated the near approach of day. It was quite still, too. There were clouds on the mountain top heavy with threat of wind and snow. The way was-not difficult, the direc- tion of it, that is. Nor was the going very difficult at first; the snow was frozen and the crust was strong enough to bear him. He did not need his snow shoes, and, indeed, would have had little chance to use them in the narrow, broken, rocky pass. He had slipped away from the others because he wanted to be first to see the man and the woman. He did not want any witnesses to that meeting. They would have come on later, of course; but he wanted an hour or two in pri- vate with Enid and Newbold without any interruption. His conscience was not clear. Nor could he settle upon a course of action. How much Newbold knew of his former attempt to win away his wife, how much of what he knew he had told Enid Maitland, Armstrong could not surmise. Putting himself Into Newbold’'s place and imagining that the engineer had possessed entire in- formation, he decided that he must have told everything to Enid Malit land as soon as he had found out the quasi relation between her and Arm- strong. And Armstrong did not believe | the woman he loved could be in any-, body's presence a month without tell- ing something about him. 8till, it was possible that Newbold knew ngthing, although a few written. He rejoiced that she had not| hdits been swept away with the flood or that| of the canon, not daring to asce she had not been lost in the mountains ' So soon as the first indication of dawn showed over the crack of the door, he slipped quietly out of his| sleeping bag and without disturbing the others drew on his baots, put on his heavy fur coat and cap and gloves, sling his Winchester and his snow shoes over his shoulder, and withont | stopping for a bite to eat, coftly open ed the door, stepped out and closeq it after him It was quite dark in the latest love as he had robbed him of | {in his indomitable progress. aflld That T&1ca “nerefore, °* The situation wes paralyzing to a man of Armstrong's decided, determin- ed temperament. He could not decide - upon the line of conduct he should pursue. His course in this, the most critical emergency he had ever faced, must be determined by circumstances of which he felt with savage resent- ment he was in some measure the sport. He would have to leave to chance what ought to be subject to his will. Of only one thing he was sure— he would stop at nothing, murder, ly- ing; nothing, to win the woman, and to settle his score with that man. There was really only one thing he could do, and that was to press on up the canon. He had no idea how far it might be or how long a journey he would have to make before he reached that shelf on the high hill where stood that hut in which she dwelt. As the crow flies, it could not be a great distance, but the canon zigzagged through the mountains with a8 many curves and angles as a light- ning flash. He plodded on, therefore, with furious haste, recklessly speed- ing over places where a misstep in the snow or a slip on the icy rocks would have meant death or disaster to him. | He had gone about an hour, and had perhaps made four miles from the camp when the storm burst upon him, It was now broad day, but the sky was filled with clouds and the air with driving snow. The wind whistled down difficulty that he made any headway at all against it. It was a local storm; if he could have looked through the snow he would have discovered calm- ness on the top of the peaks. It was one of those sudden squalls of wind and snow which rage with terrific force while they last, but whose rage was limited, and whose violent dura- | tion would be short. A less determined man than he would have bowed to the finevitable and sought some shelter behind a rock until the fury of the tempest was spent, but there was no storm | that blew that could stop this man : 80 long as he had strength to drive ! against it. So he bent his head to the flerce blast and struggled on. There was something titanic and magnificent about this iron determination and per- | sistence of Armstrong. The two most powerful passions which move human- ity were at his service; love led him and hate drove him. And the two were 8o intermingled that it was dif- ficult to say which predominated, now The resultant however, was an onward move that would not be de nied. His fur coat was soon covered with snow and ice, the sharp needles of the storm cut his face wherever it was ex- posed. The wind forced its way through his garments and chilled him to the bone. He had eaten nothing since the night before, and his vital- ity was not at its flood, but he pressed on, and there was something grand Excel- sior! Back in the hut Kirkby and Maitland sat around the fire waiting most impa- tiently for the wind to blow itself out and for that snow to stop (falling through which Armstrong struggled forward. As he followed the windings the summit on either wall and seek short cuts across the range, he was sensible that he was constantly rising. ' There were many indications to his experienced mind; the decrease in the height of the surrounding pines, the increasing rarity of the icy air, the growing difficulty In breathing under the sustained exertion he was making, ' the quick throbbing of his accelerated ' heart, all told him he was approaching his journey's end. He judged that he must now be drawing near the source of the stream, | and that he would presently come upon the shelter. He had no means of ascertaining the time. He would not have dared to unbutton hisg coat to glance at his watch, and it is difficult to measure the flying minutes In such scenes as those through which he pass- ed, but he thought he must have gone at least seven mile: hours, which he in perhapg three fancied had elapsed, his progress in the lagt two having been frightfully slow. Every foot of advance he had had to fight for, ] Suddenly a quick turn in the canon, a4 passage through a narrow entrance hetween lofty cliffs, and he found him self in a pocke! or a cireular amphi . theater which he could see was closed | on the farther side. The hottom of this enclosure or valley was covered with pines, now drooping under tremendous burdens of snow. In the midst of the pines a lakelet was frozen solld; the fce was covered with the same daz- zling carpet of white. He could have seen nothing of this had not the sudden storm now stopped as precipitately almost as it had be- gun. Indeed, accustomed to the gray- ness of the snow fall, his eyes were fairly dazzled by the bright light of the sun, now quite high over the range, which struck him full in the face. He stopped, panting, exhausted, and leaned against the rocky wall of the canon’s mouth which here rose sheer over his head. This certainly was the end of the trall, the lake was the source of the frozen rivulet along | whose rocky and torn banks he had tramped since dawn. Here, if any- where, he would find the object of his quest. (To Be Continued.) Fleeting Shade. *“By jove, | am glad to see you look tng #0 gay and {estive!™ sald Mr. Olde Frend “You were all in black | the last time 1 saw ou” “Yes® de murely replied Mrs I'rown, who had just taken a second husband; “but M wasn't a fast black.” --Judze. rAGR Evah J. P. McCORQUODALE The! Florida Avenue Grocer PHONE RKED— - Respectfully asks his friends and the pubi generally to give him a call when needing Fresh Meats, Groceries, Vegetables, Etc. 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