New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 10, 1922, Page 10

- ARERS © 1022 GEORGE H DORAN COMRBANY 1 | ered! ground!" She stood as though paralyzed, To the right and left she heard people tramping through the thicket toward her Down with that gun, damn you!" repeated the voice, hreathless running. Al around her men came floundering and ceashing toward her through the undergrowth, She could see some of them your gun on As she stooped to place her rifle on the dead leaves, she the flat packet from her cartridge sack at the drew from | Presently she found herself in a steep wet deer-trall rising upward |through a gully. She knew that run- way, It led up Star Peak Behind her as she climbed she heard the slopping, panting tread of | men; her wind was better than theirs; she climbed lithely upward, setting a ‘p ee which finally resulted in a vio- |lent jerk backward-—a savage, word- less admonition to go more slowly, As she climbed she wondered whether she should have fi an alarm shot on the chance of the State Trooper, Stormont, hearing it. hoarse by bresth exhausted, ment across rock and scrub, ing steps, For an Interminable time there alone in the hot sun, drenched to the skin in sweat, listening, think- ing, striving to find a reason for this lawless outrage, After a long while she heard some- body coming across the rocks, stiff- |ened as she listened with some vague presentiment of evil, (Continued in Our Next Issue) move- retreat she sat D‘icHugo—(‘.orEgnn ‘Wedding At Hartford - on Oct. 4 Mrs, H. P. Odell announces the marriage of her sister, Miss Alice P, Corrigan to Mr, James P, McHugd of North Adams, Mass, The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Father Barry of Bt, Augustine's church, Hart- ford, on Oct, 4th, The bride wore a dress of white canton crepe trimmed with pearls and Spanish lace and a pleture hat of Spanish lace and car- ried gardenias, She was attended by Miss Allce McWheeney, who wore a dress of pink canton crepe with & black velvet hat trimmed with silver lace and she carried pink sweetheart roses., The groom was attended by Wm, P. Corrigan, brother of the bridé, After a wedding trip to New York and Atlantic City they will be at home at 261 Adelaide street, after Nov. 1st, After bathing in a river in East Africa a white hunter suffered from temporary blindness, supposed to be due to some pecullar element in the water, same time and slid it deftly under a rotting log Then, calm but very pale, she stood upright to face events The first man wore a red and yel Jlow bandanna handkerchief over the lower half of his face, pulled tightly across a bony nose, He held a |ong pistol nearly parallel to his own body; and when he came up to where she was standing he poked the muzzle into her stomach, She did not flinch; he sald nothing; she looked intently into the two ratty eyes fastened on her over the edge of his bandanna, Five other men were surrounding her, but they all wore white marks of vizard shape, revealing chin and mouth, They were different otherwise, wearing various sorts of pat of sport clothes, brand new, : giving them an odd, foreign appearance. What troubled her most was silence they maintained wearing the bandanna w one who seemed at all familiar figure—merely, perhaps, ! he was American in build, clothing, and movement. He took her by the shoulder, turned her around and gave her a shove forward. She staggered a step or two; he gave her another shove and she comprehended that she was to keep on going. of the surprise, whether, But she had thought only packet at the moment of And now she wondered guarded her over at a trail, detour the BEGIN HERE TODAY |brook in his ears safe It was |# measure, She QUINTANA and his inter- | double, her rine thie ¢ e the |tionsly began the When at throngh the in nearly and cau- bent when freed, she could ever again find | MARATHON § MOTOR OIL nationa price from the COUNTESS O} ES the JAMES DARF ind trace circle we ad safely HONTA, | ¢ | accomplished and Eve moving |out through the thickening ranks of |tamarack, her heart, which seemed e [to suffocate her, quiet and she [leaned against a shoulder of rock, strangely tired After a while wide been ess Jews length that rotting log. Up, up, always up along the wet gully, deep with silt and frost-splint- ered rock, she toiled, the heavy gasp- ing of men behind her Twice she was ferked to a halt while her escort rested, Once, without turning, she said un- steadily; “Who are you? What have I done to you?" There was no rep “What are you going to do to me—" ghe began again, and was shaken by the shoulder until silent, At last the vast arch of the east- ern sky sprang out ahead, where stunted spruces stood out against the sunshine and the intense heat of mid- day fell upon a bare table-land of rock and moss and fern As she came out upon the man behind her took both her arms and pulled them back and somebody bandaged her eyes. Then a hand closed on her left arm and, so guided, she stumbled and crept forward across the rocks for a few moments until her guide halted her and forced her into a sitting position |on a smooth, flat boulder. She heard the crunching of heavy eret around her, whispering made was AGH to sek by | MIKE CLINCH | 1 he drew from her ocket handkerchief, and looked | ittt The squ of cambric bore i 5, Blood from her lip remained on ft. She had not washed out the spots She put it to her lips again, me- ically, A faint odor of tobacco still clung to it Dy every law of loyalty, pride, self- Darrag 5 initials, J, also ns the he man | the only the level, canse GO ON WITH CHA Slim and s in her gray continued o woods, her TRAE R 11 STORY BEST IN THE LONG Eve ¥ rough the e over her shoulder, her eyes of gentian-blue always alert. The ing turned v m; she pulled off her soft felt hat, shook out her clipped curls, stripped open the ghirt at her snowy throat where sweat glimmered like melted frost was lovely in the morn- and still—save 1e-jays—for the summer #Abirds had gone and only birds des- tined to a long Northern winter now remained Eve's tread was trail; her quick —not the dai lig} —lovely light on the moist ves missed nothing imprint deer, fresh made, nor the sprawling insig- nia of rambling raccoons—nor the big barred owl huddled on a pine limb overhead, no where the swift = gravelly reaches of the brook canght sunlight, did she miss the swirl and furrowing and milling of painted trout on the spawning beds In her cartridge-pouch she carried the flat, sealed packet which Clinch had trusted to her. Th 10k swz gently as she strode on slapping her left hip at every step; and always her subconscious mind remained on guard and aware of it; and now and then she dropped her hand to feel of the pouch and strap. 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