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CHAPTER XIIL
A tl'oit crept out ot hit latr.
Sailors wrecked at sea go mad somo
timea from the tneie sitnation.
Tbey may sail in their small boats or
Boat on their rafrs for days and days
with the same monotony of ncene the
water beneath, the sky above. There is
a horror, a loneliness about it a feeling
a if shut ont from the world and even
where there are three or four together
to keep one another company some one
will go raving mad within the week.
. When u man is lost on tho plains those
who may eet out to search for him go
prepared to shoot liiui down.
They may have to do it to save their
own lives. If lost for but a single day
he will fall down and weep at sight of
his rescuers. He is vyeak and maudlin,
like one drunk.
if lost for two days he may be so un
der the influence of terror that he will
run away ut sight of hr.maii beings.
If he has been wandering about for
three days and nights bewarel The
chances are nine in ten that he is dan
gerous. Anil if this feeling is so strong upon
men iu their prime uud men who may
have weapons of defense and the experi
ence of years, what must it be in the
case of a woman fleeing out into the
darkness to escape the murderers of her
husband and the abductors of her child?
The mother was neur enough to hear
her daughter's cry of pain and the
shouts of the man who overhauled her.
For a moment she thought of returning
to give herself up. hut then came the
thought that if Lizzie was to be rescued
and the murderers punished all depend
ed ou her. She could nee through the
entire plot now, but she could not be
lieve that it included any one except the
fonr renegades. If she could reach the
camp ou the river the men would turn
out and hunt the four to their deaths.
The widow and mother was crouched
on the earth within thirty rods of the
wagon when it drove away. She feared
to move until she could no longer hear
the rumble of the wheels, and then she
rose and ruu forward, believing she was
following the trail of the train. She
remembered it was only six miles, but
it was two long hours before Bhe stopped
for a moment's rest, bhe saw no signs
of a stream. She bad come far enough
to reach tbe south fork, but where was
it? '
Almost like a flash of lightning the
thought came to the woman, "1 have
gone wrong I am lostl" The thought
took away her cvuruge in a moment,
and she found herself unable to reason
intelligently. . i
Sbe was lost lost on tbe great plains,
and that by nightl
Then tbe poor woman did exactly
what many a man has done. Instead of
resting until the alarm had passed away
and until daylight should conic iu guide
her angbt. she rose and rau away from
herself, or tried to. All night long she
wandered aliout in an erratic way and
daylight found her back within half a
mile of tbe spot where the wagon bad
stood.
She seemed to have aged twenty years
in a single uiglit. Her face was pinched
and drawn, her eyes were sunken; her
form bent as if she bore a burden ou her
shoulders.
"They are lostl I've got to find 'ein
Daniel and Lizzie!" she muttered as "he
faced tbe suu. "I've called and called,
but they Won't answer. Coo-eel Cooel
No. they won't answer."
She was advancing slowly upon the
dead body of her husband.
"Where's Daniel' Where's Lizzier
shouted the woman. "Why. this is
Daniell He is asleep! Poor man, but
he must be tired I"
She had discovered the body.
"Poor Daniel, but you were lostr
crooned the woman as she sank down
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ucBiuc vuo uuujr. "lou ttio ureu auu
sleepy. Yes, you may sleep. I will keep
very quiet. Maybe Lizzie will soon
come." . .
She rocked ber body to and fro as if
she had a child in her arms, and now
and then she reached out her band and
patted tbe arm which lay stiffly extend
ed ou the earth beside her.
The suu cliuibtai up and up.
Would some of the trainmen ride
back to see why Brown had not joined
them? The fact that lie had not come
np ihe night before would be proof that
be was still in trouble. Would they
leave the river without knowing or
caring what had become of him and the
helpless women' And they would also
miss the renegades, and perhaps suspect i
some plot or evil.
Higher climbed the sun.
The train had gone on. It was not
like Americans it would have been dis
graceful to heathens to thus abandon
one who had come with them so far and
met with an accident to render him
helpless. It was avarice the thirst for
gold the fear that some one would bs
ahead of them at the base of yonder
grim mountain.
The woman rocked and crooned and
dozed all through the long afternoon.
A wolf crept out of his lair in the rockB
and approached the spot.
"Has Lizzio come?" queried the watch
er as a savage growl suddenly aroused
her. "No, it is not Lizzie! Go away
from us! You are one of the renegade
gungl You helped to steal my childl"
The wolf drew back. It was only a
woman watching the dead, but he feared
her.
The deserted one resumed her lonely
vigil, rocking weakly and muttering
vaguely. As the sun sank in the west
ern sky her voice grew fainter, and
when its dying rnys illumined the
mournful scene she fell forward beside
ber murdered husband and expired
without a sigh.
CHAPTER XIV.
Harltins at Hrst saw only the four
renegades as he peered around the cor
ner of the rock. Looking again, he dis
covered a female seated at the foot of a
tree uot far away. Her back was to
ward him and her head was held down,
and he could not make out whether she
was young or old, a white woman or a
squaw.
"1 say, curse the luck!" exclaimed
one of the men in a brutal voice. "It
looks as if they might also have heard
of the cave and gold, else why would
they come so directly to this spot?"
"How many did you count?" asked
another.
"Three wagons and ten or twelve
men," replied the other. "1 didn't dare
go too clus, you know."
"Too strong for tin to wipe out, eh?"
queried one of the men who was lying
down.
"But they've got to go somehow,"
growled the man who had (list spoken.
"We haven't come this fur and taken
all these chances to be scooped out of
that gold. With the redskins on the
one side and these fools on the other
we dosn't show hand or head."
"W liar's all yer bruins, Bob?" asked
one of the men with a laugh.
"Give us some head work and say bow
we are going to sarcumvent the wagon
folks."
"It's got to be head work, and I've got
it all thought out. I'm going down
among 'em tumorrer. Is that gal all
right?"
He rose to his feet so that he could be
sure she was sti'l sitting at the foot of
the tree, and one of the men growled
"She's right 'miff, blast her! 1 only
wish we'd hev let the wolves pick her
bonesl 1 never knowed any such foolin
around with wiuimiu folks to bring
luck."
"Then I'll give ye something new,'
fneered Eob u he sat down. "I've got
plans about that gal, and them as don't
like my plans hud better go further and
work on their own hook!
"Oh, come off with yer quarrels!'
culled the fourth man as he rolled off
the bed of brush and sat up. "Is there
any move by the party below?"
"Nothing except they hev gone into
camp for the summer, blocking our road
out! answered the leader.
"And they are going to stay right
thar, eh?
"Not after tomorrer not if my name
is Bob, and 1 reckon it ar.
"They don't suspicion us?"
"Not the least. None of 'em hev cum
np this fur yet. und so they hevn't seen
the wagon tracks."
"Hev we made any mistake about the
canyon?"
"Nary one. I'll stake my life on It
1 went fur 'nuh up today to be sartain.
All we want is u clear road for a day or
two, and we'll load the wagon and be
off."
Harkins had gathered enough to be
certain that Bridger's cave and ita treas
ures were known to the renegades as
well as to himself and Taylor. The
dying old hunter hud suid that he alone
possessed the secret, but it was evident
that it had U.-en talked of to others.
These four men, outlaws though they
were, and probably as brave as that
class of men usually nre, would not have
penetrated into the Indiun country thus
far with no stronger force had not a val
uable stake depended.
So the female was a girl and a pris
oner? If a prisoner, then there must have
been an act of violence to make her so.
Perhaps it was Beast The father shiv
ered at tne tnougnt, ana ine inongnt
would have led him to do some desper
ate thing had it not been put away
almost immediately. The prisoner
raised her head and looked around, and
it was a face he had never seen before.
It betrayed anxiety and suffering, and
he instantly resolved that he would take
any risk to help.
The sun was now hidden behind the
mountain aud it was twilight around
the cumphre. The men sat smoking or
thinking for a qnarter of an hour with
out a word, and then one of them rose
and disappeared. Ten minutes later
he returned with a bag of provisions and
a bottle of whisky, and Bob said:
"Yes, we might as well hev a bite
now as any other time. Give the gal
her share. If she's still too mulish to
eat let her throw it away."
The man carried some bread and meat
to the girl, but she gave him no heed.
More wood was thrown on the fire, the
bottle passed from hand to band, and
by the time darkness had settled down
the four renegades were in good spirits
and seemingly good natured.
Then Burkina could no longer see the
girl, though perhaps those at the tire
had her iu view.
Here was a new and a double danger,
he reflected as he carefully crept away.
It was not enough that the renegades had
come for the gold, but they were plot
ting against the wagon train and would
uot stop at murder. It was clearly his
duty to reach the train as soon as possi
u.si uuJ warn liiscouipanlons or tne pres
euce and designs of these intruders
Darkness had come on. bnt h knew the
general direction of camp and hoped to
be able to reach it some time during the
night.
But what of the prisoner? Dnder the
circumstances not more than one man
in a thorsund would have done more
than to wish that he could help ber.
Harkins was that one man. He bad
been strangely drawn to her, and her
situation aroused all his sympathies.
He determined to attempt her rescue.
even at the peril of his life. He drew
away from the mass of rock, strapped
his rifle to his back, and then crept over
the rough ground on hands anil knees,
moving to Dank the party on the right.
It was a rough and dangerous route,
leading over great masses of rock, under
thick pines anil across seams or rifts, but
he moved with care until well in the
rear of the camp.
Then his route was down the side of
the mountain until all at once he came
upon the wagon. It had been pulled up
out of the valley to be hidden by the
trees. The horses he could not see, they
having been lariated out at some spot
where there was grazing.
Looking up at the campfire from the
wagon the Englishman could see the
four renegades pluying cards by the
blaze. Between him and them was the
girl. He hesitated only long enough to
get his bearings and then began creep
ing upward. He felt now that more de
pended on the girl than himself. If she
was asleep she might scream out as he
aroused her. If she saw him come
creeping up she might take him for an
Indian and alarm ber captors. Even
should all go right up to that moment,
would she have the nerve and strength
to creep away with him?
Half way to the tire the brave Eng
lishman halted to cunvass the chances
witli himself. Ue realized the hazards,
but after a couple of minutes he contin
ued on his way. By und by, as he ele
vated his head above a bowlder, ha saw
the girl before him and not five feet
away. She was sitting upright and had
her face turned toward him.
Harkins lifted his right hand aa a sig
nal. Tbe girl lifted a hand in answer.
Then he beckoned to her to come.
She answered with a sweep of her
hand, which told him that she was tied
to the tree.
TO BB CONTINUED.)
THIS HKPl'NKB ItOAl).
Should Itsorive Thi- A ami Ion ot The Coon
ty Conrt.
Prom the Living Issue.
The necessity for a good road from
John Dny to Heppner beoomes more ap
parent every year. Almost tbe entire
wool crop nf the John Day valley is ship
ped to and through Heppner, nnd whs
there a good road up Beech creek, nr
serosa tbe old Belshaw creek rnnd, wool
from Ihe loitiity of Drj ville, IIihI fans
bpen tioing to The Dulles, would all be
shipped to Heppner as it is at lesst one
hundred miles nearer. The road which
lurus up the enst prong of Beech creek
nnd lines ont over the top of a hivh rsnue
of bills should come down uiiiiu Beech
Creek t11 o miles helnw the junction ol
n- tt prong and the main stream, then
bear southeast throngh a succession nf
low divides, crossing little Beeob creek
below John Silvio's rum h throngh the
lowest part of the Abrnms divide, iuler-
srctitiii Ihe present rnnd near the foot of
the John Dny hill. By this route the
distiitioe is shortened, nnd Ibe elevation
is from five to eight hundred feet less.
The ((round over vbicb the road passes
is dry snd firm with a southwest slope
which insures s drv, solid road early in
the season; nnd as the road up Beeoh
oreek is open for light rigs, two miles of
ihe road to be built won d be Hlrend
partially done. Tbe remainder is road
U5LljPowdei:
The only Pure Cream of Tartar Powder. No Ammonia; No Alum.
Used in Millions of Homes 40 Years the Standard.
(bat could be easily graded witb plow
and scrsper. This route was stronfly
u rued by the late Wm. Lnoe when the
present road was located.
This cbanue would insure a good road
up Beech oreek from Mt. Vernon, and
thus save a drive of ten miles to wool
and freight haulers of Ihe lower John
Uy. Add to this the re grading ot a
few hills, some dilohing nnd culbert
work, and the Beecb creek rond which is
dieiidtd by i ll teimters would be pass
able from April to Deoember inclusive.
There Is slso a grade on the divide be
tween Fin and Bound Basin that needs
relocating, then with a little repairing
each year the road would be a good high
way. -
There is one more obstsole to be over
come aod tbe Heppner road wiil be the
ohoice of teamsters of nil kind; that il
a bridge semes the river ut Monument.
Tbe strenm at this point should have
been bridged long aitn. But if it is not
possible to bridue it at present, there
should be a free ferry run by tbe oounty
till the bridge can be built.
The couutv board should attend to
this matter at onoe.
There has been several thousand dol
lars appropriated to build a road up
Camp oreek to Harney county, snd why
is it that our board has so far overlook
ed the interests ot onr people here, and
especially o Northern Grant? There is
a general kick ooming just ns coon aa
Noi thern Grant mentions division, Hay
itunk or Shoofiy talk of being attached
to 0 ook or Morrow oouutiea where tbey
will get some recognition in the way ot
roads to market. ' Yet this penny-wise
and pnund-foolisb policy ot utterly ig
noring ibe rights and demands of these
communities for passable rosds nnd safe
crossings, is persisted in, leaving these
people to travel to tho county seat and
market, aver roads thut are only safe
with a saddle mule with a light rider.
There is a session ot tbe legislature
olnse at hand, and if we mistake not tbe
men ohosen to represent Grant oounty
in that bod, they will look after these
isolated communities, and nttnoh them
to counties that will give tiVni more rec
ognition than collecting their taxes each
year and giving them nothing in return.
Let our citizens, if they wish to bold
our oouuty intact give liberally, toward
building a good road tbrougli Graut to
Morrow count) ; one from Monument to
Haystack; from llMyataok lo Bhoofly;
hence from there to the oouuty seat.
The Heppuer road nips Grant county
in Ihe center; it is a rond that opens
enrly in the spring, snd is easily kepi
pen. It is cheaper for pussenger nnd
'rei,ht traffic to nnd from Portland, and
is highly uecessary to advance the inter
ests of the eutiie county, and hold it to
gether. Then why don't our county oourt as
sist iu putting the road iu condition for
travel? And right here let me say that
Heppner has a duty to perform in the
matter Let her business men ruise a
fund to help build the road aud thus di
rect the travel and trade uf this county
to that point. Offer inducements in the
liHue of good roads and travel will go
ihnt way. Then advertise your business
in a live paper that circulates among tbe
farmers. Ueniember Hint they are the
men who do the freighting, and will fiud
here you live und what you have for
side.
Let Heppner join bunds with Grant
county and raise ,i fund this winter aud
while the ground is soft iu the cpring
aTinia and fit np a good load from John
Day to Heppner, and Ibe travel uud trade
will as soiely follow as water runs doo
liill. Slaiid by the journal tliat has the
independence to state l lie facts, mid show
vouraelves lo be alive nnd ready to do
business, nnd there is little doubt that
you will get all you deserve.
J. C, Loon.
FAX, PllfJN AND HI.OSOl'HY.
(From the Detroit Free Press.)
A Child's Plillusopliy.
Harold snd Stanley, nge 7 and 3 re
spectively, have a to) ax of bich they
are very proud. One dny they were
trying to do some enrpenter work with
it, but "ere much annoyed when they
found it would not cut. Then Harold
weui to his fattier to complaiu, whiob be
lid in 'bis wise:
"Pnpn, Stanley says the duller the ex
he dul'er It lll Out."
"I gness Ktsnley is tight," "n pspa.
"but 1 dou't fink so," returned Harold
'ton y, "I my i lie duller the ux the
iluller it won't cut."
And papa bud to admit that Harold
was right, too.
Ha oliatit Hats Known.
"I've seen slow messenger boys before,"
said Bunting, angiily, to the little fel
low who hud taken an hour to go two
sq uires, "but you are the slowest of the
slow. Where on earth were von raised?"
"In Philadelphia, sir," repfied the boy.
hurtling Words.
Mabel (holding a letter ill lbs flames)
"Thnt is one of Mr. Gosliu's love
letters. " Amy "A tribute to your
beauty and worth, I suppose?"
M ubel "Yes; now it is a glowicgtrib
ute." .