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CHI CAGO, ILL., SATURDAY,
AUGUST 1 1 ,
1906.
VOL. XXXIV, N0. 32.
WE EEKERSA ’
ASil‘E1Iig6R0iI1ilI1Ge0iil18i‘i6Si.
5-5-Or.'hS- -
By VIELLIAM WALLACE COOK.
[Copyright by the Author.)
CHAPTER I.
A RESCUE.
It was :i or (or help. Mort Lindsay,
orory sense keenly on the alert, was more
than sure of it. -
he horse he was leading-equivved with
. t the Oint W ere
reached him. the trail wound
itsell arnu d
mo of Sziddielltick liiounrain on 9. l t
natural h t. On t e le t was an aim st
vertical nail of gl-anit on
9; the right.
sheer descent tailing three hundred feet to
the waters of French Creek:
“‘hiie Lindsay was positive he had heara
‘n
(‘all for . he S at a loss to locate
ihe point from Whic it had come. 11 d '9“!
to a. halt i1 Ve n answering sh K
n
Again the cry was repented. this time
luuder and thrilling With an undertone of
Slidaenly aroused hope. ki a. h
to the edge of the trail and knelt at the
cliffs brink; )
A muttered exclitmzition fell from his lips
as he looked downward. Twenty ieet be-
-Smail tree that grew out of
low, caught in the scraggly branches of a
n ciert in the
[ireciplce wall, was the term of a man wear-
ing ‘Uncle sdm's blue und the shoulder
SITEDS Of an officer. 7
Apart irom the soldier's predicament, 5ur<
prising and tragic n it was, there was
something else between these two men that
its tense signiticunce into their
nge meeting.
1y God!" was trotted ti-om down the
ciirrside, “is that you, Lindsay?" i
“IFS Lin say. Lieutenant Edgermn." on-
"Thought I'd nhnndoned you, eh?" called 1” “I don't want you (or an enemy. Lind-
Llndsay. "I Won abandon
Edgerlon clung to his frail support with '
W He he followed Ilislructloils "ll" 9'59;
one hand
with the other. While
5: atom, boulder. .
.. 0“.
T0
.., can hang in the mm and work my my mt-men! tightening the buckle of h
a do
hit like you're in. Put that noose under your
rms."
was d ..
Lindsay bound his end 0! the rope around isn't it possible for two me
on
y Enid Edirerton.
"Seein' as things have turned out as they
now,” returned the puty. darkly. “it
am‘! possible for you to have me for any-
: "Your lo ic passes my volnpreilensiori.
n to e at outs
one subject and friends on other
.,..
have to depend on yourselt more smun s
or les " said Lindsay. “Can you climb the
e
"Not it-hen the subject, ti: you can it.
means so much to me." Lindsay spent a.
spin‘.
sivered th man on the brink, injectill it up the cm I sue“. me M,“ ‘S mu h and i-zdgerton seemed at a ss.
im Ce into hi vo e -- hen i I i ‘ Q, , 1 0, M3‘ "The horse shied and threw me over."
pit-trier; gpdthat rideriessnhg ‘eh has (0 noth" ;?"“,:‘:“;511::]f‘f$.:"“and"“mI‘:ch of the Silgd he. wishing to talk, yet hardly knowing
ra . a y ea ea ge 3‘ ‘ . w zit to say.
"Get me out his!" arne sharia! mm :‘r“‘::';‘:::’s.“‘Q.,f“ d“:hf“u:ff;; “You West Pointers ought to take a turn
Edgerton. “This tree is pulling from the mom “any brought Edgmm me‘. ‘e at ran e rldi on ed Lindsay. “Mebhe
rocks. it you save my lire you'll have to be m he was a” mu 5,9,“ and M, “.eak,y Mm could sit a horse h tier."
quirk about it." d0wn'm the fa ‘ here, Lindsay." proceeded Eiigerton,
"Why should I save your lire?’ Are you
it iriend or mine‘! Have you any right to
such a service."
man always has to
like this! surely
a
=
E
to
A
ta
-1
B. monient. the ‘hdrew. walk his
horse and removed a no rial that sullng
t his die-can e. c pleii. tol-
lowed him, Etigerion seeming to think the
other had started away.
Unoolling the rope, Lindsay again knelt
n the edge of the cliff and allowed the
tioose to ripple downwnrd until Edgerion
was able to (‘ulch hold of it
gave
a (I began
silence. When
oi‘! the led horse.
am much ob
coiling it
ilelf. A
Liuilszty, nxetiiy.
i hartl. un!ricndiy.ing upon me
glance. stooped down and released the rope ‘ .. .
mo ms mm‘ m grm hwnd. lets target the
ready to remount, he cost you M“. to
,. "I hired to you " bt-imn Edger-
ton, picking himself up slow , “i'orn"
An ilnmltient excinmntioli esra
other’: lips as he vaulted into the sad
- "1 want none or your tlittniis." said
‘Her 3. and difference in your plans
he, ox” ..
‘ looping the reins over his arm and adva
With outstretched
n.
, n ..
"Tell me this " interrupted Lindsay, “are
5?"
- in where I had started for." ari-
suered Edgerton. with some embarrass-
inetit.
“What I've just done for y
hasn‘t made
"Then nu've got more nerve than com-
The olncer caught his horse‘s rein: rind inon to otter your hand to me. So long as
laid one larm over the saddle to support him.
I the while his (‘aim eyes re
you keep caiiin' at Dan's you kn W as W
, 0 el
gnrding as i do that there can‘: be any love last he-