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of terror and tried to dissuade her. strenuously that ust go. At last, grown premature- grew prematurely wise because he saw that Laurel was in

CHAV-TER VL

When Craymer left her, on the day before the ladies came to the rancheira, Laurel went with him to the edge of the little cleared spot from which she could watch him all the way down the hill and into the trail that led through bunch grass across the arm of the great desert.

Few birds are found in this desolate region, but one was calling to its mate from a near tree and the cry throbbed passionately through all the air.

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watched until he had waved a last adien |

and ridden swiftly into the encircling shadows. Then she turned her eyes up-

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ward. Thesky wascloudless save a few fleecy lines that stretched out toward | ker beloved mountain. She reached ort her arms and a look of trust like a di- | vine radiance came upon her face.

‘*Take keer o’ him,’’ she said. *‘Keep

both on us—him ‘n me.”’

She had not been prepared for this new experience. No girl friend had made her a confidant; no book had come in her way which gave the mod- ern keen analysis of a maiden’s heart when first it feels the emotion of love. If such a one had fallen into ber hands, it would not have enlightened her. She could not read the simplest words, The few rude folk in her home had never coupled her name with that of any of the swarthy hunters who, at intervals of many weeks, had climbed the moun- tain path. How desolate she had been without knowing it!

The child came seeking her. It put up its arms and cried piteously. She clasped it to her heart and turned to as- cend the path.

The next morning she said to her heart, ‘‘He beant comin today.’’ But as the time came when she used to hear his step, she stole to the spot under the blasted pine whence she could see out over the level waste beyond.

‘‘He beant thar,’’ she said, but she smiled over at the mountain and up at the soft, bright sky.

The next morning it was the same, and the next, and so on for many days. Longing gains strength by delay. The days could not come fast enough. She looked eagerly across the lowlands, for her heart had gone that way, and her

She could watch him all the wey down

the hilt. eyes must of necessity follow. yet no shadow touched her, She went about in her life of toil and privation while ber heart was filled with a sacred quiet.

Once could not pity ber even when knowing the untruth in the object of her thought. It was not possible. trust as she did was to walk the borders of limitless bliss. It could hardly occur to ber to question. Every morning and every evening she smiled as she sent a greeting over to old Mount Hood and up toward the high, serene sky.

The weeks dragged by. A new, strange tremor possessed her heart. A pathetic, farreaching look went out from her eyes. The good night to the clouds and to the mountain began to hose its joyous ring.

One morning she went much earlier |

to the cleared space and waited longer.

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him; he could not come. It did not en- ter her thought that he might not come even if the something had broken its grasp. Her nature was one of trust. All this waiting did not help her to learn one letter of doubt.

‘He be sick,’’ she asserted with sad conviction. ‘Th’ long heat, it be allers bringin fevers.’’ Then she stretched out her hands, and, though she did not know that bending the knee meant anything, she knelt. Her eyes covered themselves with a mist of tears and re- fused to see even her beloved mountain.

The next day passed without his com- ing. Her thoughts grew somber. Her bright manner intermitted. In the late afternoon che called the youth to her.

**I be goin t’ see him,’’ she said.

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She only insisted the more ehe u ly old already, he trouble. EZc went to the grandfather gud wheedled him into letting them take the beasts and go for a long ride ovcr the cld desert trail. ° TAP omy

They roda swiftly into the ‘‘scaboy desert,’’ with its alternations of clayey and sandy soil. On through the gray

sagebrush and the greasewood—bypo-

crite of another and better shrub. The rocky hollows were dry aud empty as if winter snows had never melted in them

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The gray and dismal ride was in har- mony with the thonghts of both. Laurel was impelled by a new feeling in which no thought of herself stirred, and which to a terrible certainty that some ed her beloved,

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grew in unknown evil encompass holding him in thrall.

When they reached McAlvord’s fer- tile land, they rode more slowly until they came upon astream. Here they dis- mounted, and the youth staid to water the beasts and to tether them behind a clump of bushes, where they could browse the juicy grass upon the borders of the stream.

Laurel went swiftly forward along the shaded drive. The sun was gone, but the afterglow spread its radiance

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iera the sound of happy voices greeted her. She stopped suddenly as if deter- red from her purpose, bent her head and peered between the branches of a thick shrub.

So fair a vision of life had never be- fore greeted her eyes, nor had it enter- ed her happiest dreams. She caught her breath as she looked at the long veran- da, gay with fringed hammocks and great lounging chairs and dainty wil- low rockers. Bright rugs were strewn over the floor. Easkets of flowers de- pended from the outer reof line. Long ,ines swung slowly in the evening air.

{uman forms were the jewels in this enchantiug scene—strong men and graceful women. Her switt glance found the one she sought. ‘‘Th’ tall un’’ was not there to Givert her attention.

She read with anxious eyes, but saw

no line of care or illness upen the gay features she had jgarned so well. He was the center of the group and leaned lazily back in a great armchair, look- ing up with a smile into the faco of a girl who stood Leside him and who wore 1 aus soitand white as the one

worn by the snow mountain. Ti nod to assent to something this cone asked of him, fer she went

through a doorway, upon either side of

which hung fleecy curtains, and re- turned with a etrange something in her band—something that she held out tc hina end that he tcok with another sitile into her face and a few words which Laurei could not hear, they were

so low. see toved strange instrument

his fingers across it, drew

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The one carele: and, moving forth a tender sound. such as had never before been heard gs the unseen listen- er. It was not like a bird’s voice, nor a choir of birds. It was not like the sigh- ing of the wind through the firs. It was better and sweeter, for it seemed the spirit of each blending and interchang- ing and softened until fitted to minister to that fair company.

He began to sing some words in an

mknown tongue which thrilled her through and through. Something that. because of the look upon the face of that other girl, Laurel knew he was singing to ber outof all that happy group.

And this wasa girl young like her- self, tall and slight, with proudly car- ried head, but fair imstead of. dark— heavenly fair, with hair that gleamed like ‘‘a bit o’ wheatfield when th’ san be shinin,*’ poor Laurel said to herself.

She had never before seen any one with golden hair. Thatof the child was flaxen, but dun of color like the fog that sometimes lay dank and cold about the mountains in winter, while this was gloriously warm like the sunlight and strayed over the fair forehead in little waving lines.

There must be something to make a heart stand still at the first sight of a face crowned so shiningly. One may love the dusky masses better, but he is gure to be arrested at sight of the other. If the English really received the com- pliment of which they are so proud when, in the slave market of ancient Rome, the good St. Gregory was so stir- red at sight of a fair northman as to call him ‘‘not Angle, but an angel,’’ then what must have thrilled the innocent being whose heart was 80 in sympashy with all beayty, whether of earth pr sky?

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‘Ihe locks andthe Gress cf this girl were like those from another world than Lazrel’s—a world to which the heart out in the shadow must own that he, too, belonged. Herself was the alien one.

As she looked and as she listened to

the tender music she began to under- |

stand.

The afterglow died suddenly. Tinted lights shone out from an inner fair scene. One by one the others went within, but those two remained. The music ceased. He laid the instrument upon the rug beside him and held out his hands,

The bright one arose and sat ®bon the broad arm of his chair and laid herarm about his neck. He lifted her other hand to his lips. His head was against her shoulder. His words were low, but Lau- rel’s heart interpreted the tone. Her in- nocent soul was stung. A elty shortened her breath. God be mer- ciful to a young heart when it leatns its first lesson in the untruth of life!

She sank upon her knees and with a faint cry would have failen but that the youth caught her about the waist and dragged her along the turf beside the drive, so that their footsteps made no sound.

He untethered the horses and lifted Laurel upon her own. They were soon

in the edge of the desert, where he drev |

freer breath. But when her beast pans-

ed, unheeded by her, to browse a bit of |

chemise wood he dismounted and pull- ed it hastily forward. Then he tied the two tethering ropes together and led the animal upon which the young girl sat in almost utter unconsciousness. The desert solitude upon one hand and the deep, mysterious mountain sol-

caped from this evil thing. Dizzy and panting though she was, it still lay up- on her heart. She opened her mouth and gave a prolonged cry. Again and again the piteous wail rang ort antil she grew hoarse and could no longer cry. But,the evil would not be driven away. It clutched at her fiercely. All her thoughts grew cramped into one sad, mad thought that reached as high as the sky and that laid hold of the silence below.

This straixwas too much for even her vigorous organism. A gurgle came in her throat, and a stream of warm blood rushed through her lips. She saw it with unstartled eyes. She was going to die, then, as the deer died that came panting into the mountain path with blood on its delicate lips. Everything faded from her sight. ‘The light went out. Was it like this to the pretty deer?

After a time the light came back. A

little later she could lift her head and |

look about her. She was not dead, then, like the deer. It was not so well with ber as that. Nothing was left to her but to go back into her old, poor life, older

and poorer than ever since she knew |

that it was so. Nothing but to goon bearing the common fretting of the meager days without faltering. A thou- sand pitiful noes were wrung from her soul. Such silly demands as were made upon her! Such foolish, fitful, peevish words as her poor ears had often to hear! Her spirit shrank from the dreary out- look.

The dusk came on. The outline of trees and rocks grew sharper at the summit and became an indistinct mass below. But she was not afraid. She had often shivered at imagined hearing of the bears’ slow tread and the steal- thy spring of the panther. But they had no terror for one in her mood. Death in any form would be easier tonight than the life which stretched so blankly be- yond.

She must go back. They surely would be calling her. She arose and began the descent, but her knees were weak and her feet slipped. It was a difficult thing when one was strong and well, but since she had almost died how strength- less she was and how short her breath. She clutched at the branches as she went, and she who had hardly known fatigue must new rest often.

There was no danger of losing the way, for as she came into cach clear spot she looked for the snow mountain and guided her steps as the mariner looks at bis star aud makes sure of his watery path.

‘*‘Laurel!’’ shoe heard. ‘‘Laurel!’’

It was the youth. He was seeking her. She who had called gayly morn- ing and evening to the clouds and to the mouniin could hardly find voice to let him know where to find her.

He came at last, and when he tock her hands they were so cold that they chilled him. Leaning upon his shoul- der, she reached the hut and sank upon her bed and laid the whole night through without even trying to lift her head.

(To be Cortivued.)

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