PROLOGUE.
, A yoang man and a beautiful
young woman, lost and alone in
a wilderness for months, half
starved and in daily peril of
death from wild beasts and still
more savage Indians this is the
central theme of the most fasci
noting romance that has come
' from Emerson Hough's pen.
Read and you will learn how
love came to them; how they
conducted themselves in this try
ing, unconventional situation;
how the man's chivalry and the
woman's purity held them stead
fast to the ideals of civilization,
end how the strange episode
brought tragedies, estrangements
and happiness.
CHAPTER XIII.
Cleaving Only Unto Her.
SHE made no great outcry. 1
saw her bend her face forward
into her hands.
'John Cowlea of Virginia."
che said. "I am sorry we are lost."
I could make no answer nave to tow
'silently that if I lived she must be re
turned safely to her home, unhurt
body and soul. ' I dared not ponder on
convention In a case bo desperate as
I knew ours yet might be. Silently 1
unsnddled the horse and hobbled It se
curely as I might with the bridle rein.
Then I spread the. saddle blanket for
her to sit upon and hurried about for
plains fuel.' Water we drank from my
bat and were somewhat refreshed.
Now we had food and water. We
beeded fire. But when I came to fum
ble in my pockets I found not a match.
"I was afraid of that" she said,
catching the meaning of my look.
In my sheath was a heavy hunting
knife, and now, searching about us on
the side of the coulee bank, I found
several flints, hard and white. Then
I tore out a bit of my coat lining aud
moistened it a trifle and saturated it
with powder from my flask, rubbed In
until It all was dry. This niter soaked
fabric I thought might serve as tinder
for the spark. So then I struck flint
and steel and got the strange spark,
bidden In the cold stone ages and nges
there on tho plains, and presently the
park was a little flame and then a
good fire, and so we were more com
fortable. We roasted meut now flat on the
coals the best we might, and so we
ate with no Bait to aid us. The girl be
came a trifle more cheerful, though still
distant and quiet. If I rose' to leave
the Are for an Instant I saw her eyes
following me all the time. I knew her
fears, though she did not complain.
Night camo on. The great gray wolves,
haunters of the buffalo herds, roared
their wild salute to us, savage enough
to strike terror to any woman's soul.
The girl edged close to me. We spoka
but little. Our dangers had not yet
made us other than conventional.
Even as dusk, sank upon us all the
lower sky went black. An advancing
roar came upon our ears, and then a
blinding wave of rain drove across the
surface of the earth, wiping out the
day, beating down with remorseless
strength and volume as though It
would smother and drown us twain In
Its deluge us, the last two human
creatures of the world!
It caught us, that wave of damp
and darkness, and rolled over us and
crushed us down as we cowered. I
caught up the blanket from the ground
and pulled It around the girl's shoul
ders. I drew her tight to me as I lay
with my own back to the storm and
pulled the saddle over her bead, with
this and my own body keeping out the
tempest from her as much as I could.
There was no other fence for her. and
but for this she might perhaps have
died; I do not know. I felt her strain
at my arms first, then settle back and
lnk her head under the saddle flap
and cower close, like some little
boolfellow, all the curves of her
body craving shelter, comfort, warmth.
She shivered terribly. I heard ber
gnsp and sob. Ah, how I pitied her
that hour!
As the rain lessened and the cold In
rensod,I Jumw th.it dawra would aaon
THE
WAY
OF
A MAN
By Emerson Hough
Copyright, IV37, by (be Outlnj PabUsblnj
Company
come upon us. "Walk or we die!" I
gasped. And so I led her at last low
er down the side of the ravine, where
tin' w'.ml whs not so strong.
With nil my soul I challenged my
weakness, summoning to my aid that
reserve of strength I had always known
ench hour In my life. Strangely I felt,
how I cannot explain, that she must
lie saved, that she wns 1. Strange
phrases ran through my brain. I re
membered on!y one. "Cleaving only
iinii her." and this In my weakened
frame of ImkI.v and mind I could not
separate from my stern prayer to my
own strength, once so ready, now bo
strangely departed from me.
To the delirious or the perishing man
time lias no measuring. I do not know
how we Bpent the nlgbt or how long
it was. I knew that Auberry would
before thU time have gone back to fol
low our trail, perhaps starting after us
even before night bad approached, but
now the rain bad blotted out all man
ner of trails, so rescue from that source
was not to oe expected. :soi even wo
ourselves could tell where we hud wan
dered, nor could we, using the best of
our wits, ns we than had them, do
more than vaguely guess where our
fellow travelers by that time might be.
Neither did we know distance nor dl
reel ion of nny settlement.
We sat. draggled und weary, hog
gard and worn by the long strain. Her
skin garments, again wet through,
clung tight to her figure uncomfort
ably. Now nnd again 1 could see a
tremor running through ber body from
the chill. Yet as I looked at her I
could not withhold my homage to her
spirit. She was a splendid creature.
o my soul swore to me, thoroughbred
as any In all the world. Her chin was
high, not drawn down In defeat I
caught sight of her small ear. flat to
the bead, pluk with cold, but the ear
of a game creature. Her nose, not
aquiline, not masculine, still was not
weak. Her chin, as 1 remember I
noted even then, was strong, but lean
aud not overladen with flesh. Her
mouth, not thlu lipped and cold, yet
not too loose and easy, was now plain
tive, as It was sweet In its full, red
cupId bow. Itound and soft nnd gen
tle she seemed, yet all the lines of her
figure, all the feutures of ber face be
tokened bone and breeding. The low
cut Indian shirt left her neck hare. I 1
could see the brick red line of the sun- I
burn creeping down, hut most I noted. I
since ever it was my delight to truce
good lineage In any creature, the splen
did curve of her neck, not long and
weak, not short nnd animal, but rouud
and strong-iwrfect 1 was willing to
call that and every other thing about
her.
She turned to me after a time and
smiled wanly. "I am hungry." she
said.
I bethought me of an old expedient
my father had once shown me. At
the bandolier across my shoulder
swung my bullet pouch and powder
flask, In the former also some bits of
tew along with the cleaning worm. I
made a loose wad of the tow kept ths
dry In the shelter of the pouch and
pushed this down the rifle barrel after
I bad with some dlfficutly discharged
the load already there. Then I rubbed
a little more powder into anothev
loose wad of tow and fired the rifle
Into this. As luck would have it, some
sparks still smoldered in the tow, and
thus I was able once more to nurse up
a tiny flame. So now again we ate,
and once more as the hours advanced
we felt strength coming to us. Yet
In spite of the food. I was obliged to
admit a strange aching in my bead
and a hot fever burning in my bones.
"See the poor horse," she said, and
poluted to our single steed, bumped up
In the wind, one hip high, bis bead low,
all dejection.
"He must eat,'' said I, and so started
to loosen his hobble. Thus engaged, I
thought to push on toward the top of
the next ridge to see what might be
beyond. What I saw was the worst
thing that could have met my eyes. I
sank down almost in despair.
There, on a flat valley nearly a mile
away in Its slow descent stood the
peaked tops of more than a score of
Indian tepees. Horses were scattered
all about. From the tops of the lodges
little dribbles of smoke were coming.
For some moments I lay examining
tho camp, seeking to divine tho Intent
of these people, whom I supposed to
be Sioux. I heard a whisper at my
shoulder. "What Is itT she asked me,
and then the next moment, gailng as I
did over the ridge, she saw. I felt her
cower close to me In her Instant terror.
"My Cod!" she murmured. "What
shall we do? They will find us; they
will kill us!"
"Walt now," said I. "They have not
yet seen us. They may go away In
quite the other direction. Do not be
alarmed."
We lay there looking at this unwel
come sight TJr ttouie moments, but at
lost I saw something that pleased me
better.
The men among the horses stopped.
looked and began to hurry about be
gan to lead up their horses, to gestic
ulate. Then far off uioii the other
side I saw a blanket waving.
'It Is the buffalo signal." I said to
her. "They are going to hunt, and
their hunt will be in the opposite di
rection from us."
We crept back from the top of the
ridge, and I asked her to bring me the
saddle blanket while I held the horse.
This I bound fast around the horse's
head.
'Why do you blind tho poor fellow?"
she Inquired. "He cannot eat; he will
starve. Resides, we ought to be get
ting away from here as fast as we
can.
"I tie up bis head so that he cannot
see or smell and so fall to neighing to
the other horses." I explained to her.
Perhaps I staggered a llttto as I stood
"You are weak!" she exclaimed.
You are ill!"
"it Is fever." I answered thickly.
"My head is bad. I do not see distinct
ly. If you please. I think I will He
down for a time."
I felt her arm under mine. She led
ni; to our little fireside, knelt on tn
"My Godl" she murmured, "what ehall
we do 7"
wet ground beside me as I sat, my
bead hanging dully. 1 remember that
her hands were clasped. I recall the
agony ou her face. The day grew
warmer us the sun arose. The cloudii
butig low and moved rapidly under the
rising airs. Now and again I beara
faint sounds, uiuflled. far off. 'They
are Bring. 1 muttered. "They pre
nmong the buffalo. That is good, flooi
they will go away."
1 do not wish to sKuk of what fol
lowed. For me a merciful Ignorance
came; but what that girl must have
suffered hour after hour, night after
night, day after day, alone, without
shelter, almost without food. In such
agony of terror as might have been
natural eveu had her solitary protector
been possessed of all his faculties I
say I cannot dwell uion that because
It mokes the cold sweat stand on my
foce even now to think of It. So I will
say only that one time 1 awoke. She
told me later that she did not know
whether It was two or three days we
had been there thus. She told me that
now and then she left me and crept
to tho top of the ridge to watch the
Indian camp. She saw them come In
from the chase, their horses loaded
with meat Then, as the sun came out.
they went to drying meat and the
squaws. began to scrape the hides. At
they bad abundant food they (lid not
bunt more than that one day, and nc
one rode In our direction. ' Our horse
she kept concealed and blindfolded un
til dark, when she allowed him to feed.
This morning she had removed the
blankot from bis head, because now,
as she told me with exultation, tho In'
dians bud broken camp, mounted and
ridden away, all of them, far off to
ward the west. She had cut and dried
the remainder of our antelope meat,
taking this hint from what we saw the
Indians doing, and so most of our re
maining meat bad been saved.
I saw that her belt' was drawn
tighter about a thinner waist Her
face was much thinner and browneY,
her eyes more sunken. The white strip
of her lower neck was now brick red.
I dared not ask her bow she had got
through the nights, because she had
used tho blanket to blindfold the
horse. Sho had hollowed out a place
for my hips to lie more easily and
pulled grasses for my bed. In all ways
tboughtfulness and unselfishness had
been hers. Aa 1 realized this I put my
hands over my face and groaned aloud.
Then I felt ber band on my bead.
"How did you eat?" I asked her.
"You have no flre."
"Once I had a fire," she said. "I
made It with flint and steel, as I saw
you do. See," she added and pointed
to a ring of ashes, where there were
bits of twigs and other fuel.
"Now you must est," she said. "You
are like a shadow. See, I have made
you broth." '
"Broth?" said I. "now?"
"In your bat." she said. "My father
told me how the Indians boll water
with hot stones. I tried It In my own
bat first, but it Is gone. A hot stone
biinnHl It through."""" ThelTI ""TiouveJ
that she was bareheaded. I lay still
for a time, potnlorlng feebly, as best 1
could, on the courage und resource of
this girl, who now no doubt had saved
my life, unworthy as it seemed to me.
At last I looked up to her.
"After all. I may get well," I said.
"Oo now to the thicket at the head of
the ravine and see if there are any llt
tlo Cottonwood tree9. Auberry told me
that the Inner bark Is bitter. It may
act like quinine and break the fever."
So presently she came back with my
knife and her hands full of soft green
bark which she hod found. "It Is bit
ter." sold she. "but if I boil it it will
Fpoll your broth." I drank of the
crude preparation as best I might and
ate feebly us I might at some of the
more tender meat thus softened. And
then we boiled the bitter bark, and I
drank that water, the only medicine
we might have. Alas, It was our last
use of my hat as n kettle, for now it,
too. gave way.
Now." she said to me, "I must leave
you for a time. I am going over to
the Indian camp to see what I can
find."
She put my bead in the saddle for a
pillow and gave me the remnant of
her hat for a shade. I saw her go
way, clod like an Indian woman, her
long brolds down her bock, ber head
bare, her face brown, her moccaslned
feet slipping softly over the grasses,
tho metals of her leggins tinkling. My
eyes followed her as long as she re
mained visible, and it seemed to me
hours before she returned. I missed
her.
She enme buck laughing and joyful.
'See!" she exclaimed. "Many things!
have found a knife, and I have
found a broken kettle, and here is an
awl made from a bone, nnd here is
something which I think their women
use in scraping hides." She showed
me all these things, last the saw edged
bone pr scraping hoe of the squaws
used for dressing hides as she had
thought.
"Now I am a squaw," she said, smil
ing oddly. "Yes, we are snvages now."
She looked down at me at length os
I lay. "Have courage, John Cowles,"
she said. "Get well now soon so that
we may go ttnd hunt. Our meat la
nearly gone."
"Rut you do not despair," said I.
wondering. She shook her bead.
"Not yet. Are we not as well off as
those?" She pointed toward the old
encampment of the Indians. A faint
tinge came to her cheeks. "It Is
strange." sold she. "I feel as if the
world had absolutely como to an end
and yet"-
"It Is Just beginning," Bald I to her.
"We are alone. This is the first gar
den of the world. You are the first
woman; I am the first cave man, and
all the world depends on us. See,"
said perhaps still a trifle confused In
my mlnd-"all the arts and letters of
the future, all the paintings, all the
money and goods of nil the world, all
the peace and war and all the happl
oess and content of the world rest with
us. Just us two. We ore the world,
you and I "
She sat thoughtful and silent for a
time, n l'alnt pink, as I said. Just show
Ing on ber cheeks.
"John Cowles of Virginia." she Bald
simply, "now tell me how shall I mend
this broken kettle?"
(To He Continued.)
Ladles' Aid Society Meets.
From Wednesday's Dally.
The Ladies' Aid society of tin
Presbyterian church held I hoi
roirti ar nice ing al tin Homo o
Mrs. J. H. Marlin yesterday after
noon and were entertained in ;
most delightful manner, Mes
dames II. D. Travis and Marlin
being the hostesses on this oc
oasion. A special invitation had
been extended to the members o
the Ladies' Auxiliary nnd thei
friends, and in spite of the ex
I reme warm weather, there was a
large number in attendance. Th
ladies held their regular husines
session at the. usual hour, a
which time they were called upon
to accept the resignation of Mrs
J. N. Wise, who has been sec
rotary of this organization for th
nasi few months. Mrs. H. I)
Trnvis was elected to fill th
vacancy. The ladies regret very
much to lose Mrs. Wise from
their midst, as she has been on
of their most otllcient and faith
ful members. After the businos
session the largo company were
entertained with a short program
Misses Marie Douglass and Mil
drod Cummins furnishing some
excellent readings and Misse
F.I Ion and Kathryn Windham con
Iributing a charming number i
tho wav of a vocal duet. Mis
llermia Windham rendered an in
slrumental select ion in a very
pleasing manner. A few moment
worn then devoted to a social time
after which dainty refreshment
wore provided by the hostesses
they being assisted in serving
a largo number of young ladies.
Insect Bite oCtss Leg.
A Iloslon man lost his log from
the bile of an insect two years lie
fore. To avert such calatnitie
from slings and bites of insect
use Hueklen's Arnica Salv
promptly to kill the poison and
prevent inflammation, swellin
ami pain. Heals burns, boil
ulcers, piles, eczema, cut
bruises. Only 25 cents at F.
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All Troubles Having Been Amica
bly Adjusted, Management Ex
pects to Please Our People.
From Wednesday's Dally.
Unless some unforsoon cirrum
tatices intervenes the carnival
will open up Thursday af
ternoon for a throe days' stand in
the city. S. I.. Heaton, an ex
perienced carnival man, of San
Francisco, is in charge of the
shows, throe cars of which nr-
ived last night and two today. Mr.
Ileaton is a pleasant gentleman to
noel and was with the Mid-Wost
onipany last week. J lie prin
cipals, says Mr. Ileaton, dissolved
lartnership Saturday and loft a
rood share of the company to ro
ti ganize under Mr. lleaton's man
agement. The new company lias
raised 8500 to pay tho freight on
the paraphanalia to Plattsinoulli
and the license of tho city for the
use of the side , streets, the
privilege of using which has boon
turned over to Mr. Ileaton with
ho consent of the city authorities.
Mr. Ileaton expects to put on a
clean, moral show; one that nny-
uio can view without tho least jar
to their finer natures. There will
to no confetti bill ties. There will
to ton concessions, some lino
front shows, with free attractions.
Tho Japanese will put on a fine
exhibition, with trained dogs;
there will bo merry-go-round and
ocean wave swings in fact about
all that was advertised before,
though perhaps not on quite so
gorgeous a scale. Mr. Ileaton
vouches for his people and says
that no one in tho city will have
cause to regret their visit here.
Carload Texas Melons.
From Wednesday's Dally.
H. M. Soonnichson received a
carload of watermelons this
morning that were shipped from
tho famous Falfurrias country.
rhey arc large and of a very line
variety. There was a total of 103
cars shipped from that country
luring tho month of Juno, or from
May L'5 to Juno 25. This certain
ly demonstrates that this part of
I'exas is sure a great producing
country. It is in tho same local
ity where so many Plaltsinouth
people own tracts of land that
were purchased through tho
agency of our live real estate
man, W. K. Hosencrans.
William Cook and son, Lynn,
left for Columbus, Neb., on tho
morning train today, where they
have a shooting gallory in full
swing. Mr. t;noK s ramiiy win re
main in Plallsmoulh for the pres
ent.
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Sunday School Class Picnic.
Mrs. (1. L. Farley's Sunday
school class of boys yesterday af
ternoon, at her invitation, as
sembled in Garfield park for a
picnic; the time being from I to 7
o'clock. A rollicking good time
al playing games and rolling on
the grass was enjoyed by the
boys, all of whom arc lively and
given much to pranks. At the
proper time a fine picnic supper
was served in picnic stylo, each
little pupil, with whetted ap
petite, found time from his sport
to pause at the tempting spread
long enough to enjoy tho tine
supper. After all had satisfied
their appetites for the good things
spread before them, they express
ed I heir enjoyment of tho occasion
to their teacher and departed for
their homos'. Among those pres
ent wore: Carl Wurl, Carl
Schneider, Olio Trility, Dean
Douglass, .Jack Thompson, Harold
Homier, and as visitors, Helen ami
F.dilh Farley and Virginia Waugh.
Mall Carriers Will Fly.
This is an age of 'real dis
coveries. Progress rides on the
air. Soon wo may see Undo Sam's
mail carriers flying in all direc
tions, transporting mail. People
take a wonderful interest in a
discovery that benefits them.
That's why Dr. King's Now Dis.
covory for Coughs, Colds nnd
other throat and lung diseases is
tho most popular medicine in
America. 'It cured mc of a dread
ful cough," writes Mrs. J. F.
Davis, Stieknoy Corner, Me., "af
ter doctor's treatment and all
other remedies had afiled." For
coughs, colds or any bronchiat
affection it's unequaled. Price
50c and $1.00. Trial bottle free
at F. n. Fricke & Co.
Departed for California.
From Wednesday's Dally.
Mr. C. 15. Woscott, who has been
visiting his sons for a few weeks,
and in tho meantime made a trip
to Canada, departed for Los An
geles, California, this morning.
Ho was accompanied by Mrs. C. C.
Woscott and son, Mason, who witl
visit, on the coast until September.
Mr. Woscott and party will board
the Overland Limited al Omaha
shortly after 1) o'clock this morn
ing, going via Salt Lake City for
San Francisco, and from thence to
Los Angeles. A number of friends
wore at the station to see tho party
otT on their long journey.
Don't Kill the Squirrels.
There are numerous tame
squirrels in various parts of the
city. They are perfectly genlle,
harm nobody, and all are warned
against killing them, as the law
makes it a flneable offense at this
time ('if the year.
The Journal office carries ill
kinds of typewriter supplies.
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