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								 The 
								Man of The Forest At sunset hour 
								the forest was still, lonely, sweet with tang of 
								fir and spruce, blazing in gold and red and 
								green; and the man who glided on under the great 
								trees seemed to blend with the colors and, 
								disappearing, to have become a part of the wild 
								woodland.
 Old Baldy, highest of the White Mountains, stood 
								up round and bare, rimmed bright gold in the 
								last glow of the setting sun. Then, as the fire 
								dropped behind the domed peak, a change, a cold 
								and darkening blight, passed down the black 
								spear-pointed slopes over all that mountain 
								world.
 It was a wild, richly timbered, and abundantly 
								watered region of dark forests and grassy parks, 
								ten thousand feet above sea-level, isolated on 
								all sides by the southern Arizona desert—the 
								virgin home of elk and deer, of bear and lion, 
								of wolf and fox, and the birthplace as well as 
								the hiding-place of the fierce Apache...
 
 
								
								  The 
								Call of The Canyon What subtle strange message had come to 
								her out of the West? Carley Burch laid the 
								letter in her lap and gazed dreamily through the 
								window.
 It was a day typical of early April in New York, 
								rather cold and gray, with steely sunlight. 
								Spring breathed in the air, but the women 
								passing along Fifty-seventh Street wore furs and 
								wraps. She heard the distant clatter of an L 
								train and then the hum of a motor car. A hurdy-gurdy 
								jarred into the interval of quiet.
 “Glenn has been gone over a year,” she mused, 
								“three months over a year—and of all his strange 
								letters this seems the strangest yet.”
 She lived again, for the thousandth time, the 
								last moments she had spent with him. It had been 
								on New-Year's Eve, 1918. They had called upon 
								friends who were staying at the McAlpin, in a 
								suite on the twenty-first floor overlooking 
								Broadway. And when the last quarter hour of that 
								eventful and tragic year began slowly to pass 
								with the low swell of whistles and bells, 
								Carley's friends had discreetly left her alone 
								with her lover, at the open window, to watch and 
								hear the old year out, the new year in. Glenn 
								Kilbourne had returned from France early that 
								fall, shell-shocked and gassed, and otherwise 
								incapacitated for service in the army—a wreck of 
								his former sterling self and in many 
								unaccountable ways a stranger to her. Cold, 
								silent, haunted by something, he had made her 
								miserable with his aloofness. But as the bells 
								began to ring out the year that had been his 
								ruin Glenn had drawn her close, tenderly, 
								passionately, and yet strangely, too...
 
								 
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