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Show LEHI FREE PRESS, LE HI, UTAH II f B m Copyright V A Romance of the North Woods By HAROLD TITUS WXC EVENTS LEADINC air-drie- d lumber rolled out of Shoe- string; piles of green lumber grew. New loans, wilb lumber as security, were negotiated In Milwaukee to care for the curt demands of tbe Kampfest bank. "But we're only one Jump ahead of disaster! she said. 'These lilwau-Icebankers have been so decent with us up to now, but there's no telling when their good nature will give out. If we should shut down It would bring them up here In a hurry. If we can Just keep going I" They bad not got abreast of the situation again as yet A four day tie-uwould leave the mill hungry. "Luck Is with us," Ellen said that olgbt "We've had no blizzards sitae You seem to be able to you came. checkmate their moves, but you can't beat bad weather "Cross your fingers, " he said grimly. Right be was. The next afternoon tbe placid western sky hnzed up and the temperature, which bad been moderate for days, dropped suddenly. A restive, puffy wind began to blow and settled, towards dusk, to a moaning breeze which carried fine, stinging snow before It Tiny Temple brought the train In an hour late, locomotive plastered with snow, festooned with Icicles, and John, who had been busy in town all day, was there to meet him. "Get your suppers," be told the "She's going to be a buster I crew, We'll run the plow tonight" "That's the way to lick It !" a bruke-ma1 n said. Two hours for food for the men and coal and water for the engine and to couple to the wing plow that stood ready on Us siding. Men were there, a dozen of them, armed with shovels, sitting In the heated way car, waiting toive battle. Tucker and John and two sectiou men were In the plow; the first brace to ride In the lookout and watch ahead; the others to man the big wheel which manipulated the wings. They were nearlng the first bad point, and John leaned forward to see better. "Heady, there? . , . Open your wliigs!" he called, and the men below bent on the wheel, turning it to force the wings outward so they would toss the displaced snow far to either side. An Immense, ' cataract came over the'front of the plow, shutting off their view completely. John felt their speed diminish as though reivet-facebrakeshoes bad gripped the wheels and Tucker bawled: "Let "em In t" A man at the wheel kicked the trip ; the wings were squeezed back against the sides of the plow ; they held their pace a moment longer and then came to a stop. John's snow fences had functioned and some of the cuts were easy to traverse because of these barriers which caught and held the snow to windward, but tn other places the going was impossible. A dozen times the shovellers were out, tossing aside and waiting to shovel the plow free when Tiny wedged It Into the drift At Ave In the morning they gained the mainline crossing. Atop the ridge as It was the snow had mostly blown away, but Tucker held the wings open until they approached the last switch. "Bring 'em inl" he called, and chewed briskly as they bumped across the points. It was the one place on the line where caution must be used with the wings: the one standard switch-stanon the whole line was located there and to pass It with wings extended might mean deraild ment John had arranged for breakfast at the crossing tender's house by telephone before they left town, and as be watched the men fall to the steam The battle Ing food he grinned. wasn't over yet but he had held his own so far, lie had checkmated old Totn'f rntblessness; he was wresting an even break from the weather. . . He would not have been so easy of mind, would not have taken such a fierce glory In the conflict with snow, had he known that late yesterday afternoon. In the shadow of a car of logs. Tucker had listened to Paul Corbel while the man talked, slowly at first, as one feeling his way. rapidly later, as one who has achieved his end. , . . .And now on Into camp: hours of the barren chopplngs battle-througuntil they gained the shelter of timber. Tiny must tinker for half an hour with bis engine; men must rest. Fresh shovelers could be taken on at camp, but the engine crew could not he replaced. As day waned the wind dropped and anow thinned. The temperature fell, too. but the back of the storm was, broken. , All. that remained now was rem jhe crossing-oto reopen tin-roa- d Into,. '.Sty strtn.' nevfo miles and alhdown sraaV? 4 i i ? i- "John opened the "plow door, waltlng- for that stop. Tbe wings were spread and he could hear the fluff of snow they shoved out to either side. Up above, alone now. Ticker grasped . i manhood and deceuo UP TO THIS INSTALLMENT - .nM,i.r. Kit clans a tnree momns n-- "Tom" Belknap, big timber operator, ordered by his ph Gorabroad. Promise of advancement he has mad to hn son John are broken, and the young fan Is indignant. I'aul ai a understanding, complete bet. Belknap partner la a bone of contention Father and aon part without ,. . . . . l. ..wraa IIP itbis train delayed by a wreck, John l ordered to leave at once He refuses. After a nst ngni, ia a cage of mistaken Identity. John learns bis father Is be lieved to be out to wreck the (Innards lumber company At the office he finds Gorbel bullying a young wlldered and unt4levlng. he seek employment with that company A letter girl, and throws him out. Gorbel dors not recognize him. The girl Is Ellen Hioharrls, owner of the company.the feeling be carries gives John's name as John Steele, the Belknap being dropped Inadvertently and John, knowing against bis father, allows fcllen to believ that la his name. Ellen engages John as her superintendent sumis - m : the hand rail tightly and braced his Secondly was tbe fear that Ellen feet. One of the men at the wheel Itictiards. suddenly become for Liini a lovelj girl In disiress, would see her spoke to his male and looked upward. bit puzzled. her misgivings That standard switch hopes go tumbling, realized. . . st nil was just ahead. Krom the engine came a muffled lie could work hard enough, could toot Brakes set sharply. They drive men fast enough, when only rage slowed, but it was too late. spurred hi m; but with rage bucked by fear be was a stierinun. From the right, a thud and a rasp He nettled to be Just that In this Ing rattle as tbe wing caught the switch-stand- , anAnother would have given It from its emergency. tearing chorage. A Jolt and a clank from the up; another would tave quit, waited moving switch Just as the plows rear out the storm aud sought succor from trucks met the point and tbe wheels (he main line. But tbe main line branch might not even be opened for dropped down on the ties. . . . "Off!" yelled John. "Jump, you!" days; the aid of a wrecker or only lie led tbe way, hurling himself out of a locomotive would be costly and tbe Iticliards Lumber company had no Into the snow bank. The plow bucked, careened, tilted. dollars to spare. A splintering sound as the front trucks He thanked Providence that after left the steei, and with a rack and a last week's derailment he had carried crash the plow was on Its right side wrecking tools In the way-carThere and John was floundering In the snow, under the stars, with frost dust eddyiwatching the locomotive. He saw her ng about the leaping flames of great stick her pilot Into the drift, saw the bonfires, a score of men worked with tiremnn leap, saw Tiny follcw him. the Intentness of ants. Shovels cleared Tbe engine, all the motive power they the snow from about tbe locomotive, bad, settled slowly to Its side, carryexposing the raw earth, studded now with blittering crystals put there by ing the tank over with it cold. Kxcltement I Men were In the snow; the men were shouting; the way-caMen shoved timbers beneath the lowas spewing more men. Anybody hurt? comotive to give the great Jacks footiGuess not I But we're derailed, man, ng. A crosscut saw rasped and sang In swift tempo as ties were cut into derailed I short lengths for the crib work that John was confronting Tucker. "What the devil I" angered, he was, would make the functioning of the Jacks more than temporary. flaring, ready to take a man apart A delicate Job, "My O d, Steele, 1 forgot!" getting the first foot Tbe roadmaster was shaking, hold Ing for your jacks in a place like that With a lantern, and pieces of stout ing a wrist In the other band. "Forgot the d d thing!" he cried cedar ties, John himself lay on his belly In the excavations beneath the prostrate locomotive and scraped out the last shovelfuls of earth and set the A long time this had taken; blocks. night was well advanced before the men came lugging the lifting devices up from the way car. Carefully they set them, so purchase would come on the engine's frame at the proper angle, and John set the capstan bars and took the first few turns himself. Slow, Indeed. Two men jn the bars., turning a short bitch at a time, there in a cramped position under the faint ly sizzling locomotive; three full turns to an Inch it took; many, many minutes to make those three turns. He stood back, watching. The old engine creaked and snapped as they He watched commenced to lift - her the movement carefully, trying to gauge It with his eye ; watched the Jacks, to see that they did not shift, had his men ready to start the crib-wortbe moment there was room to place blocks so that If things went wrong and the locomotive slipped back "Forgot the D d Thing!" Ha Cried towards her resting place they would Again. not lose all. again. "Thought we were over the Slow work, yesl But you can speed hump and" It a trifle by changing men. by reIn manner his nipped lieving Something arms with fresh muswearying John's attention, steadied his Judg-nient- cles, by having your relays right there, but he did not dwell on It then; ready step In without Die loss of a Jf neither did he speak further to Tucker. new hands ready to grasp the second; He turned to the shovelers who were capstan bars before others have wallowing up from the way car. them. "Get your shovels, half of you. Jim. Crib work followed Up she went. take the rest of the boys back to that tie pile. Bring up a lot of 'em; all the lift of the Jacks until they had raised to their utmost. Then hack she there are. Way-Billget the boys setlled an Inch, resting on the cross to gravel here. Tiny, shoveling down hliu-kOut came the lacks; In Tucker, get piled uncouple your tender. some wood from that car yonder and went new foundations for them; asjain men fell to the slow task of forcing a big one. . build a (Ire Snap to the sixty tons of locomotive hack to Its I You'll In chow an now hour and It then It'll be all night for most of you. upright position. Midnight, and they had only run the Double time for every man that stays Jacks to their limits twice. Dawn by It I" Heart pounding, he oversaw the first wllh the locomotive up enough so they preparations. Made a monkey of, was could commence to build track under he? . . . Looked like It. He'd made her while the jacks screwed slowly to his gesture, played his cards In de their limits yet again. Daylight, with fiance of his father. The main line a faint yelp of greeting to the north branch was snowed in. A locomotive ward, and they looked briefly to see wouldn't be through for days to offer Saunders and a whitened team labor heli. Without such help, righting this Ins through the snow behind shovel equipment was a man's sized oi for ers (Srtih and blankets! Food ami anybody; the best of men needed time something for weary muscles to lie in! All .nielli John had been wailing to to turn a trick like this, hut no i:tch ards man had time to do else hut haul do one specific, necessary thing; not so lovs. . . . Four days, perhaps only essential, however, as this work. He three days of run was left for the mill. tried to remember what It was Tucker! That was It: he was going He could see his father's face when the old man heard; he could hear to put Tucker on the grill and satisfy Tom's disdainful laugh when he the suspicion in his mind If this was his father's doing he wanted to know learned of this failure I about It. Old Tom. wrecking a girl's He hurried back to the crossing hopes by wrecking her equipment I tender's house. His wife had enough They called him to the telephone grub for One more men I. anyhow He orat and Saunders camp telephoned dered a team with food and blankets Did to start fighting Its way through the . timber. 11 . sub-zer- r , , s What CHAPTER IV And now' twin emotions drove the man known In this operation as John Steele to the task confronting him. - Ills. rage against his father still held, but It was augmented by fear, and t- that .Trai Iwofetd, Flrst came the fear that he was going to fall that the laugh would be on him, to wither and shrivel bis pride. . a skunk." Quietly still, and Tucker rose to his feet "Don't me" you say a thing like that to "Sit down I" Bite and sting In the tone; and fire In John's eyes and anger In his gesture. "Sit down!" he repeated lowly, with contempt and the man settled to the bench from which he had risen with such a show of out His face twitched; guilt sat rage heavily upon him. "When 1 first heard of this whole situation here It sounded like some thing a writer had made up." John said evenly. "From the minute 1 came on tbe )ob I knew it was real. "We've speeded up; we should be showing a margin of safety, but we're not. Kvery move thit's been made on this operation has been checkmated by a move from Belknap & Gorbel un til we're about where we started. Kvery move that has slowed us up has been made deliberately, with design. '"This thing" with a curt gesture "was the most serious of all!" He sat very straight and his eyes burned. "You're on your way. Tucker. Have that you forgot. Well and good: you forgot I And you're fired because you forgot, hut you can take a mes sage with yon to deliver to Burke or to Gorbel or to whoever bought It your Farmer's "Wive" Do in Spare Time? According to an article quoted by bureau of agricultural engineer-iDepartment of Agriculture, an English farmer's wife In the Sixteenth cen tury had many and varied duties to perform. "Among other things sle li to make her husband and herself clojhes, and she may loekes'of the shepe' either have the 'to'"maJre hiiinkctts and coverlettes, or both. It Is a wlve's occupation to wynowe ail manner of comes, to make mnlte, to some and he walked stiffly, on feet that struck the packed snow heavily. . . . It was KII.M1 calling, and her voice was weary and faint Things stirred in him. He wanted to talk to her gently, to reassure her; to laugh at the situation, to defy chance to do them up In this round. But a man must be fresh for that, mustn't he? A man must have his wits and his strength to belittle such gravity, and he felt himself sway as he stood there, wondering what to say. "Going good," was all heeould mumble. "Going great! The boys are Ah, when wonders. . . . When?" could he tell her? "God knows," he muttered wearily, and hung up the receiver. John forced Tiny to turn in and the fireman as well, ne set Saunders with a crew tearing up a switch point, getting ready. He swore at them when they took him by the arms and forced him to a cot in the crossing tender's He awoke after noon. tiny parlor. The locomotive was up! Almost up on on her feet! They had crib-worthe other side to hold her from going on over before they were ready. Rails were torn up; ties In place. The switch points were going In against the main line to set her back where she belonged. Slowly she settled Into place, wheels taking the one rail. Up she went on the other side, a fraction of an Inch at a time. The other rail went In; spikes sunk home; the Jacks pulled In their necks. She sat there, square on the rails, and the fireman bad steam on her I . . . Night again; and more fires. But they had something to work with this time. Dawn It was, when they made up their train again, and as Tiny backed down to couple on to the way-ca- r John ended his talk with Tucker. He had come in an hour before, when he knew that the Job was done, and Saunders and Tiny when Way-Hil- l could handle the detail without his help. Tucker was there alone, poking at the fire, and looked up quickly as John closed the door behind him. The superintendent did not speak at first He took off his cap. unbuttoned bis coat, fumbled Id his pocket for a cigarette and then, with the tobacco burning, sat down across the car from his roadmaster. He puffed a moment in silence; held the cigarette In his fingers, and eyed the glowing coal at Its tip. "You didn't forget you know," he said almost casually. "What?" The man's cry was star-tied-; but the quality did not ring Just true. "I didn't what?" "Yon didn't forget, Tucker. A man who built this road wouldn't forget that switch. You deliberately ditched I think us, Tucker. you've sold out to Belknap & Gorbel. I think you're . washe and wrynge. to make neve shere come, and. In time of nede to helpe her husband to fyii the mu.'ke wayne or dounge carte, drive the Ploughs, to loade heye, corne and suche other. And to K0 or ride to market to sol .butter, chese nnike -gges, chekyns. capons, hennei WWW geso. and ajl.ajanner of cornea," Most of us will admit that there has I'een at least some Improvement In years. 8rvlca m rt others. Elijah, HHHHaHMBHHHMMiaMMMsl CHAPTER III Continued of Abraham was the first u vs a writer in the 'ommerce, one of t h, ' p!eg who Included tiie' '7 I hoenlclans, Babylonians. Aran,""1 Arabians and AImariA Semif,! a descendant of shem. "ne of ,r caslan race. The Jewish Prfih .. , I n I1IMI1F 11C '1.1 Ill rro 1iU-sa- l3t Ellen talked to him In detail of the company finances to point out the necessity of going even faster. Cart Exile and Persecution Long Familiar t0 JeW 1 . lhe message Is from me and It's this: "Tell 'em we ask for no quarter. Tell em that I think they're snakes In and that I'll treat 'em as I the grass would snakes! The Iticliards outfit isn't out yet, and I'll tell you why" as the plow backed down against the way-car- , coupling with a bump that rocked them both. "This is why : those men out there are In a temper that's not to be monkeyed with, and If you doubt it I'll continue this talk after want they come into ibis car! Do you to test their temper and their loyalty, Tucker, by having me keep this discussion up when they can hear? Do you want that?" leaning over Tucker as the knob turned. "For God's sake!" the man whined, trembling, panic In his eyes. "For God's sake, Steele. . . ." John straightened with a hard srnll and wiped his palms on his thighs. Until that inoiueut be had possessed only suspicion; a suspicion so strong, true that It led him Into his flat charges Now, however, he knew. They opened the road to Shoestrln, by noon ; red eyed, weary men droppeS down from the train to meet Roberts the mill foreman, and Ellen Iticliards Her face was strained and white, lined with the weariness that these last sleepless nights had set upon her. John's heart Jolted as he looked at her, as he caught the query of desperation in her dark eyes. He went quickly to her. "Well, the flag still flies!" be laughed. Her expression changed, was suffused by a look of deep gratitude, and he knew, with a thrill, that It was for him, a peculiarly personal feeling. Her voice, too, It flies!" "Yes. gave evidence of weariness and strain, "But by tomorrow noon we'll saw the last log here and the Milwaukee bank has heard of the trouble and is asking questions." "We'll have an answer!" he said, "The looking down Into her face. crossing switches are still plugged with snow. It's the branch Job to keep 'em open under the contract; not ours. Gorbel's cars are loaded, likely, but we certainly won't move 'em until there's a hole on the sidings. I'm sending the train back now. Tlny's all in, but the fireman can handle her. I'll be with him. By dark we'll roll In with a day's cut I" "Oh, that's splendid !" she cried lowly, looking up Into his face as he stood close to her. "It Isn't ail bad luck then, Is it John Steele? But If It" hadn't been for you. . . . Why, I've been thanking the Providence that sent you here ever since night before last !" Warm, gentle, her voice, with heart In It now; It was the first time her had really broken, shell of his Initial experience with her as a woman, and things caught at his throat as he stared into her troubled self-contr- eyes. ... 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''I went through h- -l, two nights and a day. aittin' there, wonderin' what'd happen? He threatened to turn that gang on me. he did I" "You admitted It?" "Not on your life! But he knew. .. ,h,hn,,ir'h' ' "asnl 8W bad first started falkin1 to n.e until he looked at me. Those d- -d eyes of hi, go right through you!" What else? What'd as entiy. tne mnn pauiMMlT "e Just said I was flred and to deliver to yoi you or to Burke or VT ever'd hired me." "Yon spnled you- rGoroe, b In hot '' w Soap25c. Ointment "How can I ever tell you what U means to have to have you here?" she asked. He rubbed his chin thoughtfully. "1 wonder If you could manage to smile a little!" he said. "That'd be pretty good thanks, if I've any thanks coming on account." After a moment she smiled, flushing a trifle. "How's that?" she asked and laughed softly. He went about his Job then, suddenly resolving not to tell her of Tucker's treachery. She had enough In her heart without having to consider disloyalty among her men. 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