Show th HEART arm night wl A STORY OF THE GREAT N NORTH hi WEST ES T oy VINGIE E ROE ROC au illustrations ay jross ja I 1 COPY wr OY ay oooo AD facio SYNOPSIS T B are of can dally mor lumber camp direct men Ir antor r 1 to he be walter ro bah himself to john dahy u tore cm on niti as i us the u in lumber C co or most of 11 II he 1 ka makes acm acquaintance biance alth h in he camp and ad in the ahie ahe work give B leirl P eg eu 1 to rule ride lalack lack bolt it or hit addle horsa in on in emergency he pr proves to Is the his or hou that net lie be does not no me lack ik judgment swo 1 tells I h him of 1 11 the 1 preach er he a discovers or that iteld beara the blan of the galleti tribe of indian and dro an too in the ef it a lender moment a he calls all he her the a abut V ind it in a too the pines his and ad BB B B ner poppy deppy ordway A mi innar lne w lu I 1 from m me new york conns A I 1 to dally ahi B to ke c a 1 fir I B I 1 romance c oc I 1 in the lumber region match hampden or of tile av yellow low fr alnea rus co ism 1 1 to kep ott oil a tract of Blum he ha title to she sundry 4 rk r thinks k no he I 1 has b bought BH a lie gust brit hampden gets up no A rah cab a on I 1 alc tlc the east t belt and 4 warn trespass ein 0 oft n sandry ad can so fand no r evidence 0 of I 1 uh to bee ili I 1 c th his a ah nun no pull I 1 down we in the abia iun borho co rho silan and ad poppy elp 81 sin dri i i and d a men a niu over I 1 taft pud pu d ir tract 1 he preacher 01 belopa a the door sandry Y e in thai iha u d deed to ahe abe featt belt 1311 no haa never ev b been 1 recorded d H B Q to aei out afa contrail rail aiba and 0 h or in the iu tump P aee ari ce po acenia 1 sei and ad flirts 11 with hampden bcd n 1 lo 10 rn ebin his a conn nu lenc the ile 1117 1 lella to that I 1 Har es crooked and d tl al ahe get him poppy boea lo 10 naiem in heatch car of hampden sandry or und beletz to rde de 1 to to the seashore and a sew the ocean a for I 1 he RI first ine sandr or 8 men c desert him bur 1 for I hin hile aho I 1 no has altered n d more a 01 ey lin bibel c bor cois to her friends 11 e in Sn u aae R nd ad persuades ad ahem a to hi corli a I 1 sanary to ahe aade sh his a contract boci P poppy do ori telis sandry ato 1 I that lost she tina a or proof or 0 Hamp aca denB in nant hi 0 fa b RUB a v it in a colla collu abhor ion an alth ch the c commissioner CHAPTER XV continued bihy hy 1 hardly know knew I 1 et there I 1 la borne a thing she fell silent a moment standing beside him the winds winda of god are am heavy a on my an cobil 1 sundry sandry she ahe said at last ear or neatly ABOY and they tell me that you are a aad rd tt A hot hat can I 1 do oh what can I 1 do tob to help p there them nas 1 in her bar voice the simple cry or of a sympathy so BO intense that it was anguish an and sandry 9 up lips og tight ened rd 1 in in the darkness for a heady fro moment mient h he a could scarce carce roat resist the bidding of the lawless thrill th that I 1 she was ever capable of se sending through him to take her into his ir is arms no as he had done that day able ft hen she beh beheld aid t the a sea but a I tardy idy dy thought of mill ordway or it way shut his bis bonds bands upon themselves and it steadied died his hia voice late I 1 lie he put his he handa n do up upon her about ders due and ad turned fumed her round r co a back to me ma dally daily child h he send caid b but of h bis is voice me bad fallen A Is to a whisper asp er a whisper a I 1 that was a caress laden lade as b heavily wasp ay with wistful sadness badness as a whisper might be and don t fret I 1 am all right lahout a word obedient to him as abe the primal woman ever is to man bile biletz a went want away in the night toward the cook shack back A As he ehe passed sed up the path she a al us 1 most I fir brushed bad the garments of ordway standing in rigid silence he her hande bands shut in the foldi fold of her gown her rose lips ashen her eye eyes at rained wide fool food fool fool the aomar we waa thinking to in a rage of passion IN why by dian didn t I 1 suspect she is 80 soma i thing to him blue she has baa tier her charm there to la danger in her to me oh validly you stupid simple heart for poppy ordway had heard he rd t the a re ca resa reas of that lowered vo voice I 1 ce the h new passion in her took fright and a farl on choking rage sent seat the his blood hot be upon pa her I 11 II heart I the next morning he found upon his window it w ledge a handful of tern fern and a spray of tiny yellow flowers flower that were beginning to show oher the I 1 little it streams tore lore down the mean bains in us sg ng their rocky beds lie he took them in and put them aay in a d drawer 1 w e r 1 among 9 b his ll 11 papers P silent 1 t v voice I 1 c of a sympathy ay that h A was as d delicate ir h a it was aas often strong that mo morning mog g when poppy ordway encountered siletz or the a bright smile she bhe gave her covered a sudden hatred that 1111 had ad sprung full grown grew imas from a in man B low few whisper dec and it it the had bad times a that followed for far the he girl had bad their inception theu then CHAPTER XVI XV the big raft on the fourteenth lb of march the wheezy I 1 tug 9 pulled the great m brown cigar shaped monster that abet meant so 0 nine much ito to sundry and the fortunes fortune of r the Ill north fr from its moorings jg out to the narrow deep ties P tie neck I 1 it of the be bay that would take it 11 to do the so sea seedily bandry for far the first time lima in hi nil ht lire felt fait the I 1 h a slow sliding sil dring motion a the th great oval mom floor responded to do the screeching tug log and ad the ebb tide on G board with andry were dally ad eight indiana cities all 11 armed bud and wait B ing for anything that might develop but hampden had bad no DO notion of meet inept tag ing job john dally daily 1 in his bis pr present but mood amid oil nd it ft seemed mod as if all 11 was to go smoothly moo fill As the raft drew draw males t abreast of the mill at toledo the yellow pines owner was us on the dock though he be did not ap poor pear rao to ue all anything beyond the pile of raw bright lumber he was marking Ws his borad fic I 1 it tore face wore were ft a sardonic grin gri john said bald sentry sandry it a a wonder hampden did I 1 do something aurer to himlin binder ua a pole jam the ine bay y will logs or he ug he up in some way might anti be had john job test teeter put pole an klamath so sam waki th ill shores fer far five days an they to the two worst Siva hes a on th r reservation m tie hampden knows knew they to re worst far 8 letz an that when I 1 said acid shoot hoot or cut tho the it hoot or cut fit ef it took tour four years yeara an a dark night to do it that first day drilled drifted by very swift ly soft kift and sunny army between showers sort and by four fear I 1 clock the obb ebb of the it tide do grown slower and slower had bad cc ceased it altogether dally and the re real at tit tied up the raft head and t tail on no be both bides lal cohig heavy at steel ro ropes an and it cha chains n to a which rich they gave P plenty of slack lack they cooked supper a ashore here a and 4 sandry bud y thought he had never rel united it better fare After afterward sard theli they lay Y about the lire fire all together a smoking kag and ad only the silence of tho the siletz marked till the line of color triumph filled the bairt of tire the young binam ler and his last draw drowsy sy thoughts were e of the steamer at nas A a een be now plowing pi lokim down tima from portland ort larid to meet cut th them the huge bule hell check that would follow his delivery of the logs loga how bow he would lift a certain in mortgage or t g of if the load that hung bung upon pon the lin gwinth its greatest menace 1 in point of I 1 time me he waked eked to beg I 1 the heavy chains ch 1 1 drawn taut to hear the mass of it alm here bera c creaking olk I 1 us and ad amb grumbling as aa it Bt rained it u upstream apte and ad knew that the tide wei waa in a the th efio cook k wid waked the men be by moonlight in for I 1 bre breakfast kast they must be ready to take advantage of the first motion toward the sea the casting loose the slow blow start the moving of the night eight shores sa san dry miss ord ordway way might as see it it I 1 thigh might t be a bit of local color in the he or felt books a as writing in 1 the little th room mom his mind went over that little room mom he saw law the stand with the ancient bible ble he shuddered a bit with the night abill a as he baw sg again 1 the words oh ali ab azy thao word solo salom my son my Y eon or those these were or the last words ord that the mind ind of 1 the easterner tem were to know for many days das the nose of the raft art what where he was standing suddenly ruse rose mider inder him like a thing of life the light ight opened applied flame fi tint shot upward from the he do dark k waters water immeasurable able sound round smog emote te his bis eardrums to do silence pain that was unendurable stretched and tore ore his limbs tie he balled allied away into night and tire the world was a not net when the thing was over job john dally himself up from ahme he had crom b leen A blo blown I 1 clear 1 of f th tho a raft and the water leading landing ID a tangle of I 1 b blueberry hill ry vines bill and ad an screamed me a curse or at t the e serene heavens chece 0 oh god damn bs soul to bell h he a cried fall bait after th the A manner or of prayer he a 8 her up at last 1 ID I the awful silence that at fell in the first M let meet there them bet act up a great gr mining groaning of the timbers the W wrecked choul and it opened could pro prow of the raft f slewed owed to the right jammed itt i into t t the he shore and was holding the rest at whit while ti the at strong A ill tide urged it t tord hard upon itself indrea above I 1 it f G daily aly lifted find hi his voice and called billed his indians indiana and there was an girsh 1 in his heart kentish Ko ottah Mour from here and there voices an ered some far some near and pres unity figures crept tearfully late into the moonlight mIlr ht from in the matted terns terna gath shelf ering about the foreman here one dragged a an injured ankle airle another stan touched ched the blood from a go back to me ma dally child ragged logged scalp with his hands bands and there one wavered drunkenly fr from the fall all he had got but all eight accounted for or jhb 0 e asad o BOB said dally daily tensely all who can swim g get t into the water quick 1 wt I was 8 standen alone at he her nose it a a hundred to one he be a done torl tori no one asked a question asther the indians indiana qu accepting c paig with t their h at pathetic fatalism this disaster which would have set toe the tonge tongues of white men flying silently the five who war were unharmed except for bruise slipped into th the h heavily cavity running tidewater and ad dip pealed amid the flotsam and jetsam of the long bay which traveled always aimlessly back and ad forth birth the groaning greenling or of the raft grew in vol ume a ice for a to few 11 minutes to his then subsided held as I 1 it ice locked it and settled dally daily on the tha I 1 shore here began the terna tern filling un the night with hla him truit int voice 1 I as alit lie called led upon sundry sandry a name A fr from time to time he listened jhb Is he I 1 lighted a torch and arid widened hla his abit peering rag into eiery my covert covent of tern fell le bo hind filed every 1 loft IA and ad even va searching the branches of the file treba arees he had bad been I 1 the he P pines less bear ghastly fruit a time or two when a blast ol of giant powder had bad go gone wrong g after I 1 a long ahr alma ha straightened t b and his muddy face we waa blanched done ati for he acid load aloud to the dusk of the reveal forest b bitterly all down map an it done tor for an him 0 a o it morad damned good for m an E eastern faces er but t even as aa he spoke a cry sounded from from tho the water far alread ahead ather another an bufred w md another and another a as the silt siletz it drew low 1 in to each 1 other some borne wh where re out in the dim in moon wool wash and ad he be ame knew they bad I 1 found it him so they bad a their limp body lying beat back across a floating log the pearl bell buttons OD im it its breast shining and its hair dabbling in the water they pushed the log slur its burden in to shore and big john dally ailing out picked up hla his employer as a mother lift clifta a child carried armed him back up the bank and bent beat to listen harm t tor life in the timber till still fir breast I 1 it we was viole there T the he tamber man an ran a gr EI land experienced perien rl ced it and suit gentle I 1 the sprawling arms busted he sald said bit bitterly 1 too la arr iun tim he a 1 1 crumpled rahe pie like k a b broken k I 1 tule I 1 if I 1 I 1 d don t take k this his out at of at hampden i 1 h hope I 1 I 1 III abut burn 1 in b hell he gathered the scattered blankets imer from bolh and ad true tree breach branch and laid the easterner upon them then this simple son of the big cc country went off by himself into the shadows to think I ft hot hat should lie be do hero or was as his employer or he east of erner 1 who 1 we was going coln g through u b the or 1 deal dea 1 by fire to w win at his cl right gh to live I 1 a and d fig fight t in t the he a wild it land and he be was all but worsted down and out H his buts life it was on not worth orth a copper that coin e of which the large west takes no no tice and ad tar far on the shores of the other ocean area was that old father of whom he had told dally in ID the quiet talks at night eight it would take quick work ork to get sandry to a doctor and ad word DC bent ant last east at once are 0 on the other hand band it if sandry should live and an it the th contract had bad been lost his fight would be over those these enort art gages of which he be had spoken vaguely would be foreclosed and ad the dilling dillam worth would become a thing of the past the east belt bell go by the board and hampden would be supreme in the iris bills no by heaven he bed d want her to go through dead or alive an IT see her there was daily a ultimatum BB as he be rose from r the tog big in the pink pick mare of title and ad emill could ho he have knows known all that sundry sandry would lose with that contract rod and the his bla hatred of hampden would have been deeper dearer still for sandry was waa his bis friend he went back to the huddled indians indian and the silent figure on its ita also blankets ata Mt too loo be said decisively make quick a pole sling aling you an a b big ur bill an an jim pine tree will take seedily sandry back to map camp go firt first to tole toledo it a an get doe doc hooker hooke h have him do what he ran cau there a an go along to camp tell him to at stay aty Y with sundry sandry day an I 1 night eight till I 1 set get back hurry harry now without W a word the four our india indians picked out by name set about their appointed task in less leas time than a white man would take to begin bagi they had laid clean so saplings P lings abin along 9 bili blankets kete edges edgen warped a short spreader prouder at top and bottom to hold the poles doles the width width of a in man s shoulders hould mor apart part an and the sli sling was ready now no said dally grimly travel ilk ake hell boys but carry him soft for he a 9 limits broke like the ferns when a pie pine falls tenderly they lifted the owner ol of the and laid him in the hollow w or of 11 the 11 blankets his foreman rest cast on one look at hm as the indian along away on the back trail and turned his fees face to the ins jammed raft left lie he studied the problem from all sides then he be took look his bis re morning ind indiana sea for far none of them were b 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