Show he str nah f tho V pun a I 1 U I 1 A L V U a U alu 1 SIMONS REVENGE 1 SYNOPSIS at AI the death of hit his foster father bruce duncan in an city ives a mysterious rlou receives jece I 1 meui age g sell tent by a mrs airs hoss ruin monin ff hirn him peremptorily to southern regon to linda bru bruc ca I 1 ahna in divid hu hut t battling baffling recollection recollections of his hi childhood it an or phan dhanae ph anae fide bi before lill ills adi option by newton duncan U a with ith the girl linda da at ills bla dest destination lliZO on end news tint that a desage hat has been tent sent to bruce gets to simon turner leaving tile the train bruce la Is astonished tit at ills hla apparent familiarity with the surroundings though io ti hla his k knowledge knon no lodge ledge lie has never been there on the way rmon warn him to give up his hl quest and return east bruce refuses mr hirm KOM fig aged d ami in infirm firm w tj bornes him with emotion she blin hastens lia atena him on hla his way wayt the lie end of pine necile trail I 1 I 1 ruce find hla his childhood playmate aind I 1 t the a girl tells tella him of by an themy clan the turners Turn rr on her family the Ros roviest rosiest iest lando ando I occupied by the clan ware were stolen front from ilia tl and the amaly family with the exception of aunt elmira mm afro ross arid herself her Belf wiped out by acim on father lol bolger ger m na as one af the vic victims alm 3 ills ilia mo mother ther had too with bruce find and ai I 1 tile the girl shile ernull tied had been kid bawd from the an 1 brought to the lindas father had collided ills til binds to AI ledger folger but bill the aadree men infill which bould confute lite lie enemy claims on oil the he property had been lost braces mountain blood responds ree pond to the call of the blood feud A giant tree the he sentinel ilac in front of 0 dindas cable cabin seem s to dourea 4 excited imagination to e b endeavoring to convey it it allsage oll sage druce bruce fiets out in search 1 ni a trapper named flud bludson son a wita WILA 4 so to the agreement between indas father evil matthew Maithe iv ioler foler A I 1 it illy cnown own an ai the killer 1 fit thu to aci or of tile the vicinity cl clity dave turner sent ent by simon bribes to benr falsely concerning the agreement ilia killer strikes sown down hudson bruce on ills ilia WHY way to hudson aou aits nits the killer driving film from tits vie victim tint flud bludson son learning brulla iaru ea identity identify irles to tell him tha is place of tile he agreement but benth summons him dave decoys anti and aunt imara ficia their home the man insults linda and la Is struck down by he aird woman ton son has haa won ben murdered murde reil by dive slid at her corn coni manil mand after Fecu roly wilding tho the desperado dep trado linda leav leavit thera them alone returning grupe ands a note apparently patently ly from linda fouler h him in she iho has hai been by ali turners I 1 CHAPTER 7 As bruce flurried up lip ilia lie hill tie the ito rosa extone t lip lie i it alfi cal of at the line shells in ill ills IH pock c et tho gull held alx alx lx lie he hall perhaps fifteen others in ili fits III pockets poc kotH and I 1 iiii I 1 L stopped stop to 0 o thein fro from 11 the hie supply Elai lra imd hall brought it ditc itc brought rifle jilia III lilai OI 01 but imil had left it wiell flit remainder of f fits puck lie ho knew that hint lie lighter lie li traveled tile lie would ile bo lils chance of sur success cess obviously ilia lie girl lind hall written when tile plan rinsing closing about tile house and findlow her lit in tile lie fooht room there imd had been no occasion tit t bearc I 1 the other room find thus discover it the alie girl lind kept tier licad dmn lit i flint of crl crisis Iq A bovo of nd all ull ration for tier lier passed over film and the little fiction imd find set lilt ai ex ample fur for him lie linew knew lint only rigid self lind coolheaded cool headed strategy could tich leve lie filing itilia Iti lii lie lind halt get bet out tj t ilu ills impulse lin ans to storm ho he door to 0 o polle lila ills load leil through ilia windows hut but such could never take lindil I out of simons bonds hands only stealth anti call 1 alon not blind courage couri ige fill and frenzy could serve erve lier her no such blind killing ns as tits heart prompted lind had tp to weilt for another little lie he knew only ilia general Ill of file aws house adjere Slin simon jill lived linda lind had told him heinit it rented upon the lie e crest r est of a linvill hill beyond hemond it of timber tile moonlight slim him a well wall benten troll und anti lid ahti swiftly along it I 1 lie he find a vogue sense of I 1 with this till winding trull trail he to I 1 had toddled down it ns as ft baby per wr I 1 imps hubs ills lind hall carried him along it on a neighborly visit to the It ossea lie he went over lie ike hill anti pushed lili his way to tho ilia edgo edge of the timber tit all at once the tha moon showed idin him tile the house ile ha mistake it even tit fit tills distance and to bruce it lind had a singular lar effect of unreality the mountain men inen did dad not ordinarily build if luell lucli dimensions they were usually y merely log cabins of two or three low er rooms anil and it garret to ile he reached with a ladder tho ancestral home of the posses however had fully a loleit rooms und and it loomed to at an size in the mystery nt nf tile tic moonlight ile he saw quaint gabled boors anil fur far spreading wings wines arid and it seemed moro like a house of 1 n I adrue ture by tile rubbing of cf n illogic lamp licop ilion flinn lite noih of cm heuters and masons inu sons probably its wild surroundings hall had n great teal dial to do with this his there were no leading to trallis faid end material fould not lie ile curried I 1 over its trolls except on pack anck tills lie he imd it or of ire that find been ell conquered by tireless effort of long iong tuo ullis of at unending lull loll of ex less patience and at tile lie end cud a adreani to come in e brur tru AM all of its lumber lind hall to be hewed from ilia hie forests foresta list itai stone ono hall hail been worried rock cliffs and houlen with infinite anvor firlit the tep t ep emills ito he ald koiv now why by EDISON MARSHALL author pf af tho the voice of the pack copyright by little brown and co ers era lind hall coveted it it seemed the alicine of luxury to them anil and more clearly than ever lie understood why the lie altos it iii ali had died sooner gootter than re h it nil anil aby liy its by lite turners lind hill lift left dudi it debt of hatred to linda AU all well know that hint ilia love mc of home 14 one of ilia hie few great that hint lian log winnilu toward but bill lii ily the ilia same mine token it ting tills been the baue of utility ninny wars per linail culp q tile day in coin liiK han tills thin lovo loio will lie it I 1 in ille land but bill etli it hill III die lie file cogill to I 1 bellel tile heathen arom our hiir anti the lund will not bo be worl MH lying 1111 in olly anny way lit it WIH not lend dead if I 1 ilia hie people no 1 ever CUT Is tile llos cs tills bis In very cpr well MI As an till it enri it it who im nil are strong thorell anti of real kill fin virtue litno they lind hall known lii ioui pride of if rare race and name and it lind hall licen lid 11 it ii fak worth to build this stately house on flit their fur far lying nerre they alio lini lind shin given their liber filter to it freely fieri iw ito illin mho ilia beheld tile the could doubt flint filet they lind hall simply consecrate ll lives HUB to 0 o it iti their otio one work by which they coid show to till nil who mho cattle after hint liy fly willell OMI linnies they had varned their right to live bruce saw the lio road landi ji lying under the moon timm were hundred hund of acres of anti anil clover clour to fura alili tiny liny for tile winter ti inter feeding were wide green erwi pastures ly by tile moon arid lloldi of torn corn laid out nut in even rows rotta the hie old appeal of tile soil boll nn all instinct flint no pl kwoi aron of ankud descent elsil over ever out oin plemely matte sweat through him they were cv worth fighting 1 litang fur for those fertile acres not ful nothing have it hun hundred dreI ken gen crat orations ions it if anglo saxon people been tillers of I 1 lite lie soll soil they hall had loft left a loo iota of it to iq bruce ile allu knew alint it wool lie like to feel tile eart lim pill 1 through tile li of n plow it to behold ilia ili t start of green things in tho fill till goldon ripening lit in full fall to watch miili tile flockoi 10 trough the breathless nights ani ilia herds heida reed bcd ing on oil tile instinct bruce looked over tile gro grotins tind lip knew enough not mil to n continue tho the trull trail farther tin the space lit in front wits lat liol in anti lie hi would make tile tho best mail of torge to any ril leman ahching i 1 front from the ii lingoni lin loni of ilia house lie ile turned through tile converts coverts co verts fiock liis the lie of nf ilia forests tit it one side lly by going lit in it 11 direction im ns tittle to to approach within two to hund yards eirls of lite house without clue biging into inlo ilia at that point the iha real ion difficulty dinic tilty of tho the stalk began lie he hovered in ili lite bando shadows then lien slipped one limul red d fret feet further to ilia anink of a great mik tree tico lie collid sif see tile much plainly now true it hall suffered ered neg feet lit in the post twenty pnra cars it needed painting nad ninny of its windows ln doa were broken bruce rejoiced to wo sea that there heip ere ni ill lights in the cast wing of tile the house i the ilia willow tit lint a t linda lind hild in 1110 note was ni just a banck MIl lire olt en the moonlit walt all there wits it garden torden close clohe to tills this wing vis of the house home it if lie bo could tills this spot I 1 in safety lie could all brinch within it few fe feet of tile the house and ill soll rein alit tn lit inu cove r lit lie went flato flut then slowly flohl toward it one ome it i light sprang lilt ip lit in it n window near file arout and lie be pressed close to lo tile lint in it moment it went away lie ile crept on lie ile know wile lian 11 i in ill one no of the doik windows would diset rn ills creeping figure lint hut lie flit know perfectly just what milliner of greeting tie lie ex hect in this ellul there w uld bo be it bingle limilo spur of lire in ilia dark nesti nohh so louall that inn pru billly tits bis eus ees would quite full fall to catell atcy it if they aln tilt did discern it there emild he be no time for it i to ile li ri recorded corded in ills broil it would tilean menn a swift und and err rutn an end of nil tile turners would lose no ito thae line in emptying their rif lell lit him lint aud there ile lie slightest doubt about their flit alir mark all tile the clan were ft ere expert shots and tile tho range was lute the place was deeply silent lie he felt tt a growing sease dense ol of awe in it moment more lie slipped luto into tho the shad slinia aws of the neglected rose gardena garden 1 ile lay ulet intel tin nn instant resting lie HP aisik to risk the success of lilt ills elpi by fatiguing himself self flow no lie wanted iu tits tilt full 1011 breath for any crisis that hn he should meet in ill lite room 1 was confined nevertheless the stock of ills rl rifle no felt fell good in ails Is bunds lion Is billere would be f K running light fight after lir lie gat ot flit cirl out of the nud and then tits ids curt cartridges ridges would ile he needed there iticia alight even eun be it inot bent of ilose close work with whir ft luil fuai ds hit Tur 1 timers tiers had set over tier her hut but llie ilia laemy stock ned nic n i lull would be luat use to io till bilm 1 then hen sinny linies limps tie he knew skulking UK fig ures tires half been lu lit tills this garden tile hit turners in I 1 lite lie dnn of tile the feud had dad often waited in ill lt it mind ow 8 for it sight of it colne unc one of nf their enemies in t lighted willi n old othvelt in it lie lii could see fee their shadows wayco jut of ilia lie comer of lut his eyes ca 0 wrt aps ops it VAS wis I 1 f I 1 only MY the shallow of the brambles 1 blown ay by iy the I 1 ho wind onie once ills his heart leaped anti lila ills tit thront root it nt t a sharp chac ernea ot of I 1 rush brush be hl aldo do lind and lie could scarcely rest rain a mua culer jerk that might I 1 lieve love revealed leu aled ills 1118 position hut but when lie turned lila him head annil lie could see fee nothing hut but tile the covents coverts unit unil the moon jouit above them A garden snake cr ir perhaps a blind mole anol luid find intili in n 1 I 1 the bound I 1 four InI minutes later inter lie was as within olle dozen dorn reet feet or 0 tits the tic designated signa teI window there wits luis it st of on light betnun bet wun but lie passed I 1 it ta quicy ly and now lie ie stood in belil relief against the ilia moonlit house wall ife he was lit in perfectly plain sight eight of ally one on oil file lie hill poil ably its ills distant forill might have been its corned front the lie window of ono one of the lesser houses house occupied by Slin simons nos kin kill hut but ito ho was IM tol w lose close to tile wall wal I 1 to ile be risible from finin lite iho windows of alir simons ons liona SO P wept toy liy 11 deliberate 8 cr atlay and ilia alio window slipped up noiselessly in illi handa I 1 ho 10 was vas co surprised lie he lind hall expected llila window to be 10 locked way ny lie felt less los hope fill of sue suc can ce lie ile in ills his mind inland the dl di reel sections loll hos lin allida hall left wonder condor inn 1119 it if lie lind collie to the wrong rons w winlow windon I 1 n lint there their was uns no ito clounce of a mistake tn lit this I it wits tile I 1 alorth window in tile east 1119 however Ilof teer ole lie lind mild lint flint blie bile would bo be confined in nn nil lilter lor room anti possibly ilia turners lind find spell hem no ito need of barriers illier tier than linn its hit cocked door they alie tin lind riot not even anticipated hint flint race would tempt rit n rescue lie ho leaped lightly upward ond slipped silently into the 1 except for the square on oil the floor it ans bulto in ili darkness lie he stood blood a moment hardly breath in on III ing hut but lie decided it aa was not lint best bes t to n sarla a match A mutch might reveal repeal ills his pres lence to noine one lit in nn fill lii room loom II 11 lit rested his 1114 file willi then slowly around the tobin ke ife know knew hint flint ily by hill course lie he would soon loon encounter tile the door that leil led lied tile lio interior intel rooms in a moment lie he found it lie he stood mood waiting ile he turned ilia hie jowh gently ihen beh softly pulled tilt hut the door wits locked I 1 there was no sound round now noa lint eliut alie lie loud beating of 1118 hl own awil limit lie he could no iftiger linna tho voices alces of the j I 1 I 1 I 1 i I 1 I 1 1 I 1 V I 1 I 1 I 1 11 DI I 1 I 1 I 1 11 11 I 1 A ill 11 1 I 1 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 i X I 1 f I 1 11 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 i r I 1 11 1 I 1 he was wai considerably surprised ho he had expected this thi window to be locked wind Outi ouid hiLk the open window vin dow lie he wondered hether lie he liar nil fill ills his strength li galust the ha phuon lin could break abe lie I 1 tick lock abild it if lio lie did so Nh het ether lier lie could escape lilt the girl before lie was vim shot kliot flohil il tin but lili III hand wandering over tile lock encountered the key it was s cs after nil lie ho the lie hor t k key ey the door beneath I 1 his is lulad it if there hill beena been a single tny of at light |