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Show THE MIDVALE JOURNAL z Romance of the North Woods 13 A Friday, February 17, 1933 0 Bronchial Troubles Need Creomulsion By HAROLD TITUS Copyrl&-ht. ttl!. EXPERIENCE SPEAKS Jeweler-What name ao you want engraved on this ring? Young Man-From Tom to Gwendolin. Je,veler-Take my advice and slm· ply have "From Tom."-Pearson's. Bronchial troubles may lead to something serious. You can stop them now with Creomuls.ion, an emulsified creosol" EVENTS LEADING UP TO THIS INSTALLMENT CHAPTER V-Continued --6- un Isn't that I don't want to wlo, John!'' she protested. "I want lt more than I've wanted anything else. It was my father's heart that went Into this operation. My father's memory is here, In my heart. I owe It to him to finish whnt he set out to do. that natural? Isn't Don't you have that same feeling of high regard for the things your father wanted to do, or wants to do?" He looked away. "My father . • • yes! He's right. He's always been right 1 He'll always be right!" His vehemence startled the girl and he looked deep Into her eyes. He wanted to tell it all, then and there; wanted to cleanse her mind of the impression 1t held. Wanted to say: "My father Is the man you suspect of throwing all these obstacles in your path; my father Is the man you loathe. 'But he ts right; be Is guiltless. I know, because I am his son!" He wanted to say those things but he could not. when n.11 tbe evidence ava11able on this side of tbe Atlantic was against him! What be said was: "We're going to keep on, but I'm going to keep on worrying about you unless you'll clear out of this mess and chase the look out of your eyes that's been there since a week ago, when we piled up the plow I Can't you get away? Couldn't yon go down the river with old Wolf for n few da.rs? He wants you." She laughed wanly. "Away now. When things are--" "Yes, now I The job's important but you • . . why, you're- something else again. Oh, how can 1 tell you, here and now?"-hands s1ipping down from her shoulders to her hands. ..You're something more than a part ot the job, Ellen!'' He was leaning close to her, drawing her towards him~ lifting her hands. ''You're something bigger and more splendid than I eyer thought life held t You're all that there Is or has been or ever will be under the sun or the--'' ''John!" she whiApered. He spoke her name but before their lips could touch the door opened and tht>:V hn~ ~f"nnt time to break apart before Wolf Richards burst in. •·Lookltl" be said, holding up fragments ot a glass. "Lookit what 1 found out yonder, Johnny! Found 'em tn th' ashes: right in tb' middle of th' barn. Jug. r·m tellin' you. . . . Jug, 'tis l What's a jug dolo' Into the mid· die ot a barn, eh? Whisky, likely. You're right. . . . Be was drunk 'nd touched her oft'." Be stovtJed talking and eyed Ellen closely as John took the frag-ments of glass from him. J-ler face was flushed from his untimely Intrusion and the old man chuckled to himself. As John left the office a man whom he had seen repeatedly ln town approached. "Stt-ele?" he said "Bradshaw." .. Hollo, sheriff I Knew who you were, of course . . . Now, EHlen, excuse us. The sherift"'s errand Isn't exactly pleAsnnt. Mark'IJ g~t things going right off." ''Stranger. eh?" the sheriff said as he pulled back the bhtnket and looked toto the face of the dead man. "Stran· ger to all your boys?" ..None of 'em ever saw him." The other nodded. Step by step John went over the story, speaking lowly of the certainty that he and two others bad smelt burning gasoline, telling of the jug fragments just now dJscovered. He traced the mark of a horseshoe on tbe skull, pointed out the clear lmpressi{•D of a ealk; began to argue a bit as the sherlft squalted there, unresponsive, chewing oo a cigar stub, almost bland, almost disinterested, "My guess is this," he said. "The snme people that have been badgering us for weeks pulled this. They sent thts poor devil in bere with a jug of gasoline. He shook hay out along the barn floor, poured the: gas on It and touched It off'. He'd naturally start her to the renr ftrst and as he bent over to set It going behind Prince, the old fellow got him." The sheriff scratched a match and lighted his frayed cigar. "I'm gotn' to tell the curious just what everybody else out here but you seems to think," he said. "l'm goln' to tell them that here was some bum, walkin' in for a job. He gets to camp, sees everybody's In the hay and knows he's likely to en t rh h-1 if he wakes 'em up. So he sllns Into the barn, which ts warm enougb for anybody to sleep in; lights his pipe, gCies to sleep and • tbt>re you nre! "I've been wntchin' what went on here a long time. I been watchin' you and what you've done since you took hold. rt•s enmtgh, what t've seen ; eno~gh to jud,ge you and to make n pretty good gut>ss at what else went on. Your rrlend here''-jet•ltlng his thumb towar<ls the figure benenth the blanl.:et-"wPnt to work for Burke at the Belknap & Gorbel camp last Mon· day." .. The devil!" .. Y(Iab.'' Re strlpped the foil from another cigar. ..1 gttPss. Steele, we understand eA.f"h other1" "Tom" Belknap, big timber onerator, ordered by his physicians to take complete rest, plans a three months' trltl a. broad, Pro~lses ot advancement he has made to his son John are broken, and the young man Is Indignant. Paul Garbel, Belknan s partner, is a bone of contention. Father a.nd son part without an understanding. At Shoestring. his tra.fn delayed by a wreck, John Is mobbed. A!ter a fist tight, his attackers realize Jt is a. case ot mistaken ldenllty. John learns his lather Is believed to be out to wreck the Richards lumber company. Bewildered and unbelieving he seeks employment with that company. At the office he finds Gorbel bullying a young girl, and throws him out. Gorbe'J does not recognize him. The girl is Ellen Richards, owner of the company. A letter he carries gives John's na.me as John Steele, the Belknap being dropped Inadvertently, and John, knowing the feeling against his father, allows Ellen to believe tha.t Is his name. Ellen engages John as her superintendent. A series of attempts to handicap operations of the Richards company culmtna.tes In the wrecking of a snow plow. John, admiring Ellen's bravery, begins to have a sentimental at· tachment for the girl, which ta returned. The Richards barn and stables burn. In the bla7.lng structure John finds the dead body ot a stranger. He realizes the ftre was set, but refuses to believe his father could b& a party to such an a.ct. He winked, a bit grimly. "Go to it I" John said under his breath. • • • • • • • Sounds ot saw and hammer filled the alr. Men moved methodically from place to place. On the ashes of yesterday's barn, a new. rough structure grew. .And Ellen Richards, as she stood on a stump and watched the framework grow, watched the roof go on, watched sheeting slapped Into place and held and nailed home, 'Who smiled with misted eyes. wouldn't, seeing your men work that way . • . and seeing one of them move about quiet, assured, competent, directing it all for you! The barn would be habitable for the teams that night; a few honrs of work by a dozen men tomorrow would complete It; a track problem at the cross· ing had become pressing, .and .John welcomed the chance to ride that far with Ellen. He would return on a speeder. They were at the crossing a time while Tiny tinkered and John watched Ellen viewing the long strings or loads, taxing the storage capacities of trackage, waiting to be moved into Kampfest. He saw her look at the short little train of her own logs they bad dragged up the grade, and her sbool· ders slacked significantly. uA feast for them," she commented, "and for us . . . famine!" The look In her eyes wrenched his heart. Her hands closed on his tightly nod then she was gone. He stood tor a time watching the trnln rock on towards Shoestring. steam 13hut ofT now, as they slid down the stiff grades that Jed into town. Feast or a famine I Not his fa. ther•s doing, this; Gorbel's probably; but the situation was renl and acute, 11 1 Guess, Steele, We Understand Each Other?" and he could not recover from the look on the girl's face. Be walked along a swltcb filled w1th loaded cars awaiting removal to the Belknap & Gorbel mill. Not since the blizzard had the branch been cleaned out. Only enough cars were moved to make room for more coming In from the Belknap & Gorbe1 camps. Even a switch, theretofore used only by the Richards empties, had been commandeered. He counted the cars standing there. Twenty-two there were; seven thousnnd feet to a load . . . enough for a four-day cut. If those belonged to Ellen now. • . . The car wheels were bloch"t!d because the switch rnn Into the Shoestring Une on the down -grade. Be eyed ane of those charred chunks which supplemented the hold of band-set brakes as though he had never seen such a device used hefore. Then be went on, whistling tunelessly to himself. Re laughed, after a moment, and said aloud: "Fire , . • fire's best !ought with fire!'" Be talked with the <\rosslng tender of the trnck difficulties, outlined temporary repairs. The man asked for the next night off apologetically; his wife wanted an evening or movies; .John told him to plan on IL a bit more heartily than even he ~·as wont to grant favors to men. . . . He bad a plan. had John. He had noticed that the Belknap & Gorbel nHm, who had ridden in the ''ahoose, was hanging about the crossIng. lle walked with a pronounced limp, and as John and the tc~nji~r stnrt~d for the little bottse whf're the .gas car was stored he approached. 10 Jim, ain't they making a run from Kampfest thJs evening?" he nsked . "No; had trouble In the yards," the tender said. "My hard luck, then I" the man "I'd ought to 've telephoned and ards wblch was growing so enormou&found out.'' He looked at John. "Is ly Jn his heart, could not command bis there nny chance getting back to camp first attention, paramount as they were. Other things crowded In before tonight?" "Ride In on the speeder with me, l1 them. He must, above all, keep the Richards Lumber company allve until you want." That wns agreeable to the stranger. he could force matters to clear themA mile out of the crossing, as they selves. He went at once to Jack Tait and rolled throu gh the twilight towards stood outside the baro and talked they timber on the horizon, his passenger In the beginnlng the barn long. for put a band on John's shoulder and mildly from time to time: nodded boss asked: he was spitting tobacco end. the at "Would you shut her otr a minute? old eyes were ablaze his and juice I got something to talk about." John threw orr the switch; the mo- with whole-hearted enthusiasm. A team-a whHe team-came in o1! tor went dead. and they rolled to a stop, there 1n the solitude of snow- the job at noon. 'l'he teamster was put at other work. The wood-butcher blanketed chopplngs. chopped stove-length sticks ln two had "Mr. Steele,'' tlle passenger said, had charred them in the blackand ''the sherlt! told me about your fire. 1 shop, as car blocl.:s are treated. smith heard him talking to the train crew o'clock Jack Taft hitched two At about 1t and how he thinks that the horses to a llght sleigh, white the man they're taktn~ to Shoestring wan~ made blocks ln, and freshly the tossed dered Into your barn wl11le he was rapidly. chewing ofT, drove drunk and set the place o.ft trying to the loads, and with out went John smoke." the crossing at ott dropped he when He paused. Inquiringly. him at looked 'Vay-BUJ "I try to be a decent citizen. I try HJim nod his wife, here, nre going to be Joyal to the man that hires and I to paint Shoestring tonight I" John pays me. But 1 like horses. . like 'em better than I like humans, my laughed. "I just wanted to see that wife says! I used to be a barn boss you got up the bump. Jack Tait's for Knmpfest, but I got this stlft' leg bringing in a team and I'll ride back and can't get around so much. I'm wltb him. S'long I . . . Have a good filing tor Gorbel In camp now. I don't time, Jim, and buy the mlssus popllke to bite the hand that teeds me, corn ! Where do you hide the key. ln case I want to get warm?'" I'm decent!" but . • "On top the door casing to the lett." Something dogged about hlm then. I Good luck I" "Right "What I've got to say Is this: that there as the train broke stood Be a man who'll buro horses alive don't grade, rocking 1n the down the to over deserve loyalty; he don't deserve towards Shoe· st1llness afternoon late anything but the worst be can string. get ! That's why I'm going to tell you It was very quiet; a light snow was what I know. flakes large and feathery, blot~ falling, "That man under the blanket in the tracks men had made not out tlng your way-car worked in our camp tor He strolled down the before. long three days. He was no good. He just over the break, on !or down !iDe, main made motions instead ot working. But There he paused, rods. twenty yesterday afternoon Gorbe1 came to left and nodded and right looked camp. He and this man stood outside grimly. the window of my shop a long time. At dusk he heard Jack Taft coming I went out and then went back to get walked out to meet him. and something. It takes me a long time carry the blocks over," he "'We'll to walk a little ways. I didn't aim snow might stop i runner "This said. to spy, but when I got baclc there. Mr. be so good. Horse wouldn't tracks Steele, these two men were over by to trace." harder are tracks the gasoline tank, which sets otr by team John went hfs fed Jack Wblle Itself, drawing otf gasoline!" telephoned. A and house Jim's lnto John's heart leaped. chance of a no wlth this, Une private "They drew a jug or tt. The man He overhearing. operator central went out and walked down the track: office, toreman•s mill the for called Gorbel went In and ate and drove back to Karnpfest that night. We haYen't and when Roberts answered, said crisply: seen the man since." "It's Steele, Roberts. How do things He ended with a grim nod. stand?" "We found a broken jug in the "Not so good I We've only got thirty ruins," John snld. "A plnln glass, galIn the yards tonight and It's thousand lon jug." here." spowtng "That's what they bad I" the other "Now listen; and don•t ask queswhispered. Get your supper as soon as you tions. John swore softly. back to your office and come can, ''We knew It was set," he said. telephone." the by stand "We're keeping still: we're going to try the man. answered " .• K "0. to run this thing down without any a cold meal ate Jack and Steele fuss. Now, if you'll tell the sheriff From the outside. went what you've told me, hts job would hastily and loads ot arm carried sleigh they be easy." along them strung and Tbe other hesitated, then twisted hJs charred blocks in break the beyond the track down head In a nod of assent. "I wlll," he promised. "I don't like the ~rade. This done, Jack took the evener from his sleigh, booked a deckto get any man Into trouble, but . ing chain to it and drove his team it's the horses. you see." "I understand. Nobody 11kes to across the tracks to the long Une ot squawk. but in a case like thls it's al- Belknap & Gorbel loads waiting on the switch. most a man's duty.'' The wings ot the plow had shoved ..That's what I figure, too. I . . . I'd snow back to give ample room. the made up my mind to quit working tor hooked his chain to the arch bar Jack Gorbel tonight, but maybe it'll be betfirst car's front trucks whJle the ot ter If I stay on, even It I hate to take the blocks !rom the knocked John money f~om a man like that." the car, grasping mounted and wheels "You stay on." John said. "I'll pass wheel. brake the your story along to Bradshaw and "All right." he said, and Jack spoke he'll s~e you sometime when It won't his horses. They leaned Into the to give bis hand away." strained, hung, and then the collars, "I'll help an I can, even to sttcktn• started to move. slowly car on for Belknap & Gorbel"-grimly. wheels once turning lt was the With "~fy name's DeYoung. When you want on to the main line they Out eas,.v. me, send word." trundled, and John set tbe brake gradually. driving the shoes tighter against CHAPTER VI the wheels as the grade became pronounced. "Steady now. . . . She wants to Again something new for a young man to consider as he rolled down roll!" He was straining on the wheel alone towards camp. Until now this with all his weight Jack pulled In his team untJJ slack had been a fight without the law; now, the posslblllty loomed that a so,·erelgn of the chain dangled In the snow, unstate's authority might step In and hooked, selzed a block and held It on help tn thwarting the persecution the rail before the wheel while tbe which was being directed against Ellen tire munched into its charred surface. [n Its own length then, the car came Richards. John was convlnced now that thts to a grudging halt. Quickly they thrust whole afTalr was without old Tom's more blocks ln place and turned the His rage tef'.m backward. knowledge or consent. Down they came with another car, against his father was wholly gone before a feeling that the old man was repeating the process, careful to let it peculiarly dependent on hlm for aid ease most gently against the first they in clearing his name ot the smirch bad moved, bloc.>klog tt securely, makthat had been placed on it in this ing the coupling fast. Back again .... They spoli.e but little and tllen In uncommunity. though they were miles trom dertones, Gorbe,1 was the mnn, he told himself. Snow fell faster. Ankle ears. other Thls was Gorbel's doing from first to light, fluffy flakes fell deep, shin deep, last. His father, after years ot wisely picking his men, had at last involved steadily. The last car went tnto place; the Wmself with a rascal. . . . But setting optnlons aright, the re- final coupling was made. ~·Get your team back to the sleigh leasing or thls urge for Ellen Richsaid. 4 4 • now," John whlspered. "I'll call Rob-erts.'" In the house agaJn he rang the mill office and the foreman answered at once. "Is the last yard switch open 1" John asked. 11 0ught to be. Always ts. That's orders. Yes, I can see the llght from here." "Then stay in your office and keep your eyes open. And lf anybody starts down that yard get 'em back!" Out they went, earrylng axes. Up on to the first car John climbed and released the brakes. Jack knocked the blocks from the wheels. Back to the next, repeating the operation i a third and a fourth were released. The train stirred a bit as the freed cars took up slack. Another wheel spun, more blocks were knocked out. The train was c):mcklng, groaning, as the freed cars on the far end strained at the anchorage formed by those at the rear. As John mounted the third from the last it stirred a trifle. He smiled to hlmselt. "Snappy !" he yelled at Jack as he dropped Into the snow. The string was moving now, wheels of the last car sHdlng, squealing. He grabbed the band rail and swung up the step. He kicked the dog loose and spun the wheel. "Jump I" yelled Talt as be stood aside, and John jumped as the cars gained momentum on the grade. Fresh snow, fallen on the logs, began to whip away in light, shattering blocks, ln streamers ot dust. Flre streamed from a wheel as they swung another bend. The clatter ot trucks over ran joints was like hall on a root. The cars careened, they rolled, they jumped and bounced The last, yanked along by the others, tllted and tipped dangerously on curves. It threatened to go over. It lost a part of its load, but It held the ra!ls. On through the chopptngs, on along the sldes of bllls; through narrow ravines debouching Into Wider valleys; level track could not slow them i short rises bad no more than a barely perceptible inftu~ ence on the pace. . • • They broke over the last pitch, and any there might have seen the Ugbts ot Shoestring strung like blurred jewels through the snow a quarter or a mile away. It seemed to Talt and John. standing there in the sllenee, that they eould hear the clangor ot those runaways until they stopped. The sound came echoing back to them thr<:'ugh the tall~ tog snow, faint and fainter, bot still there. John turned then and ran into the house. Roberts answered his ring. "Anything happened?" .John asked. 11 Happened. . . • 'Y G-d, Steele I Happened!" The man's voice cackled with excitement. "'D yuh ever hear about tt rainln' frogs?" "Once.'' "And manna? It rained that, didn't 1t ?'' "No, ravens brought-" 11 Well, It come, anyhow, but what I wanted to ask ls, d'yuh ever hear ot Its ralnln' saw-logs into a hungry mlll· yard?" "No. But rve prayed for lt !" "Eb? You what? You prayed for it I" He could hear the man draw a great breath. "Wen. Steele, I'm here to say that 1t ever I want a whole lot and real bad I'm goin' to get you to pray about a dime's worth for met Say, the' •s saw-logs strung from h-1 to breakfast. tn this here yard. It'll be a mess to untangle, but lf she blows now we can saw for a week I" "Fair enough, Roberts. And yon know nothing else except that lt rained logs on you tonight.'' ''That's all I want to know. rm part clam. Good night!" John was to the camp oflice a few mlnutes before dinner-time when the telephone rang. It was an amazed ancl bewildered Ellen. ..Do you know what happened?" she asked. "I'd heard, yes. Heard it tore up the main Une.'' (TO Bill CONTINUED.) 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