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Show f.KHI FREE PRESS. LEHL l'T AH fY1 jSunbonnet ( G'rT7 (Light of Jfouj Copyright br CHAPTER X th Bcbba-Merril- By Co l Continued 11 They l.oth felt MjiMcrily confused. I' lie put down tlip playing with, and. arose from the HARLAN HATCHER "Is Ihhix Mason what you call dif fcreiit? ' he aked. "No. "Oh, W I hy Mn, hae v- - p& yLWE$ 31 ! I tal.'e the compass, rea.iy for the t.niruev In Hie mrm.r u ,.ru tt. i.i,, the chain and ihe KialT. l gm-s- s it's all finished." II- - smiled. "I hale to see ion go." she said. "I'm sorry 1 can't make the job l::st Il Jn- -t seeiiicd to get any longer. done." "J'lly seemed a luii;: way off in April." Cvmhia sai.l "And September seems a long way off trutn July .' "Il will be different tomorrow when you are gone." siie said. "It's been a good place to be In. and Il will he a good place to come back U." he said. "Hut I suppose you'll hoou be busy .ner al the Instil ute." i reckon so. Will you have any more to do here at our place?" 'It doesn't look like It now." "Then you won't be coining back?" she said. "I'll be coming bark." he answered. "It may be September and it may be spriii;: an. I it may not be to survey. I'.ill I'll be coming back." hy grim disease. A few sharp "laps of an the thin swish swash of a saw. then a shout from the men, a slow to an evploshm In the irroan final crash and dying away to a wh's per in the limbs waving through the nv.r Sh-- owr air to the gp'i'ii ! fiiroiih th" week: the atiark the cry of the of surrender, the cash and '"nil. si.re.elir-uti the hollow. The heavily timbered spot where Har-tohad caught 'possums, which lay so silent and black In the mornings under the Pinnacle, became a thick group of men In a settlement Ami yet not to themto themselves. selves, for these aliens seemed to press in upon Wolfpen Itself and to swarm in a multitude beyond their appointed (dace even though they kept to their hollow, and the sound of their axes could not he heard over the back of the ridire between. Cynthia could see them sometimes pilfering about everywhere, and every resile of the leaves In th trees by the house became a cry of panic spread through all the tlndier. Then there was always Shellen-berge- r bringing hack the disturbance from Dry Creek, for he still ate at the bouse and slept between his two sheets and made no mention of the money for his keep which Cynthia carefully recorded on a piece of paper. There was Sparrel losing Imperceptibly his first pleasure In the steam-mill- , the survey of his lands and the new saw. He gave nio;e time to the blacksmith shop, fashioning shoes for the mules and half shoes for the oxen, sharpening tools and welding chains, neglecting his medicines and his books. Cynthia missed his tall figure from the hollows speaking in low tones to his mule and greeting her when she came to the field with cold water from his tillered well. Abral was now working for Sliellenberger. Jasper was silent, Jesse was more than ever absorbed In his own plans. Julia was tired, Reuben was f.ir off down the river in another world: it was no use making believe that the corn and sweet potatoes were the same as In other years, or that Julias hollyhocks stood up in the same proud grandeur, or that Ihe lumbering was Isolated over the ridge. Dry a, siiout.-sharply to Sims to Jump up the hill out of the way. The boy was startled by the shouting of Mullens and ihe loud cracking of the giant bole breaking away from the stump and Pattern 918 crashing through the smaller trees, la nervous confusion be sprang full into Thev' ihe path of the falling mass. It caught bonnets, these seven him souarely, knocking him down as maidens who make light of frv though he were a reed, pinning him own chores, and von In and crushing the trunk, under heavy how pretty they're going to'w? his lungs. Had he sta.ved where he was embroider rm before Mullens shouted, be would have tea towels? Stitches are eTtil been safe. Tlie moans had ceased by easiest outline mostly ihe time Sparrel got to him. It went daisy, running stitch and was It Creek that quickly through Dry Mullens' fault, and If he had kept bis for gifts. Pattern 918 conUbT. month off of the hoy It wouldn't have nanaici pdiicxn oi seven motifi should And why, anyway, happened. uicnes; they be down here in a lumler trations of all stitehei camp at the risk of their lives, working color suggestions and material r for a foreigner like Mullens when they quirements. he their home well as and at Just might Send 15 cents in stamps or cob own bosses as they had always been? (coins preferred) for this They quit. They were quiet about to The Sewing Circle Needlecnft It. Some of them told Mullens they aloi, ucpi., jigmn Ave., iew YoA lowed they'd better be getting back N. Y. home now, what with the corn about Write plainly your name, ready to cut and things about he place aress ana pattern number. to be attended to, and they'd just have their time. Mullens said be couldn't Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets are u pay them until Sliellenberger got the laxative, bugar coattl eiiectiye reckmoney. And they said that they Children like them. Buy now! Adi, oned If It wasn't nanny they'd Just wait around for It, and It better not be too When Our Parents Pass On long. So while they were burying When our parents are living wi Crover Sims on Rig Brushy, Shellen-berge- r feel that they stand between ut took one of Sparrel's mules for and when they are gone,w death; two days nnd when he came back there ourselves are in the forefront of was money to pay them. the battle. The work was at a Standstill. "So now what?" Sliellenberger stld to Mullens. "Co down-rive- r and get nie some men FEEL A COLO COMING? who know how to be told what to do," Mullens said. Jiik at juu and watched him when jou are around. Do you Are yuu olj friends V smooth-worhickory chair. "He's a god boy and runs the place "It't a fine day," said. "Could since his Daddy died. lie', a . . . me walk, or sit somewhere a while?" he's Jtiht a K'"I neigiib-iand bis "Let ! do," she gai.l. mother's not well." They strolled aero the yard to the That brought another llMv-e- l:,u path along Julia's garden fence. Julia ben wondering Just why he aid anywag among her weetieag pulling off thing about Doug Mawm, wno came the faded bloom. In the evening to xi.--ii the "Yon certainly have a fine garden. sometimes but said very little an I looked Patterns Mra. Pattern," Iteuhen kh1I. often Reuben. Cynthia turned the "It's not quite go good thin year," Ju- name at over in her mind and wondered lia replied. what thing lay so powerfully In her The soft part of the afternoon lay heart that nhe hud said he ws Jusi a over the valley. quiet good neighbor. "We're going to sit a little while up "He has a big 'seng piitrh 'it-- goliu there on the rock by the Kycamore, to make a lot of money on. There Cynthia said. was no way for Reuben to know that "Well, don't go fur." Julia Mid. fol she was offerin;; him the sec t w hi. h lowing thera with her eyes to the shad Doug had laid with devotion before ed not by the creek In full view of her. She glanced at biiu. hei eyes the house and garden. turned down Wolfpen. They felt atrangely happy to be re They had been led far deeper than moved from all places where they had the surface of their talk since the half been In company with other people confused moment The spirit of the place changed by the drawing la and to be alone together In a new ble. Cynthia began to realize that after Reuben went away. Reabruptly they place whoge onlv associations were hud both dressed Doug In a word and leased from the snrwy. Jasper, Jesse those they were now making. set him before them as a symbol of and Abral were deep in the neglected com "We found gome nice Boot hack In their new relationship. Nothing ei.se fore ami me III tended crops heretothe woods," Reuben said. "I like the seemed to exist unknown on Wolfnen. fvnthin this entranced except way the hollows fork off on each side moment of creating a new experience found the day very long n I the work of Wolfnen, like ribs on a wahooleaf. with another human being. Her open Irksome when It was done for Snellen-bergeand Mullens. "Some parts of the place 1 have band lay along the delicate green moss never been to," she said. "I like bent covering of the stone dividing It into "Those two seem to till up tne whole the Pinnacle and Oranesnest and the cool points with her fingers. Reuben valley and take possession of tne place hollows here by the house. I don't dropped his long brown and briar now that Reuben is gone. And when I know whether they're best when the scarred bund try to remember what we said before gently upon it. It was to hud and the white warm and alive among the moss fronds. t splcewood begins "I never even dreamed of finding dogwood blooms, or In September when any the wild ore waist high body like you when I started up here with yellow and bags and And I nearly didn't come, only another two red ears on each one, and bumble Job came along that my Dad had to bees crowding down Into them and look after himself." The month of August was going by "Would you have minded that so shouldering the yellow dust." on the rumor of these troubles at the "That sounds the best," Uennen said much?" Cynthia asked. "It's right pretty when the creek camp. In other Augusts, the thought of "Yes," he answered. freezes over and the hushes are glazed There seemed to be nothing more to disputes among men never came into with Ice and the snow hangs on the say aloud. She withdrew her hand Wolfpen or disturbed the head of Cynthia. The talk had always been of the pine trees. I guess It Is always a good and let It lie in her lap. It seemed different from the other one and In place to be. growth the lambs had made, of the The white limbs of the sycamore tree communion with all the rest of ber rams and ewes to be sold or slaughcaught In the light of the sun. and the being. tered, of the thickness of the clover Julia was now at the gate of her in Stack Bottom, of whether the time ground and the creek were In move ment with shadow splotches. for the making of sorghum would be garden. She stood looking at Cynthia "You'll be getting the survey done and Reuben. earlier or later this year tlip-- i the one In. ruthlessly goon now, I guess?" "We'd better go back now," Cvntliia It grew more emphatic with the dif- before, of the late corn in Ju'la's patch, 'It won't be so very much longer said. ficulties at the camp. They hail come of the steers for the drovers, of the now before It Is finished, I'm afraid The cows, heavy with the long day. on gradually, intensifying a little from progress of the bees, of the size of the "Then what will you do?" were coming slowly in file around the potatoes where Julia had graveled, of day to day before thev came to "I'll see If It closes on the map. and hill toward the barn. Kvervthlna was the absence of sickness and the probcrisis. were They reflected in Spar-rel'- s then I II take It back home and my fa stirring again Into life for feeding time. able price of 'song. And the words were taciturnity anil the troubled mood ther will or maybe I will make the cal "I like to come down this valley this . : , which followed him Into the house, for framed nt leisure a few nt a time from .! . cnlatlons and fix up the papers." time of day." Reuben finally said ns there had never before been any ill day to day as one member or another "Does that take a long time?" they nenred the yard. "It seems like feeling between men on Cannon creek. of the family observed the course of "Not long like the field work." everything Is doing Just what It was in The mountain men could not adapt life about them. These things were not "Tou don't have to come hack anv tended to do." mentioned thiv year because of Snellen, themselves to the discipline of a su.more after you've finished running It?' "If you look close you can see Saul berger and Dry Creek. pervised lumhering operation. "That depends. I might have to come climbing back to Cranesnest Shelf" Cynthia felt the alteration in herself It was partly Shellenberger's air of back about the piece cut off for Shel Cynthia said. and noted it In the others and detached which authority thought "I Never Even Dreamed of Finding There was a long pause. they found "I see him," Reuben answered. lenberger. barely tolerable. Not that he kept his on it as she tried to finish the cloth Then he added, "When do you go to Anyone Like You When I Started Abral was already In the yard. He that had been already too long in the own counsel and ate only at Up Here." Sparrel's, ; llkevlller smiled boyishly, and when I never In had but that he went among them as loom. my life got such a In September. Jesse's going too, gone Into the house, he saidCynthia to Reuben little hit at a time done nil a nlnr.n he went It were seems like we didn't say though they trees or mules, .l but lie hasn't told Paddy yet. lie's to "Oh, you've been surveying." at all. but it didn't appear acted so superior by virtue of his'own-ershl- 'Rears like a body's day Is so tied up read law with Tandy Morgan." Reuben smiled at Abral. He liked anything that of Sparrel Pattern's timber and with other folks' doing I can't get any then. way It may not be to sur."I think that will be tine." bis spirit and his energy. orK none and ont of the wav. but not be I'll vey, by right of character, one man to Part of "Are yon going to follow surveying?' coming back.' I'll be "Yes, Abral. There's a lot to be ur so glad when it Is the way nobody doesn't 'seem If another, as it was among the Big onlv comes, September "Yes. There's lota of work to do In on this Mother nets like she was veyed place." It weren't for Mother. She does seem Sandy men. tired all this country. And the towns are growa little tired and peaked like Reuben It was more especially Mullens. ne the time and she doesn't show off her ing, and the counties thinking about flowers when CHAPTER XI said. Six weeks yet. It is a right long had his own Amy comes or offer her roads. I want Jo be the county gur- superiorities as boss of time." the work. He said little to the men be- any seeds and she doesn't sav much I veyor some day." !m't see when she's Near the end of an afternoon some Sliellenberger filled up the valley yond a few terse orders. Moreover going to dry ap"Oh, that would be a fine Job for a and make Jelly nnd ples Into later days his Reuben lie with his own had Warren July his presence and methods for felling trees, man. as good as the law." put things lumbering drove the Iron spike of the Jacob's operations. The old was con- determining log lengths, constructing away. Daddy goes around like he had V "I kind of hate to see a place like staff Into the ground helow the mm verted Into a sawmill.gristmill .o,e oumi on his shoulders He One change in the dam. for every single detail of the .van go over to a man like Shellenber and works down nrnnnd the mill so to a close the nncertnin a generation was well established He insisted on telling much I Rer to cnt Into. The nig Sandy slopes line brought by logging. these flon t know how he's Dnv precedent, but two. and not only In a men who had lived their ever going to get wnere tne limner lg cut off are awful- - after around the Pattern lands. lives In the herbs for from dawn to dusk they hail generation but In a his medicine and the corn day hills and swung axes since In single year, threatlooking things." they were and the hay made It and the sorghum "It's Just the part down the creek pushed thethrough the ax cleared way ened the stability of a man s customs. striplings, how to fell a tree, hmv rar works In through laspor over the Sparrel was too engrossed in the me- above the ground they should timber, the fields with a sorr, and you won't see it from here. Hut cut and ook on his face, ridges that lay lifeless l0 the noondav chanical details of rigging up the saw where to stand when and I reckon he it began to'lean sometimes at night t can hear the trees heat, and down want, to marry. And Abral is so Into cool damp hol- and ripping out boards for the Sometimes excited aho, would do they as camp about talking what's about to happen lows where the birds were -othey I can to be sensitive to It. Rut to hear him ry.hing gathered In the 10 mem ana it goes from one to an Cynthia told: more often they would do ns they afternoons. Then they had marked off It was all new and disturbing. Some liked and meet the sour looks of Mulother all over the hills and dies awav the v,,,pnhnfn,"h,i,n,iranim,n2 for Sbellenberget. cutting times she watched the smoke boil portlothe wall. And there's up lens with a passive and child like Jesse in a sign on our creek. Still, I reck ncross tne rrom the Jutting point on thromd. hi m place working tne laurel on hushes Pin. oiougn the silence. on people need timber." I "'K on. on the Rig Sandy watershed overlook i.,i.. " nnde and the bright whirling snw bite "hiu at his steer on,t i i.oook "1 reckon." They were ditlicult and Individual as M-- ight ing the river where the long ridges into the body of a yellow nervous about going off log which children, and Mullens did not know They snt In silence, listening to the rolled Into form out of o own with so blue and In had lived It these hills longer than all what to do about much to do about it. life all about them. So he swore at P.ice before llstinct spnee. to the rich earth at the her people. She would listen tensely them and marked on each tree the " range men winter and all these "Isn't all ttils cooking and boarding font of the Pinnacle on Gannon creek to the saw Its first noisy at- exact coming here from making spot where he wanted it cut. If so many too hard on Just you and your In view of Cranesnest. ur. nnd the hard tack and then settling Info a lie then stood by and feelings ho", steady mother?" It came so suddenly and with Reuben peeped through the silt In raucous scream as It sliced watched, they 'rover Sims getting off it would cut low; but when he out preparation that she was startled . he sights to the yellow point still piece from Its side. A turned u?Avt 7"t"'-- .What about shiver would away they would She lifted Her hand from lie moss, catching the sun above the shadows In pass through her straighten their hacks him and his The spine. maps cut and and high. and dropped It Into her lap, clasping the Wolfpen. er, e working on. became a living thine suffer! and about hovv v"n were not They ther. to Thence north eighty-thrent . over the get happy in tho camp. degrees latlon. and she wondered whether the ... o ioe., Koi noniesirk or took a "Why, no, Reuben. A body Just don't thirty minutes east to the beginning." screaming came from the exultation of fancy for think much about It." he said to Sparrel and the others and the furious saw victuals or a you'd just better teeth. or from the hurt notion to leave ! od mTii'i!'''' the camp for a few Shellenhenrer nn.ilenvto , "l'our mother looks a little worn out entered ft In the notebook. I guess tree In Its cry of pain. But days, they that finishes It." Don't you think so?" shouldered their nice to ca . At the beginning of. this B year she nnd went. They returned when .xes names." nim bad It was like saying good by to one of would have "I guess I Just hadn't thought of thev spoken hei- ilmimhi. got ready and they did no, "It's after washing and Ironing, or the family. (TO RF expect anv Sparrel. Now she was 8iPt Rf,m amiM'F.D) unfavorable notice to he ink Tomorrow Reuben would be leaving them while the omethlng. I've noticed. And Khe likes operations on went at going out or their coming In this place w here, he had lived through the mill and In to be out In ber garden." C'ipP'nsTTwhiskers Dry Creek.- - she fo. Abral said that the men were "She told Daddy she didn't neetl tho days of spring and early summer lowed the prross of the work begin com Bust of Thacker by nlng to think It ought to he tie would ride In silence behind Sour Pletlng In ber Imagination the extra help." payday some frag time, but rel tlw.t to Plkevllle and then by boat down ments of talk let fall "Are Shel lenberger and Mullens slayneither Snellen by the menfolk berger nor Mullens had said anythi,,.. the Pig Sandy, sittlna on the nrow to nt the table on the Knann&a 'nwtis ing on here while they lumber?' porch, Westndnster 1k and by the about it yet. "1 don't know," Cynthia said, "J watch the Pattern lands he had sur- - glimpses she hnd of It as 'went she And since they were not eyed come Into view and recede and about the ptnoe. reckon go." to hiring out for u wage, accustomed He bad surprised her again by this pass Into the hands of Shel lenberger. The mountain men were they m , to know whether kind of observation which menfolk did it was me nrst time he had ever been Wolfpet) Mild Dry Creek withcoming they should ask about axes on the time of their pnv or just wan nnti' not make. She turned and looked full sorry to complete a Job In the hills and Ihelr shoulders looking for work Thev return home. 'he Job was finished up. t him. came from the cabins In the 'UK. and at Spurre. squeezed seemed to take It as He hnd had enough experience In :he h ,w "'fi nsKed the dC;i,n "You're different, Reuben." being all rl-- ht here farming was nir-,..- .., let her bave It so must be. hut a little "em shortened changing world to foresee Ue smiled at her. a ready nio'nev singularly rare lovetlness of Wolfpen could notthat the growing precarious, hearing the rumor would o.une In The Dean and engaging smile. handy. survive that there was cash to be had Tor consented reluctantly chop, This general unrest the wave of development which would and . h accompanied timber on Sparrel Paiterns phi. "Different how and from whatr culminated In ping e one aw e. p over It. He was gorry "" '"""r day 1 don't know August. The bow to gay It But They cleared away the Mat at the month occasion joo' ns the accident and tlrst He stood by the kitchen window of are.' Dry Creek and erected shucks for the casualty n ihe Jot, the were scent of poplars ami pine men and sheds for They smelling chopping ,he great "Well, so then are you." the mules nml I,,rs ry Creek. Crover He felt the thrill of these advances trees on the light breeze from the blacksmith shop Then their aos ami ,,SI Sims hollow. ' Cynthia found It in there for saws gnawed al the boles ot n. which came unwilled Into wntcumg them ,,.,.S "i a minute alone. and being, .!..wn iib one of the finest of The note books and through the hollow ami then as corloualj retreated. theui up the hill the deeds were- ile.i inm n k ...n.. ... .. to be there at ",'' M"",""s hi W4UUI( VQ Hie j sides, spreading releti'lesslv like ' to lean, lie turned to WM r" Its niche. l'l 1'u ... e-- n him n , a touch-me-not- s d ri-i- n Creek-presse- d J a-- p nnf-"ni- l. 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