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Show THE MURRAY EAGLE IRAT: W.I' i WOLFPEN Hat-IaI n MUwtrohorx Huicher OJrirvMv'crfr, and Jack Caher had begun In rough humor when Ike suld that Jack had been cutting timber for three months and still didn't know which way a tree was going to fall and would have got his fool self killed long ago If somebody didn't always pull him out of the way. The men, glad of words to break the silence and Isolation, laughed; their laughter Inspired Ike to keep It up, elaborate Jt, and go on baiting Jack. Then Jack Caher lost the humor of It feeling himself In ridicule out of butt, and the usual Ike Dallow showed resentment. couldn't very well stop without seeming to back down. So they carried on through the drink they had behind a pile of brush and down to the shop. Sparrel tried to quiet them, but they were too excited now to listen to him. They grew more boisterous, drawing others Into the halting. "That's about enough now, Ike," Jack Caher said. "Listen to the little poodle," Ike said. "Enough what?" Then Jack lunged tit Ike and hit him under the eye. Jack stumbled as he swung, and was carried to his knees pnst Ike Dallow and against the bellows by the forge. In the Hash of blind anger, Ike seized a , swung It over his shoulJack could recover before and der, his feet he brought It down with crushing force on his neck and shoulders. Had the hook not caught in the bellows, the blow would have slain Jack Cuher outright and In stantly. He crumpled with a cry and groan, Ms bleeding head push ing Into the soft leather of the hel lows, causing the smoldering forge to throw tip a shower of sparks. It was all too quick for anybody to Intervene; the sudden flash of the long smoldering antecedents. Ike Dallow stood for a moment In his hand, be- with the cant-hoogood-nature- f nm'urr r-- t ' n XIV Continued 1- 7Abrsl and Hip men nt the dum the uiici'iiiiii'ni rmiihle of the CHAPTER truck. Dons rnriiP furiously Into sljjht by the around the tn'nd, prcci-di'on the Infirm roar of the whet-Itrucks. "It's Dmis MiiHon. lie's gone plum crazy," Ahml said. While Iih wim yet spi'iiklnj;, the heavy load strwk a weak Joint in the wooden mils In the middle of the curve and plunged down the foot of the hill to the creek hank. They rolled the worthless l"K from his torn body and carried him bleeding to the camp. Sparrel must Lurry. There was nothing much Pparrel rould do for the left hand, flattened nil punctured, wl'h the white broken bones, banning by a (single string of skin Ht the wrist. The left eye whs struck too hard by the heavy links of the log chain, ami was no longer nn eye. Sparrel did well by him with Ms turpentine mid naive und rastlle map. When the worst of pain tind passed, they carried him out of the bunk In the lumber camp to bis own house. A moan came sometimes from Ids Hps out of bis control. He would twitch the (landless stump of bis arm, bis teeth grinding, anil Hare at the blank wall with a bit- ter eye. about on Ills mother, hobbling lier poor legs, anil bis sister lies-didid the weeping, Cynthia, preparing things to bear to the Masons, riding down Wolf-peam. (lumion Creek with them on the Fliiemare, kept thinking over ami over, "Worrying and regretting are what you can't help and they don't make things a bit ililTerent. l'ut a body can't hardly aeo why things In the world can be the way Seems like they sometimes are. there has been a plague on this year that Just hangs around Dry Creek Hollow waiting to reach out and do eM'rjhody i.n III turn. I'm downright Borry about Doug." December was dreary and full of heaviness. It was as if the sorrow for Doug Mason had taken visible form over the bouses. Day after day the thick .clouds lay on the bills. All day long the house was as quiet us death. Shellcnherger was still away down the river somewhere getting ready for the rafts In the spring. Jasper was busy In the hollows and at the barn. Ahral went each day to Dry Creek. e n Nearly every day Spurrel would to see lKmg, ami when Cynthia asked about him, replied: "l'oorly, Cynthia, he's jetting well, but he's In had shape. And he's that proud he won't let an) body see bliu only me." They were trying days, end they trailed one another through the gloom. Then Jesse came one w arm weekend when tbo wind blew Into the hollows and pressed the rain from the clouds, driving them from before the sun. The darkness lifted for moment, the grass looked up wondering and the birds sang. Jese was happy, lie tilled the house with his enthusiasm and good-will- . He talked about the law and the lawsuit pending next term of court, of the people and the activity of I'lWvllle, feeling himself no longer a spectator but a part of It. Ho described the tie brick J ill to b built on the lower corner of the Court house square, the new I'.aptist church by the Institute, the gei.cral store the tleorge l'rothcrs were putting up, the stone sidewalks be. Ing laid all through the town, an I the talk about even lighting up t: go down streets at night He could mi this progress from Tandy Morg in utile. It was good to Ii.im' Jesse come hack, but It was somehow d.ileretd from the way s'i bad Imagined It. He was changed and ail this taik sounded strange from him. He wa already tm.re of the riUoiiv law man the Per yer, vynima who set out the plants In the spnis, and read I'.l.ickstone haltingly tin der the haycock. She realized with bearta he that even the Jesse of those days existed no longer e uvj t la her memory, and would return no More to Wolfpcn. It was Idle to think of It being otherwise, and yet the thought of placing Jesse In the tault along with all the oilier treas urcj things that hnl died. In that year was full of itrlef. And the dajs after lie was gone were less happy than before, Miclletiberger and Dry Creek seemed to have? cotiiiurrei! and scssed Wolfprn, Fhellenbrrger returned from his Journey down the river. He was still talking about the progress of business minded meo who were developing the country for For themselves. profit. Kverjthlnj was folnj to cxuut ilonj in-ug- tit, rs '" big very soon now. Just ut the it mo- ment things were a little tight It required a steady outlay of capital to get an operation going and a long time to get returns on It. Vision, enterprise were the necessary qualities. A few days later he came up from Dry Creek to the mill wnere Sparrel was grinding. "I was wondering whether you couldn't help me out for a few weeks," Shellenherger said In his pleasantest manner. "What could I do to help you out, Mr. Rhelleiiherger?" "Those fellows are grumbling for their pay again, and the Cod's truth of It Is, .Mr. Pattern, that I'm Just a little short of cash right at this minute. I was wondering If I couldn't borrow a thousand dollars from you for a short time. I'll give you my personal note for It, and at the end of the month when I go down I'll have Judge Wade of the Cntleftshiirg bank endorse It If you wish." "I don't hardly see . . ." "Votj might to have Interest at six per cent. Say fifteen dollars for the loan. That's the way men make money, by making It work. You let It Idle In the bank and the bank lends It out and gets the Interest. Just for ninety days and you'll do me a great favor and help my work along." Sparrel thought It over; the end of May, a thousand dollars, fifteen dollars Interest, enough cash for Jasper, a real favor to Shellenher-ger- . I guess I could spare that to help you out," he said. "And I don't see any cause to bother Judge Wade with It." "I in certainly much obliged to yen. Mr. Pattern." Dry Creek kept pushing In like Its new owner. Ahral was much engrossed In the technique of lumbering nnd the prospct of driving a raft In the spring. He could even bring a tleeting moment of cheer Into (he house when he stood In the middle of the kitchen floor In Cynthia's way. with a broom locked In the back of a chair, swinging It like an onr blade ami shouting to his Imaginary helper on the raft to shove on the pole and keep the headings away from the bank. Then, the stlflf curve cleared, he would relax while the raft rode safely on the current, and turn to Cynthia and say, "That's to take her around a sharp bend." "I bet you run right luto a sand bar, Ahral." "All right, I bet you. What'U you rat-eare- cant-hook- g'xd men with a pride folk before them back their all like saw this to Saul and the time he in. land as a place for a man to live ,ir. irrnw un CHAPTER XV It over as SPAIiliKL passedwith Cynthia, ami was l.ral added nothing to it. It to had You accident another jst ...vpect r them, on a big' Job, Snellen-rgesaid. Mfn would not be I'.ut Cynthia Knew iron, i.reful. the worried look on Sparrel's face Inthat It was more than that. It volved the law und a sheriff, and that was a sinister thing quite apart from Jesse and Tandy Morgan and Shellenherger found niaekstone. business calling him down the river; he was gone when Sheriff Hath r came. Cynthia heard the sheriff afttaking In low tones to Sparrel In er dinner, standing on the porch the cold. -Vou're right, Sparrel. We'll clean it all up right now," he said. "I think we ought to," Sparred said. "We'll have Ike Dallow In FlkeThey picked him vllie tomorrow. up down at Heaver. You tell what you know about the liquor, too, Sparrel. and we'll get this cleaned up." "I'm sorry you had to come here on this business, but there wusu't anv way of getting out of It." -Dou't worry about It, Sparrel. We'll Just get It cleaned up now. How's Doug Mason getting?" 'He's up and around now, Hatlcr, and he's learning to do things again. He says he'll do the farm work In the spring." "It wuz a darn shame, Sparrel. Didn't your girl have an eye for him?" don't reckon so only Just as a neighbor." "Well, she's too fine a girl for i de-ol- Gas of Giant. kelp, of the species r -iminaria. is not weed Known j e most o but onf only the longest valuable planis in uic in submarine for-esspecimens, found of Japan, says off the coast more Collier's Weekly, are often and contain in length feet 1,000 than about Jiz.wu WU1 U V the dinner. "I couldn't ever have married you, Doug, not even If It hadn't happened. Why did you want me to, and why did you go and do that, and why don't you take Judy Wooton who always has wanted you, and why does Hatler talk about It? Things would drive a body plumb crazy If you didn't think about something else. Oh, Heuhcn, wherever you are In the woods, the place Is different from when you liked It so much. It's been so long. April Is so far away. Will you forget how you said, 'I will come back'?" On a gray winter morning Cynthia opened the gate for Sparrel and watched Mm ride nway on the Finemare to obey the summons. He smiled to her about his worry, and again at the orchard be turned, and lijiuisoaiC, to wave to her. li's a sin and a shame that he takes It so to heart I'll try to make an apple pie for him and have It hot the way Mother always did when he gets back tonight from his hard trip." She was busy all day. weaving at the loom, cleaning the house, making the pies, cooking dinner for Jasper, tending to the miik, getting supper for Jasper, Abral and the return of Sparrel. Then the flutter of the hens In the pear tree, the nervousness In the stalls and the barnyard among the mules, the sheep and the cows; and the dark slid into Wolfpen. Abral came In from Dry Creek, hungry after his day In the open, Jasper sat quietly by the -g fire looking Into the flames, waiting. The crust of the dried apple pies browned In crisp flakes, deep stained with the Juice In the fork holes In the dough patterning ferns. Cynthia kept them In the oven as long as possible, and then set thera on the warming shelf by the stovepipe. The special dinner for Sparrel wns ready, "He ought to be back now," Abral said. "You can't always tell about getting nn early mnrt back from the trials," Jasper said. "They ran Use up more time doing nothing, rve watched them." "Maybe we might just g() nVa, and eat." Abral said. "I'm hungry," "We'll wait a while lotrr." Cynthia said, prolonging tie oing. Jasper nearly dozing the heat after the ouls,!e Co!l, .hral ... .... t...ii. t'.A the stove, while time went on I o an hour be) end custom. "He might have to star over" Abral said. "Lei's I m inn-v- '" -If not l.ke D.,..!y h,v neu oe u.tcit at.d then - t be," Cynthia said. "He dou't t!,,al'y go , , 1:nr iiistf viuuT. inn cant ll nli. mt uieiu luwjcr an I a J iry," said. They waited vi;i ir,)T ,,,, Cynthia at !a- -t tm.fc liu ,,,. ' "1 wish he'd coiii..." n!,. MiiJ "i reckon he's vSyP, (Hl,'r Jesse." Jasper s il . R;Ri. , keep thil.-- s r,,( ,r t while Just to make sure," CM.th.;. said. Abral finished ami wet.t oqtMde following Jasper. e'r,?;,i, p.. i . ft w s.ing. l,f j Aiirui came mmm " 2 'm k it,'., ih kitchen. i t... that notlV'CJ you would system and that has h.. headaches for month. I. H. sea-- . GTaT? "Th oat on m I I could not eat or .5WU heart seemed to hurt. 1 . tv . gested Adlerika. The T,rt ?M & brought m. relief. " sleep nne ni win, Mri. Jag. Filler. neve'" telt bet' Adlerika arts r. n K lower boweli while ordinJ'w iJ ' act on th. lower gives your .ystem a thoroL vtJ 0u,ni-Dr- .4 v . Shoub, A,' CJ greatly r.duct, Wleri. Give your bowel, a w,th Adlerika and .e rfai feel. Just one spoonful how and nstipation. At , ,k'i J ru''2J 5'i Druggists. 7 ts The ll;irdnnj Justice must tame whom cannot win. Saville. 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They carried him Into the I learned all about It from Mulbut.k where Sparrel watched over lens." hlra until he died In the early mornCjnthla would carry It on. or she ing. would drop It and be happy for a Sparrel laid him out with the time In the presence of his energy soiled blanket covering bis Kice. and his confidence. She lived In the Tired and worried, Sparrel tramped rich world of her Imagination, for toward Wolfpcn through the last of the most part, above the routine of the dark, thinking It over and over. the house where Julia was not. Soft I felt It In my bones, somehow, the white fluffs of snow, small hard way you know something you don't pellets of Ice, the sun and the thaws want to know, hope you won't have carried awny the colorless days of to know. Then, bang, and It's all January. The wind and the rnln. done. No warning. Sheriff the sleet freezing enamel on the have to come now, and a grand pear tree, the sun cracking It and Jury and all. Sheriff Hatlcr never dropping It to the ground, brought rode down this creek before in t,i In February. life only as a neighbor. Now he In Dry Creek more and ever more has to come on a murder. I;i;ht on I"s were piling up, and the rough the Fat'ern land It was. tin! men were getting more restive In reckon it's not Fat tern land but the lo'.in snd Irritable with one ShrlViiUTger lanJ.f Never any ills lr the long Isolation from a gra.e en It before. 'I'd like to' have with good drink and women. seen It stay that way. There w,i OhMt a could know little about Just no reason In It happening, p.a-them, but Sparrel was concerned. blood breaking out. It w.i. IN i!f!i!loned It to Shellenherger like In the last year something's who ii;mued It with a word. Spar been nt the heart of these bills, ;t,. re! su l no more, except to Mm-- " It was si. Not Jm giving up. if. - t,w)y hates t see that kind here en mr It's the i,m place. of life In here but It's Just the men Sandy Valley. Swamped with t . he I" ,:,t up from down the river. nwtiy floating people I rs k..n. e- -n I ! 't reckon a little drinking will Ing up the river nnd bviHng sco-hou r y man. except It's etn'onrag- - the l ew mine (owns nnd lum' r 'tic pretty bad characters to camps. t Interested In the g.. ' 'i.'i-'t. I'd hate Pke anvtli'ng to of t! land. traMng corn 11. per - ,! ie li Creek get a bud name gambling, and thing like this. fro-u. Things are bad enough ".ever been m busy s'l lr n w where they come from. life. Sl.erlT Hatlcr told me at 'ii " .. nnJ then more killings If such a s'tht of lanbreaklrg ' witnesses against them on In the rounlry here lutelv, Tr t In C"iut. Those feuds already give hie rl.-h-f there In Flkevllie. too a b'.i.-lot bigger coun- about the Jill, and that witrte nine t If. try t' m has title to It I wouldn't the ll irrlson MrClurg -- ,. g, iH y of that around here even shot. Jes,.-only be,-- there a fen mi s . '.Miberger's land. Maybe ItU months m he's seen a sight of be f I r'ght and Fm Just touchy cases c'in up. We've tore :t shout a century how. thing." f,,. H "e he was pretending to him-el- f of dUcrscrd mvclf, like I w a (t( ti.i, everything was all right, And I reikon I am, became Ml , It went abruptly awry. Sparrel him. summoned. The Jogg-- m and th, self Wis in the blacksmith shop it moonshiner 111 ant ti get u st the ramp when It occurred. The hushed over. Fetter get It s! om a nM.i;." scared tr.cn crime, down from the woods In the cle.ir light now be'nre it W( 'U with tie tools to be sharpened. further. Fetter Just tell Sherif were They and the grand Jury nil nhom if rough looking laborer "Who? Who, Ahral'" White Ilqnor was type of men. nd clean It all TM Is wherr "The Finemnre.- - hfi on their breath and red Id we have to live. We must keep tM heavy blng his out fr..m . ., . some or their eyes. country clean and decent and a ft door. 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