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Show Damaged Page 1 SOUTH CACHE COURIER HYRUM, UTAH nc ff fltoe IPads By EDISON MARSHALL catch the point, and he was trying to that forest endless spirit of the stretched In front of the house. His time pipe had gone out, and for a long to seemed He Lennox hadnt spoken. be straining too, with Ineffective senses, trying to recognize and name the fainr sounds that came so tingling and tremulous out of the darkness. As always, they heard the stir and rustle of the gnawing people ; the chipmunks In the shrubbery, the gophers who, like blind piisers, had ventured forth from their dark burrows; and perhaps even the scaly glide of those poison people that had lairs In the rock piles. Dan felt that at last the wilderness He had Itself was speaking to him. waited 'a long time to hear Its voice. His thought went back to the wise men of the ancient world, waiting to hear the riddle of the universe from the lips of the' Sphinx, and how he himself more In his unconscious self, rather than conscious had sought the eternal riddle of the wilderness. He had asked questions never In the form of words only Ineffable yearnings of his soul and at last it had responded. The strange rising and falling song was Us own voice, the articulation of the very heart and soul of the wilderness. "Its the wolf pack, Lennox told The wolves have Just him softly. Joined together for the fall rutting. Then this means the end of the summer? Dan asked. Tn a way, but yet we dont count the sumrder ended until the rains break. Heavens, I wish they would ls so start! Ive never seen Bert either that afraid and Im dry, Cranston or some of his friends will decide Its time to make a little money fighting forest fires. Dan. Im suspicious of that gang. I believe theyve got a regular arson ring, maybe with unscrupulous stockmen behind them, deal and perhaps just a of their own. I suppose you know about Landy Hildreth how hes promised to turn states evidence that will send about a dozen of these vipers to the penitentiary? Snowbird told me something about most-dreade- SYNOPSIS. Warned by his physician that he has not more than six months to live, Dan Failing sits despondently on a park bench, wondering where he should spend those six months. Memories of his grandfather and a deep love for all things of the wild help him in reaching a deel-sioin a jarge southern Oregon city he meets people who hat known and loved his grandfather, a famous frontieisman. He makes his home with Silas Lennox, a typical westerner. The only other members of the household are Lennoxs son, Bill," and daughter, Snowbird. Their abode Is In the Umpqua divide, and there falling plans t- - live out the short span of life which he has been told is his. From the first Fallings health shows a marked improvement. and in the companionship of Lennox and his son and daughter he fits into the woods life as if he had been born to it By quick thinking and a remarkable display .of . 1nerve be saves Lennoxs life and his own when they are attacked by a mad coyote. Lennox declares he is a reincarnation of his grandfather, Dan Failing I, whose fame as a woodsman is a household word Dan learns that an organized band of outlaws, of which Bert Cranston is the leader, Is making trouble in the vicinity. Landry Hildreth, a former member of the gang, has een induced to turn state's evidence. o. 1 :0 CHAPTER III Copyright. 1930. by Little, Brown & Co. The gun was of large caliber; and from weariness. He climbed hills no living creature could stand against that seemed to tear his diseased lungs the furious, shocking power of the to shreds. Lennox wouldnt have been great bullet. The lead went straight afraid. In a crisis, to trust his marks home, full through the neck and slant- manship now. He hod the natural ing down through the breast, and the cold nerve of a marksman, and one coyote recoiled as if an irresistible twilight he brought the body of a lynx hand had smitten him. It Is doubtful tumbling through the branches of a If there was even a muscular quiver pine at a distance of two hundred after Graycoat struck the ground, not yards. He got so he could shatter a twenty feet from where Dan stood. grouse out of the air In the half of a Afid the rifle report echoed back to second or so In which Its bronze wings find only silence. glinted tn the shrubbery; and when Lennox got up off the ground and a man may do this a fair number of moved over toward the dead coyote. times out of ten he is on the straight He looked a long time at the gray road toward greatness. body. And then he stepped back to Then there came a day when Dan where Dan waited on th3 trail. his first steelhead in the North caught I take It all back, he said simply. Fork. There Is no more beautiful You take what back? In the wilderness world than a What I thought about you that thing steelhead trout In action. He simply the Failing line had gone to the dogs. Ill never call you a tenderfoot again. But tell me one thing. I saw the way you looked down the barrel. could see how firm you held the rifle the way you kept your head. And that is all like your grandfather. Bui why, when you had a repeating rifle, did you wait so long to shoot? I just had one cartridge in my gun. I didnt think of it until the coyote charged. Lennoxs answer was the last thing Ii the world to be expected, ne opened his straight mouth and uttered a great, boyish yell of joy. nis eyes seemed to light. The eyes of the two men met. and Lennox shook him by the shoulder. Youre not Dan Failings grandson youre' Dan Falling himself! he No one but him would have shouted. had to wait till the game was almost on top of him no one but him would have kept his head In a time like this. Youre Dan Failing himself, I tell yu, come back to earth. Grandson nothing! Youre a throwback, and now youve got those glasses off. I can see his eyes looking right out of yours. Step on em Dan. .Youll never neetf em again. And give f" up that Idea of dying in four months right now; Im going to make you live. Well fight that disease to a finish and win And that Is the way that Dan FallDan, I'm Suspicious of That Gang." ing came Into his Writage In the land of his own people, and In which seems to dance on the surface of the new spirit was born In him to' fight water, leaping again and again, and and win and live. racing at an unheard-o- f speed down the ripples. He weighs only from BOO TWO three to fifteen pounds. But now and again amateur fishermen without souls hfve tried to pull him in with main The Debt. strength, and are still somewhat dazed Dy the result It might be done CHAPTER I. with a steel cable, but an ordinary was at Its last days on line or leader breaks like a cobweb. September the Umpqua divVi that far wilder- When his majesty the steelhead takes the fly and decides to run, It can he ness of endless, ridges where Dan Falling had gone for hTs last learned after a time that the one days. Everywhere the forest people thing that may he done is to let out all were preparing for the winter that the line and with prayer and humblewould fall so quickly when these gold- ness try to keep up with him. Dan no longer wore his glasses en September days were done. The Under Plane of the forest those Every day his eyes had strengthened. smaller peoples that live In the dust He could see more clearly now, with and have beautiful, tropical forests In his unaided eyes, than he had ever the ferns found themselves digging seen before with the help of the lens. holes and filling them with stores of And the moonlight came down through food. Of course they had no Idea on a rift in the trees and showed that his earth why they were doing it, except face had changed, too. It was no that a quiver at th end of their tails longer so white. Te eyes were more told them to do so ; but the result was Intent. The lips were straighter. Its been two months, Silas Lenentirely the same. They would have nox told him, half the four that you a shelter for the winter. But the most noticeable change of gave yourself after you arrived here. nil. In these days of summer, was a And youre twice as good now as when distinct tone of sadness that sound- you came. Dan nodded. Twice! Ten times ed throughout the forest. Of course the wilderness note Is always some- as good I was a wreck when I came. what sad; but now, as the leaves fell Today I climbed halfway up Baldy and the grasses died. It seemed par- within a half mile of Snowbirds cabticularly pronounced. All the forest in without stopping to rest. Lennox looked thoughtful. More voices added to It the wail of the geese, the sad fluttering of fallen than once, of late, Dan had climbed up leaves, and even the whisper of the toward Snowbirds cabin. It was true north wind. Of course all the tones that his guest and his daughter had and voices of the wilderness sound become the best of companions In the clearest at night for that is the time two months; but on second thought, Lennox was not In the least afraid of that the forest really comes to life and Dan Failing, sitting In front of complications. The love of the mounLennoxs house, watching the iate tain women does not go out to physWhoever gets her, September moon rise over Bald moun- ical inferiors. he had said, will have to tame her, tain, could hear them very plainly. It was true that In the two months and his words still held good. The he lmd spent in the mountains he had mountain women rarely mistook a malearned to be vwy receptive to the ternal tenderness for an appealing voices of the wilderness. Lennox had man for love. It wasnt that Dan was not been mistaken In thinking him a weak except from the ravages of his natural woodsman. He had imagina- disease; but he was still a long way tion and Insight and sympathy; but from Snowbirds ideal. Although Dan most of all he had a heritage of wood-lor- e had courage and that same rigid from his frontiersmen ancestors. that was an, old quality In his Two months before he had been a breed, he was still a long way from resident of cities. Now the wilder- a physically strong man. It was still ness had claimed him, body and soul. ' an even break whether he would ever These had been rare days. At first wholly recover from his malady. he bad to limit his expeditions to a But Dan was not thinking about few miles each day. and even then he this now. All his perceptions had would come h. bt night staggering sharpened down to the finest focal Continued. S He looked up, find the whole weird lecture was throw!; upon the retina of his eyes. The coyote was still racing straight toward Dan, a gray demon that In his madness was more terrible than any charging bear or elk. Foy there Is an element of horror about the insane, whether beasts or men, that cannot be denied. Both men felt It, with a chill that seemed to- penetrate clear to their hearts. The eyes flamed, the white fangs of Graycoat caught the sunlight, i And Dan stood erect In his path, h. 2rifle half rtC-- . 'y. to his shoulder; aniKtveu In that frenzied Instant In which Lennox looked at him. he saw there was a strange Impassiveness, a singular Imperturbability on his face. Lennox shouted. Shoot, man "What are you waiting for? But Dan didnt shoot. His hand whipped to his face, and he snatched off his glasses. The eyes that were revealed were narrow and deeply Intent. And by now, the frenzied coyote was not fifty feet distant. All that had occurred since the animal charged had possibly taken five seconds. Sometimes five seconds Is Just a breath; hut as Lennox waited for Dan to shoot, it seemed like a period wholly without limit. He wondered If the younger man had fallen Into that strange paralysis that a Imbues. great terror sometimes he screamed again. Shoot But It is doubtful If Dan even heard his shout. At that Instant his gun - 1 thlck-lense- d 1 self-contr- ol ! tree-cla- d 1 self-contr- ol The Lead Went Straight Home. slid Into place, his head lowered, Ills eyes seemed to burn along the glittering barrel. His finger pressed back against the trigger, and the roar of the report rocked through the summer lr. , .U5 V'. "Vi TV , 2GffiO0ti Time now for a girl to have her engagement ring the sweetest treasure of every Our reasonable prices ease the way girt BOYD PARK JEWELERS BOYD PARK BLDG 166 MAIN STREET d NEWHOUSE HOTEL 400 400 ROOMS BATHS bt MOST MODERN BOTH VEST OF CHICAGO 30 Rooms Witt Both 70 125 100 75 Rooms Wilk Balk Rooms With Botk Rooms With Balk Rooms With Bath One persoa One persoa $1.59; $2.00; Oat persoa $2.50; One persoa $3.00; One persoa $4.00; Two persoas Two persons Two persoas $2.50 $3.00 $3.50 Twa persoas $4.00 Two persons $5.00 Popular Priced Code Shop and Dining Rooa Headquarters for Utah, Idaho, Wjrontinj, Nevada people -- the-hil- penny-winnin- g ' It. 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