Show THE OAKLAND WES The Marked Man A ROMANCE OF THE GREAT LAKES by Karl IV Dstzer Copyright W N U Stnrite THE STORY hls From Erlrkron Norman mother herit a diataat for Ilf on tha water which la beyond the understanding of hla father Ouatnf At aallnr veteran lira Erlckaon’a death Cuataf to make Norman a ho haa been working for a roer hla partner In hta flatting boat at mood In rebellloua once man aeek comfort from Julr Rlchaud French Canadian (liialnf of hla arhonl day going to the aid of a drowning After nmnlha friend le crippled ie Guaiaf la In a measure alle Ed Hnket ami hla occupation Nurman'a lifeyoung fisherman long enemy funs til feeling tween father and son and Norman determines to seek employ ment In the light houne eervlie —Norman goe ta Is In columned Blorkln living with hla daughter Snaan While filling a lamp with kerosene Susan aela tire to herfklri She la aaved from serrlnua injury by Norman who Is painfully On hla day olT duly Norjured From man visits Julie Itlchaud a area tha lighthouse Norman hla Milking boat on tha reefs wav through ths surf to the wreck he la atru- k by the body of a dead dog Guntaf Krirkeon had been fond of telling a ghastly alory of a ses disaster In which a dead dog figured anl had listened Norman as a child to It In terror Ths dog recalls tha atory and unnervea him He abandon! hla Idea of rescue CHAPTER VI— Continued "Come In hurry with you I” Purlrh wave cried puxhed the Surf boat buck Inward the hand the undertow drugged ll hoard except Every iiiiid wua Norman Parish and the cnptulu leaned close and bellowed "Tour turn lust Jump I" Norman bit his feel It together and made ready to obey With wet ginurt trig eyes he taw the loan hlg booed oflleer swing abnaid lie reached for torrential wave the gunwale tie tnw the slapped against his face til ack gltudow of the lifeboat Jerk wy “Coiner the captain’ voice snapped hack to him on the wind N'ormun leaped forward with all the lie strength that war left In his legs heard Ed Baker cry: plck’rel 1“ The assistant keeper wttdcd out savagely while a cold roller spattered him wlfli a power that chilled his fni Id? He Hfrnid? He'd show spine them Show Baker Show old Hus tafl Baker was wrong this lime! all wrong always had been were They lie was going Ills brenih wrong strangled In his thront “I'onier the men were iltnullng "C’otne I” (le ducked Ids bend and scrambled The nern of the bout forward arm lengths three olf Norman sprawled after IL A roller great Destiny Intervened er than nil the others heavier nagtler tl fell leaped out of' the darkness on the mun who was left savagely Itung him backward fur up the beach t and him Into the gravel rumpled '' routed satisfied The cries of the laboring crew echoed hoarsely from the dlslrutight The lifeboat was making liurd lake progress against uuwllllug wuier shell id rand clawed upward to wet Winded beaten he Impotent glared at the bowling lake Riundlns numb but secure on ttie gusty bcurh son Uuxtut ol watched Erickson the the const guard crew go out to lu dangerous duty Buck to the hot steutuy signal bouse Sue Stocking clanged Hie coul scoop against the holler door itulTed the Brebol with fuel and tlapjied the door shut vigorously Squiiiilng like tier father (he read the steam gauge “That’ll do rite commented aloud ‘‘I cun leave It ten minutes I cun go look I” through the Anxiously (he wash toward Sieve Sutton’s Halt disk She could see her fathers lantern now on the sand two hundred yards eheud figures beudlng aud struggling her and It passed hurrtedly’between She reultied that they were light uunchhig Sieve' Jioat she (night She ran faster gel there In lime to help pub them She was very angry so angry off that the blowing spray did not cool She felt sure ot Norman her face Erickson now He had come In terrl Her memory fled sobbing of a dog wotked savagely Ills owu father Ed Bake' Sutton Parish every man she knew except the keejier bud lertued She herself had called htin a coward hiut one the Brsi night Only once at alne then had he shown eI oruve two weeks ago that was lien rhe upset the kerosene Hut It lud been fire then not storm Where he now? Out with the coast we g jnrd? would redeem Going with Parish He had m e lin'e but not entirely tivvled at a dog She was She saw the skiff put off too fate Turning she hurried back fuwvd the hollers There lay the dog AYes a dead dog in the sand half burled lready Where was She panted on quickly Her lather yunked an that Norman? In a oar oul there in the blackness skiff full of water Well If It did un set ll would float und they could hang lo the sides I'aptiiia Samuel Si ink In swim very well llg could pile of Id rheumatics iileaiiwhne Stocking und Steve Suf The wreck was ion rowed doggedly rolling very tilth md lying on her nmll vessel yrohi a imri side lit power vim and The keeper bobbed forward gripped her rail Ih bellowed uhriipi In Ills voire roiniunnd a sailor's the oilier hold a man cried buck "Uulek Slotting roared “(let a k !” jnove jj Steve head poked ovei Hie hie the mans slioiildots Suttou gripped pulled and slid down suddenly with a The across him big body sprawled sUIT plli bed lie rest?’ Sim king cried “Hherex “I'm alone” the mini answered f In the keeper shouted “No new?’ bin ear Musi tnv dog “lie's drownded I” Blocking yelled “Lay still' He released the mil of the skiff wrenched Inggily Suttou' yacht with Its load ol wilei und tluee men a aboard Twenty yards wave fled the tint ytfern of the frothy Its ion high tn the air throwing how ninler Itself for a mo The dory braced incut then drove Its nose skittishly It turned over with a 'against bottom antic t’nptalri handspring giuieless Stockin' threw up his arms and lilt the water Mat he Coolly unexeltedly struck out felt solid bottom tinder foot and leaping again with the rol era ht snatched the Btrunger'e collar and drugged Im ashore Steve Sutton crawled up on hls linrids and knees water running out of tils mouth they lifted the Together Between them He was heavy limn they carried lit in to the lighthouse Rue was waiting Captain Stocking the survivor out upon straightened the purlor couch and poured water from hls own hoots “Well well” he utc) “we made It N'ornmn Erickson opened the outside Hls door and stepped Into the room with water hls nar clothes dripped row face was an ashy color He looked ten years older been?’’ demanded “Where've you Sue Slocking “I got the const guard” “Why didn't you go oul with them?' Her Norman looked nt her silently eon smudged face hi ixcd with fury Old lie did noi attempt to explain Samuel Slocking turned to the sur vlvnr Ignoring Norman “Well how do you feel shlprnnte? Pretty much squashed? Never pillow Leave me capsize you on That' better” your stomlek The man poke weakly “You saw nu dog?” I tell ye Erickson “Drownded go fetch some clothes to yours ought ly Tl C handed I asks trim vilt the host fot hint and' he quit dlilu get In “ “Quit repeated Captain Blocking He put up hi hand tn hla bead be ”io stoke that tire Erlek wllderlngly son Oh come I guess Joslth be ” ililn'l quit “He didn't go!” cried Sue Norinnn rushed from the room hls face smarting Sue was partly right this time partly right' He hmln He had gone with the hour tiled to go He had fought the lake anil pitted himself against It and hud lost He hud done all lie could It whs the lake Hint hulked him If despised him ns old Cttatuf despised him He plunged toward the heaoh He hud fulled fulled before Sue before I'ailsh lie failed hefme the crew I tut md hard had tried He enough hud not been quick enough He had been (liirnwy He was not used to llte boats! They knew It! And he had sniveled nenlu over that d — d captain's dog His oilskin caught In a rock and he fell He pulled off the sllik swearing er hls bine’s trembling with emotion tt recklessly and g against the wind He had Mulshed with this business! He'd go Inland tonight he would live no a farm as Julie lUchnud wonted Chill wel wind cooled hls btire head The fog signal hooted weakly two short one long it died out needing Norman steam rushed Info the slgnul house and pommeled the firebox wlfh coul Here wa Job about bis size Bring' boilers! The door popped open and Captain Ills Stocking groped Into the room face llumed red under bl thin wet hair hls eye were blazing "whv “Eilckson" he challenged didn’t you go with Parish?” Norman clattered the scoop to the floor “I tried I” “Tried? Why didn't you go then? Was you scurt?" Blocking spoke the word furiously "Scurt? And u drownln man needin’ help five hundred yards offshore I” He pointed a shaking finger “I believe they was right about you Erickson! been boldin’ up Here said you wusn't jour part all along seart said you'd learn be a good sea man aud a credit to the light I've Told Rue told Baktold em all that er told Parish! And now you piny no Shame lo ye!" ape! In a long bellow fists He finished the air Norman ba ked pmnhlng An lie wall of avalanche against thoughts swept through hls bend lie Ills father remembered That briny howling old sullor would never let another man talk to hls face like this he'd he ai hard aa Ice would Guxtnt colder than the very lake He doubled hls fists Sure he’d been slow a shame to all the Er been clumsy But nobody should tell him leksonsl sol "Don’t go hollering at me I” he yelled 'I’m not in The etst guard! In regulation about knowln' bow to boat 1” lump In Captain Storking spat to keep you “Nothing in regulation Not a word howfrom knowln Par 1st) told you to hurry Want to see men What you know about drown? What’s regulations got to regulations? do with being a yuller acnrl You best get out ot tills coward? service hoy! You ain't fit Think Its a gal's Job beln keeper? Think you never neeit tep In a boat? They’ Erick on good men tn Hits service Yon other best nottp get out 1” "I'll get out when I'm put out" Not man pounded Ihe shovel on Hip floor do ri fh Son ot Gustaf Erickson Watched tha Coast Guard Craw Go Ojt to Its Dangeroua Duty tit “And wlille you’re at It I'll do some loo" he screamed talking “You weren't sure yourself Steve Sutton hadn’t seen a ghost! That'll look fine on mer won't It a lot of talk about the Kitty K? Who was It first sighted that gas bout? Sue and then me’ And you and Steve Sutton were bore Inside sticking your heads under the coul dle!” lie bunged the shovel Into the cor ner picked ll up and flung it down again “Come to resigning from this erv Ice comes to putting tue out I'll have some talking to do” lie shouted “You ll have a fine time getting rhl ol me old imin' I'll do some talking It there's talk to be done and rMI jr — listened Captain Stocking tie scratched hi bend Ills lessly assistant a rage had cooled hi owu "No such disgraceful bruwly bin my gauge Et ii ksoti signal lmise stand fot none ot It What you r f In need mine Is redemption (e deinpllon amt a Coul on the eat to Get away from me learn ye l need some decent atmospheie lo think In Get a way! Go to the house Nm man slummed the front door to the keeper a quarters aud stamped down the corrKlor to hls own room He heard a man talking In the parlor utul Sue Stocking Norman laugh recognized Baker's voice Its bluster stifiened hint “Ills old man's daft'’ the new mem her of Parish’ crew aa saying kai he s a right brave seaman 1” Norman trod noisily down' the ball He knew of whom Biker gobbled It tp shrIi a superior air Of course oid Sue et some Tills water And tlx up s side o' Hie house You n lullin' the steam Erltkson? And Sue get me some dry socks Norman turned Just as rhe door wrenched open t'u plain PntMi strode tn hls fine bard and sharp as a plow hoi mans teeth Is chattering an extra cot ort share Hot cm ashore he asked ‘One? Nobody else?” “Noboity else' t'aptiAi Stinking replied lie added "“Sorry you was late losiah” “lafe? And jrhy? fount of this skulkin’ senrt poieuptne o' yours! A Llvln tine seaman! her at self respectful tigtttmuse I t asks him to was elicit go wltu me told him reiet GAPLAND UTAH seaman Guetof wa a right brav lamp be add Without lighting hi out of bis wet clothes aud hunted himself down He (rubbed dry ones with a towel He had said plenty to old Samuel Slocking out there In the not too much bouse! But signal Drive him out of the service eh? He heard Sue Stocking call him: I" “Erickson “Yea 1" “Will you come out here e minute?" “What do you want of me?" don’t want you! Goodness “I? never want to look at yon know It’a the man Delong" again Norman stumbled Into hls shoe In Of course abe Hie dark of Ills room Lord knew she’d didn’t want him shown more spunk tonight than be had “ITI be out” he answered lie Delong lie dressed slowly It wns a city fellow knew the name the old called Delong who bought river way Tamarack up Sw allow place after the Swallows a few years ago son aye even grandfather fnther hail spent half their Uvea draining the not this This Delong swamp I iclong pronahly but some one by came In with a that name snek of money and bought It I’nJd cash built a dam across the river and backed up the water to form a lake gentleman farmer He strode Into the Stocking parlor The itinn lay on the couth Noruinn ret ognlzed hls own brown sweater tils own blue around hls shoulder It flannel shirt showing underneath “What you want of me?” he asked the stranger abruptly The man looked up with a grave face He was a tall heavy Individual will) red hair The' brown work trou seis that he wore were Norman's too lie had rolled them part way up from one long leg and was steaming hls tinkle lu hot wider Sue stood near by with an empty pitcher and an armful of Idle cloth "This Is Mr Erickson the assist unt keeper" Sue Stocking explained indifferently “Him as wouldn't go” added Ed ward Baker a There wa The 8t ranger coughed certain warm friend In ess Ifi hls eyes lie put out lilt right band and Norhim man took It The act reassured little The stranger’s hands were large but soft as If he never had worked lie was not out of doors with them old under forty “Did you happen to find anything on the beach tonight?" he asked Norman hesitated The nmus voice was aggressive But It also was friend y N’ormun liked It at once did find something” “Yes sir “What?” Delong braced blinselfup on one elbow "Whut did you find?” “A dead dog" Norinnn fonno said Drowned " a dead dog Mr Delong The stranger nodded “lie was a good dog” he answered mildly Norntnn started He felt blood rush to hls cheeks Those were hls fat tier’s words! “A good dog!” lie stood up straight 'a ware that Suttou and Baker were grinning at him “lie looked It sir It upset me see If It hadn't been for that Ing him dog I'd have been all right'1 an “You didn't find a took oil skin pack?” Delong inquired Norinnn replied stiffly “I dldD't" “all I found was the dog" Baker laughed "1 best get out on he said ensily the Job again “Cnpt'n put me on watch down there h I’ll let you t lie wreck know mister If anything comes ashore" '“Y’ou wifi keep your eye open?’ the stranger asked “Sure strode through the door Norman to the signal and across the sanu (’a id a in Stocking stood lure house headed on the prili peering north at the weather Up?1 Norinnn ah tnjid “Clearing “Yea Iet the steam go dona Turn off the automatic" The keeper had softened nls anger but Ills tone still wns chilly lie left on the w ' and trmged Norman heavily Into the house It was two hv be clock in the signal Hit mult Norman off turned shanty Hie aolxm that controlled steuin out of and stepped whistle It was lonely on the heach door but Just now he craved loneliness He oeeded to think over this whole catastrophe Bill whul was there to think over? lie could exoci mulling here ou the point except shuii He had ptoved himself a cowiml In the eyes of keeper anil coast guard crew was coward He un forgivable Being could nevei make Sue Shaking understand uIhiuI the schooner Gotllund and the captain's dog Julie? Lord had It been only that afternoon he smelled the aoil ol the Michaud fnrm back In the bills? He believed Julie would comprehend to him what had happened He but he couldn't agree to farm the light After whut leave couldn’t old Samuel Stocking bad threatened? Well what could he do? Neither lund A wave ol him nor luke wanted him a pussion nostalgia overwhelmed for a place be like homesickness never hud seen He arose with atlff leg after an Into the wind and facing hour climbed over the annd hummock to the beach There was a hint of day Out upon Blind Man' Teeth the capsized yacht mode a gray and Mack stretching patch with white breaker When for It Castorla is Why Wat Baker Digging in the Sand With Hla Hand? On the shore high arms above It not a hundred paces off an electric flashlight shone for a gust? second It wag Ed Baker no doubt on watch Norman stood motion by the wreck less It wa The turfman approached Baker alf right light from the toyyet gleamed In Strenks on hls wt sagbaited off Ten feet oilskins he ging and knelt down reside a drift log Nonmin' held hls breath' Why was Baker digging la ‘he sand with bis hands? The gurfmun stood up and walked Noruiun swiftly buck to hls posL shook tils cold legs And wbat wa this new business? Something queer a lantern this time Another light moved along the wash beyond Keeper Stocking's quarters linker waved bl own flash toward IL “Oh Slntyl" he hallooed man “Three thirty" relief the culled The two guards talked quietly for Ed linker started a moment Then buck towurd the const guard station Norman waited five minutes before He ie stepped out of the brush crossed swift I" to the log where Baker and searched hud knelt with bis In In the sand half a minute fingers he touehed a wet object too soft for wood lie cleavd itway the sand ana with It measured a drew an oblong packet fair ten n ues In earth half that In and bulged width 4t— was thick hound with soggy cord Norman thrust It Into a ket of hls coat For a second lime lu hls life be linker In an act ot had discovered thievery And both times lie hud stood hj silent' Aa a hoy he hud taken bis and said heating nothing It had been pilde kept him from telling Hup other pride amt a ridiculous- Juvenile fear of vvhul Baker might say He need have no fear of Baker tow Only Baker who played a loathing fot him the hero and who was only a eon niton thief! What would Sue say? And Capinln Samuel? And I’urish? It came to him swiftly that ll did not mullet wlnit they might say For he could not tell them He laid no witnesses Baker would claim t tin he lied and he believed undoubtedly Bur the stranger must have hls Should he give it to biro package and lei Baker know thereby that br hud seen him bury It In the sand! Baker would smart under that treat It would he torture tnent to him to know that Norman knew He kicked the Annd oul ol hts boots and !mnied hark ro the house (TO BE CONTINUED ! 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