| Show T ME EAR NIGHT AT W WIN A STORY OF THE GREAT Q EST acy VINGIE E ROE illustrations or ay SYNOPSIS site of t ballie dall lumber camp elect i st to th jhb camp baiter aa at r sandry aa 1 ducie a himself lm set f caman to john D dally a i ay tore for 41 in as 11 1 he 1 killingworth mill DillIng worth lumber co C aw st of it he make makon acquaint acquaintance anc 0 with OW camp and the work if lie a give gives mirla ati camf on to fide rid billack lack boil til ia ie hore hor in an emergency ho h prove proves 40 h foreman hat that he t dot does not lack birnel allet tells him of 0 the tho preach r lie discovers that bears the ten sign of the he tribe of Ini inears larn and what her surname la to in the tillah of a tender moment calls rr in night 1 M ind in the ilace nd kle kisses hw pty apty ordway a maKai lne writer from 14 new 1 w york comee to dally daily a to pt material herfa 1 for far a romance of the I 1 lumber um ct r flon 1121 of the Y line lines CO wants handry to keep off orr a tract of he hs claims title to anil and sandry thinks he haa has bo IKU git g it aa as the bat last licit nelt ata sets up lip a cabin on the east lafit end and warn warne trespassers off orf sandry caa c aa ond no written evidence of title to the h tract ilia men nien lull 1 ull down the cabin fladry compare compares and poppy ban drys aad ad a men fight over the al tnt tn t the preacher stops the flatt fig tb birry aa irry ry and finds that the deed to the asat alit ll lt has lia never alten rv corded ho ile det to fit get out hie his contract first clr and V ala for to the he stumpage tu afterward coppy on trickery and I 1 irta with ila m appy n to iraln his til confidence conn dence she tells lie sandry that I 1 Is cro choked ked and that the II 11 rt t hoppy him ar to 8 lorn in earch search of at twid bunc ce air 1 net hampden 8 bandry adry and allek ride tide to the seashore iea hor and as a s jtb ocean oan tor for th first time bandry sandy a nn deser non lm for campdon who has ha nore n ore money goes to her friends ins na and persuades the them in to M work t r t ua liry alry to lave save hie file contract contra ct I 1 lappy 0 P 0 ad tells tell sandry that she he has ha proof of s billit witus entries in cullu elash ioa al lah tb 9 commissioner 1 CHAP CHAPTER TER XV continued why why a 1 I barcly know Y at at there is some thing hn she bhe fell bile ellet at a moment standing anding et tado him the rhe winds of god are ro heary heavy on my oat out sandry sundry eba she said at laet last ear neatly aal they tell me that you t re rad 4 M hat can I 1 dooh doch do ch what can 1 60 to help there wae was hi in her voice the simple cry r ty of a ta sympathy so intense that it wu was anguish and sandry Ban drye a lips tight ned ened in tho the darkness for a beady moment ho he could scarce reelie the bidding r t I 1 the lawless thrill that she he vas ever capable of sending him to take her bier into big arns sut bo he had done that day when she he beheld the sea zea out but a tardy thought of or ordway hut shut his bands upon and steadied itea hib yoke ho put hie his hands upon her about do dars and turned her round go CIO back to ma ala dally daily child be he cald but bli his voice had alien fallen to a whisper apor a whisper that wall wa a carer caress udas a heavily with sadness As a a it whisper might be and dont ret tret X am all right without a word obedient to him as a the primal woman ever Is to mai mal adt went away la in the night toward cook k shack aback As AA ahe pained up arthe path ahe she at labet oat brushed the garments 0 of poppy ordway standing anding it in n rigid mile tierce ce her hauls shut in the folds old c cot her tier gown ber her rose tips lips alan her yea trained strained wide pool I 1 r rolt 11 poola the b woman waa vast thinking in a rago rage of ot PuB sion 1 chy hy I 1 suspect she in some thins to homshe ahlm abe haa has her charm thero ie is acer in her to me ina on h flandry you stupid simple heart 11 vor for poppy ordway had heard the ca s 0 of that lowered voice the new now 1 ift in ii her took fright and a furl due choking rage nt the blood hot upon ber her heart the next morning he bo found upon his window ledge a handful ot of fern era and a pray of tiny yellow flower flowers CW were beginning to allow 0 here he little streams tore down the u isains lining then thell rocky beda beds lie took them in and put hem them away hi in a drawer among hia his papers silent t a sympathy that was aa as delicate aa as tt it was trong strong that morning when poppy nun tonJ the bright amilo smile sibe he give her coveted covered a sudden that tied birung strung ull full grown from rom a low lov whisper nh laper and the b bd 1 time times that wed tor for the VITI 41 had their incitation then than j T CHAPTER XVI the big raft on the fourteenth ot of march the rhecie tux tug pulled ithe the great brown In ouster that meant 0 so o much to adry sandry and the fortunes fort unea of tho killingworth Dilling worth from its moorings out to ithe narrow deep neck of the bay that would tave it 0 10 o the se e IL sandry for tho the first time in to hta his 11 lire to felt the this alow slow hiding motion as its the th groat floor door rev refunded funded to th the t LIS and tho the ebb tide on ou board rith with sandry warts were dally dily and eight indiana all armed and watt ing tor for anything that might develop hut mut amaden amp den bail had no notion motion of meet kut john dally la in his present mood lod and it t seemed as if it all was to go dobir As A tiia th raft drew draw malea abreast of the milt mill at toledo tho yellow pines waa was cout aum on the dock though he did not appear pe to u to anything beyond the pile of qt raw bright lumber ho was marking ills florid tare taro wore were a sardonic grin john ald said ita its is wonder do something surer to binder jain the bay with lug lop cr or ile us lip some wk war Illi might fit ool ive IT bad john teeter polo an rn klamath sam walkin welkin th shores fer alva days an they re the two worst 81 washes on th tb reservation hampden knows they re fer for an that when I 1 eald said shoot or cut shoot or cut cutet at it took tour four years an a it dark night to do it it that first day drifted by very swift ly if soft and sunny between showers and by four our the ebb of the tide grown blower slower and lover slower had ceased altogether dally daily and tue rest tied up the raft head and tail tall on both fides sides using heary heavy steel ropes and chains to which they gave plenty of alack slack they cooked supper albore and sandry thought be lie had bad never tasted better tare fare afterward they lay about the fire all nil together smoking and only the silence of the marked the line title of color triumph filled the heart of the young financier and his last drowsy thoughts were of tho the steamer that was even oven now plowing down from portland to meet them tho the huge check that would follow his delivery of the logs how ho would lift a certain mortgage of the load that hung upon the Dilling killingworth worth its great greatest eat menace in 14 point of or time lie ile waked to see the beary heavy chains drawn taut to bear the mass of tim bore creaking and grumbling as tt it at strained rained upstream and knew that the tide was in the cook waked the men by moonlight for breakfast they must be ready to take advantage of tho the first motion toward the sea the casting loose the slow glow start the moving of the night shores san dry wished miss ordway mfg might lit a SQ 11 U it might bo be a bit of local color in the mysterious book she wao wa writing in tho the south room ills ilia mind went over that little room he ile saw the stand with the ancient bible bi his he ile shuddered a bit with the night chill an be saw again the words ob ab my son my son I 1 those were the last words that the mind of the easterner were to know tor for many days the nose of at the raft where he was standing suddenly rose under him like a thing of at life night opened flame shot upward from the dark waters immeasurable sound smote emote his eardrums to silence el lenco pain that was unendurable stretched bed and I 1 zia bis his limbs he ile sailed galled away into night and arid the world was not nol when the thing was visa over john dally daily picked himself up from where he be h bad a d ben blown clear of ufa raft and t the h a water landl landing mg in a tangle ot at blueberry tines vines and screamed a curse at the serene heavens oh god damn bis his soul to belli be he brind half after the manner of a prayer hes mowed her up at bastil last I 1 la in the awful silence that fell in the elret 11 st Ino moments ments there set up a great groaning of at the timbers the wrecked and opened prow of the raft slowed to the right jammed into the shore and was holding the rest while the strong tide urged tt it hard upon itself above it dally daily lifted his voice an and d culled his indians and there was ang lab in his heart bearl emmi loell amm here und d there voices 1 an weed sweed some far some near and presently agures crept tearfully fearfully into the moonlight from the tb matted ferns ferna gathering about the foreman hero iero one dragged an injured ankle another stanched the blood from a 41 7 f r at go back to ma dally y child ragged scalp with his hands and there one watered wavered drunkenly from the tall fall he had got but all eight accounted for themselves res boys eald said dally daily tensely all who can wlm swim get into the water quick sandry was stan dial tn alone at her nose its a hundred to one hes bes done for no one asked a question the indians accepting cc epting with their pathetic fatalism this disaster which would hare have set the tongues of white mm men flying silently the five give who bo were unharmed except for bruises allow into the running tidewater and disappeared amid the flotsam and jetsam of the long bay bar which traveled always aimlessly back and forth the ro aning of at the raft grew tn in vol 1 uma cor for a L few minutes minu tee then subsided as it U hockad and settled dally on the shore short began threll th rehl the terra ferrs ailing the night with his stentorian voice 1 to he called upon sandry s name from time to time he be listened then be he lighted a torch and widened hie big circle peering into every covert of at fern behind every log and even searching the branches of or the trees ho ile bad had seen the pinea pines bear ghastly fruit a time or two when a blast ot at giant powder bad had gone wrong after a long time hs he straightened and his hi muddy face was wa blanched done tori oil he said aloud to the dusk of the forest bitterly down an done for an him so damned good tor for aa an East emerl dut but even as he spoke a cry bounded sounded from the water far ahead another an another and another as the drew draw in to each other some aher out in the dim moon wash and he knew they bad had found him girn so they had a limp body lying bent back across a flo floit biting lug log the po pearl art buttons on its breast shining and its hair dabbling in the they pushed the log with its burden in to shore and big john V ily wading out picked up bib employer as a mother lifts a child carried him back up the bank and bent to listen for life in the still breast it wan there the timber man ran a gr gru V band experienced and gentle over the sprawling arms Bu bustell basald be eald bitterly legs tool hes lies crumpled like a broken tubel it I 1 don dont t take this out of hampden I 1 hope ill burn in belli he ile gathered the scattered blankets from bush and tree branch and laid the easterner upon them then this simple eon son of the big country went off oft by himself into the shadows to think abat A hat should be he do dot here was bis his emp employer foyer this east a erner who was going through U abe a or deal by fire to win his right to live and fight in the gilld land and he was all but worsted down and out ills life was as not worth a copper that c coin oln of which tho the large west takes no no tito and far on the shores of the other ocean waa was that old father of whom he bad had told dally daily in the quiet talks at night it would take quick work to get sandry to a doctor and word should be sent east at once on the other hand it sandry should live and tho the contract bad had been lost his fight would be over those mort gages of which he bad had spoken vaguely would be foreclosed and the dilling worth would become a thing of the past the east belt go by the board and would be supreme in the hills no by heaven hed want her bar to go through dead or alive an III see her bar therel was ultimatum as be rose roso from the log in the pink flare darts of sunrise and could he have bays known all that sandry would lose 1050 with that contract and arid the his hatred of at hampden would have boon deeper still for sandry was bis his friend he lie went back to this huddled indians and the silent figure on its blante lOO he said decisively make quick a polo pot sling you an in big bill an an jim pine tree will take 93 sandry dry lack to camp go first to toledo an get doc doe hooker have him do what he can there an go so along to camp tell him to stay with sandry day an night till I 1 get back hurry murry now now without a word tho the four indians picked out by name set about their appointed task in less time than a white man would take to begin they had laid clean saplings along blankets edges warped a short abort spreader at top and bottom to hold the poles the width of a mans shoulders apart and the sling was ready now said dally daily grimly travel like hell bell boys but carry him soft tor for hes broke like the ferns lems when a pine falls tenderly they lifted the owner of the Dilling killingworth worth and laid him in the hollow hallow of the blankets his ills foreman cast one look at him as the indians swung away on the back trail and turned his face to tho the jammed raft he ile studied the problem from all sides aides then he took bis his remaining indians for none of at them thera aerik beyond work from their shaking up got off the mooring chains and snubbed the monster to the shore pines fore tore and aft then he calmly prep prepared aPed to watt the turu of the tide she would loose herself the damage at the prow was slight the lift bad come a moment too soon boon to hurt the acome big ig raft much several of tho the binding chains at the extreme fc hoad ad of her bad had been broken loosen 1 iiii 0 lq a ends of the logs 1099 which alad ltd downward ind lend apart giving her tho the appearance oc of a ragged broom all the coast in andl di aus waa was a good waterman he ile of at fared to dive for the broken chains and dally daily let him go in III three hours he had found all the ends fastened to tt tacia lines which tag ethers others used to bring them up the breakage was repaired and dally waa was ready to mend the broken nose as it 11 as so he could he ile needed to 10 circle the loog 1005 ened 1091 chains again and he went about it la in a gim simple PIO manner there was ho no setting getting under the r raft aft from the front becaas a of the jam against the shore eye even n t if t could have managed t the be tide and en dured the time under water therefore it must be done from the other end so dally laid the chains across the spreading pr cAdIng nose attached a long ionic tow ov line alln to the shore ends and dropped them into the water the th line it then led to the stem stern under the moor ing chains around and forward to the prow he lie then lay down for a needed rest until the sucking green water witter gre arrew slower and lower slower and v altogether wita till lons ement of the a nang and h creak 9 ins f hoot bout the giant and n bis his reet ai 1 once as she began almost 1 from the hore shore the 1 ae bibly to back out end ends of the chains were hauled up slipped forward and fastened |
