Show 91 i vaz iv m mf 42 C 4 W UrtA qA I 1 r djs fsr sw the heart of by vi agle E roe I 1 TV i cyha wind night JIL 14 illustrations by ray walters I 1 A STORY OF THE GREAT NORTHWEST SYNOPSIS biletz of dallys lumber himber primp birra A titran Kor g 0 r to the camp walter sundry sandry Int introduce e g to john dally fore orf BH ole lumber co or most moat ot of it ile HB mickem acquaintance with will tile die camp and the work ho he ila ha come from tile unlit rant to superintend and make CHAPTER ill 1111 continued out of the near gloom loom which was lightening a bit with avith dawn the log lull roso rose an aggressive enak snakelike elike trough climbing uncompromisingly at an all angle of 30 36 degrees its center a pano log sunk to its surface which wits polished like ivory hory its ita curving sides the same how dow many tapering trunks had gono gone into it its 9 two tallest would ho bo hard to say for in III flomo bome places they had bad sunk and lioen heen covered in tho dip say eay over the ridge whore where the real leal began nt fit the ho turn khero it wound around tho the shoulder ton minutes sandry bandry was breathing boa heavily vily though he ha said and kept close at dallys heelam the logger strode forward and 11 ll yard kh h an easy climbing lift hit that rippled every muscle in hla his loose body while the man from the cities stained and heaved in painful labor slipping on the tha wet earth floundering in III the rotten hark bark and brush that lined the way they climbed beside tho the trail rail not in it ahead efthem of them the gang of men had long since disappeared train from sight and hearing the forenoon tint thia followed was the page in a new chapter of hla his life and sandry bent all his faculties to a grasp of outlines ile iio stood silently watching the work go forward they had find reached the cutting hero in a wide dip high above the world it seemed to the easterner Kasler iier was a huge circle of at activity close the he built trail a second secand donkey engine fussed bussed and reaching out uncannily on au all sides tor for tho the groat logs to haul thom in III with screech of spool and strain of cable and turn them over over to ithe mysterious steel rope that came g constantly craw crawling lini back on its trav olang him this wits was called the th ahn one at tho the toot foot of the trail beside the lie railway and the track being known as the tho the monotonous song of the crosscut saws bawa had begun where the buck ore era were converting sev several orsil hundred wid fl fifty fly foot trunks into handling sections 1 0 A little below two foot wide planks nome alve or six feet long had been set into a giant yellow pine about eight feet the ground one on either ade and on these two men wore were standing their flannel shirts open at the throat their sleeves rolled up from arms aims of stool steel and leather their heads bare bara sandry watched the bending of their backs every muscle outlined under the clinging shirts the play of their knees the whole easy rippling of entire bodies with anh the regular give arid and take of tho the long saw the boards known as springboards spring boards rose and dip dipped with tho the even motion moh were falters fallera and pres cantly they would lay the towering monarch of tho the great woods to the of an inch in a given place ready for the buc tuckers kers the hook tender and the cable bablo in the meantime the logs already down were swiftly stripped dripped of theli limbs cut into thirty and forty too lengths rolled into the trail wit peavey and cant hoogand hoo book kand and sent up am ove the ridge to tho the accompaniment of shrill toots from the whistle bobs boba restless cord the straining of rigging and the squeak of fiber on polished fiber the built trail ended hero in the ti ballow hollow between the first ridge and the great mountain beyond though up the face ot of the latter it was prolonged by a cleared path sharply defined among the dense growth of the timber ile he was waa impressed by tho the magnitude ot of the country on every hand baud the lifting bills were clothed in trees close packed and pt such girth and I 1 height as to seem almost grotesquely impossible sible Mm anity was dwarfed to in iea like an ant crawling on a cathedral column gandry bandry looked around up to this distance stanco dl th woods evere vero dotted with cuttings where tha great stumps plowed glowed white amid the he vivid green ard tho the debris of slash ings and trim which com combined blued with the fern find hazel brush lind and other undergrowth to make a perfect tangle but beyond alon alone g the now new cut tr trail all was nature dense and untouched eil waiting for the hand ot of pygmy man irlan to come and take her lavish treasures dy by nine the tao sun was shining above the peaks and the tog fog had vanished from the valleys and although it was late fall there was no feeling ot of the tha death of the year on the contrary thero there was a sense of bustle and flurry und and work beginning with the advent of the rains the tidewater slough was ban bank full and mud brown with thick grass and water growths along its ita edges the tha stranger ancon drew great breaths of at the sweet air of the high hills anu ana bogan y to lo feel eel dimly sw something ethling of their charm john dally was waa everywhere looking at this lending a hand nt at that shouting some bonie rood good natured instruction here and there overseeing with an eagle eye each minute detail of the v work ork one of the new owners first impressions was that in title this man ho he had bad an object of great value ile he was just thinking this when there came one long blast from rom the donkey over the ridge and the men dropped their tools in their tracks the to on tho the naring boards jumped down leaving the saw just juat where the ilia call had caught it tar far out on one side fildo and the foreman came up to him film dinner time mr sandry ho he said smiling 1 I lapeck youre oure pretty hungry what cried sandry why I 1 thought of lit itt Is it possible weve been here flye hours sure time roea goes fast in the hills thoy they began to climb the trail the men straggling struggling out ahead and behind tho the youngest forging forward in the eagerness of youth and healthy appe MOB the older characters nil all of at them hardened woodsmen woodsman woods men taking it more before they wore were halt way up however sandry was breathing heavily might I 1 ask sald bald dally some thing about the change in tho the company certainly there has simply beon been an outright sale of the interests all of 0 alch which or nearly all I 1 bought tram from frazer A fifth I 1 believe Is still owned by a mr rak Ha keham ham who Is IB somewhere in south america I 1 have come out to take absolute charge and learn the timber business 1 I see and youve had no experience none nona said sandry a little shortly maryanna Ala ryanna humphreys Humph but my feet is 3 ten derl complained a voice behind sandry glanced quickly back three lumberjacks lumber jacks were plodding up tho the alipo their seamed beamed and weathered faces facea set iet intently on dinner on one a rod red headed beaded chap of some thirty six or eight powerful and rugged h be a set his 13 sharp eyes but it im acquiring it he finished rapidly discharge Dla chargo that man dally did not turn 1 I cant he ha said hes just quit quil CHAPTER IV old reins in new hands hand the tha east and the west had met mel it was vas apparent in every essential that had to do with sandry and his bis men in common it showed when ho he sat among them at the head of the long table in the way he bo used his hands bands his knife and life his food it glared when he spoke it paraded in his clothes and most of all it stood forth pitilessly when nhon he be sat by himself at night in tho the plain little room under tinder the dripping eaves they he stood silently watching the work go forward wore were nearly always dripping the pane behind the spotless curtains was always black and littering glittering thoro there was nearly always the shut in silence that rain imposes that dense silence Us its and lonesome sometimes to be ba sure it was only a little oregon mist that saddened the night outside but it had tho the same effect on the tha young man from the midst of 0 life in new york lie he was east and ho he knew it also the men had known it from that first speech in the doorway of 0 the they spoke of him among themselves as Dilling killingworth worth accompanying the word with grins tasting its flavor as delicately as any be adeo professor of tile tho east dallying with a now derivative nowhere in the world Is discern ment brought to a finer point than if ID the lumber camps campa and mills of the northwest among that thai hooting gentry of the pike and peavey tho the kne enoc a laced boot and the turkey who pass here and there with the seasons picking critically at the speech and doings of many places also nowhere la its there a stronger prejudice against any manifestation of personal superiority any exploitation of 0 what may llo ile east cast of oc the cascades to them the man and the place are abne one east and easterner they felt for or him that contempt which only the seasoned feel tor for the inexperienced and with the quickness which was his bis characteristic the now new owner sensed the feeling among them it only added to that jumble of sensations and impressions impress ona which had crowded thick upon him from tho the first stud nud which he had had no time lime to assort and get under control ile he had simply laid them away for or future attention in tho the meantime ho he went quickly at the work of settling himself in III the now new environment A load of lumber was brought up the slough on the punt from the mill at toledo and four men wore were put to building a small flee it was set at the edge of the slough a bit below the cook shack where it commanded from its ta two eastern windows and door the track the reading donkey the log trail and the and from the southern 0 one 0 tho the winding slough the rest of the track and the lower where the donkey engine loft left tho the logs its duty done after that they rolled down with much splashing to tho the narrow ribbon of water which with every flood tide backed in from the bay lifted them high and trundled them grinding and groaning slowly down perhaps to the mill at toledo perhaps to be laced together with mammoth chains built into a great raft and towed out to the tha ocean to voyage along the coast dowalo southern california or up to portland A tiny wheezy tug fussed bussed about the backma tor ter for the express purpose of starting tho monster rafts out on the ebb inside the now new office were installed a roll top desk a case of books a map or two and several chairs beside a small stove liere here with the four pine walls around him walter sandry at last looked around and called himself at home the drawers of the now desk were full of documents 1 and memoranda the history with statistics and records down to the minutest minu detail of at the Dilling killingworth worth lumber company these he bo set himself to master as his first step toward the vast golden goal of tho the dream that had bad brought him west very shrewdly he decided to take nothing out of the tha capable hands of his foreman there had bad been a 1 I sort of tense pause lu in the camp pending this develop development meriL when it became apparent that things were to go on as usual tho the work went forward as aa it a line had licen been loosened gig DIX john dally daily had gone about during the few days of uncertainty with the unruffled calm of his quiet nature though there was a small a very small ache somewhere inside him film ever since ho he could remember his life had been cast in dallys lumb lumber r camp when his father old john dally had logged with oxen on the eastern slopes elopes of at the coast range and there was no jerkwater Jor kwater railroad in to yaquina bay when a foot fir had tottered tattered out of line and sent the old man forever into silence in the roaring thunder of at its tall fall the boy john at seventeen had picked up tho the reins of at government in III the camp and carried on the work abetted and aided by that efficient general hit his mother with the years I 1 of his young manhood he had bad worked following the wilderness as pro progress gres pushed it backward to the bay seeli seeh little of tho the outside world savo save perhaps for or a trip once in three pars to portland or down to sou soft branc laco and always during the past it had been the Dilling killingworth worth lumber company into whose vast holdings the camp had cut its way always there had been no hand ut af power in the hills save his bis own no supervision excepting visits of some borne member of the firm who went over things nodded estimated took figures and went way away had carried on his caal itself ought fought since be could remember with the yellow pines company whose holdings were vast as those of the Dilling killingworth worth and had not thought of change when walter sandry settled quietly down with no voice in the doings of the camp dally drew a good breath and went ahead once more As an tor for the now new timber magnate he sat ant down at the now new desk on the first arst day of his occupancy of the little office on the sloughs edge and wrote his fir arst it letter it was on a printed letterhead lumber company toledo oregon dear dad Ercol I 1 fancy im on top ot of the worldly with wish you could tep step in here for an hours hour chat the country would a amaze you as a it has ham me with to tg mighty bigness yuu you feel like an atom crawling crawlin g on the seas floor too small mall to count the hills are like ilka our beloved catskills only they are their wild cousins front from the wl unk unkempt om pt and savage TI there 1 ero Is 1 wea wealth th here dad untold w wealth jl th and I 1 intend to get a handful of it tho the timber Is unsounded it reaches reache away to n reservation on tile he nort hand on beyond these indians come into camp once in awhile with baskets a timid sort ort of people fishers not fighters the stumpage in I 1 mag magnati niti cent we wa are the company though houch we bave rival a formidable one the th yellow pines which operates operate to the mouth louth of us UN I 1 have met none of their people in yet but blut my foreman tells tell me there li im and always has been bad blood between us ui ivell door old carp I 1 must not weary you write me all I 1 the happening that concern you there ther tell if he tig lct one thins bout about you I 1 will skin him alive when I 1 come home borne for a lying flying trip I 1 hope sar lr you are feeling comfortable ona and will g go o 0 into th tha winter inter in good shape bhame W when h e n th the 0 spring print comes comei on I 1 believe we an b 1 I ng you out here with comfort the I 1 pullman I 1 ua rn n service la is smooth an aa kings glass across acres continent and I 1 know the trip would benefit you at rote these words the young mans jit blue eyes softened like a womans comans and a grim line settled about hla his lips lie ile knew on the word of tho the greatest specialist of two continents that the dUil fled old gentleman to whom they were wera addressed a white haired gentleman with the lines finest t bearing and the tha gentlest heart tied irrevocably to an invalid chair had at the most but a scant year to live yet he wrote of hope and travel and returning health wrote determinedly with a force that must communicate something of its light to the lonely wreck left by tile the tide of life stranded at the edge ol of that mighty flowing stream tho the metropolis lie ile finished the letter with a commendation men dation so BO tender so BO indicative of a great affect affection lon that it did not sound like a mans |