Show throb MIGHT wa qa A STORY OF THE GREAT CREAT N A ea T oy cy E ROE M illustrations av ay ci sf a I 1 ov ay ra vova ROW amfin AP aaa lin cowry SYNOPSIS 7 of 0 dallys lumber camp directs ill a stranger to the th cump camp walter sandry introduces Intro diKes himself to john dally foreman us as the killingworth Dilling worth umber lumber co or most ot of it ile he makes acquaintance with th the camp and the hie work ile he gives give belletz P aniss n to lo r ride I 1 de black bolt hl his le bo horse roe in an emergency lie proves to the lie foreman lint tie ha doci not lack lach judgment belletz jilin him of tile preach or lie ilo discovers that siletz bears beara the olin eilffn 9 of the lie siletz tribe of indians and and wonders what her ls ID 1 in n tile alie luh of a tender moment b lia cal calla ip tier her the night wind in the pines and kisses her er floppy ordway a magazine writer from ney new york ork cornea comes to I 1 Ys yb to get material for a romance of me I 1 no umber lumber I 1 region of the lie yellow pines co wants sundry to keep oft a tract of tie ho claims title to and sandry thinks he lie tins hag bought aj ns the ilia liast kast dolt belt gets acts up a cabin on an the enst east I 1 licit left and warns trespassers oft off sandry bandry can elrd no written yr itten evide evidence tice of title to the tract ilia men pull down tile ha cabin sandry bandry com comphret siletz and poppy san ban comrades drys and I 1 amp i dens men light fight ov over e r the disputed tract the preacher stops the 11 light if ht sundry india finds that the tha deed to the ilia kast t bull bal nr 11 never been recorded lie ile lc clde t out tits hla contract first and tight fight fur for ti 0 after afterward wara poppy floppy accents anil and flirts with will linni hampden to gain ills his confidence she rha tells bandry tant ts is crooked and that olie shell I 1 get fact jilin poppy floppy goes to salem in earch of evidence against sandry and sulieti ride to the seashore and siletz sees seca the ocean for the first time i CHAPTER XIII continued even na As lie he spoke site bho lost hor her footing and went headlong down tho the cliff roll log fai over and over in tho the sliding sand to bring up fifteen feet below whore where the path turned sidewise on a little I 1 shelf bhelt without heed she gathered her self elf threw back tier her braids and rushed on leaping downward like a doer deer when sandry reached her bar sho she was ankle onelo deep in the surf gazing with all her starved nature in tier her eyes that yet shone bhone with a martial oro fire then Hud donly through somo some rent in the sodden sky a beam ot of light shot through tho the mist trans transfiguring figuring it IL gandry saw the took look of intoxication creep into her eyes the drunkenness of emotion that fiat dulled them drowsily lines drew in her oval cheeks checks and slowly her face broke into a look of anguish site she put up an arm and cov ered it 11 turning tu vm J the beach sandry caught hir lu iu hla his arms and held tier lier weeping hard bard against his bis Z breast 1 I 1 cannot bear cried froni from this shelter oh lob I 1 hartl I 1 burti sh alil whispered bandry huskily ily it t ta Is too great tio groat for the night wind to behold i v the ride home was silent with san dry in the lead his spirit still stirred h and shaken by what he had beheld they did not speak again until tho L camp lay befaro thoai at the big bond dictz alc tz said bald sandry sandi then black holt dolt Is yours nonn none other shall over ever ride him again she said nothing but her fingers tightened in the he gallant crest creat tossing before her when they rods rodo up across tile the small bridge that spanned the slough elough below tile tho foot log the fore foreman man was standing bobino the hammor hammer block ile reached up huge bare arms and swung the he girl lightly down sending a glaur glanco across her shoulder that arrested the attention instantly mr air sandry he said simply addens HD dens got us ua there faint a jack jach in the camp but colllns collins lies liob bought the mill at toledo au an offered a two dollar a day raise to every alin beejack an rim river hog bog in the county even harris dallys big voice deepened with bitterness that wo we was payin soen seven dollars a day an ho he was worth it for there faint a flier filer like ilka him this side 0 frisco hats has gone tor for ninel hampden come to tile the very gato gate up there on the road an gath ored cred em cm out ter a talk an they comi back an packed like damn their hidell lie ho had contracts con tracks for two years at them wages an aa they ike fools scrambled for fer the chancel an somo some of ems ben fight in him a couple 0 dearal ile ho had bad wagons waltin in a string at the bend lo 10 the road ready to move em cm that had cabins cabinet burson an an McA lasters they all loaded their duffle an hiked an I 1 dont know of another bunch 0 loggers this side 0 I 1 sandry his face gone white as sand under tinder his hat brim stared at the blank windows of the cabins eat son eon said eald ma ala dally daily firmly when he be entered tile the long room eat cat first drat an think after A empty wicks a poor boiler for fitsam aud and sandry looking into tier her kindly old face saw the sanity of her ad vice lie ile took tooh her tat hand and a spoon and the end of a dish towel also holding it ft tight in tits bis own for a moment right you are ma lie he answered and eat bat him down i CHAPTER XIV the call of the wind night lay thick over tho the blietz country cou atry high above the pine topa sang bang with a roar soft voiced but far reaching as thunder mystery Allys tery and loneliness pressed upon the ho wilderness like ilko a linger finger it 11 quivered the n ebarp earis ears of black dolt pricked for ward listening it ft padded tile the feet of coranah running ahead in the trail but upon blietz its touch was lost 1081 she too was of the forest on a night like this she too was free of its hidden paths hour after hour they threaded the familiar way and presently the forest lightened fell away left the them at the steep shore ebore of the river gurgling along in the darkness swift and shallow fields and pastures lay hero here upon right and loft left and cabins stood squat in the shadows this was the headquarters of t tho lie reservation n through the small settlement up a lano and across a woods lot went the trio and presently blietz drow drew rein where a sorry shack crouched forlornly beneath a mammoth or dr the sound bound brought to its door a bent figure that carno came and stood at clack black bolts head bead like a 4 shadow blietz spoke in jargow slid down trailed tile the reins on tho the earth and en the little house an hour later she stood against KB ita closed door facing a dusky circle of squatting figures her trim form straight in the lamplight her oh shirt I 1 rt open a bit at the abo throat her slim hands eloquent in quiet gestures near the pine table able that hold bold tho the fitful light stood ol 01 old d a splendid illustration of tho the white mans wa ways vs lie ho might have been fifty years of ago age lie ho might have been a hundred pure blood of chiefs ran in his veins and ho he had memories of the time when the oregon country reached from the northern sound to the valley of the sacramento about him gathered a silent circle young men who could speak good english and write essays on oil the evolution of man older ones who accepted the modern modes with reservations and a few like himself of the ancient time to them blietz was speaking trouble la has fallen upon the night wind sho she said sweetly and she a b 0 comes to her friends tor for help sandry at the camp is deserted by his bis men tho the camp falls fails the work Is stopped tho the engines are silent at their posts and a big contract that means much Is ready to bo be lost icat and hampden of the yellow pines laughs in glee tor for he be has dono done this thing men alen there are not in the country and to go to portland means loss lose of time on the great contract There therefore forg sandry sits site with his head in his hands thus with swift art she bent her dark head forward upon her palms drooped her slim shoulders and instantly despair loomed before the dusky circle for which the heart of sick ens tor for sho she Is jandrys San drys woman there was silence for a space the girl was an artist she would help him therefore sho she comes to her friends whose hearts are large with friendship though their hands are soft with leisure the SI 81 letz need not work will they give tho free gift of labor for the night winds man it a heart speech it was waa in jargon and it was successful for with tho the early dawn blue gray with mist and su sun ashot shot with crimson sandry who had not slept Bt standing anding with fur rowed brows on the office a tep step heard board sounds of hoofs at the valleys head ile he looked and behold a cavalcade of horsemen riding with ease on their ragged ponies and led by blietz upon black dolt who still stepped proudly after his day and nights journey while rolled polled with swinging cars at his side here said the girl as she rode up they will work for the big contract and she slid down with a little sigh of weariness before sandry could offer his bis arms Go coslit slit said dally daily to himself in tho the shadow of tho the office the esl mr sandry he be sail said to the owner when the long tables were filled la a every place with the best beat of the van ashing tribe that siletz could pick im kickin myself that I 1 think of tho the indians myself though lord knows it if wo we can whip em cm in line for or it would take the devil himself to make a work but it 11 did not take his majesty it II took only the word of kolawole who bad given a command which a quiet halfbreed half breed who seemed the leader of tho the crew artlessly repeated to sandry bandry wo we will work till the contracts saved he said in giving to you we wa give to who Is your woman and sandry astounded beyond measure opened hla his mouth and dosed closed it without speech and it was work indeed for all san dry himself ns as he be bad grimly threat cried once learned how and tended ended hook collins took hastings place at the donkey selecting a slim brown boy as fireman while the be foreman proved his worth a dozen times over by being everywhere at once by filing things down to tho the most rigid cyster by planning executing finishing with tho the hand band and mind or of an artist it ft would have been contrary to human nature it if sandry had not felt a thrill of triumph when he be next ran across hampden at toledo the yellow pines owner grinned Sivi Slash ashes caT he said hiso lenity sl SI w wa yes named flamed the younger man 81 washes but I 1 have five million feet of logs at the mouth 0 of my slough I 1 ill float my contract on time mr air hampden and then ill look into the little matter of my east bolt belt that day he bo got his first letter from poppy oppy ordway it was heavy and satiny aminy and it breathed an insidious perfume balso also it was brilliant with excitement and hinted at great things im certain Hamp dens crooked she wrote ive found a man who knows him film and hes in the commas stoners sto ners office lies hes young and hes bos B susceptible and ho he thinks im one of the ring oh oft but its exciting I 1 passed him a tip dp that the way you men would say eay ity that I 1 had bad a snap in view but that I 1 already had a homestead in arizona end and the thing progresses the mention of hampden and snap did for him blin and im all but over the brink of a fraudulent entry oven even now bowl I 1 iles hes offered in my caso case specially to como come down on tho price of tny my patent two hundred buu dollars of course clandestinely im to say nothing about it to the ye godal im wild with the luck moro afore later february wa via passing the days of fitful sunlight were becoming more frequent tho the camp was humming with busi business nessi silent bent benl on the t thing hing in hand the indians worked without need of encouragement the slough was bank full and its surface was covered from dawn to dark with a floor of logs slowly drift ing ng on every tide downward to the he backwater at the sloughs mouth a huge cradle was waa slowly forming in its ita braces here the little loading donkey puffed and tooted grappling many ton tim here bers with its two drag hooks books placing them here and there the mass of chains covered tho the bottom of the cradle h a few feet apart twelve men worked continually at tile tho groat great marine monster pack packing ilig tho the logs inaldo the cradle carrying the giant chains up and over as the snug floor door reached the top lacing the whole together and at last lifting the lie center gently thus giving to the thing its likeness to a vast cigar A timber scaler sent down by the portland firm was constantly in attendance A shack had bad been thrown up at the head of the raft and a watch was kept by day and night we cant trust hampden a minute john said sandry im learning suspicion indeed he was learning many things only john dally daily in the sanity bf tits ills lust nature wat watched chrid this johnny eastern take his bis rough knocks and come up with hla his teeth set these two were growing together to la a ablow slow affection the big room had in a seme become home to sundry sandry W 7 mystery and loneliness pressed upon the wilderness and the evenings when ma ala sat in her ber little rocker and siletz braided her mats wath w alth beside her filled life his toll worn soul with peace the preacher had slipped away as silently and mysteriously as he had come with a blessing upon all and a promise to return when you shall ned momy children CHAPTER XV there Is 13 no law for a genius march cario carie car io in like a lamb with delicate delle ata crystal dear clear and opal bright and with it came miss bliss ordway sandry was waa glad to see her but tho the critical point was waa at hand and he scarce took time to cat or sleep from the great work of the tae contract condrac t the mammoth raft was ready the largest according to dally daily that the camp had ever sent bent out in all its life and a special boat from the portland attila company would lay off yaquina to receive it on the sixteenth on the night of the second dally daily caught a glimmer of white on the linel lintel tel it was nas a paper stuck in with a thumbtack thumb tack watch your raft it said for pow der that was wag all and it was unsigned dally told sandry of the incident and showed tho the warning so for tho the remaining nights the great raft was lighted from end to end and four of the indians patrolled it in shifts armed with lines and un der orders to shoot at the first sign of trouble the work went forward rapidly tho the born and raised in the tim ber country know knew all the work of the camp and they needed no driving they wore were a godme godfrend godf fend to bendry in the press pressing frig days and ho he earns to 0 o look them with a wide tolerance in serving you we serve he quoted to himself tor for ashes your woman 11 and an odd sensation prickled hla his skin akin tingled at the roots of 0 his hair some way somehow rome iome how these were Siletz people these silent shiftless well taught creatures who made no use of their talents yet who did bard unnecessary labor at the call of the blood that night with the raft and even the two engines under guard and all the length of track patrolled he came in tired worn to a thin edge with sleeplessness tense and taut as a slag sing ing wire to meet alice ordway ohp clipped blipped her hand band into his arm with a little familiar gesture and turned him about como come along and relax she said youre almost hysterical 1 I believe I 1 am said sandry wearily though as be stepped out into the night soft |