Show 5 low lizi MI ewt the H heart of E roe 1 athe I 1 alight IN N 12 i g h lit t W i n d illustrations by ray walters 3 1 1 A STORY OP OF THE GREAT NORTHWEST ft SYNOPSIS 2 folea 1 lod arbs orbs ic th chiai r ad anle madved ex himself to ri llian a 1 Q s Dinin Knorth I 1 lumber co or 11 m mt most t of IL he maker with the camp and ad the work rk us ha tia I 1 come coon rom tu the east at to lo sold nil majic so 1 I CHAPTER III continued cam out of f the near gloom which was fish lightening A ing a bit with dawn the tog log trail 11 rose an aggressive gres ve snakelike enak elike climb in trough gh climbing uncompromisingly at in oneie angle of 36 degrees it afta center a pine log bunk aad to its trace which was A polished lik like ivory ilmy its slightly curving calling sides aides t the he same bama re how many teaming tapering trunks trunk had bad gone into p ft ita two mile would be hard to bay for 1 la borne places place they y had bad sunk mark suit and th be been c covered cand and la in the dip so eai oer lier the ridge where the real 1 in mountain at 1 began baga at t the tha win where it wound around ad lit the shoulder before ten tea ad rot sandry baldry was breathing heavily though he bald aid until and kept cl cloe cle e at datlo s lind lidela th the logger mind forward and ad upward air nth a an easy climbing lift that rippled eve every nocle no cle in his bis loose body while bile the man from the cities file 5 trained and heaved heated in painful labor bar lipping on the wet earth floundering in the rotten ratte bark and brush bruh that lined line the way say they climbed beside the ft tia I 1 not at 1 in it ahead of them the sam gang of me men had long sin since as deap peered from sight eight fand ad hearing the forenoon that followed was the opening page in a As new chapter of his life and sandry bent all his ft faculties ulUe to ft a 9 grasp ap of outlines he ha tend silently ellent ly watching the work go forward they had bad r reached had the cutting here hera 1 in s wide dip high above the world it seemed t to the E easterner net a was a huge circle of chiv tty ity close beside the bu built fr trail a abc ond and donkey a engine gin fusen and ad gesund rearlia log out all on am all sides for the 9 great to at log logs to haul beat the them in with screech of spool spoof and strain of cable and turn them eve over to the my mysterious te r steel stee I 1 top rope that cam came loro am constantly natty crawling ft aback back on ft its tray trav ding line this was called the 11 yard log ing engine the th one at the tha to toot at of the tha trail beside kw the railway and the h track be being bi known a as the mail reader the monotonous song ong of the crof cross cut bad huge begun where have the buck back or ars were converting several ever hundred and lift fifty Y foot trunks trunk let into handling sections it A little below two foot wide plank knore efine ave or six bix feet long 19 had been set into R giant yellow yalta plus pine about eight test f from the me aps ground ad ono one on either bae alae and on these two in men am bertand were stand tand ing their lie flannel III shin op open at the throat their sleeves vs rolled up fr from until arms of steel and lail leather ther their head beada bare bar sundry sandry watched the bending banding of their backs every muscle outlined under the clinging shirts bin the play PC of their knees the whole what easy rippling of their entire bad bodies with the regular give and ad take mite of the long jaw th the boards known as springboard springboards spring boards rose case an and dipped with the even motion the these s a men were wen fallen and pros lives atly they would lay the towering monarch of the tha great woods wood to the traction of a an inch in a given give place ready tor far the bunkum buc liBa the tha hook tender and the c cable him in the in meantime the logs already down were swiftly stripped of theli that inch cut into thirty and it forty too fee lengths length rolled tied into the trail i wit P peavey A an and ad mat cant hook book and sent up an am over the ridge to the accompaniment ot 1 brill toots foot from the whistle whidby bob bb s to reet tieng leBB cord the straining of rigging a and A d the squeak of fiber on polished fiber the built trail mi ended ti tied here bar 1 m the shallow he hollow low between the tire drat reig a and ad the great mountain bay beyond ad the though gh up no the face of if the tatter letter it we was pro prolonged by a cleared path sharply deft benned denned elzber ad among the den dense growth of the tha timber ba B ho was a by the magnitude of th the A country on every bond band the lifting hills were al clothed thad in trees tree at close packed it and of such girth and ad hot height as A to seem almost grotesquely tin imps iles ible 1 1 humanity wait waa dwarfed to 1 in 9 u like an no ant at crawling on an is cathedral colu column m sandry 1 looked ked around up to this Ola tanca t the be wo woods a its were dotted with cuttings cutting wit where an the great aiuppa tump slowed glowed white liate amid the tha vivid green nd ad the debris of slash lashing ings and ad fr trim m mines which combined with the tha tern fare and ind hazel haze brush brash and other under ad growth to milk make a perfect tangle but is beyond along 1 ing the trail was lature at or re times dense and pro untouched luched wet hafting wafting ing for the hand band of pygmy man A to amme corn and take her lavish IT trea aurea ra by am nine 0 clock the tha sun wo was shining above th the peaks ask and t the be t tog as had d van imbed from the valleys valley and although it was a late tall a there was no feeling of the d death th of the year on the on con teeny there that awe was a sense blame of bustle bent and it hurry and work ann beginning with the advent of the tha rains ing the tidewater slough lough was bank back full and mud oil brown with it thick edess and water growths growth along its edges the stronger stranger uncoil AAA cf drew great breaths breatha of the tha weal air of the high nula hill and ad baban has bopf sw ty 1 dodd mid lympany to on reel feel dimly of if their all charm e rm john daily was everywhere looking at this lim lending it log a hand at that bout log ing same good natured instruction here hera and thera that overseeing with an angie eyo eye aurb minute detail of the mork one due of the tha now new owner was a first impresa aloni A was use that 1 in this wan be had bad an object at 0 great value he ha we waa just thinking binding tills tin a when there came cam a one long lom blast blant from th the a donkey over I 1 the A rid ridge A and ad the he me men dropped their tools 1 in 9 the their r track eraclia the ton tan two the spring boards board jumped down 1 leaving ing the saw flaw lust just eluere the call had caught it tar far out on one side and nd the foreman came up to him dinner tire mr sundry sandry he said smiling i pact you to re pretty hun him gr what cried sundry sandry why I 1 1 do thought of 11 it 1 la I 1 it possible we a vo lb been A tiera he to five ft hours or sure SO ir time T 1 me gone goes last fast in the hills they begin ag to climb the trail the men man out ahead and behind the youngest forging forward in the eagerness of at youth and healthy appe file the tha older characters all of them hardened woodsman woodsmen woods men taking it more leisurely before they were halt way up how over ever sundry san dry was breathing heavily might I 1 ask said eald daily some bonie tiling thing about the change in the corn cam panya certainly there be has simply been an outright safe aate of the interests all of which or nearly all I 1 bought train Dillin gorth fraer A fifth I 1 be lieve have on is still owned by a mr beliefs who ho I 1 la somewhere in south america I 1 b have I 1 come out to take absolute charge and nd learn the timber business 1 see 1 and you vs ve had no expert encel ence none said bald sundry sandry a little shortly maryanna Humph humphrey but my feet is 8 tender complained a voice behind sand sandry glanced quickly back three lumberjacks lumber jacks were plodding up the slope their earned beamed and ad weathered fuels facea bet at intently I 1 on dinner on one a redheaded red headed chap of some lome thirty ell six or eight powerful and ad rugged he set et his rp eyes Y but at I 1 I 1 in acquiring it ft he finished rapid rapidly ly disch discharge rge that man anan dally daily it did I 1 it an not I 1 turn 1 I 1 I com can I 1 I 1 be said bald he a just quit quil CHAPTER IV old RIs rein in new hands hand the east and the west had met it was wait apparent in very every essential that bad to do with sandry and hla his men man in common it showed when he be sat bat samen among them at the head bead or of the tha long table 1 in the way he used his bis hands hla his knife and ad him food it glared who when he spoke it pa paraded ded 1 ID his hi clothes and most ot of all it ft sto stood A it forth pitilessly when A b be sat flat by himbert at night eight 1 in the plain little room under the dripping eaves they I 1 he stood silently watching tho the work go forward we were nearly always y dripping g the pane na behind behin in the spoil spotless curtains curtail s w was a al wa baia black and glittering there ther was nearly early always the me cimmin shut in that ni rain imp imposes e that dense silence lie telling and lonesome sometimes to be sure sura it ft was a only I 1 a little oregon mist that saddened add it the night 1111 outbids but it ft had the same me effect affect on the young man train from the midst of life 1 in now new york he was east and he be knew il it also th the 0 men had known it from rom that first speech in the doorway of the cook shack they spoke epam of him among them selves elves A aa killingworth Dilling worth rill accompany tug ing the tha word with arrin grins tasting it its flavor a as delicately a as any be spec noted praia professor r of tho the ea baat at cal dallying lying with a new derivative now hao here 1 in the world 1 Is dial discern 1 ment meet brought to a floor finer point maa than 1 in 1 the lumber camps campa old and mills milli of it the 1 Nort hent arang the that floating story gentry of the at pike and ad pe peavey the knee laced led bout boot and the turkey who abu pass pa be here and it there with the seasons picking critically c all y at the speech and doings doing of mady y p places 1 I at also cohere DOT hers 1 Is there that a stronger prejudice against any fee antio a or personal any exploitation of what may lie east bof ot tua the case cascades a to them the mao and ad the tha place are anre orle one bait and lester easterner they felt tor far him that contempt chich only in tha it teal feel tor far the inexperienced and with the tha quick A jeaa which wa was hla he r cl arati the raw new owner it the tha f abling among them it only added to that flat jumble ot of sensations rod and imar Impress a sale lona which had cro crowded wiled thick upon him fr from the first brat bad aud which bo be had had no time to assort rod and get under neutral control he be had simply imply laid the them way away tor far future at tent ion in the meau meantime two he h went quickly illicitly at ch the Is work or of settling battling himself in th the now new environment alcad A load of lumber was afta fir brought sri I 1 up t tha he tough slough on th aba punt pont from the mill at toledo and ad four feel me men were on put to b building ailing a small it of flee it w was us 8 bet at at tho the edge of if the slough blough a bit below the cook aback where it commanded from its ita two east ern am window 8 and door the tha track ftak the reading donkey the file log trail and the to and fr from the mouth southern one ailway tho the it hi blough I 1 the rest reat ot at th the track and the lower railway wh where or the tb donkey engine left the logs its in duty done dona after that they rolled down with much splashing to the tha nar or row ribbon b ban of u water star which lit b 1 with ev cry flood tide backed in fr from ft the bay b lifted the them high and trundled them grinding and ad groaning slowly I down dew perhaps to the will mill at toledo perhaps to be laced together with mammoth chains built lot into a great raft ft and towed out to the tha a ocean A to voyage byg along the iha coast down to southern another cal Ift intia or up to portland A tiny wheezy tug fused fuated beat about the beat backma ter for for the espre express a purpose of at starting the monster rafts raft out on the tha ebb inside the new office were installed a r roll a 11 top desk a 4 case came of book a map or in ano and it several ann chat chairs beside a am small stove here with the four pine wells walla around him walter sandry at last looked around and ad called 1 ad himself at home the drawers drawer of the tha now new desk were full fall of documents and mem main hian oranda brands the history y with statistics and it records record do down 1 to th the A minutest detail of the Dilling killingworth worth lumber company these theme he ha set at himself to 1 masler I as his him first step toward the tha vast test gold golden goal of the dream that had bad brought him w west 1 very shrewdly he be decided to take not nothing b him out of if the capable land bands of hla his foreman there thera had bs been A tort in 1 of I tense pause in the camp pending t this development when it became app alpar ent at that things were to go a on as 1 usual I the work went forward as if a line had been loosened big john pally daily had go gone beat about it dur 1 ing the tha few days of uncertainty with the unruffled calm ot of his big quiet nature though thera that was a small a very small email ann ache ala somewhere aher inside him ever sinca h he could remember his him life had been I 1 cast t in daily s lumber camp when his father old john dally daily had logged with oxen on oil toe the eastern slopes tape of the coast and ad range there we was A no jerk jerkwater w star railroad in to yaquina bay vh W hen I 1 a toot fir had bad tot tottered tred out of line and sent seat the old me man forever into ato silence in the nis roaring iving thunder of at ats is fall the boy job john at seventeen at be had it picked up the retno reins of government in th the camp and ad carried on t the a work abetted and aided b by y the that t effia efficient wt uno general l his hie mother with the years yeara of b bis a Y young 0 one manhood he had bad worked fol lowing following the wilder wilderness as progress pushed tt it backe backward backed d to the bay seeing little of the outside world aava per hate haps tor for a trip once I 1 in ahr three a years to an portland or down to san francisco and always during the past it had been ban the M lumber cp company y jet into whose wheat vast at but holdings dome the tamp camp h had d cut its ita way always there that had been A no blood band of power I 1 in A the hills hill save eve his own no an sup ul ervle I 1 on excepting the annuli annual visits visit of some member of the firm who mho went weal over things nodded estimated t took k tiger angures a and ad went weal way away he had car tied ried on an hla his camp himself foug fought b t n as be could coul it r remember bar with the y yellow I 1 pine alnea company whose In holdings Atil were war company vast at as i those of the and it had not thought of change when walter sandry baldry mottled bottled quietly down aown WITH to no voice in the dol dolanga g of t the camp dally daily drew good gold b breath and went want hand ahead once me more or A an for far the new timber co bogot got be sat t down at the tha new desk on the first day of him occupancy of the little gin t on the tough slough a edge and ad wrote hl hi first letter it was on printed letterhead lumber C company nam toledo tend DIA dear did dd eama I 1 pine fancy I 1 re 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