Show TM HEART NIGHT WI A STORY of THE GREAT FA N bolth eat oy cy E EROC ROC 44 illustrations ay ijes iJ rS 0 affo lyean 0 NO SYNOPSIS 12 I 1 of 1 dally a lumber vamp no d 1 to the can 0 p 0 walter nr sandr or introduces to himself to in john a 7 dally fora anan as the he h lumler co or siaa mot ot or it II poppy 11 ordnary a mass 1 from new york rl comei I 1 daily a hampden or the yellow co cealma title to the east belt bandry and 4 1 hampden 11 1 men fight the a als silted I 1 tract ra t tho h pr preacher hiir stops 17 M the flight andry fiad ti alia I 1 in tho deed d 1 to the lias belt has nover or b been recorded poppi flerta its ith im liard and ad tells tell trat ilia hampden ilarde is IH crooked d and that aha he 11 ge at r birn m I 1 oppy p py a fos to io 91 alem in search h 0 salt against hanna hampden sandry and s ar rho him tor me pd who he has id morn gonei goes to her or sd sandry t to a save t e contract S I 1 ells n sandry that bat ahe li no has till of haina n den tiling boua entries in collusion nr the eineke she a sees alef and all sandry talking tr together and 1 lealous a th the I 1 tig is raft 11 0 Is started oil IZ its way A but la bi blonn up an and d sandry al a l 1 if la injured in land sandry a delirium he biles poppy clial to his is P past ma A dally clinis sandry poppy s notes t r or of 11 ria talk ya poppy 4 w with 11 h u hamp n den and saintry 11 rr her 0 bid O bach eat poppi finds hat jandrt ad led held up in so an associate is or d partner mar of his to fa ther v r for in the palca of the I 1 lit I 1 tin co the d dyan in the baitie s POPPY back to reau va I s aad b hans to haidri knows 1 h I 1 la called riz fast a by his father s and is with him when he be adlea sundry beads money to a in a I 1 letter I 1 r which I 1 ch poppy steals and d copies a in 10 that ad a it d other papers 1 P poppy 1 to prevent sandry was from mgt p di g east c for r a IS lanier to fislid alit haap ben poppy a lawyer who 1 b 1 yer r t tf t the a com mission er sd and hampden pd in iho i agony of a lan by the I 1 a I 1 lie love hampden ae 2 to make s a S light that will be remembered rem emberd 2 11 II si sis along s the ms coast 11 1 devastating forest A tires mysteriously handled threaten en san 1 rv a O I 1 psul end every available man aa turns I nes out to fight ln them CHAPTER fight fht ft fight g lit lk like hell hall in eb so began sao n a tied between these two at it first rat miss misa ordway erv cov ered end he her tiny fury with a smile ord and tried every art of ce conciliation citation hot but busts held to tar from her night nig t and day she kept the packet in an her breast bis though tor for what end and she bhe did not net know know she knew only with be her unfailing nn fail ing instinct that it must at never ever g go 0 mat east to the cities or iri infinite fite har harm m we would old befall bandry also as unfailingly th the same sm instinct warned her not to ali show them to lit boi own evea though their possession might mean his hia safety the primal cunning of it woman man kept her bar from be dittli 9 re or amt betraying ing her rival saada sandry was becoming more laora and more anxious on about the east belt beil more mar suit and more he be flared feared the lalith goal beney of having to a tall fall back bach u upon on a woman for far help bp at tin last an and ath this is was particularly sa galling ring to b his m me man bred it had limeres become personal question with ith him the soft getting ing ot of hampden r the timber at the north militia was r running better than they had bad expected and dally daily and collins coiling with the lumber d lacks from sacramento sacrament and the sl 81 oate washes were war doing splendidly Y still the magnificent belt we was the ad dalling ing worth th a future and it w was in it grave re joe baird v fee from it time to ft time he to ran across 5 hampden long along the shores here ot of th the Is baclE it water at toledo or r on the III 51 letz lets road here the yellow two owner r often rode red to meet miss ord way w who he he bad it I 1 lessened load her efforts in his hia direction am eiloe he cad bad given her all the material mat trial ehg needed tor for his own undoing US ha was more or wild about her than ever and added to b his Is an enmity mity tor for sandry the mighty spur par ot of suspicious viele jealousy so be july dragged out in n blue blua heat beat and nd august hissed blazed down upon the hill bills the eastern easier Is lawyer at salem was waa ready eady to 0 gy div up p 1 in despair not one tin tiniest sat p point I 1 int showed itself whereon he could coal d hang ham a thread of evidence ind and one cue day sundry sandry sitting on the bait saw porch h the heart into MISS ord ordway s throat 1 I believe alwill I 1 will write to now new york tor for it the great fort he be old it a a mighty risk tor for hell W I 1 bankrupt t s sk me ma it he comes than though h I 1 afa V s hardly ably likely be all U bother they don deal t know the tha chances tor for big work out her here and the woman shut her teeth h hard b or it while the I 1 blood ad left her tat face e e in pale anger on I 1 the as at step p played with cearmal s ears or and ad she h too lost last a bit ot of ill color the next beat day miss mi ordway mada ad a flying trip to salem stopped over train and 4 went at on to portland there alm be ought bought out the hobt well thought of If legal 1 firm I Is in the city t ty and was waa closeted clos etea tor for three hours haun in it its private she was waa much too shrewd to trust treat the great scheme in the hands hand of a sale fir firm but beshe hero h bad ad bun be tied led after all 11 tor for her bar newly allied lawyer a fine are looking open faced in folio followed ad hr to salem air on alm ilm next it train lowig bearing copies ot of her obtained proofs pro to of hampden a guilt which we were as a good as warrants S arient tor for his arm arraignment I 1 and that at of 1 the tha amorous tons young coman 1 r the ring was wider than she had any conception of and reached adap far throughout the tha abate let bho was not halt half over the coast range on an the one me he horse 1 as I railroad when her lawyer laid the copied papers papera on th the commissioner a private desk iab it come me at last laet he be bald aid t tensely ly somebody body a leaked and 1 in a lightning flash gas b the no corn culas ioner ku knew so what bad become of 1 his account book and ad the ca missing niall let fare ft from hampden if he ls stamped slumped 1 la his hair chair drumming with wil h senseless sen seles fingers on its arm ho he saw black bar bars across a the win do dow with the waving trees free beyond and knew himself tor for that weakest among men a we woman an a tool foot so fin filled with excited cited determine thin to beat sentry sandry with the homp hamp it den case and it f forestall tall his sending for far worth which was the last I 1 thing ahe he wanted md poppy ordway a again go roda mile up the valley the mighty hills bills we were silent 11 t 1 in the th dad deadlock lk of an orrim oregon summer no breath of wt wind itu found ita w way late into the sheltered halt it 1 val I leys lays a and ad the pinea piece were war stilt still th the a tideway tidewater ill tough dough was waa gra gray Y with ath the intend inland firms brine 0 glorious ormus she he said old to herself lift ing her gazo gaze to the tha hazy mounta mountains ms and I 1 it save it tor rot him even ago against t net hla his will S she he was sure she had ameree succeeded d ad in her mission ind and happy in I 1 the lie knowledge was eager to be out of the hired rig and S idly as he assisted slated her out thought simply imply that sh fihs was the most beautiful we woman man 1 in thas the world old tor for all the joy ot of triumph lent sparkle to her lovely features dep deepened ened the blue of let her eye eyes no word ord had bad ever been spoken about that night at the and eardly bore bora a sense cense of at guilt lit that he be had taken her bar avowal without open reciprocation but the face of siletz held him back he scorned told himself and yet he knew he was waa blameless save for that unguarded use in the glade but did he be wish to reciprocate he ha did not know D daily lits ily a camp denied on getting out ont its logs flooding them down the slough along h bi binding ad ng them slowly min into the now familiar oce ocean a going raft the foreman himself was un on changed though the world had changed for him since that miser able yes of siletz in the darkened room when he laid a gentle hand band on her bar should shoulder to sandry sady he was the same lor for he had come through the slow blow processes of the simple nature to be his friend the elusive fir sees nesa that had shown plain to sandry it rom the ill first rot in 11 john dally s heart was waa ild as a york rock a founds foundation ii I 1 aa alar abutment terent they watched at had Harri hampden alno a trail slow grow toward the east bolt belt with an exaggerated slowness a flaunting of security newit and then two days after miss ord ways way s return the young commission er r and ad the portland lawyer iglar got off the train at toledo and ad were driven out to the yellow fellow pines they bore bon for or hampden the tha wildest wildcat agony of at his air strong g life in the rew revelation lH of his goddess they were closeted together the whole 0 of f the night in the lellow pints phil office and it was a strenuous night eight tor for the two strang angera tom for hampden was a man to tear in his bis rages rabea at first they held him by main at force and later by argument and rea ran son fight said old the law lawyer or in the pink down dawn light fight like hell hall and AMI ua it t a your year only chance right snarled hampden ho hose hoarse se ly what for this diluted damned arn else eler has haa let her get the originals of th these letters letter ot of mine in belt about the tha three embt claims in 7 10 and they alone it put me behind bars baral Y you I 1 re the damnedest ass asa I 1 ever sent seen arid and the mang man a small red eyes id glared and at it ats I 1 re with the murder I 1 lust st but the mounts commissioner a I 1 iad had some spirit rit him himself a if and ad came bank back with kith defense feel W here e re two together it w was a from you she be got her I 1 or first it knowl knew edge a ds of the it gama g mea aha II 11 tooled im I 1 A her or first suspicions out of you I 1 in her r t horseback ride aidea aha lm told sm me so how you took her in on the deab deals she said hampden pill groaned and it flung it his bla b bead led Is in his arms arm on ex the plus pine table all right he be said at 1 last it 1 I it fight rn but atwith with the last eight of the bulk buck board bouncing down the hill road mad with his hia visitors to W rich the early 1 it train bacat to sale salem a light grew up 1 I 1 in his heavy f face that would old have has puzzled that astute man the tha portland lawyer ye yes by 7 god ill Is be bald at in a 0 v voice oce i buom thick in with A ith an menace ill fight figh t and d ill make a light fight that 11 be remain bond all 11 along the west coast CHAPTER ft alra in hi the F forest t th the a next day was the ninth ot of au an g gust at the th thermometer hanging he arg on the mat eastern bide jd of sultry sandry a olt domce went slowly up to log by b two 0 c luck clock ma set sat on the east porch in her little rocket rocker and siletz braided tier her mata mat on t the he step while poppy ord way watched her from a cushion against the wall ASH the donkey tooted fairly I 1 at the aupper upper cutting and from time to time the dinky engine trundled its ita high piled d fiats sm down the little track to the at the tough slough a mouth th the men we were all 11 out and the summer silence hung upon per 11 tho cook shack and the he d desert et cd ad cabins empty ever eve since their ter for mer or occupants pon he bail turned intend their coata 1111 tor for hampden a two year contract acta auddry ohly I 1 coranah lying on the step got get up and sniffed the air sl SI lets let looked at him hor ber ingar rested mated then the he ha sat down on his haunches throw threw up his bla muzzle and began to bay a melancholy lonesome S sound d hush H sh said busts hush bold coos COOB nahl hl and an d she AM too lifted her head SRI after the iba ot of oil things smelling the sultry aam atm atmosphere photo M mother I 1 she ebe cried swiftly it if on the general creaked up and hur bin tied ried to the tha steps hot but already siletz we was off and ad running up the valley toward the cutting ft ben he slie she reached the donkey sundry sandry was so standing leading be side aide it but the girl gill passed him with out a glance running to where the for foreman set act a choker john she cried alm theres a afire a alre on the w west sat ridge every man mad wj within thin hearing bearing dropped his work v k instantly and d stood up call in th men said dally daily As aa he be passed the donkey engineer A an suit em along wed we d it otter better all go mr me sandry taint tain t likely it a much but we got to stomp it out whatever or it I 1 bee bea a kookla janem ter for ess cm they all transit trailed down the valley on a dogtrot it took them the better b it let part 1 art of an hour belt hut but when they went down d own there was not a spark left a alight j gh t what do ou suppose started it i john asked sandry baldry oh some aoma darned little college snipe from cor corvallis 1111 likely with a guu gum aa a cigarette or webbe mabbe it was some camper overnight on the tha ridge arme greenh greenhorn I 1 in an am it a mighty dry mighty dry they went back to the cutting though every jack ot of them lifted up his hia eyes from time t to time to the tha ridges around amand at supper sapper the loggers discussed the forest fires ot of other years the topic opened by the met dent debt it was ft close night with a dark sky though the heat beat had given way to the sweet coolness ot of the coast it under do the mysterious loua ocean wind ord and sandry from his old seat let at table looked out at the western ridge john joan he erid rising suddenly it a broken out again sure enough against the upper darkness little red tongues tongue licked fit fully up and the men white and 1 in dian afan tumbled out at the tha cook shack shek it was waa twelve 0 clock when they turned tn in and sand sandar was puzzled the next day nothing happened the then at dawn ot of the day following the camp awoke to see bee a see fine folly white haze all through the valley and the crest of the west ridge tor for half a mile sending bending up fanciful peart pearl plumea places I 1 in the soft met morning it this time ft had gained a start and the camp turned out in earnest john sold said sold sandry al solemnly lemadY that la 18 no miles college buy boy with hla his cigarette could it be hampden th the foreman turned upon the I 1 owner or you faint t a real westerner nr yet mr sandry he ha said with a smile you think resit his hia yella pine as aa line fine timber as aa there 1 Is 1 in th whole state hed bed antly th h hatchet tried a an come fight with us ua like a b brother first atha then wh what a to a setting th file fires T tor it looks as it they arg are being set my god look therel front there a an other amerry A merry red eye winked and leaped and died to les lean again across the tha early twilight at the valleys valley B head bead T that lt s demand damned close claim to our car cut tin cried earled daily starting down the mountain on 11 a sliding run no and that last fire ho burning ruing strongly where no brand blood could have dropped deyeo alth a wind wild marked the begin AS I 1 ut aj its broken broke out olt again ning ot of such a time ot of anxiety of fear that hat grew suit and mounted to heart h t still ing paull panic 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