| Show HEART HEAR NIGHT I 1 G an T wa winf A STORY of THE GREAT ar N NORTH H WEST eat cy vingie E roe 4 illustrations ay y hars HW rS i OY cy af aff WD AW cownty CHAPTER Conten continued wal 1 14 had at algava ridder ridden bareback but now why she did not know she took down sandr jandrya Y saddle and 1 bluni 1 ung it on er bla black ch bolt P poppy oppy followed d her inov 1 wants I and by t he time sit had put foot in stirrup and swung up sho she had caught vp up her wide skirt and mounted S letz flared around at he her and her ew e ea were beginning to sparkle in a a face pale with rage X without a word they galloped up HE across acres the lonesome valley and took to what had once hem been a trial trail in the nodding adding terns fares now it was but a slight blight depression running amid the blackened trunks trucks the endless helps heaps tha or of willes poppy ord ordway followed st sl let letz a on a chase chance a it dare is a more mere be haz ard she 1 I did not know the danger the menace ot of the hills she was tw saving ing to herself after he her is enticing rit effi a habit ot f self communion levatty I 1 II 11 have my precious packet a soon I 1 know I 1 shall th the sells gods are am with sob on roe I 1 eel ft own once sitz siletz turned upon her go back bach she bhe cried sweaty fiercely some thing bang Is a about to be happen ap pp an 1 on oure to right a eaid P poppy 0 appy and ad for sd lonce ace the hardness hardne of her nature turn showed like a mck under we waves in eyes eye and ad voice and manner wit and ill ital in 0 at the happening apolo they thay edolie no more siletz silas ch checked decked black bolt 1 in another mile Is rose me in her ps and looked over the appalling spectacle on credo before them over and be b e yond lay the tumbled hills hilla thick with i h heavy vy timber that ran let into ill the siletz silas ba basin e somewhere tn in their fastnesses fast nesses r it thefil the mighty spine apine of the he hog back w with it its secret t trail 11 and some imen the where up behind the hog back was sandu sandry calm as a she he was by nature mature siletz shuddered a aa she he looked upon pan lithe world of flum flame and smoke TO poppy ordway ignorant of its mean ing and ad ito ita might it was a splendid opec spectacle ts siletz t plunged dow down the video ridge a on the other side and the w woman followed the shadows shadow of the smoke filled val lay fley g grew ran let into an one uncanny Y ta twilight flIght the fine tight light islas ashes made slippery going and ad more or the than once or bill black k bolt slipped to catch tell his footing catlike alik they rude rode ahead and entered the fir fire belt itself th the dusk book grew denser th the heat lay lav like a tangible blanket in the t he bellows and dips siletz urged black bolt something wg was calling out of f BU U tw the he gray d dimness n chit ting her or heart t hurrying her progress she had ridden for a time in deep thought when a scream lie ream from the worn wom an behind diew drew her up with a start she turned just 1 in time to see sea the big bay tall fail and go I 1 tumbling down the mountain with ill hia Us fl first at lurch levels he had flung his bis rider on out t or of the saddle suit and into a pile of ash ashes it t was a true fee to me thor her nature that the girl dismounting US is as I 1 A tall lone LOM spiral into the do dun mo heavens an ran not tp to the seem woman but down the me slope after the horse she found him prone prime and groaning in a little trench his hie rl right foreleg doubled back the white bone piercing the earth poppy 0 ordway peered tearfully fearfully do iown I 1 mr trembling hands gathering her duote duel covered revered skirts skim come coma here siou wind cried corn cons an manding cum come 11 be here it was wall the file a same m so voice ce whimpering with primitive an iriv rage go that had cove corn belled cited that craven sandry from poppy ordway I 1 lipa that night at the tapi pump said and as tha w woman had obeyed then than se EO she obeyed now allertz tom roea res reaching ebing in the blouse of her shirt and brought out a gun poppy ordway break back white a as chalk illk what do you mean she cried shrilly what bat are you yen going a to do id a ill horror arror widened her blue u yes eyes gro gra tea quely 1 I 1 never shot a living bring thing in my life said bald sillas sileta sal solemnly lowly but ive I 1 ve got to kill him and y you tend stand by to ce watch tt it a your work there was a sharp report that did not echo in the th ore fire deadened hills bills and the good horse he closed hf his eyes eye in 1 aud ad den peace siletz turned away to where block black bolt looked on ft ith won a der bomash crouching beside ill him in to swift rac revulsion colon she flung the weapon tar far down tho the man mountain win sho she started to in mount without ea a glance at the woman when the other spoke what am I 1 to do do I 1 don it cars care what you vou do go home and I 1 hope you nover never reach there my god cried poppy oreally oraw ay don dont I 1 leave me like ills and look pe look there at all along g the gallfy lie y by which they edif hid ald come to a ion loain swift t drift of smoke was rolling bent t out like a current ne from borne newly w 1 y fired cross canyon nyon it ita low 1 ing pall formed a bewilder ing mystery to anyone save a native live of 1 the hills hill A worman woman on foot would never cover reach camp through its ita b ladies darkness L long 9 sat turned in her saddle E and nd looked at it then a thought of sundry sandry and his standards pierced the emotions that dominated her there was but one no thing to it come up ehe cold bald at last 11 have a to wk take you CHAPTER fire within thin fire W so it was a double burden that the great b black ack horse carried into the tha it Y of the shrouded country hat hatred sit was like a wall between them and poppy y a fingers clinging perforce to shirt twitched with desire H how short a distance to the tb packet in the boggles bagging blouse so they rode with smarting am art ing eyes and aching lungs down into a dim val ley and up again between fires under mighty lily towering trunks tottering to their fall they p passed it the high spine pine of the hog reek back a majestic 1 catia crown against the smoke and ad baa threaded I 1 the h a ruins of the forest at last best it they saw great fires ahead wit and men running cunning ta among g them whom to is sundry sandry pilots asked a unabashed of a soldier do don I 1 know here haven t seen him tor for hours hour he hurried on and ad the girl rode along the lie line where her a hundred me men w were re laboring with ax as and an spade dropped and blanket the wind had dropped one ana they were working north borth and it south trying to bottle up a roaring marag ross cut of a valley sea scattered throughout the hills I 1 in a aquada to ads obey e ing the orders sent bent do down we fro from M time n to t time we by ill the ranger E and n his 1 aida who patrolled trailed the rid ridges 9 with it field glass glasses Is they worked it like k a great I 1 ma chine though towy the so saw I 1 no f farther or th than n their own tv trench th their at it own I 1 line of back fir fire their that own we at stretch it of felled pines but work as they would at the base or of the high massed P peaks ask destiny all about ready for or her grand coup at the fortunes of the killingworth Dilling worth wit and she snatched a streamer from a it cross me canyon yen and id shot ot it big high across ties line and ad back fir fire and ad t trench lot into the rech dry pines pine on that id slope pe also iso she had sent out in an hour before a tall lone spiral into the dun heavens from th the very heart of the sparred spared timber behind the hog back do k that spiral had caught the zeller eye of walter senility sandry working with his bis waning strength north on the east slope eor bar how many hours he be did not at know he had neither either sets eaten nor or slept top t but still be went want wit with 11 the ll lt spirit piri t that st would wit not quit all 1 so joi long as another stayed ayed a at bis post theet if the rate w would all only come am he be thought though t as he be struggled upward it a nearly aly time for them it if they would only bring t their beer first showers 11 aers no now the roar mar of the new fire a solitary tory pine that went up like a huge greco grace ful torch was in his ears it its light before be fora him now how under order heaven did it get lan started aled up ED in laria he had bad spoken aloud as he wearily skirted a clum clump P of Y young g spruce pro and it the words fell short hurt abruptly broken as aa he emerge emerged from their shelter before him ina in a am email tl I 1 cleared lip space ce ot stood ad rotund hampden a of at the yellow alnea I 1 his back we wag toward sandry salary and it ho carried led in ME his hand blind three candles candle he a was nearly as aa black and disreputable aa a any scar row down among the fires he was waa intently watching imers thing at the toot foot of a second pine softly sand bandry moved until this thia object 1 waa I I 1 in his line of vealon bedded high in a pile of tinder dry needled cities a in fourth rth candle slowed glowed 1 brightly y in 4 the smoky gloom with utmost vm tt cunning it had been set ch close as against agali iBl the tree tre where a long branch of pitch trailed down the rugged bark from far up among the brandies branches when the candle burned down doan to the resin t pd needled and a man might travel tar far in the cami meantime thoo th the firmes fismes need only to lick that Is banner r 1 to rush with ill lightning decd to the swaying inflammable top for a long 19 momen moment the ea fastener I 1 r at stood it lost jos tin la wonder then the whole thing burat up upon him and it he ha kuer kner I 1 hampden of the bellow pines was the 1 power behind the bol holocaust olIt A As this stupendous to knowledge forced itself into ban bl his weary brain the other the man turned and ad strode strade swiftly away among the hole boles the climb bad taken the breath from lungs go and he drew a from bla big belt and fired over hampden to head like an animal the a man whirled hand band to lit hip and ad faced him I 1 ve a go got you at last sandy pont pant a ad it I 1 ve TO got bot I 1 you u lit at last hampden a heavy lips curled ver ten from hla his short strong teeth you he bereft breathed hed you yen you damned Emit easterner emarl you yon illy handed tenderfoot sandy smiled grimly this I 1 is lust at beat about the blackest per in a your ranked crooked career hampden he aid rt at last the blackest and the big seat geat blunder blander I 1 can a I 1 see a why you did lw it ton cam cant I 1 snarled hampden oh all you cant it well I 1 by godden god you wl will be 11 awl fore i 1 fic do done with th you you dian didn t know s what hat you was g gettin atin up against yon ym and your your poppy ord way you mad a yer fight sn an you thought wool won but you reek reck ined without me ire im makin mine an 11 it s a 1 hummer hammer he glared savagely gely along the gun it this into 0 jandrys rys bloodshot eyes eye and ad at this moment ent black bolt heaved up through the ferns siletz VIErl peering gagor eager acl ly IY along ong his training straining neck and the face of poppy ordway at her sh shoulder wilder the girl slid ont ut of the saddle and ran to sundry sandry what is 13 III bhe he cried what I 1 ta it send sandry pointed to the burning can ill die at the plan pine a foot and instantly she sprang forward forrd old and stauf snuffed fed it out oat with thumb and finger miss misa ordway slipped down from the foamy steaming aug hips hip of at the bar horse to stand leaning ag against at it him im her bright eyes began beginning I 1 as to sparkle with til the ot at the moment a ment at sight eight of her hampden 8 face g grew raw s gray my 1 be 1 with neath its grime rb she was ami smiling g with it that pa pleasure Is I s which 11 she always illy found where men fo fought u or eng engineered dramatic coups coup or 1 worked out ut clever schemes and her beauty was never so im maddening to him in all his knowledge of her his one pure faire tire dream had in truth truth reached a sorry ry ending sandy said siletz SHOE simply imply I 1 came to you there theme 8 danger somewhere bore I 1 dust know where or what but there s something thing in t the b shadows said A vagrant wind f fanned up an I 1 ong long g cheeta heat and it whistling banners that hurried up to tap leap into im the moaning canopy behind the hog it g bark back th the actors in this little drama ea a were too latest intent to hear the heightened b Ight ened note so you yon come to he be in at th d death aid Ham hampden pole at last his e eyes y on to poppy p ap pp in a angul anguished thed fury you ou dowe done me to dust death an you want to see a in me die oh th game a E up and ad 1 I d don t care 1 as a do damn imah I 1 m th smartest at 1 0 one of thi this bunch yet an but fer th fact that you ve got them two let emu berb t r you yo u stole dol from im th hishme and it th account book with the race records rd of 0 our ur deals an takeoffs rake offs kf and so on I 1 ida it A had a chance to fight an win Y yet r but 1111 1 I know knew you poppy oll oh h how w damned well I 1 know you an I 1 know I 1 in whipped but bat I 1 in makin a fight you re damned right I 1 am he waved an eloquent arm am around at th the appalled blaile I 1 it shrinking oking country y which life it seemed and to b crouch in its I 1 is naked eked uses ness under the shrouding smoke make B but u it th thing that cuts is tb that a t you done it all fer far him I 1 A feeble dr develin ralin thing from th tb east an they hey say bay you 11 marry him I 1 well go to it he hell 11 have to move out ter far there thare won wan t be ba any U more 1 jallits th lumber company I 1 tn twenty hours hour be behind bars all right but I 1 v ve el cleaned ad him out at As he finished with a reckless laugh amigh sand sandry turned amazed ebe to poppy she was pale with eager anger suit and she he avoided his glance this was the last thing she wanted that sundry sandry should know of her attempt to forestall him in the getting of hampden she saw her chance to gain his bill gratitude by V her bar gift drifting away also the revelation of her lawyers perfidy was a mighty blow hampden she said unsteadily lead BY you aur re the emir coarsest seIt beast I 1 know knew abright all AI right but ain t that what it H all ter far to lay me as aa a burnt affrin at his feet a sacrifice flee to win his idolo love anda lf you a say all it am marry r him in aan at t I 1 heard it right an left no cried poppy red with tm rage under sandu sandry 8 astounded a aea e cal no I 1 novel never did Is cried siletz ragingly you all did Y you a said when sundry sandry was waa dy by ing I 1 that h at you w were ere his promised wife in 1 I the a hush that at followed dinten I 1 B bed sit by the dropping broad brands from huge pine which was now but I a black U ened ad pronged hope 1 in tho the thickening ening smoke there fell upon their ears eara a bound aa incongruous mangru ous with the strained moment as could be imagined it was war a show shower of 0 notes at high thrilling that seemed fall tike like drops of diamond through the mor murky by canopy T they h ey came up from the west mysterious mar martial tall joyful and their burden was lead kindly light lead ahm thou me d on the preacher w whispered bla pared allet oh the preacher and ana presently through the dim dun due white of the smoke that crept with portent bekc between I 1 the cro crowding pines there merged the famil familiar jar erect form with one accord they turned to him as he be approached and sandry for the one moment left hampden unguarded it was a all that we was 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