| Show mitt the heart of aing ie E roe night wi cirio nd illustrations by ray wal walters I 1 A STORY OF THE GREAT NORTHWEST W j SYNOPSIS int allett of f dan daily a lumber her camp v directs eg to he 11 camp ann walter d I 1 I 1 I 1 to john dally foreman a ht th lumber cocal CC coi or most of 1 it t he makes e I 1 acquaintance bi t ii I 1 with on th hr simp ion led and alio work welk lie be has bee come I 1 it tile lat last to in I 1 an and successful ii he so ril to it hla father mtnor thai r t he be ba intends lo 10 set ataw handful ar of the gasn wasn 1 in go alie uncut t T limber of W alie region 1 I CHAPTER V C continued tinted sundry bandry was on edoline eDo boyl ng her succinct precision of knowledge all dge and sain ex p res blon adon f and you re am spent all these theme yeara yeam in the midst of this wet blanket III ell mate to he smiled how in 1 the world did you yen do 0 it and keep your cheer falness 1 ful I ness son san said it ma 11 daily kindly you to con can knock the country to me but dou don t you go dom it where the men II 11 hear you Y A Us web uch foot feet are am used to the ram man but we don I 1 like ilk to hear the Laster nera talk about she it it I 1 I 1 its it a a chip c in P on ivory every oregonians oregonian Oregon Ore gonian lana 6 shoulder lou on vr do don I 1 want to dueer yourself there was me a nota at of a genuine g good g advice in I 1 the words word and ad tone and 0 rid got a sudden insight into 1 I sev I 1 deml little happenings the that I 1 had pu pulled A d him lor far fin instance romee thi the emphasized wearing ring of blue shirts hm to in a rain 1 that had soaked his overcoat and a few remi remarks about it t the tact it that he oregon rain inal did dian didn I 1 wet through thank you mrs hire daily he be said aid earnestly with a sudden adden testing feeling ol of friendship between him and this shrewd kin kindly adly old aric general I of men ile he I 1 turned rued presently to the girl allm busy in the lamplight her black head at sliming a ashad a shadow w over her site by the way he said aid it you rare care to i ou A may y ride black bolt abe whenever ver you wish she nodded quietly without a flicker of the be pleased plea a ad excitement he had bad ex peeled in I 1 the th light elight of her seeming pas pa iet love I 1 of t the animal but a blow dull flush spread upward in I 1 her dark face and her fingers trembled a bit ILI he reacted fancied on an the th reeds eds they trembled in at all surety the next morning when with a bridle of colored and ad men horsehair I 1 hair over her arm bhe he entered the lean beauto to stock black bolt boit was we a gentleman g tim bom b though he was w as wild id as the girl tor for the free air the green slopes slope and the aiding sod sad under his feet fact he U stood detill td atle she came up lightly am aa a cat at un g with a little sort bolt alighting and ad they were we gone gona down dew a the smooth slope of the valley toward the low lower railway th there were let two interested aspects t tors to that splendid flight fight M ma dally daily bit th the A cook shack hack par porch ch who wiped her e eeb a bit an and 6 eadd id aloud to d bless bies the child wild wald lid but it its nat but ural and walter waiter rii sandry dry standing at the south month indict of 1 1 the office cities did you 0 U ake is u sandry bentley asked her am amusedly as di 7 that evening As aa he be passed through the eating eatone room I 1 lea ea said laid with be her belying gam quietness da I 1 bell believe 11 I 1 ve found faced a study he aid to himself as he be went on a worthy study in be human home nature and A ad silt sil t I 1 had bad found f d a new healea hati vent and ad A new w earth something wild with in her that had ever moved restlessly brotie broke forth a glorious flower ot at ec beasy am Y our dav by day thereafter ther after she ili loosed black but bolt I 1 bud and sped brad into fields field of lost I 1 a I 1 to earth cart I 1 intoxicated mad with the rush of wind wild ana it rain ra always alien aaa he came A book back was as the dusky ducky flush dumb in I 1 her face f the eleppi 1 PY luck look of intoxication in her bar hyek thus thu winter closed in on the it lonely camp in the mountains ile blue black bit and it gray with mist and rate rain and ad vivid green with the new ar grass of the toast coast country CHAPTER VI vw trouble with in the Y yellow I 1 pines piano V walter atar band sandry B sat in the office at the slough B edge busy auit with ill file and ad ledger two man montha ho bad paused passed and ad id something had bad I 1 lifted te d from I 1 I 1 h hran A 1 in these two months a uni weight it had find hUglin light ened d whom U bad been a I 1 nuge a el dia i gust goot almost intolerable in jim its 1 in n tor for this land there had we crept PC in an build insidious I 1 one ado admiration olmo orion often diw 9 a he looked ked down the green bruce little valley sharply doubted defined bell between its it birding hills bills and felt fail tile the subtle charm head ili the achlen intimate te shadow the near white dusk anil ad the great I 1 trees under r wh chobe aa id drooping g w ease ry boughs bough there lay IY balence and t d a sense or of ter ret ugo ago bud suddenly ably denly there came to him a clam clad or of at voices oaths noth and it the throaty ton tones a a of at strong ong men in eager anger up from the lower railway a group of trigger logger came stalking le in their spiked boots beat behind I 1 them h am murphy rocked excitedly long along I 1 in n the tiny locomotive sandry shut abut ilia him ledger and it stepped old th the A matter collin Col llna A I 1 he asked ot of a huge no ge a man in the lead a perfect type of the logger ol of the great no northwest rt hwesi bun browned we ned h hard drous mua CW cled d wiry miry 0 of figure and wih the on ea and ad power of a bull elephant matter enough T them hem damned yella pieces sawed five piles in til in bw my an tore A up t two of I 1 track 1 I sandry ad aetis at head ahead do down ili jhb track and it f found d ato A bbate of at thing sufficient to ratsa ila the I 1 jet ire of any or thab wjk vt where her tb the track tack approached the wit roll way it had been bean turn torn up bodily the ties and dra ralla Iwu thrown into the narrow CAB mi ab evidenced CIA by a tew few pro P leading anda and and the railway itself a al 11 slanting ing floor of logs logo mom two feet thick budmor ted on in a group of grade bradu abed d in bagged in the center where here two pilm had been cut and pried bide aide wise ie T the to lower edge also drooped tor far the same A me reason mation it had been the work of pwe pure malice that he ha saw at a gleam glance collins colling he amid a aa the men came up no in a sullen bullen group get to work and sa eee it you yen can raise is those theme B sawed it sup an ports P a tin and d pry p them the back b ack on their bases A too the A going gang went want B lowly down the tha sharp bank of the tidewater slough on aghy johnny job eastern bald d one softly so ill all right all right prize penn A up P a roll way may my A aunt act maria Ali fix sandry stood near Y realizing realising rea lising it his lim nations italians an and it raging aging halapia IF watching them lazily lastly testing and pushing bit bera and the there hada I 1 we better e just saiko 1 A em a on to the aides asked k C collins w with i a abdom droll drell upward awl glance giant sandry waa beat about to reply ply when I 1 job john daily slipped down dew fr from the track beside him under the I 1 lee of the me do dam aged railway collins he said mid sternly you yen get back to camp and it bring tools looks hooks a couple coupe I 1 A of chaus and ad mara licks it bring a couple of axes to too what do 30 ou mean by such inch business 1 orders 1 I aahl collins collina with a grin you yoa see mr me Sc sandry raft said dally daily apologue apologetically ft itally there B no won such timbers am aa them not when who they ra got 91 9 1 to carry amory such euch weight they 11 have hate to be teke taken out at entirely an new ones act at I 1 I 1 dido I 1 know returned sundry sandry frankly I 1 won wont I 1 they hold field back the wark A day or so debbe we can take k a tie ilia falters fallers out an put them on with collins an the rest thermo there a enough dou down to an keep cap the hackers busy a day or two anyway wo we wont on I 1 lose much I 1 do you think thick this h is the work of the yellow place pines people deny dally sure baid aid dally daily with certainty certainly they v ve do done w worse the than this thia bar before now cut our best beat cable two years ago and twice they ve va run ran the dinkey off air the track into the slough abey bad actors but the use what do ethey they gain rhey want to run me us no out of the G hills been at tt it tor for too ten years they re just avi giesa you a war bint Us aa the new A ww owner tho the repairing of the damaged roll way was another revelta revel revelation tl to the cam easterner new tia were war brought down and the slanting floor door was As thick ly 17 underpinned under pinned th then with pick and it 1 1 I dont just know shovel the tha roco men went at the work of jigging digging out the damaged timbers the 1 wo 11 1 it wo was ho heavier barlar more dangerous and ad dia disagreeable to stable by reason of the water four feet deep at low tide eight at high which alch lapped implied their bases dally DAILY put them at the digging from the anne alope eide do at low law tide lid but on we the second jay day he told stood tong long running his him blunt finger through his hair as am was LIB him cox custom I 1 am perplexed R sandry ad had mine come down from the inow olica ill and now stood stand on the track above the railway looking over the wet act country below at the tha railways a foot the sluggish ribbon of tide tidewater wet sullen eullen and discolored w wound it A up P from the tha south to the north rth th the A valley lifted gently toward abe ir A comp camp and the wilderness beyond suddenly dally he be said what am ra you going to do about att it I 1 don do I 1 luat know the men man eon cau I 1 we work raith in the a water and the them piles pile have got to no ome come out but ut thorl there a a way war of I 1 doin dam tt it A of more course of 01 course said old the easterner and ad why J 7 not act cournea go at it ier from have the tha foreman looked at him gumbir I 1 angly that left bank back of the slough t up at there am 1 la la in the torm Z of a ridge don at t you yen think we could I 1 net a crew at t it t at low law tide lid and it dig die it through turning the water into the field yonder gondert that th A would leave the slough empty hero herd to lor r the time balm between hie big 11 tides 0 could o w you get the timbers out in L A f tew hours dally daily a experienced eye had already taken 1 in very every detail dermal ot at tho the possibly blu ties as sandry talked that aa a a gilla good it mr it scatter sandry I 1 he said slowly lowly I 1 believe it 11 work so it was that the first practical SUB bug ot of the new owner olow we was set but let into action the whole crew ot of the camp was wait brought out ot of the bills bill and it bet at to work and it the damaged we was r paired as aa good as new the break 1 in tho the west waw bank filled the slough to run ugh nag full again and nothing noth ng to show how for the trouble but the flooded held field ot of tules tale under U d at walter sandry SAO it a wet cool do da zu race mean A or there the to was we a small glow of satisfaction a sense of having I 1 in a way may redwood redeemed himself at supper bp time fillets moving I 1 be tween the tables laughed to herself softly and her dark eyes under the little shadow of her parted hair held a sparkling a kling gleam as a it if she had bad see ohp that I 1 conflict aud and enjoyed it said bald the owner taming coming in suddenly from the east porch after the men man had tramped heavily away to the bunkhouse whom do you know on out aid side this camp she was alone in th the 6 big spoil spotless kitchen her sleeves rolled 11 ita up from her ift wine arms slim jim and brown with a smooth to color I 1 or that was of the sun on I 1 giving outside the camp she asked ached turn ing to him for far a moment I 1 stopped in ap pp it I 1 in some am task look of the aftermath ot at the meet meal why nobody DO dont I 1 you ever go down to tole toledo ov sundry sandry was loaning leaning tn in the doorway his him bright blu blue eyes upon her sometimes sometime hem have you no fi friends rland morel no girl friends she shook hook her head bead an and be noticed g tz tha clean P frohle d A the A shape tia of the small if pointed Is I 1 chin M the h good forehead feminist conflicting with a vague suggestion of of ban fleeting G ng wild things la in the ve velvety BY ayea Is there no one with whom you so as outside the mmel camp think suddenly there them passed over her tea fee tures lure a quick change he could old like liken it to nothing but a wind on the surface face of water just join a breath of change only the Pro preacher behar 1 she be said aid with a swift slurring corring 1 of sanner in her or th the preacher you don I 1 know him he be only comes sometimes witt hewak he aa here just before you A came me who is I 1 he ha asked sandry swid cour courle lb lr I 1 don I 1 know nobody knows known but I 1 love him the preacher chat he be aid to himself a little later in the tha bare bar south in room aa un der the dripping drippin drip pit 9 eaves caes hm hta the th atme of course C 1 I with a new interest he picked up AD the quaint old book ot of holy writ and let it fall open in his hands as it had bad a way of doing out from that marvelon marve loua song ong of an inspired soul uie the Pec psalms tins there t looked had bulb ila hla answer as a h be was a t to know in A an other day the tr truest bet aus answer that could have been given to his bia question 1 who I hall at d 11 into ili he hill bill of ili the lord or me who bell eland I 1 in I 1 hla I 1 holy andimo place 1 ha that hath hah clean h handa and a pure pio heart who to hatli 1 i not lot lifted up lp hi at no unto v vanity a nor sworn dee deceitfully aall with A an odd add feeling of truth track struck f from man the pa page g ile he closed the book and ad laid it gently gentl y down dew a on the white loth cloth CHAPTER vil VII night wind from that time forth sandry bentley began to take a keener interest I 1 in saw for 0 one thing he noticed that everyone cry no called it her S lots with wills a soft slurring blurring of at the first B syllable lable and be found him sell self using the wee name which he thought particularly I 1 beautiful beat icat it was the name me of at the reservation to the north tin and of a email it part of the odd and ad end do of at tribes thrown la in there them by a baal beneficent filet gov government emmond what was her other name ancen he ha had always thought of her as me ma dally daily A dough daughter bad and yet now that be mine came to think thick of 9 rt she had never seemed akin to the easy busy going open minded foreman woo who wo so like the old woman she was waa alien to both with her silences often her cal 1 speech and her look of hidden tire fire on one day I 1 in the let late tall fall when the white mist and the evergreen of the forest had bad got on him bia dervent bly ably sandry left the office allies and went to the had tor for black bolt only to on find him gone ile he had meant to rid ride off ff the fit of blues blue falling failing that ho he doo demtd ld ed ad to walk it off end and astruck up the wet green valley to the north agil almost immediately the tumbling hills closed in up upon him and I 1 he found A ud afa af himself in a wild of f towering to ri ng hr anra of at dripping vine vice maples and ad ai mya ys ious 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