Show the HEART NIGHT wa WIOT A STORY OF THE GREAT NORTH R 0 eat vingie e EROE zoe X illustrations y j fr jr OY ay pc aveao aa myo acid COP finY SYNOPSIS 5 of 1 daly at III a lumb lumber camp I 1 til tin camp wae waller so introduces a to john n dally foreman BB I 1 the iff imf a it it 1 I lumber art co or 1 1 most t of 1 it 1 he makee Itu lanc wn ih the il ca can P t ard 1 a the work he D has como a orion from the rait to and ad maka boz il lin he writes 1 to him father her that I 1 D he late to get a handful I 1 of I 1 th the wen wealth I 1 in the do uncut umber of the tc arilon I 1 an no he blab bui shili I 1 p D ie to ride ro roa black a bolt tit hla binville Bin lille horse in an he do proves ve to alic foreman in that a he due doea not lack aff k judgment ial S led 1 tells I h him I 1 or of th the lir r he e discovers tre that aft llata ba bears rm III the blen in or of th he sit I 1 tribe of I 1 indians and gondira c 0 whal hot her ur nanie 1 1 in 1 the flush of f a tender at b lie palls i her e r un the tt I nd in llie da plead and k it hr 1 1 poppy p a magazine irit writer frim r ne new arh 1 to dally 1 a 0 to KII monral material f a romi inco of ti the lumber aiole of the no liff yellow w P alnea co I 1 inow 1 I sim a to keep 11 oft 11 a braet t of P 1 he clia cl ia tallo to I 1 anal a sandry mak khinki I 1 he no haa 0 la N on as ill the east at belt it Hajn plen up on a r cabin bl on an in he east at belt urd it note tra r orr fr sandry ca ami fand no written inan evidence or it tit title to tie a ia trat hia men I 1 puh down the he cial cabin jo bandry daiy diy ono comp dreB BD alel and poppy CH CHAPTER APTER X th the fight 1 in th the timber vb when an saud sandry awoke wk next morning ch tha gray day was light alight outside life paul pane and he could he bear the rumble brumbl of bot the dinkey as ait it rocked up from the lower railway by this he be it knew that caw b aft was der and the crews we out at in the hills therefore he got get lot into his him clothes in do double him quick if lime wg swung up to the cook shack washed had in the porch and aap presented led himself with apologies to M ma done siletz came in I 1 in the dusk of the long 1 I room main and ad set at the cup beside him quiet soft footed slim and straight in tier her plain carmenta gar menta she seemed made ad for far service in the unquestioning un question ing service of woman as she waited drum his needs after r the fashion of the prim live in mate ote of nami man she P placed aced a 9 last touch here her old aud there om smiled led at him old and running crossing to th the wool west door snapped aped her ber fingers to the big mongrel and ad stepped out sandre his hand band unconsciously V poised aimed with uh raise raised d spoon watched her he saw her best hasten as she ehe neared the edge of the level 1111 and finally be as if on she an could old no longer hold herself t to th the dern decorum artma of her pace break into night flight running like a d er up P among me the pines with long bounding leaps As she one dus dia appeared r ad he be dropped his hand band and be came manof manit abara Is aia dally daily in ua tha door to the kitchen she too was watching her bar mrs daily he aard suddenly what Is do S gletz ae the old lady turned on him quickly the ale piercing 9 gleam glance of her but sharp I 1 eeb just a girl trl bhe he said aid succinctly actually she turned to her bar me realm and sandry fidfl fie fl rose and went out act in the in mist he climbed steadily with something of if the logger a L this much he be had lean learned ad along with a thousand oth other r things thing of the fir free a life and yet 11 he was me a novice evion johnny eastern till he was thinking deeply as an he climbed lost last in the nah majestic uti silence it of at the he hushed pines pine with the stilling car put of needles caulle at their feet fast bud and it was x minue time par after the first sounds fr from in time u ashead had come to him dimly that he wakened ken ad to in the loud voices of men in quarrel df D f As an it he broke through th the wall et t dripping wit waist high far tero he came ti buil if upon a eight that t stirred als blood and fired his him prath in spite of lie his of ef tort fell to keep colm calm there then in tha go new cutting stood blood Hun hampden inden his face red with to fury his him ile eyes snapping nepi g his dou don bled onto fists aking lot at dally daily who front ed ad him behind the too tao the men man wom were grouped in mena menacing bunches they w were huge fellens tel lOtts every one of we them as aa it if they had been picked par purposely V ly bore bare armed aimed open throated wet with the ran constantly enli Y falling failing beott ft miel those of 1 hampden were wen armed with pikes and V beavlee ct to a in man an and these are deadly weapons daily s crew car ried led 1 axe I a aud and several had coat hack 1 I 1 told your johnny eastern to stay to off ir thle this here lead land tied cried the owner off ot or the yellow pine his him votes voice running up on thelast theIa the last fit word 1 in a squeak of rage on an ir see hosts t he does A an you on an your river hoga that mat ou on pass us as loggers logger rotten outfit ye a are am you 11 got git off an stay off this land balle belongs g a to me by tt right of good money paid 1 an I you tore don down oceel OC onnela home mender s cabin acanto a that hot a 8 ag 9 1 in the law he thrust out his heavy face bel balliger belll liger ger muy antly muting lung insult a first movement of violence lines it 11 came not let treas from dally daily the came going goin tactful foreman who had righted many toppling pling crises but irom from jim A n marthy the curly headed young scapegrace who was the borri ment dent and favorite of ma his daily he none hima himself elf forward with a a whoop rotten often are am we I 1 live clean to tit th heart if and wit with h a lightning pas pass he slapped ilam hampden adan square in the tha to face I leaping ping backward like a cat call in ID ft a 11 haib in the two groups group of men had bad mingled and the lion silent woods rang with a conflict that was fees a 6 delight to am every heart in the with the exception perhaps of hampden nho he 11 was we too small all and ad mean of nature to love anything ig tor far it ita aask own sand baudry on the behold beheld it Z me with ith I 1 consternation intention merl men he be shouted jumping up on a stump H hampden Hamp dea hampden dally Hampden 1 A bore bare arm shot forward into a face which c crumpled and it bank k out of sight eight and the owner of the arm looked up atin at him coma mn off elf your you perch johnnel John he be cried with iab tho the insolence in lence of In differ ence on and even in the excite excitement ment of 0 eche the 0 m moment t the thrust threat went want horns home to the young owner ilia jaw fighte d and he marked the cian one can of th the I 1 mud fallera lem tor far future reckoning how the fight would have ended S sandr ar thinking glutton tt 11 over afterward could never decide they were evenly brenly i matched in intent the two factions I 1 and nearly so BO in numbers though Hamp HP dB dena fund force we was a trdoe the stronger BI blows wo rained mail fast and it furious blood was a flowing freely and the oaths and ad larg laughter htwe had given place to pont pant tug lug at silence ence lo 10 1 ou ad lowdown ebat cheat he be heard daily say may as he be closed with hampden tt a 11 bettle atle m a few things now non there was the scent of heated flesh a a and of warm blood in the close moist metal air and the clump and swish and crunch of heavy boots battle threshing thrashing tit the fern front from under the tramp trampling ll feet but he caught sight of a limp figure drum bruni pled on its side something I 1 in its ghastly stillness caught light at his bis heart and set act a purpose 1 in jr jag her horrified amas he must t stop ahls thing at any dust cost jug alting springing ngin down donn Is be caught aught up a long blacksnake black blar anake kenne whip lying coiled called beside beide a stump it limit had evidently come with the yen yellow pro pines outfit for what purpose he did not know for far there we was not at such on an article anywhere I 1 in camp raising him bis arm he whirled it back to send the long lash singing in among the struggling straggling mass dan when a sound bound coming clearly out a of f the brooding stillness of the great pine woods so ar noted ested him it we was the high silvery note at of I 1 a R huta of shrill till and ad at clear it cut late into the rush of at the tha fight like ilka a hashing flashing blade the men man heard it ft phrot through ch the fight rage go here and there the furious action a halted a moment without volt lion it seemed and ad a man an drew quick ly out on an one side in the moments moment I 1 hush both that followed abole hol round cascade of sparkling park ilg notes fell from the ridge edg ike its a handful of diamonds trickling down and it ajeet eat and it tender came me the in strains of lead kindly light llen caught his him antagonist tag unit by the tha gi throat mat and hurled him b backward iker lith akk iwed opening up a space ff in the I 1 locked no and it panting feeling swelter th the preacher he panted painted the teacher preacher a comin with comm common consent at the two f fac eions a tell fell part apart the yellow pines own or er getting to his feet blind with the un on caring anger nr of the bully g so it was the preacher who waa corn lu ing 9 thus with the herald of shohe th a oil etl ver no notes tea the pr preacher her whose worn old bible lay in the little ittle south room and whose name brought the light of gladness into the somber fees face of sn setz S sandry oil still holding the trailing w whip hip waited expectant what he ha bw be held when at last the player came out in n a watery bar of the slanting 1 ting light astounded him beyond measure th the stranger wore word a garment of so some coarse brown fiber buttoned down train from the throat threat to the feet fast and it halted belted at the waist with hempen rope ie he carried battled his flute high with a mar bial air as tt it it told of victory bud and conquest old and his thin form farm walked tightly and erect 1 bite and line fine and delicately lined the in face above shone on to radiantly fr from but between w heavy hair air which tell fell in lung long loose curls curio white a as the winter snow blue eye eyes s under level evel brows looked out with ath t the he halt vacant I 1 innocence of the very young age for far him the world had stopped some time ago age As AH he emerged through the tern fare sandry zit saw aw that the brown go gar ment nt was wet to the knees the heavy sheea shoe upon his bla feet sodden with earth ali ah john my son out he bald old 1 in a voice led as noun gentle as hla him eyes eye it he has been long since we met I 1 have wearied a on the we way tor far the faces of friends he ha held out a hand slim and chape capo ly IY yet which bore ban the look of one a time strength the foreman took k tt it after wiping bis big own swiftly on it his i toy roya we ben for far you a long time lima he said bald an we xera re mighty glad you yen ve come bourne th the stranger nodded and turning to the shifting lumb lumberjacks lumber at jacks went round among them with a word for each and that same delicate handshake before he reached hampden the owner of the yellow pines straightening his hie dishau aled clothes swung bung out of the group As aa he passed sundry sandry he glared into his hi a loan face stop you before another twenty four he hours lie he bid bald savagely bud and don t you forget it your little dead to the east belt an this his strip happens to have been made by a bogus begun owner anner ft 0 he bo soaked asked old frazer t I tr r a pile on an clear cleared bit it a been filed on as a home lead be an cold old to me an I 1 I 1 II 11 a ayou e you in bell but what get it ft all a j I 1 won a keepin the belt bell as a Burp rlee party for far you but I 1 got guess it do due richt now th the vindictive triumph I 1 la his bla am email 1 eyes was a guard guaranty lAty of his earnest carnett and sandry returned it with a as earnest you ID rid dies di mr me hampden tra lul he do said old coldly idly and I 1 in inclined to think the pummel lug ing john gave you has injured your mortality mentality the preacher reached him as aa the a ther other turn turned it a away w al fol followed loed by his men an who shouldered holide nd their at tell tools and disappeared through the undergrowth to in a shambling file abandoning bond lug the fight f tor r other ma means ns A astringer stranger asked alio tit newcomer bourner wo urner extending I 1 that flat III fine white b hand it I a stranger at the comp camp th tha raw new owner or fth father r volun to red dal dally Y mr me sundry sandry ali ah y yes you are young sir r 1 in the we was of the world I 1 but goda god guides j iff u the teet feet of tho the young it 1 Is a p path th t mia a way say of yo youth th I 1 there them are am md IM butterflies t along it and primrose prim rosea and ad both are BO a easily trod underfoot ali ah so easil I 1 and a little farther along there Is a and shadow ali ah real ne ali ah me what la in the way out H he t turned road troubled blue eyes to the foreman bud and the latter strong old and lumbering aa an ox laid a if light touch feel h upon tit the sacred acted got flute the troubled eyes dropped there thereon aay hy certainly how could I 1 tor fr get and lifting the instrument and life hta silver iver head hand ho he answered his wistful query with the plaintive sweetness of lesus desus lover lever of my soul seat that he gool smiled led Is the way stay out son in case am ou an should lohe lobe you if in uio shadows th tha lonely shadows of dish dishonor rand and sin bin hon he laid his hand band on sandry s arm a and nd slowly the young man a 8 face grew crew it darkly akl y crimson his hia lips twit twitched chud and batur he turned away go donn to camp son all aid the tha preacher to dally daily that there are am those there who are at al way there there was waa a quick sliding of some thing like tear fear in his voice I 1 all there said dally daily kindly as the peculiar arrival turned away he to Is a bit embarrassing at times mr sundry sandry he apologized but bat inno c cent nt and a bit a 0 the god he preaches says he a the father of all things fath fain crises it its the strongest trun gest grip of his trouble the idea that has he a a lath father to everybody an everything that needs 00 y I 1 1 ap 1 answered his wistful query with the PI plaintive IN sweetness h alm ilm P regular lunatic on the point pitiful sometimes frouin in zis his eagerness gone but he a s loved from seattle ew to sn santa n u barbara and know known all il over r t the h coast lets let s go down to the trail said old sandry baldry changing th the subject we e ff 11 rush toe the flork on on an the it double 1 ubie quick put jut on an extra draw crew 1 I m going to take iced heed to that swindler lers s words he meant what he said aid there some thing ang crooked here CHAPTER XI an A unrecorded deed th the a pro preacher I 1 or proved to be the strongest thing in all this strange ca country u nory to sundry sandry as he be watched him in the days day that followed he spoke but seldom and then with a quaint pre elster a beauty of speech suit and thought that amazed the tha nour man from the east but they were old thoughts sandry bentley found at list thoughts formulated in the fire file and add enthusiasm of youth hence still bar burning ing when youth had fled and iga ago had bad blought brought it its empty seeming and it 1 is there that ha be eald aid to himself that bretz letz gets her manner of speech though hough her visions violona ara am ner her 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