or i/w.won«
Butterballs mid scoters pauuiea up «<• ways, wnien itaaway knew tie would ■ ■ to-turiatter
be drew from our van and « ua delated
hts approach. Bits of rotten lee occa be unable to get out that year.
with tbe amount ot the same. Is that
sionally swirled down the diminishing
In spite of tbe Jobber's certainty that
stream. Around every benil Thoris his claim was thus annulled aud that clear?”
“I’erieetly.” replied Thorpe.
looked for some of Radway's crew he might as well abandon the enter
“In return we were to pay him. tm.r
“driving” the log’s down the current. prise entirely for all he would ever get
He knew from chance encounters with out of it, he finished tbe “drive” con cbuutuble seale. $4 a
however, he ialli4 to put In tae »ho*
several of the men In Bay City that scientiously and saved to the company
_
Radway was still in camp, which tbe logs already bank.si. Then lie bad | Jeb the contract was void ’
“That’s how I understand it. com«
meant, of course, that the season’s oper interviewed Daly. Tbe latter refused
By STEWART
merited Thorpe. “Well.'”
ations were not finished. Five miles to pay him one cent.
EDWARD
“Well, be didn't get In the
X>y.
farther Thorpe began to wonder wlieth- , Tlie next day Radway and Thorpe
WHITE
er this last conclusion might not be er walked the ten miles of tbe river trail There's a million aud a half hung up -n
weight on the stock. He hoped in this roneous. The Cass branch had shrunk together, while tbe teamsters aud the the woods.”
Copyright, 1902, by Sni»urf Edtuard XDhit*
manner to check correspondingly the en almost to Its original limits. Tha cook drove down the five teams. T’n
“But you have in your hands three
ascent of bis end. In other words, he drive must have been finished even this der the influence of tbe solitude and a million aud a half, which under tbe
took the place on his side of the pre early, for the stream in its present con certain sympathy which Thorpe mani I present arrangement you get free ot
venting silver, so equalizing the pres- dition would hardly float saw logs.
| fested Radway talked—a very little.
any charge whatever.”
f lour team» <*.nl ine six men creakeo sure and forcing the timber to Its prop
Thorpe, puzzled, walked on. At tlw
“And we ought to get It,” cried Daly.
"I got behind; that's all there is to .
CH AI>T£K VII.
back and forth spilling hardly gath er position, instead of rolling the log bunking ground he found empty skid«.
“Great guns! Here we intend to saw
IADWAY returned to camp by th< ered water. Then they crept in and slid. The stock of the cunt hook was Evidently the drive wus over. And yet it,” he said. “I bit off more than I ;
this summer and quit. We want to
(ith of January. He went on ate sleepily the food that u sleepy Jerked from bis bauds. He fell back, even to Thorpe's ignorance it seemed could chew.”
Thorpe noticed a break in the man’s get In every stick ot timber we owu
snowshoes over the entire Joi coukee set out for them.
and the cant book, after clinging for incredible that the remaining milli«» voiee and. glancing suddenly toward ' so as to be able to clear out ot here
By morning the mere surface of the a moment to tbe rough bark, snapped
I and then sat silently in the of
and a half of logs had been hauled, him, was astounded to catch his eyes, tor good and ull at the close of tbe
lice smoking. The jobber looked older. sprinkled water had frozen. Railway down and hit him a crushing blow on banked and drhen during the short
brimming with tears. Rudway per season, and now this condigned jobber
looked
in
despair
at
the
sky.
Dimly
The lines of dry good humor aliout hie
the top of tlie bead.
time he had lain In the Bay City hos ceived tbe surprise.
ties us up for a million and a half."
eyes bad subtly changed to an expr<*K through the gray he caught tbe tint of
They took Thorpe up and carried him plial. More to solve tlie problem than
"It is exceedingly annoying,” con-
“You know when I left Christmas?”
•ion of pathetic anxiety. He attache/’ blue.
In. Just as they had carried Hank Paul 1 i afiy hope of work he set out for tbe be asked.
l tied Thorpe, "aud it Is a good deal
The sun came out. Nuthatches and before. Men who had not spoken a
Ao blame to anybody, but rose the next
b-.-ging road.
if Rad way's fault, I am willing to ad
“Yes.”
morning at horn blow, and the men woodpeckers ran gayly up the warm dozen words to him in us many days /Another three miles brought hkn to'
“The boys thought It was a mighty 1 mit. but it’s your fault too.”
,
found that they had a new master over ing trunks of the trees; blue Jays fluff gathered his few belongings anil stuff-1 camp. It looked strangely wet and
"To be sure.” replied Duly, with the
yoor rig—my leaving that way."
ed and perked and screamed in the e«l them awkwardly into his satchel.
them.
He puused again in evident expects- ' accent of sarcasm.
sodden aud deserted. In fact, Thorpe
Now It became necessary to put the hardwood tops; a covey of grouse ven Jackson Hines prepared tile bed of found a bare half dozen people In it— tion of a reply. Again Thorpe was si
“You liad no business entering Into
roads In shape for hauling. All winter tured from the swamp and strutted straw and warm blankets In tlie bot Radway, the cook and four men who
tny such contract. It gave him no
lent
of
contemplation
be-
vainly,
a
pause
the blacksmith had occupied his time in
tom of the sleigh that was to take him were helping to pack up the movables.
thow.”
"Didn't they Radway Insisted,
fitting the iron work on eight log tween each step, Kadway, walking out out.
The Jobber showed strong traces ot
"I suppose that was mainly his look
“Yes, they did.” answered Tliorpe.
road
of
the
marsh.
on
the
tramped
sleighs which the carpenter had hewed
“He would have made a good boss/* the strain he had undergone, but greet-. The older man sighed. "I thought out, wasn't it? And, as I already told
from solid sticks of timber. They were cracked the artificial skin and thrust said tlie old fellow. “He’s a hard mau <-d Thorpe almost jovially.
he went on. “Well, I didn’t go to y«u, we bad to protect ourselves.”
tremendous affairs, with runners six his foot through into Icy water, That to nick.”
“You should have demanded security
"Hello, yomig man!" he shouted at spend Christmas. I went because Jlm-
f<*et apart and bunks nine feet in width night the sprinklers stayed in.
Thorpe's mud splashed figure. “Come my brought me a telegram that Lida for the completion of the work. Under
The devil seemed in it. Mmi were
for the reception of logs.
CHAPTER VIII.
back to view the remains? All well was sick with diphtheria. I sat up your present agreement, if Radway
The carpenter had also built two lin lying idle; teams were doing the same.
EN Thorpe finally cam“ to again, heigh? That's good!”
'
Lplghts with her for eleven days.”
got In the timber, you were to pay him
mensc tanks on runners, holding each Nothing went on but the days of the
himself he wa>$ in a long,
"I didn't know you were through," i " ••><> bad after effects, I hope?” iu- a fair price. If he didn't, you appro
some seventy barrels of water and with year, and four of them had already
bright, clean room, and the explained Thorp»-, “and I came to see qulri-d Thorpe,
priated everything he had already
holos so arranged that on the with ticked off (lie calendar. The deep snow
sunset was throwing splashes if I could get a jo!».”
I ‘‘¡She died," said Radway simply.
done. In other words, you made him
of
the
unu.
Lilly
cold
autumn
had
now
drawal of plugs the water would Hood
of light on the ceiling over his head,
“Well, now, I am sorry!” cried Rad-,
a bet.”
the
disappeared
from
the
tops
of
the entire width of the road. The
He watched them idly for a time. way. “You » an turn l:t and help, I
“I don't care what you call it,” a
CHAPTER IX.
sprinklers were tilled by horse power. slumps. It even stopped freezing dur then turned on his pillow, At once be
though, if you want to.”
ADWAY,” said he suddenly. awered Daly, who bad rd ivered L. ;
A chain running through blocks at ing the night. At times Dyer’s little perceived a long, double row ’of clean
Thorpe grt-eted the cook tpul ol»l Jack-,
de
"1 need money, and I need it i good humor in contomplati.- a of the
tacbed to a solid upp r framework, thermometer marked as high as
white painted iron beds, on which lay son llines, tlie only two whom ho i
bad. I think you ought to cnrlty ot Ills position. “The fact sta
like the open belfry of an Italian mon grees.
“I often hoard this was a sort ’v or sat figures of men. Other figures of knew, aud set to work to tie up bun-1
get something out of this job all right.”
astery. dragged a barrel up a wooden
women glided here and there noiseless- dies of blankets and to collect axes,
“It does,” said Thorpe unexpectedly,
of the M. & D.—not much, but some
track from a water hole to an opening summer resort,” observed Tom Broad ly. They wore long, spreading dove
pcavies and tools of all descriptions thing. Will you give me a share of “and I'rn glad of it. Now, let's examine
In tbe sprinkler. When In action this head, “but hanged if I know it was a gray clothes, with a starched whit 1
That evening tin- seven dined together
a few figures. You owned 5,000,Wi-3
formidable machine weighed nearly summer resort ail the year round!”
their shoulders nt one end of th“ long table. The biç what I can collect from them?”
By and by it got to be a case of look kerchief drawn over
"Sure!” agreed the jobber readily, feet of timber, which at the price ot
two tons and resembled a moving I
Their heads room exhaled already the atmosphere
and
across
the
breast,
with a laugh. "Sure! But-you won't stumpage” (standing trees) “was worth
house. Other men had felled two big! ing on the bright side of the affair were quaintly wliile-garbed in stiff
of desertion.
get anything. I’ll give you 10 per cent §10,000.”
hemlocks, from which they had hewed , from pure reaction.
winglike
coifs,
fitting
close
about
tlie
“Not much like old times, is she?”
“Well?”
“I don’t knew,” said Rad way; “It
beams for a V plow.
oval of the face. Then Thorpe siglibd laughed Radway. "Can’t you Just shut quick!”
“You come out at the end of the sea
"Good enough!” cried Thorpe. "Now,
The V plow was now put in action. won’t lie so bad, after all. A couple of comfortably ami closed I.is eyes and
your eyes and lienr Baptiste say. •Mak’ when we get to town I want your pow son with three million and a half of
Six horses drew it down the road, eachj days of zero weather, with all this wa blessed tlie chance that lie had bought
lieetn de soup one tain more for me?" er of attorney and a few figures, after saw logs, which with tlie §4 worth ot
pair superintended by a driver, 'ib. ter lying around, would fix things up a hospital ticket of the agent who had
She’s pretty empty nonv.”
logging added are worth $21,000.”
If she oriFy
which I will not bother you again.”
machine was weighted down by a num in pretty good shape.
visited camp the month before. For
Jackson Hines looked whimsically
"Hold on!” cried Daly. “We paid
The next day the young man call“'!
ber of logs laid across the arms. Men freezes tight we’ll have a good solid these were sisters, and the young mau
down the bare board. “More room for the second time at the little red Railway $.4. We could have done it
guided It by levers and by throwing bottom to build on.”
i
lay
in
tlie
hospital
of
St.
Mary.
than
God
made
for
geese
in
Irelami,
”
The inscrutable goddess of the wil
painted office under the sumlow of the ourselves for less."
their weight against the fans of tbe
Like a great many other charities
"You could hot have done it for one
plow. It was a gay, animated scene, derness smiled and calmly, relentlessly, built on a common sense, self support was his comment.
miil nnd for the second tit:., stood be
After suppi r they sat outside for a fore the bulky power of t!u junior cent less than four-twenty in that cotin-
this, full of tlie spirit of winter the moved her next pawn.
ing,
rational
basis,
tlie
woods
hospitals
little time to smoke their pipes, chair member ot the 11. tn.
tty.” replied Thorpe, “us an expert will
It was all so unutterably simple and
plodding, straining horses, the brilliant
tilted against the logs of tin cabins,
“Well, yourg t:wl.at <aa I do for testify."
ly dressed, struggling men. the sullen yet so effective. It snowed.
but soon tin- »hill of melting snow you?” asked the latter.
All night and all day the great Hakes
“Why did we give It to Radway at
yielding snow thrown to either side,
drove them indoors. The four tean.-
the shouts, warnings and commands. zigzagged softly down through the air.
“I have been Info:ir.c<!."
1 Thoi-pe tour then?”
stors
played
seven
up
in
the
cook
camp
"You saved the expense of a salaried
without prellr.u.i.iry, "tisi: ... i intend
To right and left grew white banks of Radway plowed away two feet of it.
by the light of a barn lantern, while to pay John il..¿way nothin,, for the overseer and yourselves some bother,”
snow. Behind stretched a broad white •’hi* surface was promptly covered by
Thorp»-
¡iivl
the
cook
wrote
loiters.
path in which a scant inch hid tlie bare a second storm. Rad way doggedly
work done in the Cass branch this replied Thorpe. “Radway could do it
Thorpe's was to Ills sister.
plowed it out again.
for less because, for some strange rea
earth.
winter. Is that true?”
“I have boon in tl-.e hospital for
This time the goddess seemed to re
Daly studied his antagonist medita son which you yourself do not under-
For some distance the way led along
about a mouth,” he wrote. "Nothing tively. “If it Is true what is it to stiRid, a jobber can always log for less
comparatively high ground.
'Then, lent. The ground froze solid. The
serious—a crack on the head, which is you?" lie asked at length.
than a company.”
skirting the edge of a lake, it plunged sprinklers became assiduous in their
all right now. But I cannot get home
"Wo could have done it for four,” In
“I am acting hi Mr. Radway's inter-,
Into a deep creek bottom l»< tween hills. labor. Two days later the road was
this summer, nor, I am afraid, can we est”
sisted Daly stubbornly. “But get on..
Here earlier in tin* year eleven bridges ready for the first sleigh, its surface
arrange about tlx- school tills year. I
\\ bat are you driving at? My time's
"You are one of Radway's men;”
bad been constructed, and perhaps as of thick, glassy lee beautiful to
am about $70 ahead of where I was, “Yes.”
valuable.”
many swampy places had been "cor hold, the ruts cut deep and true,
last fall, so you ace It is slow business. ( “In what capacity have you been
glades
sanded
or
sprinkled
with
“Well, put her at four, then,” agreed
duroyed” by cariwiing them with long
This summer I am going into a mill, working for him?”
Thorpe. "That makes your saw logs
parallel poles, Now the first difiicuity i tarding hay on the descents. At
but
tlH-
w..
"<
for
green
labor
are
not
river the banking ground proved solid.
“Cant hook man," replied Thorpe worth over $2n.i . n. Of this value Had
began.
very high there either,” and so on.
briefly.
way added $13.000. You have appro-
Some of the bridges had sunk below Radway breathed again, then sighed.
When
Miss
Helen
Thorpe,
aged
sev
“I see,” said Daly slowly. Then sud printed tb.it much of his wit bout pay-
the level, and the approaches had to Spring was eight days nearer, lie was
enteen.
received
this
document
she
denly. with an intensity of energy that lug him one cent.”
be “(’orduroyed’’ to a p ( .¡cable grade. eight days more behind.
stamped her foot almost angrily, startled Thorpe, he cried: "Now, you
As soon as .loading began the cook
Daly seemed amused. ‘•How alxtut
Others again were lmmpcd up like tom
“You'd think la- was a day laborer!”
get out of here! Right off! Qtiie!:!”
the million and a half feet of ours he
cats and had to be pulled apart en served breakfast at 3 o’clock, The men
she cried. "Why doesn't he try for a
worked by Jie light of torches, which
The young man recognized the com appropriated?” he ashed quietly.
tirely.
clerkship or something in tlie city
were often merely catchup jugs with
pelling and autocratic boss addressing
“I'm coming to that. Now for your
Still that sort of thin;- was to be ex
when- he'd have a chance to use his a member of the crew.
wlcklng
in
the
necks.
Nothing
could
the stumpage rate your
pectisl. A gang of men who followed
brains?”
be more pictun'sque than a teamster
I i “I shall do nothing el’ tlie kind!” he million and a half which Radway 'ap-
the plow carried axes and cant hooks
And
thus
she
came
to
feeling
rebel-
conducting one of his great pyramid-
replied, with a flush of tire.
pre.priated' would be only three tliou-
Tor the purpose of repairing extern
llously that her brother l..-il been a llt-
. 1 I >. ds over tbe little inequalities of
I The mill owner leaped to Ills feet. sand, But tor tile sake of argument
porancously Just such defects which
tl<-
sellish
in
his
choice
of
an
occupa
the road, bi the ticklish places stand
, TImrpe did not wish to bring aLout an w il take the actual sum you'd have
never would have» been discovered otli-
tion; th.it bo hail sacrificed her Inclina I actual scene of violence, lie had at
Ing atop w ..h the bent knee of the Ro
received for saw logs, Even tir u the
erwise than by the practical expert
tions
to
his
own.
man cl.:*.rioic« r, spying end forestall
tained his object, which wtfs to fluster million and a half would only have
vnee.
lladway himself accompanied
After finishing the letter Thorpe lit tlie other.
Loen worth between eight and nine
the plow. Thorpe, who went along as ing the chances of the way with a fixed
liis pipe and strolled out into tlie dark
eye and an intense concentration that
' I have Railway’s power of attor thousand. Dedueting
sec, sold I horiie
1
this purely theo-
one of tin* “road monkeys.” <nv now
ness. Opposite tlie little office be ney.” be lldd.'d,
relaxed not one inch in the miles of
reiical loss Rttdway has occasioned
Why such care had been required of
the haul. Thorpe had become a full are under the Roman Catholic church. stopped amazed.
Daly sat down, controlloel himself y. .1 from t .: a..mv.:it be has gained
him in smoothing tin* way of stubs,
From one of the numerous agents who
Through the narrow window he could
Hedged cant hook man.
.11 some lour or live
knots and hummocks.
periodically visit the* camps the lum so»» Radway seated in front of the with an effort and growled out, "Why tor you. you are
He
likt'd
the
work.
There
Is
about
It
thousand ahead < f tl;e game,
When the road had been partly
or tlmt
ber jack purchases 'for $s a ticket stove. He had sunk down into his didn't you say so?”
“Now, 1 would like to know your po- you paid him nothing.”
cleaned Radway startl'd one of his a skill th.’it fascinates. A man grips which admits him at any time during
chair
until
he
rested
on
almost
the sltion,” went on Thorpe. "I am not
“That's Railway's lookout.”
sprinklers. Water holes of suitable suddenly with the hook of his strong the year to the hospital, where he is
small of bis back, liis legs were stuck here to make trouble, but as an asso
“In justice you should pay him that
size had been blown in the creek bank Instrument, stopping one end that the privilemsl to remain free of further
straight out in front of him, liis chin ciate- of Mr. Radway 1 have a right to
amount. He is a poor man. He has
by dynamite. There the machines other may slide. He thrusts the short, charge until < ouvalisecnt. So valuable
n sted on his breast, and his two arms understand tlie case. Of course 1 have
strong
stock
between
the
log
and
the
sunk all he owned in this venture.
were filled. Stratton attached his horse
are these institutions and so excellent hung listless at his side, a pipe half
his side of tlie story.” he suggested, as some §12,000. and he has nothing to
to the chain and drove him back and skid, allowing it to be overrun. He ly are they maintained by tlie sisters
falH—t from the lingers of on»» hand though convinced that a detailing of
stops
the
roll
with
a
sudden
sure
grasp
forth, hauling the barrel up and down
live on. Even if you pay him five thou
that a hospital agent is always ••• 1 All the facetious lines had turned to
the other side- might change his views. sand. he has lost considerable, while
the slide way. At tin» bottom it was applied at Just the right moment to be come even in those camps from which pathos.
effective.
Sometimes
he
allows
himself
Daly considered carefully, fixing his you have gained.”
capsi’/j'd and tilh'd by means of a long
ordiuary peddlers and Insurance men
"What's the matter with Ilio boss, filnt blue eyes unswervingly on
pole shackled to its bottom and manip to be carried up bodily, clinging to the are rigidly excluded.
“How have we gained by this bit of
anyway?"
askud
Thorpe
in
a
low
voice
ulated by old man Heath. At the top cant hook like an acrobat to a bar, un
In one of these hospitals Thorpe lay ot Jackson Hines when the seven up Thorpe's face. Evidently bls scrutiny philanthropy?”
til
tin»
log
has
rolled
once,
when,
bis
udviseel
him
that
the
young
man
was
it turned over by its own weight. Thus
“Because you originally paid in cash
weapon loosened, he drops lightly, eas for six weeks suffering from a severe game was finished.
a force to be reckoned with.
•cventy odd times.
for all that timber on me stump just
concussion of the brain. At the end of
“
Haln
’
t
ye
heard?
”
inquired
the
old
ily
to
the
ground.
And
it
is
exciting
to
“
It
’
s
like
this.
”
he
said
abruptly;
Then Fred Green hitched his tenm
$10.000. and yon get from Radway raw
the fourth his fever had broken, but man in surprise.
“we contractcel last fall with this man logs to the value of §20.000,” replied
on and the four horses drew the creak pile the logs on the sleigh, first a layer he was pronounced as yet too weak to
i
"Why. no. What?”
of
five,
say;
then
one
of
four
smaller,
of
Radway to put in 5.000,000 feet of our Thorpe sharply. "Besides, you still
ing, cumbrous vehicle spouting down
be moved.
"Busted.” said the old mon sonten-
the road. Water gushed In fans from but three, of two. until at the very
own the million am! a half which, if
The roofs were covered with snow. tiously.
apex
tbe
hist
is
dragged
slowly
up
the
H
the openings on either side and beneath
yon do not care to put them in your
One day Thorpe saw it sink Into itself
“
How?
Whnt
do
yon
mean?
”
and in streams from two holes behind skids, poised and just as it is al>out to and gradually run away. The tinkle
self. you can sei! for something on the
"What I say. He's busted. That
Not for an Instant as long as tbe flow plunge down the other side is gripped tinkle tank tank of drops sounded from
skids.”
continued dared the teamsters breathe and held Inexorably by the little meu his own eaves. Down the faroff river freshet caught him too quick. They'»
“Don’t yon know, yov.rfg man. that
more than a million and a half logs
their horses, for a pause would freeze . i blue tlanuel shirts.
sluggish reaches of ice drifted. Then left in the woods that can't be got out
white pine logs on skids will spoil ut
(•
‘
♦».lins
bind
the
loads.
And
If
ever
the runners tight to the ground, A
Iti a night the blue disappeared from
terly in a summer? Worms get into
tongue at either end obviated tin* tu> during the loading or afterward when the stream. It became a menacing this year, and as his contract calls for
’rm.’*
a
finished
Job
he
don't
got
nothin'
for
sleigh
is
in
motion
the
weight
of
cessity of turning around,
gray, and even from his distance whnt he's done.”
CONTINUED
That' night It turned warmer. The the ku.s causes the pyramid to break Thorpe could catch the swirl of its ris
"That's n queer rig." enmmented
do.vn
and
squash
out,
then
woe
to
tlie
. -i
rhange was heralded by a shift of
ing waters. A day or two later dark Thorp«>. “He's done a lot of valuable
driver or w'.’oever happens to be near. masses drifted or shot across the Held
wind.
Book Learning.
work here. Tlu- timber's cut and skid-
“She’s goln* to mln,” said old Jack 1 i r tb.ls ii’ - .a the loaders are pieke«l of his vision, and twice he thought lie
».
d»sl anyway, and he's delivered a good
and careful men.
•on. “The air Is kind o’ holler.”
distinguish»-«! men standing upright
At th' I :i”kiug grounds, which lie In and liold on single logs as they rushed deal of it to the main drive. The M.
“Hollow?” said Thoris', laughing
t. '
Jt D. outfit get all the advantage of
z
and
about
the
bed
of
the
river,
the
logs
Ki
•‘How is that?”
down the current.
that.”
I
aiv
piled
into
a
gigantic
skidway
to
“I don* know*,” eon fessed Hines, “but
“What is the date?” he asked of tlie
"They do. my son. When ok! Daly's
- X. v. • !i
await the snrlnv f
•he is. She Just feels that way."
slater.
//
hand gets near anything It cramps. I
vain to the •!»«
In the morn ng the icicles dripped
“The elevent' of March.”
I
don’t know how the old man <xvne to
tiny r« luain
from tin roof. and the snow became
“Isn't It early for the thaw?“
make such a contrac'. but be did. Re
A
/
pock marl cd on the surface.
“Listen to
aimed tbe sister
*
sult is lie's out bis expenses and time.”
num wi
iW
Radwa. ■ was down looking at the
delightedly.
is it. Sure th’
Th»- exceptionally early break up of
¡i
t l»a<lw:
»
I
•n. 1 1
Pond.
freshet co’t
look. darllnt;
th«» spring, «-otnbined with tlie fnct
» •> ■
* a mista
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ye can
“She’s
h<
I he at
e fvvvri
• T s»s
When that owing to the series of incidents
*but thei
nv
inert'
anti a-vldonts alreaily sketched the ac
no'
» ■ »! th
I
can I i
water o»
tual cutting an»l ski.bl'ng had fallen so
\v
“Not
far la hitul. caught Radway unawares.
ter dec
X o
nwid
H»- saw the rollways breaking out
At tt
I
ivr
I
wet
d* corps Awoke
1
m
Us-:
gts-dbv to his attendant. He took two while his teams were still hauling In
the
woods.
In
order
to
deliver
to
th'
b
t
a their tasks wl
r.a
K
■i. on
day« of tramping tbe little town to re
:
tv
••• than nn hour's
..1
gain the use of liis logs and tioarded mouth of th»- C:i'< branch the " ooo.iw
sold •neh of tlie twenty-four, t
the mcmine train for It. -on Lake. He already banked he was force»! to drop
Newedde— These biscuits are aw-
TV mitt owner Icaptd tr hi« fm.
R.i-lw ay
.ng irr in repulsing ass.-.ults of ti e gnat en did net pause In the village, but bent everything els«' and atten«! strictly to
ful.
til»'
drive.
This
loft
still,
ns
has
b«s-n
emy
whom
they
p
.
-jollied
lindel
the
lull a gel ut L
w II.”
hi« stops to the river trail.
timl ■ r. »lelivered to the main drive at
Mrs. Newedde—Impossible. Why. tbe
Aulii - V.
. ng th« generic “Si » -
He followed tbe trail by the river «tated, a million and a half ou skid- th* mouth of the Cass branch. In tut, recipe says they are excellent - S ub
lie w . ls to act independently., except u4 itnaelsco Examiner.
Trait •>
One morning in February ’I’horp«
was helping load a big butt log. lift
was one of the two men who stand at
either end of the skids to help the as
cending log keep straight and true to
its bed on the pile. Ills assistant’s
end caught on a sliver, ground for a
second and slipped back. Then the
b g ran slanting across th“ skids in
stead of perpendicular to them, To
rectify the fault Thorpe dug his cant
<
book into the timber and threw Lis
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Tib
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