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TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT,
Prologue.
If on« can Juot Ite close enough to the
breast of the wlMernesa. he
but be imbued with some
t
palmo therein.—From a f r .
lriar>
of
mere was a bench beneatn Ute tree.
If there had not been, the life of Den
Falling would have been entirely dif
ferent. If the squirrel had been on
any other tree. If he hadn't been
hungry. If any oce of a dozen other
things hadn’t been as they were. Dan
Falling would have never gone back
to the land of bl* people, The Hale
bushy-tailed fellow on the tree limb
waa the squirrel of Destiny!
Tears before, that he n«-eW glasses:
and she had easily found an oculist
that agreed with her.
Now that he was alone on the path,
the utter absence of color In his
cheeks was startling. That meant the
absence of red—that warm glow of
the blood eager and alive in bls
veins, perhaps an observer would
have noticed lean bands, with big-
knuckled fingers, a rather firm mouth,
and closely cropped dark hair. He
was twenty-nine years of age. but be
looked somewhat older. He know now
that he was never going to be any
older. A doctor as sure of himself as
the one he had just consulted couldn't
pok'ibly be mistaken.
He sat down on a park bench, just
beneath the spreading tunb of a great
tree. He would «It here, he thought,
until he finally decided what he would
do with bls remaining six months.
He hadn't been able to go to war.
The recruiting -Ulcer had been very
kind but most determined. The boys
had brought him great tales of France.
It might be nice to go to France and
live In some country Inn until he died.
But be didn't have very long to think
upon this vein. For at that Instant
the squirrel came down to see If he bad
a nut.
It was the squirrel of Destiny. But
Dan didn't know It then.
Bushy-tall was not particularly
afraid of the human beings that
passed un and down the park, because
he had learne«! by experience that they
o«ual:v attempted no harm to him.
But. nevertheless, be hnd bls Instin-us.
He d n't entirely trust them. After
«everal generation*, probably the
•qulrrels of this perk would dlmh all
rer its visitors and sniff In their ears
•nd investigate the back of their
necks. But this wasn't the way of
Bushy-tall. He hnd come too recent
ly from the wild p aces. And he wun-
.“red. most int«- -ely. whether this
rail, forked creature bad a pocket full
of nuts.
He swung down on the
grass to see.
"Why, you little devil!” Dan said
whisper
His -yes suddenly
tn* wu«i rntng*.
The squirrel «.-rep« slowly along th*
bmeb. stopping to sniff, stopping to
•rare with «me eye and suether. just
devoore«! from bead to rail with curi
osity, And then be leaped on Dan’«
knew.
He «as quite convinced, by now.
that this warm perch on which be
Stood was the tn««st singular 1 and In
terestin
>jec? of bls young life. It
was trie that be as faintly worried
by the «reel! that reached his nostrils,
Bnt all It really did was furthi ¡er to In-
die bls curiosity. He followed the
¡«•g up to the bip anti then perched on
the elbow. And an Instant more he
was poking a cold nose Into Dan’«
neck.
But If the squirrel was excited by
all these developments. Its amazement
was nothing compared to Dan's. It
had been the most astounding Inci
dent In the man's life. He sat still,
tingling with delight. And In a single
flash of Inspiration be knew be bad
come among bls own people at last. He
knew where be would spend bls last
six months of life.
His own grandfather bad been a
hunter and trapper and frontiersman
In a certain vast but little known Ore-
gon forest, His son bad moved to the
eastern cities, but in Dan's garret
there used to be old mementoes and
carlo« from these savage days—a few
claws and teeth, and a fragment of an
oid diary. Th«« '-all bad come to him
at last. Tenderfoot though he was
Dan would go back to th-se forests,
to spend his last «fix months of life
among the wtl«i creatures that made
•hem tbelr horn’-.
Long ago. wb«»tj the great city of
Gttcheapolls was a rather small, un
tidy hamlet in the middle of a plain.
It used to be that a pool of water,
possibly two hundred feet «quare.
BOOK ONE
gathered every spring Immediately
back of the courthouse, The «now
falls thick and heavy In GRebeapolls
Repatriation.
In winter; and the pond was nothing
more than snow water that the r.- ffi-
cient drainage system of the city did
not quite absorb. Besides being the
Dan F’
.- «t«-; •■**d out of tbe ele
despair of the plumbers and the rity vator .-«lel Was at --oce a
-orbed in
CHAPTER II
engineer, It was a severe stre n i on tlw eynwd thnt ever sum
1 up and
the beauty-loving Instincts of •- « rry «tow n |:n*:«l street.
He
just on»
The dinner hour fo«in«l Dan Failing
Inhabitant In the town who had any »f the ..r«l-•
i drop« of wat«r, not
in the public library of G!teheepoli*
such Instincts. It was muddy an«l rn n-te •■«■' ng «•’¡4- rate, physlral and
asking the g;rl win«’«mt t-ehlm! th-
murky and generally distasteful
I'”“ ”uk-.l
omh’nation to he «tudl«*!
l«-k if he ml-h« look at maps of Ore-
A little boy played at the e-’.-e of f »»*» the s’ide of a microscope. He
g«’o. He rem-■ here«! tL.-t his grand
the water, tills spring day of Ion.- .-
«•„re fai v p-i«« t’le cloth#-«, neither
foil er Lad lire «n st-utli-.-m Oregon
Except for bls Interest In the j
‘ t I1 r!< h nor 'labby. He was a tall man.
'I-- <>. k.-«J nlo' e 'lie Lotto-! if h -mat
would Lave been scarcely worth while £ gave oo impression of strength
-•ti-1 dis«-,ter«- ! u whi le e-ipire. rung
to go to the trout,le of explaining ■ -t
SU«’- of the exce«*llng st-arene«» of
•i • from glgi-u’ c sag • p - ns to th'
ft contained no fish. Be. however , 111« frame. As long as he remained
• t to «1-ns- forests a --ng the Fa
bitterly regrett«*! the fact. In truth, in the crowd, he wasn’t Important
■ific o"et-n. Ee began to search f
he sometime« like«! to believe that It enough to he studied. But soon he
L’nl- Hie.
did contain fish, very sleepy fish that turned off. through the park, an«]
Time was when Linkville was on
never made a ripple, and as he bad an straightway r found himself alone.
of tlie*principal town« of Oregon. Dt-a
uncommon Imagination he was some
The nols nnd hustle of the crowd—
remember«*] the place because some
times able to convince himself that
■ -never loud or startling, but so contin-
of the time-yellowed letters his gram!-
this was so. Bnt he never took book
uous that the senses are scarcely
father 1«.id sent him h I been ma:!—’
and line and played at fishing. He
more aware of them than of the beat
at a town that bore 'his name. But
wax too much afraid of the laughter
Ing of one's own heart—suddenly and
he couldn’t find Linkville or> the m»r>
of hit boy friends. Ilfs mother prob
utterly died almost at the very border
ably wouldn’t object If he fished here,
of the park, The noise from the
he thought, particularly If he were
Later he was to know the reason—
street seemed wholly unable to pene
careful not to g«C hl« shoes covered
that the town, half-way between the
trate the thick branches of the trees.
with mud. But she wouldn’t let him
«age plains and the mountains, had
He could even h«-ar the leaves whisk
go down to Gitcheapollx creek to fish
prospered and changed its name.- He
ing and flicking together, and when a
with the other boys for mud cat. He
remembered that it was located on
man can discern this, he can hear the
wax not very strong, she thought, and
one of those great fresh-water lakes
cushions of a mountain lion on a trail
it was a rough sport anyway, and be
of southern Oregon: so. giving up that
at nlgbL Of course Dan Falling had
side«—«he didn’t think he wanted to
sea re a, tie began to took for lakes. Hr
never heard a mountain lion. Except
go very badly. As mothers are usual
found them In plenty—vast, unmoas
on the railroad tracks between, he
ly particularly understanding, this
had never really been away from
was a curious thing.
ured lakes that, seemed to be dls’rlb-
cities In his life.
uted without reason or sense over the
The truth was that little Dan Fall
At once his thought went back to
whole southern end of the state. Near
ing wanted to fish almost as much as
the doctor’s words. They were still
the Klamath lakes, seemingly the
he wanted to live. He would dream
repeating themselves over and over
most Imposing of all the fr«c>h-water
abont ft of nights. His blood would
In his ears, and the doctor's face was
lakes that the map revealed, he found
glow with the thought of ft In the
still before his eyes. It had been a
a city named K!amath Falls. He put
springtime. Women the world over
kind face; the lips had even curled In
the name down In his notebook.
will have a hard time believing what
a little smlh- of encouragement But
The map showed a particularly
an Intense, heart-devouring passion
the doctor had heen perfectly frank,
high, far-spn-aditg range of moun
the love of the chase can be, whether
entirely straightforward. There had
tains due west of the city. Of «tourse
It Is for fishing or hunting or merely
been no evasion In his verdict
knocking golf balls Into a little hole
they were the Cascades: the map said
'Tve made every test," he said
upon a green. Sometimes they don’t
so very plainly. Then Dan knew tie
remember that this Instinct Is Just ns “They're pretty well shot Of course
was getting home. His grandfather
■much a part of most men. and thus you cun go to some sanitarium, L
had lived an«] trapped and died in
Why, You Little Devil!” Dan
you
’
ve
got
the
money.
If
you
haven't
most boys, as their hands or their
these same wooded hills. Finally he
in a Whisper.
lips. It was acquired by just ns la —enjoy yourself all you can for about
located and recorde«l the name of the
•sparkled with delight. And he forgot largest city on the main railr«>ad Hue
borious a process—the Ilves of un six months.”
Dan's voice had been perfectly cool nil about the doctor’s words nn* h-e thnt was adjacent to the Cascade«.
counted thousands of ancestors who
and sure when he replied. He had own [«ro-pects m his bitter regret«
fished and hunted for s living.
The pn-paratlon for his departun
It wns true thnt little Dan didn't smiled a little, too. He was still rath that he had not brought a -pocketful took many days. He read many books
I ok the part. Even then ho showed er proud of that smile. “Six months? of nuts.
on fl-'ra and f.i'tna. He bought si«ort-
signs of physical frailty, Ills eyes Isn’t that rather short?”
And then Dnn did a curious thing. fng equipmenL Knowing the usna!
“Maybe a whole lot shorter. I think Even Inter, be didn’t know why he «11'1 ratio t-etween the respective pleasures
looked rather large, and his cheeks
were not the color of fresh sirloin, ax that's the limit.”
it. or what gave him the Idea that he of anticipation and realization, he did
There was the situation: Dan Fall eooid decoy th«- squirrel up to him by not hurry himself at all. And one
they should have been. In fact, one
would have ' -«d to look very hard to ing hnd but six months to live. He doing it. That was his only piirpox«»— midnight he boarded a west-bound
xee any co .
o them nt all. These began to wonder whether his mother just to see how close the squirrel train.
facts are In -•••sting from the light had been entirely wise In her effort to would come to him. He thought he
He sat for a long time In the vesti
they throw upon the next glimpse of keep him from the “rough games” of would like to look Into the bright ey< - bule of the sleeping car, thinking In
it.e hoys of bls own age. He realized at close range All he did was sud anticipation of this final adventure of
Dnn, fully twenty years later.
Except for the fact thnt It was the now that he hnd been an underweight denly to freexc into one position—In his life. He was rather tremulous and
background for the <-nrll«-st picture of all hla life—that the frailty that had an Instant rendered as motlonle«« a« exultant as be sank down Into bis
little Dnn, the pool hnrk of the conrt- thrust him to the edge of the grave the rather questionahl««-looklng stone berth.
house has very little Importance In hnd begun In bls earliest boyhood. But stork that was perched on the foun
He saw to It that at least a meas
hln story. It did. however, afford an it wasn't that he was born with phy tain.
ure of preparation was made for his
Illustration to him of one of the real sical handicaps. He had weighed a
The squirrel was very close to him. coming. That night a long wire went
ly astonishing truths of life. He saw full ton pounds; and the doctor had and Dan «eennal to know by Instinct out to the Chamber of Commerce of
a shallow In the water thst he pre told his father that a sturdier little that the movement of a single muscle one of the larger southern Oregon
tended he thought might be a fish. He "hap was not to be found In any ma
would give him away. So he sat a« If cities. In IL he told the date of bls
lernlty bed In the whole city. But his ^e were p«>slng before a photogra- arrival and asked certain directions.
threw a stone nt IL
mother
was
convinced
that
the
chib)
The only thing thnt happened was
nber's camera. The fact that he w II«- wanted to know the name of some
n splash, and then a slowly widening was delicate anil must be sheltered. able to do It is fn Itself Important. It mountain rancher where ilossibly he
ripple. The circumference of the rip Never In all the history of his family, Is considerably easier to exercise might find board and room for the re
ple grew ever larger, extended and so far as Dan knew, hnd there heen a with dumb-bell» for^flve mlnut««« than mainder of the summer and the fall.
widened, nnd finally die«l at the edge death from the malady that aflllcte«l to sit absolutely without motion for The further ba«’k from the paths of
of the shore. It set little Dan to film. Yet his sentence was signed and the same lengrft
lengtii of time,
time. Hunters men, he wrote, the gr«-ater would be
thinking. He wondered If. had the sealed.
and naturalist« acqntre
n«v|nlre the art with his pleasure, And he signed the wire
But he harbored no resentment training. It urn therefore rather cu
jiool heen larger, the ripple still wool«!
with his full name: Dan Failing, wl 1th
have spread; and If the pool had been against his mother. It was nil in the
a Henry In the midille, and a "UI" at
.
rtous
thnt
Dan
succeeded
so
«veil
«•lernlty, whether the ripple would game. She hn<l done what sli«’ thought
the end.
I
tirst
time
lie tried it. He hnd m - i -•
have gone on forever. At the time he wan best. And he began to wonder
fl«- usually didn't sign hfs name In
enough to relax first, before he fro:e. quite this manner. The pet,pie of
did not know the laws of cause nnd In what way be could get the greatest
«•ff«s't. Leter. when Gitcheapollx wax pleasure from his last six months of I Thus lie dhln't put such a «e« «-re Glt«-!;eapoll« did not have particular
strain on his muscles.
great and prosperous nnd no longer life.
Iv vivid memories of Dan’s grandft
The squirrel, after
untidy, he was going to find out that
"Good Lord!" he suddenly breathed
ther. But It might be that a legend
a cause Is nothing but n rock thrown
I may not be here to sec the snow elnpsed, stood <»n his
of the gray, straight frontiersman who
Into a pond of Infinity, nnd the ripple come!” Dan had always been pnrtial better. First lie tool
was his anc«-stor had still survived In
with his left eve. Tin
tost Is its eff«wt keeps growing and ««» the winter season. When the snow
th«-«< ramote Oragon wilds. The us«-
growing forever.
ay all over the farm lands and bowed I head and looked ver]
of the full n.-itno would do no harm.
|
his
right
Then
tie
ba
The little Incident that lx tile real down the limbs of the trees. It hnd
Ins’end of hurting. It was a positive
beginning of this story was of no always wakened a curious floo«! of i distance nnd tried to i
lnst-!ratl«,n. The Chamber of Com
more Importance than n |>ebhle thrown feelings In the wasted man. It seemed both. Then be came
■nerce of th«- busy little Oregon city
step« nearer.
Into the snow-water pond: but Its ef-
wn« not n«« ally exceptionally Inter
A
moment
before
he
tind
been
cer
fe«-t was to remove the life of Dnn
esti-d In stray hunters that wanted a
tain tiiut a living creature—in fact l«o-.r-ll!«g place for the summer. It.«
Fulling, since grown up, fur out of
one of the mo.-t terrible anil powerful btislnes« was finding country homes
«• realms of the ordinary.
living cr«iti»r«-s in th
world—bin! for orcliardixts In the plensunt rivet
An«1 thnt brings nil matters down
been sitting on the pari lam ch. N«o« vnlle.'». But It happened that the re-
to mm. In the Inst days of a particu
his poor little brain w s completely rip.« nt of the win- was one of the old
larly «le«-pv Mie ’iter. You would hard
nddled. He was « entirely ready to lie- Mt residents, a frontiersman hlm««-ir
ly know- Gltchenpoll« now. The busl-
llevc that lil«- eye! had deceived him. am! it was one of th«’ tradition« of th«'
ri«-«s district has Increased tenfold. 'east Iinslf<l about It. fl
Busb.v-tail drew < •ff a little further, Qld West tint friendships were no'
And the place w I oto n«ed tn be the lie hnd never, in him III
fully «-otivlnced at I last thnt his hopes soon forgotten. Dnn Falling I had
I
|««vl and the playground of Ihm Fall ’lie wilderness. <>l cours
ing In now laid off In as green nn«l father bail heen a frontier
<►1 till of a nut from a child's hand were be«-n a legeml In the ol«l trapping nn<’
irs l>e blasted. But he turned to look one« shooting days when this man
pretty » city park a» one could wish first order, and all his a
fore him—n rangy, hardy
young. So It come about thnt wher
|o nc<‘.
w hose more, The figure stfll sat utterly In
ert, And all nt once he forgot his <!«■
Botae day, when the city becomes wings would crumple In r
Dun’s train «topped nt Cheyi’tine. h-
;.g .. hunger «n the face of an ov««
but he himself fmd always lived In tonrtna
fouml n triegnim waiting hint:
more prosperous, n pair of swans and
cities. Yel the fulling so iw>. '"it and whelming furiosity.
“Any relation to I tan Failing of th«
a herd of deer are going t<> l»> Intre-
He cum«’ somewhat nimrer nn<! Vinpqmt <M«We?"
gentle hut with n kind of remorse!«
dtieed. to restore aoiue of the miturnl
ties« he could sense hut could not i:n looked a Ion; q time. Then he mad«* »
• Dnn haj’-never heard of the Vtnp
wild Ilf«- of the park But In the sum-
de rat a nd, had always stirred him. hnlf-clreii •fiout U>«’ !»ench, turning qua divide, hut be couldn't doubt hut
no-r of lltlU, a few small birds and
He'd often Imagined that he world his head < h«- moved. He was nmi" that the sender of the wire refern-i!
p 'ssihly half a dozen pair« of squire
puzzlesl t an ever, but he was n«- to his grnndfnthi'r. He wired in the
like io x«e the forests In winter.
roll were the extent an«l limit of the
In him you could »y<- a ret!« .lion of longer afraid, Hls curiosity hn«l be
affirmative. The head of the Chamber
wild creatures. And at the moment
the boy that played beside the petal come so Intone«« that no room for fear of Commerce received the wire, rem I
lltla story opens, one of these squir
<»f mow water, twenty years before. was l«-fL An<J then he «prong upon It. thrn«t It tnto hl« desk, nnd In the
rels was perched on n wide -spreading
the park bench.
Ill« dark gray eyes were still ratju
f tce nf a really Important piece of
mb erorarchlng a gravel path that
Dnn mote«) then. The movement bus!n«-*s pr«HT«'dcd to forget nil nhont
large anti ¡lerlmps the wasted fiesii
i»tvd through the sunlit park. The
around them made them seem larger con«f«te<l of a sttd-len heightening of It. Thus It came nbnut thnt. cx«-«T>t
ifirryl was hungry. He wlslie«l that
than they were. Bat It was a little the light In hl.s eyes. But the sqtur for one thing. Imn Fulling would Imve
•<i*e'one Would come along with a
hard to see them, a* he wore large rel didn’t ««4> it. It «qkes a tnitsmlsr probably stepped off th«- train nt hl«
response to be visible to the eves of «le«tfnntloo «holly ty.’iera1d«*d nnd un
glasses. Ills mother hnd ho«»n sms
The one thing .bat change«! hi«
reeev’ng
s
•»
Cexemv
•
of
“The Great
«-erraln wMefy knoirn fraternal order
the next night, th« Chamber nt Com-
metre crossed trails with the Frontier
In the person of ar.other •>!«] resident
who had bls home tn ^-e farthest
reaohe« of the Crr pqua divide. The
latter asked the f-’rmer to come op
for a few days’ shooting—the deer t>e-
ftg fatter an-j more numerous thro
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p«c.«ous season since the days of
the grizzliest.
"Too busy, Tm afraid." the ct« m-
t—r of Commers had rep' ed. "I •
l.ennox—that reminds m
D-« p
remember old Dan Failing?"
Lennox probed back In* the ve
for a single 1n«tant. srra g!
all the kink« of hfs me- <o
time thaD the wind strait
the fold« of a flag, ar.d turn«*) a
interest«*! face. “Remember him
exclaimed. “I should «ay I do."
middle-aged man half-closed his pier'-
ing. gray eyes.
L’rter S’ --!e." he said, "1
Failing make a bet once, I
a kid. but
marvel at It. We had
glimpse of
long slope,
and Dan Falling said he could
•he left-hand «pike off with one «
from his old Sharpe’s, Three of
bet him—the whole thin In les« tl
two seconds,
With the a-xt shot,
he’d get the dwr. He won the bet.
-•nd now ¡f I ever forget Dan Failing.
I want to die."
“You're jnst the man I’m look'nz
for. then. You're not going out till the
ay after tomorrow?”
“No.”
"0n the limit«*) hitting here totnor-
ow morning, there's a grandson of
Dan Failing. His name Is Dan Fnfl-
'ng. too. and he wants to go ttp to your
place to hunt Stay all summer and
ay board."
Lennox's eyes said that he couldn't
-.riieve It »as true. After a while hl«
tongue spoke, too. “Good Lord." he
said. “1 use«] to foller Dan around—
like old Shag, before he died, followed
Snowbird, Of course he can come.
But he can’t oav board.
He Couldn't Find Linkvl ’e
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PHiCE $23.000. $11.000 cash. terms on balance.
be fully appreciated.
Must be inspected to
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