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THE VOICE OF THE PACK
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By Edison T. Marshall, of Medford, Or.
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EMPLOYMENT CO
To Employer« of Labor
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A Story of Oregon by an Oregon Boy
CHAPTER IL—In a larga aouthzrn Ore
gon city ha moots people who had known
and loved his grandfather, a famous fron
tiersman. He makes his home with Silas
Lennox, a typical westerner. The Only
other members of the household are Len
nox's son, ''Bill," and daughter, "Snow
bird." Their abode la many miles from
"civilization,” In the Utnpqua divide, and
there Falling plans to Uve out the short
span of life which he has been told Is his.
His extreme weakness In the face of even
a slight exertion convinces him that the
doctor had made a correct diagnosis of
his case.
CHAPTER HL— From the first Faling’s
health shows a marked Improvement, and
in the companionship of Lennox and his
son and daughter he fits Into the woods
life as If he had been bom to it By
quick thinking and a remarkable display
of “nerve" he saves Lennox's life and his
own when they are attacked by a mad
coyote. Lennox declares he is a rein
carnation of his grandfather, Dan Fall
ing I, whose fame as a woodsman i* a
household word.
thing, the bullet was a little nearer
the center. And then he aimed at a
more distant tree.
But the hammer snapped down in
effectively on the breech. He turned
with a look of question.
"Your gun only hold* five shots,"
Lennox explained. Reloading, Dan
tried a more difficult target—a trunk
almost one hundred yards distant. Of
course it would have been only child’s
play to an experienced hunter; but
to a tenderfoot It was a difficult
mark Indeed. Twice out of four shots
Dan hit the tree trunk, and one of his
two hits was practically a bull’s-eye.
His two misses were the result of the
same mistake he had made before—
attempting to hold his alm too long.
•
mat were revealed were narrow” ano
deeply Intent And by now, the fren
zied coyote was not fifty feet distant.
All that had occurred since the ani
mal charged had possibly taken five
seconds. Sometimes five seconds is
Just a breath; but as Lennox wulted
for Dan to shoot it seemed like a
period wholly without limit. He won
dered If the younger man had fallen
Into that strange paralysis that a
great terror sometimes imbues.
“Shoot I" he screamed again.
But It Is doubtful if Dan even heard
his shout At that instant his gun
slid into place, his head lowered, his
eyes seemed to bum along the glitter
ing barrel. His finger pressed back
••••••
Dan and Lennox started together
up the long slope of the ridge. Dan
alone armed; Lennox went with him
“Good Lord I" Dan breathed, If solely as a guide. The deer season had
you make such sudden motions as that just opened, and It might be that Dan
Hl have heart failure. Where are would want to procure one of these
you going now I”
creatures.
“Back to my watch," she answered,
“But I'm not sure I want to hunt
her tone wholly lacking the personal deer." Dnn tplcl him. "You speak of
note which men have learned to ex them ns being so beautiful—”
pect in the voices of women._ And an
“They are beautiful and your
instant Titer-tire Three 'of Thera- -aw grnndfather would never hunt them,
her retreating shadow as she vanished either, except for meat. But maybe
among the pines.
you’ll change your mind when you see
Dan had to be helped to bed. The r. buck. Besides, we might run Into a
long ride had been too hard on his lynx or a panther. But not very like i
shattered lungs; and nerves and body ly, without dogs.”
collapsed an Instant after the door
They trudged up, over the carpet of "There's Something Living In That
Thicket"
was closed behind the departing girl. pine needles. They fought their way
He laughed weakly and begged their through a thicket of buckbrush. Once
pardon; and the two men were really they saw the gray squirrels In the tree fence. "There's something living In
very gent’e. They told him It was tops. And before Lennox had as much that thicket.”
Then Lennox heard It, too. As they
their own fault for permitting him to as supposed they were nenr the haunts
overdo. Lennox himself blew out the of big game, a yearling doe sprang up stood still, the sound became ever
clearer and more pronounced. Some
candle in the big, cold bedroom.
from Its bed In the thickets.
For an instant she stood motionless, living creature was advancing toward
Dan saw the door close behind him,
and he had an Instant’s glimpse of the presenting a perfect target. It was them; and twigs were cracking be
long sweep of moonlit ridge that evident that she had heard the sound neath its feet. The sounds were rath
stretched beneath the window. Then, of the approaching hunters, but had er subdued, and yet. as the anfmnl ap
all at once, Beemlngly without warn not as yet located or Identified them proached. both of them Instinctively
ing, it simply blinked out Not until with her near-sighted eyes. Lennox knew that they were extremely loud
the next morning did he really know whirled to find Dan standing very for the usual footsteps of any of the
why. Insomnia was an old acquaint still, peering along the barrel of his wild creatures.
“What Is It?” Dan asked quietly,
ance of Dan's, nnd he had expected to rifle. But he didn’t shoot. The deer,
Lennox was so Intrigued by the
seeing
Lennox
move,
leaped
into
her
have some trouble in getting to sleep.
His only real trouble was waking up terror-pace—that astounding run that sounds that he was not even observ-
again when Lennox called him to Is one of the fastest gaits In the whole ant of the peculiar, subdued quality
breakfast He couldn’t believe that nnlmal world. In the wink of an eye In Dan's voice. Otherwise, he would
have wondered at It. “I’m free to
the light at his window shade was she was out of sight.
“Why didn't you shoot?” Lennox de confess I don’t know,” he said. “It's
really that of morning.
booming right toward us, like most
"Good Heavens I” his host exploded. manded.
animals don’t care to do. Of course
“Ton sleep the sleep of the Just."
It may be a human being. You must
Dan was about to tell him that on
watcli out for that.”
the contrary he was a very nervous
They watted. The sound ended.
sleeper, but he thought better of It
“Shoot? It was a doe, wasn't it?”
Something had surely happened to his
They stood straining for a long mo
“Good Lord, of course it was a doe I ment without speech.
insomnia. The next Instant he even
forgot to wonder about It In the reali But there are no game laws that go
“Thnt was the dumdest thing!”
zation that his tired body had been back this far. Besides—you aimed at Lennox went on. "Of course it might
have been a bear—you never know
wonderfully refreshed. lie had no it."
“I aimed Just to see if I could catch what they’re going to do. It might
dread now of the long trninp up the
It
through
my
sights.
And
I
could.
ridge that his host had planned.
have got sight of us and turned off.
But first came target practice. In My glasses sort of made it blur—but But I can’t believe that it was just a
Dan’s baggage he had a certain very I think—perhaps—that I could have deer—"
plain but serviceable sporting rifle of shot it. But I'm not going to kill does.
But then hfs words chopped squnre-
about jthlrty-forty caliber—a gun that There must be some reason for the ly otf in hls throat. The plodding ad
game laws, or they wouldn't exist.”
vance commenced again. And the
“You’re a funny one. Come three next instant a gray form revealed It
thousand miles to hunt and then pass self at the edge of the thicket.
up the first deer you see. You could
It wns Graycont the coyote, half-
almost huwe been your grandfather, blind with his madness, and des-
to have done tluit. He thought killing perate in hls agony.
deer needlessly was almost ns bad as
There was no more deadly thing in
killing a man. They are beautiful all the hills than he. Even the bite
tilings, aren’t they?”
of n rattlesnake would have been wel
Dan answered him with startling comed beside hls. He stood a long
emphasis. But the look that he wore Instant, and all his instincts nnd re
said more than Ills words.
flexes that would have ordinarily
They trudged on, and Lennox grew made him flee In abject terror were
thoughtful. He was recalling the pic thwarted and twisted by the fever of
ture that he had seen when he had hls madness. He stared a moment at
whirled to look at Dan, immediately the two figures, and hls red eyes could
after the deer had leaped from its not Interpret them. They were simply
bed. It puzzled him a little, He had foes, for It was true that when this
turned to find the younger man in a racking agony was upon him, even
perfect posture to shoot, his feet lifeless trees seemed foes sometimes.
placed in exactly the position that He seemed eerie and unreal as he
years of experience had taught Len- gazed at them out of hls burning eyes;
nox wns correct; nnd withal, absolute nnd the white foam gathered at hls
ly motionless. What many hunters fangs. And then, wholly without
take years to learn, Dnn had seemed warning, he charged down at them.
to know by Instinct. Could it be, after
He came with unbelievable speed.
all. that this slender weakling, even The elder Lennox cried once In warn
now bowed down with a terrible ing and cursed himself for ventur
mnlndy, had Inherited the true fron ing forth on the ridge without a gun.
tiersman’s Instincts of his ancestors?
He was fully twenty feet distant from
The result of this thought was at Dan; yet he saw In an Instant hls
least to hover in the near vicinity of only course. This was no time to
n certain conclusion. That conclusion trust their lives to the marksmanship
was that at least a few of the char of an amateur. He sprang toward
acteristics of his grandfather had Dan. Intending to wrench the weapon
been passed down to Dan. It meant from hls hand.
that possibly, If time remained, he
Standing In the Shadows, He Simply
But he didn’t achieve hls purpose.
would not turn out such a weakling, At the first step hfs foot caught In a
Watched Her.
after all. Of course his courage, his projecting roof, and he was shot to
nerve, had yet to be tested; but the
the Information department "of The fact remained that long generations hls face on the trail. But a long life
large sporting-goods store In Gltche- of frontiersmen ancestors had left this In the wilderness had developed Len
•polls had recommended for his pur Influence upon hint. The wild whs nox’s reflexes to an abnormal degree;
pose. Except for the few moments In calling to him, wakening instincts many crises hnd taught him muscle
the store, Dnn hnd never held a rifle long smothered in cities, but sure and and nerve control; nnd only for n Ii
In his hands. The first shot he hit the tme as ever. It wns the beginning fraction of an Instant, a period of
trunk of a five-foot pine at thirty of regeneration. Voices of the long time that few Instruments are tine
enough to measure, did he lie supinely
paces.
pnst were speaking to him, and the
“But I couldn’t very well have Fallings once more had begun to run upon the ground. lie rolled on. Into
missed ft I” he replied to Lennox’s true to form. Inherited tendencies a position of defense. But he knew
cheer. "You see, I aimed at the mid were In n moment changing this weak, now he could not reach the youngpr
mnn before the mail coyote would be
dle-hut I Just grazed the edge."
diseased youth Into n frontiersman
them, The matter wns out of
The second shot wns not so good, and wilderness Inhabitant such as his upon
hls hands, Everything depended on I
Blissing the tree altogether. And it ancestors had been before him.
the alm nnd self-control of the temier-
wns a singular thing thnt he aimed
They were slipping along over the foot.
longer and tried harder on this shot pine needles, their eyes intent on the
He looked up, and the whole weird
than on the first. The third time he trail ahead. And then Lennox saw n,
tried still harder, nnd made by far curious thing. He beheld Dnn sud picture was thrown upon the retina of
his eyes. The coyote wns still racing
the worst shot of all.
denly stop in the trail and turn his
"What's the matter?” he demanded, eyes toward a heavy thicket that lay I straight toward Dan, n gray demon
thnt in hls madness wns more terrible
“rm getting worse all the time.”
perhaps one hundred yards to their than any charging bear or elk. Fof
Lennox didn't know for sure, But right. For an instant he looked al there Is nn element of horror about
he made a long guess, “It might be most like a wild creature himself. His the Insane, whether beasts or men.
beginner's luck,” he said, "but I'm In- head was lowered, ns if he were lis that cannot be dented. Both men felt
dined to tldnk you're trying too hard. tening. Ills muscles were set and It. with a chill that seemed to pene
Take It easier—depend more on your ready.
trate clear to their hearts. The eyes
Instincts.”
Lennox hnd prided himself thnt he flumed, the white fangs of Graycont
Dan'« reply wns to lift the rifle had retained all the powers of his five caught the sunlight. And Dan'stood
lightly to Ids shoulder, glance quickly senses, nnd thnt few men In the moun erect In hls path, hls rifle half raised 1
along the trigger nnd fire. The bullet tains hnd keener ears than he. Yet to hfs shoulder; nnd even In thnt first
Struck within one Inch of the center It was truth tlmt at first he only knew frenzied Instant in which Lennox I
of the pine.
the silence, nnd the stir and pulse of looked nt him. ho saw there was n
For a long second Lennox gnzed nt his own blood. He assumed then tlmt strange Impassiveness, a singular Im
him In open-mouthed ns'onishment. Dnn wns watching something thnt perturbability on hls face.
“My stars, boy I" he cried nt last. from Ids position, twenty feet behind, I “Shoot, man I" Lennox shouted.
“Was I mistaken In thinking you were he could not see. He tried to probe “What are you waiting for?"
a born tenderfoot—Hfter all? Can It the thickets with his eyes.
But Dnn didn’t shoot. Ills hand
ho that a little of vonr jja
Then Dan whispered. Ever so soft whipped to hls face, nnd he snatched
a sound, but yet distinct in the si- off ,ll|s ♦h.lrk-lonsod glasses. .The eve*
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ticurariy pronounced. A(1 tne rorest picions of ikat gang. I believe theyve
voices added to It—the wall of the got a regular arson ring, maybe with
geese, the sad fluttering of fallen unscrupulous stockmen behind them,
leaves, and even the whisper of the
north wind, Of course all the tones and perhaps just a penny-winning deal
A
Marathon Lodge
and voices of the wilderness sound of their own. I suppose you know
93, Knights of Pythias
clearest at night—for that Is the time about Landy Hildreth—how he's prom
ised
to
turn
state
’
«
evidence
that
will
Regular meeting Mori-
that the forest really comes to life—
day
and Dan Falling, sitting In front of send about a dozen of these vipers to
sharp. By order of
Lennox's house, watching the late the penitentiary?”
“Snowbird told me something about fw«
J? <he Chancellor Coni-
September moon rise over Bald moun
~ mander.
it"
tain, could hear them very plainly.
“He’s got a cabin over toward the
John C. Carroll, C. C,
It was true that tn the two months
he had spent In the mountains he had marshes, and It has come to me that
learned to be very receptive to the he's going to start tomorrow, or maybe
voices of the wilderness. Lennox had has already started today, down Into
Marathon Lodge No. 89 K. of P.
not been mistaken In thinking him a the vu.iey to give his evidence. Of
Regular Convention of Marathon
course,
that
,1s
deeply
confidential
be
natural woodsman. He had Imagina
Lodge No. 89 K. of P. next Monday,
tween
you
and
me.
If
the
gang
knew
tion and Insight nnd sympathy; but
Nov. 22nd. First rank will be con
most of nil he had a heritage of wood about It he’d never get through the I ferred on two candidates. Refresh
; ments will be served. All members
lore from his frontiersmen ancestors. thickets alive.”
But D od was hardly listening. HI«
Two months before he had been a
are requested to be present.
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resident of cities. Now the wilder attention was caught by the hushed.
By order of John C. Carroll, C. C.
Intermittent sounds thnt are alwuys to
ness had claimed him, body and soul.
These had been rare days. At first be heard, If one listens keenly enough,
he had to limit hfs expeditions to a start: I've never seen me num »u
W. K. C.
few miles ench day. and even then he dry, and I’m afraid that either Bert
Corinlth Relief Corps, No. 54 Dept,
would come In at night staggering Cranston or some of hfs friends will
from weariness. He climbed hills decide it’s time to make a little mon of Oregon, meets on first and third
that seemed to tear hls diseased lungs ey fighting forest tires. Dan. I'm sus- Friday evenings of each month, at
to shreds. Lennox wouldn’t have been ln the wilderness at night. “I wish 8 p. m., in the W. O. W. hall. Visitors
i afraid, In a crisis, to trust hls marks
the pack would sound again," he said welcome .
manship now. He had the natural “T '^'rr.noo it mo«*-
1? .
Minnie Johnson. President
cold nerve of a marksman, and one
(Continued Next Week)
Elizabeth Conover, Secy.
twilight he brought the body of a lynx
tumbling through the branches of a NOTICE OF SALE FOR DELIN
pine at a distance of two hundred
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yards, He got so he could shatter a i !MENT ASSESSMENTS.
Corinth Post, No. 35, Dept, of Oregon
grouse out of the air in the half of a
Meets on second and fourth
second or so In which its bronze wings
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that
Saturdays of each month
glinted In the shrubbery; and when , j,y virtue of a warrant Issued by the
at" 1:30 p. m. in W. O. W.
a mnn may do this a fair number of ' City Recorder of Tillamook City, Ore
hall. Visitors welcome.
times out of ten he Is on the straight | gon, dated November 10, 1920, and
road toward greatness.
Issued by order of the Common Coun
H. W. Spear, Com’dr.
Then there came a day when Dan cil of said Tillamook City, the un
Samuel Downs, Adjt.
caught hls first steelhead in the North dersigned, Marshal of Tillamook
Fork. There Is no more beautiful City. Oregon, has duly levied upon
thing In the wilderness world than a and will, on Monday, the 15th day
steelhead trout in action. He simply I of December, 1920, at the hour of
Johnson Chapter No. 24
seems to dance on the surface of the .10:00 o’clock A. M. sell ut public
R. A. M.
water, leaping again and again, and ‘ auction to the highest bidder for
I Stated convocation .Friday
racing at an unheard-of speed down ► cash in hand the property hereinaf
Nov. 19. Visitors welcome.
the ripples. He weighs only from
ter
described.
The
particular
tract3
I. E. Keldson, Sec.
three to fifteen pounds. But now and
again amateur fishermen without souls • or parcels of ground to be sold, to
have tried to pull him In with main gether with the name of the owner
strength, and are still somewhat or owners thereof, and the amount Tillamook
dazed by the result It might be done for which each separate tract will be Lodge
with a steel cable, but an ordinary sold, are as follows, to-wlt:
No. 1260
line or lender breaks like a cobweb. District Do. 15, Sixth Avenue East L. 0. 0. M.
When hls majesty the steelhead takes
i
Paving
the fly and decides to run. It can be
Thayer
’
s
Add.,
Block
45,
Lot S. Meets
learned after a time that the one
1-2
of
lots
1^2,
3,
P.
W.
Todd,
Own-1 everY
thing that may be done Is to let out all
Fritlay
the line and with prayer nnd humble- er. Amt. of Lien $249.53; Interest at
to Dec. 15, $2.49; Cost of Adv. $15.40:
ness try to keep up with hl in.
Said sale will take place at the K. of P.
Dan no longer wore his glasses front door of the City Hall In Tilla Hall.
Every day his eyes had strengthened. mook City, Oregon, being the front
He could see more clearly now, with door of the building in which th<* I S. A. Brodhead, Sec.
his unaided eyes, tlinn lie hnd ever
Common Council of said Tillamook
seen before with the help of the lens.
City holds its sessions.
And the moonlight came down through
The names of the owners, or re Tillamook Lodge No. 57, A.F. & A.M.
a rift in the trees and showed that hls
face had changed, too. It wns no puted owners of said property as
Communications
Stated
longer so white. The eyes were more hereinbefore given, are the names of
Wednesday of
second
such owners, or reputed owners,
Intent. The lips were straighter.
Visiting
each month.
they
appear
on
the
docket
of
"It’s been two months,” Silas Len
Brethern welcome.
liens
of
said
Tillamook
City,
nox told him, "hnlf tlie four thnt you
Leslie Harrison, Sec’y.
gave yourself after you arrived here. each of said tracts of land so
And you’re twice as good now as when scribed will be sold at said sale
satisfy the assessment, interest
you came.”
Dan nodded. “Twice! Ten times costs due upon each tract
as good I I was a wreck when I came. scribed, and each tract will
Today I climbed halfway up Baldy— separately.
This sale is made fpr the purpose
within a half mile of Snowbird's cab
of satisfying the delinquent assess
in—without stopping to rest.”
Tuesday eve, 8 p. m.
Lennox looked thoughtful, More ments for street improvements duly
Rebekak, Wednesday evening
than once, of late, Dnn had climbed up assessed against said property, to
Camp 2-4, Thursday
toward Snowbird's cabin. It was true gether with interest and costs there
on,
said
assessments
having
been
that bls guest and hls daughter had
become the best of companions In the made by the Common Council of
two months; but on second thought, Tillamook City, Oregon, on 16th day
BARRICK & HALL
Lennox was not In the least afraid of of Aug., 1'920, and said assessments
having
been
thereupon
docketed
in
complications. The love of the moun
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
tain women does not go out to phys- the docket of city liens of said Till
National Building
leal inferiors. “Whoever gets her,” amook City, and more than 30 days
he had said, “will have to tame her," having elapsed since said docketing
Tillamook, Oregon ' i
and his words still held good, Tire and said assessments not having
mountain women rarely mistook a ma been paid in whole or in part, and
ternal tenderness for an appealing the Common Council of Tlllamooa
man for love. It wnsn't that Dan was City, Oregon, having, on October 18,
weak except from the ravages of his 1920, duly ordered a warrant to DR. O. L. HOHLFELD
dlsense; but he was still a long way Issue for the collection of said de
from Snowbird’s Ideal. Although Dan linquent assessments.
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VETERINARIAN
Dated this November 10th, 1920.
had courage and that same rigid self-
M> E. GRUBER,
control that was ^|old quality In hls
Mutual Phone,
Bell Phone 2F2.
Marshal of T'H'0 ook City, Oregon
breed, he was stfli’a long way from
a physically strong man. It was still, il 1-11
Tillamook, Oregon
an even break whether he would ever
wholly recover from hls malady.
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But Dnn wns not thinking about
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STREET
IMPROVE
this now. All his perceptions had
W. C. DUEBER
MENT ASSESSMENTS.
sharpened down to the finest focal
point, and he was trying to catch the
f DENTIST
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that |
spirit of the endless forest that
stretched In front of the house. His by virtue of a warrant issued by the
Tillamook Building
pipe hnd gone out, and for a long time ¡City Recorder of Tillamook City, Ore
(Over Halton's)
Lennox hadn’t spoken. He seemed to gon, dated November 10, 1920, and]
be straining too, with Ineffective
Tillamook, Oregon
senses, trying to recognize and name issued by order of the Common Coun
the faint sounds that came so tingling cil of said Tillamook City, the un
nnd tremulous out of the dnrkness. As dersigned, Marshal of Tillamook
Dr. A. C. Crank
always, they heard the stir and rustle City, Oregon, has duly levied upon i Dr. J. E. Shearer
of the gnawing people; the chipmunks and will, on Monday, the 15th day
Drs. Shearer and Crank
in the shrubbery, the gophers who, , of December, 1920, at the hour of
like blind misers, hnd ventured forth [‘10:00 o’clock A. M. sell at public
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from tlielr dark burrows; and per auction to the highest bidder for
National Building
haps even the scaly glide of those cash in liand the property hereinaf
most-dreaded poison people that had ter described. The particular tracts
Tillamook, Oregon
lairs In the rock plies.
or parcels of ground to be sold, to
Dnn felt thnt nt ‘ast the wilderness gether with the name of the owner
itself was speaking to him. • He had or owners thereof, and the amount
waited n long time to hear Its voice. for wfliich each separate tract will be
R. T. BOALS, M. D.
Hls thought went back to the wise sold, are as follows, to-wlt:
i
men of the ancient world, waiting to
Surgeon and Physician
hear the riddle of the universe from Delinquent Street Assessments Dis
trict No. 10—3rd St.
the Ups of the Sphinx, and how he
I. O. O. F. Building
Tract beginning at a point 120 ft.
himself—more In his unconscious self,
East
of
the
N.
E.
corner
of
Lot
4,
ratln r than conscious—had sought the
TILLAMOOK. OREGON
eternal riddle of the wilderness. He Block 3.Maple Grove' Add. to Tllla-
tee'.
niook
City,,
thence
east
50
hnd asked questions—never in the
form of words but only ineffable thence south 105 ft. thence west
DR. J. G. TURNER
yeanlings of his soul—and at last It I 50 feet thence north 105 feet I
had responded. The strange rising place of beginning.
Eye Specialist
and falling song was its own voice, the M.A. Baker Estate.Owuer. Amount of I
articulation of the very heart and soul ■Í Lien $523.42; Interest to Dec. 15. Permanatly Located in Tillamook
of the wilderness.
$12.37; Cost of advertising, $1.72
“It’s the wolf pack,” Lennox told
Stillwell Add.—Block 5, Lot 6. Private Office in Jenkin’s Jewelry
Store.
him softly. “The wolves^ have just C. N. Large and Lizzie Harris, Own
Joined together for the fall rutting." ers. Amount of Lien $519.59; In
“Then this means the end of the terest to Dec. 15, $12.37; Cost of Latest Up-to-date Instruments and
Equipment
summer?” Dan asked.
Advertising, $2.12.
“In a way, but yet we don't count
Evenings and Sundays by
the summer ended until the rains I
Appointments
Continued on pasce 7
K.uir lt««rens. I wish they, jvould.
I
Lead Went Straight Home.
against the trigger, and the roar of
the report rocked through the summer
air.
The gun was of large caliber-; and
no living creature could stand against
the furious, shocking power of the
great bullet. The lead went straight
home, full Through the neck and slant
ing down through the breast, and the
coyote recoiled as If an Irresistible
hand had smitten him. It is doubtful
If there was even a muscular quiver
after Graycont struck the grouud, not
twenty feet from where Dun stood.
And the rifle report echoed back to
find only silence.
Lennox got up off the ground and
moved over toward the dead coyote.
He looked a long time at the gray
body. And theD he stepped back to
where Dan waited on the trail.
“I take it all back,” he said simply.
“You take what back?”
“What I thought about you—that
the Falling line ha’d gone to the dogs.
I’ll never call you a tenderfoot again.
But tell me one thing.
I saw the
way you looked down the barrel. I
could see how firm you held the rifle
—the way you kept your head, And
that Is all like your grandfather, But
why, when you had a repeating rifle.
did you wait so long to shoot?”
"I just hnd one cartridge In my pun.
I didn't think of It until the coyote
charged.”
Lennox’s answer was the last thing
In the world to be expected. He
opened his straight mouth aud uttered
a great, boyish yell of Joy. His eyes
seemed to light. The eyes of the two
men met, nnd Lennox shook him by
the shoulder.
"You're not Dnn Falling’s grandson
—you’re Dnn Falling himself!" he
shouted. “No one but him would have
hnd self-control to wait till the game
was almost on top of him—no one but
him would have kept his hand In a
time like this. You're Dan Falling
himself, I toll you, come hack to
earth. Grandson nothing! You're a
throwback, and now you've got those
glosses off. I can see his eyes looking
right out of yours. Step on 'em Dan.
You’ll never need 'em again. And give
up flint Idcn of dying in four moriths
right now; I’m going to make you live.
We’ll fight that disease to u finish—•
nnd winI”
And that is the way that Dnn Fall
ing enme Into his heritage In the land
of his own people, and tn which a
new spirit was born In him to fight—
and win—nnd live.
BOOK TWO
The Debt.
CHAPTER I.
September wns nt its last days on
the Ufhpqua divide—that far wilder
ness of endless tree-< Ind ridges where
Dnn Falling hnd gone for his Inst
days. Everywhere the forest people
were preparing for the winter that
would fall so quickly when those gold
en September day« were done. The
Under Plane of the forest—those
smaller peoples that live In the dust
nnd have beautiful, tropical forests in
the ferns—found themselves dlgglnu
holos and filling them with stores of
food. Of course they bad no idea ot,
earth why they wore doing ft, except
thnt a quiver nt the end of their tails
told them to do so; but the result was
entirely the same. They would have
n shelter for the winter.
But the most noticeable change ot
nil. In these days of summer, was n
distinct tone Of sadness thnt sound
ed throughout the forest. Of course
the wilderness note Is always some
what sad: hut now, as the leaves fell
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