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TAGE SIX
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THE TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT
THUPSDAY, DECEMBER 23
* The Voice of the Pack
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A Story of the Oregon Mountain Country
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“ For two very goou reasons, l » hii film of'smoke, '-rm not ThforesteA tn' will often tizh' 'n th” strangest most srnnds, ana ot course tnaf menu» setr- her eyes uke this. The Iftffit that nr
His eyes grew earnest, and the hard
SERVICE.
didn't call to him at once. The two
hearing them,” he said.
i eerie silence: hut human beings nre possessfon. This quality had something hnd nlwny* beheld In them hnd van fire went out of them. "It’s almost as
reasons were that Cranston had a rltjc
“It might pay you." Cranston went not serpents. They pnrtak^ more of to do with the remarkable record that ished. Their utter darkness startled If you were n queen, n renl queen of
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nnd that Dan was unarmed. It might
some great kingdom.” he told her.
on. “One of 'em Is thnt one man's | th” qualities of rhe meat-enter»—the the mountain men. such as that mag [ him.
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After the fir«’
be extremely likely that Cranston
tremulous with n great awe thnt wns
ne sat up straight, nnd her arm thnt
word Is good ns another’s In a court— I wolves nnd feline«.
nificent warrior from Tennessee, made
would choose the most plausible nnd
find been about Ills neck fell nt her
stealing over him, as n mist steals over,
and It wouldn't do you any good to Instant, the nol.se of the fight aroused in the late war.
effective means of preventing an Inter run down and tell tales. A man enn the whole hill« de. The sound of blows
water.
"And because I hnd kissed
Cranston knew exactly what Snow- side. He took her hand firmly In his.
ruption of bls crime, nnd by the same
light his pipe on the mountain side wns In itself notable, and besides, both
your fingers, for ever nnd ever I was
bird would do. Although of a higher and their eyes met.
token, prevent word of the crime ever
"We must go home, Snowbird,”- he your subject, living only to fight your
without the courts being Interested. ' of the men were howling the prim order, she was a mountain creature.
reaching the authorities. The rifle The second thing is—Just that I don’t ordial battle cries of hatred and ven even as himself, She meant exactly
told her simply, "I'm not so badly
tights—maybe with a dream In the
contained five cartridges, and only one think you’d find it a healthy thing to geance.
hurt but thnt I enn make It.”
end to kiss your lingers again. When
what she said. If he hadn’t climbed
was needed.
do.”
She nodded; but otherwise scarcely you bent nnd kissed me on thnt hill
For two long minutes Dan fought
WE MAKE OUR OWN PAS
from Dan’s prone body. she would
But the idea of backing out, unseen,
“1 suppose, then, that Is a threat?" with the strength of desperation, sum
side—for him to see—It wns the same:
TRY AND OUR PIES ARE
have shot quickly and very straight. If | seemed to hear, Her eyes still flowed
never even occurred to Dan. The tire
“It nln’t just a threat.” Cranston nionlni g at Inst all that mysterious re lie tried to attack either of them now, with darkness, And then, before his that I was sworn to you. nnd nothing
FAMOUS—II’ YOU DON’T BE
would have a tremendous headway be laughed harshly—a «Ingle, grim svl- serve force with which all men are
mattered In my life except the service
her finger would press back before lie own eyes, their dark pupils began to
LIEVE IT. ASK YOUR NEIGH
fore he could summon help. Although
lable that was the most terrible sound born.
Tbit he was playing a losing could blink an eye, and she wouldn't contract. The hand he held filled and
and love I could give you. And It’s
BORS AND FRIENDS.
it wns near the lookout station, every
he had yet uttered. “It’s a fact. Just game. The malady svlth which be hnd
.
nnd
the
fingers
more than you ever dream. Snowbird.
weep any hysterical tears over his throbbed with life.
Condition pointed to a disastrous tire.
try it. Falling. Just make one little suffered
ered hnd taken too much of his dead body.
It’s all yours, for your battles am)
If he kept Ills distance, I closed around his. She leaned toward
The brush was dry as tinder, not so
step In that direction
Yon couldn’t vigor.
r. Even
Evon as he s struggle«!. It seemed
your happiness.”
she wouldn’t shoot nt nil. He meant , him.
hide behind n girl'« skirts, then. Why, to him that the vis
heavy us to choke the wind, but yet
about him. the to keep his distance. But he did know
“Listen. Dan.” she said quickly,
The great pine« were silent above
tall enough to carry the flame Into you city sissy. I’d break you to pieces dnrk pines, the colored leaves of the thnt he could Insult her without dan “You heard—didn't you—the last thing
Perhaps
them, shadowed and dark.
perennial «h rubbery, the yellow pnth
the tree lops. The stiff breeze up the In my hands!"
ger to himself. And by now Ills lips thnt he said?”
they were listening to an age-old
“I couldn’t help but hear, Snow story, those vows of service and self-
ridge would certainly carry the flame
Few men can mnke a threat without were nil obsi cured In n strange, white had acquired their old curl of scorn.
rent wind roared In bls ears
for miles through the parched Divide a muscular accompaniment. Its very mist.
bird.”
gained worth by which the race has
Marathon Lodge
No.
“I’ll go, Snowbird,” he said. “I’ll
heart was evidently about
before help could come. In the mean utterance releases pent-up emotions, —anti
Her other hand sought for his.
struggled upward from the darkness
leave you with your sissy. But I guess
93, Knights of Pythias
if
you
heard
—
pnyi
nt
must
he
to
sh
to
pieces.
time stock nnd lives and homes would
“
Then
part of which can only pour forth In
“But I kissed you—once l>;
i
1 made. You see what I mean, Dan.
be endangered, besides the Irreparable muscular expression. And anger Is a
Regular meeting Mon
But
she reminded him.
The voice
.Joss of timber.
There were many
Maybe yon can’t see, knowing the girls Just a whisper, hnrdly louder than the
day
evening at 7:45
primitive thing, going down to the yield. He could no longer parry Crans
thnt live on the plains, You were the stir of the leaves In tlie wind.
things that Dan might do, but giving most mysterious depths of a man’s na ton’s blows. The latter’s arms went
sharp.
By order
of
cause of Ids saying It, and you must
up was not one of them.
ture. As Cranston spoke, his lip curled, around him In one of those deadly
the Chancellor
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“But that kiss didn’t count,” lie told
a tiswer—”
mander.
After nil, lie did the wl st thing of his dark fingers clenched on his thick hold- that wrestlers know ; and Dan
her. “It wasn’t at nil the snme. !
It seemer to Dan thnt some stern
Struggled In vain to free himself.
palm, nnd he hnlf leaned forward.
John C. Carroll, C. C.
all. He simply came out In plain sight
loved you then. I think, hut It didn't
rode of the hills, unwritten except In
mid unconcernedly walked down the
tnenn what It did today.”
Dan knocked out his pipe on the Cranston’s face itself seemed hideous
W. R. C. '
the hearts of their children. Inexorable
“And what—” she leaned toward
trail toward Cranston. At the same
log. It was the only sound in that nnd unreal In the mist that wns creep
ns night, wns spenklng through her
him. her eyes full on his, "does it
lustaut, the latter struck his match.
whole mountain realm; all the lesser ing over him. He did not recognize
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lips. This was no personal thing. In
mean now?"
The two mon the curious thumping sound as Crans
As Dan was no longer stalking, sounds were stilled.
of Oregon, meets on first and third
some dim, half-understood way, ft
And now
“All that’s worth while In life, nil
Cranston Immediately heard his step, stood face to face. Dan tranquil, Crans ton’s fists on his flesh.
Friday evenings of each month, at
went
back
to
the
basic
code
of
life.
Cranston
had
hurled
him
off
Ills
feet.
that
matters
when
everything
Is
said
lie whirled, recognized Dan. nnd for ton shaken by passion.
8 p. m., in the W. O. W. hall. Visitor.^
"People
must
fight
their
own
fights,
Nothing mattered further. He had
thnt can be said, and all Is done thnt
one long Instant in which the world
“1 give you,” said Dan with entire
welcome .
up
here,
”
she
told
him.
“
The
laws
can be done.
And It means, plense
Feemed to have time In plenty to mnke coldness, “an opportunity to take that fought tlie best he could. This cruel
Minnie John.-on. President
of the courts that the plains people God. when the debt« nre pnld, that I i
beast could pounce on him at will
e complete revolution, lie stood per hnck. Just about four seconds."
Elizabeth Conover, Secy.
can
appeal
to
nre
nil
too
far
nwuy.
nnd
hammer
away
his
life.
But
still
may
have
such
a
kiss
again.
”
fectly motionless. The match flared In
He stood very straight ns he spoke,
There
’
s
no
one
thnt
enn
do
ft.
except
he
struggled.
Except
for
the
constant
"Not until then,” she told him.
his dark fingers, his eyes—full of sin and his eyes did not waver In the
Corinth Post, No. 35, Dept, of Oregon
you. Not my father. My father enn’t
whispering.
gular conjecturing rested on Dnn’s least. It would not be the truth to say play of his muscles, his almost un
fight
your
battles
here.
If
your
honor
Meets on second and fourth
"Until then, I make oath thnt I
face. No instant of the letter’s life
thnt his heart was not leaping like conscious effort to free himself thnt
is going to stand. It’s up to you. Dan.
won’t even ask ft. or receive It if you
hnd ever been fraught with greater a wild thing In his breast. A dark kept one of Cranston’s arms busy
Saturdays of each month
You enn’t pretend that you didn’t henr
should give tt. It goes too deep, doar-
peril. He understood perfectly what
mist wns spreading like madness over holding him down, thnt fight on the
at 1:30 p. m. in W. O. \V.
him. Such as you nre, weak and sick
est—nnd It means too much.”
wns going on In Cranston’s mind. Tile Ills brain; but yet lie wns striving to mountnln path might hnve come to n
hall. Visitors welcome.
to
be
beaten
to
n
pulp
In
two
minutes,
This was their pact, Not until the
fire-fiend was calmly deciding whether keep his thoughts clear.
Stealthily, sudden end. Human bodies can stand
H. W' Spear, Corn’dr.
you alone will hnve to mnke him an debts were paid nnd her word mnde
to shoot or whether to bluff ft out. without seeming to do so, he was set a terrific punishment; but Dan’s wns
Samuel Downs, Adjt.
swer for ft. I came to your aid—and
weakened from the ravages of Ills
good would those lips be his ngnln.
One required no more moral courage ting Ids muscles for u spring.
now
you
must
come
to
mine.
”
There
was
no
need
for
further
words.
disease.
Besides,
Cranston
would
soon
than the other. It really didn't make
Tlie only answer to Ills words wns
Her fingers no longer clasped his.
Both of them know.
a great deal of difference tn i’ranston.
a laugh—n roaring laugh of scorn hnve both hands and both feet free for
Johnson Chapter No. 24
Strength had come back to film, and
In the skies the gray clouds were
But lie decided that th< killing wit
from Cranston’s dark lips.
In his the work, and when these four ter
R. A. M.
bis fingers closed down until the blood
gathering swiftly, ns nlways hi the
not worth the cartridge. The other laughter. Ills Intent, catlike vigilance rible weapons nre used at once, the
Stated convocations every
went
out of hers, but she wns wholly
Issue
—
soon
or
late
—
can
never
be
in
mountains.
The
raindrops
were
fail
course was too easy, lie did not even
relaxed.
Dan saw a chance; feeble
first
and
third Fridays.
unconscious of the pain. In reality,
in'’ one end one. over the forest. The
doubt.
Jf/ Visitors welcome.
dren tn thnt Dan had been shadowin';
she
wns
conscious
of
nothing
except
>von now. consciousness
summer v. as done, and fall had come
Keldson. Sec.
him nnd hnd seen his Intention. He
the growing tlnme in bls face, It held
Dan could henr his enemy’s
In earnest.
would have laughed nt the Idea that a
her
eyes
in
passionate
fascination.
His
The rains fell unceasingly for seven
and fnr up the trail, lie heard
“tenderfoot" could thus wall; behind
Tillamook
pupils were contracting to little bright
days: not a downpour but a constant
another stranger sound. It sounded
him, unheard.
Without concern, he
Lodge
dots
in
the
gray
Irises,
The
jaw
was
drizzle
thnt
mnde
the
distant
ridges
like
some
one
running.
scattered with his foot the little heap
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i
setting,
as
she
had
never
seen
it
be-
smoke. The parched earth seemed to : L. 0. 0. M.
of kindling, and slipping his pipe Into
"I Guess You Saw What
And then he dimly knew that Crnn-
fore.
smack Its lips. nn«l tittle rivulets be
his mouth, he touched the Haring
«•llmblng from his body,
“Do yon think. Snowbird, that vou’d
you saw what I did to him—in two
gan to fall nnd tumble over the beds
match to it. It wns a wholly admir
ere speaking—quick, com
Meets
even have to ask me?” he demanded.
of the dry streams, All danger of for- every
able little piece of noting, and would
manding voices Just over him. Above i minutes.”
est fire was at once removed. nnd Friday
“I saw.
But you must remember “Don’t you think I understand? And
have deceived any one who had not
Cranston’s savage curses another voice
It won't be In your defense—only toy
Snowbird wns no longer needed as n at
lie's sick. Now go.”
seen his previous preparations. Thon
rang clear, and to Dnn’s ears, glorious
lookout on old Bald mountain,
She K. or p.
let him stay In tied— own duty."
“If lie’s sick,
i
he walked on down the trail toward
lieyond all human utterance.
“But lie is so strong—and you are
went to Iter own home, her companion Hall.
and have a . wet nurse. Maybe you can
Dan.
He opened his tortured eyes. Tlie
so weak—”
back to the valley; nnd now thnt his
be that.”
mists lifted from in front of them, nnd
Dan stopped and lighted Ills own
"I won’t be so weak forever. I nev-
sister had taken ills place ns house
The lids drooped halfway over her
the whole drama was revealed. It bad
pipe.
It wns a curious little truce.
S. A. Brodhead, Sec
gray eyes. nnd the slim finger curled er really cared much about living he- II keeper, Bill hnd gone down to the
not been sudden mercy that had driven
And then he leaned back against th«'
fore.
I
’
ll
try
now
and
yon
’
ll
see
—
lower foothills with n great pa rt of
more tightly about the trigger. “Oh,
Cranston from Ills body. Just when tils
great gray trunk of a fallen tree.
Tillamook Lodge No. 57. A.F. & A.M.
the live stock. Dan snout these rainy
1 wish I could shoot you, Bert I” she oh. ’ Snowbird, wait nnd trust me: I
victim’s falling unconsciousness would
“Well. Cranston." he said civilly.
Joint j tatallai ion
with
understand
everything,
It's
my
own
toil
on
the
hillsides,
building
days
In
said. She didn’t whisper It, or hiss it,
have put him completely In Ills power.
The men bail met on previous oc
O. E. S. and R. A. M. St.
fight—when you kissed me, and he himself physically so that lie might
or hurl It. or do any of the things most
Rather It was something black and
John's day, Monday Decem
cnslons, and always there hnd been
cried down that word In anger nnd
pay his debts.
people are supposed to do In moments
ber *7th.
All members be
ominous thnt even now was pointed
the same Invisible war between them
Jealousy, it put the whole thing on me.
it wns no great • pleasure, those
of violent emotion. She simply said
ypresent.
Visiting bretherti
squarely nt Cranston’s breast.
"How do you do. Falling,” Cranston
No one else qnn make film answer: no
rainy days.
He would have greatly
welcome.
None too soon, a ranger of the hill I it. and her meaning was all the
replied. No perceptions could be so
one else has the right. It’s my honor,
lilted to have lingered In the square
Leslie Harrison, Sec’y.
clearer.
had heard the sounds of the struggle,
blunt as to miss tile premeditated In
no one el«e’s. thnt stnnds or falls."
mountain house, listening to the quiet
“But you can’t. And I’ll pound that
nnd hnd left the trysting place at the I
unit In the t<®ie. He didn’t speak In
He lifted her hand to his lips and
murmur of the rain on the roof and
milk-sop of yours to a jelly every time
spring to come to Dnn’s aid. It was
his own tongue at all. the short, gut
kissed It again nnd again.
watching Snowbird nt her household
I see him. I’d think, Snowbird. that
Snowbird, very pale hut wholly self
turnl "Howdy” that Is the greeting
And for the first time he
tasks. She could, as her father had
you’d wnnt a man."
sufficient nnd determined nnd intent.
of the mountain men. He pronounced
tears gathering In her dark evi
said, make a biscuit. She could also
He started up the
II ; and then
Her pistol was cocked and ready.
nil the words with an exaggerated pre
you fought here, didn’t you. D:in?”
roll up sleeves over trim, brown nrms i
- Tuesday eve, 8 p. m.
she did a strange thing, He's more of
cisión, an unmistakable mockery of
she asked with pnlnftil slowness. “You ■ and with entire good humor do a
Rebekak, Wednesday evening
a
man
than
you
are.
right
now.
Bert."
CHAPTER III
Dnn’s own tone.
In his accent he
didn't put up your arms—or try to I week’s Inundry for three hard-work
she told him. "He’ll prove it some
Camp 2-4, Thursday
threw a tone of sickly sweetness, nnd
run away? I didn’t come till he had
ing men. He would have liked to sit
day.” Then her arm went about Dan’s
Dim Fulling wns really not badly
I
his Inference was all too plain,
He
you done, so I didn’t see." She looked
with her. through the long afternoons,
neck and lifted his head upon her
hurt. The quick, lashing blows had
was simply calling Falling a milksop
at him ns If her whole joy of life hung
ns she knitted beside the fireplace—
breast:
and
In
Cranston
’
s
plain
sight,
not
done
more
than
severely
bruise
unit a white-liver; just as plainly as
on his answer.
to watch the play of her graceful fin
she bent and kissed him, softly, ot?
the flesh of bls face; nnd the mists of
If he had used the words.
"Fought! I would have fought till
gers and perhaps, now and then, to
the
lips.
unconsciousness
that
had
been
falling
The eyes of the two men met
Battles of the Mountains were
I died! But thnt isn’t enough. Snow
touch her hands when he held the
Eye Specialist
Cranston’s answer was an oath. It I
over him were more nearly the result
Cranston’s lips were slightly curled In
Battles to the Death.
bird. It Isn’t enough Just to fight, in
Permanently located in Tillamook
skeins. But none of these things tran
dripped
from
his
lips,
more
poisonous,
of
Ills
own
tremendous
physical
ex
in unmistakable leer.
Finn’s were
a case like this. A man's got to win !
Private office in Jenkin's jewelry
spired.
He drove himself from day
more malicious than the vetiom of a
very straight.
And In one thing nt though It was. It wns the only chance ertion. Now these mists were rising.
I would have died If you hadn’t come.
store. Latest
up-to-date instru
light
till
dark,
developing
his
body
for
snake. His features seemed to tight
“(io—go away.” the girl wns com
least, their eyes looked just the same. he hud. Ami bls long body leaped like
And that’s another debt thnt I hnve
ments and equipment.
Evenings
the tests that were sure to come.
en. the dark lips drew away from his
manding. "I think you’ve killed him.”
The pupils of both pairs hnd contracted a serpent through the air.
and Sunday by appointment.
to pay—only that debt I owe to you.”
The first few days nearly killed him.
teeth.
No
words
could
hnve
mnde
Dun
opened
Ills
eyes
to
find
her
Physical
superior
though
he
was.
to steel points, bright In the dnrk gray
She nodded slowly.
The Ilves of
He over-exercised In the chill rain.
J
him such an effective answer as this
of the Irises. Cranston’s looked some Cranston would have repelled the at kneeling close beside him, but still
the mountain men are not saved by
ar,d
one anxious night he developed
little action of hers. And us he turned
what red; nnd Dnn’s were only hard tack with Ids rille If he had bud a covering Cranston with her pistol. Her
their women without Incurring obliga all the symptoms of pnenrnonin. Such
up the trail, he called down to her
chance.
His blood wns already at hand was resting on Ills bruised cheek
and bright.
tion.
She attempted no barren de
a sickness would hnve been the one
a nnmc—that most dreadful epithet
Dan felt himself straighten; and the the murder heat—a point always He couldn't have believed thnt a hu
nials. She made no effort to pretend
thing needed to make the doctor’s
«hat
foul
tongues
have
always
used
quickly
reached
In
Cranston
—
and
the
man face could be ns white, while life
color mounted somewhat higher in his
he hnd not incurred a tremendous debt
prophecy come true, But with Snow-
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
to
women
held
In
greatest
scorn.
brown cheeks. But he did not try to dark, hot fumes In his brain were still remained, as hers was then. All
when she hnd come with her pistol. It
bird's
aid,
and
numerous
hot
drinks,
Dan struggled In her arms.
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avenge the Insult—yet. Cra nston was simply nothing more nor less than the the lovely tints thnt had been such n
wns an unavoidable fact. A life for
he fought It off.
kiss on his lips, the instant before. a life Is the code of the mountains.
No delight to him. the play of soft reds
■till fifteen feet distant, and that wn* most poisonous, bitter hatred.
She
had
mnde
him
go
to
bed.
and
and browns, find faded as an after 1md not called him out of his half
too far.
A man may swing a rifle other word exists. If his class of d<
Tillamook, Oregon
“Two things I must do before I can
no human memory could be so dull as
consciousness. It had scarcely seemed
generate mountain men had no other glow fades on the snow.
within fifteen feet. The fact that they
ever dare to die." he told her soberly.
to f-"get the little, whispered message
wore tn no wav physical equal« d’ I
Dan's glance moved with hers to renl. rather just an Incident In a bliss
not even occur to him. When the in accomplishment, they could bate. All
“One of them Is to pay you; the other that she gave him with his last spoon
Cranston. He was standing easily at
their
Ilves
they
practiced
the
emotion:
ful dream. But the word called down
sult is great enough, such considera
Is to pay Cranston for file thing he ful of medicine. She said she'd pray
a distance of a dozen feet; ami except
tions cannot possibly matter. Crans hatred of their neighbors, hatr<>d of
the trail shot out dear and vivid from
■
said.
Maybe the chance will never for him, nnd she meant It too—literal,
for
the
faintest
tremble
all
over
his
law, hatred of civilization in all Its
the silence. Just as a physician’s face
ton was laird as steel, one hundred
entt eating prayer that could not go un
come
for
the
first
of
the
two;
only
I
’
ll
forms. Besides, this kind of hillman body, a muscular reaction from the will often leap from the darkness af
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■nd seventy pounds In weight. Dan did
pray that It will. Maybe It would be heard. She was a moutnaih girl, and
violence of Ills passion, he had entire
habitually
fought
Ids
duels
with
rides.
not touch one hundred and fifty, and
ter the anesthesia. Something Infinite
lie-
beliefs
were
those
of
her
ances-
kinder to you to pray that It wouldn't:
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ly regained his self-composure. This
lliinds were not deadly enough.
ly warm and tender was holding him.
a deadly disease had not yet entirely
<fs -simple and true and wholly
But Dan was past his guard before was quite characteristic of the moun pressing him back against a holy place yet I pray that It will! Maybe I ca.,
relinquished Its hold upon him.
But he hadn’t
Tillamook, Oregon
pay that debt only by being always without affectation.
tain men. They share with the beasts
that throbbed nnd gave him life and
“I do very well, Cranston," Dan an he had time to raise Ills gun. The
ready, always watching for a chance relaxed thereafter. He knew the time V
a passion of living that Is wholly un-
whole
attack
ws
one
of
the
most
swered In the same tone. "Wouldn’t
strength; but he knew that this word
to save you from any danger, always had come to make the test. Night
astounding surprises of Cranston's life. known on the plains; hut yet they have had to he answered. And only actions,
you like another match? I believe
"X
trying to protect you.
You didn’t after night he would go to bed half
a certain quality of Imperturbability
Dun's
body
struck
Ills,
his
fists
flailed,
your pipe has gone out."
not other words, could he Its payment.
sick from fatigue, but the mornings
come
In
time
to
see
the
fight
I made.
known
now
here
else,
Nor
Is
It
limited
All the voices of his body called to
Very little can he said for the wis ami to protect himself. Cranston was
Besides—I lost, mid little else mat would find him fresh. And after two
obliged to drop the rille. They stag to the native-born mountaineers, No
dom of this remark. It was simply
him to lie still, but the voices of the
i ters. And that debt to you can’t be weeks, tie knew he had passed the
gered.
ns
If In some weird dunce, on man who Intimately knows a member
DENTIST
human—that age-old creed to nnswer
spirit, those higher, nobler prompting«
crisis and was on the direct road to
the trull; nnd their nrms clasped In of that curious, keen-eyed little army from which no man. to the glory of pnld until sometime I fight again—for
blow for blow and Insult for Insult.
Tillamook
Building
complete
recovery.
you—nnd win.” He gasped from his
of naturalists and big-game hunters
the breed from which he sprung, enn : weakness, but i
Of course the Inference was obvious n clinch.
(Over Haltom’s)
Sometimes
ho
cut
wood
In
the
for
went on bravely. ’Til
For a long Instant they stood strain who go to the north woods every fall, ever quite escape, were stronger yet.
—that Dnn was accusing him, h.v Innu
est : first the felling of some tall pine,
Tillamook. Oregon
ing. seemingly motionless, Cranston's as regularly and seemingly as inex He tugged upward, straining. But he never be able to feel at pence. Snow-
endo, of bls Inte attempt nt arson.
I bird, until Pm •estol In the Are before I then the trimming and hewing Into
orably as the waterfowl go In spring,
powerful
body
hud
stood
tip
well
under
Cranston glanced up quickly nnd It
didn’t even hnve the strength to break
7
two foot lengths.
The blister-; came
It was a can doubt tills fact. They seem to the bold thnt the soft arm had about 1 your eyes! I want to show you the
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might be trae that Ills fingers Itched the »hock of Dan's leap,
on his hands, broke and bled, but
things
Cranston
•
■ild
of
me
are
n<>t I
hand-to-hand battle now.
The rifle have acquired from the silence and
■nd tingled about the barrel of his
his neck.
He
true—thnt my cot rage will stnnd the finally hardened Into callosities.
Dr. J. E. Shearer Dr. A. C. Crauk |
rifle. He knew what Dnn meant, He bad slid mi down the hillside, to ho the snows an Impregnation of that
“Oh. If I could only pull the trig ! test.
learned the most effective stroke to
eternal calm and Imperturbability that
caught
In
n
clump
of
brush
twenty
understood perfectly thnt Dan hail
ger I” she wns crying.
“If I could
“It wouldn't l>e the same, perhaps, hurl a shower of chips from beneath
feel below, [inn called on every ounce is the wilderness Itself. Cranston
guessed his purpose on the mountain
only kill him—”
with
an Eastern girl.
Other things the blade, His hack and limbs hard-
wasn't In the least afraid. Fear Is
MEDICINE & SURGERY
■Ide. And the curl nt his lips became of Ids strength, beennse be knew what
“l et me.” he pleaded.
"Give me
matter In the valleys. But I see how ened from the handling of heavy wood
usually
n
matter
of
uncertainty,
and
mercy
he
might
expect
If
Cranston
more pronounced.
I the pistol. I’ll kill him—”
National Building
—
and
the
cough
wns
practically
gone,
It It- here; that there Is only one
The battles of the he knew exactly where he stood.
“What n smart little boy,” he mustered him.
|
And he would. There wns no flinch
standard for men and hv thnt stand- His frame tilled out. His face became
Tillamook,
Oregon
mountains
were
battles
to
the
death.
It Is extremely doubtful If a plains ing In the gray eyes thnt looked up
I
scorned.
"Going to be a Sherlock
anl they rise or fall, Things in the swarthy from constant exposure, He V
They flung back nnd forth, wrench-
man would have possessed this knowl to her. She leaned forward, ns If to
Holmes when ho grows up." Then he
gained
In
weight.
J
mountains
are
down
to the essen-
half turned nnd the light In bls eyes Ing shoulders, lushing fists, teeth anil edge. But a plainsman has not the put the weapon in his hands, but at
tlals.”
feet and lingers. There w ere no Mnr- knowledge of life Itself that the moun
dazed tip. He was not leering now.
once drew It back. And then a single
Continued Next Week
He
paused
and
struggled
for
rhe mountain men ure too intense g'tls of Qneensberry Hiles tn this Imt- taineer has. simply because he does sob enught nt her throat. An Instant
strength
to
continue,
“
And
I
know
o play nt Insult very long. Their In- fie. Again and again Dan sent home not see It In the raw. And he has not later they heard Cranston'» laughter
what you said to him,’ ” he went on.
half the Intlmnte knowledge of death
iprent savagery comes to I he surface, bls blows; but they all seemed Inef
a« he vanished around the turn of the “llalf-unconsclotis as I was. I remem
fectlve.
By
now,
Cranston
hnd
com-
an
absolute
requisite
of
self-com
®«l they wnnt the warmth of blood
trail.
ber every word. Each word Just seems I
ipon their Angers. His voice became pletely overcome the moment’s advan posure. The mountaineer knows life
For long minutes the two of them
to burn into me. Snowbird, and DI
uttural. "Maybe you're a spy?" he tage the other had obtained by the In Its simple phases with little tradi were still. The girl still held the man’s make »Aery one of them good. You
NOTICE TO PROPERTY
power
of
his
leap.
He
hurled
Dan
tion
or
convention
to
blur
the
vision.
I
sited. "Maybe you’re one of those city
hend upon her breast. The pistol hnd
»nld I *m a better man than he. and I
OWNERS
him
from
the
clinch
nnd
lashed
at
Death
Is
a
very
intimate
acquaintance
its—to come and watch us, and then
fallen In the pine needles, and her
that may be met In any snowdrift, on nervous hand plucked strangely at the sometime It would b* proved—and It’»
m and tell the forest service. Thera’s with hard fists.
All
property will be held
the truth! Maybe In a month, maybe
It fa a very common thing to hear any rocky trail; and these condition* leaves of a mountain flower. To Dnn’s
eo things, Falling, that I want you
for water rent after Jaa. let.
In
a
year.
I'm
not
going
t®
die
from
of a al lent fight
Bnt It la really ■ *r® very deadly to auy delmdona thnt •yes, there wn* something trance) Ik®.
1*11.
» know.”
thia malady of mine new. Snowbird.
mora rare occurrence than moat peo- hs has In regard to him»® It He ac • bint of pagalysl* and Insensibility
By order of TUlamook Wa
Dan puffed at his pipa, and Ms epea
Bv® got too much t® Uv» for—too
JLJ*
’h*‘ eqrpeal* quire* an
ee® frat «bar* ba •br
ter CoouBlMioa.
S» had Mvar a®aa
ifcsd earioosly bright tbroart tW WUU:
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