THE TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT
TAGE SIX
THURSDAY. DECEMBER 30, 1920
I
The Voice of the Pàck' *
A Story of the Oregon Mountain Country
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INVITES YOU TO TRY THEIR
, BET Montij nfTemoon itrwrty- nw on the still hillside, knowing only a
ed on the eye« of some great beast o'
mal behind had been passing like buzzards, the follower of the dead.
SERVICE.
Member found Silas Lennox cutting great wonderment. At first his only woman. She knew at once that this smoke at first, but wasn’t taking the And what they were doing In tbe prey.
yvood on the ridge behind his house. It Impulse was to go back to sleep. He problem was solved.
She Identified It at once. Only th«
thicket just beside the trail. Dan did
trouble to do It now.
EXCELLENT MEALS
The hardest part was lifting him to
was still an open question with him didn’t understand the grayness that
eyes of the felines, with vertical pu
The souHd was a soft pat-pat on the not dare to think.
35 CENTS AND UP
whether he and his daughter would had come upon the mountain world, her shoulders. Only by calling upon trail—sometimes entirely obliterated
plls. have this Identical greenish glare
Of course they might i be feeding on
attempt to winter on the Divide. Dan his own strange feeling of numbness, her last ounce of strength, and tug­ but always recurring when she began the body of a deer. m< h tally wounded The eyes of the volves glow In the
of course wanted to remain, yet there of endless soaring through Infinite ging upward with her arms, was she to believe that she had only fancied by gome hunter, lie r solved to ride darkness, but the circles are usually
were certain reasons, some very defi­ spaces. But he was a mountain man, uble to do it. But it was fairly easy. its presence. Sometimes a twig, rain- by without fnvestlgntin
He glanced bright poin's. Of cnurse it was a cou­
nite and others extremely vague, why and tlint meant he was schooled, be­ In her desperation, to carry him down soaked though it was. cracked beneath ui# The buzzards we » hovering in gar.
the prospect of the winter in the snow yond all things, to keep his self-con­ the hll). What rest she got she took a heavy foot, and again and again the sky, evidently wait ng for him to I
She didn’t cry out again. Realizing
fields did not appeal to tlie moun­ trol. He made himself remember. Yes by leaning against a tree, the limp she heard the brush crushing and pass. Then, mostly to ’elleve a curi­ at last the reality of her peril, her
WE MAKE OUR OWN PAS­
taineer. In the first plt.ee, all signs —he had been cutting wood on the body still across her shoulders.
rustling as something passed through. ous sense of discomfort in his own long training in the mountains came
TRY AND OUR PIES ARE
pointed to a hard season. Although hillside, and the shadows had been
It was a distance of one hundred Sometimes, when the trail was cov- mind, he stopped his torse and dis­ to her aid. That did not mean she
the fall had come late, the snows were long. He had been wondering wheth­ yards tn all. No muscles but those ered with soft pine needles, it was mounted.
FAMOUS—IF YOU DON’T BE­
was not truly and terribly afraid. The
exceptionally early. The duck flight er or not they should go down to the trained by the outdoors, no lungs ex­ practically Indistinguishable.
LIEVE IT. ASK YOUR NEIGH­
The twilight bad stared to fall, and beast was- hunting her. She couldn’t
was completed two weeks before its valleys.
cept tlmse made strong by the moun­
BORS AND FRIENDS.
The animal was approximately one already its first groyne« had begun doubt this fact. Cariosity might make
usual time, and the rodents had dug
He remembered now: the last blow tain air, could have stood that test. hundred feet behind. It wasn’t a wolf, to soften the harder Ines of forest a lion follow her, but it would never
their burrows unusually deep. Be­ and the rolling log. He tried to turn She laid him on his own bed, on the she thought. The wolves ran in packs and hill. And after hlstlrst glance at beget such a wild light of madness In
sides, too many months of snow weigh his head to look up to the hill.
lower floor, and set his broken limbs this season, and except in winter were rhe curious white he® beside the his eyes as this she had Jost seen. She
heavily upon the spirit. The wolf
He found Mmself wholly unable to the best she could, She covered him more afraid of human beings thnn any trail, he was extremely glad that it simply clamped down all her morn'
packs sing endlessly on the ridges, do It. Something wracked him In his up with thick, fleecy blankets, and set other living creature. It wasn’t a lynx
had. But there was no chance to mis­ strength on her rising hysteria and
and many unpleasant things may hap­ neck when he tried to move. But he a bottle of whisky beside the bed. —one of those curiosity-devoured lit­ take the thing. The 'elements and looked her situation In the face. Hei
pen. On previous years, some of the did glance down. And yes, be could Then she wrote a note to Dan and tle felines that will mew all day on a
much more terrible aAnts had each hand flew instinctively to her side,
cabins on the ridges below had human turn in this direction. And he saw fastened it upon one of the interior trail and never dare come near. It
Marathon Lodge
wrought their change, ret there was and the pistol leaped tn the lantern
occupants; this winter the whole re­ the great tree trunk lying twenty feet doors.
93, Knights of Pythias
was much too large for a lynx. The grisly evidence in plentwto
dto show whnt light.
gion, for nearly seventy miles across below him, wedged In betweeti the
But the eyes had already blinked
She drew on her bob-nailed boots
feet fell too solidly. There were no had occurred. Dan die iii't doubt for
Regular
meeting Mon­
the mountains to the foothills, would young pines.
needed sorely for the steep climb
dogs in the mountains to follow at an instant but thnt It ’ Mas the skele- out before she could raise the weapon
day evening at 7:45
be wholly deserted by humnn beings.
He was surrounded by hr>>ken fraz’- and pocketed her pistol. She thrust a heel; and she had no desire whatever ton of Landy Hildreth.
sharp.
By order of
Even the ranger station, twelve miles
evident handful of jerked venison into the to meet Shag, the faithful hybrid that
He loroed himself to C nearer. The
ments
of limbs, and it
the Chancellor Com­
across a steep ridge, would soon be
Inn-
pocket of her coat and lighted the
used to be her guardian in the hills. buzzards were almost <1 ne, and one
mander.
empty. Of course a few ranchers had that the tree had not struck him a tern. The forest night had fallen, soft
For Shag had gone to his well-de­ white bone from tbe shot dor gave un­
John C. Carroll, C. C.
homes a few miles beyond the river, full blow. The limbs had protected and vibrant and tremulous, over the
served rest several sea sons before. mistakable evidence of t e passage of
him to some extent. No man is of
but the wild cataracts did not freeze
she
heads
of
the
dark
trees
when
Two
other
possibilities
remained.
One
such moM as to be crushed under the
a bullet. What had hi|pened there­
W. R. C.
In the coldest of seasons, and there
was that this follower was a hunuui after, he could only guw.
solid weight of the trunk and live to started out
Corinith Relief Corps, No. 54 Dept,
were no bridges. Besides, most of the
being, the other that It wus a cougar.
remember it. He wondered if this
Be got back quickly bn his horse.
more prosperous farmers wintered In
of Oregon, meets on first and third
CHAPTER IV
Ordinarily a human being is rnuah He understood, now. wli ■ nothing had
the valleys. Only a few more days were the frontier of death—the gray­
Friday evenings of each month, at
more potentially dangerous to a wom­ been heard of tlie evldet e that Landy
ness
that
lingered
over
hitn.
He
would the road be passable for his
8 p. m., in the W. O. W. hall. Visitors
Snowbird felt very glad of her in ti­ an In the hills at night than a sougar. HUdreth was to turn < over to the
seemed
to
be
soaring.
car; and no time must be lost In mak-
welcome .
mete, accurate knowledge of the A cougar is an abject coward and courts ns to the nctlvitlp of the arson
-He
brought
himself
back
to
earth
Ing his decision.
Minnie Johnson, President
whole region of the Divide. In her in­ some men are not. But Snowbird felt
y Bert Cran-
Once the snows came in reality. i and tried again to remember, Of fancy the winding truils had been her herself entirely capable of handling ring. Some one—probat
Elizabeth Conover, Secy.
there was nothing to do but stay. Sev­ I course, the twilight had fallen. It had playground, and long ago she had ac­ any human foes. They would have no «ton himself—had been 1 alting on the
trail.
Others
had
con
!
thereafter.
cut
;
been
late
afternoon
when
he
had
enty miles across the uncharted ridges
quired the mountaineer's sixth sense advantage over her; they would have And his lips set In’ his esolve to
Corinth Post. No. 35, Dept, of Oregon.
on snowshoes is an undertaking for ’ the tree. His hand stole along his for traversing them at night. She had
no purpose in killing from nmbush; this murder measure lr the debt
Meets on second and fourth
which even a mountaineer has no | body; and then, for the first time, a need of that knowledge now. She
and she trusted to her own marks­ hnd to pny Cranston.
Saturdays of each month
fondness. It might be the wisest thing, I hideous sickness came upon him. nis slipped into her free, swinging stride;
manship implicitly. While it is an ex­
The Lennox house se med very
after all, to load Snowbird and Dan I hand was warm and wet when he
at 1:30 p. m. in W. O. W.
and the last beams from the windows tremely difficult thing to shoot at a lent when, almost an t mr later,
he
brought
it
up.
The
other
hand
Into his car and drive down to the
hall. Visitors welcome.
of the house were soon lost in the cougar leaping from the thicket, a tall turned his horse Into tli corral,
couldn't
stretch
at
all.
valleys. The fall roundup would soon
pines behind her. It was one of those man standing on a trail presents an hnd rather hoped thnt Stiwblrd would
The forest was silent around him,
be completed. Bill would return for a
H. W. Spear, Com’dr.
silent, breathless nights with which easy target. Besides, site had a vague be at the door to meet hi. The dark­
few days from the valleys with new except n bird calling somewhere near
Samuel Downs, Adjt.
no mountaineer is entirely unacquaint­ sense of discomfort that if this animal ness had just fallen, nnd all the lamps
equipment to replace the broken light­ the house—a full voice, rich and clear,
ed, and for a long time the only sound were a cougar, lie wasn't acting true were lighted. He strodi into the liv-
ing system on the car, and they could and It seemed to him that It had a
Johnson Chapter No. 24
she could hear was her own soft to form. He was altogether too bold. ing room, warming his lands an in-
avoid the bitter cold and snow that quality of distress. Then he recognized
R. A. M.
tramp In the pine needles. The trees
Tlie
animal
on
the
trail
behind
her
i
p.
The
fire
stnnt
beside
the
flrepla
Stated convocations every
I
Lennox had known so long. He ft. It was the voice of his own daugh­
themselves were motionless. That was taking no care at all to go silent­ needed fuel, It hnd e dently been
•st
and
third Fridays.
chopped nt a great log and wondered ter. Snowbird, culling for him. He
peculiar sound, not greatly different ly. He was simply pit-patting along, neglected for nearly an our.
Visitors welcome.
what would suit him better—the com­ tried to answer her.
from that of running water which the wholly at his ease. He acted as If the
Then he called Snowli d. His voice
I. E. Keldson, Sec.
fort nnd safety of fhe valleys or the
It was only a whisper, at first, Yet wind often makes in the pine tops, fear tliat men have Instilled in his
unanswered,
rngged glory of the ridges.
she was coming nearer; and her own was entirely lacking. Not that she breed was somehow missing. And echoed In the silent roon:
t to look for
Tillamook
But at that Instant, the question of voice sounded louder. "Here, Snow­ could be deceived by it—as stories that is why she instinctively tried to He called again, then wt
her. At the door of thi dining room
Lodge
whether or not he would winter on the bird,” be called again. She heard hltn tell that certain tenderfeet, dying of hurry on the trail.
he found the note thnt she hnd
No. 1260
Divide was decided for him. And an then: he could tell by the startled thirst In the barren hills, have been.
The step kept pace. For a long for him.
L. 0. 0. M.
Instant was all that was needed. For tone of her reply. The next Instant But she always liked the sound; and
mile, up a barren ridge, she heard
It told, very slmplv an plainly,
the period of one breath lie forgot to she was at Ills side, her tears drop­ she missed it especially tonight.
I
I
every
step
it
imide.
Then,
as
the
her father lay Injured I his bed.
I
be watchful—and a certain dread ping on his face.
She felt that if she would stop to brush closed deeper around her, she he was to remain anil do what he
She Shot Twice.
Spirit tliat abides much in the forest
With
a
tremendous
effort
of
will
he
listen. there would be many faint couldn’t hear it at all.
I
She
had
;one
for
help
could
for
him.
saw its chance. Perhaps he had lived recalled his speeding faculties. "1 sounds in the thickets—those little
shot twice. Tlie echoes roared
Site hurried on, straining to the to the ranger station.
too long in tlie mountains nnd grown don’t think I’m badly hurt/’ he told hushed noises
back, unbelievably loud in the silence,
I
that the wild things silence. No. the sound was stopped.
He leaped through the -ooms to Len­
careless of them: an attitude tlint is her very quietly. “A few ribs broken make to
i remind night-wanderers of Could it he that the animal, fearful at nox’s door, then went jin on tiptoe. and then abruptly died; and the only
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—and a leg. Rut we’ll have to winter their presence. But she did not in
sound was a rustling of leaves as file
last, had turned from her trail? And And the first thing he paw when he
here on the Divide. Snowbird mine.”
the least care to hear these sounds, then for the first time a gasp that I opened the door was the grizzled cougar crouched. She sobbed once,
S. A. Brodhead, Sec.
then hurried on.
“What does it matter, if you live?" They do not tend toward peace of was not greatly different from a de- man’s gray face on tin pillow.
she cried. She crawled along the pine mind on a long walk over the ridges.
She
was
afraid
to
listen
nt
first.
She
“You're home early, inn,” he said.
needles beside him. and tore Ills shirt
wanted to believe that her pistol fire Tillamook Lodge No. 57. A.F. & A.M.
The wilderness began at once.
“How many did you ge !”
Stated Communication Wed­
from his breast. He was rapidly sink­ Whatever Influence toward civiliza­
would frighten the animal from her
It
was
entirely characteristic.
ing Into unconsciousness. The tiling tion her father’s house had brought to
nesday evening, January 12.
Shaggy old Woof Is torJprond to bowl trail. She knew, under ordinary con
«lie dreaded most—'lint bls back might tlie wilds chopped oil' as beneath a
over the wounds thnt hr him low, nnd j ditions, that it would. If he still fol-
1921. Visiting brethern wel-
bo broken—was evidently not true. blade in the first fringe of pines. This
Ibis gray old bonr on fie bed bad par­ 1 lowed, it could mean hut one thing—
como.
There wore, ns he said, broken ribs Is altogether characteristic of the Ore­
tlint some unheard-of I, eident laid <»<•-
taken of his spirit.
and evidently one severe fracture of gon forests. They are much too big
Harvey Ebinger, Sec’
“Good Lord,” Dan ntpwered. “How | curred to destroy Ills fear of men. It
the leg bone. Whether he hud sus­ and too old to be tamed in any large
j would mean that he had knowingly set
bndly are you hurt?”
tained Internal Injuries that would degree by the presence of one house.
“Not so lmd Imt tha nj I’m sorry that upon her trail and was limiting her
end Ilfs life before the morning, she No one knew this fact better than
Snowbird tns gone Irlfting twelve : with all the age-old remorselessness
had rio way of knowing.
Lennox himself who, In a hard win
miles over the hills for help. It’s [ thnt Is the code of the mountains.
At this point, tlie problem of saving ter of four years before, had looked
For a little while all was silence.
dark ns pitch."
her father's life fell wholly Into her out of his window to find the wolf
Ami It vas. Din
:ml could scarcely Then out of the hush the thickets sud­
Tuesday eve, 8 p. m.
hands. His broken body could not be pack ranged In u hungry circle about
make out the outlln
In« of the somber denly crashed and shook on the oppo­
Rebekak, Wednesday evening
carried over the mountain road to his house. Within two hundred yards
site side of tlie trail. She fired blind­
ridges against the sk
!k.
Camp 2-4, Thursday
physicians in the valleys. They must after she had passed through her fa­
They talk’d on. aid their subject ly into the thicket. Then she caught
be transported to tlie ranch. It would ther's door, she was perfectly aware
wns whether Dan Jioulil
Umuld remain to herself with n sob. But two shells
take them a full day to make the trip, tliat the wild was stirring and throb­
take enro o' Lennoi.
it. or whether he remained in her pistol, and they must
even if she could get word to them at bing with life about her. At first site
should attempt to orertake
vrertnke Snowbird he saved for the test.
once; and twenty-four hours without tried very hard to think of other
XVhlsperfoot the cougar. remember-
with the horse. Of / course the girl
To Employers of Labor
medical attention would probably cost things. But the attempt wasn’t en-
hnd ordered him to/stay. Lennox, on Ing the lessons of his youth, turned
By the
her father his life. The nearest tele­ tirely a success, And before she had
tho other hand, sain tliat Dnn could from tho trail when he had first henrd
phone was at the ranger station, covered tlie first of the twelve miles,
not help him In thd
tin/ least,
He had crouched
____ and desired Snowbird’s step.
twelve miles distant over a mountain the sounds that from the first had
him to follov tlie
nnd let her pass. She was w
le tiri.
trail. The telephone line to Bald been knocking at the door of her con-
‘Tm not often i Axions about her,” Into the wind; nnd as she was
mountain, four tulles off. hud been dis­ sciousness began to make an entrance.
It Is a long walk closest point a message had
ho said «lowly. ’ ‘lilt
.
connected when the rains hud ended
If a person lies still long enough, he
The Oldest Office in Oregon
through
the
wildest
part of the Di- hack to him.
the peril of the forest fire.
can usually hear his heart beating
The hair went straight on his slioitl-
Headquarters for
vide. Some «ay—I can’t bar accidents
It nil depended upon her. Bill was and the flow of bls blood in his
Farm, Dairy, Mill, Logging
tonight. I drn’t like to think of her ders and along his spine. Ills blood.
driving cattle into the valleys, and he arteries. Any sound, no matter how
and office help of all kinds.
running cold nn Instant before from
on those momtnlns alone.”
and bls men had In use all the horses faint, will make Itself heard nt Inst.
And rotnoitfieririg whnt hnd lnln be­ fear, ninde a great leap In his veins.
Phone Bdg. 2272
on the ranch with one exception. The It was this way with a very ¡lecullnr
side the trail Dan felt the same, lle A picture came in his dark mind: the
14 N Second St. Portland, Or.
remaining horse bail been ridden by noise tliat crept up through the silence
He Fell Struggling.
had henrd. Img ago. that any animal chase for a deer when the moon hnd
Dan to some distant marshes, and ns from tho trail behind her. She
thnt once tnsxl human flesh loses its set, the stir of a living thing that
usually punished with death. He had Dan would shoot until sunset, that wouldn’t give it any heed at first. But
feat of men aid Is never to be trusted broke twigs in the thicket«, and the
just felled a tree, and the trunk was meant he would not return until ten In a very little while Indeed, it grew
again, Some wild animal that still loop lie hnd made. There hnd heen
She Heard the Steps Again.
still attached to the stump by a strip o’clock. There was no road for a car so Insistent that she could no longer
hunted the tdges had. In the last bbmd, that night—the wildness and th*
of bark to which a little of the wood to the ranger station, only n rough disregard It.
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«pairing sob caught at her throat. Sh* moo th. done jist that thing. He left msdnoHa and the exultation of the kill.
adhered, lie struck a furious blow at steep trail, and she remembered. with
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Some living er««lure wa* trotting heard the steps again, and they were tbe room am walked softly to the Of course there had been terror first
It with Ids ax.
a sinking heart, tlint one of Bill’s mis­ along on the trail behind, keeping ap­
Private office in Jenkin’s jewelry
but the t«rror had soon departed and
door.
He hadn't considered tliat the trc- sions In the valley was to procure a proximately the Mme dlatuDce be-, in the thickets just beside her.
store. Latest up-to-date instru­
•
left
something
lying
warm
and
still
Th*
night
Uy
«Bent
«nd
my»t*rlou«
lay on n steep slope. As the blade new lighting system. By no conceiv­ tween them.
1
ments and equipment. Evenings
In
tbe
thicket«.
It
was
the
same
game
Two
hour«
before
Snowbird
laid
left
I
over
the
DIvL«.
II*
stood
listening.
fell, the great trunk simply seemed to able possibility could she drivo down
and Sunday by appointment.
Foregoing any attempt to Ignore K. | the bouse, on her long tramp to the The girl hnd farted only «n hour be­ that walked his trail In front—game
leap, Lennox leaped too. In a frenzied that mountain road in the dnrknes*. she set her cool young mind to think­
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. yet. In a vague
ranger station, Dan had started home. fore. «nd ft vas unlikely that she that died easily
effort to .' his life; but already the But she was somewhat relieved by the
ing what manner of beast it might be. I He hadn't stmt until sunset, as he bad could hnve tr versed mors than two way h* did te>t understand, the
leafy bows, like the tendrils of some 'honght that In all probability she
its step was not greatly different from ' planned.
miles of the »eep trail In thnt time. noblest game of all. It was living
great amphibian, had whipped around could walk twelve miles across the
that of a large dog-—except possibly a
He rode one of Lennox’s cattle Although tlie orse ordinarily did not flesh, to tear with talon and fang.
i
Me fell,
fell struggling;
strtigg
his legs. He
anil mountains to the ranger station In dog would have made «lightly more |
All bls training, all the Instincts Im I
then n curious darkness.
darkness, streaked milch less time than she could drive, noise. Yet she couldn't even be sure I ponies, the only piece of horse-flesh climb a hill mre swiftly thnn a hu­
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that Bill hrul not tnken to the valleys man being, h* didn’t doubt but that bued In him by a thousand generations
with flame, dnuiped down upon him.
by automobile, seventy miles down to of tills basic premise, because this
of
cougars
who
knew
this
greatesi
.
when
he
had
driven
down
the
live
he
could
ovrtako
her
before
she
An hour later lie found lilmsolf lying the ranches nt the foothills about the animal, whatever It might be, had at
National Building
, stock. She was a pretty bay, a splr- went three mbs farther. Rut where fear, were simply obliterated by the
valley.
first seemingly moved with utmost ' Ited, lilgli-bred mare that could whip lay hl« duty—with the Injured man sudden violence of his hunting-mad .
Tillamook. Oregon
Besides, she remembered with a caution, but now took less care with abont on her hind legs st the touch of In the house o with the daughter on ness. lie had tasted this blood once,
gladdening heart that Richards. one Its step than Is customary with the the rein on her neck. She made good her errand of nercy In the darkness? nnd It could never be forgotten. The
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of llie rangers, had been a student at wild denizens of the woods. A wolf, time along the trail. And an hour be­ i
Then the Bitter wa« decided for flame leaped In hfs eyes. And then he
a medical college nnd had taken n po­ for instance, can simply drift when it fore sunset he passed the only human
him. So falnnhat it only whispered began tlie «talk.
sition with the forest service to re­ wishes, and the silence of a cougar Is habitation between the marsh
A cougar, trying to creep silently
and nt the dim. oi|*r frontier- of hearing,
gain Ids health. She would cross the a name. Yet unless her pursuer were Lennox’s house—the cabin that
had a «oiind oiint pricking through the on Its game, does not move quickly. It j
ridge to the station, phone for a doc­ a dog, which seemed entirely unlikely. been recently occupied
VETERINARIAN
by Lautly Hll
dnrkne««. <>n> bls mouthy of listen­ simply steals, ns a serpent steals
tor In the x alleys, and would return It was certainly one of these two. She
, dreth.
ing to the fnU sounds of the forest, through the grass. Whisperfoot stalked | Bell
Phone 2F2.
on horseback with Richards for such would have liked very much to believe
MutualPb, .
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He glanced nt the pince a« he unil tlie IwroAde «Honre of the night for a period of five minutes, to lenrn
first nid ns lie could give. The only tlie step was that of Old Wolf the
passed and saw that It was deserted. enabled him il he nr It at all. But he that the prey was farther away from
Tillamook,
Oregon
problem that remnlred was that of t>< ir,’suddenly curious ns to what this
No smell of wood «moke remained In knew wlmt it wns. th« report of a him at eyery step.
getting her father Into the house.
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dim light of hers might be; but she the air. Evidently Landy
•—•- ami gone
------ pistol. Snowlnf had met an enemy
He trotted forward until ho camo
>
He wns stirring n little now. Evi
c
couldn’t bring herself to accept the [ down to the settlements with his in the darkne«.
close, and again he stalked, Again hi«
dently consciousness was returning to lie.
Woof, except when wounded or j precious testimony in regard to the
He called oee to Lennox, snatched found, after a few minutes of silent
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him. And then she thanked beaver! cornered. Is the most amiable crea­ arson ring. Yet it was ctrious thnt the sho’gun hut still «total Where he creeping through the thickets, that hr
for the few simple lessons In first aid ture In the Oregon woods, and It no word had been heard txt him. As had placeil 1 In the corner of the hnd lost distance. Evidently th!«
thnt her father luid taught her In the would give her almost a sense of se­ fur ns Dan knew, neither the courts room, and Itf-tened to the corral. The game did not feed slowly, like th
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■ lays before carelessness had come curity to have him waddling along nor the forest service had
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upon him. One of his lessons had behind her. The wolves nnd cougar tlon.
A; •n he trotted within one hundred
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human form—a method by which even not lie nearly so carious. But unfor The trail entered the lieNj thickets.
When Snsthlrd first heard the step
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a woman tuny carry, for n short dis
tnnately, the black bear had never | and he hnd to ride slow if It was as in the thiiflbts beside her. she halted
tance. a heavy man. It was approxi­ done such a thing In the memory of >
wild a section as coqld he found on bravely aiy held her lantern high She
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wounded In No Mau's Land; the bodv made six times a« much noise. He
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