SUNßET
from a nervous collapse do not tend as the eating places In the berry thick
ets remain open. The cougars had
Though the fear was mostly gone, feet; but at fltst she did not dare to toward cheer.
the cougar retained enough of that hope that aid had come to her. She
all gone down with the deer, the mi
an
But the natural sturdiness of
caution that most wild animals ex had thought of Dan as on the far three quickly enme to their aid. Of gratory birds had departed, and even
away
marshes
;
and
her
father,
the
hibit when hunting a new game so
course Lennox had been severely In- the squirrels were tn hiding.
that he didn't attempt to strike Snow only other living occupant of this part Jured by the falling log, and c. iy
The scene didn't offer much in the
bird down at once. But as the chase of the Divide, might even now be ly weeks would pass before he would be way of clues. Of the body Itself od I. v
ing
dead
In
bls
house.
In
her
terror,
went on, his passion grew upon him.
able to walk agnln. He could sit up a white heap of bones remained, for
Ever he crept nearer. And at last he she had lost all power of interpreta for short periods, however; had the many and terrible had been the agents
tion
of
events.
The
sound
might
be
■prang full Into the thickets beside
the cougar’s mate, or even the wolf partial use of one ann; and could pro at work upon them. The clothes, how
her.
pel himself—after the first few weeks ever, particularly the coat, were prac
At that iDStant she bad shot for the pack, Jealous of his game. Sobbing, —at a snail's pace through the rooms tically Intact Gripping himself, Dan
hurried
on
Into
Wbisperfoot
’
s
am
she
first time. Because the light had left
In a rude wheel chair that Bill's Inge thrust his fingers into its pockets, then
his eyes before she could find alm, bush.
Then she heard a voice, and It seem nuity had contrived. The great livid into the pockets of the shirt and trous
both shots had been clean misses. And
scratches that Dan bore on his body ers. All paper that would in any
terrible as the reports were, he was ed to be calling to her. ''Snowbird—
quickly began to heal; and before a way serve to Identify the murdered
man's
strong
I
’
m
coming,
Snowbird,
”
a
too engrossed In the chase to be
man, or tell what bls purpose bad been
frightened away by mere sound. This voice was shouting. She whirled with week was done he began to venture in journeying down the frail the night
| forth on the hills again. Snowbird
was the cry the man-pack always a sob of thankfulness.
At that Instant the cougar sprang. ! had remained In bed for three days; of the murder had been removed. Only
made—these sudden, startling sounds
Terrified
though she was. Snow I then she had hopped out one bright one explanation presented Itself.
In the silence. But he felt no pain.
bird
’
s
reflexes
had kept sure and true. afternoon, swearing never to go back Cranston had com«; before him and
He crouched a moment, shivering.
Even os the great cat leaped, a long, ■ Into it agnln. Evidently the crisp, fall searched the body himself.
¿Then he bounded on again.
Dan looked about for tracks, and he
The third shot was a miss too: tn lithe shadow out of the shadow, her air of the mountains had been a nerve
was
considerably surprised to find the
|
tonic
for
them
all.
finger
pressed
back
against
the
trigger
fact, there had been no chance for a
Of course there had been medical blurred. Indistinct laij>rin't of a shoe
hit A sound In the darkness is as of her pistol. She had been carry
unreliable a target as can possibly be ing her gun In front of her, and she attention. A doctor and a nurse had other than his own. He hadn't the
imagined. And It didn't frighten him fired It, this last time, with no con ' motored up the day after the accident; least hope that the tracks themselves
as much as the others. He waited, scious effort. It was just a last In the physician had set the bones and would offer a clue to a detective.
stinctive effort to defend herself.
I departed, nnd the nurse remained for They were too dim for that. The sur
crouching, nnd the girl started on.
One other element affected the Is a week, to see the grizzled mountain prising fact was that since the mur
i She was making other sounds now—
queer, whimpering sounds not greatly sue. She hnd whirled to answer Dan’s eer well on the way of convalescence. der hnd been committed immediately
different from the bleat that the fawn cry just as the cougar left the ground. But It was an anxious wait, and Len before the fall rains, the water had
utters when It dies. It was a fear But she hnd still been In range. The nox's car was kept constantly In readl- not completely washed them out. The
I
sound, and if there Is one emotion only effect was to lessen, In some de 1 ness to speed her away in case the only possibility remaining was that
with which the wild beasts are ac gree, the accuracy of the spring. The ! snows should start At last she hnd Crnns'on had returned to the body
qualnted, In all Its phases, It ts fear. bullet caught the beast In mid-air; I left him In Snowbird's hands, and Bill after the week's rainfall. The track
She was afraid of him, then, and that but even if it hnd reached Its heart, : hnd driven her back to the settlements had be«‘n dimmed by the lighter rains
meant he need no longer be In the the momentum of the attack wns too , in his father's cnr. The die was now that had fallen since.
But yet it was entirely to be
least afraid of her. Ills skin began to great to be completely overcome. cnst as to whether or not Dan nnd
twitch all over with that terrible mad Snowbird only knew that some vast, the remainder of the family should pected that the examination of
ness and passion of the flesh-hunters. resistless power had struck her, and winter In the mountain. The snow body would be an afterthought
This game was like the deer, and that the darkness seemed to roar and 1 clouds deepened every day, the frost Cranston's part. Possibly at first
I was ever heavier In the dawns, and only thought was to kill and, follow
the tiling to do was He in wait. There explode about uSf.
Hurled to her face In the trail, she the rond would surely remain open ing the prompting that has s«;nt so
was only one trail. He wasn’t afraid
many murderers to the gallows, he
of losing her In the darkness, She did not see the cougar sprawl on the i only a few days more.
was neither fleet like the deer nor earth beside her. The flame In the ' Once more the three seemingly had had afterward returned to the scene
courageous like Woof the bear, He lantern almost flicked out ns It fell the Divide all to themselves. Bert of the crime to destroy any clues he
had only to wult and leap from the from her hand, then flashed up nnd Cranston hnd evidently deserted his might have left and to search the
down, from the deepest gloom to a cabin and was working a trap-line ou body for any evidence against the
darkness when she passed.
•
••**••
. vivid glare with something of the ef the Umpqua side. The rangers left arson ring.
When Dan Falling, riding like mad fect of lightning flickering In the sky. ( the little station, nil danger of fire
Dan's next thought was to follow
over the mountain trail, heard the Nor did she hear the first frenzied pnst, and went down to their offices along the trail and find Cranston’s
third shot from Snowbird's pistol, he thrashing of the wounded animal. In the federal bnlldlng of one of the ambush. Of course It would be In the
felt that one of the debts he owed had Kindly unconsciousness hnd fallen, ob little cities below. Because he wns direction of the settlement from the
come due at last, lie seemed to know, scuring this nnd also the sight of the worse fhnn useless In the deep snows body, as the bullet hnd entered from
as the darkness pressed around hlin, great cat, In the agony of Its wound, thnt were sure to come, one of the the front. He found It hard to believe
that be was to be tried In the Are. And creeping with broken shoulder nnd ranch hands that had driven up with that Illldrcth had fallen In the exact
the horse staggered beneath him ns bared claws across the plnn needles Bill rode away to the valleys the last spot where the body lay. Men Jo«r-
toward her defenseless body.
he tried to hasten.
of the live stock—the horse that Dan neyfng nt night keep to the trail, and
But the terrible fangs were never hnd ridden to Snowbird's defense.
He showed no mercy to his mount.
the white heap Itself was fully forty
Horse-flesh Isn't made for carrying a to know her white flesh. Some one I Nothing had been heard of Landy feet back from the trail In the thlck-
heavy man over such a trail as this, had come between. Thera was no Hildreth, who used to live on the ets. Perhaps Cranston had dragged it
and she was red-nostrlled nnd lath ehnnee to shoot: Whisperfoot and the trail to the marsh, nnd both Lennox 1 there to hide It from the sight of any
ered before half a mile hud been cov girl were too near together for that. nnd his daughter wondered why. There one who might pass along the lonely
ered. He mnde her leap up the rocks, But one course remained; nnd there were also certnln officials who had trail agnln; and ft was a remote pos
and on fairly level stretches he loosed was not even time to count the cost. I begun to be curious. As yet, Dan sibility that Whfsperfoot, coming In
the reins and Inshed her Into n gallop. In this most terrible moment of Dan had told no one of the grim find he the night, had tugged it Into the thick
Only a mountain horse could have Falling's life, there was not even an hm! made on his return from hunting. ets for dreadful purposes of hfs own.
stood thnt test. He gave no thought Instant's hesitation. He did not know And he would have found It an ex Likely the shot wns fired when Hil
to his own safety. Ills courage was that Whisperfoot was wounded. He tremely difficult fact to explnfn.
dreth was In an open place on the
nt the tent, nnd no risk of his own saw the beast creeping forward In the
It nil went back to those inner trail; and Dnn searched for the am
life must Interfere with his attempt weird dancing light of the fallen Inn- springs of motive thnt few men can bush with this conclusion tn mind. He
to save Snowbird from the danger tern, nnd he only knew that Ills flesh, see clearly enough within themselves walked back, looking for a thicket
that threatened her. He didn't know not hers, must resist Ils rending tal to recognize. Evon the first dny, when from which such a spot would be vis
when the horse would fall with him ons. Nothing else mattered. No oth he lay burning from his wounds, he ible. Something over fifty yards down
and precipitate him down u precipice, er consideration could come between. work«*«] out his own explanation In re he found It; and he knew It. by the
It wns the test; nnd Dan's Instincts gard to the murder mystery. He empty brass rifle cartridge that lay
and he was perfectly aware thnt to
crash into a low-hanging limb of one prompted coolly nnd well. He leaped hadn’t the slightest doubt but thnt half burled tn the wet leaves.
of the grout trees beside the trail with all his strength. The cougar Cranston hnd killed Hildreth to pre
The shell was of the same caliber
would probably crush his skull. But bonndtsl Into his arms, not upon the vent his testimony from ranching the as Cranston’s rifle, Dan'» hand shook
prone
body
of
the
girl.
And
she
open-
he took the chance. And before the
conrts below. Of course, any other as he pat It in his pocket.
ride was done he found himself plead ed her eyes to hear n curious thrash- member of the nrson ring of hillmen
Encouraged by this amazing find,
ing with the horse, even ns he lashed
might have been the murderer; yet he turned up the trail toward H11-
her sides with his whip.
Dan wns Inclined to believe thnt Cran dreth’s cabin, It might he possible.
The lesser forest creatures sprang
ston, the lender of the gang, usually he thought, thnt Hildreth had left
from his trail; and once the mare
preferred to do such dangerous work some of bls testimony—perhaps such
leaped high to miss a dark shadow
as this himself. If It were tri»«.' some rudely s<-rawled letters ns Cranston
that crossed In front. As she caught
where on that tree-clad ridge clues had written him—In some forgotten
her stride, Dan heard a squeal nnd a
would bo left. Moreover, It wns wholly drawer In his hut. It wns but a short
rattle of quills that identified the crea
possible’ thnt the written testimony walk for Dan's hardened legs, and he
ture as a porcupine.
Hildreth must have gathered had nev mnde It before midafternoon.
er Iwen found or destroyed. Dan
By now he hud passed the first of
The search Itwlf was wholly with
didn't wnnt the al<l of the courts to out result. But because he had time
the worst grades, coming out upon a
find these clues. He wanted t* work i ; to think a.v he climbed the ridge, be
long, easy slope of open forest, Again
out the case himself. It resolve«l It cause ns he strode along beneath that
he urged his horse, leaving to her
self In?» a simple matter of vengeance: wintry sky he had a chance to con
keen senses alone the choslng of the
Ihin hnd his debt to pny, nnd he wnnt- sider every detail of the case, he was
path between the great tree trunks.
e«l to bring Cranston to ruin Ay his able to start out on a new taek when,
Then he heard Snowbird tire for the
own linatl alone.
fourth time; nnd he knew that he had
just before sunset, he returned to the
Wiille ft wns true that he took ra body. This new train of thought hnd
almost overtaken her. The report
ther more than the cnsunl Interest as Its basis thnt Cranston's shot had
seemed to smash the air. And he
moot citizens feel In the drstruc- not been deadly nt once; thnt, wound
lushed his hors«- Into the fastest run
of the forest by wnnton fire, and ed, Hildreth had himself crawled Into
She knew—n wild, sobbing figure In
nn sctnnl sense of duty to do all the thickets where Whisperfoot hnd
the darkness.
he eonld to stop the activities of found him. And that meant that he
_“She's only got on«' shot more.” he
th«> arson ring, his motives, stripped had to enlarge his search for such
Bald. He knew how many bullets her
and bare, were really not utllitarinn. documents as Hildreth had carried to
pistol carried; am! the danger—what
He hail no particular Interest in Hil Include nil the territory between the
ever It urns—must bo just at hand. Un
dreth's case. Ho remembered him sim trail nnd the location of the body.
derbrush cracked beneath him.
ply ns one of Cranston's disreputable
then the hors«’ drew up with a
It was possibly a distance of forty
gang, a poacher and a tire bug him- feet, nnd getting down on hts hands
thnt almost hurled him from
self. When all Is said and dene. It and knees. Dnn looked for aay break
die.
remained really a personal Issue be- In the shrubbery that would indicate
lie lashed at her In vain,
tween Dnn and Cranston. And per- the path that the wounded Hildreth
not afraid in the darkness
»on a I Issues are frowned upon '.»y law hnd taken. And it wns ten minutes
rocks of the trail, but some Terror In
nnd society. Civilization has tolled well rewarded, ns far ns clearing up
the woods In front had In nn Instant
up frora the darkness In a great meas certain details of the ertme. nis
broken hla control over her. Sb«'
ure to get nwny from them. But hu senses had be«>n trained and sharp
reared, snorting; then danced In nn
man nature remains distressingly the ened by Ms months tn the wilderness,
Impotent circle. Meanwhile, precious
A Strange, Grim Battle,
same, and I »an’» desire ’o pay bls debt and he was able to back-track the
Bcconds were fleeing.
He understood now. The horse Ing In the pine needle», a strange grin, was a distinctly human emotion. Some wounded man from the skeleton clear
stood still, shivering beneath him, but battle that, as the lantern ttash<x1 out, time n breed will live upon t'ne earth to the cisarlng on the trad where he
that can get clenr away from personal had first fallen. But as no cities pre
would not advance a atop. The silence uas hidden In the darkness.
vengeance—from that age-eld code
deeperu-d. Somewhere In th«’ dark
And that battle, In the far reaches of tke hills that demands a blow sented themselves, he started to turn
home.
ness before him a great cougar was i of the Divide, passed Into a legend. It
for » blow and n life for a life—but
Walting by the trail, and Snowbird, was the tale of how Dau Fnlllng. his
He walked twelve feet then turned
the Mme Is not yet. Anil after all, by back. Out of the corner ef his eye It
hoping for the moment thnt ft hail gun knocked from his hands as he
•l'< the standards of men ns men, not
given up the chase, was hastening met the cougar's leap, with hla own
seemed to aim that he hnd caught a
through the shadows squarely Into Its unaided arms kept the life-giving as read In Idealistic philosophies. flash of white, near the end of a great
Daw's debt was entirely real. By the
ambush.
breath from the animal's lungs and light held high by his ancestors, he dead log beside the path that the
wounded Hildreth had unken. For a
Whisperfoot crouched lower: and killed him In th» pine needles. Claw coiHd not turn his other cheek.
moment he searched In rain. Evident
again his long serpent of a tall began nud fang and the frenzy of death
Just as soon ns he wns »bl«’ h«> went ly a yellow leaf had deceived him.
the little vertical motion that always i could not matter nt all.
i
precede* his leap. He had not forgot
Thus Falling established before all l-sck to the scene of the murder He One» more he retraced his steps, try
ten the wild rapture of that moment men hla right to the name he bore. «■dn't know when the snow would ing to find the position from which his
he bnd Inadvertently sprung on Landy And thus he paid one of his debts— come to cover what evidence there eye had caught the glimpse of white.
Hildreth—or how, after his terror ha>1 life for a life, ns the code of the forest wns. It threatened every hour. Ev Then he dived straight for the rotten
Bled, he hnd come creeping back, lie has always decreed—and In the fire ery wind prom'W It The air was end of the log.
Into a little hollow in the bark, on
hunted his own way. waiting on the of danger nnd pain his metal WAS sharp and cold, nnd ao drop of rain
could fall through It without crystal the underside of the log. some hand
trail; and hl» nmdneas was at its tried and proven.
lizing Into snow. The deer had all bad thrust a small roll of papers.
height. He was not Just Whisperfoot
gone nnd the burrowing people had They were rain-soaked now. and the
the coward, that runs at the shadow
BOOK THREE
sought their holes. The bees worked Ink had dlmrne«! and blotted; hut Dan
of a tall form In the thickets.
The
no more In the winter flowers. Of realize«! their significance. Th«’» were
consummation was complete, and thnt
nil the greater forest creatures only the complete evidence that Hildreth
The Payment
■Ingle experience of a month before
the wolves nnd the bear remained — had accumulated against the arson
had made of him s hunter of men
the former because their fear of men ring—letters that had passetl back and
CHAPTER I.
Hla muscles set for the Imp.
would not permit them to go down forth between himself and Cranston
So Intent was be that hla keen
The Lennox home. In the wilderness to the lower hills, nnd the latter be a threat of murder from the former if
■enses didn't detect the fact that
there was a curious echo to the girl’s of the Umpqua Divide, looked rather cause of his knowledge that when Hildreth tarred state's evtdenee. and
food became scarce he could always
footsteps, Dan Falling had »lipped like an emergency hospital for the first burrow In the snow. No bear goes a signed statement of the arson activ
few
days
after
Dan
’
s
tight
with
Whig-
hla
terrified
horse
and
was
ities of the ring by Hildreth himself
down from
Into hibernation from choke. tvisv
running up the frail behind her. pray- perfoot. Its old sounds of laughter old bachelor, he much prefers to keep They were not only enough to break
and talk were almost entirely lacking.
■p the rlns and semi Its members to
Ing that he could be la time.
Jus* m late hour* as he can—«» long prison; with ths »Id of the empty »hoi
Snowbird beard the pat pal of bla Two Injured men and a girl iwcoveetng
and other circumstantial evidence,
they could tn all probability convict
Bert Cranston of murder.
For a long time he stood with the
shadows of the pines lengthening
about him, his gray eyes in curious
shadow. For the moment a glimpse
was given him into the deep wells of
the human soul; and understanding
came to him. Was there no balm for
hatred even in the moment of death?
Were men unable to forget the themes
and motives of their lives, even when
the shadows closed down upon them?
Hildreth had known what hand bad
struck him down. And even on the
Soma Hand Had Thrust a Small Roll
of Paper.
frontier of death, his first thought was
to hide his evidence where Cranston
could not find it when he searched the
body, but where later it might be
found by the detectives that were sure
to come. It was the old creed of a
life for a life. He wanted his evidence
to be preserved—not that right should
be wronged, but so that Cranston
would be prosecuted and convicted
and made to sniffer. Ills hatred of
Cranston that had made him turn
state’s evidence In the first place had
been carried with him down into
death.
-As Dan stood wondering, he thought
he heard a twig crack on the trail be
hind him, and he wondered what for
est creature was still lingering on the
ridges at the eve of the snows.
•
••»•«»
The snow began to fall in earnest at
midnight—great, white flukes that al
most in> an instant covered the leaves.
It was the real beginning of winter,
and all living creatures knew IL The
wolf pnjk sang to It from the ridge—
a wild and plaintive song that made
Bert Cranston, sleeping In1 a lean-to
on the Umpqua side of the Divide,
swear and mutter In his sleep. But he
didn't really waken until Jim Gibbs,
one of his gang, returned from bls
secret mission.
They wasted no words, Bert flung
aside the blankets, lighted a cnndle
and placed it out of the reach of the
night wind. His face looked swarthy
and deep-lined in Its light
“Well?" he demanded. "What did
you find?”
"Nothin'.” Jim Gibbs answered gut-
turally. “If you ask me what I found
out, I might have somethin' to an
swer.”
"Then—” and Bert, after the man
ner of his kind, breathed an oath—
"What did you find quit?”
His tone-, except for an adied note
of savagery, remained the same. Yet
his heart wns thumping a great deal
louder than he liked to have it Realiz
ing that the snows were nt hand, he
had sent Gibbs for a last search of
the body, to find nnd recover the evi
dence thnt Hildreth had against him
and which had not been re ea Jed either
on Hildreth’s person or in Us cabin.
He had b««come Increasingly appre
hensive about those letters he had
written Hildreth, and certain other
documents that hnd been In his pos
session. He didn't understand why
they t.nda't turned up. And now the
snows hxl started, and Jim Gibbs had
returned empty-handed, but evidently
not empty-minded.
“I've found that the body'» been un
covered—and men are already search
in' for clues. And moreover—1 think
they've found them."
He paused,
weighing the effect of bls words. His
eyes glittered with cunning. Rat that
he wns, he was wondering whether the
time had arrived to leave the ship. He
had no lutention of continuing to give
his services to n man with a rope-
noos* closing about hit*. And Crans
ton. knowing this fact, hated him as i
he bated the buzzard that would claim
him in the end. and tried to hide bis
apprehension.
“Go on Blat It out." Cranston or
dered. “Or else go away and let me
sleep."
It was a bluff ; but It worked, If
Gibbs had _ gone wnhout
____
speaking.
Cranston would have known no sleep
that night. But the man became more
fawning.
"I'm Wilin' you. fast as I can.” he
went on. almost whining. ”1 went to
the cabin. Just as you said. But'I
dldn t get a chance to search It—”
"Why not?" Cranston thundered
His voice re-echce<1 among the snow
wet pines.
-ni tell yon why! Because some
one else—evidently a cop—ws* aj.
ready aaarthia' It Both « M ------ r
I
| there’s nothin' there, anyway. We've
gone over It too many times. After
a while he went away—but I didn't
turn back yet. That wouldn’t be Jim
' Gibbs. I shadowed him, just as you'd
want me to. And he went straight
back to the body.”
“Yes?” Cranston had hard work
curbing his Impatience. Again Gibbs’
eyes were full of ominous specula-
; tlons.
•
-v», k
"He stopped at the body, and It was
plain he’d been there before. He went
crawling through the thickets, lookin’
for clues. He done what you and me
I ijever thought to do—lookin’ all the
wa'j' betweefi the tra.il ari<5 the body.
He'd afrea’d? found the brass shell you
told me to get. At least. It wasn’t
' there when I looked, after he’d gone.
You should’ve thought of It before.
But he found somethin' else a whole
lot more Important—a roll of pai>ers
that Hildreth had chucked Into an old
pine stump when he was dyln’. It was
your fault, Cranston, for not gettln’
them that night. This detective stood
and read ’em on the trail, And you
know—just as well as I do—what
they were.”
“D—n you. I went back the next
morning, as soon as I could see. And
the mountain Hon had already been
there. I went back lots of times since.
And that shell ain't nothing—but all
the time I supposed I put It In my
pocket You know how it Is—a fellow
throws his empty shell out by habit"
Gibbs’ eyes grew more Intent. What
was this thing? Cranston’s tone. In
stead of commanding, was almost
pleading. Bui the leader caught hlm-
self at once.
“I don't see why I need to explain
any of that to you. What I want to
know is this: why you didn’t shoot
and get those papers away from him?"
For an Instant their eyes battled.
But Gibbs had never the strength of
his leader. If he had. it would have
been asserted long since. He sucked
In his breath, and his gaze fell away.
It rested on Cranston’s rifle, that In
some manner had been pulled up
across his knees, And at once he was
cowed. He was never so fast with a
gun as Cranston.
“Blood on my hands, eh—same as
on yours?” he mumbled, looking down.
“What do you think I want, a rope
around my neck? These hills are big,
but the arm of the law has reached up
before, and ft might again. You might
as well know first as last I'm not goin’
to do any killln's to cover up your
murders.”
“That comes of not going myself.
You f«x>l—if he gets that evidence
down to the courts you're broken the
same as me.”
“But I wouldn’t get more’n a year
or so. at most—and that’s a heap dlf-
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Lodge Directory
Marathon Lodge No.
93, Knights of Pythiai
Regular meeting Mon
day evening at 7:45
sharp. By order of
the Chancellor Com
mander.
John C. Carroll, C. C.
W. R. C.
Corinith Relief Corps, No. 54 Dept,
of Oregon, meets on first and third
Friday evenings of each month, at
8 p. m., in the W. O. W. hall. Visitor!
welcome .
Minnie Johnson, President
Elizabeth Conover, Secy.
Corinth Post. No. 35. Dept, of Oregon
Meets on second and fourth
Saturdays of each month
at 1:30 p. m. in W. O. W.
hall. Visitors welcome.
H. W. Spear, Com’dr.
Samuel Downs, Adjt.
Johnson Chapter No. 24
R. A. M.
Stated convocations every
first and
third Fridays,
Visitors welcome.
I. E. Keldson, Sec.
Tillamook
Lodge
No. 1260
L. 0. 0. M.
Meets
every
Friday
at
K. of P.
Hall.
S. A. Brodhead, Sec.
Tillamook Lodge No. 57, A.F. & AM
Stated Communication Wed-i
nesday evening, January 12.1
1921. Visiting brethern v-el-
come.
Harvey Ebinger, Sec’yl
Tuesday eve, 7:30 p. m.
Rebekak, Wednesday evening
Camp 2-4, Thursday
Help Furnished Fn
To Employers of Labor
By the
PIONEER
EMPLOYMENT CO.
The Oldest Office in Oregon
Headquarters for
Farm, Dairy, Mill, Logging
and office help of all kinds.
Phone Bdg. 2272
14 N Second St. Portland, Or.
DR. J. G. TURNER
Just Lacked the Guta to Pull the
Trigger."
Eye Specialist
Permanently located in Tillamook
Private office in Jenkin’s jewelty
store. Latest up-to-date Instru
ments and equipment. Evening!
and Sunday by appointment.
ferent from, the gallows. I did aim at
hint—”
"But you just lacked the guts to pull
the trigger!"
“I did, and I ain't ashamed of It
But besides—the snows are here now,
and he won't be able to even get word
BARRICK & HALL
to the valleys for six months. If you
wnnt him killed so bad, do It your
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
self.”
National Building
This was a thought Indeed. On the
other band, another murder might not
Tillamook, Oregon
be necessary. Months would pass be-
fore the road would be opened, and in
the meantime Cranston would have a
thousand chances to steal back the <------------------------------------------------ —I
accusing letters. He didn't believe for I DR. O. L. HOHLFELD
an Instant that the man Gibbs had
seen was a detective. He had kepi
VETERINARIAN
too close watch over the roads for
that.
Bell Phone 2F2.
MutualPhona
"A tall chap, in outing clothes—
Tillamook. Oregon
dark-haired and clean-shaven’”
“Year
s.
“Wears a tan hat?”
,
-
-
“That's the man."
"1 know him—and I wish you'd
Dr. J. E. Shearer Dr. A. C. Crank
punctured him. That's Falling—the
Drs. Shearer and Crank
temlerfoot that's been staying at Len
nox’s. He's a lunger."
MEDICINE & SURGERY
He dldn t look like no lunger to
me."
National Building
“But no matter about that—It's just
Tillamook. Oregon
as I thought And Pll get 'em back-
mark my little words.”
In the meantime the best thing to
do w»s to move at once to bls wirrw
R. T. BOALS M. D
trapping grounds—a certain neglec’ed
region on the lower level» of the Nonh
Surgeon and Physician
Fork. If at any time within the n«rt
few weeks. Dsn should attempt ta
I. O O. r. Buildinc
carry word down to the settlements
ha would be certala ta oa«
Continued Next Week
'ne A MOO K. ORMON
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