THURSDAY, JANUARY j.v
THE TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT
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self, In this season. Then Snowbird
led him to the windows, and they
watched the white drifts pile up over
the low underbrush.
When finally the snowstorm ceased,
five days later, the whole face of the
wilderness was changed. Tho buck-
brush was mostly covered, the fences
were out of sight; the forest seemed
a clear, clean sweep of white, broken
only by an occasional tall thicket and
by the great, snow-covered trees.
When the clouds blew away, anu
the air grew clear, the temperature
began to fall. Dan had no way ol
knowing how low It went Thermome
ters were not considered essential at
the Lennox home. But when his eye
lids congealed with the frost, and his
mittens froze to the logs of firewood
that he carried through the door, and
the pine trees exploded and cracked In
the darkness, he was correct la his
belief that ft was very, very cold.
But he loved the cold, and the si
lence and austerity that went with it
The wilderness claimed him as never
before. The rugged breed that were
his ancestors had struggled through
such seasons as this and passed a love
of them down through the years to
him.
When the fee mode a crust over the
snow, he learned to walk on snow-
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But all at once Dan stopped In his
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trucks.
The
girl
sped
on
for
six
paces
drifts. But between the fall of fresh part of an under-consciousness that
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any
stealing
figure
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the
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bouse should be left unguarded, It
snow and the thaws thnt softened the has constantly grown more dim as the before she missed the sound of his Cranston felt fairly sure that Lennox
might pay Cranston to make an Im
crust, he slowly mastered the art. centuries have passed. Possibly some snowshoes; then she turned to find was still too helpless to raise n gun
mediate search. Dan would have no
Snowbird—and Dan never realized the time It will fade out altogether; and him standing, wholly motionless, with
reason for supposing that Cranston
to a shooting position.
full significance of her name until he then a man may continue to discuss eyes fixed upon her.
He had observed that the mom
suspected his possession of the let
It startled her, and she didn’t know-
saw her flying with Incredible grace the weather while the Song from the
ters; he would not be particularly
over the snow—laughed at him at first ridge shudders in at the windows. But why. A companion abruptly freezing talneer spent his time either on the
watchful, and would probably pigeon
and ran him races that would usually the world will be quite cold by then, In his path, his muscles Inert, and his fireplace divan or on his own bed.
hole them until spring in Lennox’s
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end In his falling headfirst Into a ten- and no longer particularly Interesting. eyes filling with speculation. Is always Neither of these places was «'tillable
desk.
foot snowbank. She taught him how And possibly even the wolves them startling. When this occurs it means to the rear windows of the house. So,
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And the truth wsi that Cranston
to ski and more than once she would selves will then be tamed to play dead simply that a thought so compelling very wisely, he made his attack from
FAMOUS—IF YOU DON'T R£.
had reasoned out the situation almost
stop In the middle of an earnest bit and speak pieces—which means the and engrossing that even the half the rear.
LIEVE IT. ASK YOUR NEIGH-
He
came
stealing
across
the
snow
perfectly. When Dan awakened In
unconscious
physical
functions,
such
of pedagogy to find that he wasn’t lis wilderness Itself will be tamed. For
BORS AND FRIENDS
the morning, and the snow lay already
a
musher
of
the
first
degree.
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ery
tening at all. He would seem to be as long as the wild lasts, the pack will as walking, cannot continue, has come
a foot deep over the wilderness world,
fairly devouring her with his eyes, de run through It In the winter. They Into his mind. And it Is part of the silently and swiftly he slipped off his
he knew that he would have no chance
lighting In the play of soft pinks and were here In the beginning, and In old creed of self-preservation to dislike snowshoes at the door. The door It
to act upon the Cranston case until
reds In her cheeks, and drinking, as a spite of constant war and constant greatly to be left out on any such self was unlocked, just as he had sup
the snows melted in the spring. So
man drinks wine, the amazing change hatred on the part of men, they will thought as this. If danger Is present, posed. In an Instant more he was tip
he pushed nil thought of It out of his
toeing, a dark, silent figure, through
of light and Shadow In her eyes.
be here In the end. The reason Is ju-t the sooner it Is Identified the better.
mind and turned his attention to more
the corridors of the house. He held
She seemed to blossom under his that they are the symbol of the wil
“What Is it?" she demanded.
pleasant subjects. It was true that he
gaze. Not one of those short winter derness Itself, and the Idea of It con
He turned to her curiously intent. his rifle ready in his hands.
Marathon Lodge
read the documents over twice as he
He peered Into Lennox's bedroom
days went by without the discovery tinuing to exist without them Is “How many shells have you In that
93, Knights of PytL
lay In bed. Then he tied them Into a
first The room was unoccupied.
of some new trait or little vanity to stranger than that of a nation without pistol?"
neat packet and put them away where
nstonlsh or delight him—sometimes a flag.
Regular meeting M
She took one breath and answered Then the floor of the corridor creaked
they would be quickly available. Then
an unlooked-for tenderness toward the
day evening at 7:
him. "It holds five, and I shot twice. beneath hfs step; and he knew noth
It
wasn't
quite
the
same
song
that
he thrust his head out of the window
ing further was to be gained by wait
weak, often a sweet, untalned philos Dan had listened to In the first days I haven't any others."
sharp. By order
and let the great snowflakes sift down
ophy of life, or perhaps just a lower of fall. It had been triumphant then,
ing. If Lennox suspected his pres
“
And
I
don't
suppose
It
ever
oc
the Chancellor Ca
upon his face. It was winter at last,
ing of her eyelids In which her eyes and proud with the wilderness prld *. curred to you to carry extra ones in ence, he might be waiting with aimed
mander.
the season that he loved.
would show lustrous through the Of course It had been sad then, too, your pocket?"
rifle as he opened the door of the liv
John C. Carroll, C.l
Be didn’t stir from the houso thnt
lashes, or some sweeping, exuberant but It was more sad now. And It was
"Father Is always telling me to—and ing room.
first day of the storm. Snowbird and
gesture startlingly graceful.
He gilded faster. He halted once
stranger, too, and crept farther Into several times I have. But I’d shoot
W. R. C.
he found plenty of pleasant things to
Lennox wakened one morning with the souls of Its listeners. It was the them away at target practice and for more—a moment at the living-room
Corinith Relief Corps, No. 54 De; ‘
do and talk about before the roaring
the realization that this was one of song of strength that couldn’t avail get to take any more. There was never door to see If Lennox had been dis
fire that he built In the grate. Tie was
the hardest winters of his experience. against the snow, possibly of cold and any danger—except that night with a turbed. He was lying still, however, of Oregon, meets on first and thl4*■
Friday evenings of each month.« |
glad of the gre'-*- pile of woodjthut
At iixMt ILert were palog He began to be very glad of the abun the despair and conrage of starvation. cougar. I did Intend to—but what does so Cranston pushed through.
dant stores of provisions that over These three that heard It were inured ft matter now?"
Lennox glanced up from his maga 8 p. m., in the W. O. W. hall. Visftof
crowded his pantry—savory hams and to the wilderness; but a moment was
"We’re a couple of wise ones, going zine to find that unmistakable thing, welcome .
Minnie Johnson, President
bacons, dried venison, sacks of pota always needed after Its last note had after thnt wolf with only three shots the barrel of n rifle, pointed at his
Elizabeth Conover, Set:
toes and evaporated vegetables, and, died to regain their gayety.
to our nnme. Of course by himself breast. Cranston was one of those
of course, canned goods past count
"They're getting lean and they're he’s harmless—but he’9 likely enough rare marksmen who shoot with both
ing. With the high fire roaring In the getting savage," Lennox said one to lead us straight toward the pack. eyes open—and that meant that he Corinth Post, No. 35, Dept, of Oreg«
grate, the season held no Ills for them. night, stretched on his divan before And Snowbird—I didn’t like his looks. kept his full visual powers to the last Meets on second and fourth
But sometimes, when the bitter cold the fireplace. He was still unable to He's too gaunt and he’s too hungry— Instant before the hammer fell.
Saturdays of each month
came down at twilight, and the moon walk; but the fractures were knitting and I haven’t a bit of doubt he waited
"I can’t raise my arms,” Lennox
looked like n thing of Ice Itself over the slowly nnd the doctor had promised tn that brush for us to come. Intend said simply. "One of ’em won’t work at 1:30 p. m. In W. O. W.
snow, he began to wonder how the that the summer would find him well. ing to attack us—and lost his nerve
hall. Visitors welcome.
wild creatures who wintered on the “If we had a dog, I wouldn’t offer the last thing. That shows he’s des
H. VV. Spear, Com’dr.
Divide were faring, Of course most much for his life. One of these days perate. I don't like him. and I wouldn't
Samuel Downs, Adjt.
of them were gone, Woof, long since, we'll find ’em In a big circle nround like his pack. And a whole pack might
£ had grunted and mumbled Ills way
the house—and then we’ll have to not lose Its nerve."
Into a winter lair. But the wolves re open up with the rifles."
Johnson Chapter No. 24
“Then you think we’d better turn
mained, strange gray shadows on the
R. A. M.
But this picture appalled neither of back?”
Stated convocations ent
snow, and possibly a few of the hfs two young listeners. No wolf pack
"Yes, I do, and not come out any
first and third Fridayi
hardier smaller creatures.
can stand against three nfarksmen, more without a whole pocket of shells.
Visitors welcome.
More than once in those long win armed with rifles and behind oaken I’m going to carry a rifle, too, just as
I. E. Keldson, Sec
ter nights their talk was chopped off walls.
Lennox has always. He’s got only a
short by the song of the pnek on some
Christmas came and passed, and flesh-wound. You saw what you did
distant ridge. Sometime, when the January brought clear days and an with two cartridges—got in one flesh-
Tillamook
world Is old, possibly a man will be Ineffective sun shining on the snow. wound. Three of ’em against a pack
Lodge
born that can continue to talk and These «-ere the best days of all. Every wouldn’t be a great deal of aid. I
No. 1260
keep bls mind on his words while tin
L. 0. 0. M.
‘.'1 wolf pack sings. But he Is certainly afternoon Dan and Snowbird would don't menn to say you can’t shoot, but
go out on their skis or on snowshoes, a Jumping, lively wolf Is worse than
an unknown quantity today. The cry unarmed except for the pistol that a bird in the air. We’ve gone over
Meets
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sets In vibration curious memory Snowbird carried In the deep pocket three miles; and he’d lead us ten miles
every
chords, and for a moment the listener of her mackinaw. "But why not?” Dan farther—even If he didn't go to the
Friday
sees In Ills mind's eye his ancient replied to Lennox’s objection. "She pack. Let’s go hack.”
at
home In an ancient world—Darkness could kill five wolves with five shots,
K. of P.
"If yon say so. But I don’t think
and Fear and Eyes shining about the or pretty near It, and you know well there's the least bit of danger. We
Hall.
cave. It carries him back, and he enough thnt that would hold 'em till can always climb a tree."
knows the wilderness ns It really Is; we got home. They’d stop to eat the
S. A. Brodhead, Sec.
"And hnve ’em make a beautiful
Both Phones
and to have such knowledge dries up five. I have hard enough time keep circle under ft I They’ve got more pa
all fncllnnllon to talk, ns n spon/e ing up with her as It Is, without carry tience than we hnve—and we'd have
Tillamook Lodge No. 57, A.F. &
dries water. Of course the picture ing a rifle.” And Lennox was content to come down some time. Your father
Isn’t entirely plain. It Is more a thing Dan had told the truth when he said can't come to our help, you know. It's
Special Communication W
that five deaths or even fewer, wojjld the sign of the tenderfoot not to think
nesday Jan. 19th at 8
repel the attack of any wolf^^i he there’s any danger—and I’m not going
p. m. F. C. degree to
had ever seen. There was lust one to think that way any more.”
conferred.
troubling thought He liad heard, long
They turned back and mushed In
ago, and he had forgotten who had silence a long time.
Harvey Ebingar, Sec'
told him, that In the most severe wln-
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“I suppose you'll think I'm a cow
ters the wolves gather In particularly ard," Dan asked her humbly.
large packs; nnd a quality In the song
“Only prudent, Dan," she answered,
that they had heard at night seemed smiling. Whether she meant It he did "I Can’t Raise My Arms,” Lennox Said
Simply.
to bear It out. The chorus hnd been not know. 'Ttn just beginning to un
exceptionally loud and strong, and he derstand that you—living here only a
Tuesday eve, 7:30 p. m.
had been unable to pick out Individual few months—really know and under at all—besides, against the doctor’s
Rebekak,
Wednesday evening
orders."
voices.
Camp 2-4, Thursday
stand all this better than I do." She
Cranston
stole
over
toward
him,
The snow was perfect for skiing. stretched her an is wide to the wilder
looking closely for weapons. He pulled
Previously their sport had been many ness. “I guess It s your instinct.”
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aside the woolen blanket that Lennox
times interrupted either by the fall of
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"And I do understand," he told her
fresh snow or a thaw that had soft earnestly. "I sensed danger back had drawn up over his body, and he I
ened the snow crust; but now every there Just as sure as I can see your pushed his hand Into the cushions of
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afternoon was too perfect to remain I face. That pack—and ft's a big one— 'he couch. A few deft pats, holding
By the
Indoors. They shouted and ramped In Is close; and It's terribly hungry. And his rifle through the fork of his arm.
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the silences, and they did not dream you know—you can’t help but know— finger coiled Into the trigger guar<L
I
ped with the Buick Valve-in-Head
but thnt they had the wilderness nil to tha-t the wolves are not to be trusted assured him that Lennox was not
"heeled" at all. Then he laughed and
themselves. The fact that one night In famine times."
motor, Buick operates with the
went to work.
Lennox’s keen eyes hnd seen what
"I know it only too well,” she said.
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“I thought I told you once," Len
Sturdiness and economy important
looked like the glow of n camp fire
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Then she paused and asked him nox began with perfect coldness, "that
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In
the
distance
didn
’
t
affect
this
belief
affairs demand.
about a strange grayness, like snow the doors of my house were no longer
Headquarters for
of theirs at all. It was evidently just blown by the win#, on the sky over
open to you."
Farm, Dairy, Mill, Logging
the
phosphorus
glowing
In
a
rotten
log
the
ridge.
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The new Buick Nineteen Twenty
and office help of all kind.-;.
"You did say that,” was Cranston’s
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from which the winds had blown the
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guttural reply. “Rut you see I’m here
snow.
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One models are beautiful as well as
Bert
Cranston
waited
in
a
clump
of
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14 N Second St. Portland, Or.
Once or twice they caught glimpses exposed thicket on the hillside until just the same, don’t you? And what
dependable and are roomy and com
are you going to do about it?”
of wild life: once a grouse that hr.d he saw two black dots, that
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he knew
I probably felt that sooner or later I
buried
In
the
snow
flushed
from
their
fortable as well as powerful.
were Dnn and Snowbird, leave the
I
path nnd blew the snow-dust from Its I Lennox home. He lay very still as you would come to steal—just as vou z------------------------------------------ ----
wings; and once or twice they saw they circled up the ridge, noticing and your crowd stole tho supplies
DR. J. G. TURNER
Wherever you travel, you will find
snowshoe rabbits hounding away on i that except for the pistol that he from the forest stntlon last winter—
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flat feet over the drifts. But Just one knew Snowbird ahvnvs carried, they and that probably Influenced me to
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day they caught sight of n wolf. They ! wf.e unarmed. There was no par give the orders. I 1 didn’t «ant thieves
Private office in Jenkin’s jewelry
were on snowshoes on a particularly ticular reason «hv ho should be Inter around my house, . and I don’t want
Effective January 1, regular
store. Latest up-to-date instru
them now. I don’t want coyotes.
brilliant afternoon late tn January.
ested
In
that
point.
It
was
just
the
ments and equipment. Evening«
equipment on all models
He was a lone male, evidently a mountain way always to look for either."
and Sunday by appointment. '
"And I don't ■ "ant any such remarks
will include cord tires
straggler from the pack, nnd he leaped «capons, and it Is rather difficult to
from the top of a tall thicket that had trace the mental processes behind this out of 'OU. either." Cranston an
remained above the snow. The mnn Impulse. Perhaps It can be laid to swered
no „nn him.
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"Y0U “e *tl" nn<1 8h”' f
and the girl had entirely different re the fact that many mountain fnmllles up, and I suspect that sissy boarder
BARRICK & HALL
actions. Dan's first Impression «as are often at feud with one another, of yours will come back, after lie’s
amazement nt the animal s condition. and anything In the way of violence through embracing your daughter In
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
the snow, and find you in one piece
It seemed to be In tho hist stages of may happen before* the morning.
starvation: unbelievably gaunt, with i Tlie two passed out of his sight, Otherw ise not.”
National Building
“If I were In one piece, Lennox an-
rib bones showing plainly even through and after a long time he heard the
the furry hide. Ordinarily the heavily crack of Snowbird’s pistol. He swered him very quietly,
Tillamook. Oregon
furred animals do not show signs of guessed that she had either shot nt HH
nTken b°"eS
lift
Its
arms.
I
’
d
get
up
off
this
couch'
famine; but even an Inexperienced eye some wild creature or else was mere-
could not make a mistake In thia case. ly nt target practice—rn'her a com - ™ as I am. aDd sta[nr on -h. —
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The eyes «ere red. nnd they carried mon proceeding for the two when
But Cranston only laughed and tied
DR. O. L. HOHLFELD
Dnn back to hfs first adventure In the ' they were on the hills together. Thus
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Lennox’s feet with a cord from the
Oregon forest—the day he hnd shot i It Is to be seen that Cranston ____
knew
VETERINARIAN
the mad coyote. Snowbird thought of ' their hnblts fairly well. And since he window shade.
the beast only ns an enemy. The wolves had kept a close watch upon them for
to work very systematica!-
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MutualPhone
kll'e.1 her father’s stock; they were several days, this was to be expected. 2’ i, . * he rfled Lennox’s desk in
brlcnmls of tho worst order; and she ) He had no Intention of being Inter the Mng room. Then be looked on
Tillamook, Oregon
shared the hatred of them that Is a rupted In this work he was about to *11 the mantels and ransacked
s’
cupboards and the drawers. nJ
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common
trait
of
all
primitive
peoples.
do. He had planned It all very well.
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Her hand whipped back, seized her pis The elder Lennox was still helpless. taunting and calm nt first. But a a Th!
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tol. and she fired twice at the fleeing Cranston had noticed that when Dan moments p.Wed, his pasrion Sew £
figure.
Dr. J. E. Shearer Dr. A. C. Crank
00 lon,rer ’tnlled. TS*
and Snowbird went out, they were rod S r
The second shot was a hit: both of usually gone from two to four hours; r«dent features became intent- th!
Drs. Shearer and Crank
them snw the wolf go to Its side, then and that gnve him plenty of time for eyes narrowed to curious, bright sHta
spring up and race on. Shouting, both his undertaking. The moment had
MEDICINE & SURGERY
of them sped nfter him.
I come
at last to make a thorough lho 8 room, searched hi« k
National Building
In a few moments he was out of search of Lennox’s house for those In
sight among the distant trees, but they criminating documents that Dan had
Tillamook. Oregon
found the blood-trail an<l mushed over found near the body of Undr Hll-
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the ridge. They expected at any mo dicth.
ment to find him lying dead; but the
The only really dangerous part of
track leil them on clear down the next hl« under!Akin? was his Approach. If
•anyon. And now they cared not at by any chance Lennox were looking
Continued Naxt Week
a.I whether they found him: It was out of the window, he might be found
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’Imply a tramp In the out-of-doors; waiting with a rifle »cross bls arms
and both of them were young with red It would be quite like the old mot»,
blood In their veins.
talneer to have hie gun beeldo him.
Wat If the dhabv*. fflfl pome, ff ffifl
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