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THURSDAY. JANUARY 20. 1921
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THE
TILLAMOOK
HEADLIGHT
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* The Voice of the Pack *
A Story of the Oregon Mountain Country
INVITES YOU TO TRY THEIR
the only thing that can be done. I
He meant what he raid. If mortal Dan smiled at her gently, and bls
The man looked back at the girl,
SERVICE.
can’t walk, and you can’t carry me on strength and sinew could survive such great shoulder leaned against th« ■ntllng into her eyes. Lennox lay as I
your backs. What else remains? I’ll a test, he would succeed. There was traces.
if asleep, the lines of his dark face
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stay here—end I’ll scrape together nothing in these words to suggest the
They moved through a dead world. curiously pronounced. And the girl,
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enough wood to keep a fire. Then yon physical weakling that both of them The ever-present manifestations of because she was of the mountains,
can bring help."
wild
life
that
had
been
such
a
delight
had known a few months before. The
body and soul, answered Dan's smile.
He kept his eyes averted when he eyes were earnest, the dark face In to Dan In the summer and fall were Then they knew that all of them knew
•ort to procure Dan’s rifle that hung
talked. He was afraid for Dan to see tent, the determined voice did not quite lacking now. The snow was the truth. Not even an Inexperienced
n two sets of deer horns over the fire-
them, knowing that he could read the waver at all.
trackless.
Once they thought they
ear could have any delusions about
lade, and was entirely exhausted
lie in them.
“Dan Failing speaksI" Lennox re saw a snowshoe rabbit, a strange the pack song now. It was that old-
rem It He had succeeded In getting
“How do you expect to find wood— plied with glowing eyes. He was re shadow on the snow, but he was too est of wilderness songs, the hnntlng-
WE MAKE 0DR OWN PAS
Mm from the couch, though wracked
In this snow?" Dan asked him ‘It will calling another Dan Falling of the far away for Snowbird to risk a pis cry—that frenzied song of blood-lust
y agony, but bad been unabke to lift
TRY AND OUR PIES ARE
take four days to get out; do you dead years, a boyhood hero, and his tol shot The pound or two of flesh
that
the
wolf
pack
utters
when
It
Is
Imself up In reach of the gun.
FAMOUS —IF YOU DON’T BE-
think you could lie here and battle remembered voice had never been would be sorely needed before the running on the trail of game. It had
Orenston read his intention In one
LLETE IT, ASK YOUR NEIGH
with a fire for four days, and then four more determined, more masterful than Journey was over, but the pistol car found the track of living flesh at last. I
lance. Leotiox knew It, but he sim-
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days more that It will take to come this he had Just heard.
tridges might be needed still more,
‘
•There's
no
use
stopping,
or
trying
ly dkta’t eare. He had passed the
back? You’d have two cheires: to
she
didn
’
t
let
her
mind
rest
on
certain
to climb a tree,” Dan told them sim
"And Cranston didn’t get his pur-
»lot where anything seemed to mat
bum green wood that Td cut for you pose, after all." To prove his words, possibilities wherein they might be ply. 'Tn the first place, Lennox can’t
ftp
—
before I left; or the rain-soaked dead Dan thrust hts hand into his inner needed. Such thoughts stole the cour do It In the second, we've got to take
“Tell me where It Is," Cranston or-
wood under the snow. You couldn't coat pocket. He drew forth a little, age from the spirit, and courage was a chance—for cold and hunger enn get
tred him. Again he pointed hlu rifle
keep either one of them burning, and flat package, half as thick as a pack essential beyond all things els« to up a tree where the wolf pack can’t"
I Lennox’s wasted breast
you'd die in a night Besides—this Is of cards. He held it up for them to bring them through.
He spoke wholly without emotion.
"Tell you wh«ca what Is?
no time for an unarmed man te be see. "The thing Bert Cranston burned
As the dawn came out, they all Once more re tightened the traces of
Marathon Lodge
»iiej’?"
alone in the hills."
stood still and listened to the wolf the sled.
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"Thu know what I want—and it
Lennox
’
s
voice
grew
pleading.
“
Be
pack,
singing
on
the
ridge
somewhere
*Tve heard that sometimes the pack
k’t money. I mean those letters that
Regular meeting Mon
sensible, Dani" he cried.
"That
behind them.
will chase a man for days without at
lalllng found on the ridge.
Tm
day evening at 7:45
Cranston’s got us, and got us right
tacking,
”
Lennox
told
them.
"It
all
It
was
a
large
pack.
Thejr
couldn
’
t
Rough, fooling, Lennox. Dan learned
sharp. By order of
I’ve only one thing more I care about
make out individual voice»—-neither depends on how long they’ve gone
tot long ago, and it’s time you learned
—and that Is that you pay the debt 1 I
the Chancellor Com
the more shrill cry of the females, the without fooo. Keep on and try to for-
Jnotr/
mander.
can’t hope to get out myself. I say
yapping of the cub“, or tha low, clear
•Dan learned It because he was sick.
that I can't even hope to. But if you
John C. Carroll, C. C.
G-below-mlddlo-C note of the males.
' Be lsft't sick now. Don’t presume too
bring my daughter through—and when
’If they should cross our track«—"
Mncfa on that.”
spring comes, pay what we owe to
W. R. C.
Lennox suggested.
^Cranston laughed with harsh acorn.
Cranston—I’ll be content Heavens,
Corinith Relief Corps, No. 64 Dept,
“
No
use
worrying
about
thflt
now
—
•But that Isn't the que^Hon. I said
son—I’ve lived my life. The old pack
of Oregon, meets on first and third
not until we come to It," Dan
Pre wasted all th$ time Tm going ttb
leader dies when bls time comes, and
Friday evenings of each month, at
biro.
Itou are an old man and helpless; but
so does a men."
8 p. m., in the W. O. W. hall. Visitors
The morning broke, the sun
not going to let that stand in the
His daughter crept Jp him and shel
welcome .
bright In a clear sky. Bnt still they
y of getting what I came to get.
tered his gray bead against her
trudged on. In spit» of the fact that
Minnie Johnson, President
y"fe hidden somewhere around this
breast. "I’ll stay with you, then,” she
the sled was heavy and broke through
Elizabeth Conover, Secy.
o. I’ve watched, and he’s had no
cried.
the snow crust as they tugged at It,
ce to take them Into town. I’ll
"Don’t be a little fool. Snowbird,”
they had made good time since their
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e you—Juet five seconds to teil me
departure. But now every step was
He Oall#d Once to the Prone Body of he urged. "My clothes are wet al
Meets on second and fourth
ere they’re hidden."
ready from the melted snow. It’s too
a pronounced effort. It was the dread
Lennox.
■ “An4 I give you,” Lennox replied,
Saturdays of each month
long a way—4t will be too hard a fight,
ful beginning of fatigue that only
riane second lees than that—<o go to
at 1:30 p. nt. in W. O. W.
body of UjPQOf
snow and and children—I’m old and tired out. I
food and warmth and rest could
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don’t want to make the try—hunger
mflshed away Into the sllen&S'.'
rectify.
hall. Visitors welcome.
I Both of them breathed hard In the
Lennox's answer was not a curse and cold; and even If you’d stay here
"We'll
rest
now,"
Dan
told
them
at
«■let room. Cranston was trembling
II. W. Spear, Cotu’dr.
and grub wood. Snowbird, they'd find
ten o’clock. “The sun Is wnrm enough
now, shivering just a little In his arms this time. Rather it was a prayer, un us both dead when they came back In
Samuel Downs, Adjt.
uttered, and In his long years Lennox
so that we won’t need much of n Are.
and shoulders. “Don’t get me wrong,
had pot prayed often.
When he a week. We can't live without food,
And we’ll try to get five hours’ sleep."
Eenflox,” he warned.
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prayed at all, the words were burning and work and keep warm—and there
"Too long, If we’re going to make It
•And don't hove any delusions Ln re
R A. M.
fire. His prayer was that of Samson Isn’t a living creature In "the hills.”
out," Lennox objected.
gard to me, either," Lennox replied,
Stated convocations every
“Except the wolves," Dan reminded
—that for a moment his strength
’’That leaves a workday of nineteen
flfve stood worse pain from this acci
rst
and
third Fridays.
.
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him.
hours,” Dan persisted, ‘ffiot any too
Visitors welcome.
dent than any man can give me while might come back to him.
"Except
the
wolves,"
Lennox
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I yet live, no matter what he does. If
'<
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I
echoed. “Remember, we’re unarmed—
^le found where the snow had drill
y»»u want to get on me and hammer
and they^d
it
You’re young,
■ > JS --- ... w—
■K In the approved Cranston way, I 4 t
ed against a great, dead log, leaving
Tillamook
so
Dan—an3 you
Two miles across the ridges, Dan SnowljlrJ,
can't defend myself—but you
-*
.sree— W-
Lodge
the white covering only a foot In
and
Snowbird
saw
a
faint
mist
blow
two
will
be
happy.
I
know
how
things
get a civil answer out offfle. rm used
“Tho Thing Bert Cranston Burned depth on the lee side. He began to
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ing between the trees. They didn’t are, you two—more than you know
to pain, and I can stand it I'm not
the House Down to Destroy.”
L.
0. 0. M.
scrape
the
snow
away,
then
hacked
at
«toed to fawning to a coyote like you, recognize It at first It might be fine yourselves—and In the end you’ll be
the log with his ax until he hnd pro
snow,
blown
by
the
wind,
or
even
one
the
house
down
to
destroy,"
he
ex
happy.
But
me
—
I
’
m
too
tired
to
Meets
•nd I can’t stand It”
of those mysterious fogs that some make the try. I don’t care about it plained. ’’I’m learning to know this cured a piece of comparatively dry
. But Cranston hardly heard. An Idea
every
wood from Its center. They all stood
I
times
sweep
over
the
snow.
mountain
breed,
Lennox.
I
kept
it
In
enough. I’m going to wave you good-
Itod flamed In his mind and cast a red
Friday
"But it looks like smoke,” Snowbird by, and smile, and lie here and let the my pocket wnere I could fight for It, breathless while he lighted the little
glamor over all the scene about him.
at
pile
of
kindling
and
heaped
It
with
"Mayb#
We
Can
Keep
Them
Bluffed."
i cold come down. You feel warm tn a at any minute.”
It was Instilling a poison In his nerves said.
K. of
green wood—the only wood procur
“But It couldn’t be. The tree« are little while—"
Cranston had been mistaken, after able. But It didn’t burn freely. It get ’em. Maybe we can keep ’em Hall.
and a madness In his blood, and it was
too wet to burn."
I
But she stopped his lips with her all. In thinking that In fear of himself
■earing him, like fire, tn his dark
smoked fitfully, threatening to dl# out, bluffed.”
But then a sound that at first was hand.
Dan would be afraid to kee^ the and emitting very little beat.
Benin. Nothing seemed real. He sud
And he bent and kissed It.
But as the hours passed, It became S. A. Brodhead, Sec.
Just the faintest whisper In which |
"If anybody's going to stay with packet on his person, and would crav-
denly bent forward, tense.
But they didn’t particularly care. Increasingly difficult to forget the wolf
neither
of
them
would
let
themselves
•That’s all right about you,” he said.
; you," Dan told them In a clear, firm enly conceal It In the house. He would The sun was warm above, as always pack. It was only a matter of tunilng Tillamook Lodge No. 57, A. ,.F. & A.M.
•But you’d be a little more polite If it believe, became distinct past all deny ' voice, “it’s going to be me. But aren't have been even more surprised to In the mountain winters of southern the head and peering for an Instant
ing.
It
was
that
menacing
crackle
of
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know that Dan had lived in constant Oregon. Snowbird and Dan cleared Into the shadows to catch a glimpse
was Snowbird—and Dan—that would
any of the cabins occupied?"
a great fire, that In the whole world of
kave to pay.”
hope of meeting Cranston on the spaces beside the Are and slept. Len of one of the creatures. Their usual
nesday Jan. 19th at 8:00
“
You
know
they
aren
’
t,"
Lennox
an
sounds Is perhaps the most terrible.
ridges, showing him what It contained, nox, who had rested on the Journey, fear of men, always their first emo
erhaps the color faded slightly in
p. m. F. C. degree to be
“It’s our house,” Snowbird told him. swered. "Not even the houses beyond
nox’s face; but his voice did not
the North Fork, even If we could get ■nd fighting him for It, bands to lay on hfs sled and with his uninjured tion, had giten way wholly to a hunt
conferred.
"And father can’t get out"
hands. And even yet, perhaps the day
She spoke very quietly.
Perhaps across. The nearest help is over sev- would come when Cranston would ■rm tried to hack enough wood from ing cunning; an effort to procure their
Harvey Eblnger, Sec'y.
ey’ll see your footprints before
’ enty miles."
the saplings that Dan had cut to keep game without too great risk of their
come In and be ready," Lennox the most terrible truths of life are al |
know at last that Snowbird's words, the fire burning.
any
own
lives.
In
the
desperation
of
their
“
And
Snowbird,
think
I
Haven
’
t
ed evenly. “They always come In ways spoken tn that same quiet voice. supplies been left In the ranger ■ta after the fight of long ago, were true.
At three they got up, still tired «nd hunger they could not remember such
Then both of them started across the
Bp the back way. And even with
The twilight was falling over the aching In their bones from exposure. things as the fear of men. They
snow as fast as their unwieldy snow i tlon?"
MMtol, Snowbird's a match for you."
“Net one thing," the girl told him. snow, so Snowbird and Dan turned te Twenty-four hours had passed since spread out farther, and at last Dan
shoes would permit
MrDId you think that was what I
the toll of building a sled.
they had tasted food, and their unre- looked up to find one of the gray
“He can crawl a little," Dan called "You know Cranston and his crowd
Tuesday eve, 7:30 p. tn.
OMantF' Cranston scorned. “I know •
The snow was steel-gray tn the plenlshed systems complained. Thjre beasts waiting, like a shadow himself,
robbed the place last winter. And the
to
her.
"Don
’
t
give
up.
Snowbird
Rebekak, Wednesday evening
ly to dejtroy those letters, and Hl
• telephone lines were disconnected moonlight when the little party made Is no better engine In the wide world in the shadow of a tree not one hun
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fit— in the four seconds that I said, mine. I think he’ll be safe.”
their start down the long trail. Their than the humnn body. It will stand dred feet from the sled. Snowbird
They mounted to the top of the when the rangers left."
fess you tell. I’m not even sure I’m
preparations,
simple
and
crude
as
they
whipped
out
her
pistol.
more neglect and abuse than the finest
“Then the only way Is for me to
ridge; and the long sweep of the for I
n’ to give you a chance to tell now; est was revealed to them. The house stay here. You can take the pistol, were, had taken hours of ceaseless steel motors ever made by the hands
"Don’t dare I” Dan’s voice cracked
i too good a scheme. There won't
I
was a singular tall pillar of flame, al ’ and you'll have a fair chance of get- labor on the part of the three. The of craftsmen. A man may fast many owt to her. He didn’t spenk loudly; yet
f
any witnesses then to yell around
ready glowing that dreadful red from ' ting through. I'll grub wood far our ax. Its edge dulled by the flame and days If he Iles quietly In one place the words came so sharp and com
e courts. What it I choose to set
To Employers of Labor
which firemen, despairing, turn away. > camp meanwhile, and you can bring its handle burned away, had been and keeps warm. But fasting Is a manding, so like pistol fire Itself, that
te this house!”
: cooled In the snow, and with one deadly
By the
proposition
while pulling they penetrated Into her consciousness
Then the girl seized his hands and help.”
t wouldn’t surprise me a great
• nd choked back the nervous reflexes
danced about him tn a mad circle.
|
“And If the wolves come, or if help i sound arm, Lennox had driven the hot sledges over the «now,
It’s your own trade.” Lennox
“He's alive!” she cried. “You can didn’t come In time," Lennox whis : nails that Snowbird gathered from
Don was less hopeful bow . Ills face that in an Instant might have lost
dered once on his place on the see him—Just a dot on the snow. He
pered, passion-drawn for the first i the ashes of one of the outbuildings.
told what his words did not The them one of their three precious shells.
crawled out to safety.”
lines cfeft doep-w about his lips aad She caught herself with a sob. Dan
time, "who would pay what we owe to The embers of the house Itself still
wouldn't have to worry about
glowed red In the darkness.
She turned and sped at a breakneck Cranston?”
eyes; and Snowbird’s heart ached shouted at the wolf, and It melted Into
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those letters then, would I? They are pace down the ridge. Dan had to race
Dan had cut the green limbs of the when fie tried to encourage her with the shadows.
“But her life counti •first of all."
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■Miewhere In the house, and they’d be to keep up with her. But It wasn’t en
•*Tou won’t do It again, Snowbird?"
“I know It does—but mine doesn’t trees and planed them with his ax. a smile. It was a wan, strange smile
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darned to ashes. But that Isn't all tirely wise to try to mush so fast. A count at all. Believe me, you two. The sled had been completed, handles that couldn’t quite hide the first sick he asked her very humbly. But his
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that would be burned. You could may dead log lay beneath the snow with a I’m speaking from my own desires attached for pushing It, and a piece of ness of despair.
meaning was clear. He was not as
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ba crawl out, but you couldn’t carry broken limb stretched almost to Its when I say I don't want to make the fence wire fastened with nails as a
skilled
with
a
pistol
as
she;
but
If
her
The shndows quickly lengthened—
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tha guns, and you couldn't carry the surface, and It caught her snowshoe. fight. Snowbird would never make ft rope to pull It The warm mackinaws simply leaping over the snow from the nerves were breaking, the gun must
pantry full of food. You’re nearly The wood cracked sharply, and she fell through alone. There are the wolves, of both of them as well ns the one fast-faffing sun. The twilight deep be tn ken from her hands. The three
tog^ty miles up here from the nearest forward In the snow. But she wasn’t and maybe Cranston too—the worst blanket that Lennox had saved from ened, the snow turned gray, and then, shells must be saved to the moment of
•ecupied house, with two pair of hurt and the snowshoe Itself, In spite wolf of all. A woman can’t mush the fire were wrapped about the old
In a vague wny, the Journey began to utmost need.
■Mwshoes for the three of you and of a small crack in the wood, was still across those ridges four days without frontiersman's wasted body—Dan and
“No," she told him, looking straight
partake of a quality of unreality. It
ana dinky pistol. And you can't walk serviceable.
Snowbird hoping to keep warm by the
was not that tho cold and the mow Into his eyes. "I won't do It again.”
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i food, without some one who loves her
at all. It would be a nice pickle,
“Haste makes waste,” he told her. and forces her on 1 Neither can she exercise of propelling the sled. Ex and their hunger were not entirely
He believed Iter. He knew that she
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«dance of getting down to clvlllza- bird; the house Is gone already and green branches burn In a fire. She’s empty pistol, Hielr only equipment longer naked to their eyes. It was Just a Itnlf smile. Then, wholly without
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your father is safe. Remember what got three little pistol balls—and we’d was a single charred pot for melting
ments and equipment. Evening:
tbnt^helr whole effort seemed like warning, Fate played its Inst trump
Tbe voice no longer held steady. It lies before us.”
and Sunday by appointment.
all die for a whim. Ob, please. sn«w that Dan had recovered from
some dreadful, unburdened Journey In
Again the wilderness reminded them
the ashes of the kitchen.
tumbled with passion. This was no
The thought sobered and halted her. please—”
a dream—a stumbling advance under of Its might, anti their brave spirits <
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Mte threat The brain had already She glanced once at the dark face of i But Dan leaped for his hand with
The three had worked almost In
difficulties too many nnd rrnl to hr* were almost broken by the utter re
Mtoed upon the scheme with every In- her companion. Dan couldn’t under glowing eyes. "Listen, man 1” he cried. silence. Words didn’t help now. They
true.
morseleasness of the blow. The girl
totoflon of carrying ft out. The wil- stand the stra-ige light that suddenly t “I know another way yet. I know wasted no sorely »ceded breath. But
The first sign was th# far-off cry went on her face with a crack of wood.
dettess lay stark and bare, stripped of leaped to her eyes. Perhaps she her more than one way; but one. If we’v« they did have one minute to talk when of the wolf pack. It was very faint. Her snow shoe had been cracked by
aU delusion—not only In the sno>v self couldn't have explained the wave got th# strength, Is almost sure. There they got to the top of the little ridge simply a stir In the eardrums, yet ft her fall of the day before, when run
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wnrt<l outside but in the hearts of of tenderness that swept over her— Is an ax In the kitchen, and the blade that had overlooked the house.
was entirely clear, That clear, cold nlng to the fire, and whether she
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with no cause except the look In Dan's will still be good.”
mountain air was a perfect telephone struck some other obstruction In the
“We'll travel mostly at night." Dan
earnest
gray
eyes
and
the
lines
that
“Likely dulled with the fire—”
t«ld them. “We can see In the snow, I system, conveying a message distinct snow, or whether the cracked wood
r Cranst on turned through me aoor.
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ly, M matter how faintly. There had simply given way under her
Into the kitchen, ne was gone a long cut so deep. Since the world was new,
“Hl cut a limb with my jackknife avid by taking our rest In the daytime,
It
has
been
the
boast
of
the
boldest
of
were
no
tall
buildings
or
cities
to
dls-
weight,
mattered
not
even
enough
for
<twe Lennox heard him at work;
for the handle. There will be nallg when the sun Is bright and warm, we
tha crinkle of paper and then a pour- men that they looked their Fate In the In the ashes, plenty of them. Well ran save our strength. We won't have turb the ether waves, And all three them to Investigate. As in all great
(
face.
And
this
Is
no
mean
looking.
For
of them knew nt the same Instant It disasters, only the result remained
lap sound around the walls. Then he
m«k# a rude sledge, and we’ll get you to keep such big fires then—and at
fate
is
a
sword
from
the
darkness,
a
was
that
her
cry
was
not
exactly
the
they
had
Th«
result
In
this
case
night
our
exertion
will
keep
us
as
'heard the sharp crack of a match. An
out too."
heard before.
roowshoe, without which she eon Id not
itMlitnnt later the first wisp of smoke power that reaches out of the mystery,
Lennox seemed to be studying his warm as we can hope for. Getting up
and cannot be classed with sights of i
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They couldn’t have told Just why, walk at all In the snow, was Irrepurti
«ape curing, pungent with burning
wasted hands. “It's a chance, but It al! night to cut green wood with this
human origin. It burns out the eyes I
■H Hi rough the corridor.
■wen If they hnd wished to talk about biy broken.
Isn’t worth ft." he said at last. “YouT» dull ax In the snow would break us to
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of all but the strongest men. Yet Dan
"Fate has stacked the cards ngalnst
M. In some dim wny. it had lost the
yYou crawled from your couch to
have fight enough without tugging M pieces very soon, for remember that
was looking at Ills fate now, and bls »
Strange quality of despair It had held as,” Lennox told them, »Her the first
(Meh that gun." Cranston told him
a heavy sled. It will take all nlgAt we haven’t any food, I know how to
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before. It was ns If »he pack were moment’s horror from the broken
«Mtn he came In. "Let’s s-»e you crawl eye« held straight.
to build It. and It would cut down build a fire even In the snow—es-
They walked together down to th#
running with renewed life, that each snowshoe.
OM now.”
your chances of getting out by pretty peelally If I can find the dead, dry
I
’raE»-nnn'x’s answer was a curse—the ruined house, and the three of them near half. Remember the ridges. heart of a rotten log—but It Isn’t any
wolf was railing to another with a
But no one answered him The girl,
sat silent while the fire burned red.
fun to keep It going with green wood.
dreadful sort of exultation. It was an
white-faced, kept Iwr whle eyes on
Dan—”
M, dread outpouring of an unbroken
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Then Lennox turned to them with a
excited cry, too—not the long, sad Dan He seemed to be peering Into the
«rife. He didn't look again st the gllt-
“But we’ll climb every ridgw—be We don’t want to Wave to spend any
tefenj eyes.
He scarcely watched half-smile.
song they hnd learned to listen for. It shadows beside the trail, as If he were
sides. It« a slow, down grade meet of more of our strength stripping off wet
“You’r? wasting time, yon two, h#
wounded Immediately behind them.
watching for the gray forms that now
the way. Snowbird—tell him ba must hark and hacking at saplings than we
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! said. “Remember, all our food Is gone.
can help: and that means we’d better
They couldn't help but listen. No and then glided from tree to tree. In
do It."
oM poured on the rugs and furnishings,
If
you
start
now.
and
walk
hard,
may
^^■klndl’.ng placed at the base of the
National Building
human ears could have shut out the reality, he was not -looking for wolves.
Snowbird told him, overpowering do our restlDg In the heat of the day.
After all. It's a fight agalnsi starve
^^■■Ins. Cranston was trained In this be you can make It out
sound. But none of them pretended He was gazing down Into his own soal.
him
with
her
enthusiasm
And
Dan
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“There are several things to <*>
that they had heard. And thia was the nieaan ring bis own spirit for the tri«!
He was taking no chances on
shook his shoulders with rough hands. tlon more than anything else."
first,” Dan answered simply.
worst sign of all. Each on# of th# that lay before him.
“Just think," the girl told them, re
HBfirv being extinguished. And Lro
hurting.
troy I"
Lennox
"I don’t know what they are. It Isn t “You're
three was hoping against hop# In his
■■began to crawl toward the door.
warned. “I’m a bag of broken bones." proaching herself, “If 1 had shot
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coIng to be .any picnic. Dan. A man
very heart; and at the same time, hop
managed to grasp the corner of
“I’ll tote you down there If 1 have straight at that wolf today, we could
can travel only so fnr without food to
ing
that
the
others
did
not
understand
•^plsnket on the divan as he want,
to tie you In." D«a Falling replied. have gone back and got hla body, n
Glv# a look at the prices of can
For a long lime, as th# darkness
ea^he -1 ragged It behind him. Pain keep up his strength, particularly over "Before, I’ve bowed to your will; hut might have carried us through."
such ridges as you
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ned peaches, pears, salmon and ber
deepened
shout
them,
the
foreets
were
Neither
of
the
others
as
much
•a
him. and smoke half-blinded
wIl’ be easy to give up and dis. It1» this tltne you have to bow to mine.
etUI. i erhspe. Den thought, he had ries at the Burge Grocery—a cut <■( I
But he made It at last. And by
I'm not going to let yon stay here and looked surprised at these amaslng
25 per cent.
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IIMlme he had crawled one hundred the test, man; It’s the test."
die, no matter if you beg oc your grata over the lost, unsavory fiaab of been mistaken aft«r ell. file shoulders 1
Let a Headlight Classified Ad do
stralxhtened. The« th# chorea blared
the snow crust the whole
kneeaI It’s the test—and I'm going ■ wolf, They were up against reali-
w«8 |n flamea Th« red
ties, and Uwy didn't mines words.
to briag !«■ tbreagk."
the work for you.
Lennox was not oq the di»«n where
re had left him. He lay infftead on
he floor near the flreplace; and he
net the passion-drawn face w-lth entire
lalmness. His motives were perfectly
(lain. He had just made a desperate
Cranston, the fire-mAdness on hie
face, hurried to the outbuildings,
There he repeated the work.
He
touched a match to the hay In the
bam, and the wind flung* the flame
through It in an instant. The sheds
and other outberlfdjngs
_ were treated
______
with oil. Aad seeing that bis week
was done, he caffetf once to the prsae
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