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THE VOICE OF THE PACK
SUNßET
A Story of the Oregon Mountain Country
1 burning bright She dared not
I
His longing for her lips pulled at them would pass on their way to the clearing out by the fire—big as a prize It for a moment Except.for the smgle
"And never come back I" the girl the roots of him. But by the laws of valleys. Cranston had evidently an ring. We’ll go out there—side by side. pistol ball that she could affordIto ex
“Tm sorry, Don," she told him. “Yon
cried.
tried oo hard—”
his being he couldn't claim them until ticipated that the gn-l and the man And bands to hands we’ll settle ail peud on the wolves- -,f the three she
"Maybe not. But at least every- the debt incurred on the hillside, would attempt to march out—even if these debts we have between us— with had—the fire was her last defense.
Just one little sound broke from bls
thro«»—u strange, deep gasp that thing that can be done will be done. months ago, had been paid ; to take he hadn't guessed they would try to no rules of fighting and no mercy in
But It was a losing fight The rain-
could not be suppressed. Theo he Nothing will be left. No regrets. We them now meant to dull the fine edge take the helpless Lennox with them— the end I”
waked wood smoked Without flame
wtll
have
made
the
last
trial.
I
’
m
not
They
measured
each
oth«
with
their
caught her hand In hts and kissed It—
of his resolve to carry the Issue and he wished to be prepared for
the comparatively dry cure w.tb which
again nnd again. "Do you think I care going to wusts any time. Snowbird. through to the end, to dim the star emergencies. There might be sport to eyes. Once more Cranston's gaze stole I Dan had started the Are had burned
about that?" he asked her. “I enly The sooner wn get your Are built the that led him, to weaken him, by bend have with Dan, unarmed as he was. tc his rifle, but lunging out. D»n down, and the green wood, hacked w
wish I could have done more—and better.”
ing now, for the test to come. He And his eyes were full of strange con kicked It three feet farther Into the
"Father and I are to stay here—Y’ didn't know why. It had Its fount in jecture« In regard to Snowbird. Both shadows of the lean-to. Dan saw the such heart-breaking difficulty from t e
what I have done doesn’t count. Just
“Whnt else can you do?” He went the deep wells of the spirit Common would be exhausted now and helpless— dark face drawn with passion, the saplings that Dan had cut, needed the
aa In my fight with Cranston, nothing
most tireless attention to burn at all.
back
to his traces and drew the sled sense can't reveal how the holy man
counts because I didn't win. It's just
Dan’s eyes encornpassed the room: hands clenching, the shoulder muscles
Her nervous vitality was flowing
fate, Snowbird. It'« no one's fault, but 100 yards further. He lidn't seem to keeps strong the spirit by denying the the piles of provisions heaped against growing Into hard knots. And Cran
from
her In a frightful stream. Too
see
the
gaunt
woli
that
backed
off
ston
looked
and
knew
that
merciless
maybe, in this world, nothing Is ever
flesh. It goes too deep for that Dan the wall, the snow shoes beside the
long she had toiled without food In
anyone's fault" For In the twilight of Into the shadows as he approached. kept to his consecration.
pallet, but most of all he wished to vengeance—that age old sin and the constant presence of da«,'er, and
those winter woods, tn the shadow of Be refused to notice that the pack
He did, however, kiss her hands, locate Cranston’s rifle. Success or Chrlstless creed by which be lived—
death itself, perhaps he was catching seemed to be steadily growing bolder. and be kissed the tears out of ber failure hung on that He couldn’t had followed him down and was she was very near Indeed to utter ex
haustion. But at the same time »he
glimmerings of eternal truths that are Human hunters usuully had guns that eye«. Then he turned Into the dark find It at first. Then he «aw the glit clutching him at last
hidden from all but the moot far-see could blast and destroy from a dis ness and broke through the ring of ter of It« barrel in the moonlight—
He saw it In the position at the stal- knew she must not faint That was
tance; but even an animal Intelli
ing eyes.
leaning against a grub box possibly wart form before him, the dear level one thlDg she could not do—to fall nn-
the wolves.
“And this Is the end?" she asked gence could perceive that the«“ three
six feet from Cranston and 10 from eyes that the moon light made bright consclous before the last of her three
seemed to be without this means of
Mm. She spoke very bravely.
as steel, the hard lines, the slim, pow cartridges was expended tn the right
himself.
CHAPTER
III.
“Nol" Ills hand tightened on hers. Inflicting death.
erful hands. He could read It In the »ay.
.
_
His
heart
leaped.
The
beet
be
had
A wolf Is ever so much more Intelli
Again she went forth to the sapling,
“No. so long as an ounce of strength
tone« ot the voice—tone« that he him
hoped
for
—
for
the
sake
of
Snowbird,
and this time it seemed to her that If
Dan Falling was never more thank
remains. To fight—never to give up- gent than a crow—yet a crow shows
not himself—was that he would be self could not Imitate or pretend. The
may God give me spirit for It till I little fear of an unarmed tuna end Is ful for his unerring sense of direction. nearer to the gun than Cranston and hour had come for the setting of old she simply tossed the ax through the
wholly unapproachable by a boy with He struck off at a forty-five-degree
air, she could fell one of the gray
die."
would be able to seize It first But debts.
And this was no idle prayer. His a gun. The ugly truth was simply that angle between their late course and a conditions could be greatly worse than
He tried to curse bls adversary as a crowd. But when she stooped to pick
eyes raised to the starry sky as he In their increasing madness and ex direct road to the river, and he kept they were. If Oranston had actually weakling and a degenerate, but the ob lt up—«he didn’t finish the thought.
citement and hunger, they were becom It as If by a surveyor’s line. All the
spoke.
had the weapon In bls hands, the odds scene words he sought for would not ! She turned to coax the fire. And then
“But, son," Lennox asked htm rath- ing less and lees fearful of these three old device« of the wilderness—the of battle would have been frightfully come to his Ups. Here was bls fate, she leaned sobbing over the sled.
ridge on ridge that looked just alike,
"What’s the use?’ she cried. “He
er quietly, "what can you do? The strange humans with the sled.
against Dan. It takes a certain length and because the darkness always fades
It wns not a good place for a camp. Inclines that to the casual eye looked of time to seize, swing, and alm a ri before the light, and the courage of won't come back. What’s the use of
wolves aren't going to wait a greet
They worked a long time before they like downward slopes, streams that fle; and Dun felt that while he would wickedness always Dreaks before the fighting any more?”
deal longer, and we can’t go on. »• 1
"There’s one thing more—one more cleared a little patch of ground of Its vanished beneoth the snow, and the be unable to reach it himself, Cran- courage of righteousness, Cranston was
“There’s always use of fighting,” her
trial to mnke," Dan answered. “I snow mantle. Dan cut a number of snow-mist blowing across the face of ston could uot procure it either, wlth- afraid to look it In the face. The fear father told her. He seemed to speak
the
landmarks
—
could
not
avail
thought about It at first, but it was too saplings—laboriously with hfs ax—and
out giving Dan an opj>ortunlty to leap of defeat, of death, of heaven knows with difficulty, and his face looked
long a chance to try If there wns any built a fire with the comparatively against him.
upon him. Th all his dreams, through what remorselessness with which this strange and white. The cold and the
dry
core
of
a
dead
tree.
True,
It
was
A
half
dozen
of
the
wolves
followed
other way. And I suppose you thought
i
the montlis of preparation, he bad pic grave giant would administer Justice exposure were having their effect on
feeble
and
flickering,
but
as
good
a»
him
at
first.
But
perhaps
their
fierce
of It too.”
tured it thus. It was the tost at last was upon him, and bls heart seemed his weakened system, and unconscious
could
be
hojied
for,
considering
the
eyes marked his long stride and his
“Overtaking Crnnsfon?"
The gnn might be loaded, and still— to freeze In bis breast Cravenly he ness was a near shadow Indeed. “But,
difficulties under which ho worked.
powerful body, nnd decided that their
“Of course. And It sounds like a
In these days of safety devices—un leaped for bls knife on the blankets dearest—if I could only make you do
better
chance
was
with
the
helpless
The
dead
logs
under
the
snow
were
crazy dream. But listen, both of you.
what I want you to—”
ready to Are; and the loss of a frac below him.
If we have got to die, up here In the soaked with water from the rain« and I man nnd the girl beside the flickering tion of a second might enable Cran
“What?”
upon
him
before
he
ever
Dan
was
snow—nnd it looks like we had—what thaws. The green wood that lie cut fire. They turned bnck, one by one. ston to reach his knife. Tims Dan reached It He sprang as a cougar
“You’re able to climb a tree, and tf
smoked
without
blazing.
Dan
kept
strulght
on
and
In
two
hours
Is the thing you waut done worst be
i crossed Cranston’s trail. He didn't felt justified In ignoring the gun alto splngs, incredibly fast and with shat you'd take these coats, you wouldn’t
“
No
more
time
to
be
lost,
”
Dan
told
fore we go?"
Snowbird. "It lies in your hand« to doubt but that he would find Cran gether and trusting—as he had most tering power. Both went down, and freeze by morning. If you’d only have
Lennox’s hands clasped, and he
keep the tiro burning. And don't leave ston In his camp, If he found the camp desired—to a battle of hands. And he for a long time they writhed and strug the strength—”
leaned forward on the sled. “Pay
"And see you torn to piece« I”
the circle of the fire light without at all. The man had certainly re- wanted both bands free when he made gled In each other’s anus. Tbe pine
Oranston!” he said.
his attack.
boughs rustled strangely.
“I’m old. dear—and very tired—and
that pistol In your hnnd.”
turned to it Immediately after setting
“Yes!" Dan’s voice rang. "Crans
If D:in had been erect upon his feet,
The dark, gaunt hand reached In I’d crawl away Into the shadows. where
“You don’t mean,” she asked, unbe fire to the buildings, if tor no other
ton’s never going to be paid unless we
lieving, “that you aro going to go out reason than for food. It isn’t well his course would have been an Imme vain for the knife. Some resistless you couldn’t see. There's no use minc
do It There will be no signs of In
ing words. Snowbird. You’re a brave
to be abroad on the wintry mountains diate leap on the shoulders of his ad
cendiarism nt the house, and no there to fight Cranston—unarmed V
girl—always have been since a little
without a supply of food; and Cran versary. running the risk of Cranston
“
Of
course,
Snowbird.
You
must
proof«. They’ll find our bodies In the
thing, as God is my Judge—and you
ston would certainly know this fact reaching his hunting knife in time.
snow, nnd we’ll just be n mystery, keep the pistol.”
But the second that he would require
know we must face the truth. Better
I
J>an didn’t know when a rifle bullet
"But it means death; that's all It
with no one made to pny. The evi
to get to bls feet would entirely offset
one of us die than both. And I prom
from
some
camp
In
the
thickets
would
means.
What
chance
would
you
have
dence tn my pocket will be taken by
this advantage. Cranston conld spring
ise— PH never feel their fangs. And I
Cranston, some time tills winter. If 1 agnlnst a man with n rifle? And as put an abrupt end to his advance. The
won
’t take your pistol with me either.”
brush
grew
high
by
the
river,
the
ele
don’t tnnke blm pny, he never will pny. soon ns you get nivay from this fire,
Her thought flashed to the clasp
vation was considerably lower, nnd
And that's one reason why I’m going the wolves will tear you to pieces.”
hunting knife that he carried In bls
"And what would you and ynur fa there might he one hundred camps out
to try to carry out this plan Pve got.
pocket. But her eyes lighted, and she
of
the
sight
of
the
casual
wayfarer.
ther
do,
tf
I
took
ft?
You
can
’
t
get
"The second reason Is that It’s the
bent and kissed him. And the wolves
one hope we have left I take It Hint him Into a tree. You can’t build a If Cranston should see him, mushing
leaped forward even at this.
none of us are deceived on thnt point big enough flro to frighten them. across the moonlit snow. It would give
“We’ll stay ft out,1 she told him.
him
the
most
savage
Joy
to
open
Ore
Please
don
’
t
even
talk
nbout
this
mat-
I
And no man con die tamely—If he Is
"We’ll fight it to the last—just ns Dan
a man—while there’s a ehnnce. I mean I , ter, Snowbird. My mind's made tip. I upon him with bls rifle.
would want us to do. Besides—It
a young man. like me—not one who Is think the pack will stay here. They 1 Dan's keen eyes searched the thick
would only mean the same fate for
old and tired, It sounds ¡icrfectly silly usually—God knows how—know who ets, and particularly they watched the
me, In a little while. I couldn’t cling
to talk about finding Cranston's wln- . Is helpless and who Isn’t Maybe with sky line for n faint glare thnt might
up there forever—and Dan won’t come
tor quarters, and then, with my bare the gun, you will be able to suve your mean a camp fire. Ho tried to walk
back.”
silently. It wasn't an easy thing to
hands, conquering him, tnklng Ills focal lives.”
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do with awkward snowshoes; but the
nnd his blankets and bis snowshoes I "What’s the chance of that?"
"You might—with one cartridge— river drowned the little noise that he
She was wholly unable to gain on
and his rifle, to fight away these
kill one of tho devils; and the others made. He tried to take advantage of
the Are. Only by dint of the most
wolves, nnd bringing ’em back here.”
heart-breaking toll was she able to se
“You wouldn’t be barehanded," the —but you know how they devour thetr the shelter of the thickets and the
cure any dry fuel for lt at alt Every
girl reminded him. “You could have own dead. Thnt might break their tree«. Then, at the base of a little
famine enough so thut they’d hold off ridge, he came to n sudden halt.
length of wood she cut had to be
the pistol.”
He had estimated just right
scraped of bark, and half the time the
Fie didn't even seem to hear her. until I can get back. That’s the prize
two hundred yards distant, a camp
Are was ouly a sickly column of white
“I’ve been Blinking about It It’s a Pm playing for."
"And what If you don’t get back?” fire flickered and glowed in the shel
smoke. It became Increasingly diffi
long, long ehnnee—much worse than
He took her hnnd In one of hts, and ter of a great log. He saw it, by the
cult to swing the ax. The trail was
the ehnnee we had of getting out by
almost at Its end.
straight walking. I think we could with tho other ho caressed, for a «In most astounding good fortune, through
have made It, If the wolves had kept gle moment, the lovely flreh of her a little rift In the trees, Ten feet on
The after-midnight hours drew one
off and the snowshoe hadn't broken. throat The love he had for her spoke either side, and It : was obscured.
by one across the face of the wilder
He lost no time, He did not know
It would have nearly killed us, but I from his eyes—such speech as uo hu-
ness, and she thought that the deep
believe we could have got out That’s mnn vision could possibly mistake. when the wolves about Snowbird’s
ening cold presaged dawn. Her fin
why I dldu’t try tills other way first. Both of them were tingling and breath I camp would lose the last of their
gers were numb.
cowardice. Yet be I knew he must keep
A mau with his bare hands hasn't less with a grant «weet wonder.
Once more she went to one of the
"Never let those fangs tear that a tight grip on his self-control and
much of n chance against another with
Some Realities« Power Seemed to Be saplings, but she stumbled and almost
a rifle, and I don’t want you to be too softness, while you live,” ho told her« not let the necessity of haste cost him
went to her face at the first blow. It
Holding Hi« Wrist
hopeful. And of course, the hanfest gently. "Never let that brave old man Ms victory. He crept forward, step
was the Instant that her gray watch
on the «led go to his death with the by step, placing Ms snowshoes with
problem Is finding his camp.
power seemed to be holding his wrist ers had been waiting for. The wolf
imek
tearing
at
him.
Cheat
’
em,
consummate care. When he was one
I "But I do feel sure of one thing:
and was bending its bone as an Indian that stood nearest leaped—a gray
that he Is back to his old trapping line Snowbird I Beat 'em the last minute. hundred yards distant he saw that
bends a bow. Pain lashed through him. streak out of the shadow—and every
on the North Fork—somewhere south If no other way remains I Show ’em Cranston's camp was situated beside
Qood Evening, Cran.ton."
And theirthls dark-hearted man. who wolf In the pack shot forward with a
of hero—and his camp la somewhere who’s boos, after all—of all this for a little stream that flowed into the
bad never known the meaning of mer yell. It was a short, expectant cry;
est"
river
and
that
—
like
the
mbuntalneer
up, too. So he did the next most
on tbe river. I think he would have
cy, opened his lip« to scream that this but lt chopped off short. For with a
t
“You mean—T Iler eyes widen«!, he wns—he had built a large lean-to arming thing.
gone there so that he could cut off any
terrible enemy be merciful to him.
half-sob, and seemingly without men
"I mean thnt yen must only spend reinforced with snowbanks. The fire
He sprang up and strode into
attempt I might make to get through
But the words wouldn’t come. A tal process, she aimed her pistol and
with those letters. My plnn Is to start one of those three shells in fighting burned at Its opening. Cranston was lern-to.
ghastly weight bad come at hla throat, fired.
"Good evening. Cranston,” he said and his tortured lungs sobbed for
back at an angle that will carry tue off the wolves. Save that till the mo not In sight; either be was absent
A fast-leaping wolf is one of the
lile
other
inent
you
need
It
most
from
camp
or
asleep
In
his
lean-to.
pleasantly.
between the North Fork nnd our old
breath. Then, for a long time, there most difficult pistol targets that can be
two must be saved—for something i The latter seemed tl>e more likely.
Cranston was also upon hts feet the was a curious pounalng, lashing sound Imagined. It bordered on the miracu
else."
Ihm made a wide detour, coming In same Instunt. Ills instincts were en In the evergreen boughs. It seemed
lous that she did not miss him alto
She nodded, shuddering an Instant about thirty yards behind the construc tirely true. He knew if he leaped for merciless and endless.
gether. Her nerves were torn, their
at n menacing shadow that moved tion. Still he moved with Incredible his rifle, Dan would be upon bis back
But Dan got up at last, in a strange, control over her muscles largely gone.
within fid feet of the fire.
caution. Never In his life had he pos in an instant, and he would have no
"Then goodby. Dant' she told him. sessed a greater mastery over his own chance to use It. The rifle was now heavy silence, nnd swiftly went to Yet the bullet coursed down through
And «tie stretched up her arma. "The nerves. Ills heart le.»t>ed somewhat out of the running, as they were at work. He took the rifle and filled It the lungs, Inflb-tlng a mortal wound.
The wolf had leaped for her throat;
thing 1 said—thnt day on the hillside fust In his own breast; but this was about equal distances from ft. nnd with cartridges from Cranston’s belt.
—doesn’t hold any more."
the only wasted motion. It Isn't easy neither would have time to swing or Then he put the remaining two boxes but he fell short. She staggered from
of shells Into his shirt pocket Tbe a blow, and she heard a curious sound
Ills own arms encircled her, but he to advance through such thickets with alm It
supplies of food—the sack of nutri in the region of her hip. But she
made no effort to claim her lips. Len out ever a misstep, without the rustle
Dan's sudden appenrance had been tious Jerk«? venison like dried bark,
nox watched them quietly; In this of n branch or the crack of a twig.
so utterly unlooked for, that for a mo the little psckuge of cheese, the boxes didn’t know thnt the fangs had gone
home In her soft flesh. The wolf
moment of crisis not even pretending
Certain of the wild creatures find It ment Cranston could And no answer.
to look away. Dan shook hts head to easy; hut men have forgotten how In His eyes moved to the rifle, then to of ban! tack and one of tbe small rolled on the ground; nnd if her pistol
her entreating eyes. “It tsn’t just a too tunny centuries of cities and farms. his belt wtiero hung his hunting knife, sacks of prepares! flour—he tied, with had possessed the shocking power of
kiss, darling," he told her soberly. "It It Is hardly n human quality, nnd n that still lay on the pallet. “Good a single kettle. Into his heavy blan n rifle, he would have never got up
goe« deeper than thnt. It’s a symbol. spectator would have found a rather evening. Falling," he replied, trying kets and flnng them with the rifle upon again. As it was, he shrieked once,
It was your word, too, and mine; nnd ghastly fascination tn watching the his hardest to fall Into that strange his bnck. Finally he took the pair of then sped off In the darkness to die.
words can’t be broken, things being as lithe motions, the paswkmless face, the spirit of nonchalance with which snow shoes from the floor. He worked Five or six of the nearest wolves,
they are. Can't I make you under- hands that didn’t shake at all. But brave nice have so often met their ad I coldly, swiftly, all the time munching catching the smell of his blood, bayed
at a piece of jerked venison. Whet» he and sped after him.
stand?"
there were no spectitters—unless tbe versaries, and which Dun had now.
had finished he walked to the door of
But the remainder of the great pack
She nodded. Hts eyes burned. Per little band of wolves, stragglers from “I’m surprised to see you here. What the
leai»to.
hat« rim didn't understand, <* far as the pack that had gathered on the hills do you want?”
—fully 15 of the gray, gaunt creatures
It seemed to Dan that Cranston whis
actual functioning of the brain was behind—watched with lighted eyes.
Dans voice whefi tie replied was no pered faintly, from his unconscious —came stealing across the snow to
ward
concern«!. But shy reach.,I np to
ward her. White ----
fangs
gone
Dan went down at full length upon more warm than the ssew banks that
SB— had fcUUt
him. ns women—knowing life In the the snow and softly removed his snow reinforced the lean to» “I want your ness. as he passed; but the victor did home; and a new madness was in the
not
turn
to
look.
The
snow
shoes
concrete rather than the abstract— shoes. They would I* only an Impedi rifle—also your snow shoes and your
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have always reached up to men; and ment In the close work that was sure supplies of food. And I think rii take crunched away Into the darkness. On
the hill behind a half dozen wolves—
she dimly caught the gletitn of some to follow. He slid along tbe snow your blankets, too."
Straining Into the silence, a perfect
stragglers from the pack—frisked and
eternal principle and right behind his crust, clear to the month of the lean-to.
"And I suppose you mean to fight leaped about In a cnrloue wav A ly straight line between Cranston’»
words. Tills strong man of the moun
camp and Snowbird’s, Dan Fai’tng
The moonlight poswed through and for them?" Cranst«n asked, His lips
tains had given his word, had been showed the Interior with rather re drew up In a smile, hut there was no strange smell had reached them ¿n the came mnshing across the snow m,
wind, and when the loud, fearful steps
witness to her own promise to him markable plainness Cranston was smile In the ton« of his words.
sense of direction had n.,er been
were out of hearing. It might pay them obliged to stand such a test as this
and to herself, and a law that goes sprawled, half slttlr*. half-lying on a
“You’re right.” Dan told him, and to creep down, one by one. and Investi
down to the roots of life prevented tree-hough pallet near the rear wall. be stepped nearer. "Not only for
before. Snowbird’» Are was a single
gate its cause.
blm from claiming the kiss
dot on a vast plateau; yet he had gone
There was not tl>« slightest doubt of that, Cranston. We’re face to face at •
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Many time«, since the world was the man’s wakefulness. Dan heard last—hands to hands. I’ve got a knife
The
gray
circle
about
the
fire was
new. comfort—happiness—life Itself him atir. and once-—as If st the mem In my pocket, but I’m not even going
He wM risking everything for the
_________ watted to sake of speed. He gave no heed to the
have been contingent on the breaking ory of his deed of the day before—he to bring It out. It’s hands to hands— growing Impatient Snowbird
Keep ths Fira Burning.
of a law. Yet In «pitc of what seemed cursed In a savage whisper. Although you and 1—nuttl everything's square the last Instant before she admitted fallen timber that might have torn the
this fact But It Is possible only so
cmumon
sense, even though no punish he was facing the opening of the lean- between us."
house. Somewhere In there Hl find
long to deny the truth of a thing that »eb of his snow «hoes to shreds. Be-
ment would forthcoine If It were to. he was wholly unaware of Dan's
"Perhaps you've forgotten that day all the senses verify, and that moment cause he shut out all thought of It he
hl» tracks, tbs trackr be mad« when
broken, the law has been kept. It wa« presence. ITie latter had thrust his on the ridge?" Cranston asked. “Yon
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fatigue. The fight
he first came over to burn up the
for her
past.
Ith Cranston had been a frightful
house. 1 suppose he was careful to this way now. It wouldn’t have bt-en head at the side of the opening, and haven’t any woman to save you this
She
noticed
that
when
she
went
to
mix ’em up after ooce h« arrived just a kiss such as boys and girls have It was tn shadow. Crauston seemed time.”
,nd nerre; bat h*
her hands and knees, laboriously to
always had in the moonlight. It tsevat to be watching the great, white snow
•carcely remembered It now. His
"1 remember the day, and that's part
hers, but tbe first part of the way hs
the symbolic renunciation of the debt fields that lay la front, and for a mo of the debt. The thing you did yester cut a piece of the drier wood from the
likely walked straight toward the
to n>turn t0 Snow-
ra!n-s««ked, rotted snag that was her
Dlr.1 before tbe wolves lost the last of
house from his camp. Sutnswbere, tf I that Dan owml Cranston—a debt that ment Dan was at loss to explain this day Is part of It. too. It's all to b« set principal supply of
eTery W01
In
bls
mind
might
posalhly
go
unpaid,
.«e«mlng
vigil.
Then
he
understood.
their
cowardice.
tled st last. Cranston, and I don't be
go that way. TO eroos Ms
which no weight of circumetsace «void Ths wblts field before him was part lieve 1 could spar« you If you went to would leap fwwird, osly to draw back
The jerked venlsoa that be bad
tn 10 aalloa at least Th« Hl back
make blm renouMSi
o< the long ridge that tbe thras of yw know before tsa. Yom's» got a when the stood straight again. Sb«
track hl« to Ma eta*’
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Lodge Directory
Marathon Lodge n J
93, Knights of Pythiu ■
Regular meeting M%'
day evening at 7:4$i
sharp. By order t('
the Chancellor Co»1
mander.
John C. Carroll, C. C
W. R. C.
Corlnith Relief Corps, No. 54 Dept
of Oregon, meets on first and thlfl
Friday evenings of each month, u
8 p. m., in the W. O. W. hall. Vislton
welcome .
Minnie Johnson, President
Elizabeth Conover, S;cj,
Corinth Post, No. 35, Dept, of
Meets on second and fourth
Saturdays of each month
at 1:30 p. m. in W. O. W.
hall. Visitors welcome.
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Samuel Downs. Adjt.
Johnson Chapter No. 24
R. A. M.
Stated convocations evetji
first
and
third Friday:.
Visitors welcome.
I. E. Keldson, Sec 9
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. & Al
Special Communication
nesday Jan. 19th at 8:M
p. m. F. C. degree to M
conferred.
Harvey Ebinger, Seel
I
Tuesday eve. 7:30 p. m.
Rebekak, Wednesday evening
Camp 2-4, Thursday
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