Friday, August 25, 19
THE TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT
■"AT! TIiaT avits
xrnrfi a few old Too! T>efon THYrirrt -VW TonS. Tl IJroTtS
women with hate In tlielr hearts and from her In a flood.
a strange tradition to take the place
She seized his hands, and he started
of hope. They said that some time, If
at their touch. "Don’t you under
death spared them, they would see
stand?” she cried. "You—you—you
Folger’s son come back again, and nre Folger's son. You are the boy
assert his rights. They said that n that crept out—under this very tree—
new champion would arise and right to find him dead. Al! my life Eltnlra
their wrongs. Rut mostly death didn't
and I have prayed for you to come.
spare them. Only old Mmlra Is left.
And whnt nre you going to do?"
“What became of the secret agree
Her face wgs drawn In the white
V ment I do not know. I haven’t any light of the moon. For an Instant he
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hope that you do. either. The deed seemed dazed.
was carried down to the courts by
“Do?” he repeated. “I don’t know
Sharp, one of the witnesses who man what I'm going to do.”
aged to get past the guard, and put
"You don't I” she cried. In Infinite
on file soon after It wns written. The scorn. “Are you Just day? Aren’t
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rest Is short. Simon and his clan took you a man? Haven't you got arms to
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up the land, swearing that Matthew strike with and eyes to see along a
"The Voice of the Pack"
Folger had deeded It to them the day rifle barrel? Are you a coward—and
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he had procured It. They had u deed a weakling; one of your mother's
to show for It—a forgery. And the blood, to run away? Haven’t you any
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one thing that they feared, the one thing to avenge? I thought you were
weak chain, was that this secret a mountain man—that till your years
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agreement between Folger and my In cities couldn’t
take that quality
father would be found.
away from you ! Haven't you any
SYNOPSIS
“You see what that would mean. It answer?”
would show that he had no right to
He looked up, a strange light grow-
CHAPTER I.—At the death of his fouler deed away the lund. ns he wns simply
Ing on his face. "You mean—kill-
father, Bruce Duncan, in an eastern city,
re elves a mysterious mesHage, ». nt by u holding It tn trust for me. Old Elmira Ing?”
Mr» Rose, summoning him peremptorily explained the matter to mo—If I get
“What else? To kill—never to stop
to southern Oregon—to meet ''Linda."
mixed up on the legal end of It, ex- killing—one after another, until they
CHAPTER II.—Bru< e haw vivid but Lat- cuse It.
be
If that document could
are gone! Till Simon Turner and the
3ina recollections of his childhood in an
whole Turner clan have paid the debts
orphanage, before bis adoj t.on by New found, their forged deed would be ob-
vlously Invalid. And It angered them they owe.” '
ton Duncan, with the girl Linda.
that they could not find It.
Bruce recoiled as If from a blow,
CHAPTER III.—At his ’ destination.
“Of course they never filed their “Turner? Did you say Turner?” he
Trail'» End, news that a me iiue has
been sent to Bruce 1» received with forged deed—afraid that the forgery
asked hoarsely.
parked displeasure l>y a man Introduced
would be discovered—but they kept
to the reader us "Sinton. ”
"Yes. That’s the clan’s name.
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It to show to any one that wns In thought you knew.”
CHAPTER IV.—Leaving the train,
terested.
Bui
they
wanted
to
make
Bruce Is astonished at his »¡parent tn-
Bruce understood now his unpro-
tntllarity with the surroundim. <, though themselves still safer.
yoked attack on the little boy when
to hla knowlcdse lx bus never be.-n there.
“There had been two witnesses to lie hud been taken from the orphan
CHAPTER V.—Obedient to the message, the agreement. One of them, a man
age on trial. The boy hud been named
Bruce makes hla way to Martin'» i ross-
roads store, for direction us to rea hlng named Sharp, died-—or wus killed— Turner, and the name had been enough
Mrs. Ross' cabin.
shortly after. The other, nn old trap
to recall n great and terrible hatred
CHAPTER VI.—On the way, “Simon** per named Hudson, was Indifferent to that he had learned In earliest baby
sternly warns him to give up his quest the whole matter—he wus Just pass
hood. The name now recalled It again;
and return East. Bruce refuses.
ing through nnd wus at Folger's house the
truth stood clear at last. It was
CHAPTER VII.—Mrs Ross, aged and for dinner the night Itoss came. He is
the key to all the mystery of his life;
infirm, welcomes him with emotion. She
hastens him on hla way—the end ot "Pine- still living in these mountains, and he
Needle Trail."
might be of value to us yet.
"Of course the clan did not feed at
was to be my”guardian"until”that"time.
"Folger knew the risk he ran. but nil secure. They suspected the secret
he was a brave man and he did not ngreenient hud been mailed to some
«are. Beside». he was my father's one to take care of, and they were
afraid that it would be brought to light
when the time was ripe. They knew
perfectly that their forged deed would
never stand the test, so one of the
things to do was to prevent their claim
ever being contested. That meant to
keep Folger's son In Ignorance of the
whole matter.
"I hope I can make that clear. The
deed from my father to Folger wus on
record, Folger was dead, und Folger’s
son would have every right and op
portunity to contest the dun's clnlm to
the land. If he could get the mutter
Into court, he would surely win.
“The second thing to do was to win
me over. I was Just a child, und it
looked the enslest course of all. That's
I u»» ¡¡U»l*m fruu> the urnhaioige
by one of Simon’s brothers. The Idea
was simply that when the time came
I would .marry one of the clan and es
tablish their claim to the hind forever. I
“Up to ti few weeks ago it seemed
to me that sooner or later I would win
out. Bruce, you can't dreaiiv what It
meant I I thought that some time I
could drive them out and make them "Not Two, but Tl<ee," She Corrected,
pay. a little, for all they have done.
In the Hollow Volée of Uncounted
But they've tricked me, after all. I
Years.
thought that I would get won! to Fol-
ger's son, who by Inheritance would It stirred him more than all of Linda's
have a clear title to the land, und he, I words. In an Instant all the tragedy
The Girl Was Speaking Slowly Now,
with the aid of the courts, could drive of his bnbyhood was recalled—the
Evidently Watching the Effect of
these usurpers out. But Just recently hflkhed talk between his parents, the
Her Words on Her Listener.
I've found out that even this chance ouths, Jhe tlnjnes in their eyes, and
finally the body he had found lylug
friend and friendship goes far In the Is all hut gone.
"Within a few more weeks they so still beneath the pines, It was
mountains. And my father was shot
the Turners. the dread name
will have been In possession of the I ulways
down before a week wus past.
that had filled his baby days with
“The elan had acted quick, you see*. land for a full twenty years. Through
! horror. He hadn't understood then,
When Folger heard of It. before the some legal twist I don't understand,
. ¡1 had been blind hatred- hatred with-
dawn, he came to my father's house If a man pays tali'« und lias undls
I out understanding or self analysis.
puled
possession
of
land
for
tlint
and carried me away. Before another
As she watched, his mountain blood
length of time, his title Is secure. ’
night was done he wus killed too.”
mounted to the ascendancy. A strange
Tile perspiration leaped out on They failed to win me over, but It
transformation came over him. The
Bruce's forehead. The red glow of looks its If they had won. anyway
gentleness that lie had acquired In his
The
only
way
that
they
cun
be
defeat
the tire was In Ills eyes.
. jrenrs of city life began to fall uwiiy
"He fell almost where this Are In ed now Is for that secret ugreement-
from him. The mountains were claim
built, with a thirty-thirty bullet In hla hetween my father and Folger—to re
ing him again.
brain. Which one of the clan killed appear. And I’ve long ago given np
Bls voice whs cold nnd hard when
him 1 do not know—but In all prob all hope of that.
"There Is no court session between he s|»ike.
ability It wus Simon h’’"elf- at that
"Then you tgid I are no relation
time only eighteen years of age. Ami now and October thirtieth—when
whatever."
Folger's little boy—something past their twenty years of undisputed pos
"None.“
four years old—wandered out In the session Is culminated.* There seems
"Rut we tight the same fight now.
to be no chance to contest them to
tn<s>nllght, to And his father's body.”
"Yes. Until we both win—or both
make
them
bring
that
forged
de*d
Into
The girl whs speaking slowly now.
die."
evidently watching the effect of her the light before that time. We've lost,
Before he cotild speak again, a
words on her listener. He whs l>ent after all. And only one thing re-
strange answer came out of the dark
forward, and his breath came in queer, mains,"
He looked up to find her eyes full ness. "Not two of you." a croaking
whispering gusts. "Go on!” be or
old voice told him. It rose, shrill and
dered savagely. "Tell me the rest. upon him. He had never seen such
eyes, They seemed to have sunk so cracked, from the shadows beyond
Why do you keep me waiting?"
the tire. They turned, nnd the moon
The girl smiled again— like a sor deep Into the flesh about them that light showed a bent old figure hob
on|y
lurid
silts
remained.
It
wns
not
that
ceress. "Folger's wife was from the
bling toward them.
plain« country," she told him slowly. her lids were partly down. Rather
It was old rjinlni. her cane tapping
"If she had been of the mountains she ft was because the flesh sacks beneath along In front of her; nnd something
them
had
become
charged
with
her
might have remained to do some kill
that caught the moonlight lay In the
ing on her own account Like old El pounding blood. The fire's glow was hollow of her left arm.
Her eyes still
mira herself remnlned to do— killing tn them and cast a strange glamor glowed under the grizzled brows,
on her own account! But she wus U[s>n her face. It only added to the
“Not two. but three,” she corrected,
from cities, Just as you are. but she— strangeness of the picture that she
In the hollow voice of uncounted
Mt
almost
limp,
rather
than
leaning
nniise you- had no mountain blood In
years. In the magic of the moonlight
ber. She wasn't used to death, and forward In api>enl. Brace looked at
It s«emed quite tilting to both of them
perhaps she didn't know how to hate. her In growing aw>.
that she should have come She was
But
as
the
seconds
passed
he
seemed
Rhe only knew how to be afraid.
• me of the triumtlrate; they wondered
no
longer
able
to
nee
her
plainly.
Ills
"They say that she went almost In
why they had not missed her before.
sane at the sight of that strong. brave eyes were misted and blurred, hut It was farther than she had walked
man of hers lying still In the pine they were empty of tears as Linda's
In vens» but her spirit had kept her
needles
She hadn't even known he own. Rather the focal point of hta
up.
brain
had
become
seared
by
a
mount-
whs out of the house.
He had gone
She put the glittering object that
out on some secret business—late at Ing flame within himself, The glow
It
night. She had only one thing left— of the Are had seemingly spread until she carried Into Bruce's hands
was a rifle—a repeating breech loader
It
encom|<a«sed
the
whole
wilderness
her baby boy and her little foster-
of a famous make and • Model of
daughter—little Linda Rosa, who Is world.
"What Is the one thing that re thirty years before. It was such a
before you now. Her only thought
rifle us Ilves In legend, with sights as
was to get those children out of that mains?" he asked her, whispering.
fine as a razor edge nnd an accuracy
She
answered
with
a
strange,
ter
dreadful land of bloodshed Hn<l t<>
"The blood at great an light Itself. Loving hands
hide ttiem »0 that they could never rible c<4<lne»M of tone.
come hack And she didn't even want atonement," she said between back- had polished It and kept It In perfect
condition.
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them to know their true parentage drawn lipa.
“
Matthew
Folger's
rifle,
“
the
old
She teemed to realize that If they had
woman explained, "for Matthew Fol-
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known, both of them would return
ger's son."
some time—to collect their debts
When the ••com! hand of th* watch
And that Is how Bruce Folger re
Sooner or later, that boy with the Fol-
ger blood in him and that girl with In his pocket had mad* one more cir turned to the land of his btrth—as
cuit. both Bruce and Linda found most men do. unless death cheats
the Roaa blood would return, to at
tempt to regale thetr sneiant holdings, themselves upon their feet T%e ten them first—and how he made a part
■nd to make the clan pay I _ .
__ sion had broken at laat Her emotion to pay old debts of death.
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