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 £ 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 »3 rest Is short. Simon and his clan took you a man? Haven't you got arms to Author of 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 £ s-aBtf 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 Illustrations by Irwin Myers 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 Copyright by Little. Brown A Co. 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. 1 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. » 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- CHAPTIR X 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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