THE TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT PAGF MJ FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 22. 1922 over. His heart leaped at the sight ' cliffs nnd hauled with Infinite labor the distant lights of his home at last, you going to do?” of It. "Linda." he culled lu uhtrug 4 over the steep trails. "I ’ ll tell you. Linda. I wan '--'I Kin got up from her chair and T’m going back," Linda answered. "gvhere are you? It's Bruce. He understood now why the Turn to you. I ain ’ t been in fa' - r o moved over to the little pack she had “You had some other puri»ose in bring ers hud coveted it. It seemed the He stood an instant _ listening, a carried on her back when she had of things Slmou'a ?><•• -n <’ ing me out here—or you wouldn’t have great fear creeping over him. He acme of luxury to them. And mor- walked from her cabin. Linda still and your people. I thonirfr brought Elmir: called once more, first to Linda and clearly than ever he understood why gazed at her in growing wonder, The and I would like to be—friend to wait for Br then to rhe old wiqnan. Then he rhe Russes had die<l, sooner than re- No one could mistake Oil long years seemed to have fallen away “And you a i llnqulsU It. and why its usurpation bv leaped through the doorway. Inr, Elmiru tvl'l h from her; she slipped across the un- behind the strained tone, the Tlie kitchen was similarly deserted. i lie Turners had left such a debt , f earpeteil floor with the agility and si langt’n- in th- furtive eye- T things to say t From there he went to Linda's room. hatred to Llndir. All men know «>, r drew back, shuddering. "I'm lence of a tiger. She always had given the love of home Is one of the f ■ many thing* b Her coat and hut lay on the bed. the Impression of latent jsiwer, but back." she told him. great impulses that has made toward —there are ma never so much as nbw. Site took some “Walt. I'll take you buek - - civilization, hut by the same token hear of hlnfT" little Object from the bag nnd slipped have a kl-w and make friends. 1 old man’s spirit has been the cause of many wars, p Th- last v»-. It next to her withered and scrawny lady won t look—” h ■ tin- day is coming when this broke beuei ‘ It's enough. I'm r«ndy to give you breast. Hi- laughed again, a h ml been old Ei will die in the land, but with ft W your orders now They are—just to “What do you want?" she called out that rung far through the cures. He hud lajlghed often, mid the one hone die tin strength to repel the in nth V use vonr head, and on - >me pre'ext Into the gloom. >;< mnvei) toward her. hands re from our walls, and the land v. Ill n ,, of the old woman's declining years. Author of get those two women out of the house- Dav. bad been getting a little rest backed nwnv. Then she h:a If <nplM*] And he had fallen before Dave’s am be worth living tn, anyway. But it •The Voice of the Pack” so that Bruce can't ti.«d them wt en he less in the silent e; but the voice reas over an outstretched root. was not dead to the mountain pe--i ]e bush in a half-forgotten tight of long returns. Don't let them come buck sured hint. “I’ll tell-yon when you open The next Uuitant she w - .« in his years before. N'o really primitive emotion ever Is for an hour, if you can help It If It the door. It's something about arms, struggling against tl •-Ir steel. The Bosses had known this instin t The man shivered in bls bonds. Lin works—ull right. If It doesn't. we'll Bruce.” Illustrations by Irwin Myer» very well. As all men who are strong, da turned to go. The silence of the w use more direct measures I'll lend to Linda remembered hltn then, •hewed and of real natural virtue, thev wilderness deepened about them. . "Oh, the rest." leapdd to the door and flung it wide, CciprrUtit by LlttU. Bruwu • Co. had known pride of race nnd nnr. e ‘ Don ’ t Llndu, Linda," the man called. ‘ He strode to the wall and took She saw the «Jars without, the dark and it had been a tusk worth while to leave tue. Don't leave me here v. it Ii down a saddle from the hook, Quick fringe of pines against the sky line be build this stately house on their t'-r. SYNOPSIS her 1” he pleaded. “Please—please ly he threw it over the back of one of hind. But most of all she saw the lying acres. They had given the ■ don’t leave me in this devil’s power, the cow ponies, the animal that he Imd cunning, sharp-featured face of Dave fiber to It freely; no man who beheld CHAPTER I.—At the death of bls t1 I lt her let me go. ” Make r«' .■ r. H- i- Ijun an, In >u> ,-nHtei- ” punished, He put the bridle In Dave’s Turner, with the candlelight upon hltn. the structure could dottit that fact. re elvue a mysterlo 1» nusHagi,. b - i . i by >. bund "Stop at the house for the Linda didn ’ t seemed to hear. But The yellow beams were in Ills eves, Mr«. R obs , summoning him peremptorily glasses, then ride to the They had simply consecrated their ridge nt The brush crackled aud rustled; to southern Or* gon—to meet IJi«<la 1 too *They seemed full of guttering Ilves to it; their one Work by which once,” he ordered. “Then keep watch " the two — this dark-hearted man lights. they could show to all who came aft«r CH-APTTOR IL-’Bruce ha« vivid but baf the avenger—were left together. fling recollections of hie childhood L un The few times that Linda had talked that by their own hands they had CHAPTER XVII Orphanage, before hie adoption by New earned their right to live. to Dave she had always felt uneasy ton Duncan, with the girl Linda. CHAPTER XVIII Bruce saw the broad lands lying un The day was quite dead when Dave beneath his speculative gaze. The III.—At his destination, same sensation swept over her now der the moon. There were hundreds /Tail a Lnd, news that a rnct>«age has Turner reached hl.« post on top of the homeward journey over been sent to Bruce is received with She knew perfectly what she would of acres of alfalfa and clover to fur Fortunately, the moon rose ridges had meant only pleasure marked displeasure by a man Introduced ridge, nish hay for the winter feeding. There to the reader as “Blmon.” early. Otherwise Have's watch would have had to expect, long since, from The days had been full Bruce, this man, were ft not that lie Imd lived were wide, green pastures, ensllvorofi have been In vain. He didn't Imve adventures, and little, nerve-tingling CHAPTER IV.—leaving the train. in fear of his brother Simon. The by the moon, and fields of corn j l wait. At the end of a half Druce is astonished at his apparent fa long to the nights full of pence, And beyond miliarity with the surroundings, though hour he mighty leader of the clan had set n out in even rows. The ol<l apperd of saw. through the field glasses, I all these, there wits the hope of seeing to his knowledge he haa never been there. the soil, an Instinct that no porso: >f the wavering 1 of a strange black barrier around her as far as personal Linda agnin at the end of the trail. CHAPTER V.—Obedient to the message, shadow on the distant ineudow. Anglo-Saxon descent can ever , . He attentions went—and his reasons were It was strange how he remembered Bruce makes his way to Marti a'* cross Her Coat and Hat Lay on the Bed, but pletely escape, swept through b ■_ It might obvious. The mountain girls do not roads store, for direction ai to reaching tried to get a better focus her kiss. He had known other kisses There Was No Linda to Stretch Her Mrs. R ohs ' cabin. be Just the shadow of (leer, come tn usually attain her perfection of form They were worth fighting for, th,,. e in his days—being a purely rational Arms to Him. and face: Ids desire for her was as fertile acres. browse on the parched grass Dave CHAPTER VI—Oil the way, "Blmon’’ and healthy young man—but there had sternly warns blm to give up bls quest felt a little tremor of excitement nt jealous as It was Intense nnd real. Th! Not for nothing have a hundred gen there was no Linda to stretch her arms bpen nothing of Immortality about and return East Bruce refuses the thought that If It were not Bruce. dark-hearted man of great nnd terrible them. Their warmth had died quickly, to him. He started to go out the way erations of Anglo-Saxon people been CHAPTER VII.-Mr». Ro»., aged und I It was more likely the Inst of the emotions did not only know how to and tMy had been forgotten. They he had come, but went Instead to his tillers of the soil. They had left a Infirm, welcomes him with emotion. 8ha grizzlies, the Killer The previous hate. In Ills own savage way he could hastens him on hie wny—the end of "Pin«. were Just delights of moonlight nights own room. A sheet of note-paper lay love of it to Bruce. He know what Needle Trail." night the gray forest King hud intuì»1 love too Linda hated and feared him, It would be like to feel the earth's and nothing more. But he would wake on the bed. but the emotion was wholly different CHAITKH VIII—Through u country nn excursion Into Simon's pastures It hud been scrawled hurriedly ; hut pulse through the handles of a plow, to up from bls dreams at night to feel puzzling)/ familiar, Bruce journeys, and und had killed a yearling calf; In all from the dread nnd abhorrence with Linda’s kiss upon his lips. To recall although he hnd never received a writ behold the first start of green things finda hl» childhood playmate, IJnda. his Arms, Struggling probability he would return tonight to which she regarde I Have. “What it brought a strange tenderness — a ten word from I.imln he did not doubt In the spring and the golden ripening Against Their Steel. CHAPTER rX.-The girl tells him of finisti Ills feast. In fact, this nlglq about Bruce?" she demanded. in fall; to watch the flocks through the softening of nil the hard outlines of but that it was her hand: wrong» committed by an enomy clan on her family, the R o » hi * u laind» occupied would In all probability see the end of Dave leered. "Do you wnnt to see She didn't waste words In pleading. A his picture of life. "The Turners are coming— 1 caught breathless nights and tho herds fold by the clan were stolen from the Rosee«, the Killer. Some one of th«» Turners him? He's lying—up here on the hill.” soh caught at her throat, and she But aside from his contemplations a glimpse of them on the ridge. There ing on the distant hills. and the family with the exi-i-ptlon of would wait for him. with a loaded Aunt Elmira (Mr». Ro»») nn-1 herself, The tone was knowing, edged with fought with ull her strength against of Linda, the long tramp had many de is no use of my trying to resist, so I'll Bruce looked over the ground. He wiped out by aasaH»lnntlon. Bruce'» fa rifle, in ti safe ambush. cruelty; nnd It Imd the desired effect. the drawn, nearing face. She had for lights for him. He rejoiced in every wait for them in the front room anil knew cm ugh not to continue the trail ther, Matthew Folger. waa one of the But It wasn't the Killer, after till. It The colm swept from the girl's fnre. gotten Elmira ; In this dreadful mo victim* HI* mother had fled with Bruce manifestation of the wild life abou maybe they won’t find this note. They farther. The space in front was bathed gn-l Linda. The girl, while »mull, had was before bls time; besides, the In a single fraction of an Instant ft ment of terror and danger the old wo him, whether It was a hushy-tafled old will take me to Simon's house, and in moonlight, nnd he would make the been kidnaped from the orphanage a-i-l brought to the mountain* Linda'* father shadow was too slender to be thnt of showed stark white in the candlelight. man's broken strength seemed too little gray squirrel, watching him from a I know from its structure that they best kind of target to any rifleman had d.-.-ded hla lands to Matthew E- lg. r the huge bear. Dave Turner watched There was an Instant's sensation of to he of aid. And Dave thought her as tree limb, a magpie trying its best to will lock me in an interior room in 1 watching from the windows of the UIIIVUL, which «rill' II V»';uiu but th-- agreement, would VUIHULU confute the enemy'* claim» claim* to the property, haH hua a moment longer, so that there could terrible cold. But her voice was hard helpl»»s to oppose him as the tall Insult him. or the fleeting glimpse of a the east wing, Use the window on that house Ho rimed through the coverts, been I oh I be no possibility of a mistake, Bruce and lifeless when she spoke. pines that watched from above them. deer In the coverts. But he didn’t see side nearest the north corner, My one seeking the s’h-idow of the forests at CHAPTER X—Brui-e’« mountain blood was returning; he wus little more ills wild laughter obscured the single the Killer again. He didn't particularly hope is that you will come at once to | one side. "You mean you ’ ve killed hltn?" she responds to the cull of the blood-feud. than a half hour's walk from Linda'* By going in a quartering direction sound that she made, a strange cry ■ •are to do so. asked simply. save me." CH Al TER XI.—A giant tree, the Hen- lullin'. he was able to approach within two that seemed lacking in all human qual- Both days of the journey home he Bruce ’ s eyes leaped over the page: “ We ain't killed him. We've Just tlni'l Fine, ■«■■<* i uif, In front of 1.hula's cabin, Turner swung on Ills horse, then i-G Ity. Rather ft was «ucb a sound as a wnk- i-.e-l «harply at dawn. The cool, then he thrust It Into his pocket, He hundred yards of ‘bo ’-o-is-c without SBerns to Bruco’« cxc|t«<1 Imagination tc K luslied the unumil Into u gallop. I.e.-s been tetichlng him ii lesson Dave < x- puma utters e endeavoring to convey a message. ns It leaps upon Its prey. morning hours were the best for travel. slipped through the rear door of the i-;..urging into the moonlight. A t that plained. "Simon wnrneil him not to than tl\e minutes later he drew up to point the real difficulty of th" stalk CHA ITER XII.—Bruce sets out In e> nie up—and we've Imd to talk to him It was the articulation of a whole life He was of naturally strong physique. house, into the shadows. a halt heneuth the Sentinel Pine, til search of a trapper named Hudson, « ' "gan. He hovered In the shadows of hatred that had come to a crisis at , and although the days fatigued him un a little — with fists and heels." witness to the agreement between Llnla’s most it mile distant For the first then slipped one hundredwfeet further father and Matthew Folger CHAPTER XIX I.Indn cried out then, one agonized last -of deadly and terrible triumph mercifully, he always wakened re-1 ’liue, Dev* began to move cautiously to the trunk of a great oak tree. She knew wlmt fists and after a whole decade of waiting. If freshed In the (lawn. At noon he would CHAPTER XTTt—A trbmntt,- trrlzt.lr. It would complicate matters If the syllable. He could see the house much mor» As Bruce hurried up the hill toward known u« the Killer, Is uie terror of th« two women had already gone to bed heels could do in the fights between Dave had discerned that cry in time he stop to lunch, eating a few pieces of vh Inlty, beiaii«» of Ills size and ferocity. I plainly now. True, it hud suffered nejy would have hurled Linda from his arms Jerkey ami frying a single flapjack In | the Boss estates, he made a swift cal the mountain men. They are as much ■ The hour was early—not yet nine— | tecr fl ■ 1 st twenty years it need- CHAPTER XIV. —Dave Turner, sent by weapons of torture ns the claws and ; to leap into a position of defense. The his skillet. And usually, during culation of rhe rifle shells In his pock Blmon, brllion Hudson to »wear falsely but the fall of ihirkiHss is often the • g nnd many of its windows fangs of the Killer. She had an In- ' desire for women In men gres down to noon rest, he would practice with his et. The gun held six. He had perhaps fed ■ concerning the agreement. If brought to going to bed time of the mountain peo w bl en. Bruce rejoiced to see light, he knowing Its whereabouts. pie It I* warmer there and safer; slant's dread picture of this strong the roots of the world, hut s"lf-pre*en- rifle. - fifteen others in his pocket*, and he th t were no lights in the east He knew that if he were to fight the hadn't stopped to replenish t. in from am! the expense of candles is les- man of hers lying maimed nnd broken, vation Is a deeper Instinct still. Wi:.. '¡e house; the window that ale But he didn ’ t hear it In time. El Turners, skill with a rifle was an the supply Elmira hnd brongl-t. He “Whut's the use of waiting? Who’d ««ned. But tonight Limbi and old a battered, whimpering, ineffective indicated in the note was mira had not struck with fter knife. solute necessity; such skill as would hadn’t brought Dave's rifle with him. I. . I mow?" The two uien stood face to Elmiru were sitting up, waiting for thing In the moonlight of some llstant Jb- U .< k square on the moonlit The distance was too far for that. But have felled the grizzly with one shot but had left It with the remainder of w . ’. •ce in the qulel und deepening dusk Bruce’s rei urn. hillside. The vision brought knowledge • if the burn; und there was groMlng A candle flume flickered at the win to her. Even more clearly than In the she swung her cane with all her force. Instead of administering merely a tiesh 1 is puck. He knew that the liglirer he Tl * a neglected garden close The blow caught the mini at the tem wound, accuracy to take off the head traveled the greater would be his leternilnutlun on each fuce. "Every dow. Dave went up to the door and ; second of their kiss, before he had : of the house. If he could of a grouse at fifty yards and at the ple. bls arm* fell away from th«» girl's chance of success. lay our chance Is less and less,1 Dave knocked. gone to see Hudson, she realized what i: - "t In safety he could np- same time, an ability to swing and Obviously the girl hnd written when rent on, "With this land behind lillil, "Who's there?" Elmira called. It an Immutable part of her he wus. She body, he staggered grotesquely In the i a few feet of the house ie'd be Ip n position to pay old debts, was a habit learned In the dreadful gazed with growing horror at Dave’s carpet of pin needles. Then he fell aim the weapon In the shortest possi the clan was closing nluiut the house, 1 s'.;,1! r-main in cover. He went ble space of time. The only thing that mid finding her In the front risun, ’iu telling you. We should have met days of twenty years ago, not to open leering fuce. "Where Is he?" she face downward. .iwL, illV.l slo.vly crawled toward It. retarded him was the realization that jnr on the trull and let the buzzards n door without at least some knowl asked. She remembertsl, with singular "His belt, quick!" the woman cried. there had been no occasion to search Once a light sprung up in a window nlk to him.” edge of who stood without. A lighted . steadfastness, the pistol she ha<l con- No longer was her voice that of de he must not waste too many car the other rooms nnd thus discover it. near the front, and he pressed close "Yes," Simon echoed in u strange doorway sets off a target almost us ceuled In her own room. crepit age. The girl struggled with tridges. Elmira had brought him only The girl had kept her head even in 1 to the earth. But in q moment it went a small supply. "Let the buzzards talk ulf-whlsper. well as a field of white sets off a black herself, wrenched back her self-con thnt moment of crisis. A wnve of ad iway. He crept on. “I'll show you. If you want to get He didn't know He would walk all afternoon — going > him." bull's-eye. miration for her passed over him. him in you <1 hi tter bring the old hag trol, nnd leaped to obey her aunt. They when a watchman in one of the dark Dave took fresh heart nt the sound Dave knew the truth was the proper with you. It'll take two of you to cur snatched the man’s belt freni about bls somewhat easier and resting more of And the little action had set an ex windows would discern his creepin. f that voice, "No one would have ever course. "Dave Punter." he replied. waist, and the women locked It swiftly ten than In the morning; and these ample for him. He knew that only figure. But he did know perfectly just ry him." nowed It," lie went on. “No one A long second of heavy, strange si about his ankles. With strong, hard were the times that he appreciated a rigid self-control and cool-headed what manner of greeting he might ex “I'll come." the old woman said from xiuld ever know It now. They'd find lence ensued. Then the woman spoke hand* they drew his wrists back of fragment of Jerked venison, He would strategy could achieve the thing he had I* bones, »onio time, maybe, but ngnln. There was n new note’ In her across the shadowed riMiin. She spoke him und tied them tight with the long halt Just before nightfall nnd make his si-t out to do. His impulse was to pect in this event. There would be a with a curious breathlessness. “1'11 go single little spurt of fire In the dark- camp. iere'd be no one to point to. voice, a curious lionrseites-, but at the storm the door, to pour his lead I . ness, so small that probably his eyes bandanna handkerchief he wore about at once." And the best hour of all was after Ever get nnytlilng against us. through the lighted windows; but such ' would quite fall to catch it. If they his neck. They worked almost In si The door closed behind the three of OU—It's ull the way, or no wny lence, with lucredllfle rapidity and his meal, as he sat in the growing things could uever take Linda out of ' lid discern it, there would be no time them, nnd they went out into the uioou- shadows with his pipe. At . this hour ___ , Simon's hands, only stealth and cau- ell me to wait f<>r Idin on the deftness. lit forest. Dave walked first. It was he felt tho spirit of the pine* ns never | tlon. not blind courage nnd frenzy. for a message to be recorded In his "Walt. Wu|t ti minute, llov The man was waking now, stirring wholly ■ harileterlstlc of him that lie before. He Knew their great, brood I could serve her now. Such bllml I ■rain: It would mean a swift and cer ■fore lie will collie?" tain end of i-l] messages. The Turner- should mnd a degentrriite rapture in In his unconsciousness, and swiftly the ing sorrow, their Infinite wisdom, their "Any time now. And don't postpone old woman cut the bucksklu thongs inexpressible aloofness with which killing a* hl* heart prompted had to would lose no time in emptying their showing these two women the terrible men, more. We're «1» mutter un.) wait for another time. rifles at him, and there wouldn't be the handiwork of the 1’urnera. He re- from bls tall logging boots. These also they kept watch over ’he wlldt^riess. it biiliie*. lie's not a fool or a cow- He knew only the general direction «lightest doubt about Their hitting th. sh*» twitted about the wrists, knotting The smoke would drift about him In joieed In Just this sort of cruelty. Lin I*?, either Anil he's a shot—I of the Bos* house where Simon lived. mark. All the clan wore expert shot« da Imd no suspicion that tlds excur them again und ugniti, and pulling them soothing clouds; tlie glow of the coals “‘i—and how’d lat plain enough Linda had told him it rested upon the ind the range was close. sion was i.nly n pfetevt to get the two so tight they were almost burled tn was red and warm over him. He could ke to have lilm 'hoot through y<»ur the lean flesh. Then they turn«*] him think then. Life revealed some of its crest of a small hill, beyond a ridge The place was deeply silent. lie women away from the tioustx and that .lndows some lino-.- «»Id Elmiru mid fine upward to the n -on. lesser niyster'-•« to hiui. And he bo of timber. The moonlight showed him felt a growing sense of awe. In a mo arose from decía* r his eagerness Indu have set blm on. nud lie's U*>t The two women st(»xl nn Instant, gnn to glimpse the distant gleam of a well-beaten trail, and he strode inent more, he slipjied into the shad cause*. It was true that Dave exulted ir It." breathing hard. f’Whnt now?" Linda ■-ven greater truths, and >.mntiim-s It swiftly along It. ows of the neglected rose gardens. In the work, and atmugely the fact "I wish you'd got thnt old liel He had a vague sense of familiarity that It win piwt of the plot against asked. And n shiver of awe went over seenual to him that he could almost He lay quiet an instant, resting. He hen yon got her son," Simon si with this winding trail. Perhaps he lldn't wish to «risk the success of his Bruce Imd been almost forgotten in her nt the sight of the woman's face. catch and hold them. Always it was e »till spoke culmly; blit It v "Nothing more. Linda.” she an some uu-«s»i_-o that rhe pities were try had to,ldle*l down it as a baby, per expedition by fatiguing himself now. Ike fare of a greater emotion, He was ««In enough thnt Dtiv«»'» words w haps his mother had carried him along alone In the darkneM with Linda— swered. In a distant voice. '‘Leave ing to tell him—partly in words they Ho wanted his full strength and iving the desired effect. "So I it on a neighborly visit to the Rbsses. Imve Turner to me." X made when their limbs rubbed togeth except of course for a helpless obi breath for any crisis that he should ,ken up the Idood feud. bn* he? It was a strange pl- ''.ire. Woman er. partly In the nature of a great alle- i He went over the hill nnd pushed his meet In the room where Linda w:i* woman—and the command of Sim in in louglit 1 guve III« f-tlier aotue lesson* way to the edge of the timber, All regard to hl* attitude toward her Iioisl—the softies* and tenderness gory of which their dark, impassive confined. that ii long time ~ nee Well, I sup- seetm-1 suddenly dim and far away. H» which . "'ii have I- tr. d to associate forms were the symbols. If lie could at once the moon showed him the >se w«» must let him hnve Id* wny!" Nevertheless, the stock of Ills rifle house. "And remember, too," Dave urg'd, I« h I them over a hill. Into the de-|ier with ’ e u«i. ie—sci no 1 fallen away only see clearly! But it seemed to him • it l 1 in his ; rf rhap« tl - He couldn't mistake it. even at thnt tills passion blinded his eye*. More from Limiti nnd E'.nlra. They were forest vbut you told him when you met him would be a running fight after he got distance. And to Bruce It had a singu nnd more he realized that the pt I the store. You *nld you wouldn't So Intent was he that he quite failed of -v ai. nge s -like the «hc-la-ar that lar effect of unreality. The mountain .the girl out of the house, and then h-s urn him twlie." to ob-erve a singular little signal be tights fot I.er cubs er the sh-'-uolf -hat like the stars. men did not ordinarily build homes of ¡cartridges would be needed. There tween vid I lmira ami l.lnda. The wo g.i rd* the lulr. There was no more great powers who Hved 0*1 rowel r 1 I" IU" wen might even be a moment of close work world, power* thnt would to *uch d,:::--:’.«ions. They were usually with what guards the Turners had set ent. but Dav, I qo longer nto man half turned alsiut. giving the girl tuvrey in them than In the females of merely g cabins of two or three low men If they would but list >nles*. II«1 win shivering nil over an Instant * glimpse of something that th lower »I'eeles over her. But the heavy stock used Ith malic«* mid ■- she ti ns . i-l from her bn-a-t to I ■• Dave awakened. They saw him stir, patiently enough, and In whose creed er rooms nnd a garret to be reached like a club, would be most use to him lay hap] iness. with a lad ler. The ancestral home of ’then you'll kl'.-n the word?" »leeve. It was slender ani‘ of steel. Thev wnteliia! him try to draw hl* then. The last gftemoon he traveled hard. the Kos« , however, had fully a dozen cd. mid It .might the moonlight on It* arm* from behind him. It was Just a Many times, he knew, skulking fig He wante-l to reach I Inda’s honse be rooms, and It loomed to an Incredible th« First Tim«, Oav« Began to f «. IH» little-understamlt ’g pull at first, I’»» given the word, but I'll ■!• Il shining surface. ures had been concealed in this gar « ■ ■ In the mystery of the moonlight. fore nightfall. Bnt the ¡rail was too Mov« Cautiously. y own i u) i. !'.<'<■' S'. -11 Th. girl’s eyes glittered when she Then he wrenched and tugged with all He saw quaint gabled roofs and far- den. Probably the Turners. In the nod. hviiil bent deep in thought, behv.fi It. She notified, M-aroely |wr- hl - strength, flopping strangely In the long for that. The twilight fell, to time a sense of «xnltMtlon and find him »till a weary two miles dis spreading wings. And it seemed more i , days of the blood-feud, had often wait ’ould you arrange to have Linda I effort lucre- until It was But Dave didn't inv.re eeptlbly, and the strange file plunge 1 llxe a I: iuse of enchantment, a struc ed In Its shadows for n sight of some tant. And the way was quite dark id the old hug out of the house ali«-n excitement. e wav suggestive of an animal in It. He plight, however, have been In ■ l«eper Into tho »hndow«. one of their enemies in a lighted win •Uee gets back?’ i'll struggle—a fur b«»nrar dying when ho plunged Into the south pas ture raised by the rubbing of a magic dow. old ghosts dwelt In it; he could Fifteen minutes later Dave drew up th terested tn the singular look of won- ture of the Ross estatra. ■ limp, thau the work of carpenters and "Y»a— " in the trap. der that flashed over Linda's face n* to a luilt tn a little patch of mo «flight See their shadows waver out of the “Webe got to w ■ . lb.* thing r g t. Half an hour later he was beneath nhisons. «urtsmnded by n wall of low tree* and Terror was upon him. U was In hl* she stared nt her age-l tiu.'.t. Llmla corner of his eyes.* Or perhaps it was IT " ably Its wild surroundings had v cun t - I ■ uif ' ■' ■ .-u Ii-.i we the S«-i.flnel Bine. He wondi red why - ■ - • g- ~ waa imt thin .Ins of Dave Her whole brush. itti to 1 h, - . - to ■ l ll| the Linda was not wafting beneath it; in n great* deal to do with this effect only the shadow of the brìi mbit s. "Tla-ee * more than one way to make In the de*i*-n''|on and frenzy of his do—I* to attenti n was seized und he'd by the bl* fancy, he thought of it ns being There were a- road» leading to Trail’s blown by the wind. Irmdt-ud -at the a date for a walk with a pretty girt," »trvggle*. And the t«y» women saw unfamiliar note In her aunt 's voice, d*. thq onlnlneil place for her But [«er- End. Material could not he carried him muie t - once his heart leaped Into hl» it and smiled Into each other’s eye* sud a strange drawing of the woman's he said. go to the hap* she had merely failed to hear hl* o'er Its winding trails except on pack throat at a sharp crack of brush be- 'But lie won't do Th«- girl «tared coldly Into hl* eye*, Slowly his efforts ceased. He lay feature« that the closed door prevent footstep«. He called Into the open animal*. He had a realization of tre- side him; and he could scarcely re lurt« fit'. *’lll In the pine needle*. He turn«al door. Simon'» t:u e grew stern. "I don't ed Dave fresi seeing. It was a look “What do you binan?" «he n«ked. mend.'us difficulties that had been con strain a musculer jerk that might have TIi- man laughe«l harshly, "I mean hl« head, first toward Linda, then to "Linda " he said. Tve int any more lnt«-rru|gh'U«. Dare- i almost of rapture hardly to he ex quered by tireless effort of i,mf revi-.-ded his position. But when he back." •an ue will want to ghe the Itiipre» pected In the preseme of an enemy. that l’ru<T ain't got back yet- he's still 'he Inscrutable, -lark fnee of the No answer reached him. The word* month* of unending toil, of exhau«t- turned his head he could see nothing Hl that he attacked u* first—on bls Tin- dim eye» seemed to glow In the on the other siile of Little river, for w--msn. As understanding rame rang through the silent rooms «nd le»« patience, and at the end—a dream but the coverts and the moon above all I know — " l a the cold drop* emerge«! ui»-•<« n free will. What If he comes luto sliadoo* It «ns the look of one «ho echo«*! 1 nek to him. He walked over wme true. All of it* lumber had to them, a garden snake, or perhaps a | “Then why did you bring u* here?" ««iirth.v »kin. r bou««—a mar unknown tn these had wnmjered «trop and unknown the thre-hold. be heap«] from the forest* about. It* blltid nude, hud. made the sounds "Ju»t to t>e s>>cl»bl^.’ Dav« returtiej. its- and ■nnirili'ng happen' t_o him , tnills for um'<mnt-d yeura ami so-« “tnii'l he a*ked. "What A chn — m the front rex>n> « »« turned «IffDe had I'reaLTiarr^i toBLthe rock deaJ uf night? '•-■lldn’t look so bid then would It? 1 -Ides If we got him her«----before we mfr bjl e to find out hat il I First, how going to or the Pines By Edison Marshall (Continued Next Week)