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)