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FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 1?, 1922 THE TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT Her hand fumbled and grep ■d for tt und; The Killer had been cheated againi and found tlie it be his. Her eye ea pleaded to hl» *1 and by the same token Simon' oath for he k r thi for than nay wi '.»rd«. "And you had bi en proved uutrué. For once the ' had t been p ttln, you’ve given up hope?" -he asl 1 remorseless st s that wc rth of which he boast- 1 this « season In tí But h- He smiled down at lier—a ed had been worsted by tire i greater j follpv <v he u mid tA strength ; and love, not hate ■va» the farthi est re iw um! strange little I smile that mov. » of inly above in secret way i'% "Not given i-r power thut gave It. For out a girl’s I let tl he winds whls Linda,” he a mid genfly. T!"-y courage—a courage greater that I him. T r, were standing at tl he door and the - with which he obeyed the 1 :tut< The larger u rgei creature hla cruel will—had cost hie tea lives—if ani- —comb g low from the south ■ I less complacent, L1 d ( I ha "I’ve never had un’ <if foresight his fut tory. The war that he iiu< his wals have any her it v hard days, to give up —Just realization of law band hud begun so look ago whatever—knew not yet been won. not luscious nu s and roots, were in lay ahi d of us. I’m looking ■If Indeed, if Simon could have seen store for them, There would be many In the face now, just as I del at what the moon saw us it pi ered out days of hunger once the snow came “And whut you see—makt I feel n<< rei war behind the clouds, he would have over tlie laud. The black beur saw afraid ?" By Edison Marshall from ,s been the wi 1 It. that known that one of the debts of blood *lhe si, gus and began a desperate effort Yet she need not have asked seems to me Author of to lay up us many extra pounds of Incurred so mtity year» ago had even question. Ills foie gave an unmlstak- whole world •The Voice of the Pack” now been paid. Far away on a dis | fat as possible before the snows broke. able answer; that this man had laybe I can b tant hillside there vus one who gave He would have need of the extra flesh. quered four in the terrible ZIfri? and theme no hoed to the fust hoof bents of the Tlie time wus coming’ when all sources the Killer. "Not afraid, It all—but It's not speeding horse, It was Dave Turner, of food would be cut off by the snow», explained, “only seeing thi Illustrations by Irwin Myers o put into words. Co; and his trull of lust and wickedm- 18 and lie would have to seek the security in this world are es of hibernation. He hud already chos at last. He lay with lifted was ended CupyrlrfA by Little, Brvwu A Co. tlals, certain other ones are froth. Am face, and there were curious dnrk en an underground abode tor himself I see which things belong to one class stain» on the pine needles. and there he could doze away in the 6YNOPSIS and which to a ither so much more And the pines, those fnll, dark wn- cold-trance through the winter mouths, learly than I did before, One of the tltiels of the wilderness, seemed to subsisting on the supplies of fut that ■t th« death of his tostor hlngs that matters is throwh g one’s look down upon him In passionless con he hud .stored next to his furry hide, lean, in on eaetern city, whole life into whatever task he has yeierlou» message, »mt by a templation, ns If they wondered at the The greatest of all the bears, Ummonlng him peremptorily set out to do whether he fail» or sue- Killer, knew that some stumbling ways of men. Their branches such southern Oregon—16 meet "Llmfa.” ceeds doi lesn’t seem greatly to mutter, rubbed together and imide words an . awaited him also. But he looked HAFTER II.—Bruco luis vivi The main thing, it ;i appears to me, Is the wind swept through them, but no ward to it with wretched spirit. g FccoUeetlori» of hl« chlldh that he has tried. To stand strong man may say what those words were. wau muster of tlie forest, and perhaps anagé, before hl« adoption Duncan, with the girl Lind kind of ealm, and not be afraid— i he did not like to yield even to the i can ulways do It, Linda, it Is all I spirit gif winter. His savagery grew III,—At hl» destination. BOOK THREE news „ for myself. Not to flinch now. <ew» that n menease ì.ua upon him every day, aud bls dislike ,o Bruce la received with to give up as long ns I have the fur men lmd turned to a veritable pivueuro by a man Introduced ■'■re by Ur «ui "81m COMING OF THE STRENGTH hatred. But he hud found them out. strength for another step. And to 81mon." have you with me—all the way.” When he crossed their trulls again, .—Leaving the train, CHAPTER XXIV “Then you and I—take fresh heart?" (A at bls apparent fa- bi- would not wait to stalk. They were 6 surioundlmj*. though "We’ve never lost heart, Linda.” apt to slip away from him in this case le luui never been there. Fall was at hand at Trail’s End. and sting him unmercifully with bul "Not to give up, but only be glad CHAPTER V,—Obedient to t>.< mou-nge, The spirit of autumn hud come with lets. Tlie tiling to do was charge we’ve tried?" nice nmk..» Ida way to M i tln's ro. n- golden wings. quickly and strike with nil his power. “Yes. Anil keep on trying.” ra" Il 1‘'6’ 11 tlon tt* t0 rwKiilng A buck deer—a noble creature with "With no regrets?" Tlie three minor wounds he hud re six points on his spreading horns - got ceived—-two frmn pistol bullets mid CHAl’TIgR VI.—On die way, "Simon" “None—and maybe to borrow a little erniy warn» him to give up hi« quest I the first Inkling of It when lie stopped one from Bruce’- rifle>—had not lessened strength front the pines 1” id return East. Bruce refuse« nt a spring to drink The air bud ills strength at all. They did, how This was their new pact. To stand CHAPTER VII. Mr». Ron», aged and been chill In his nostrils, tint thanks ever, serve to keeji his blood-heat at firm and strong and unflinching, and firm, welcomes him with emotion. Slw to a heavy growth of huir that—with tin- explosive stage most of the day Ast, r, ldm <-n ill« way—the . i. ' < f "i a. - never to yield as long as ¡tn ounce of l»ei!s Trull." ■ mysterious foresight—liad begun to mid night. treugth remained. As if to seal ft, CHAPTER VIII.-ThrouKh u country come ui*on his body, It gave him no Tlie flowers mid the grasses were dy arms crept about his neck and puisiuigly familiar, Bruco foupicy». ano discomfort. Hut It was n puzzling and ing; tlie moths that paid cnlls on tlie fi..ns blu ' nlldhood pluynialo. Linda. soft Ups pressed bis. significant tiling that the water lie bent flowers lmd laid their eggs mid had CH A ITER IX. Irl tolls him <>r to drink had been transformed to perished, and winter lurked—ready to vroi MH coininit iemy clan on CHAPTER XXV ier rumlly. thi inds occupied something luird mid while iirul burn pounce forth—Just beyond tlie distant "And You Mean You've Given up >y tin- clnn w. n tno Kortae®. Hope?" She Asked. ing cold to the tip of his nose. mountains. There is Is nothing so hd the fanill; Toward the end of the afternoon exception or lint Elnflra flint Elmira (Kfr®. (Mrs Roeii) and h< rHtjIf, It was tlie first real freeze, True, thoroughly unreliable e as the mountain really are. There are too many against Linda saddled and rode down the trail dpv ’ ’• QUt iruce’® i fa- pm out by AHHAH «sHANNiniition, Brmo for the past few nlglits there hud been autumn. It may Un; ger In entrancing us. If we had that great estate be toward Martin’s store. She had con ono ei a ber, xz Matthew Folger. r. wrtS ----- >1 the letfms. -------------- ' - with firuce t’mfl. ills m<»?her - ' hal - fled u measure of tinkling, cobweb frost golds un<l browns month after month, hind us, with all Its wealth, we might siderable business to attend to. Among IP 1 Linda. Th«- jfirl, '▼IUI while Hmall, I nd ” MTIIJ1II i on tlie ground In wet places, but even until it Is almost time for spring to have a chancel if we had an arsenal other things, she was going to >®®n kjdnapeu from the orpbânaw orphanag® and rom th® »roiiaht to the mountain®. Linda’« father the tender-skinned birds—always most come ngnin; and again it may make of rifles with thousands of cartridges, thirty-thirty cartridges—nil that I® land® iad deeded hl® land« tc to Matthew F«»l*r*»r. watchful of signs of this kind—had ope short bow mid usher In the w inter. we might make a stand against them. tin had in stock. She had some ivt the i<Ki» • inent, B'<fnt, which ^vhi<-h would woul«1 con conruto ___ be epomy*® claim® to th® property, ha** To Bruce mid Linda, in the old Fol- But we are three—two women and one of securing un extra gun or two disregarded It. Hut there was no dis een Jost regarding tills half Inch of blue lee ger home in Trilli's End, these fall man -and one rifle between us all. 1'lw shells to match. The additional ' CHAiTER X. Bruce’» mountain blood thut had covered ti e spring. Tlie buck days offered the Inst hope of success little shells to be expended In five SC- In her puck was to be filled with res;K>m1n tu the cull of the bluod-feud •sponda to deer struck It angrily with his front In tlielr war against tlie Turners. onds. They nre seven or eight, each visions. CHAPTER XI.—A ginnt trie, tlie m-n- hoofs, broke through mid drank; then The adventure in tlie pasture with man armed, each mnn a rifle shot, Foi ■d with the unni tir. w,,«-< 1 Pine, i i,,,-, in front of 1 I In, went snorting up the bill. the Killer lmd hamlli'npped thmn to They tire certain to att k within a ant t a«<-iiiH to Tl, in-< '» excited Iniaiflnntlon 1« larder bi- b<- umlenvortiiK «ndeovorms to convoy n tn,, m iage. nge. Ills linger was In Itself n significant an milooked-for ilegree. Bruce’s day or two—before wo In e tlie in euuit’ d venl tiling, In (lie long, easy ruing summer had Imen severely strained again, In less than tv weeks CHAPTER XU.—Unico ___ MctH out in •viiri-b of :i trapper named Iludnon. v the bonds; several days had cun no longer contest the r title to days, Illiiektnll laid ultm ■ t forgotten Wltne.e« to th.. . I .circuì t b*«tu'**un J Juda'A efore he regained their full estate, A little month whut linger wns like, lie had been I two n ••■tt'i'r und .’ otti "W «vii Ire*. content to ronin over tig- rldgei crop- I binda muntnln girl, and we will be snowed n-—with CHAPTER V'.- Hudson it nd Dive visH ping tin* leaves mol grass, avoiding i as a ■r nerves had chance to get nut at all fori, ui-r’e trnpH. A wolf, «Taught In one, I the Is <1i vertjd by the Killer, plbturted nt dmiger and growing fut. Blit nil at i k by the “Perhaps before that,” hin fri, it, trie brute Htrlki M down Hudson once this kind of existence laid palled 1 >f them hud Bruci.. , :»n hi« way to Hudson, ehootn and “Yes. Perhaps before wounds the Killer, driving him from hie on him. lie fi It that he wanted only , th«» fear and They found a co tifimi victim Hudson, learning Bruce*« Iden on«- thing—not food or drink, or safe- till the base prophecy in the sign - of full V Illy, tn pH to tell him tin hiding place of the i. •« nivlit, but tb’Uh MtinunoiiH him. ty hut a good slnsliltig, hooking, hoof- i lenlt her laid the coloring leaves, the dying carving buttle with another buck of >r her strong the new, cold breath of th • wind CflAl’THIl XVI. Hlmon, believing Uni e knows when* tho do uno nt is <'<»n • ah <!, his own s|M»cles. An unwonted crots- 1 been obliged the pines remained unged lays plans to trap him ness had come upon him, and Ids 't days of rest, nt In«-! - CHAPTl.ll XVII - Have decoys klnda eyes burned with n l.lm- fire He re- ut the bouse and Aunt I’lnilra from their home The nieniliered tile do,-a, too — with a mill- inan insulin Linda n ><l I n Htrmk loan by the aged woman. Elmlnvs son has den leap of his blood and wondered been murdered by Ihive. and at hor << in- where tlmy were keeping them I selves, mand. after Sc« ur< lv binding th«» d< perudo, Linda leave» them alone. Being only n beast he did I not know that this new lielllgereut spirit CHAl’fl 1 It XVIII IlvturnlnM, I lruce find» a n<»U>. pr. aumu bly from Uuda t* li Just ns much a sign of full ns the io br! in* him n I io ha« hv<in kldna; d bj the blush that was coming on tile leave« Turn« ri» —to tliri The simple fact waa thul full menus you lu CHAI TKH XI'X - ! Iruce falls lnt<■» 81- the boginning of the rut- the wild mat- Hi Was tu» * trap, and 1« m adv prisoner. to win. T lng days when th bucks buttle among all I’ve o doni». I CHA»-n R XX < • harclna Prime wlth themselves mid ■In i.-e tliolr harems of attempt in« t«,» r«»«>pcn the hTood f«»ud . the tonight—perhaps a fev days later.' do«»». dan, after n m<*< k tr lai. deciil«"- t«> leave He nodded gravely, him bound. it. a p¡nature on th. •put He laid rather liked Ills nptii'orance tis thought no: I .rm < where the Kill« • tia«i •lain and half ♦ •Aten "Ami I’ve alreu'ly killed your smile,” In* sira lilmsidf In the water of tlu- Linda were • <«ir Hi« ni«l i -for Tier for als. tlie r«tuia >r i '■ lind i he bl. Npilng. The last of tile velvet had II llescent 1 1 beings— she went on. looklqg down. "You don't ■laylna ' t firm-. \be animal l»«,en ruhtied from his horns, and the some time I 1 they are smile ntiy more the way you used to. CH.vrTEtt Xtrt-A iriimnfle rrUetv. ubic to nmk twelve titles (six on em li horn) were .,r a »... s no room You're not the boy you were when you *.»r thv th' »wn rh thv Killer. 1» Ui*. tcrmr - vl< Inity, hecauMt of hi« *ft? ferocity. ns luird mid iilmost ns sharp ns «<< fur or hysteria In this came, oh, to think of It—that It's all grim many bayonet points. The Ideus, the soft- lusm my work. To kill your youth, CHAPTER XIX IMve Turner, eent by Binion, bribe« H u -I hoh to CHl^rly he laws of tile valleys were to lead you lBto this slaughter pen As th«» inoriilng dawned, the chance eoncrtnlns the •. r<-« n nt, if brought to In the face of nature became ever more far * away from them; they were face where nothing—nothing lives but light, he Knowing It? win i rnboute. 1 with roalltu's. Their code had dentil—ami hatred—uml unhappiness." manifest. The leaven of the shrubbery to face Tlie tears limped to her eyes, lie CHAPTER XXI Bru. c. helpless, awaits two ■otne the busii- code of life: to kill bi'gan to cbniig«» In color. Th«» wind arrival of tlie Killer and death. out of the north had a ki'ener. more for selfproti'ctton without mercy or caught her hands uml pressed them be tween his until pain came into her CHAITF.it XXH Simon make« t.tnla biting quality, and the birds were liar- remorse. an oftrr of imirrlaa«*- T)u< «¡irl re film ■< fingers. "Listen, Linda," lie command They <ii«l m»t know when th*» Turners Ing some sort of exciting debate In tailing him Shy lov,-« Bril, r Enrng«-d. th«- man brutally «trike« her. and i..n, « would attack. It waa the dark of the ed. She looked straight up at him the tree tops. The girl in co nd, tent h« will go to llrnoo. "Are you sorry I came?" The birds are always a scurried, moon, iind the rnen and aiie toll, na him. "More than I can tell you—for your nervous, rather rattle brained outfit, I approach the house ake." and seem wholly Incnpiibh* of making lug theiusvIveH us (a "But when pvxiple look for the truth a d< l- on ni <ut anything without rifle Tile danger wt in this world, Linda, they don' take hoi of argument and discussion, which to conjecture any one's soke into consideration They n ♦*' er.'pre»u'iit lav are «imply tuie«) with biilmu-e nil tilings and give then their trapped ex< after another, and they IT’S TOASTED true t. ro*»h«**l t a! In un hour than the • rattle mnmiire In the on» «xtFa •xt/n procès* procès? | r « sloe trunsfornuv whtoh give« « t j f the leave», nut to dellolous hnvor <f the frost through fair era, had created a vu ion » end of Idrdhuid Strength of the Pines ÿ 8 ? a $ 8 8 8 *«l h of tln-lr ih. »id« In thv ri • not such u ^=a3 t night. •r il livre ces In toward the fringe of woods. “It looks as if we'll have p a;i,- r ling, c >ne of i wh ■li the rough measures, after all," Yot, K ' ‘ erence began. ,er 1 i n turili il with n ,0 trim mean you let bw'ts, h rather y<»u—and missed him? Yonne niaS things yvu’ve\(looe timi—” $li "Won’t you wait till I I ’ ’ ve told y», wear a r .1. a middle how it happened? It wasn’t ¿ hi "?»; It I klr , f lean by her w,-.- Linda. For some re . ,n j a ; i would have dope out, She went up In the big bM id n< n It I is an tn back of me and saw me—when J «2 ie oth L‘T in; a de a rather too far off to shoot her horse, fu? p fact thut rig it and hair she rode back like a witch. Theni ullur ng p licturi t iar ■ t, o the el not take that trail again." dark and strong Hr "It means one of two things," Simo- d- io wn the bow- -H« rhe came ri said after a pause. “One of them u -needle trail. pln< of (he dim- to starve ’em out. It won’t take i0J She came to the oy nier trail and turned down lt. She Their supplies Won’t last ferever. tu entered a .till glen, mid the color in other is to cull the clan and attuek- ' her cheek- heeks and the soft brown of her tonight.” "And that means loss of life." urms I.hi 'ed well "1th the uew tints "Not necessarily. I don’t know how i of the auiumn leaves. Then she turned many guns they’ve got. If any of you I up a long ridge. ■ The trull led through an old burn— were worth your salt, you'd find out ' a bleak, eerie place where the Are had those things. I wish Dave was here" And Sinton spoke the truth for once ! swept down the forest, leaving only strange, black palings here and there In his life; he did tulss Dave. Aud it —and -ho stopped in the middle of it was not that there had been tiny i,)va to look down. Tlie mountain world lost between them. But the truth was was laid out below her as clearly us —although Simon never would have in ■ relief map. Her eyes lighted as admitted It—the weaker man's cunning Jts beauty mid Its fearsomeness went had been of the greatest aid to hla home to her, and her keen eyes'slowly chief. Simon needed it sorely now. “And we can’t wait till tomorrow swept over the surr mndlng bill tops. Tlu n for a long moment she sat very i night—because we've got the moon then," Young Bill added. "Just a uew still In the saddle. A thousand feet distant, on the same moon, but it will prevent a iurprlaa ridge on which -he rode, she caught attack, I suppose you still have hopes sight of another horse. Tt held her of Dave coming back?” "I don’t see why not. I’ll venture gaze, and in un Instant she discerned the rather startling fact that it wns to say now lie’s off on some good piece saddl ed, bridled, aud apparently tied of business—doing something none of to a tree, Momentarily she thought the rest of you have thought of. He'll that its rider wns probably one of the come riding back one of these day» Turners who was at present at work with something actually accomplished. on the old Folger farm; yet she knew 1 see no reason for thinking that lie's ut once the tilled lands were still too dead. Bruce hasn’t had any chance far distant for that. She studied close nt him that I know of. But If I thought ly the maze of light mid shadow of the he was—there’d be no more waiting. underbrush and In a moment more dis Wed tear down that nest tonight" Simon spoke In his usual voice— tinguished the figure of the horseman. It was one of the Turners—but he with rhe same emphasis, the same un was not working in the fields, lie was dertones of passion. The truth was standing near the animal’s head, back that lie had slowly become aware that to her, and his rifle lay In his arms. Young Bill was not giving him bls full attention, but rather was gnzing off— Ami then Linda understood. lie wns simply guarding the trail unfamiliar speculation in his eyes— down to Martin's store. Except for the toward the forests beyond. Simon's Impulse wns to follow the fact that she had turned off the main trail by no possibility could she have gaze; yet he would not yield to it. seen him and escaped whatever fate “Well?" he demanded. “I'm not talk ing to amuse myself.’’ he had for her. The younger than seemed to start. She held hard on her faculties and tried to puzzle It out. She understood Ills eyes were luilf-elosed; and tlure now why the Tumors had not as vet was a strange look of Intentness about - bls facial lines when he turned back ittnck to Simon. “Yon haven’t missed any wasn't stock?" be asked abruptly. Simon's eves widened. "No. Why?’’ "Look there—over the forest" h Y ung Bill pointed. Simon shielded ’k< Ids eyes from the sunset glare and -nniled the blue-green skyline above ere. th«- fringe of pines. There were many ’ht i rotesque, black birds wheeling on din. slow wings above the spot. Now and lot r and over- then they dropped down, out of sight t some loss bi ln<l the trees. "Buzzards !” Simon exclaime l. Bruce had a larg “Ye-" Young Bill answered quietly. immunitlou — and the look for- "You see, It Isn’t much over a mile ward with from Folger’» house—In the deep .. .... Is. There’s something de,- I there, S'- i n. And I think we’d better look see what It Is.” You think—” Then Simon hesl- tnti’d and looked ngnin with redden- yes toward tlie gliding ; uzzards. 1 think- that maybe - i, going to find Dave," Young Bill rt-i ii- I. CHAPTER XXVI killed, what ! not The twilight at Trail’s E d is never long in duration, due to the s . iple fact that the mountains cut off the x>d ot light from the west after tl.' setting of the suJl, but tonight there seemed none at fill. The reason wi< merely that heavy banks of clouds si pt up from the southeast Just after sunset They came with rather startling rap idity ami almost immediately complete ly dlled the sky. Y’ouug Hill hml many things on his mind as he rode beneath them, yet he found time to gaze at rUlv mid flve cart guu hud been tal num'* hou-e; T.in pistol at tlie •'We've Urite» told th syi the n ie fx irtlclc of «orai n< nntlal luvre -•'her to bu slUI'S mot\g oth«' of flitting down for the cold *e* e—being maotly [ulrrel* and i 'phers and chip rabbit»—had not Iwn fit- for wide travel and rangement» for a pleas- home. You could al rnuat «< « • la on th» fat face of a plump old am« aut gy, but r hat alone w Into his •nrnvst -that's dU.“ "Yes— Ilk« rabbit«. Wlth«>ut hurting thorn at all. I wouldn’t mind dying •o tuveh, if I did plenty of damage lira*. It1* d< rath for me. any way, I a Cuoi car suppoM"~«iid no m "O It trtherwi««, ara simply too many against I do luako acme paymeut first. dark i of th "You hadn’t ought to ask :ne that, Bru«-«1," she said w.th a rather »tralred dlsttn«-tuess ‘It ha» been like b« ng born again. The tv aren’t any words to tell you what It has meant to trie dr And draft think I haven't <een th«* chan, >■ In you, teo—the birth of m new atm ;th that every day Is greater. higher— until It 1»—almost more than I can unilorstar.A. The »Id smiles ar* g- - but «onrathioa else ba« taken sport.si not p« is n* i them : Phey hai the *« HI J»r h tn If by a spring, somewhere in of the flnetln ribs that clan can correct Ir , never tit firm, these and a» • ni ale their rt< tlenUrlr graceful thin they do not rare greatly nl a-’ long as they may er.c -c| tfy rude« a day and still n,IUvn . -.ated arm ---- *flain With Reddening Eyes Tc <**™ th* Gliding Buzzards. V *;ng rhe h alfalfa. 1 ’■n. witt some curir»<ftjr. T ,r*4 of singular greenish hue, and tie» hung «o low that the tops of t-W ■ ountalns were obscured. ihe fact that there would ** J n tonight was no longer RnportM^ • Im c ads would have cut off any tifi» ’,,e '-«>1.1 ¡hat might illumine the ti'iti« of the Turner». Tbere not be even the dim mist of