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 .< 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®®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 im1n 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 . pr. aumu bly from Uuda t* li­ Just ns much a sign of full ns the io br! in* him n I io ha« hvpcn 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 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 lnd 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 ■ 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»1.1 ¡hat might illumine the ti'iti« of the Turner». Tbere not be even the dim mist of