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in e , U r t l l U l 1 J U U K iN A L , IN I S S A , U K E U O r i . ■ ss***» I th é voice Pack SCOUTS By EDISON MARSHALL National Council of the Boy Scouts o f America.) (Conducted > A â â â â fâ â > â > l wmmmmwwn Copyright. 19». S N O W B IR D SAVES DAN. Hynopala.—Warned by hla phyal- clan that he has not more than »lx months to live, Dan F alling sits despondently on a park bench, won dering where he should spend those six months Memories o f his grand father and a deep love for all things o f the wild help him In reaching a decision. In a large southern Oregon city he m eet» people who had known and loved hi« grandfather, a famous fron tiersman lie makes his homo with Hi las Lennox, a typical westerner. The only other members of the household are Len nox’s son, “ BUI," and daughter, ".Snowbird.” Their abode is In the Umpqua divide, and there Fa'JIng plans to live out the short span of life which he has been told is his. From the first F a llin gs health shows a marked Improvement, and In the compan ionship of Lennox and his son and daughter he fits into the woods life as If he had been born to it. By quick thinking and a remarkable display of “ nerve” he saves Len nox’ s life and his own when they are attacked by a mad coyote. I^nnox declare» he Is a reincarna tion o f his grandfather, Dan F a ll ing I, whose fam e as a woodsman is a household word. Dan learns that an organised band o f outlaws, o f which Bert Cranston is the leader, is Betting forest fires. l.an- dry Hildreth, a form er member of the gang, has been Induced to turn status’s evidence. Cranston shoots Hildreth and leaves him fo r dead. Whisperfoot, the mountain lion, springs on Hildreth and finishes Hildreth and devours him, thus ac quiring the tasto for human flesh. Dan discovers Cranston In the act o f setting a forest fire. CHAPTER II—Continued. — 10— Dan felt himself straighten; and the color mounted somewhat higher In his brown cheeks. But he did not try to avenge the insult—yet. Cranston was still fifteen feet distant, and that was too far. A man may swing a rifle within fifteen feet. The fact that they w,ere In no way physical equals did not even occur to him. When the In sult Is great enough, such considera tions cannot possibly matter. Crans ton was hard as steel, one hundred and seventy pounds in weight. Dan did not touch one hundred and fifty, and a deadly disease had not yet entirely relinquished Its hold upon him. “ I do very well, Cranston,” Dun an swered In the same tone. “ Wouldn't you like another match? 1 believe your pipe has gone out.” Very little can be said for the wis dom o f this remark. It was simply human— that age-old creed to answer blow for blow and insult for insult. O f course the Inference was obvious — that Dan was accusing him, by Innu endo, of his late attempt at arson. Cranston glanced up quickly, and it might he true that his fingers itched and tingled about the barrel of his rifle. He knew what Dan meant. He understood perfectly that Dan had guessed his purpose on the mountain side. And the curl at his lips became more pronounced. “ What a smart little hoy," he scorned. “ Going to I»»* a Sherlock Holmes when he grows up." Then he half turned and the light In Ills eyes blazed up. He was not leering now. The mountain men are too Intense* to play at Insult very long. Their in herent savagery comes to the surface, and they want the warmth of blood upon their fingers. Ills voice became guttural. “ Maybe you’re a spy?” he asked. "Maybe you’re one of tho<e city rats— to come and watch us, and then run ami tell the forest service. There’s two things, Failing, that 1 want you to know." Dun puffed at his pipe, and his eyes looked curiously bright through the film of smoke. “ I'm not Interested In hearing them," he said. “ It might pay you." Cranston went on. "One of 'em Is that one man's word is good ns another's In a court— and It wouldn't do you any good to run down and tell tales. A man can light his pipe on the mountain side without the courts being Interested. The second thing Is— Just that 1 don’t think you'd find It a healthy thing to do." " I suppose, then, that Is h threat?” “ It ain’t Just a threat." Cranston laughed harshly—a single, grim syl lable that was the moat terrible sound lie had yet uttered. " It ’s a fact. Just try It. Falling. Just make one little step In that direction. You couldn’t hide behind a girt’s skirts, then Why. you city sissy. I'd break you to pieces ttt my hands!" Few men can make a threat without a muscular accompaniment. Its very utterance releases pent up emotions. Ipart of which can only pour forth In muscular eipresslon. And anger Is a primitive thing, going down to the most mysterious depths of n man’s na ture. A s Cranston spoke, his lip curled, hla dark fingers clenched on his thick palm, and he half lea net I forward. Dan knocked out his pipe on th» log. ft waa the only sound In that whole mountain realm ; nil the ’ esser sounds were stilled. The two men •mod face te flic*. Dan tranquil, Crans ton shaken t»y passion. •I g’ re you." said Dan with entire I coldness, “ an opportunity to take that hack. Just about four seconds.” He stood very struight us he spoke and his eyes did not waver in the least. It would not he the truth to say that his hegrt was not leaping like u wild thing In his breast. A dark mist was spreading like madness over his brain; but yet he was striving to keep his thoughts clear. Stealthily, without seeming to do so, he was set ting his muscles for a spring. The only auswer to his words was a laugh—a roaring laugh of scorn from Cranston’s dark 11 pa, In his laughter, his Intent, catlike vigilance relaxed. Dan saw * chance; feeble though It wag, it was the only chance he had. And his long body leaped like a serpent through the ufr. Physical superior though he was, Cranston would have repelled the at tack with his rifle if he had had s chance. His blood was already at the murder heat—a point always quickly reached in Cranston— and the dark, hot fumes In his brain were simply nothing more nor less than the most poisonous, bitter hatred. No other word exists. If his class of de generate mountain men had no other accomplishment, they could hate. All their lives they practiced the emotion: hatred of their neighbors, hatred of law, hatred of civilization in all Its forms. Besides, this kind of hillman habitually fought his duels with rifles. Hands were not deadly eaough. But Dan was past his guard before he had time to raise his gun. The whole attack ws one of the most astounding surprises of Cranston’s life. Dan’s body struck his, his fists flailed, and to protect himself, Cranston was obliged to drop the rifle. They stag gered, as if In some weird dance, on the trail; and their arms clasped In a clinch. For a long instant they stood strain ing, seemingly motionless. Cranston’s powerful body had stood up well under the shock of Dan’s leap. It was a by Little. Brow n SCOUT SERVICE A Co. were all obscured In a strange, white mist. A great wind roared In his ears — and Ids heart was evidently about to shiver to pieces. But still he fought on, not daring to yield. He could no longer parry Crans ton’s blow’s. The latter’s arms went around him In one of those deadly holds that wrestlers know’ ; and Dan struggled In vain to free hltuaelf. Cranston’s face Itself seemed hideous and unreal In the mist that was creep ing over him. He did not recognize the curious thumping sound as Crans ton’s fists on his flesh. And now Cranston had hurled him off hi» feet. Nothing mattered further. He had fought the best he could. This cruel beast could pounce on him at will and hammer away his life. But still he struggled. Except for the constant play of his muscles, his almost un conscious efTort to free himself that kept one of Cranston’s arms busy holding him down, that fight on the mountain path might have come to a sudden end. Human bodies can stand a terrific punishment; but Dan’s was weakened from the ravages of his disease. Besides, Cranston would soon have both- hands and both feet free for the work, and when tl *e four ter rible weapons are used at once, the Issue— soon or late— can never he In doubt. Rut even now, consciousness still lingered. Dan could hear his enemy’s curses—and far up the trail, he heard another, stranger sound. It sounded like some one running. And then he dimly knew that Craft» ston was climbing from his body. Voices were speaking— quick, com manding voices Just over him. Above Cranston’s savage curses another voice rang clear, and to Dan’s ears, glorious beyond all human utterance. He opened his tortured eyes. The mists lifted from In front o f them, and the whole drama was revealed. It had not been sudden mercy that had driven Cranston from his body, Just w’hon his victim’s falling unconsciousness would have put him completely In his power. Bather It was something black and ominous that even now* was pointed squarely at Cranston’s breast. None too soon, a ranger of the hill had heard the sounds of the struggle, and had left the trysting place at the spring to come to Dan’s aid. It was Snowbird, very pale but wholly self- sufficient and determined and Intent. Iler pistol was cocked and ready. CHAPTER III. Dan Failing was really not badly hurt. The quick, lashing blows had not done more than severely bruise the flesh of his face; and the mists of unconsciousness that had been falling over him were more nearly the result of his own tremendous physical ex ertion. Now’ these mists were rising. “ Go— go away,” the girl was com manding. “ I think you’ve killed him." Dan opened h!s eyes to find her kneeling close beside him, hut still covering Cranston with her pistol. Her hand was resting on his bruised cheek. He couldn’t have believed that a hu man far« could he as white, while life still remained, ns hers was then. All the lovely tints that had been such a delight to him, the piny of soft reds and browns, had faded as an after glow fades on the snow. Dan’s glance moved with hers to The Battles of the Mountains were Cranston. He was standing easily at Battles to the Death. a distance of a dozen feet; and cxce.pt for the faintest tremble all over his Iinnd-to hand battle now. The rifle body, a fnuscular reaction from the hud slid on down the hillside, to he violence of his passion, he had entire caught in a clump of brush twenty ly regained his self-composure. This feet below. Dan called on every ounce was quite characteristic of the moun of his strength, because he knew what tain men. They share with the beasts mercy he might expect If Cranston a passion of living that is wholly un mastered him. The battles of the known on the plains; but yet they have mountains were battles to the death. a certain quality of Imperturbability They flung hack and forth, wrench known nowhere else. Nor Is It limited ing shoulders, lashing flats, teeth and to the native-born mountaineers. No feet and Angers. There were no Mar man who intimately knows a member quis of Queensberry rules In this Imt- o f that curious, keen-eyed little army tle. Again and again Dan sent home of naturalists and big-game hunters his blows; but they all seemed Inef who go to the north woods every fall, fective. By now, Cranston had com as regularly and seemingly as Inex pletely overcome the moment’s advan orably as the waterfowl go in spring, tage the other had obtained by the can doubt this fact. They seem to power of his leap. He hurled Dan have acquired from the allenc« and from the oHnch and lashed at him the snows an Impregnation of that with hard fists. eternal calm and imperturbability that It Is a very common thing to hear Is the wilderness Itself. Cranston of a silent tight. Bat It Is really a wasn’t In the least afraid. Fear la more rare occorrence than most peo usually a matter of uncertainty, and ple believe. It la trae that serpents he kuew exactly where he stood. will often fcght In th# strangest, most eerie *lleM*e; hut human beings are not sen*mts. They partake more of the qualities of the meat-eaters— the wolves and felines. After the first Instant, the nofae o f the tight aroused i he whole hillside. The sound of blows (T«J BE C O N T I N U E D . ) was In Itself notable, and besides, both B u ll Baiting. ¿t the men were howling the prim This wss a sport once popular In ordial battle cries of hatred and ven England, but declared Illegal lu 1*35. geance. For two long mlnutea Dan fought A hull was attacked by dogs, and with the strength o f desperation, sum sometimes the nostrils of the bull were moning at last all that mysterious re Mown full of pepper to Increase his serve force with which all men are fury. Another form o f the sport was horn. But he was playing a losing to fasten the hull to a stake by a long game. The malady with which he had rope and then set bulldogs at hint, one suffered had taken too much of his at a time, which were trained to setae vigor. Fven as he struggled. If seemed the bull by the nose. The bulldog to him that the Tlsta about him the seems to hare been developed for MUa dark pines, the colored leaves of the siKtrt from a abort eared mastiff ended perennial shrubbery, the yellow path •Vaunt." by In a report to the national council heudquartera, u scoutmaster tills In the blank asking for comment upon his troop's (■(immunity good turns as follows: “ Did everything they could, anywhere,” which seems to he typical of the spirit of scouts throughout the country. The jobs aren’t always the pleasantest sort either, or the easiest, but when a scout tackles the thing he does It “ for all he's worth," with brain and brawn and a right good will. Here are a few little things scouts In Birmingham did. In their “ leisure hours.” It looks as If these boys were not only going to be good citizens In the future, but are good citizens, here and now. One scout repaired a bridge, cleaned- mud out of two curbs and drained a ditch; half-hour time. Five scouts removed a large pile of brush where trees had oeen trimmed up; 15 minutes each. Five scouts repaired a street where it had washed out by piling rocks and brush and then dirt on top; one hour’s time. Two scouts burled a dead hen, that the city health department would not remove; 30 minutes’ time. Four scouts dug a drainway to let standing water out of the street, and opened up ten sewers and 23 gutters. Two scouts repaired a bridge and opened four sewers and 20 gutters; ten hours. One scout cut a dead tree which stood close by the passageway and was very dangerous to those passing; one hour. Eleven scouts worked two hours get ting water out of basement of a church, then built a fire and dried out the place. Three scouts repaired four sewers, also raked up a lot of leaves from around a house and burned them, ns they were dangerous to the commu nity ; one and one-half hours. CHIEF SEA SCOUT REPORTS. At the last national council meet ing the chief sea scout, James A. Wilder, made this report: “ We have found our sen legs. A fter some backing and tilling as to the host methods, we have, with the ad vice of some 400 executives, and oth ers, settled on the course to he steered. Tills decision bus steadied the sea- coast program and the taffrall log be gins to register more speed. Novem ber, 1920, was our bnnner month, fol lowed by the record breakers, Decem ber and January, 1920 and 1921. As we go to press, February, 1921, has al ready broken the record again. We have registered i, ore ships in the last five months than In the previous three years. This is at the rate of 110 per cent Increase annually. "W e have the nssurance that the seacoast program is lielng pushed as the official older boy program. In 87 cities. Ship’s papers or preliminary steps have already been taken by 104 scout centers. In some cities, notably San Francisco, Honolulu and others, the program lias been under way for several years without the registry of a single ship, because o f a vote to thoroughly train leadership before ad mitting boys to membership. The sea- scouts. at the rate we are growing at present, will he 200 ">-hlps" In 1922. If the last four months’ increase In our number Is maintained we will be. In six months, the largest seamanship training course or ‘nautical school’ In the United Slates. Swift Increase Is not expected in the face of such slo gans ns ’You must know It all the time,’ ’Don’t start anything you can't finish.’ ’Practice makes perfect.’ ’ No frauds.' ‘The ship Is what you make her.’ ‘Don’t give up the ship.' Never theless, we're already half the size of Annapolis, and as far as plain sailing goes, we are giving the same boat-sea manship program. “ F ifty navy boats have been loaned to bona-fide seascouts, accord ing to regulations, and to certain sen- coast training bases. Five hundred are still available for really deter mined senroasts o f achooner (or sec ond) grade. “The slogan la now, ‘run your troop like a ship,' and In a searnaulike man ner. Seacoast centers are asked to avoid foolhardy practices, slack sea manship and frauds, and the local shipping committees are required to take a pledge that no boatwork or small boat sailing shall take place un til the ship’s company have qualified aa llfesavers. This waiting game may not spell numbers, but spells quality," TO KEEP TRO O PS G O IN G . “ I have a question, too, Mr. Cave Scout. This »cems about th# hardest time In the whole year to keep things going In our troop. There Is llttlo doing besides regular meetings.’’ Can anybody help out In this case? "I be lieve 1 can. Cave Scout. 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