The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 2, 1947, Page 4

AO ict Ast ABBY > Te tag i te te a tan ee THE KEY WEST CITIZEN BY CAMERON DOCKERY Chapter 18 T was Saturday again, almost a week since the fire. Except for Doug’s near brush with death, the continuing logging operations had been uneventful. However, the tree-topping in- cident had had its effect on the men. The other accidents had all been fairly minor, possibly avoid- able if preliminary inspections had been made. Even the fire, could have been caught in its early stages if old. Axel Lind- strom had completed his rounds a little later. But Doug’s close escape from a hundred-foot fall had been de- liberately planned. Only Nor- way’s quick thinking had saved him. It had been attempted: mur- der and there was no bucking the truth. Superstition had suc- cumbed to genuine fear, Several of the married loggers had al- ready checked out, their wive’s protests against working for Lar- sons’ backing up their own un- admitted apprehension. Even Hardin had appeared vis- ibly shaken. Yet, Doug reflected. it could have been a very good act. The more he thought of the big logging boss the more it seemed possible that Hardin could have been responsible for the “Larson luck.” They had only Hardin’s word for it that he had been in town the night of the fire and there had been countless op- portunities for him to arrange the other “incidents.” Saturday afternoon as usual the men were planning to leave camp. Hardin said he was going to walk down to.the Inlet and Doug piled into the truck with the others. But when the truck had almost reached Larson’s he said he had forgotten something and had the driver let him off. By the loggers, sly grins he knew they all thought he was going to see Elsa. He waited until the truck had disappeared down the skidroad! then began walking back toward camp, hugging the tree trunks and the underbrush along the road side. When he came near the so epee “ten one 9 a behind a clumpy growth of rho-| logs down. In this narrow canyon dodendrons and watched the open|a doorway. Hardin was still inside. Doug could hear him whistling a mournful dirge then cursing‘ as - -_ difficulty pulling on his ots. Seconds later Hardin emerged and began climbing the trail to the dam. Doug allowed a good safe dis- tance between himself and Har- din» before he began to follow. When he did, he slunk along in the deep green shade of the ever- greens, scraping against the thick leathery leaves of salal and rho- dodendron and melting into them whenever Hardin paused to catch his breath or wipe the perspira- tion from his forehead. But the boss logger never looked back. He kept up a relent- less steady pace that left Doug panting. There was no doubt in Doug’s mind now that Hardin was head- ing for the dam, probably to keep a rendezvous with someone from the White Rapids outfit. Each up- hill step convinced him that Hardin was going to make a re- port and possibly collect payment for his dirty work. They went through the logging clearing and Hardin began walk- ing across the narrow ridge of the dam. When he was half way over a voice hallooed from the opposite shore and Doug saw a man who had been fishing at the far end of the lake begin walkin toward the small shack situate where the dam joined White Rapids property. ADY! Doug was sure of it and swore softly to himself. If Hardin and the lumber man were going to meet there, there was no way he could get across to them without being seen. And he had to listen in! He began to back-track to the clearing where during the past week they had begun rolling logs down to the river. The previous day a big Douglas fir had bounced | instead of rolling ciear and stuck at an angle almost spanning the fiver. The first work on Mondy ; would be to dislodge it with bunkhouse he stationed himself! peaveys before sending any more + — eel esetemeeeeneienenentientnareentimeenaenieemeetneamiemmeemnenesateenresttn reeemeneees ieee jam would be fatal and hold up operations for weeks. When Hardin reached the end of the catwalk and vanished, Doug began his own slippery journey. The log was wet and he wasn’t wearing calked boots. Be- low the log the river swirled and boiled; he was almost enveloped in a cloud of mist from the spill- way. It helped conceal him but it made his own footing treacherous. When he stepped off the log near the opposite bank he sank up to his knees in icy water. Cursing, he scrambled up the hillside to the shelter of the heavy under- growth. Hardin and Cady hadn’t quite met, the fisherman had been well down the lake Doug sneaked through the firs, huckleberry and wild blackberry vines tearing at his legs as he counted on the spillway’s roar to mute his prog- ress to the two men, wondering “Hardin! I was when you’d show up.” The boss logger’s tone was metallic. “Thought I'd find you here.” ; “You will—any Saturday.” Cady cursed, “I’ve fished this blasted lake exactly one hundred times and the most I’ve got was a, few miserable bess, yet a Place 1s swarm! wi em, D1, black-bellied pos too.” ‘es “Guess your luck runs in deeper waters, Cady.” “What do you mean?” Cady’s small blue eyes glinted craftily. “Need I explain? I mean the ‘Larson Luck’.” Cady stared at him stolidly. “You'll never be anything but a logger, Hardin ... you can’t out- grow their manners. But I don’t get this—it was my understand« ing that you turned down my proposition.” ee, did and you damn well know j ka “Then who is responsible for these accidents that are hitting Larsons?” “That’s what I came up here to ask you!” The two men eyed each other, suspicion and doubt contorting their faces. (To be continued) 1 TODAY IN HISTORY ae MEN (Know America) Marcus Whitman and his Pres-, U.S. Students Flock To byterian associates reach the Ore- Summer School Ih Norway gon country to teach the Indians AP N f .and to make Oregon American. News eatures aA ih ee a 2 el 1869—The National Prohibition ( SLO.—“You can’t escape the fact you are ‘Ambassadors of Amer- Party formed in Chicago—first ica’ in Norway.” ‘name proposed was the Anti- " A Broup of 219 young American men and women representing Dramshop Party. 98 different colleges and 31 states listened earnesily as Norman’ 1872—(75 years ago) Dr. Susan Nordstrand, Dean of American students at the University of Oslo, ranges rg ge — "in Bo igh soke ° eer ;ing schol in country, in Boston. spoke to them in the auditorium» 1909—-Dr. Frederitk A. Cook 1836—Historic mission of Dr. of the main building. | For some of them _the phrase “Ambassadors of America” had worn thin. They had been hear- ing it again ever since their first application in the States to at- | igi ae ES tend the summer school for Am- |ly stupid” talking to Norwegians. erican students in Oslo. But others felt a new ving of truth in the old statement. Said Gil- Safe j | Safe when there is a man around. Second Old Maid-—Well, you <5. tshould at your ; She says: ! “They know so much about our | country, about Congress ;American politics. We know so First Old Haid — I always feel and ;Startles world by wiring from ‘Shetland Islands that he was first ;to discover the North Pole as of ; April 21, 1908—5 days later came | word from Peary of his discovery. | 1914—First Aero Squadron or- ‘ganized at San ‘planes. Diego, Cal.—& | 1923—Great earthquake- iniJa- ‘_pan—some of life-saving equip- {ment sent from here used against Americans at Bataan and Corregi- bert Cranberg: “Whether we like it or not little about them. Our schools | dor. we are unofficial representa- | ought to teach more foreign his- } 1939—Germans invade Poland tives of the United States, and | tory.” j without declaration of war.—Be- a lot of Norwegians are going |. Marjorie has had no date with ;ginning of World War IL. to obtain more lasting impres- | Sonate Saat 1944--Armed patrols of U. S. sions from us than from Holly- es ., |First Army enters Belgium north wood movies that picture us as qualified to comment. She thinks, | of Sedan. Beat as ; Sarai mm | = sophisticates or bobby-sox boo- ;)OWever, that Norwegian men| 1945—Japan formally surren- bies,” jare a little awed by the American | ders (Sept. 2. by Jap time) aboard AIT PE eRe SOU bi |the battleship Missouri in Tokyo who returned overseas to attend ee —— sp | Bay. the summer school. A student at; M@ancer Haymon weenen % | I ae ie Syracuse University ith his! the Navy. now a graduate stu- n Oriental art the bat is a . Syracuse niversity, with is , ‘ : F eliie -oueniad oe ue oe pe home in the Bronx, this 22year- | dent at the University of Cali- (symbol of. maternity. At one time eid ex:Gil thinks the greatest | fornia, hopes to dispel some of ; Oriental rugs with bats in the compliment he ever received was; “the Hollywood notions that {corners were eagerly sought by when a Norwegian beige ‘nid | the Norwegians have about ibarren women as a maternity him: “You are not tourists, you Americans.” charm. are students of Norway.” EEY WEST. FLA. Bernice Should, 27, from Bos- } 2 gr 5 ORES ja Norwegian and at, ton, Mass., a former teacher of | economics at the University of , Massachusetts, thinks the Nor- ! wegian people are “amazing.” , ts { She says: “Their friendliness is wonder- | ful. And I act differently here. } I'm more friendly here too.” } Bernice has a_ suggestion to make concerning improving Am- erican relations in Norway: “We ought to let more Norwegian stu- ; dents into America.” | Mr. and Mrs. Harold Berg- | man, of Minneapolis, Minn., one of six married couples at the university, believe that though they have a “very good tte! : ‘sou is Guaranteed deal” in living with a Norwegi- | an family off the campus as ar- PURE ranged for them by the Uni- : : i versity, it is not a “representa- WE y R f tive family.” They did not ex- ace oul € rigeration pect to have ‘maids and lux- ury.” “I come from Washington, D. on @ REAL ICE BASIS on SED LT eee ee Patricia Shaw is one of seven .} Negroes from Howard University attending the summer school in | Oslo. 1 A Texas girl with a rich south- | |} ern drawl, Marjorie Major, 20, Unive of Texas, feels “real C..” says Patricia Shaw, 2], Ne- | gro, “so T like Norway. 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