The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 4, 1919, Page 12

AND His DESK IS OPEN, heLed Nes, BOTH BANK Books ARE HERE. THE SAVINGS ACCOUNT AND “THE CHECKING - IT LOOKS RATHER PROMISING, VEDLOCKED— DON’T ASK ME WHERE IVE BEEN - BECAUSE [T CONCERNS YOu NOT TODAY ‘S INDEPENDENCE DAY AN’ FROM NOW ON YOU MAY | CONSIDER. ME FREE TO COME AN GO AS | MIGHTY WELL PLEASE - AN’ I'LL NOT ASK YOUR. OPINION EITHER - DON’ T FORGET iT AH, HERE HE Now - AFTER BEING Out ALL NIGHT- “Tu BOSS TOOK HIS GUN Art’ SAID HE WAS GOIN’ To HUNT VALD GOOSE BERRIES FOR “TH’ DAY, 50 TM LEFT ON MY OWN HOOK FOR STUNTS TODAY - On,cee, Wwe You WAS OUT MRs. DUFF AND ANOTHER. LADY Came. IA ~ THe “Too Your BANK Booxs ovT AND LOOKED “THROUGH "EM~ EN SAID,” IT LooKED RATHER PRomIsING’— BANK Books? Hum— (Have tr! “Theyre FRAMING UP A TRIP FoR. OUR VACATION AND WERE NO* DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE By AHERN WHILE HE'S HUNTING GOOSEBERRIES, I'M PICKING ELECTRIC CURRENTS, AS IT COPYRIGHT fe _BY BERTRAND .-W. SINCLAIR AVTHOR OF “NORTH OF FIFTY-THREE. The Star today republishes the first installment of “Big Timber,” with the sec- d installment, so readers who did not begin the story yesterday can begin today. CHAPTER I jher present journey were somber)were gathering up some few odds Fields and Pastures New fem Ft pe» cae ino vemre Tae ends of her belongings on the "in| Upon the melancholy. Save for a | seat. ie hepa alga eaten | dabural Doyunay of epirit ete might ee “ggg SCanvon. Ahead | have Wept her way across North eee the Yale canyon. Ahead! america. She had no tried standard Tee Hose tanked nich tota|BY which to measure life’s values, Mtaine: hue nevertheless a vatiey |f0F she had lived her 22 years wholly ar “, | Shielded from the human maelstrom, which the rails lay straight | Merk fed, clothed, taught. an untried prod-|imaneq over and addressed her gen ing on an easy grade. The | ic+ of home and schools, Her head |leaned ove 3 That for @ hundred miles had | wae full of university lore, things |'™: Gud snarled parallel to the) ine had read, @ smattering of the Poaring thru the granite | 111. and philosophy, liberal portions | that cuts the Cascade range. | o¢ academic knowledge, all tagged £6 wider channel and a leisurely ener ike nares on a shelf fee The mad haste had fallen from | 1,1. reached when called for. Bur ‘ “a te falls from one who. with |ied under these externalities the ego ir at Rand. end the turgid Fraser Of Ber lay unaroused, an incalculable | w44 mot in eyes or on countenance i time to spare, for now it was WAnuty. e the slightest sign that she saw or fut threescore miles to tidewater,| All of which ts merely by way of | heard him. The large young man To the great river moved placidiy— |Stating that Miss Estella Benton was |fiushed a vivid red. : an old man moves when all the |* Youngs woman who had grown up| yfieg Benton was partly amused, sat ie vouth fi t and | 1uite complacently in that station of | partly provoked. The large young Face per rune’ “| iife in which—to quote the Phflis- Iman had been her viaa-vis at dinner Nu tines—it had pleased God to place |, > ‘aad - the river side of the first coach her, and that Chance had somehow, ope ts ae a pallens pedis ahe diner, Estella Benton |t her astonished dismay, contrived |ing tor convernation each time but ee a cee, balm o€ TERME LE, POR 3 She SMOOED | 4 been diplomatically confined hand, leaning her elbow on the rolling wheels of destiny. Or was it to / nd otk er condiments, Mil. It was a relief to look | Destiny? She had begun to think| weather amd the aconery, Mia Ben & widening valley instead of a about that, to wonder if a lot that | V°#ther and the scenery, Miss ped ss be onic with |she had taken for granted as an see wooded heights liftgreen | ordered state of things, was not, “Place of barren cliffs, to watch | after all, wholly dependent upon of fern massed against the Chance. She had danced and sung Mt of way where for a day and|anq played light-heartedly, accepting might parched sagebrush, brown’ certain standard of living, a cer- Bbleweed, and such scant growth | tain position in a certain set, a pleas. Mlourished in the arid uplands of | antiy ordered home life, as her birth- British Columbia had stream. | rignt, a natural heritage. She had barren monotony, hot and dry |aweit upon her ultimate destiny in ‘end still. her secret thoughts as foreshadowed She was near the finish of her | by that of other girls she knew. The Pensively she considered prince would come, to put it in a md of the road. How would it nutshell. He would woo gracefully. Ube there? What manner of folk and | ‘phey would wed. They would be de try? Between her past mode of |jightfully happy. Except for the “Wife and the new that she was hurry. matter of being married, things ey eye lay the ae gull of ae would move along the same pleasant 4 , of custom, of class even, hahaeis, "Was bound to be crude, to be full proclaiming that it was a bank, * Beinconvenines S08 snoouthnass, Roc hiy . yon baci dwelling, hotel and “‘arksmith shop , brother’s ietters had partly pre- rt . Poe a ee ledge car set | whence arose the clang of hammered pared her for that. Involuntarily |thines in a different ig many |iron. A dirt road ran between town @he shrank from it, had been shrink- hg 68. She learned then habe and station, with hitching posts at 4ng from it by fits and starts all the ef ep ie ut * Dersone, a which farmers’ nags stood dispirit- ‘Way, as flowers that thrive best in ‘d income may be lived to fts limit | edly in harness, with nothing left when the brain| ‘To the Westerner such spots are @hady nooks shrink from hot sun and | ©) 00 | Fude winds. Not that Mstelia Benton | force which commanded It ceases t9 | common enough; he sees them not as Her father produced per-| fixtures, but as places in a stage ‘was particularly flower-like. On the | function. contrary she was a healthy, vigorous. | h@ps $15,000 to 900 a year in his of transformation. By every side fhodied young woman, scarcely to be | brokers businees, and he had | track and telegraph station on every described as beautiful, t undeni-| Saved nothing. Thus, at one stroke, | transcontinental line they spring up Sbly attractive. Obviously a daugh- | she was put on an equal footing with | centers of productls tivit ter of the well-to-do, one of that|the stenographer in her father's of-| ing into orderly towr id American type which flourishes in| fice. Searcely equal either, for the | attaining the dignity of cities. ‘To families to which American poli-|#tenographer earned her bread and! por, fresh from trim farmsteada and ticians unctuously refer as the back-| Was technically equipped for the | rural communities that began setting bone of the nation. Outwardly, gaz- | task, whereas Estella Benton had no | their houses in order when Washing. ing riverward thru the dusty pane, | training whatsoever, except in social! ton wintered at Valley Forge, Hop. Bhe bore herself with utmost seren-| Usage. She did not yet fully realize | yard stood forth sordid and unkempt. ity. Inwardly she was full of mis-| just what had overtakensher, Thin; | And, as happens to many a one in givings, |had happened so swiftly, go rath-!jike case, a wave of sickening lonell Four days of lonely travel across | lessly, that she still verged upon the | ness engulfed her, and she eyed the ® continent, hearing the drumming | incredulous. Habit clung fast. But| speeding Limited as one eyes a de elack of car wheels ond rail joint | she bad begun to think, to try and] parting friend % 96 hours on end, acutely conscious | establish some working relation he h )) that every hour of the 96 put tween herself and things she fedue quota of miles between found them. She t discovered known and the unknown, may ready that certain th Wither an adventure, a bore, or a/ relations « talamity, depending altogether upon in fact he individual point of view, upon| She turned at last in her seat. The conditioning circumstances and pre-| Limited's whistle had shrilled for a| that ‘vious experience. stop. At the next stop—she won- _ _ Estella Benton's experience along | dered what lay in store for her just| Beside the platform were ranged ines was chiefly a blank and|beyond the next stop. While she|two touring cars. Three or four of @onditioning circumstances of dwelt mentally upon this, her hands: who had alighted entered | Across the aisle a large, smooth- faced young man watched her with jcovert admiration. When she had | settled back with bag and suitcase | }y seat and was hatted and gloved, he of etting off at Hopyard? Happen to be going out to Roaring Springs Miss Benton's gray eyes rested im. personally on the top of his head,’ traveled slowly down over the trim front of his blue serge to the polished jtan Oxfords on his feet, and there be ha¢ in general, quite the contrar But he did not consider ft quite the |thing to countenance every amiable | stranger. Within a few minutes the porter came for her things, and the ‘blast of the Limited's whistle warned her that it was time to leave the train. ‘Ten minutes later the Limited was led thru a forest of great trees, and Miss Hstella Benton stood on the plank platform of Hopyard station, Northward stretched a flat, unlew ista of fire-bl ward, kened stur long track and siding single row of buildings, a groc store, a shanty with a huge sign grow final, live in a place like self ite the be tut she 1D Carpet At any had transport rate, she nei Slave of the price of human shed at beck, nor a her vhere. reflected, Hopyard not soundly establ to el her destination would prove more inviting. locked and strapped on the opposite | the } ton had no objection to young men| | vanishing object down an aisle slash- | | was not her abiding place. She hoped | these. Their boewace was piled over |the hoods, buckled on the running |boards. The driver of one car ap- | proached her. “Hot Springs?" he in- quired tersely. She affirmed this, and he took her baggage, likewise her trunk check, when she asked how that article would be transported to the lake, She had some idea of route apd means, from her brother's written instruction, but she thought he might have been there to meet her At least he would be at the Springs. So she was whirled along a coun try road, jolted in the tonneau be tween a fat man from Calgary and a rheumatic dame on her way to take hot sulphur baths at St. All woods. She passed seedy farm- houses, primitive in construction, and big barns with moss plentifully clinging on roof and gable, ‘The stretch of charred stumps was left and vegetable and root great butts of fir and cedar rose amid the crop Her first definitely agreeable impre |sfon of this land, which so far she knew must be her home, was of those huge and numerous stumps contending with crops for possession of the fields. Agreeable, because it |camo to her forcibly that it must be ja sturdy breed of men and women possessed of brawn and fortitude and | high courage, who made their homes here. Back in her country, once be- | yond suburban areas, the farms lay | like the squares of a chess board, trim and orderly, tamely subdued to agriculture. Here, at first hand, she |saw how man attacked the forest and conquered it. But the conquest was incomplete, f those stubborn rc six and-eight feet and ten feet across, contendir with man for its primal heritage, the soil, perishing slowly as perish the proud remnants of a conquered race. Then the cleared land came to a stop against heavy timber. ‘The car whipped a curve and drove into what the fat man from Calgary facetiously |remarked upon as tne tall uncut Miss Benton sighted up these noble |columns to where a breeze droned in the tops, two hundred feet above, ‘Thru a gap in the timber she saw mountains, peaks that stood bold 1 the Rockies, capped with snow. Ire two days she had been groping for |a word to define, to sum up the feel ing which had grown upon her, had been growing upon her steadily, « the amazing scroll of that four-<« journey unrolled. She found it now, a simple word, one of the simplost in our mother tongue—bigness. Big: ness in its most ample sense—that wag the dominant note. Immensi ties of distance, vastness of rolling plain, sheer bulk of mountain, rivers that one crossed, and after a da Journey crossed again, still far from source or confiuence. And now this unending sweep of colossal trees! At first she had been overpowered h wf insignificance utterly tO her y experience F discovered, with an agreeable sensation of surprise, she could vibrate to such a keynote. And | while she communed with thi pleas- ant discovery the car sped down a straight stretch and around a corner and stopped short to unload sacks of mall at a weatherbeaten yellow. w 1 sense now she far behind, but in every field of grain | .| “Charlie Benton?” | everywhere stood | edifice, its windows displaying indis- air of unbroken peace soothed and eriminately Indian baskets, groceries, | comforted her, sick with hurry and and hardware. Northward opened a | swift-footed events. broad scope of lake level, gist about with tremendous peaks whage lower = wharf end, mildly interested when slopes were banked with tMick for-|the fisherman drew up a two-pound est. H | trout, wondering a little at her own Somewhere distant along that lake ‘subtle changes of mood. Her sur jthore way to be her home. As the|roundings played upon her lke a vir- car rolled over the 400 yards be-|tuoso on his violin. And this was tween store and white-and-green St.| something that she did not recall as |Allwoods, she wondered if Charlie|a trait in her own character, She |would be there to meet her, She|had never inclined to the volatile was weary of seeing strange faces,| perhaps because until the motor ac lof being directed, of being hustled! cident snuffed out her father's life about |she had never dealt in anything but superficial emotions. After a time she retraced her steps Five years is a|Nearing the halfway slip, she saw She expected to find him| that a wagon from which goods were changed—for the better, in certain | being unloaded blocked the way, A directions. He had promiséd to be|dozen men were stringing in from |there; but, in this respect, time evi. the road, bearing bundles and bags dently had wrought no appreciable and rolls of blankets. They were transformation, She registered, was assigned a With @ reckless swing, with trousers |room, and ate luncheon to the melan-|CUt off midway between knee and |choly accompaniment of a three-man |#kle so that they reached just be orchestra struggling vainly with !0W the upper of thelr high-topped, |Bach in an alcove off the dining| heavy, laced boots, Two or three room. After that she began to make|Were singing. All wppeared unduly linquiries. Neither clerk nor man-|4appy, talking loudly, with deep jager knew aught of Charlie Benton. |/aughter. One threw down his bur- |They were both in their first season |@en and executed a brief clog. Splint lthere. They advised her to ask the | flew where the sharp calks bit | storekeeper, into the wharf planking, and his “MacDougal will know," they were |Companions applauded agreed. “He knows everybody} It dawned upon Stella Benton that jaround here, and everything that| these might be Jack Fyfe's drunken | goes on.” |loggers, and she withdrew until the The storekeeper, a genial, round.|way should be clear, vitally interest |bodied Scotchman, had the informa. | ed because her brother was a logging tion she desired jman, and wondering if these were “No, | the sort of men with whom he as He | sociated, They were a rough lot four days back. 1 and some were drunk said he'd be down|the manifestations of liquor she had ‘Thursday; that’s today. But he isn't |but the most shadowy uaintance. |here yet, or his boat'd be by the| But she would have been little wharf yonder.” than a fool not to comprehend this. | “Are there any passenger Then they began filing down the lthat call there?” she asked. \gangway to the boat's deck. One MacDougal shook his head. |slipped, and came near falling into Not reg'lar. There's a gas boat | the water, whereat his fellows howled | goes t’ the head of the lake now and |sleefully, Precariously they |then. She's away now. Ye might | tiated the slanting passage. hire a launch, Jack Fyfe's camp|one: he sat him down at the slip- tender's about to get under w head on his bundle and began a | But ye wouldna care to go on her, Quavering chant. The |I'm thinkin’, She'll be Igaded wi'|perturbably finished his” unloading, lumberjacks—-every man drunk as a|two men meanwhile piling the goods lord, most like. Maybe Benton’ll be | aboard. in before night.” |: OD ed out, and the She went back to the hotel. But) Way e for the logger St. Allwoods, in its dual capacity of | sitting on hig blankets, wailing dis |health-and-pleasure resort, was a|lugubrious’ songe» From below his gilded shell, making a brave outward | fellows urged him to come along. A show, but capitalizing chiefly lake,| bell clanged in the pilot house, The mountains, and hot, mineral springs.|exhaust of a gas engine began to Her roomwas a bare, cheerless place, | sputter thru the boat's side. From She did not want to sit and ponder.|her afterdeck a man hailed the Too much real grief hovered in the | logger sharply, and when his call was immediate background of her life. | unheeded, he ran lightly up the slip. It is not always sufficient to be!A short, squarely-built man he was, young and alive. ‘To sit still and light on his feet as a dancing mas think—that way lay tears and de-| ter. | apondenc she went out and! He spoke now with authority, im | walked down the road and out upon | patiently the which Jutted 200 yards Murr ing She stood for a time at the outer | But he was not there, and she re | called that he never had been notable tor punctuality |long time. said he. he'll be at his camp up the lake. was in three or mind now very he less boats whar the stood deserted save for a aboard, Mike; we're wait into lake It lone} The logger rose, waved his fisherman on the outer end, and an|airily, and turned as if to retreat elderly couple that preceded her.|down the wharf, The other caught Halfway out she passed a slip beside| him by tho arm and spun bim face which lay moored a heavily built,|/to the slip, 50-foot boat, scarred with usage, a| ‘Como on, Slater,” he said evenly. squat and powerful craft, Lakeward|“I have no time to foo) around.” stretched a smooth, unrippled sur-| The logger drew back his fist. face. Overhead patches of white|was a fairly man. But if cloud drifted lazily. Where the|had in mind to deal a blow, it failed, shadows from these the lake|for the other ducked and caught him spread gray and lifeles Where the| with both arms around the afternoon sun rested, it touched the|He lifted the log clear water with gleams of gold and pale, wharf, hoisted him to the delicate gr A white-win 1 yacht | breast and heaved him offe her sail ack fold: would throw A lump of an island lifted two miles beyond, all cliffs and little, wooded) The |hills, And the mountains surround: |incline, rolled, slid, tumbled, ing in a giant ring seemed to shutjlength he brought up against the the place away from all the world.|boat’s guard, and all that saved him For sheer wild, rugged beauty, Roar-|a ducking was the prompt extension ing Lake surpassed any spot she had| of several stout arms, which clutched ever geen, ts quiet majesty, its{and hauled him to the flush after @ hana big lay middle of th of his down the cer level ay ore in slip bran as one man's body bounced on the | big, burly men, carrying themselves | With | nego: | All but | amster im He| he| at | By CONDO |deck. He gat on his haunches blink-, Miss Benton drew the purse from ing. Then he laughed. So did the|her handbag and gave it to him. He man at the top of thé slip and the| pocketed it and went off down the lumberjacks clustered on the boat.|wharf, with the brief assurance that Homeric laughter, as at some sur-/he would be gone only a minute or |passing Jegt. But the roar of him! so. |who had Yaken that inglorious de-| ‘The minute, however, lengthened scent rose loudest of all, an explosive,|to nearly an hour, and Sam Davis Har—har—har!” had his blow-off valve hissing, and He clambered unsteadily to his Stella Benton was casting impatient feet, his mouth expanded in an am-|glances shoreward before Charlie jable grin. strolled leisurely back. Tey, Jack,” he shouted. “Maybe! “You needn't fire up quite so ¢’n throw m’ blankets down, too, | strong, Sam,” he called down. “We while y'r at it.” won't start for a couple of hours ‘The man at the slip-head caught| yet” up the roll, poised it high, and cast| “Sufferin’ Moses!” it frqgm him with a quick twist of|his fiery thatch his body. The woolen missile flew! gine room, “I might ‘a’ known bet- well-put shot and caught Sts ter'n to sweat over firin' up, You fair in the breast, tumbling| generally manage to make about him backwards on the deck—and the | three false starts to one get-away.” Homeric jaughter rose in double! Benton laughed good-naturedly and strength. Then the boat began to| turned away swing, and the man ran down and) “Do you usually allow your men leaped the widening space as she| ldress you in that impertinent drew away from her mooring. Miss Benton desired to know. Stella Benton craft Charlie looked blank for a second. gather way, a trifle shocked, her | Then he smiled ,and linking his arm breath coming a little faster. The | affectionately in hers, drew her off most deadly blows she had ever seen |@long the wharf, chuckling to him- struck were delivered in a more sub- | Self. | tle, less virile mode, a curl of the; “My dear girl,” said he, “you'd bet- | lip, an inflection of the voice. These | ter not let Sam Davis or any of |were a different order of beings. |.Sam’s kind hear you pass remarks { This, she sensed, was man in a more|like that. Sam would say exactly promitive aspect, man with the con-|What he thought about such mat- ventional bark ‘stripped clean off | ters to his boss, or King George, or him. And she scarcely knew whether | to the ffrst lady of the land, regard- to be amused or frightened when she | less. Sabe? We're what you'll call [reflected that among such her life | primitive out here, yet. You want to |would presently lie. Charlie had | forget that master and man business, jwritten that she would find things |the servant proposition, and proper [and people a trifle rougher than she | Tespect, and all that rot, Outside the | wag used to. She could well believe | English colonies in one or two big |that. But—they were picturesque | towns, that attitude doesn’t go in ruffians. |B. C. People in this neck of the | Her intergsted gaze followed the} Woods stand pretty much on the camp tender as it swung around the | same class footing, and you'll get in |wharf-end, and-so her roaming eyes ;bad and get me in bad if you don’t were led to another craft drawing | remember that. I've got ten loggers near. This might be her brother's| working for me in the woods. | vessel. She went back to the outer | Whether they're impertinent or pro- | landing to see. |fane cuts no figure, so long as they | Two men manned this boat. As|handle the job properly. They're |she ranged alongside the piles, one|™eM, you understand, not servants. | stood forward, and the other aft with | None of them would hesitate to tell lines to make fast. She cast a look | Me What he thinks about me or any- Jat each. ‘They were prototypes of |thing I do. If I don’t like it, I the rude crew but now departed, |°4” fight him or fire him, They jbrown-faced, flannel-shirted, shod| Won't stand for the sort of airs with calked boots, unshaven for days, | YOU're accustomed to. They have the |typical men of the woods. But, as| Utmost respect for a woman, but a |she turned to go, the man forward |™an is merely a two-legged male hu- and almost directly below her, looked|™man like themselves, whether he \her full in the face. wears mackinaws or broadcloth, has “Stell! a barrel of money or none at all. ‘ This will seem odd to you at first, She leaned over the rail. but you'll get used to it. You'll find “Charlie Benton—for things rather different out here. | sake.” “I suppose so,’ 'she agreed, “But Th it sounds queer. For instance, if “Well, one of papa’s clerks or the chauf- it were not for your mouth and eyes, | feur had spoken like that, he’d have | Stell, I wouldn't have known you.|been discharged on the spot.” | Why, you're all grown up.” |_ “The logger's a different breed,” He clambered to the wharf level | Benton observed drily. “Or, perhaps and kissed her, The rough stubble |only the same breed manifesting un. of his beard pricked her tender skin|der conditions. He isn't servile. He |and she drew back doesn't have to be. | “My word, Charlie, you certainly| “Why the delay, tho? she revert- jought to ave,” she observed withjed to the point. “I thought you sjsterly frankness. “I didn’t know] were all ready to go.” you until you spoke. I'm awfully} “ Iam,” Charlie enlightened. “But glad to see you, but you do need|while I was at the store just now, some one to look after you. |Paul Abbey ‘phoned from Vancou Benton laughed tolerant! |ver to know if there was an up- “Perhapy But, my dear girl, ajlake boat in. His people are big fellow doesn’t get anywhere on his|lumber guns here, and it will ac- appearance in this country, When a|commodate him and won't hurt me fellows bucking big timber, he/to wait a couple of hours and drop shucks off a lot of things he used |him off at their camp. I've got more to think were quite essential. By|or Tess business dealings with them, Jove, you're a picture, Stell. If L}and it doesn’t hurt to be neighborly. hadn't been expecting to see you, I|He'd have to hire a gas boat others wouldn't have known you.” wise. Besides, Paul's a pretty good “I doubt if I should have known | head you, either,” she returned drily. ‘This, of course, being strictly her ee brother's business, Stella forbore CHAPTER IT. comment. She was weary of travel, Mr. Abbey Arrives tired with the tension of eternally | Stella accompanied her brother to!pbeing shunted across distances, |the store, where he gave an order | anxious to experience once more that for sundry goods, Then they went | sense of resiful finality which comes to the hotel to if her trunks) with Journey's end, But, in a |had arrived. Within a few yards of her movements were no the fen which enclosed t ndent upon her own vo- |grounds of St Allwoods, a man hailed Benton, and drew him a few | | steps aside ella walked slowly on, | and presently her brother joined her. |lake until they came to a branchy The baggage wagon had brought/maple, and here they seated them- the trunks, and when she had paid|selves’ on’ the grassy turf in the her bill, they were delivered at the| shadow of the trea, jouter wharf-end, where also arrived] ‘Tell mo about yourself,” she said. Jat about the same time a miscel-|“Fow do you like it here, and how uneous assortment of supplies from|are you g Your letters the re and a Japanese with her|home chiefly remark two handba So far Miss Es! tty. Benton could see, she was about at lot to tell,” on the last stage of her|R, on Just sHegine feet. A raw, un ngster has a lot to learn and w rt tall tim- ber I've b out here five y snd I'm just beginning to realize what I’ maqual to and what I’m not answered. “Say,” he went on casu-/1'm crawling over a hump now that ally, “have you got any money,|would have been a lot easier if the Stell? I owe a fellow $30, and I left) governor hadn't come to grief the the bank roll and my check book at|way hedid. He was going to put im camp,” (CONT'D ON PAGH THIRTEBN) Davis poked out from the en- like a owner watched the Heaven's stared at each other. he laughed at last. “If see °, ° dep They walked slowly along the broad roadway which bordered the tting on? always their bre isn't a esponded ning to get on my were There nion as uble to embark journey How soon will you n the last of aboard the littl i, whe the stuff lear tht towed steam orwenty or so,” Benton