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{Continued From Page © gmooth precision, thelr muscles p as they rolled the great cyl piers of wood Into place, steadied gem, then stood aside until the should shunt them toward fhe sawyer and the tremendous, re wheel which was to convert qrem into “board feet” of lumber. ‘off-bearers,” or slab-car- rlera, white with sawdust, soampered from the consuming saw, drag: the bark and siden to a blade, there to be converted Doller fuel and to be fed to the ing fire of the stationary en- far at the end of the mill. belts whirred’ and slapped; was noise everywhere, except the Ips of men. For they, men of the forest, were silent, taciturn, Barry, {t all seemed a amooth- waking, perfectly aligned thing: the -foot logs went forward, ‘uncouth things, to be dragged teeth of the saw; eer force of the pulled on until Drownness be ‘whiteness, the cylindrical shape thing with one long, glar- white mark; to be shunted back the automatic carriage, notch. over for a second incision, and forward again, while the ly sawn boards traveled on to trimmers and edgers, and thence the drying racks, ves i after log skidded upon car ‘and was brought forward, while HK fascinated, watched the mark of the blade as it tore y a siab-side, Then a touch on ‘arm and he followed Ba'tiste The Canadian wandered .J wiring : hot came at last. “M'steu ‘tard he will, what-you-say, fix sawyer.” i i f v a } fe it * i “ 2 Fu Hi ; ! AL | aff rer Patience, disgusted with the busi- ‘Bess and his contract with the dead. The first year and a half of the [fight had passed—a losing propo- BN eS 6 fe) a fF, TY IN PEERABOUT DECIDES TO R WAY; LETS TWINS GO BACK HOME Nobody ever heard of Comet-Legs Sgain after he hopped on his shoot fngstar and rode away. But Mr. Peernbout, the Man-in- BeMoon, is still on the job, He de- Sided the old way was the best way, | ® change the Moon a Mittle bit each Might, and in that way every person pM the world was sure to be pleased pM least part of the time, He told the Twins to gather up the compiaining letters from the folk and water folk and mead and return them to the peo- sent them, marked’ un- S iemes t mark Tt wasn’t exacti ya polite thing to oat one can't be driven to his PMs ends by a lot of satiafied any Matter what happens. was the Weatherman, Wd te going home to Bluster h where he was sadly {0 attend to his rain-barrels settled, Mr. Y he'd have to nee to tt that all , {the red fir and limber pine; unfulfilled contracts. Thayer want- ed him to quit; his father's death had tied up the mill proper to such Qn extent that it could neither be leased nor sold for a long time. But the timber could be bought on & stumpage basis, the lake and flume leased, and with a new mill— “I understand the whole thing now!” There was excitement tn the tone, Account of the way the will reads. T can't dispose of it. But they know that with the mill out of the way, and the whole thing a disap pointment, that I should be willing to contract my timber to them and lease the flume. Then they can fo ahead with thetr own plang and their own schemes. It's tho lake 4 fume and timber that counts, anyway; this mill's the cheapest part of tt all.” “Ah, oul!" The big man wageed his head tn eage approval. “But ft shall not be, eh?" Houston's lips went tnto @ line. “Not until the last dog dies!" CHAPTER VIIt “Ah, out!" Evidently Ba'tiste Mked the expression. “Bet shall not be until—what.yousay—the last dog, eet is dead. Come! “We will #0 Into the forest. Ra'tiste will show you things you should know.” And to the olf wagon again they went, to trail thelr way up the narrow road along the bubbling, wooden flume which led from the lake, to swerve off at the dam and “They can't get this mil'—on | “OUR BOARDING HOU DATA ON RATES AND TRANSPORTATION FoR OUR VACATIONS « I WOULD SUGGEST “THAT You “TAKE “THe S\X WEEK “TRIP TD AND I WILL “TRY “ME CRUISE “To _HAVANA ! turn into the hills again. Below them, the great expanse of water ruffled and shimmered tn the May sun; away off at the far end, a log slid down a skidway, and with a EER Is z : a i 2 i il is: Q Y i li read! ih ite litt its was to look after both the manu- facturing and the disposing of his product was something beyond him, just at this moment. But there would be a way: there must be. Besides, there was Ba’tiste, heavy- shouldered, giant Ba'tiste, leaning over the side of the wagon, whistling and chiding the faithful old Gole- and Ba'tiste straightened. Soon was talking and polnting—now to Gesertbe the spruce and its «hort, stubby, upturned needles; the lodge pole pines with thelr straighter, longer leaves and more brownish, scaly bark; the Englemann spruce; each had its characteristic, to be pointed out in the simple words of the bix | MOON IN OLD} the Nutsance Fairies were securely locked up. It was late spring and Jack Frost had no more right on the earth than a Christmas tree at @ | flreworks-show. | The dream-tairies and the chim- |ney-fairtes had a fine time of ft, for jwith Comet-Legs out of the road, they had nobody to steal the nice little dreams they made. Wink and Blink hugged each other and did a little dance, They sang a song, too! “Oh, happy young fairies are we! We're happy as happy can bet We slide down moon-beams, With such wonderful dreams, }That the children all love | pieces, it seems. And with us to Dreamland flee.” Nancy and Nick said boodgy to Mr. Peerabout, who promised to let | them know ff he needed them again, |then they slid down a moon-beam, us to they They were ready for another ad DONT BELIEVE MLL GO IN “TODAY! COME ON IN oLivia! IT's Fine! Canadian, and to be catalogued by the man at his sida, A morent before, they had been only pines, only #0 many trees. Now each was different, each had its place tn the mind of the man who studied them with a new interest and « new enthusiasm, even tho they might fall, one after another, into the maw of the saw for the samo| purpose. “They are like people, oul! Old Ba'tiste was gesticulating. “They have their, what-you-say, make-ups Tho lodgepole, he is like the man who runs up and looks on when the crowd, eet gathers about some one who has been hurt. He watts until there had been a fire, and then he comes in and grows first, along with the aspens, no he can get all the room he wants, The spruce, he i» like @ woman, yes, oul, He looke better than the rest —but he is not. Sometime he is not so good. Whoa!” The road had narrowed to @ mere trail; Ba'tiste tugged on the reins, and motioning to Barry, left the wagon, pulling forth an axe and heavy, cross-cut saw as he did so. A half-hour later, Golemar pro- ceding them, they were deep in the| forest. Ba'tiste stopped and mo- tioned toward a tall spruce, “gee?” he ordered, as he nicked it with his axe, “you cut heem as far above the ground as ho ts thick thru. Now, first, the undercut.” “Looks like an overcut to me.” “Oh, ho! Ah, oul, #o eet is! But eet is called the undercut. Het makes the tree fall the way you want heem!” The axe gleamed in blow after blow. A deep incision appeared tn the trunk of the tree, and at the base of it Ba'tiste started the saw. Barry working on the other end with his good arm, Ten minutes of work and they ewitched to dhe other side. Here no “undercut” was made; the saw bit into the bark and deep toward the heart of the tree in a smooth, sharp line that pro- BA ZT OW, \S THAT Ye SO? TL WOULD (4 Sue EVER CAME I] SUGGEST FoR THE SEATT SE OF HIS TOAF Your VACATION MY LORD, “THAT You “TAKE “TWO AROUND “TOWN AND GET WORK oF SOME KIND! greased farther, farther— “Look out!” A crackling sound had come from above. Ba'tiste abandoned the saw, and with one great leap Houston and pulled him far to on side, as with a roar, the spruc seemed to veritably disintegrate, ite }trunk spreading In great, splintered | slabs, and the tree proper crashing | to the ground in the opposite direc: | tion to which {it should have fallen breaking as it came, A moment Ba'tiste stood, with his arm still | about the younger man, ‘waiting | for the dead branches, severed from | other trees, to cease falling, and the! disturbed needies and dust of the| forest to settle. Then, pulling his| funny little knit cap far down over hia straggty hair, he came forth, to stand {ip meditation upon the largeet portion of the shattered tree. “Bet break up itke an {ce jam!" came at last. “That tree, he is not | made of wood. Peuff! Ho ts of glans” Barry fotned him, studying the splintered fragments of the spruce, suddenly to bend forward in won-| derment. “That's queer. Here's @ ratiroad spike driven clear into the heart.” “Huh. What's that?” Ba’tisto| bent beside him to examine the rusty spike, then hurried to a mi. nute examination of the rest of the tree. “And anotifer,” came at last, “And more!” Four heavy spikes had revealed themselves now, each jutting forth at a place where the tree had aplit. Ba'tiste straightened. “Ah, oul! Eet ts no wonder! See? The spike, they have been in the tree for mebbe one, two, t'ree year And the tree, he i» not strong. When the winter come, last year, he split inside, from the frost, | where the «pike, he spread? the grain. But tho split, he does not show, When we try to cue heem down and the strain come, blooey, he, whatyou-say, bust!" (Continued Tomorrow) OUR FIRST YEA By a Bride CHAPTER LIV—-NEW CLOTHES to Jack's office.) payment on that electric sewing ma. Lately I've Imagined that he doesn’t | chine, liiee to have me drop In there every | time I’m downtown. I went down ‘Anyway, my checking account had to be fixed up. Jack figured up venture. (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1922, Seattle Star) my stubs for me and asked me a few questions, and it proved that T was overdrawn on account of the down — Of course Jack was perfectly love. ly about doing over to the bank to straighten things out for me, but I “H' NEAREST “| VACATION WAS “’ AFTERNOON | SHE SPRAINED HER WRIST LE STAR BY AHERN SAILG~ NOT “TH CIGAR EW DAYS {-! KIND "TH! ONLY “|*TRIP HE'LLG THIS SUMMER 1S OVER A WRINKLE IW YOU'RE VERY FOND OF SWIMMING ARENT] NOT ESPECIALLY ~ BUT (VE REDUCED my WEIGHT CONSIDERABL' * AES oo rAGE 11 ‘THE OLD HOME TOWN AND THREE THUMBS OYS SUITS OO NDAY GLOVE THINGS AINT LIKE THEY USED) To BE- /{ ‘ WERE BLOWN OFF IN YESTERDAYS CELEBRATION. I'VE TAKEN OFF ' FORTY FIVE POUNDS. FORTY FIVE POUNDS VLLTAKE A ; DOUBLE HELPING- THEN SWIMMIN' AINT MY DISH! Page 720 “NOT 80 GOOD.” “You remember that when all) build one, we'll build it for our- the little towns on the sound were new, people did'nt know which one would grow big and which stay little towns. “But every single one of the new little towns, hoped, of course, that It would grow to be the big- gest. “The thing thet everyone of them hoped was that rich men In the east would butld a railroad acrosé the Rock mountains and end It here on Puget Sound. “So after a while the Northern Pacific said they would do that very thing. And Wtters came, and men came and they looked everything over and the 1,500 people living in Seattle thought of course, it was all straight, and then after all the raflroad com- pany decided to build its road to Commencement Bay (Tacoma). “And Mrs, Randolph said, "They said, “we'll kill Ittle old Seattle deader than a door nail.” But they didn't.’ “Little old Seattle sald, ‘Oh! No, you won't. True, we've got to have a railroad, but if you won't up, next time.” In the bank lobby T stopped to talk a few minutes with Jessie Lang: don, with Jack. of work. Jensio rather boasted that Hoh Langdon had been doing a lot of business lately. me awfully, because T know Jack has sold very litthe Insurance, not more than enough to justify his reg- think he was almost too serious when he warned me: ular salary. Being downtown that morning, 1 Her, story hurt/son and It really seemed | selves.’ * “And they 414 just laugh, Davie,” Pessy interrupted, “when she said that. She said, ‘And we all helped-—every man in town—the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker, and the banker and the preacher, everybody shut up shop for two days and worked." Here Pegry siggled, “and, Davie, she did say that for about a week many of those men could hardly alt down they were so stiff and sore from the hard work.” Grandmother took up the story again with, “You know that part, but nobody has told you that it was Captain Randolph who took them on his steamer, and that | there was not room enough for | all of them on board, so they took © barge, too, and all the women had baskets of lunch and every: thing was gay as gay. Up the Duwamish they steamed and the talk was all eager and they could hardly wait to get to work. “And all went well till the tide turned, and left them stuck fast to the sand with a wide stretch of shallow water cutting them off from the shore where they waited to start the railroad,” (Continued Tomorrow) tree pe ernnneennencenernanmenreneneesen cise ni Sina Rm emneneenecnnenennnermnm Playhouse company for “Skoal.” I fell quite In love with one plece of fox, a beautiful soft gray, dyed of Her husband ts in the office | course, and the most becoming thing He does the same kind | I ever put on, ‘The clerk reminded | me that furs are very much cheaper in midsummer than any other sea. a wise! economy for me to buy the piece, 1) ordered it charged and sent, so Jack wouldn't have to worry about the bill for a while. That night T was perfectly wild to BY CONDO ——AND “THEN - --—WEG --- GOES HY DooR Gace! ids” j CISTEN, HELEN, LL CALL You UP) LATGR AND TELL You THE Rest} — ZGooo Bre ! Nate = = R= R- RING | [ a = ihe Bee = ——— = | GREGN. { Ho7re OK, ES, WERE ALL GooD MORNING, MRS. VERYBOOY'S WEL, WELL WE WENT DRIVING XesTee@ Day. How OH, NO, WS WENT OVT THE STATES Road ANP CAME BACK BY WAY OF THS FooTHICe mGovcGvaRo. “ss, I SHOULD “Say (T WAS A Groriovs DAY | CG; GUESS MRS. TRVE HAS HAD TIMG To GET OVR CORDELE To THS BROCER OVER THS PARTY LINE! WS THANK Sov tI! a hot evening, and Jack looked de: |it run over until the next month, It cidedly fagged when he came home.|was the same with my dry goods So I put the searf away. I'd sur-|bills; and there were two from the prise Jack when we started on the | milliner, motor trip, A fox scarf would be | just the thing for such a trip. |must pick out This purchase reminded me that I/ auto trip. ought to foot up my bills, silk, it would be gay, and wouldn't There were several milk bills, I) show dust, And, possible, I had not intended to let them ac a scarf to match, cumulate; after I put the first one | to have me look pretty aside I had simply forgotten about | and it's a girl's duty to please her it until the middle of the month. | hushand, every way she ean? ‘The latter reminded me that I a close hat for the 1 wanted one of Paisley “Better be careful, Peggins. May-| ran into Chadborne’s to pick out the| show Jack how becoming gray fox be 1 won't have the cash to fix you} pelts they were lending the Little is to me, But it turned out to be ‘like to speak of it then, so I just let . Jack is so particular, that I soe (to Be Continued) (Copyright, 1932, Seatle Stay