The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 6, 1923, Page 9

) &dison Marshall: OAd- Little Brown & Campany Sontinued From Yesterday) ite on his of her « Jeyes and Both had largely forgotten the dan. | cheek fer of the ride, Because she was try mg bravely make the best of a tragic ation Heatrt to Keep danger from th vt Hen had kn the first that danger was an inevitable element in his venture, and he accepted it jus as he had considered tt-—with eo c cokiness, Yet both of them knew, in | darine him tn such their secret thoughts, that the bal- | place. t ‘ocks would make nce of life and death was s0 fine | short of him, in that case. It that the least m jont might | was t to pick out a camp atte east them into darkness. Th would f time lest they could not mot have to be a great disaster, a day's end. Wide departure from the common. place. They were traveling at a ter- rifle rate of speed, and a sh. too close to the surface would rip the | wit) . bottom from thelr craft, Any instant | jing 6 with might bring the ‘shock and shudder | sant re it of the end he ‘There would scarcely be time to be | ers afraid. Both would be hurled into the stream; and the wild waters, walnst the rovks, would matter swiftly Tt awed them and humbled them to realize with what dispatch and ease this Wilderness power could enuff out their morta! lives, 1 Ro chance to fight back, no el of uncertainty tn the outcome. was @ destiny against which strength of man was as thistledown fm the wind! The thought was good . spiritual medicine for Ben, fust as it. ' Would have been for most other men, | of And his egoism died a swift and nat ural death One crash, one shock, and then the @arknoss and silence of the end ‘The tiver would rage on, unsatiated by their few pounds of flesh, storming by Mm noble fury: but no man would know whither they had gone and|t? how they had died. The wells of the Serge would not tremble one whtt, OF notice; and the spruce against the sky would not bow thetr by to show that they had seen But the canyon broke at last. and the craft omersed into the sunlight It was good to see the easy slope of ve the foam the hills again, the spruce forests, sti ‘and the forms of the wild creatures | Yura a hur on the river bank, rtled by thetr | distant mn encampment? She passing. Noon came and passed, and|®hut the thought from her mind, at for lunch they ate the last of tho | Present, and turned her attention to fudge. And now a significant change | the work of making camp. Was manifest in both of them. | With entire good humor she began Paychologists are ever astounded at|to gather mich pieces of dead wood the ability of mortais, men and ani.|®* she could find for thelr fire Mais, to become adjusted to any net | “Your prisoner might aa well make of ciroumstances. The wax of habit | berself she said. fs almost in a day. The truth was,| Ben's face lichted as she had not that in « certatn measure with very | seen It since thetr outward journey @efinite and restricted Imits, both|from Snowy Gulch. “Thank God Ben and Beatrice were becoming ad-| You're taking it that way, Beatrice,” dusted even to this amazing situa. | he told her fervently. “It was a prop- Hon In which they found themselves. | tition I couldn't help ‘This did not mean that Reatrice was| But the girl's eyes Mashed, and her fm thesenst degree reconciled to it,| lips set in a hard linn “I'm doing Bhe had simply accepted tt with the|!t to make my own time fo faster,” Intention of making the best of it, she told him softly, rather slowly. “I heen abducted by an enemy | Want you to remember that.” father and was being carried | But Instantly both forgot their a unknown and dangerous | Words to listen to a familiar olucking Ite of which t never but « mo-| | the w flame san ho had assured her In mid-afters Ben had resolved wn trom vivid tn plenty find In ot w P rock | ¢ ne at the quiet stretches » place—a smal tree-clad bank i behind. Hand Kreatest care Db. A moment wat onto t Woe happtly » boat © thru for the day,” he sald he helped Beatrice « nfens I'm ready t » made no answer because and aitua of the camp freedor © rock re busy. Coolly k stock of the an dea the Here ou the | geo. foal features of aw in a glance, bh v no path nd her besides, she remeim ed that over a hundred miles of ssable wilderness lay betweer ers cabin. Without * she could not hope urney, «river owever, wak irtoun, inviting grain of The torrent continued unabated for at fénst 100 she knew, and the hours 1 be passable in a cance The river had fall driftwood was rocks dried swiftly pping out ke fangs f the stream. Was drift on down the red or more miles to the mbered eadily all left on the at tn the eun. me t ent ing closely they made out the plump, .| genial form of Franklin's grouse—« caught herself with | bird known far and wide in the north remembering every.| for her ample breast and her tender Tage and a bitter toad | flesh + but the mood would) “Good Lord, there's supper!” Ben | whispered. “Beatrice, get your pis- 4 ast i was | Wy HE 2 = Ef possible, thru any ordinary fortune, for a normal per-| Mer eyes amiled as she looked him his sense of self-identity, |n the face. “You remember—my thatremains exterior con. | Dixtol tant loaded!” make no vital change, or| “Excuse ®#be. I forgot. Give ft to feel greatly different than | me.” before. The change from a She handed him the Hittle gun, and to @ millionaire brings only | he slipped in the shells he had taken ‘9 surprise, and then read.|from it. Then—for the simple and Beatrice was still herself; | sensible reason that he didn't want in the stern remained Hen|to take any chance on the lone of Ro one else. Very natur-| their dinner—he stole within 20 feet 3 s ir he : OUR BOARDIN SAY~ No POETRY \ Now, B@UT*THIS Pogo STicK 16 A VAGT SUM OF FUN © aN! NOT ONLY “THAT, BUT rr& A Goop STUNT FoR REDUCING !© WooP |= 6 & ~ PLL SAY TI BUSINESS GOOD WAY TO REDUCE- CLIMB UP OVER ~ REACH DOWN = \ IVS GRE the element of surprise, | sound from @ near-by shrub. Peer-| ind he|of the bird. Very carefully he drew! 3 down on the plump neck they were bitter fors,| “Dinner ull mfe.” he remarked of the other, did not|rather gayly, as the grouse came could not have friendly | tumbling thru the branches conversation, isolated as they were. From time to time Ben pointed out Objects of interest on the shore; and / she found herself remarking, In a casual voice, about them. And be- fore the afternoon he had made her Haugh, in spite of herself—a gny4tered to the earth, and then chopped found ip which fear and distress had | it into lengths for fuel. When the iittle | fire was blazing bright, he cut away [We're bound to seem reat dealof|the green branches and laid ther gach other in the next few weeks,” | stems overlapping, into a fragrant he had said; and this fact could not | bed. fe denied. Tho sooner both hecame| “Here's where you sleep tonight, PAjusted to It the better, Actual fear | Beatrice,” he informed her of him she had none; she remem-| She stopped in her work bered only too well the steel in hi XIV Quietly Meatrice retrieved the bird jand began to remove ite feathers Ben built the fire, chopped sturdily at a half-grown spruce until it shat long Page 879 SURELY? “They bullt a stockade about | but pressing up close to it came the house, of posts driven in close | the thick tangle of underbrush 4 | and berry bushes, and the great prother, end. set guards about tt. | stumps stood black and solid— People were sometimes ill, G4) wpiendid hiding places tor ‘the mother cared for them, too. And | treacherous savage warriors. ail the time there was the awful | “On one snide, also, was a low, threat and danger, and the horror| marshy place, thickly covered of the daily news of other mur-! with salmon berry vines. It was ders and burnings.” on this side that Da was sta “How well I remember those | tioned, with all the ‘8 dreadful days in the old block house!’ Mrs. | news freah inh is mind, and the at. Kellogg said. “Ien't it atrange,! tack on Seattle a new tale of when you stop to think 1 was only | threat and danger, but he stood 7 years old? his guard. “One night a man fell down-| “About midnight he thought he stairs and broke his arm. There| heard a faint rustling in the berry was an awful commotion, women| bushes. He listened. He heard shrieked and babies walled, and| heaving breathing! the man moaned, and my littie{ “ ‘Shoot!’ the men had told him. mother quietly and efficiently | ‘No friend ts coming here tonight Guieted ail the hubub, put the| If anyone approaches the stock- broken arm in splints (Oh, yes!| ade, you shoot! She had to be doctor, surgeon, and| “Dave listened, every nerve everything) and got everybody | tense. There was a mighty crack- settled again. ling of dried vines, a loud swish “The night that the news of the| ing of branches and out of the attack on Seattle reached Stella-| darkness someone or something coom, people were frantic. A| coming straight toward him. guard wan net outside the stocky} ‘Dave didn't call for help he je, and there were so few men| fired straight at the sound, and and watches were #o long that| when stillness continued, he re any boy who was nearly man-| ported sized had to serve his turn. “Morning revenied that he had “My brother Dave was just a| killed the old sow who was in the lad, but when his turn came he rsh with her litte pigs, but went out with hie gun, tnto the| I’vo always held that he oughtn’'t darkness of the forest night. to have been teased, he was just “About the stockade the big| as brave as if he had shot an In timber had been partly cut away, dian with a tomahawk.” KaKRER can make some sort of @ comfortable | pallet out of evergreen boughs—ends overlapping and plumes bent—but a master woodsman can fashion a veri table cradle, soft as silk with never & hard limb to Irritate the flesh, and yielding as a hair mattress. Such oftness, with the fragrance of the balsam ike a sleeping potion, cannot help but bring sweet dreama. Ben bad been wholly deliberate tn the care with which he had butit the | pallet. jconctusion that she was paying a from now on he intended to make all things as easy as he could for her Mor an of the rarest breed and merited every kindness he could do for her, He was not half so careful with his own bed, built 60 feet on the oppe- site side of the fire, He threw it to. gether rather hastily. And when he walked back to the fire he found an amazing change. Already Beatrice had sovereignty over the little patch of ground they had chosen for the camp—and the wilderness had drawn back. This spot was no longer a mere part of the far-spreading tracklens wilds. It had been set off and marked so that the wilderness creatures could no longer mistake it for part of thelr domain. Over the fire sho had erected @ cooking rack; and water was already bofling in a small bucket suspended from it. another container a fragrant mixture was in the process of cooking. She had spread one of the blankets on the grass for a tablecloth. Ax twilight lowered they sat down to their simple meal—ten, sweetened with sugar, and vegetables gnd meat happily mingled in a mew. It was true that the vegetable end was held up by white grains of rice alone, but the meat was the white, tender flesh of grouse, permeating the entire dish with its tempting flavor. As a whole. the stew was greatly satisfying to the inner man “I wish I'd brought more tea,” Ben complained, as he sipped that most delightful of all drinks, the black tea beloved of the northern men. “You @ woodsman, and don't know | how fo remed¥ that!” the girl re-| mponded. “I know of a native sub-| stitute that’s almost as good as the! real article.” About the embers of the fire they oat and watched the tremulous wings of night close round them, ‘The copse grew breathless, The distant trees blended into shadow, the nearer trunks dimmed and finally faded; the large, white northern stars emerged in infinite troops and com- ostabliahed In} AHERN ‘Nou MAKE A CUTE LOOKING LOLLYPOP ON THAT GTick = \F You FLOP, TH’ CLocK WiLL GAW an) HOUR! © LEMME TRY fT ONCE BUG+ THAD PROG SHING FOR LUNCH A PEL FULL / WOOPLE 16 TRYING To REDUCE “IH INGTALLMENTS on) Mis RUG! ~ iF SHE CRACKS A EVe ar You POKING AROUND OW tT SHE'LL GIVE You A SCALP “TREAT- MENT Wr A LONG \HANDUED PAN ? L *Ge . . Dus DEMONSTRATES <> THE DARWIN THEORY 1 GUESS |. PUT IM A BILL AGAINST TOM FOR. MOVING SERVICES RENDERED = 1 OUGHT TO GET SOMETHING FoR ALL THIS HIS MOVING MAKES A -STooP AT Exercise! T | with her arms; then she gave him an janswering smile, Even a tenderfoot EVERETT TRUE BY CONDO — AND THe MORE 1 Look INTO THs THEORY THAT THE GARTH 1S FLAT THE MORE IM INCLINGD Yo AcceeT rr. 9) IT HAS NGVER BEGN PROVSD ABSOLUTELY That THE He had simply come to the | ver, she had been a sportaworm- | EVERY DAY, AND IN CVGRY WAY, THAT NUT (8 GGTTING they had established the domain of | It was as if he had searched forever man. For a few short hours they had| for this place and bad just found it, routed the forces of the wilderness; | and it answered, to the full, a queer but the foe pressed closed upon them. | mood of silence in his own heart. Just at the fluctuating ring of fire-| ‘The wind had died down cow. The ight he watted, clothed in darkness |last wall of a coyote—disconsolate and mystery—the infinite, brooding|/on @ for-away ridge—had trembled spirit of the ancient forest sway into nothingness; the voices of They had never known such sil-|tho L’ttle People who had chirpe: ence, broken only by the prolonged|and rustied in the tre chord of the river, as descended upon | the daylight hours them now, It was new and strango|a breathless, dramatic stillness, Such to the conscious life of Ben, himself, | sound as remained over the Intormin- the veritable offspring of the woods; |ah'o breadth of tha’ dark forest wxe altho infinitely old and familiar to a! only the faint stirrings and rustlings panies, peering down thru the rifts in the treea Here about their fire . sUll, watching, secret self within him.!of the beasts of prey going ww their | {ng tone fn the great chord of silence, THE OLD HOME TOWN AFTER AUNT SARAH PEABODY HAD SMASHED HER. 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