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EBRUARY C4,.h
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BLUE
MOON
- Jl Tale of the
Flatwoods
By DAVID ANDERSON
(Copyright by the Bobbs-MerrlU Company)
to what he had dreaded. Her eyes
sprang *to his face, and there was
something In them he had not seen
there before. He knew In that ln
*stant that she had not misunderstood
him. With a freedom from, which the
high moment took even the tiniest
semblance of boldness, she stepped to
ward him and laid her hand on his
arm.
“You’re wonderful I I don’t suppose
anybody else in the world would do
such a thing for folks like —us —for
strangers. Forgive me that I didn’t
thank you. It was all"so marvelous!
But I <fo, I do, over and over!"
The puzzled misgivings on the wind
seasoned face of the man*melted up
into a slow smile.
“It’s nothing—” he said.
That was the best he could do,' the
utmost syllable he could muster.
“Nothing! When Daddy Is to be
y, Jvell, and the good days are coming
back ! How can I ever thank you!”
“It’s nothing," he repeated. “I’d Just
as soon you”—he hesitated; finally
added the word, “folks —had the mon
ey for a while as to let It stand there
in the bank idle.”
“Yes, but how many would look at it
that way? I’m sure the bank wouldn’t;
nor the doctor; nor anybody—but
you. Except Daddy,” she added. “He
would —when he was well. He was
> like—you.”
“Anyhow,” he said, as If continuing
some previous remark —some remark
he had doubtless been turning over In
his mind, since he had let fall no word
of it —“the first thing is to sell the
pearl.”
He stepped toward the open door.
She followed him. With the air of a
man seeking some excuse to linger, he
turned at the threshold.
“Sure you’re not afraid?”
“Afraid! With Daddy?” A thought
clouded her eyes. Her facd fell. “I’m
only too safe,” she continued In a low
voice. “Nobody in the Flatwoods
would venture near this place. They
think it’s —it’s —”
She did not finish. The man guessed,
and stood silent.
L , But the future held too big a hope
for her to stay long under a chance
cloud. She raised her face after a
4 moment and held out her hand. He
grasped It In both his own.
' r “Don’t feel bad,” she said, “because
you have no name but —Fearlhunter. I
haven’t any either but —but —”
“Wild Rose,” he finished.
% He watched the dimples come back;
, and the soft twilight In her eyes; and
a shaft of bronze sunset doing straight
magic with her hair. He felt her hand
1 slipping out from between his—the
cushions of her palm; her soft fingers
—and turned away.
Down near the flat rock at the pool
he looked back and found the cabin
through the trees. She was still stand
ing in the door. He waved his hand.
Her white arm shot up In the twilight,
outlined for a brief Instant against the
gray logs.
CHAPTER VI.
An Arm Across the Moon.
The cabin of Fallen Rock was very
gloomy as the Pearlhunter came down
the bluff, walked around to the front
door and pushed it open. The fire had
long since tiled in the stove. In the
twilight the interior of the cabin was
like night. He hastened to light the
“T
The Sight of His Mother’s Chair . . .
Oppressed Him Heavily.
candle. The sight of nls mother’s
chair, when the light brought it out of
the gloom, oppressed him heavily.
He stepped out of the cabin, think
ing to sit upon the door step a while.
_ The moon was not due till midnight.
ready spiked* v c
and deep that it
* Ved to K-. *no bottom' A good
i pjjpemed to be all that was needed
. # .e clear through.
* .ie bottom grew again in the sky;
~.e stars came back out of the deep
azure. The man’s eyes opened. It was
the sound of oars that opened them.
For the first moment he did not know
that he had been asleep. A glance at
the east, all a-flare with the close
coming of the moon, convinced him
that he had slept—for hours.
' Midnight.' What were oars doing on
the Wabash at midnight? The creak
ing of them, accompanied by the dull
clupp-clupp of the oar locks, drew
nearer. Presently there came the gruff
tones of men, surly, and short-spoken.
When even with the house-boat the
rowing ceased, and he knew the boat
was being allowed to drift.
“Hello-o, up there!"
It was the hoarse, gruff voice of the
Boss. A day and half a night! The
finding of the Blue Moon had been cel
ebrated most furiously.
“Hello-o!” he answered.
He heard the Boss swear and say to
th.” others: “There! What’d I tell
y’ul I knowed he wouldn’t be asleep.”
The hoarse voice, thickened a good
deal by the celebration, boomed across
the water again and bounded against
the face of the cliff.
“Louie Solomon struck towm t’nlght
He’ll be down in th’ mornin’.”
“Let’m come."
“Stick out fer th’ five thousan’.”
The Pearlhunter did not answer.
“Be up t’morrow, sometime,” the
voice boomed out again.
“Come ahead.”
The Boss tossed back no further
word.
So Louie Solomon, the smoothest,
trickiest, shiftiest of them all, would
be “down in the mornin’.” The eyes
of the Pearlhunter narrowed. His Jaws
snapped together. He turned and re
entered the cabin. The candle had
burned low. The draft that set in
from the open door had guttered it
deep. He blew it out. flung off his
clothes and rolled into bed.
“Five thousand!” he muttered, drop
ping into the sleep that comes easy to
the woodsman. “Not even Louie Sol
omon can beat me if I stick right here.
That’s what I’ll and here.
I’m not askin’ more, and he shan’t
have It for —less —”
So long as the pulse of the woods
beat normal the sleep of the Pearl
hunter was sound. The hoot of the
owl; the whine of the wildcat; the
howl of the wolves; never disturbed
him. In cabin or house-boat, or out
under the trees, he could sleep through
it all. But let a false note creep into
the wild medley and it instantly
reached him. It was his training, and
could be counted on.
Some time away in the dead night
the false note came —guarded footfalls
outside the cabin, and close to the
wall. Without start or stir the Pearl
hunter’s eyes came open, every sense
at keenest pitch. It must have been
near morning, for the moon stood al
most straight in the open door. He slid
his hand down his side, felt for the
revolver under the edge of his thigh,
laid It across his chest, and covered
both hand and revolver with a corner
of the sheet
A form blotted the moonlight upon
the floor with a living splotch of shad
ow. An arm came in at the door; a
hand fumbled behind the casement
No Face Appeared.
That was all. No face appeared. A
moment or two, and the arm disap
peared; the splotch of shadow slid off
the square of moonlight; the soft foot
falls slipped away around the east end
of the cabin and muffled into silence.
Very softly the Pearlhunter rose to
his feet. The light outside was far
too bright to risk venturing forth. It
would have betrayed him instantly.
He glanced around tftt? cabin. The
moon had passed by the east window,
so that it was in the shadow. He
stole across the floor and peeped out
through a broken pane.
A man was picking his way up the
bluff. He seemed In no great hurry,
nor in the least disturbed. At the top
of the bluff he stopped and looked
bncb. In his brief instant of pause be
fore striding away into the woods the
moon picked him out clear as day. It
was the Man-in-the-Fancy-Vest.
There was no more sleep for the
Pearlhunter. He left the window,
wpnt to the cabin door and felt behind
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PROGRAM
THURSDAY
Bessie Bariscale
IX
‘LIFE’S TWIST”
FRIDAY
Douglas McLean and
Doris May
“MARY’S ANKLE”
SATURDAY
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BRIDE 13
Wm. Duncan, in Fight
ing Fate.
COMEDY
MONDAY
A Special Feature
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DOROTHY GISH
Dorothy Gish
“When Mary Ellen
Comes to Town
Ruth of the Rockies.
WEDNESDAY
CLOSED.
the casement where the hand had
groped. Ills fingers came In contact
with a tiny bundle wedged between
the logs and the door frame. He drew
It forth and unrolled It In the moon
light, deeming It Imprudent to light
the candle. Even before the moon
beams fell upon the thing he knew by
a certain disquieting premonition what
it would prove to be —a red mask.
He felt along the wall to the chink
above the table and poked his fingers
between It and the logs, where he had
concealed the packet the evening they
moved Into the cabin. It was still
there. He drew 1 It forth and compared
It with the other. They were almost
Identical, and of a pattern with the
one he had seen that ufternoon at the
three-gabled cabin.
He sat down by the table and
dropped his chin In his palm. What
did it mean? What must it mean—
this last one? He knew the meaning
(Continued next week.)
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