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WEDNESDAY. APRIL 26, 1922.
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BEGIN HERE TODAY.
A series of mysterious accidents
in the lumber mill left him by his
father on the condition that he
maintain a high out-put, has con
vinced Harry Houston that his super
intendent, Fred Thayer, is guilty of
sabotage. Motoring from Boston to
the timber lands in Colorado, Hous
ton’s automobile plunges over a cliff
•i few miles from Tabernacle, where
he mill is located.
Houston is nursed back to health
by Ba’tiste Renaud, an eccentric
but whole-hearted French-Canadian
who became a trapper following the
tragedies of his son’s death in
France and the unsolved murder of
his wife. In Ba’tiste’s cabin Houston
meets Madaine Robinette, a girl of
twenty who owns adjoining timlier
land. Ba’tiste agrees to assist Hous
ton and they decide.to investigate a
mysterious telegram which caused
Houston’s trip from Boston.
GO ON WITH THE STORY.
“Is there ever a time when the op
erator isn’t there?”
“At noon. He go out to dinner,
and he leave open the door. If eet
is something you want, walk in.”
“Thanks.” A strange eagerness
was in Houston’s eyes. “I think I'll
be able to get up tomorrow. Maybe
I can walk over there.”
1 can walk over there.”
CHAPTER IV
‘Bon—good!” came from Ba’-
tiste, as they turned into the little
village of Tabernacle the next day.
“Bon —the agent is leaving.”
“You walk as though going into
the station to loaf. Ba’tiste• will
come behind—and keep watch.”
Barry obeyed. A momenta more
and be was within the converted box
car." Houston turned hastily toward
the file hook and began to turn the
pages of the original copy which
bung there.
Suddenly he bent forward and ex
amined a notation in a strange hand:
“Missent Houston. Resent Black
burn.”
It explained much to Barry Hous
ton, that scribble of four words. It
told him why he had received a tele
gram which meant nothing to him.
yet caused suspicion enough for a
two thousand mile trip.
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Hastily Houston crawled over the
railing, and motioning to Ba’tistse,
led him away from the station.
The giant traced out' the words.
He looked up sharply.
“Boston? You came from Boston?”
“Yes. It must mean that Thayer’s
been running my mill down, to help
along some competitor. You’ll N»Li< e
that he says he has me where he
wants me.”
“Oui—yes. But has be? What
was the deal?”
“I don’t know. Suddenly Houston
frowned with presentment. “Thay
er's been goihg with Medaine a good
deal, hasn’t he?”
“Oui—yes. When Ba’tiste can
think of no way to keep him from it.”
“It couldn’t be that he's made
some arrangement with her—about
her forest lands?”
“But Ba’teese would have hear of
eet,” came the repetition.* “No, eet
is something else. Ba’teese will try
to learn who eet is, this Blackburn.”
They parted, Ba’tiste to lounge
back i:;to the’tiny town, Houston to
take the winding road which led
back to the cabin.
He glanced ahead and noticed the
trim figure of Medaine Robinette
swinging along the road, old Lost
Wing trailing in her rear, astride a
calico pony and leading the saddle
horse which she evidently had be
come tired of riding. She had not
Seim him, and Barry hurried toward
her, jamming his cap into a pocket
that his hand might be free to greet
her. He waved airily as they came
closer and called. But if she heard
hi, she no indication. Instead,
she turned—swiftly;-Houston thought
—and mounted her horse. A moment
later, she trotted past him, and again
he greeted her, to be answered by a
nod and a slight movement of' the
lips. But the eyes had been averted.
' Barry could see that the thinnest
1 veneer of politenesss had shielded
something else as she spoke to him—
'an expression of distance,of dislike,
almost loathing!
It was thus that old friends had
passed him by in Boston; it was thus
that men who had been glad to bor-
I row money from him in other days
had looked the other way when the
' clouds had come. A strange chill
went over him.
“Thayer’s told her!”
He spoke the sentence like a man
repeating the words of an execution.
features suddenly had grown
■ niggard. H* stumbled slightly as he
' made the next rise in the road and
I went on slowly, silently, toward the
I cabin.
There Ba’tiste found him, slumped
'on the bench, staring ouE at the
white and rose pinks of Mount Talu
' ehen, yet seeing none of it.
“You worry, huh? Ba’teese help.
There are men at the boarding
i house.”
“The Blackburn crowd?”
“So. Seven carpenters, and others.
They work for Blackburn. They
| are here to build a mill.”
“On Medaine’s land then!” But
i Ba’tiste shook hjs head.
! “No. Eet is on the five acres own’
by Jerry Martin. Eet is no good—
locks and rocks—and rocks. They
build eet there.”
Houston shook his head.
“I can’t see it. 1 have the only
timber around here with the excep
tion of Medaine’s and, and you say
that she doesn't come into that until
next year. I've never made a cruise
of the territory around here.”
“What you know about lumber?”
"Not more than- any office man
could learn in a year and a half.”
“Then we shall learn. Tomorrow
we shall go. Perhaps, Ba’teese can
tell .you much. Bien! We shall take
Medaine, oui? Yes?"
“I-—I don’t think she’d go."
"Why not?”
“I’d rather—” Houston was think
ing of a curt nod and averted eyes.
“Maybe we’d better just go alone,
Ba’tiste.”
I “Ties Ifien. We shall go into the
forest. We shall learn much.”
CHAPTER V.
The read narrowed to a mere
trail; Ba’tiste tugged on the reins,
ind motionings to Barry, left the'
wagon, pulling forth an axe and heavy
I cross-cut saw as he did so. Ba’tiste
| stopped and motioned toward a tall
jspruce.
The axe gleamed in blow after
1 blow. A deep incision appeared in
I the trunk of the tree, and at the base
of it Ba’tiste started the saw, Barry
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!good arm.
“Look out!”
A crackling sound Lad come front
■ above. Ba’tiste abandoned the saw,
; and with one great leap caught Hous
i ton and pulled him far to one side,
as with a roar, she spruce seemed to
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Suddenly He Bent Forward and Ex
amined a Notation in a Strange
Hand. "
veritably disinteigraf e, its trunk
spreading in great splintered slab
and the tree propqr crashing to the
ground in the opposite diieetion to
which it should have fallen, break
ing as it came.
A moment Ba’tiste hood, with his
arm still about the younger man,
waiting for the dead btanche . sev
ered from other trees, to cease sidl
ing, and r no disturbed needles and
dust of the forest to settle.
“Eet break up like an ice jam!"
came at last. "That tree, he is not
made of wood. He is of gla s!"
Barry joined him, studying the
splintered fragments of the spruce,
suddenly to bend forward in wonder
nient.
“That’s queer. Here’s a railroad
spike driven clear into the heart!”
“Huh? What’s that?.’ Ba’liste
bent, beside him to examine the rusty
spike, then hurried to a minute ex
amination of the rest of the true.
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‘ And another,’ came at last. "And t
more!”
Four heavy spikes had revealed '
themselves now, each jutting forth :
at a place where the tree had split, i
Ba’tiste straightened.
“Ah, oui! Eet is no wonder! See?
T1 e spike, they have been in the tree
for mebbe one, two, t’ree year. And
the tree, he is not strong. When the
winter come, last year, he split in- !
side, from the frost, where the spike, I
he spread the grain.
“But why the spikes?”
“Wait'!’ 'Ba tiste, suddenly serious, I
turned away into the woods, to go |
slowly from tree to tree, to dig at
them with his knife. “I have foun' H
apother!”
' “The spike, they are ail in this
little section,” he said finally. “I
have cruise’ all about here —there
are no more.”
“But why should trees grow ;
spikes?”
“Ah, why? So that saws will i
break at the right time! Eet is easy |
for the iron hunter at the mill /to j
look the other way—eef he kmiw; '
what the boss want. Eet is easy for I
tile sawyer to step out. of the way I
while the. blade, he hit a spike!’
A long whistle traveled over flous
ton’s lips. This was the explanation |
of broken saws, just at (he crucial '
moment!
“Simple., isn’t it?" he asked causti
rally. “Whenever it's necessary for
■in ‘accident’ to happen, merely .‘.end
out into tile woods for a load of tim
ber front a certain place.
“I've seen enough, Ba’tiste. I'm j
going to Denver and contract my- !
self an entirely new crew.”
They drove in silence to the clear
iiig of Barry’s mill, with Its bunk |
house, it s diminutive commissary. I
Houston leaped from the Wagon but
at' the door of the commissary he j
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, whirled, staring. A buggy was just
coming over the brow of the little hill
1 which led to the mill property. Some
one had called to him—a woman
I whose voice had caused him to start,
then, a second later, to go running
forward.
Agnes Gordon was beside Thayer
• in the buggy, leaning forth, one hand
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■ a flush of excitement as Houston
■ came to her.
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PAGE FIVE
“Agnes,” he gasped. “Why did
you—” >
"I thought-—” and the drawling
voice of Fred Thayer had a sudden
ly sobering etfect on Houston, “that
you weren’t hurt very bad. Your
memory came back awful cuick,
didn’t it?’’
(Continued in Our Next Issue.)
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