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WEDNESDAY. APRIL 26, 1922.
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r ■' 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
• a few miles from Tabernacle, where
the 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'T.he unsolved murder of
his wife. In Ba’tiste’s cabin Houston
meets Madaine Robinette, a girl of
twenty who owns adjoining timber
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. "1 think I’ll
be able to get up tomorrow. Maybe
1 can walk over
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 moment more
and he was within the converted box
car. Houston turned hastily toward
the file hook and began to turn the
pages of the original copy which
hung 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 notice
that he says he has me where he
wants me.”
“Oui—yes. But has he? What
was the deal?”
“1 don’t know. Suddenly Houston
frowned with presentment. “Thay
er's been going with Meduine 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 into the tiny town, Houston to
i take the winding road which led
i back to the cabin.
He glanced ahead and noticed the
I trim figure of Mcdaine Robinette
' swinging along the road, old Lost
Wing trailing in her rear, astride a
I calico pony ami leading the saddle
I horse which she evidently had be
. come tired of riding. She had not
| see* him, and Barry hurried toward
I her, jamming his cap into a pocket
■ that his band might be free to greet
her. He waved airily as they came
■ closer and called. But if she heard
I hi, she gave no indication. Instead,
i she turned—swiftly, Houston thought
—and mounted her horse. A moment
j later, she trotted past him, and again
I he greeted her, to be answered by a
! nod and a slight movement of th<*
; lips. But the eyes had been Averted.
Barry could see that the thinnest
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
row money from him in other days
had looked the other way when the
clouds had ctnne. A strange chill
went over him.
"Thayer’s told her!”
He spoke the sentence like a man
repeating the words of an execution.
His features suddenly had grown
haggard. H<» stumbled slightly as he
made the next rise in the road and
went on slowly, silently, toward the
cabin.
There Ba’tiste found him, slumped
on the bench, staring out at the
white and rose pinks of Mount Talu
chen, yet seeing none of it.
"You worry, huh? Ba’teese help.
There are men at the boarding
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
Ba’tiste shook his head.
I “No. Eet is on the five acres own’
by Jerry Martin. Eet is no good—
rocks and rocks—and rocks. They
build eet there.”
Houston shook his head.
“I can’t see it. I 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.”
“'I hen we shall learn. Tomorrow
we shall go. Perhaps, Ba’teese can
tell you much. Bien! We shall take
Medaine, oui? Yes?”
“I—l 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.”
“Ties bien. We shall go into the
forest. We shall learn much.”
CHAPTER V.
The road narrowed to a mere
trail; Ba’tiste tugged on the reins,
and motionings to Barry, left the
wagon, pulling forth an axe and heavy
cross-cut saw as he did so. Ba’tiste
stopped and motioned toward a tall
spruce.
The axe gleamed in blow after
blow. A deep incision appeared in
the trunk of the tiee, and at the base
of it Ba’tiste started the saw, Barry
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“Look out!”
A crackling sound had come from
above. Ba’tiste abandoned the saw,
and with one great leap caught Hous
ton and pulled him far to one side,
as with a roar, the spruce seemed to
n
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Suddenly He Bent Forward and Ex
amined a Notation in a Strange
Hand.
veritably disintergrate, its trunk
spreading splintered slab
and the tree proper crashing to the
ground in the opposite direction to
which it should have fallen, break
ing as it came.
A moment Ba’tiste stood, with his
arm still about the younger man,
waiting for the dead branchc., sev
ered from other trees, to cease fall
ing, and she disturbed needle.-- 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 glass!"
Barry joined him, studying the
splintered fragments of the spruce,
suddenly to bend forward in wonder
ment.
“That’s queer. Here’s a railroad
spike driven clear into the heart!”
“Huh? What’s that?’ Ba’lirt
ent 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
more!’’
Four heavy spikes had revealed
themselves now, each jutting forth
at a place where the tree had split.
Ba’tiste straightened.
“Ah, oui! Eet is no wonder! See?
Tiie 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,
he spread the grain.
“But why the spikes?”
"Wait!’ 'Ba’tiste, suddenly serious,
turned away into the woods, to go
slowly from tree to tree, to dig at
them with his knife. “I have foun’
another!” /
“The spike, they are all in this
little section,” he said finally. “1
have cruise’ all about here—there
are no more.”
“But why should trees grow
spikes?”
“Ah, why? So that saws will
break at the right time! Eet is easy
for the iron hunter at the mill to
look the other way—eef he know
what the boss want. Eet is easy for
the sawyer to step out of the way
while the blade, he hit a spike!'
A long whistle traveled over Hous
ton’s lips. This was the explanation
of broken saws, just at the crucial
montent!
“Simple, isn't it?” he asked causti
cally. "Whenever it’s necessary foi
an ‘accident’ to happen, merely send
out into the woods for a load of tim
ber from a certain place.
“I’ve seen enough, Ba’tiste. I’m
going to Denver and contract my
self an entirely new crew.”
They drove in silence to the clear
ing of Barry’s mill, with its bunk
house, it s diminutive commissary.
Houston leaped from the wagon but
at the door of the commissary he
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coming over the brow of the little hill
which led to the mill property. Some
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then, a second later, to go running
forward.
Agnes Gordon was beside Thayer
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PAGE FIVE
“Agnes,” he gasped. “Why did .
you—- xiQuLii
“I thought—” and the drawling
voice of Fred Thayer had a sadd<#ȣ
ly sobering effect on Houston, I ‘‘that
you weren’t hurt very bad. Your
memory came back awful •’ quick. .’•
didn’t it?”
(Continued in Our Next Issue.)
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