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THE-~CHICAGO LEDGER,
SATURDAY,
OCTOBER 17,
1903. . %
- attraction of elfishly blowing hair, with &
pleasing, full-cheeked, full-blos-
Somed_ health.
‘The two in reestablished si-
lence. Finally, the giant, unable to contain
himsel€ longer, broke out
“r oman,” said he, with a
quaintly ‘deliberate seridusness. “That's the
est in distri
Thor it the quick moisture rush to
his e} ‘There was som
when you are married,” he asked,
what are ‘you going , to do? Are you going
“No; I'm goin’ to. lea a farm.
I hike ‘ihe
river, too. Bui yu bet, when Carrie says
a , thing, that's * ienty good enough for Big
“Thor looked at his companion fixedly.
He remembered Big Junko as a wild beast
aroi
a
“"T know,” said the big man.
scalawag, all right. I quit it, I don’t know
Carrie she’s ayant ent I'm goin’
ou get stuck
on-a good woman like Carrie, Mr. Thorpe,
a damn for anything
s right! It’s the biggest
again,
‘And from such a source.
contracted again.
the opposing creed.
Thorpe’s iron will
oman is no excuse for a man’s neg-
Jecting | his work," he snappet
y Bot, agreed Junko, serenely. “I
aim to “Rnish out my time all right, Mr.
Thorpe. Don’t you worry none about th;
done you. And,” went on the
riverman in the expansion of ‘this unwonte:
‘onfidence with employer, “I'd like to
rise to remark that you're the best boss
ver had, and we boys wants to stay with
right,” murmured Thorpe, indiffer:
ently. Suddenly the remaining half mile to
town seemed very long, indeed.
CHAPTER XXXII.
‘Wall Carpenter and ton, the
journalist, seated ‘agai the sun-warmed
bench of Mrs. Hathaway's boarding house,
commented on the bai it stumbled in
‘0 the Wi room. Their conversation wa:
his shoulders drooped, his gait was inelas-
i whole bearing of the man was that
© weary 0 the bone.
“T've got something here . to
Harry.” cried Wallace’ Carpenter,
newspaper. “It was a grea ariver
show you,
anything
He pas: ese ‘through the ttle passage into
h M Hatha-
members
of.the firm.
most before his body had met the bed.
In the long dining room the rivermen
consumed a belated dinner.
uder-heads gathered
d and vgrambled & hey had done
“every Aeon for da:
“Queer thing!” commented Hamilton
finally, ‘these cold streaks in the air. They
are just as distinct as though they had
em.”
climate, anyway,” agreed Car-
Penycepting always for the mill, the Jittle
ared asleep.~ ‘Th
hooms were quite dese’ ter awhile
Hamilton noticed somethin
“Look here, Carpenter,” sald he, “what
happening, out the re? Have some of your
confounded logs sun nk, what? There
don’ 0 be near so many of them,
somehow.
Nos it isn’t that,” proffered Carpenter,
after & moments scrutiny, “there are just
logs, but they are getting sepa-
rated # 2 Tittle so you can see the open water
look here, I
e right. , Say,
“ ense! we ven’t had any rain.”
“She's rising just the same. You see that
spile over there near the left-hand * crib?
morning watch-
ing the crew, and I whittled the spile with
my knife—you can see the marks from here.
I cut the thing about two feet above t!
wate Look at it now,
“She retty near the water line, that’s
mien indimitied Carpenter.
an hour later the younger man in
hig turn made a discovery.
“She's been rising right along,” he sub-
24 “You are nearer the water
ve tl logs_are
See, they've closed wu;
he: ans they
the lower
know,” hesitated , Wallace. “I
appening.
“You'd better let some one know.”
yn "came to the edge of the heh tres+
tle and-took one 1}
“Jum, fish-hooks!” he erfed. “Why,
the river's up six inches and still a comin’!
Here, om!” he called to one of t
yard ‘hands, “you tell Solly to get steam on
id have “Dave hustle
_ together his driver crew.”
are you going to do?’ asked Wal-
e.
“I to strengthen the “booms,” ex-
plained. the mill foreman. “We'll drive some
piles across between * ibs,”
an er?”
have to rise a
ood ‘deal’ higher. ‘than she is now to make
aa pet
current enough to hurt. They've had a hard
rain up above, This will go down in a few
nour: st
After a time the tug puffed up to the
coms. escorting the pile-driver. The lat-
raft of long, sharpened
once beg: drive in
the aspect had
gray beat.
‘Immediately
ed.
, the captatn, looked at his mooring
haw: sers and then at the nearest ¢
“She’s riz two ‘ine es "?. is’ two
rs,” he announced, “an che’ runnin’
like a mill race.” S as a typical nort
country tug ‘captain, short broad, wi
brown, clear face, and the steadiest and
calmest of steel blue eyes. “When she be-
gins to feel th’ pressure behind,” he t
on, “there’s goin’ to be trou
‘ards dusk she be; ‘eel that pres-
"e, rough the rainy twilight the logs
1d n raising their ghostly arms of
1 he
f the river. TI
began to protest, pressing its by-
he narrowi crevices.
ention.
& breeze began to pull off shore
body of rain. Little by little it increased,
sending the water by in gusts, ruffling the
already hurrying river into greater haste,
raising her far from the shore ly per-
ceived white-caps. Between the roaring of
the wind, the gash of rain, and rush of
he stream, nm had to shout to make them-
selves
“Guess wd bel tter rout ou’
t the boss!
sereamed Bolly to Wallace Carpenter; “th
lamn water's comin’ up an inch an kour
right along. When she backs up once, she'll
h this ut sure.
“fo the boarding house and
roused his partner from a heavy sleep. ‘The
the situation at a
ned to the younger
n lay the danger.
once,” said he, “noth-
m going
ven know! wypere. {Once scattered, it
practically a tota
The: bli aly ‘rough the rain in the
he tug and pile-
Shearer, the water dripping. from
‘mustache, jomed them. like
At the river he announced
“We can hold her all right,” he
“It'll take a few more piles,
morning the st
longer to drive piles under the face of the
Te she breaks loose, she’s going to bury
us,” sai
“she won "t break,” snapped Shearer. “Get
ork.”
to
tes dan}
they ol
gerous,” byected,, sutlenty:
‘down. in a fewacre
here.
ha storm of
ule tude of kicks, his
‘There's | nothing sion jit but to get the boys
out again,” sal ; “I kinder hate to do
‘But v when the Fighting Forty, halt asleep
but dauntless, took charge of the driver, a
catastrophe made itself known. One of the
jected men had tripped the lifting chain of
the hammer after another ha jocks
away the heavy preventing block, and
the hammer had fallen into the river and
was | as to be had. The
pile-driver was useless.
n men were at once dispatched for
and Sire ropes from the sup-
5
P
ly at wareht
“It's ft the ‘same trick,” said Thorpe,
grimly, “those fellows have their men every-
where on’t know whom to
trust.””
“You t
hink it’s Aforrison & Daly?” queried
ished.
“They know as well as
t if we save These ke
He turned to direct the boring of some
the
gz boom logs in preparation for
ains. Suddenly he whirled again to Wal-
lace wii nge an expression in his
face tl ie st cried out.
3
g8
Ey
that Tam!’ I don’t s how I
you see what
those’ ‘devi Will do’ next?"
you mean?” gasped the
na ne
‘e twelve million feet of logs yon
river in Sadler & Smid h’s drive, Don't
see what they'll d
roe n't Sieve —"
“Just soon as they find out that’ the
breate the jam, or dy’
jet pie tell you, |
it itting the tail of our Jam
whole shooting match so that no power on
earth can stop
“I don't imagine they’d think of doing
that,” began Wallace, by way of assurance.
“Think of it! You ‘don't know them.
hey ve thought of everything. You don't
that man Daly. Ask Tim; he'll tell
ou
‘Well, the—"
“I've got to send a man up there right
head them off. ‘They have end. thelr
Banovers’ Ho cast his eye rapidly over the
men.
‘I don’t know just who to send. Ther
isn’t a good enough we the lot
to make. Sisc
night like ‘this. The
and a cut throu;
hone diml: . lanterns at
ork, ghostly through the Bey on
either side, lay impenetrable drenched dark-
ness, racket t e wind.
“I wouldn't want to tackle it,” panted
tw: asn't for that cursed tote
Sadier & Daly's, I wouldn't
worry. It's easy for them."
Behina thein the jam cracked and shrieked
ear
om, as one
the pressure
q
thease ihe ines
‘ome on, Wallace,” said he, well] hunt
up
Thess stepped again into the shriek and
roar of the storm, bending their heads to its
er, but indifferent to the rai e saw-
dust street was saturat ii a sponge.
They could feel the quick water rise about
uses
of' flowing fri ‘oofs.. ad, dim
in mist, sprayed the light of lanterns.
Suddenly Thorpe felt a is arm.
‘anitly hi ‘ceived at wa face
from which t! ater streamed.
ane an’ Charie y!” he cried. “The ‘very
man!”
r installment of this truthful and
exciting story of life in
Jumber will
in next
seriber to the tedger is offered cameras
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teen and fifte
Lenely White Children.
Of all the lonely white children on the
face of the earth, the most lonely prob-
ably are two boys who live on the far-
away, famous Christmas Island, synien is
so tiny that it hardly makes a dot on the
ap. It lies in the Facife Ocean more
than 200 miles away coast of
Java, and belongs to Enelan nd. ‘These two
white boys are much like two Robins
Crusoes, for, while there are 530 Inhabitants
on Christmas Island, most of them are
Chinese and almost all the rest.are Malays.
There are only four white men the
e women, so thé two boys
sail from one
less the weather is
be do not see
mon between
them and the English boy:
‘On the Chatham Islands,
away from New Zealand,
or forty boys and girls, all white,
Very little opportunity for ever seein
m the outside world, . for
500 miles
here ‘are thirty
rho get
ig any>
children have to help their
care of ane sheep, which are the wealth of
the is ie
several hundred children on
the on ‘slanas. They go to
years and go wi
parents decide to send them to school in
England or America. .
men’? Maggie, yer used ter say yer loved
miAVell, a ain't T got a right ter get some
sense as I grows older?"
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