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'He approached the skidway rapidly,
laid his flexible rule across the face
of each log, made a mark on his pine
tablets in the column to which the log
belonged, thrust the tablet in the pock
et of his coat, seized a blue crayon, in
a long holder, with which be made an
8 as indication that the log had been
scaled, and finally tapped several
times strongly with a sledge hammer.
On the face of the hammer in relief
was an inside of a delta. This was
the company's brand, and so the log
was branded as belonging to them. He
swarmed over the skidway, rapid and
absorbed, in strange activity to the
slower power of the actual skidding.
In a moment he moved on to the next
scene of operations without having
said a word to any of the men.
"A fine t'ing," said Mike, spitting.
So day after day the work went on.
ftadway spent his time tramping
through the woods, figuring on new
work, showing the men how to do
things better or differently, discussing
minute expedients with the blacksmith,
the carpenter, the cook.
He was not without his troubles.
First he had not enough men, the snow
lacked and then came too abundantly,
horses fell sick of colic or calked
themselves, supplies ran low unexpect
edly, trees turned out "punk," a cer
tain bit of ground proved soft for tra
voying, and so on. At election time, of
course, a number of the men went
out.
And one evening, two days after elec
tion time, another and important char
acter entered the North woods and
our story.
CHAPTER II.
N the evening in question some
thirty or forty miles southeast
of Radway's camp a train was
crawling over a badly laid
0
track that led toward the Saginaw
valley. The whole affair was very
crude. 'To the edge of the right of
way pushed the dense swamp, like a
black curtain shutting the virgin coun
try from the view of civilization.
Across the snow were tracks of an
imals.
The train consisted of a string of
freight cars, one coach divided half and
half between baggage and smoker, and
a day car occupied by two silent, awk
ward women and a child. In the smok
er lounged a dozen men. They were of
various sizes and descriptions, but they
all wore heavy blanket mackinaw
coats, rubber shoes and thick German
socks tied at tlie knee. The air was
so thick with smoke that the men had
difficulty in distinguishing objects
across the length of the car.
The passengers sprawled in various
attitudes, and their occupations were
diverse. Three nearest the baggage
room door attempted to sing, but with
out much success. A man in the cor
ner breathed softly through a mouth
organ, to the music of which his seat
mate, leaning his head sideways, gave
close attention. One big fellow with a
square beard swaggered back and
forth down the aisle offering to every
one refreshment from a quart bottle.
It was rarely refused. Of the dozen
probably three-quarters were more or
less drunk.
After a time the smoke became too
dense. A short, thickset fellow with
an evil, dark face coolly thrust his heel
through a window. The conductor,
who, with the brakeman and baggage
master, was seated in the baggage van,
heard the jingle of glass. He arose.
"Guess I'll take up tickets," he re
marked. "Perhaps it will quiet the
boys down a little."
The conductor was a big man, raw
boned and broad, with a hawk face.
His every motion showed lean, quick,
pantlierlike power.
"Let her -went," replied the brake
man, rising as a matter of bourse to
follow his chief.
The brakeman was stocky, short and
long armed. In the old fighting days
Michigan railroads chose their train
officials with an eye to their superior
deltoids. The two' men loomed on the
noisy smoking compartment.
"Tickets, please," clicked the con
ductor sharply.
Most of the men began to fumble
about in tlieir pockets, but the three
singers and the man who had been of
fering the quart bottle did not stir.
'•Ticket, Jack!" repeated the con
diK'tor. 'Tome on. now!"
The big bearded man leaned uncei
tainly against the seat.
"Now, look here, Bud," he urged in
wheedling tones, "I ain't got no ticket.
Yon know how it is, Bud. I blows my
stakes." He fished uncertainly in his
pocket and produced the quart bottle,
nearly.empty. "Have a drink?"
"No," said the conductor sharply.
"A' right," .replied Jack amiably.
"Take one myself." He tipped the bot
tle, emptied it and hurled it through a
window. The conductor paid no ap
parent attention to the breaking of the
glass.
"If you haven't any ticket, you'll
have to get off," said he.
The big man straightened up.' •»,
"You go to blazes!" he snorted, and
with th^sole of his spiked boot deliv
i-ed a .mighty kick at the conductor's
igh.
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ea back, then forward and knocked the
man half the length of the. car. You
see, he was used to it Before Jack
could regain his feet the official stood
over him.
The three men in the corner had also
risen and were staggering down the
aisle intent on battle. The conductor
took in .the chances with professional
rapidity.
"Get at 'em, Jimmy!" said he.
And as the big man finally, swayed
to his feet he was seized by the collar
and trousers in the grip known to
"bouncers" everywhere, hustled to the
door, which some one obligingly open
ed, and hurled from the moving train
into the snow. The conductor did not
care a straw whether *the obstreperous
Jack lit on his head or his feet, hit a
snow bank or a pile of ties.
The conductor returned to find a roll
ing, kicking, gouging mass of kinetic
energy knocking the varnish off all one
end of the car. A head appearing, he
coolly batted it three times against a
corner of the seat arm, after which he
pulled the contestant out by the hair
and threw him into a seat, where be
lay limp. Then it could be seen that
Jimmy had clasped tight in his em
brace a leg each of the other two. He
hugged them close to his breast and
Jammed his face down against them to
protect his features. They could pound
the top of his head and welcome. The
only thing he really feared was a kick
in the side, and for that there was
hardly room.
The conductor stood over the heap,
at a manifest advantage.
"You lumber jacks had enough, or do
you want to catch it plenty?"
The men, drunk though they were,
realized their helplessness. They sig
nified they had had enough. Jimmy
thereupon released them and stood up,
brushing down his tousled hair with
his stubby fingers.
"Now, is it ticket or bounce?" inquir
ed the conductor.
After some difficulty and grumbling
the two paid their fare and that of the
third, who was still dazed.
The interested spectators of the little
drama included two men near the
water cooler who were perfectly sober.
One of them was perhaps past the best
of life, but still straight and vigorous.
His lean face was leather brown in
contrast to a long mustache and heavy
eyebrows bleached nearly white, his
eyes were a clear, steady blue and his'
frame was slender, but wiry. He wore
the regulation mackinaw blanket coat,
a peaked cap with an extraordinary
high crown and buckskin moccasins
over long stockings.
The other was younger, not more
than twenty-six perhaps, with the clean
cut, regular features we have come to
He was seized by the collar.
consider typically American. Eye
brows that curved far down afong the
temples and eyelashes of a darkness in
contrast to the prevailing note of his
complexion combined to lend him a
rather brooding, suit and melancholy
air which a very cursory second ex
amination showed to be fictitious. His
eyes, like the woodman's, were steady,
but inquiring. IT is jaw was square and
\'ihi- inn :ri( pthtight. Unlike the
other ii:uia-te. of t^e car he wore an
ordinary business -suit, somewhat worn,
but of good cut and-a style that showed
even over the soft flannel shirt. The
trousers were, however, bound inside
the usual sock's and rubbers.
The two seat mates had occupied
their time each in his own fashion. The
elder stared straight before him and
spat with a certain periodicity into the
center of the aisle. The younger
stretched bfick lazily in an attitdue of
ease. Sometimes he smoked a pipe.
Thrice he l'ead over a letter. It* was
from' his-sister and announced her ar
rival at the little rural village in which
he had made arrangements for her to
stay, i. "It is interesting now," she
wrote," "though the resources do not
look as though they would wear well.
I am learning under Mrs. Renwick to
sweep and dust and bake and stew and
he official, agile as a wildcat, lea fl.BfflltttMg. of other things which I
j,.r&
always
made. tMetU Vat affer I fatfr*
ed It all I do not believe the practice
will apgteahgkpie much. .,#©•
canii stand enough
twodrihiw$r I am yonidM aa$3
you will lm&^:iiia4e yout eye
forttioB of .coffee." if
"She"*# a raidTfcofpe
self, "and fire shall have her evi
ing fortune -there's such .a
tbeeoimtrfri fj-i,
He jingled the 13.60 In his pbck
smiled/ That was the extent of
erlrieting fortune at present
The letter had been answered .from
Det&Jfc ilp.
ft am glad you are settled." he wrote.
"At least know you have enough to
eat and a roof over you. I hope sin
cerely that you will do your best to fit
yotirself to your Aew cotidltidns*|f I
know it is hard, but with my lack of
experience and my ignorance as to
where to take hold it may be a good
many years before we can do any
better."
When Helen Thorpe read this she
cried. Things had gone wrong that
morning, and :an encouraging word
would have helped her. The* somber
tone of her brother's communication
threw her into a fit of the blues from
which for the first time she saw her
surroundings in a depressing and dis
tasteful light And yet he had writ
ten as he did with the kindest possible
motives.
Thorpe had the misfortune to be me
of those individuals who, though care
less of what people in general -may
think of them, are in a corresponding
degree sensitive to the opinion of the
few they love. This feeling was fur
ther exaggerated by a constitutional
shrinking from any outward manifes
tation of the emotions. Perhaps for
this reason he was never entirely sin
cere with those he loved.
After the disgrace of bis father Har
ry Thorpe had done a great deal of
thinking and planning which he kept
carefully to himself. He considered
In turn the different occupations to
which he could turn his hand and neg
atived them one by one. Few business
firms would care to employ the son of
as shrewd an embezzler as Henry
Thorpe. Finally he came to a decision.
He communicated this decision to his
sister. It would have commended it
self more logically to her had she been
able to follow step by step the consid
eration that had led her brother to it.
As the event turned, she was forced to
accept it blindly. She knew that her
brother intended going west, but as to
his hopes and plans she was in igno
rance. A little sympathy,, a little mu
tual understanding, would have meant
a great deal to her, for a girl whose
mother she but dimly remembers turns
naturally to her next of kin. Helen
Thorpe had always admired her broth
er, but had never before needed him.
She had looked upon him as strong,
self contained, a little moody.
At the beginning of the row in the
smoking car Thorpe laid aside his let
ter and watched with keen apprecia
tion the direct practicality of the train
men's method. When the bearded man
fell before the conductor's blow, he
turned to the individual at his side.
"He knows how to hit, doesn't he?"
he observed. "That fellow was knock
ed well off his feet."
"He does," agreed the other dryly.
They fell into a desultory conversa
tion of fits and starts. Woodsmen of
the genuine sort are never talkative,
and Thorpe, as has been explained,
was constitutionally reticent. In the
course of their disjointed remarks
Thorpe explained that he was looking
for work in the woods and intended
first of all to try the Morrison & Daly
camps at Beeson lake.
"Know anything about logging?" in
quired the stranger.
"Nothing," Thorpe confessed.
"Ain't much show for anything 'but
lumber jacks. What did you think of
doing?"
"I don't know," said Thorpe doubt
fully. "I have driven horses a good
deal. I thought I might drive team:"
The woodsman turned slowly and
looked Thorpe over with a quizzical
eye. Then he faced to the front again
and spat.
"Quite like," he replied, still more
dryly.
The boy's remark had amused him,
and he had showed it, as much a^ he
ever showed anything. Excepting al
ways the river men, the driver of a
team commands the highest jwiges
among out of door workers.
It is easier to drive a fire engine than
a logging team.
But in spite of the naivete of the re
mark the woodsman had seen some
thing in Thorpe he liked. Such merf be
come rather expert in the reading 'of
character. He revised his first inten
tion to let the conversation drop.
"I think M. & D. is rather full' up
j,ust now," he remarked. "I'm walliin'
boss over there. The roadS" is atiout
all made, and roadmaki'ng is what
a greenhorn tackles first. Tliey's more
chance earlier in the year. But if
-the. old fpH'-hy"--!!!' Ktroncrly a-c«en'£
ed the 'first word—"hain't noihin'4 for
you,- just-ask for Tim Shearer, an'*I'll
try to put you On the trail for some
jobber's camp."
.. The three who had come into colli
sion with Jimmy and Bud were getting
noisier. They had produced a stone
jug and had collected the remainder of
the passengers, with the exception of
Shearer and Thorpe, and now were
passing the jug rapidly from hand to
hand. Soon they became musical, strik
ing up one of the wierd, long, drawn
out chants so popular with the shanty
boy. Thorpe shrewdly guessed Jhis
companion to be,a man of some weight
and did not hesitate to ascribe his^im
munity from annoyance to the other's
presence.
5
through4 lhe
raperture
of the dddt.
"You'll find, the ttoardin* bouse fjwt
across over .the track," said the woods
man, holding out his hand.' "So long.
See you again if you don'tfflnd a job
with the old fellow.' My name's
Shearer."
"Mine Is Thorpe," replied the other.
"Thank you."
Thorpe followed and found himself
on the. frozen, platform of a little dark
railway station. Directly across the'
track from the railway station a sin
gle building was pricked from the dark
by a solitary lamp in a lower, story
room. The four who' had descended
before Thorpe made over, toward this
light stumbling and laughing' uncer
tainly, so he knew it was probably the
boarding house and prepared to follow
them.
The five were met at .the steps by the
proprietor of the boarding house. This
man was short and stout, with a hare
lip and cleft palate,- Which at once gave
him' the well known slurring speech
of persons so afflicted and imparted
also to the timbre of his voice a pecul
iarly hollow, resonant, trumpetlike
note. He stumped about energetically
on a wooden leg of home manufacture.
It was a cumbersome instrument,
heavy, with deep pine socket for the
stump and a projecting brace which
passed under a leather belt around the
man's waist. This instrument he used
with-the dexterity of a third hand. As
Thorpe watched him he drove in a pro
jecting nail, kicked two "turkeys" in
side the open door and stuck the armed
end of his peg leg through the top and
bottom of the whisky jug that one of
the new arrivals had set down near
the door. The whisky promptly ran
out At this the cripple flirted the im
paled jug from the wdoden leg far out
over the rail of the veranda into the
snow.
A growl went up.
"What 'n thunder's that for?" snarl
ed one of the owners of the whisky
threateningly.
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It is ordered, that said account be examined,
and petition be heard by this court on Monday,
the 29th day of February A. D. 1904, at two
o'clock p. m.t at the probate office, in the city
of Austin, in said county.
And it is further ordered, that notice thereof"
be given to all persons interested, by publish
ing this order once in each week for three suc
cessive weeks prior to said day of hearing, in
the MOWER COUNTY TEANSCEIPT, a weekly
newspaper, printed and published at the city
of Austin in said county.
Dated at Austin, Minnesota, the &7th day of
January A. D. 1904,
By the Court. J. M. GREENMAN,
(Seal) Judge of Prohate-
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