The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-10-05

film the troubled look of pleading in
Molly's eyes
/ "Assassins!" Kissed Leveque at the
/ two unfortunate youths That was all
Il suppose it was a good deal my
\ fault" commented Railway, doubtful
/ ly shaking his head, after Leveque mad
! left the office. Il ought to have been
/ surer about the ice"
! Railway was so confirmed in his be-
! lief as to his own culpability that he
! quite overlooked Fabian's just con-
tention-that the mere thinness of the
| ice was in reality no excuse for the
| losing Of the horses. So Pat and Hen
rvs were not discharged-were not in
structed to ''get their time" Fabian
! Leveque promptly demanded his.
| II no work wild dat dam-fool dat
| no t'ink wit hees haid.'
| This deprived the camp at once of a
| teamster and a team. When you re-
fleet that one pair of horses takes care
! of the exertions of a crew of saw
yers, several swampers, and three or
| four cant-hook men, you will readily
see what a serious arrangement their
| loss would cause.
Railway did his best He took three
days to search out big team of farm
| horses Then it became necessary to
find driver. After some elaboration
he decided to advance Bob Stratton to
| the post, that decker having had
fore. Erickson. the Swede, while not
star cant-hook man, was neverthe-
| less sure and reliable. Railway placed
him in STATIONS place. He remem-
bered Thorpe.
So the young man received his first
| promotion toward the ranks of skilled
| labor. He gained at last a field of APP
plication for the accuracy he had so
intelligently acquired while road-mak-
ing, for now a false stroke marred a
saw-log; and besides, what was more
to his taste, he found himself near the
actual scene of operation, at the front,
as it were.
Here he learned why and when the
sawyers threw tree up or down hill;
and how small standing timber they
tried to fell 1t through; what consider
alton held for the cutting of different
lengths of log: how the timber was
sldllfully decked on the skids in such
manner that the pile should not
bulge or fall, and so that the scaler
could easily determine the opposite
ends of the same log-in short, a thou
sand and one little details which ordi-
narily man learns only as the ext
gencies arise to call in experience.
Here, too, he first realized ne was In
the firing line.
Thorpe had assigned him as a bunk
mate the young fellow who assisted
Tom Broadhead in the telling. Henry
Paul was sh-compleXioned. clear
eyed, quick mannered young fellow
with an air of steady responsibility
about him. He came from the southern
part of the state, where, during the
: summer, he worked on a little home
stead farm of his own. After a few
: days he told Thorpe that he was mar
} ried, and after few more days he
l showed his bunk mate the photograph
! of a sweet-faced young woman who
looked trustingly out of the picture.
, She's waiting down there for me-
and it amt so very long till spring, -
said Paul. wistfu1ly. "She's the best
little woman a man ever had. and
there amt nothin' too good for her.
r chummy!"
Thorpe, soul-sick after his recent ex-
periences with the charity of the world
discovered a real pleasure in this fresh
, clear passion.
Three days after the newcomer had
started in at the swapping, Paul, dur,
ing their early morning walk from
camp to the scene of their operations
confided in him further
Got another letter. chummy!' said
: he, come in yesterday. She tells me, .
! he hesitated with a blush. and then 4
happy laugh, that they amt going to
ne only two of us at the farm next
; year"
1Ou mean! QuerleQ lnOrDe.
Yes" laughed Paul" and if it's a
girl she gets named after her mother
, You bet"
The men Separa ted. In a moment
Thorpe found himself waist-deep in the
pitchy aromatic top of an old bull
sap, clipping away at the projecting
! branches After a time he heard Paul's
gay halloo.
!, "Timbre! came the cry. and then
the SyViS b-Sh Of he
! fall.
Thorpe knew that now either Hank
or Tom must be climbing with the Ions
measuring pole along the PROSTATE
trunk, marking by means of shallow
aX-clips where the saw was to divide
the logs. Then Tom shouted something
untintelligible. The other mer
seemed to understand, however for
they dropped their work and ran has
tily in the direction of the voice.
Thorpe, after a moments indecision,
did the same. He arrived to find a
group about a PROSTATE man. The
man was Paul.
were conducting coolly hasty exami-
nation. At the front every man is
more or less of a surgeon.
rs he hurt bady?" asked Thorpe;
what is it?"
Hes dead" answered one of the
other men. soberly.
With the skill of CHASTITY practice
some of them wove litter on which
the body was placed. The pathetic lit
tie procession moved in the solemn in
scrutabie forest.
When the tree had fallen it had
crashed through the top of another,
leaving suspended in the branches of
the latter a long, heavy limb. A slight
breeze dislodged it Henry Paul was
impaled as by a. javelin. This is the
chief of the many perils of the woods.
That evening the camp was unusu-
ally quiet. Taller let his fiddle hang.
After supper Thorpe was approached
by Purdy, the reptilian red-head with
whom he had had the row some even
!. ings before.
You in. chummy?" he asked in a
: quiet voice. IT'S five apiece for
Hanks woman
Yes" said Thorpe.
The men were earning from twenty
to thirty dollars month. They had,
most of them, never seen Hank Paul
before this autumn. He had not,
mainly because of his modest DISPOSE
ton. enjoyed any extraordinary degree
of popularity Yet these strangers
cheerfully as matter of course, gave
ND the proceeds of a weeks hard work,
and that without expecting the slight
est PERSONAL credit. The money was