The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-11-02

more than a dead weight. Presently
II became question of letting go OF
being dragged into the lake on top oil
! the animals With a sob the little
! Frenchman relinquished his hold. The
water seemed slowly to rise and over
MIN the troubled look of pleading in
! Moly's eyes.
"Assassins!" Kissed Leveque at tie
| two unfortunate youths. That was ali
I suppose it was a good deal my
] fault" commented Roadway, doubtfully
Il, shaking his head, after Leveque had
/ left the office. 81 ought to have been
surer about the Ice
Railway was so confirmed in his be-
I lief as to his own culpability that he
quite overlooked Fabians 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 We're not discharged-were not in
structed to "get their time Fabian
| Leveque promptly demanded his.
II no work wild dat dam fool dat nc
t'ink wit hees haid.''
This deprived the camp at once of
a teamster and a team. When you
reflect that one pair of horses lakes
care of the eXertions of a crew of saw
yers, several swamDers 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 a big team of farm
horses. Then it became necessary to
find a driver. After some deliberation
he decided to advance Bob Stratton to
the post, that decker" having had
more or less experience the year be-
fore. Erickson, the Swede, while not
a star cant hook man, was neverthe-
less sure and reliable. Railway placed
him in Stratton's 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
application for the accuracy he had
so inteIligently acquired while road
making, for now a false stroke mar
red 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 it through; What consid-
Grafton held for the cutting of diff
ferent lengths of log; how the tim
Der was skillfully decked on the skids
in such a manner that the pile should
not bulge or fall, and so that the
posite ends of the same Iog-in short,
thousand and one little details which
ordinarily man learns only as the
eXigencies arise to call in experience.
Here, too, he first realized he 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 a fresh cOmplexioned, clear
eyed, quick hammered young fellow
with an air of steady responsibility
about him. He came from the south
ern part of the state, where, during
the summer. he worked on a little
few days he told Thorpe that he was
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, -wistfully. She's the best
little woman man ever had, and there
amt nothin' too good for her,
chummyi"
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 a
happy laugh, that they amt going to