The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-10-05

air hole. about which the ice was
strong. Fabian had already seized
Molly by the bit, and was holding her
head easily above water
'.llitch Jenny by dat he't!" he cried
to Pat.
Thus the two men, without exertion.
sustained the noses Of the team above
the surface The position demanded
absolutely no haste, for it could have
been maintained for a good half hour.
Molly and Jenny. their soft eyes full
of the intelligence of the situation,
rested easily in full confidence. But
+ Pat and Henrys, new to this sort Of
emergency, were badly frightened and
excited.
Oh, Lord" cried Pat, clinging des-
3 perately to Jenny's headpiece. What
Will WEI be dom? We can niver
haul them two horses on the ice
TAX de log-chain,' said Fabian to
Henrys, after much difficulty and ner-
of Jenny
2 Henrys, after much difficulty and ner-
vous fumhling, managed to loose the
sWamp-hook: and after much more
1 difficulty succeeded in making it fast
about the gray mares neck- Fabian in
tended with this to choke the animal
to that peculiar state when she would
float Ike a balloon on the water. and
the two men could with ease draw her.
over the edge Of the ice. Then the I'M
expected happened
The instant IIenrys had passed the
end Of the chain through the knot
Pat, possessed by some Eibernian no.
ton that now all was fast. let go OF
the bit. Jenny's head at once went
under, and the end of the logging
chain glided over and fell plump in the
hole.
Immediately all was confusion. Jen-
ny kicked and struggled, churned the
water, throwing it about. kicking out
in every direction. Once a. horses
head dips strongly, the game is over.
No animal browns more quickly.
The two young boys scrambled away,
and French oaths could not induce
them to approach. Molly. still up
held by Fabian, loked at him pteous-
~ with her strange. intelligent eyes
holding herself motionless and rigid
with complete confidence In this mas
ter who had never failed her before
Fabian Dug his heels into the ice. but
could not hang on. The drowning morse
was more than dead weight. re
sently it became question of letting
20 OF -bclllSe S1h Ai4ty
ton of the animals. With sob. the
little Frenchman relinguished his hold.
The water seemed slowly to rise and
oyer-flm the troubled look OF plead
ing in Molly's eyes.
"Assassins!" Kissed Leveque at the
two unfortunate youths. That was al
81 suppose it was a good deal my
fault commented Railway, doubt
f,,]Iy shaking his head, after Lee
yeoue hal left the Office. ! ought to
have been surer about the Ice.
Railway was so confirmed in his be-
lief as 10 his own culpability that he
q o,,ite overlooked Fabian's just conten-
tion-that tile mere thinness of the
ice was in reality no excuse for the
losing of the horses. So Pat and HEN
~ were not discharged-were not In
structed to sget their time. FaNan
Leveoue promptly demanded tins
"Ino work Wild dat dam fool dat no
t'ink wit lees haid.
This deprived the camp at once OF a
5teamster and a team. When you re-
fleet that one pair of horses taxes care
of the sexertions OF a crew OF sa"yets,
several swampcrs, and three OF ioul
cant-hooll men, you VIII re2ollS see
what a. serious arrangement. their
loss would cause.
Roadway did his best. He took three
DAYS to search out DIG team oi
farm horses. Then it became neces-
+. sa.ry to find a driver. After some ueli-
haration he decided to advance BOD
etrattonto the post, that decker
b.,,in,, had more or less experience
the year before. Erickson. the Swede.
& ,,,h;la not a star cant-hook man, was
nevertheless sure and reliable. Rao-
1,-,y r,aced him in Stratton place.
He remembered Thorpe
60 the Young man received his first
,,roI,otion towards the ranks Oh
skilled labor. He gained at 5iast. q &
field of application for the accuracy
no had SO intelligently acquired WINE
road-making, for now a talse strohe
1narred a saw-log: and besides, Wnae
was more to his taste, ne touilu Mn
sa1f near the actual scene or opera
8 tion at the front, as II We're.
u e,a h a%lear,Ieti why ard when the
n,,,ars threw "a tree up or down MI,
and how small standing timber they
tried to fell it through: What consiei-#
Grafton held for the cutting OIL uliler-
ont lengths OF log: how the timber
was skillfuliy decked on the sl1lds IN
e,c,, a, manner that the Pile should
na4 bulge or fall, and SO that the
sca,er could easily determine the op-
nestle ends of the same !og;-ln short.
a thousand and one little details
which, ordinarily. man learns only
as the exiSencies arise TO call IN ex-.
perlence. Here. too he first realized
he was in the firms line.
Thorpe had assigned him as bunk
mate the young fellow who assisted
Tom Broadhead in the telling. Henry
Paul was a fresh accomplishment, clear
eyed. quick hammered young fellow
with an air OF steady responsibility
about him. T.e came from the south
ern part of the State. Where. during
the summer he worked on a little
homestead farm of his own. After
a few days ne told Thorpe that he was
married. and after q few more days
s. lie showed his bunk mate the photo
4 rraph Of a sweet-faced young woman
who looked trustingiJ- cut of the pic
ture.
shes waiting down there fer me.
and it amt SO very long till SPRING
sa;d Paul. wistfully. Shes the best
little woman man ever had. and
Tiers amt nothin' too Good for her,
chumnay!!"
Thorpe. soul-sick after his recent ex-
neriences with the charity Of the
world. discovered a real pleasure in
this fresh, clear passion.
ur,,.oa%aavs a fter tho newcomer had