The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-10-19

| pest Tor Colds, Coughs, Consumption
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of this summer. Thorpe hoped, how
ever, to avoid the necessity. He set
| about a rough estimate of the timber
One evening just at sunset Thorpe
was helping the Indian shape his craft
The two men bent there at their task,
| the dull glow of evening falling upon
them. Behind them the knoll stood out
In picturesque relief against the dark
er pines The river rushed by with
never-ending roar and turmoil. Through
It's shouting one perceived, as through
mist, the still lofty peace of even
| ing.
A young fellow, hardly more than
| boy exclaimed with keen delight of the
! picturesque as his canoe shot around
( the bend into sight of it.
The canoe was large and powerful.
but we'll filled. An Indian knelt in the
stern; amidships was we'll laden with
| dufhe of all descriptions: the young
| fellow sat In the bow. He was a bright
| raced, eager-eyed, curly-haired young
fellow, al enthusiasm and fire. His fig
ure was trim and clean, but rather
slender; and his movements were quick
but nervous. When he stepped careful ly
out on the fiat rock to which his guide
Il
paddle, one initiated would have seen
that his clothes, while strong and SER
viceable had been bought from a sport
ing catalogue
This is a good place." he said to the
guide, well camp here" Then he
| turned up the steep bank without look
| ing back.
"Hullo!" he called in a cheerful. un-
embarrassed fashion to Thorpe AMI
Charley. How are you? Care if 1 camp
here? What you making? By Jove!
never saw a canoe made before I'm
| going to watch you Keep right at it
He sat on one of the outcropping
boulders and took off his hat.
Say! you've got great place here!
You here all summer? Hullo, you've
got deer hanging up. Are there many
| OF EN- around here? I'd like to kill II
| deer first rate. | never have. It's sort
| of out of season now. isn't p"
I'VE only kill the bucks" replied
| Thorpe.
Il like fishing. too" went on the boy.
are there any here?" In the pool
John" he called to his guide, bring me
my fishing tacke.''
In a few moments he was whipping
the pool with long, graceful drops of
the fly. He proved to be adept. Thorpe
and Injun Charley stopped work to
countenance seemed a trifle doubtful
After a time it cleared
Good" he grunted.
The other Indian had now finished
the erection of a tent, and had begun
to cook supper over a little sheet-irosl
| camp stove. Thorpe and Charley could
| smell ham,
You've got quite a pantry" remark
ed Thorpe.
saNNOp't Nyoi, -, M
the boy Hospitality.
But Thorpe declined.
In the course of the evening the boy
| approached the older mems camp, and,
with a charming diffidence. asked per-
mission to sit awhile a their fire
1T must be good to live in the
woods" he said with a sigh, ito do all
things for yourself. It's so free"
Il just do love thisi' ne cried again
that fuss down there" and he cried
it so fervently that the other men pres
ent smiled; but so genuinely that the
smile had in it nothing but kindness.
Il came out for a month";" said he
suddenly, and l guess I'll stay the
rest of 1t right here. You'll let me go
with you sometimes hunting, won't
you? I'd like first rate to kill deer"
Sure" said Thorpe, glad to have
you"
MY name is Wallace Carpenter"
said the boy with a sudden unmis-
taxable air of good breeding.
We'll" laughed Thorpe, 1.-TWO old
woods loafers like us haven't got much
use for names. Charley here is called
Geezigut, and mines nearly as bad;
but / guess plain Charley and Harry
will do
CHAPTER XII.
The young fellow stayed there
weeks Hand was a constant Joy to
Thorpe. Thorpe liked the boy because
he was open-hearted, free from affec-
tation, assumptive of no superiority
in short, because he was direct and
sincere. Wallace, on his part, adored
in Thorpe the free, open-air life, the
adventurous quality, the quiet hidden
power, the resourcefulness and the self
sufficiency of the pioneer. He did any
thing at ALL He accepted Thorpe for
what he thought him to be, rather than
for what he might think him to be.
Little by little the eager questions of
the youth extracted a full statement of
the situation. He learned of the tim
ber-thieves up the river, of their pres
ent operations; and their propaDle
plans; of the valuable pine lying still
unclaimed; of Thorpe's stealthy raid
into the enemy's country.
why, it's great It's better than
any book I ever read."
He wanted to know what he could
do to help.
Nothing except keep quiet" replied
Thorpe. You mustn't try to act any
different If the men from up-river
come by. be just as cordial to them as
you can, and don't act mysterious and
important"
"All right" agreed Wallace, bub-
bling with excitement, "And then
what do you do-after you get the
timber estimated?"
"Pll go south and try. quietly to
raise some money. That will be diff