The Savannah morning news., 1902-12-14

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Thorpe glanced in surprise at his
! drivers clothes. and his spiked boots.
Heavens and earth!" he exclaimed,
at should think sol How am I to get
! out without running the floor"
Hilda laughed and drew aside the
portie-e.
Don't you think you have done that
pretty well already" she asked.
There, don't look 50 solemn. We're
not going to be sorry for a single thing
we've done to-day, are we?" She stood
close to him, searching his face visit
! fully with her fathomless dusky eyes.
no, sweetheart. we are not" re-
! piled Thorpe soberly.
CHAPTER XXXVII.
Surely 1t is useless to follow the Sc
! quel in detail. to tell how Hilda per-
suaded Thorpe to take her money. To
a woman such as she this was not
very difficult task in the long run "A
! few scruples of pride: that was all.
Il hate TO do it," he said. sit doesn't
| look right"
You must" she insisted. 81 win not
| take the position of rich wife to
poor man: it is humiliating to both.
will not marry you until you have
made your success"
THAT is right" said Thorpe heartily.
We'll, then, are you going to be so
selfish as TO keep me waiting while
you make an entirely new start, when
a little help on my part viii bring
your plans to cOmpletion?'
She saw the shadow of assent in his
eyes. How much do you need?" she
asked swiftly.
Il must take up the notes." he ex-
planned. Il must pay the men. 1 may
need something on the stockmarket. If
l go in on this thing, I'm going in for
Keeps. I'll get after those fellows who
have been swindling Wallace. Say a
hundred thousand dollars"
"Why, it's nothing" she cried.
TN glad you think So" he replied
grimIy.
She ran to her dainty escritoire,
where she scrubbed eagerly for a few
moments.
There" she cried, her eyes shining,
there is my check book all signed in
blank. I'll see that the money is there"
So it was that Hilda Farrand gave
her lover confidence, brought him out
from his fanaticism, launched him
afresh into the current of events. He
remained in Chicago all that summer,
giving orders that all work at the viii
lage of Carpenter should cease. With
to do. His common-sense treatment Of
the stock market, by which a policy
of quiescence following an outright
buying of the stock which he had
previously held in margins, retrieved
the losses already sustained, and final
ly put both partners on a firm finan-
cial footing. That is another stoFy. So
too is his reconciliation with an Under
standing of his sister. 1t came about
fhrOHprh nf Dor6 in
the inscrutable way of Providence the
estrangement was of benefit,-even
necessary,-for it had thrown him en-
tirely within himself during his mill
tant years.
Let us rather look to the end of
the summer. 1t now became a question
of reopening the camps. Thorpe wrote
to .Shearer and Railway whom he had
retained. that he would arrive on
Saturday noon, and suggested that the
two begin to look about for men. Fri
day, himself, Wallace Carpenter, Eliza
beth Carpenter, Morton, Helen Thorpe,
and Hilda Farrand boarded the north
bound train.
CHAPTER XXXVIII.
The train of the South Shore Rail-
road shot its way across the broad
reaches of the northern peninsula. On
either side of the right-of-way lay mys-
terry in the shape of thickets so dense
and over-grown that the eye could
penetrate them but few feet at most.
Beyond them stood the forests. Thus
Nature screened her intimacies from
the impertinent eye of a new order of
things.
Thorpe welcomed the smell of the
| northland. He became almost eager, ex-
planning, indicating to the girl at his
side.
There is the Canada balsam," he
| cried. do you remember how 1 show
ed it to YOU first? And yonder the
| spruce. How stuck up your teeth were
when YOU tried to chew the gum be-
fore 1t had been heated. Do you re-
| member? Look! Look there! It's g
white pine! Isn't it a grand tree? It's
the finest tree in the forest, by my way
| of thinking, so tall, so straight, sc
| feathery, and so dignified. See, Hilda
! look quick! There's an old logging road
all filled with raspberry vines. Wee
find lots of cartridges there and per
haps a bear. Wouldn't you just like tC
walk down it about sunset?"
Eyes, Harry"
ST wonder what we're stopping for
Seems to me they are stopping at ev-
| cry squirrels trail. Oh, this must be
Seney. Yes, 1t is. Queer little place
isn't it? but sort of attractive. Coco
deal like our town. You have never
seen Carpenter, have you? Location:
fine, anyway; and to me it's sort o.
picturesque. You'll like Mrs. Hatha,
way. She's a buxom, motherly woman
who runs the boardin-hou for eigh
ty men, and still finds time to mene
my clothes for me. And you'll Xix,
Solly. Solly's the tug captain,
mighty good fellow, true as a gun bar
rel. Well have him take us out, SOM
still day. Well be there in a few min
utes now. See the cranberr,
marshes. Sometimes there's a goot
deal of pine on little islands scattered
over it, but it's very hard to log, un
less you get good winter. We hat
: just such a proposition when 1 work
ed for Railway. oh, you'll like Rad
way; he's as good as gold. Helen!"
, YES replied his sister.
ST want you to know Railway He'
the man who gave me my start"
| "All right, Harry" laughed Helen
I'm meet anybody or anything iron
. bears to Indians"
81 know an Indian. too-Geezigut, al
Ojibwa-we called him min Charley
! He was my first friend in the nortl
woods. He helped me get my timber
This spring he killed a mana goo,
job, too-and is hiding now. wisl
l knew where he is. But We'll see hin
some day. He'll come back when tn
thing blows over. See! JSee!"
"what?" they all aswed, breathless
It's gone. Over beyond the hill
: there 1 caught a glimpse of Superior.
| You are ridiculous, Harry" protest