The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-03-06

camp, were all but open enemies.
The fact that Angus McAdams had
several times returned from his week
| ~ visit TO Brackhaven, the nearest
village, without a letter from Genie,
! added fuel to the flame which tor
mentcd Archie. When Jonathan qui-
city reminded him that Sam Bailey
was staying at home for the winter
the jealous lover had much ado tic
keep his hands off Jonathan. Then
came the day when a careless and
unskilled ax-man felled a tree in such
wise that one long limb swept jon
attain from his feet and sent. him
! spinning, and Archibald Brewster,
rendered unconscious, lay pinned to
the earth by another heavy Dough.
They threw the stunned sawyer
| across the back of a horse and hur-
ried TO camp with him. Angus Nc
Adams, wise with much wood-knowl-
| edge, declared that the wind was
| only knocked outen him." and he
would be all right in day or two.
| But, the heart having already gone
| out of Archie, under Genie's per-
sistent silence, the return of the
missing wind" seemed impotent to
! restore him. The three-days storm
which bore down upon them week
| later found him still tossing in his
bunk, sleeblessly in the nighttime,
shivcring over the fire by day. The
| third day of the storm was still suf-
| ticIently severe to keep all the men
in the shanty. Toward evening Big
Billie" the camp giant and humorist,
organized the men into a company of
| impromptu actors, burlesquing the
dauce-parties so common in the home
regions.
All the men not dancing were or
dered to the hunks. for the sake of
| room. Jonathan Ncwling, for he sake
Of spite, occupied a portion Of the bunk
under Arches, and enjoyed himself
hugely, chattering easily of Geneyieve
Dixon and past good times-most of
them wholly imaginary enjoyed in
her company Archie, at last enraged.
and half mad with irritation, leaped
from the bunk and insisted on fight
ing. He was all the more angry when
thc other men interfcred. Big Billie"
sprang to the rescue Of peace in most
characteristic fashion.
Circle thrccs, ina gaIlcp and waltz"
b" shouted, naming q figure universally
popular in MusEoIa. And, selling
Archie with one hand and Jonathan
with heother, he whirled them around
with him The noise Of their "waItz-
ing" and Of the other mems amusc-
mcnt quite drowned the soft pounding
pprOachipgho Jack Dixon,
younger brother to Gencyievc, was in
among them, pale, haIf-frozen and
exhausted, before they had dreamed
Of a visitor.
Come quick, if you want 10 see Gene
alive, Archie" he gasped, Immediately.
she's terribly ill-sort of feveT-and
Their doctor don't think she'll see to-
morrow. It's awful outside, but | got
over somehow. l think you can ride
| back"
Hands rough but kindly reached out
on all sides to encase Archie in his out
er garments. The boy Jack was sup
piled with whisky sufficient to kill him
twice inside of two minutes. When
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