The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1904-02-18

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and the completion Of your work. keep
bluff brow and an unbendiny single
ness Of purpose.
Thorpe had already commented on
the feeling among the men, though.
owing to his inexperIcnce. be was not
able to estimate it's full value. The
men were inclined TO a semiapologetic
air when, they spoke Of their connec-
ton with the camp. Instead Of being
honored as one of series Of Jobs this
seemed to be considered az merely
temporary halting place in which they
took no pride snd from which they
looked forward IN anticipation or back
in memory to better things.
"Oid Shearer he's the bully boy"
said Bob Stratton. II remember when
he was foreman Of NJ. Il d. at Camp
o. Saw-we did hustle them saw logs
in! I should rise TO rcmarki Out in
the woods by first streak Of day. re.
call one mornin' she was pretty cold,
and the boys grumblcd some about turn
in out. Cold says Tim. you sons Of
guns! You got your ch'ice. 1t may be
too cold for you In the woods. but It's
n blame sight too hot for you in hades
and you're goin to one or the other!
And he meant II too. Them was great
days! Forty million year and not
hitchv'
The next morning Radway trans
ferred Molly and Jenny. with little Fa-
bian Laveque and two Of the younger
men, to Pike lake. There earlier in
the season number Of pines had been
felled out on the ice, cut In logs and
left In expectation of ice thick enough
to bear the travoy "dray." Owing to
the fact that the shores Of Pine lake
were extremely prccipitous It had been
impossible to travoy the logs up over
the hill.
Radway had sounded carefully the
thickness of the ice with an Ak. Al
though the weather had been sufficient
ly cold for the time of year. the snow.
as often happens. had fallen before the
temperature. Under the warm white
blanket the actual freezing had been
slight. However, there seemed to be
ut least eight inches Of clear Ice, which
would suffice.
Four logs had been safely hauled.
The fifth was ON IFS journey across the
lake. Suddenly without warning and
with scarcely sound both horses sank
through the ice, which bubbled up
around them and over their backs In
irregular rotted pieces. Little Fabian
Laveque shouted and jumped down
from his log Pat Mcguire and young
Henrys came running.
The horses had broken through an
air hole about Which the ice was
strong. Fabian had already seized
Molly by the bit and was holding her
head easily above water.
''Kitch Jenny by dat he'tv' 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 q 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 10 this sort Of emergency.
were badly frightened and excited.
"Oh. Lord" cried Pat. chnging des-
perately to Jenny's headpiece, "what
will wex be doin'? We can't niver haul
them two horses on the Ice"
TAX de log chain" said Fabian to
Henrys. IAN tie him around de neck of
Jenny"
Henrys after much dificulty and
nervous fumbling managed to loosen
the swamp hook and after much more
difficulty succeeded In making 1t fast
about the gray mares neck. Fabian
intended with this to choke the animal
to that peculiar state when she would
float IKE balloon on the water and
two men could with ease draw her over
the edge of the ice. Then the unexpect-
ed happened.
The instant Henrys had passed the
end Of the chain through the knot Pat,
possessed by some Hibernian notion
that now all was fast, let go Of the bit.
Jenny's head ut 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 1t about, kicking out
In every direction. Once 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 upheld by En-
bian. looked at him piteously with her
strange. intelligent eyes, holding her.
self motiOnless and rigid with COM
plete confidence In this master Who had
never failed her before. Fabian dug
his heels into the Ice, but could not |
hang on. The drowning horse was
more than dead weight. Presently II
became a question of letting go or be-
ing dragged into the lake ON top Of the
animals. With sob the little French
man relinquished his hold. The water
seemed slowly to rise and overfilm the
troubled look Of pleading in-Molly's
eyes,
"Assassins" bissed Laveque at the
two unfortunate youths; that was all.
II suppose 1t was good deal my
fault" commented Radway. doubtfully
shaking his head after Laveque had
left the office. II ought to have been |
surer about the icc."
Radway was so confirmed In his be-
lief as to his own culpability that he
quite overlooked Fabian's just conten-
tion that the mere thinness of the ice