The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1904-10-20
CHAPTER VI.

Disturbed Peace OF the Seadogs.
81 do not know why 1t is, husband,
but our Hazel, young as she is, is wor-
rying great deal. That girl sankala,
disturbs her peace OF mind She does
not like her. The poor girl is kind TO
our Hazel and all OF that but our child
seems to have most natural antipathy
for her.
"Sankala is the most popular girl at
school. The teachers love her, the
girls run after her and the boys wor.
ship her. They look upon her as some
superior being and yet she is only a
poor little waif that you remember was
cast ashore here many years ago.
cold Ringwold, her father, is drink.
ing more and more whenever he can
get it, and the child, poor thing, much
as as she disturbes our Hazel, seems
more devoted to the old man every
day.
at would be better for her II he
should die, but then 1t would almost
kill her, for the poor thing worships
the old fellow. But 1t would be bad
for the village II Ringwold should die
There would be no one to fill the diff
cult prescriptions at the drug store and
| do not know what poor GosneIl would
do without him.
"Do you know, husband" spoke the
woman more cautiously, ~ do not like
that girl Sankala. She is ell kindness
and desel wing, but / do not like the
child. Her name distuTbs me and
when ! see her peculiar feeling comes
over me which cannot explain. do
not wish the girl bad luck, but / do
wish that something would take her
away from the village where could
not see her and where she would not
disturb our Hazel"
Thus spoke Mrs. Seadog, the wife OF
old seadog, the ruling power in the
great fisheries on the north side of the
Columbia river near its mouth.
81 do not like the kid either, wife,"
said the rugged old capitalist, who had
made his wealth in various ways. He
had pulled oars through the storm.driv.
en- waves. He had sold goods over the
counters of his great store at enormous
profit. He had dispensed whisky over
his bar that was said to have been OF
his own make and was warranted to
contain snakes to the quart; he had
thrown Cinnamon from his canncry in
to the bay because they did not earn
ten times their wages; he had robbed
the fish traps OF his neighbors, stolen
their property rights by night, and was
charged with having sent gillnetters to
the bottom of the river. Upon all Of
this, old seadog had built up an i'm.
mense fortune, but it was whispered
about that he had come to the wealth
which constituted the foundation Of his
fortune through some foul means the
details Of which were shroudeL in mys-
terry.
"No, do not like the kid, either, {"
he continued. "And much less do l
like the old bunch of mystery who Is
known as her father.
"Do you know that when l learned
that they had drifted ashore from that
vessel, he more than half dead and she
but little more than spawn, | felt an
! noyed by It. In spite ef the fact that
there could be no harm in them |
would rather that all on beard should
have been lost at the time. And it il
remarkable that the Oldest and young.
J est should have survived-the very ones
; that under the laws of nature should
| have been lost. The weakest are &C.
counted lost on such occasions under
, the law, yet that old duck and the
: young minnow broke the record.
81 don't like to think Of those times,
and yet do. My trial for boarding
J that wreck gave me a close call. In
| spite Of the fact that il was shown that
did not attempt TO carry away any Of
, the valuables, and made the plea that
} the boys and were only trying to save
life, there was strong suspicion that
We had some wicked motive In board.