Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1903-1917, 1904-05-20


and the doctor to cross this for an out
ing trip; and now, scared for day
and night by the visit of queer
creature, they had gone on, leaving
its locality many days journey be-
hind, and yet wildly retaining the i'm
press it made
For two weeks they had journeyed
onward, upstream, downstream, and
across lake and carry, hating to try
for trout in seductive pools or land
at some available spot and cook a
midday meal. Deer browsing upon
the first green shoots had been sur
pr1sed many times; twice they had
come upon an 1ordly moose, to hear it
snort with alright and plunge out of
sight in the underground. Once a
bear had been seen scampering up an
old log road, and often at night had
they heard lucivee or panther utter
ing its peculiar cry in some neighbor-
ing swamp. Of humanity, they had
met not soul in all that time; and
now, somewhat wearied of ever con-
tlnaed pushing on, they had camped
on the shore of long and narrow
lake to remain and rest a few days.
This, known as the Second Musqua-
cook, lay at the apex of two narrow
valleys, through each of which flowed
sizable streams. One, the larger, had
served as their waterway to this lake,
and entered at it's foot the other mid
way. 1t was near this, and in cove
outlined by pretty sandy~beach, that
their tent was pitched. Above this
stream, and extending well into the
shallow lake, grew bed of rushes,
now putting forth fresh shoots. This
growth also extended up the stream a
few rods. while next to the cove it's
bank was wooded, and where it joined
the lake rounded gravelled point put
out. The sun was out of sight behind
one of the low ranges of mountains
that shut them in, ere the camp was
made comfortable, and just as Levi
had finished his watchful, care of a
frying-pan of trout and another Of
suffering ham, and lifted the coffee
pot from the bending wambecz, the
moon, now almost full, looked over the
opposite rang e.
Il wish,' said the doctor, who had
seated himself by the little improxised
table of saplinss, and heaped his tin
plate with good things, that We had
stayed a few days longer on the
Moosehorn and tried to run that wild
man to cover
Like many another man, DIR. Sol was
always courag eous when either well
fed or about to be.
1--WE might so back there" an
y; f1111 Of
fried trout, While he gently stirred the
condensed milk in his tin cup of cof-
fee; sit isn't over a hundred miles
"No-o-o,' responded the doctor
slowly, 81 don't believe we'd better;
and yet, Id so a good many miles to
find out what that thing was"
Then Martin laughed, knowing full
well how little courage DR.. Sol had.
Time and again they had discussed
this strange problem in all it's bear
ings, failing each time to arrive at
a conclusion. Then, there were 1.-TWO
of him. as Jean once said, and about
equal in gstery.
IT, too. wish we. I'D stayed where
saw this ere&taee.s' sid M.s.A.n, in re-
spcnse to e Goa.aor.s assertion, "et
iSsS~St III 49, ~ AGS tY 90 -
half-instne- old txapper who wore moe
caGins tipped with panther's claws. as
I more than faif suspect, the latent
human curiosity in such freak would
have led him to return the next night
There was no danger, for if he had
meant harm, he had ample chance As
to its beng a nondescript, half man,
half brute, as his tracts would indi-
cate, do not Tor one moment be-
lieve. Neither co / think he had any
connection with the chap VITO has hid
himself in the lone loG-cabin up the
Moosehorn, and who rugged a, trap-bell
signal to warn him of Visitors. He is
a cat of another stripe, and one I'd
not care to disturb. What do you say,
Levi?'
Il dunno, Dunno replied that eau
tious woodsman, slowly shaking his
head, 'cordin' to my way o thinllin',
it's the same fe.ler, ez I've said afore
now, an me- DC SEINE one ez had cause
fer hidin'. There's good many clris
things ez happens in the woods, n
some on EN- never gits found out
And you think this chap who put
moose skull where it would do the
most good might have been some muir
deTer in hiding qNeried Martin.
WAL he might n he mightn't,'' an
swered Levi, in his always cautious
tone
Then, as the subject was about ex-
hausted for the time, Martin and the
doctor once more fell to recalling Incl
dents of their boyhood days, and all
the fun they had, and all the scrapes
they got into then.
And as once before, when the even
ing's smoke and chat ended, the camp
fire low, and Martin had stretched
himself on the bough bed beside the
doctor, his thoughts travelled to Green
vale, and he wondered how Angie
looked and what she would say, and
hovNshe would treat him if he we've to
go back there again.
Beyond that lurked a little sense Of
guilt at the thought of all the years
that had fled since he parted from her
III such tender fashion, and how
heartleSS if was after ALT Then he