Arizona republican., 1909-02-14

decoction of tobacco juice and ink Rosy-Lily was consumed with curiosity, especially when she saw him apparently digging beads oil an Indian tobaccopouch which he always carried. But Jimmy Bracket did not let her go near enough to get enlightened this mysterious occupation.
 On the following day McWha went to work again, but not till after breakfast when the others had long departed Rosy-Lilly, with hand twisted in her little apron was standing in the doorway he passed out She glanced up at him with coaxing smile. McWha would not look at her, and his face was as sulenly harsh ever; but as he passed he slioped something into her hand To her speeches. delight 1t proved to be little dark brown wooden doll dain- uy carved and with two white beads with black cer- ters, cunningly set into its face for eyes
 Kosy-Lilly hugged the treasure to her breast. Her hrsf proud impulse was to run @ Jimmy Bracket with from the way the gift had been bestowed she felt it was meant to be kind of She carried it away and Ind 1t m her bunk, where she would go and look at 1t from time to time throughout the day. That night she brought 1t forth but with several other treasures, so that r quite escaped comment She said nothing about it to McWha, but she played with it when he could not help seeing it. And thereafter her nggeT-baby was always in her arms
 lhis compliment, however, apparently all lost on McWha who had again grown unconscious of her existence And Rosy-Lilly, her part, no longer strove to win his attention. She was content either with the victory she had won or with the secret ur- deTstancing which, perforce, existed between them And things went smoothly in the camp with every one now too occupied to do more than mind his own business
 IL chanced this year that the Spring thaws were
 
 landing the logs down in black tunbling swaTnls- Just below Conroys Camp the river widowed round narrow bend angled with slate lodges.
 And here, now, in spite of the frantic efforts of Dave Logan and hs crew, the logs suddenly began to jam.
 At this stage of affairs the boss ax in hand picked hs way across the monsrous tangle of the face of the Jam between the great white jets till he gained the cen ter of the structure Here his practised eye presently b. caed the tnlbers which held the structure firm the kcy logs" as the called them These he marked with his aX. lhcn returning to the shore he called for two voluneefs to dare the task of cutting these key logs away.
 m all his daring career, be called upon perform Dave Logan had brilliant feats of nl-breaking to his credit from the days before he was made Doss; and now, when he called for volunteers every unmarried man in camp responded, with the excep- tion, of course, of Valley Johnson whose limited vision unted him for such venture The boss chose Bird" Pigeon and Andy White because they were not only smart axInen, but also adepts in the rvermen's game Of running logs"
 With jaunty air the two young men spat on their hands, grpped their axes, sprang along the base of the jam and piled their heavy blades It was heroic the work of these two choppng cooy out there under that colossal front of death Their duty was nothing less than to bring the topplng brow of the jam down upon them, yet cheat fate at the last instant if DOS sible by leapng to shore before the chaos quite whelmed them.
 Suddenly while the two key logs were not yet half cut through, the trained eye of the boss detected settling the top of the jam His yell of warning tore through the clanor of the waters At the in d ", dullng all other sounds The two choppers sprang wildly for shore the whole face of the jam seemed fo cruulble In breath
 At this moment scream of terror was heard and e7ery heart stopped Some thirty yards or so up- stream, and dozen, perhaps from shore stood Rosy Lilly on a log: While none were observing her she had geefuly clambered out over the solid mass look ing for spruce gums. But when the logs moved she was so terror-sricken that she could not even try to get ashore. She just fell down upon her log and clung to 1t screaming
 A pTOan of horror went m The s-yf,i c-1df-c- of the breakup already under way Valley Johrl- son lcaped wildly out upon the nearest logs fell head foremost, and dragged back. fighting furously..
 Just as Johnson went down, there great bel lowing cry of rage and anguish; then Red McWhas big form shot past. leapiHg far out upon the logs Over the sckening upheava he bounded this way and that with miraculous surc-footedrless He reached the pitching log whcreon Rosy-Lily still chung He c!utched her by the frock He tucked her under one like rag-baby. Then he turned balancing him self for instant and catne leaphg back toward shore
 A great shott of wonder and joy went up,-to be flushed in a second log reared high in McWha's path and hurled him backwards. Right down into the wiirl of the dreadful grist he sank But with 2 strength that seemed than human he recovered himself, climbed forth dripping, and agar. with those great unerrmg leaps. This time there TO shout The men waited with dry throats. Within two feet of shore a log toward which he had jumped icrked aside just before he reached it. and irg in the air as he fell, so to the child he cafne down 1t his side with stunning viO- cnce. As he fell, the boss and Bracket and two of the others, sprang to meet kim. They reached him somehow and covered with bruises which they did rot feel succeeded in dragging hn ith his precious bur den up safety When his feet touched solid ground he sank unconscious, but with his so securely grpped about the child that they had difficulty in Oos ing his hold
 Rosy-Lilly, when they picked Ter ID. quivering with terror. bu: uni.a-aed. When she saw, McWh. stretched cut upsn the bank uotionlcss with his eyec shut and his white lips half open, she fought savagey to be put down. She and flung herself down be- side her rescuer, caught his big white face between her tiny hands, and fell kissing him Presently Me Wha opened his eyes, ard with mighty effort rose upon one elbow. look of embarrassment passed over his face he glanced the standing about him. Then he looked down at Rosy-Lilly, griHned with slIanefaced tenderness, and pulled her gently toward him.
 "Im right-glad- -yc'rc-safe-Rosy-iilly, he said faintly drawing her face down his. "8oys, get the doc to patch up-Tve got to live for Rosy-Lil1s sakeP