The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-09-08

THE her too much 10 take offense.
 Miss Wayland will take no hand in my affairs. doubt if she will even realize what this trouble is all about he said, trihe stif1y. q suppose did want to play the hero, and I dare say I did use you and the others, but you knew that all the time"
 'eWhy won't she help you?' queried Cherry. Doesn't she care enough about you? Doesn't she know enough to understand, your plight?"
 ''Yes, but this is my fight, and I've got to make good without her assist ance. She isn't the sort to marry failure, and she has left me to make my own way. Besides. she would not dare go contrary to her fathers wishes even if she desi.ed. That is part of her education. Oh, Wayne WaYland's op- position isn't all I have had to over come. I have had to show his daugh- ter that I ana one of her own kind, for she hates weakness"
 And you think that woman loves you! Why she isn't woman at all. She doesn't know what love means. When a woman loves, do you imagine she cares for money or fame or sue cess? If I cared for man do you think I'd stop to ask my father if might marry him or wait for my lover to prove himself worthy of me? Do you think I'd send him through the hell you have suffered to try his metal?'' She laughed outright. 'Why, Ed become what he was, and I'd fight with him. I'd give him all I had money, position. friends, influence. If my people objected I'd tell them to go hang. I'd give them up and join him. I'd use every dollar, every vile and feminine device that I possessed, in his service. When a woman loves she doesn't care what the world says. The man may be a weakling or worse, but | he is still her lover, and she will go to 1 him.
 The words had come tumbling forth until Cherry was forced to pause fo1 breath.
 sYou don't understand" said Boyd. You are primitive; you have lived in 1 the open. She is exactly your opposite. | Conservatism is bred in her, and she can't help her nature. It was hard | even for me to understand at first, but 1 when I saw her life. when I saw how she had been reared from childhood, understood perfectly. I would not l have her other than she is. It is enough | for me to know that in her own way she cares for me"
 | Cherry tossed her head in derisien. ''For my part prefer red blood to sap, 1 and when I love want to know it. don't want to have it proved to me like a problem in geometery. want l to love and hate and do wild, 1mput- sive things against my own judgment
 "Have you ever loved in that wayF' he inquired abruptly.
 tsYee,'' she answered without heS1ta- l ton, looking him squarely in the eye l with an expression he could not fath-
 om Thank heaven, Pm not the artificial kind! As you say, Pm primi
 tive. aave hvedl'' Her crimson lips
 curled scornfuIly.
 q didn't expect you to understand
 herr. he said .But she loves me ,i And I-weH, she is nay religion. 4 Il man must have some God. He cant worship his own image" Cherry Malotte turned slowly to tht ], landing place and made her way into sI the launch. All the way back she kept silence, and Boyd, confused by her at , tack upon the citadel of his faith and strangely sore at heart, made no effor } at speech.
 mSCA4C0S R1ASCA 4AA%t e-S SAAe waters edge.
 Where in the devil have you been ? he cried breathlessly. ssAt the Indian village after help WhyT
 ''Big George is in more trouble. Fl sent for help two hours ago. wal . just going to beat it down there" s'What's up?"
 There's six of your men in the bunl house all beat up. They don't lool s like they'd fish any nofe for awhile : Marsh's men threw their salmon over board; and they had another light Things are getting warm.' we caa't+s allow ourselves ito b driven from the banks" said, BoTt quickly "Tll get the shoremen to gether right away. Find Alton ans
 bring him along. We'll need every maj we can get.''
 Il NNothing doing with that party He's quit like house cat and gone t, bed"
 "very well: he's no good anyhow He's better out of the way He hurried through the building now silent and half deserted, gather
 ing crew; then, leaving only the ori
 entals and the watchman to guard tn ! plant, he loaded his men into the boat and set out.
 All that afternoon and on throug 2 the long, murky hours of the night tn
 battle ragged on the lower reaches o
 the Kalvik- Boat crews clashed; hal
 clad men cursed each other and Tough . with naked fists, with oars and clubs
 and when these failed they drove a r one another with wicked one tine oI fish ttpues." All night the hordes 0