The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1910-10-13

money to build plantr.'
II might" he said cautiously.
AT least you can tryY'
But ! don't know anything about
the business"
1--WE thought of all that. and there's
a way to make success certain. l be-
lieve you have executive ability and
can handle these men,"
'Oh. yes. I've done that sort of
thing" His broad shoulders went I'D
| as he drew long breath. whats
your plan7" M n
''There's q man down the coast,
George Rait. who knows more about
the business than any four people in
Kalvik. He discovered the Kalvik
river, built the first cannery here and
was its foreman until he quarreled
with Marsh. Bait isn't the kind Of
man to be disciplined. so. not having
enough money to build a cannery, he
took his scanty capital and started q
| saltery on his own account. Marsh
| broke George In a year. ruined him,
| utterly wiped him out. just as be in
tends to wipe out Insignificant me.
Thinking to recoup his fortunes. George
same back into camp. but he owns
valuable trap site which Marsh and
his colleagues want. and before they
would give him work they tried to
make him assign it to them aud con-
tract never to 60 in business on his
own account Naturally George re-
fused. He's been starving now for two
years.
mo man dares to furnish food to
George Bait; no man dares to give
him bed; no cannery will let him
work. He has to take dory to Dutch
Harbor to get food. He doesn't dare
leave the country and abandon the
meager thousands he has invested in
buildings. and every summer when
the run starts he comes across the
marshes and sinks about the Kalvik
thickets like wrath, watching from
afar just in order to be near it all
lie stands alone and forsaken, barking
10 the clank of machinery. every bolt
| - VAANA uS pAoNCus Watching hAS
enemies enrich themselves from that
cleaning silver army. which he con-
siders his very own. He is Stunned
like leper. Some time l believe he
will kill Marsh"
Hmm! One seems to be forever
crossing the trail of this Marsh" said
Boyd. who had listened intently.
1.-THE man who beats Marsh will
have done something" She paused,
then said deliberately, "And 1 believe
you are the one to do it,
They had reached their destination
the mouth of deep creek, up which
Cherry turned her dogs. Emerson
leaped from the sled and, running for
ward. seized the leader, guiding it into
clump of spruce, among the bOles
of which he tangled the harness, for
this team was like a pack of wolves
ravenous for travel and intolerant of
the leash.
Together they assembled the bank and
surveyed the surroundings, Cherry ex-
patiating upon every feature with the
fervor of land agent bent on weav
ing his spell about n prospective buyer
And in truth she had chosen well, for
the conditions seemed ideal.
i've watched you. and | know you
are down on your luck for some rea-
son." the girl said you've been mis-
cast somehow. and you've had the
heart taken out of you, but I'm sure
it's in yon to succeed. for you're young
and intelligent. cool and determined
I am giving you this chance to play
the biggest game of your life and erase
in eight short months every trace of
failure. I'm not doing it altogether
unselfishly. for believe you've been
sent to Kalvik to work out your own
salvation and mine and that of poor
George Bait. whom you've never seen.
You're going to do this thing. and
you're going to make 1t win"
Emerson reached out impulsively and
caught her tiny. mittened hand. His
eyes were shining: his face had lost
the settled look of detection and was
all aglow with new dawn Of hope.
Even his shoulders were lifted and
thrown back as If from some sudden
access of vigor that lightened his bur.
den.
you're right!' he said firmly. "We'll
send for Bait tonight"
In the days that followed Cherry
was at Boyds elbow constantly. aid.
ing him at every turn in his zeal to
acquire knowledge of the cannery
system. The odd conviction grew upon
her that he was working against time.
that there was limit to his period
of action. for he seemed obsesscd by
an ever growing passion to accomplish
some end within given time and had
no thought for anything beyond the
engrossing issue into which he had
plunged. She was dumfounded by bis
| sudden transformation and DELIGHTED