Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1910-09-15

took his scanry capital and started
saltery on his own account Marsh
broke George In year. ruined him,
utterly wiped him out just as he in
tends to wipe ont Insignificant me.
Thinking TO recoup His fortunes, George
came back into camp. but he owns a
valuable trap site which Marsh and
his colleagues want and before they
would give him work they tried to
make him assign II 10 them and con-
, tract never TO go In business on his
own account Naturally George re-
fused He's been starving now for two
years
"No man dares TO furnish food 10
George Bait; no man dares to give
him a bed; no cGnnery will let him
work. He has to take dory to Dutch
Harbor to get food. He doesn't dare
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 1t all.
He stands alone and forsaken. barking
TO the clank of machinery. every bolt
of which he placed. watching his
enemies enrich themselves from that
cleaning silver army. which he con-
siGers his very own. He is Stunned
like a leper Some time | believe he
will Kill Marsh"
Hmm! One seems to be forever
crossing the trail of this Marsh" said
Boyd. who had listened intently.
THE man who beats Marsh will
have done something" She paused,
then said deliberately, "And l 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 1t 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 prospective buyer
| And in truth she had chosen well, for
| the conditions seemed ideal.
1--WE 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 Pm sure
it's In you to succeed, for you're young
! and intelligent. cool and determined
l 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 1t altogether
unselfishly. for I 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 II 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 rightw he said firmly. Wen
send for Bait tonight"
In the days that followed Cherry
was at Boyd's 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 a limit to his period
Of action, for he seemed obsessed 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 his
! sudden transformation and delighted
| at first, but later when she saw that
he regarded her only as a means to
an end. his cool assumption Of leader
ship piqued her and she felt hurt
Constantine had been sent for Bait
with instructions to keep on until he
found the fisherman even If the quest
carried him over the range. During
the days of impatient waiting they &C.
cupied their time largely In reconnoi-
tering the nearest cannery, permission
to go over which Cherry had secured