Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1911-03-30
CHAPTER Xxx.
WITH THE AID OF THE PRESS.

WITH The AID OF The PRESS.
r EE VIRGINIA was now living a
romance stranger and more star
Ting than any she had ever
- read. In imagination she was
able to look back and down upon the
Fork us If she had been carried into
another world-a world that was at
once primeval, yet peaceful; a world
of dreaming trees. singing streams and
silent peaks; a realm in which law
and order reigned. maintained by one
determined young man whose power
was derived from the president him
self. She felt safe-entirely safe-for
just across the roaring mountain tor
rent the two intrepid guardians of the
forest were encamped. One Of them.
1t is true. came of Swedish parentage.
and the other was a native Of Eng
land, but they were both American in
the high sense of being loyal to the
federal will, and she trusted them
more unquestioningly than any other
men in all that west save only Red
| field. She had no doubt there were
others equally loyal, equally to be
trusted. but she did not know, them.
| She rose to complete understand
| ing Of Cavanagh's love for 1.-The high
country and his enthusiasm for the
cause, cause which was able to
bring together the student from Yale
and the graduates of Bergen and of
| Oxford and make them comrades in
preserving the trees and streams of
/ ha ,toin hn
croachments of some of their own citi-
Gems. who were openly. shortsightedly
and cynically bent upon destruction,
spoliation and misuse.
She had listened to the talk of the
forester and the supervisor. and she
had learned from them that Cavanagh
was sure of swift advancement now
that he had shown his courage and
his skill. and the thought that he
might leave the state to take charge
Of another forest brought her some
uneasiness, for she and Lie had plan
ned to go to Sulphur City. She had
consented to this because it still left
to her the possibility of occasionally
seeing or hearing from Cavanagh. But
the thought that he might go away al
together took some of the music out of
future vaguely sad.
For the next two days Cavanagh
slept but little. for his patient grew
steadily worse. AS the flame of his
fever mounted. Wetherford pleaded
FOR air, The ranger threw open the
doors. admitting freely the cool. sweet
mountain wind. HE might as We,
die of draft as smother was his
thought, and by the use of cold cloths
ne tried to allay the itching and the
pain.
With the comm" of the third night
Wetherford was IN onscious and un
recognizable to "ry one who had
known him in the lays of 1.-The free
range" He was rni,,' As the wild west
was going. discl, c., d. liberated. poi
soned, incapable of rebirth. yet carry
ing something fine to his grave. He
had acted the part of q brave man
that shall be said of him. He hat
gone to the rescue Of the poor Basque
instinctively, with the same rockies.
disregard of consequences to himself
which marked his character when n.
a cow boss on the range he had ne
aside the most difficult tasks for bill
own rope or gun. His regard for thu
ranger into whose care he was nov
about to commit his wife and daugh
ter persisted in spite of his suffering
In him was his hope. his stay. Ono
! t., ka 70,
to the promise which he had draw
from Cavanagh.
III go you must take care-of m
girl-take care of Lie too. Promis