The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1912-12-01

b. .
To the something that seemed to walk
by his side, he spoke Of these things, as
IL II had been visible Strange actions,
strange thoughts for the president OF the
Kosmos Chemical Company. the great
antagonist OF Joree Of the Solar Selling
Company, the David TO Loree's Goliath.
the swordfsh TO the coloners whalel
Think, however. Of David with all the
stones spent against the giants buckier.
and covering within the lethal reach OF
that spear like a weaver's beam; or OF
the svordfsh, with broken weapon.
hunted TO the uttermost black depths by
the oncoming silent yawning destruction
And in Van Dorn's case, the enemy was
an avenger as well as a natural foe.
Poor little Kosmos Chemical Company
with It's big name, Its great deposits OF
"a prime commercial necessity''-se
prospeetus-lts dependence on railways
with which Loree was on terms. of which
Van Dorm never dreamed. It's old and
willy foe. skilled to snatch victory from
the jaws Of defeat. raging for the loss
OF his eve lamb. whom. notwithstanding
his giantship, he had loved for twenty
years to Dorn's two. and had dreamed
dreams and committed crimes fort Not
very strange. after all. perhaps. that the
man went on muttering somnambulistic-
ally. They say that one gripped In the
lions mouth Is numb and filed with de-
lusions.
Suddenly, putting life into the dead
scene, a bounding form came into View
past a thIcket-a noble buck with many
pointed antiers. moving with great DELHI
crate leaps among the giants spillikins
The delicate glossy hoofs, the slender
brittle limbs and horns. fragile as china,
seemed counting destruction in these ter
ribIe entanglements. Yet the beautiful
animal. as II by some magic deviation.
rose lightly from a perilous crevice be-
tween two logs, turned smoothly in mid
leap, struck the four pipe-stem limbs into
the only safe landing-place. shot thence
with arrowy spring between bayonet-like
branches to another foothold, and so on
and on. every rod Of progress a miracle.
He stopped, snufflng the air. Instinct
lively the hunter leveled his rife: and
then came into view the bucks retinue.
two does, one large and matronly, the
other a last summers fawn. TIE sleep
walkers eyes softened. the rifle swung
downward from the point-bland aim.
swapping a twig in its descent, and with
swift mighty bounds, the deer vanished.
putting a clump of bushes between them
selves and the foe with unerring strategy.
Toward the lake" said the hunter.
TN follow"
Then came the report OF a distant
rife from the direction of the deer's
flight, then another and another. Some
one was working a repeater rapidly. The
hunter stopped, took OF his deer-skin
jacket. turned its hair side out, and
like a soldier making for the firing
line, pressed forward after the deer.
Trudeau saw his man halt on the edge
Of the freight that evening, turn his
jacket, and come YEARLY into camp.
Trudeau sat and thought that night.
while the other slept heavily. Next
morning there was a raging storm, and
the guide was puzzled that the hunter
refused TO brave its dangers. It was not
sure then that the monsieur desired the
wooden overcoat? He told Van Dorm
many stories of death in these storms,
and watched for the effect.