The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1913-10-23
SYNOPSIS.
BY HAMLIN GARLAND
Copysifht. 1910. By Hamiin Garland

SYNOPSIS.
Lee virginia wetherford who has bees
- az eastern school for years. returns
- Roaring Fork Her mother. Q coarse.
uAsculine woman. 10 running Q shacoy
boarding house. where whisky y solo
without license
Lee meets Ross Cavanagh. forest ras-
esr and Forest Supervisor Redfeld Cav
snagh and lee become interested In eanA
ssber
Lie wetherford. Lees mother. becomes
m Lee starts In TO improve the charac-
tsy Of the boarding house. Cavanagh and
Redneld compliment her
Gregg a ranchman. threatens Cavanagh-
Lee is disguised with her surroundings
Lire ceases her elicit whisky selling. MIRA
Re6feld invites Lee to visit Elk Lodge
Redfield tells Lee about Cavanagh's tn
tsrestinR career and explains the work
and troubles OF ths fazssi sssyAcA
Lee Is delighted with the culture shown
at Elk Lodge. Cavanagh rides sixty miles
10 spend the evening with her
Cavanagh's love for Lee growa Ma
Redheld likes Lee. but dislikes her moth
o. and thinks Cavanagh's love affair b
foolish
Tie doctor orders Lie to cease WORT
and diet herself She rebels. Cavanagh
arrests Gregg's son and stranger named
Edwards as poachers.
Roaring Fork rowdles attempt TO rescue
TIE prisoners. but Lie and Lee arm
themselves and help Cavanagh.
They Drive away the roughs. and Cav
anagn delivers his prisoners TO Judge
Higley for trial
Edwards whose nns has been paid.
Joins CavanRgh at his cabin He telis
Cavanagh he Is Ed wetherford. Lse's
father Lee thinks he is dead
wetherfofd and CavanagK lind . sheep
herder with smallpox. Wetherford BE-
comes nurse Cavanagh finds two sheep
herders murdered.
Cavanagn taYls the sheriff to the sesaa
Cattlemen are suspected Of the murdsra
The smallpox victim dies
Oficers are hunting for Ed wetherford.
who is an escaped convict President
Taft lets Pinchot go. and Cavanagh ~
signs.
and wetherford retire to Cavanagh's cab
In wetherfurd urges Cavanagh 70 mar
" Lee. smallpox attacks Wetherford
Gregg accuses Cavanagh Of harbortng .
convict Lie volunteers to nurse Weth-
erford Dunn. an informer. accuses cat
uepen of murderirg- the sheep herdera
CHAPTER Xxx.
WITH THE AID or THE PRESS.
EE VIRGINIA was now living {
romance stranger and more star
Ting than any she had eveI
- read. In imagination she wa
able to look back and down upon the
smother world-a world that was al
Gnce primevai. yet peaceful: q world
Of dreaming trees. singing strea ms and
silent peaks; a realm In which Ia
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
4 Is true, came of Swedish parentage
and the other was q 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.
Geld. She had no doubt there were
others equally loyal. equally to be
trusted. but she did not know them.
She rose TO a complete understand.
ing Of Cavanagh's love for 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
the mountain states against the en-
eroachments Of some Of their own ctti-
sens. who we're openly. shortsightedly
and cynically bent upon destruction
sp0lIation and misuse
She had listened TO the talk of tbs
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 be
might leave the state to take charge
Of another forest brought her some
uneasiness. for she aud Lie had plan
ned to 60 to Sulphur City. She had
consented 10 this because II still left
10 her the possibility Of occasionally
seeing or hearing from Cavanagh Blu,
the thought that he might go away al
together took some Of the music oui OF
the sound Of the stream and made the
future vaguely sad.
For the next two days Cavanagt
slept but little. for his patient grew
steadily worse. As the fame OF his
fever mounted. wetberfopd pleaded
for air. The ranger threw open the
doors. admitting freely the cool. swee,
mountain wind. "He might as vel
Gle OF a draft as smother" was his
thought. and by the use Of cold cloths
Ne tried to aliay the itching and the
Vain.
With the coming Of the third nigh
Wetherford was unconscious and un
pecognizable TO any one who hat
known him In the days OF ''the FIRE,
Nnge." lie was going a. the wild wes
was going. discredited. liberated. poi
soned. incapable OF rebirth. yet carry
hg something fne to his grave. ii,
had acted the part Of q brave man
that shall be said OF him He hat
gone 10 the rescue OF the poor Basqu'
onstinctively. with the same reckless
disregard OF consequences 10 himsel
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