Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1913-10-17
COpyright By the Bobbs-Merrin Company

/ Bout two mile" answered Tfu-
deau.
Chicago men7" Queried van Dorm,
How many7"
'Mebbe ten" answered Trudeau;
'mebbe six. She have car on track
down at depot Big man-come ev'ry
wintaire. Jacques Lacroix guide heem,
Colonel Lorie-Big mani"
Colonel Loree From ChicagoH
cried Van Dorm.
"Oui, yes!" replied Trudeau. you
know heem?"
NO." said Van Dorm
The man who did not know Loree
went to his knapsack and took out a
jacket made of deerskin tanned with
the hair on. It was lined with red
flannel. He held it up and looked at
1t flxedly. Trudeau started as 1t met
his gaze, and he came up to Van
Dorm and pointed at the garment.
you wear zat2" asked he?
"Yes," said the other. TITS a good
warm jacket"
"A man wat wear deerskin
zhaQuette," said Trudeau, lin zese
wood, in shooting seasone, sartaine
go home in wooden ove'coat-sure's
hell"
ooh, guess there's no danger!"
said Van Dorm, his lips parting with a
mirthlesS smile.
"Non?" queried Trudeau. You ben
In Eese woods before2"
"Oh, yesl" replied Van Dorm. Lots
of timesl"
Zen you know!" asserted Trudeau.
Zen you are choking wiz me. Zese
huntaire sink brown cloth coat, gray
coat, black coat, anysing Eat moves
she sink gem every time deer. Las
wintaire lots men killed for deer. Pete
St. Cyr's boy kill deer, hang heem in
tree, and mex morning take heem on
back an tote. A city huntaire see deer
hide wiz hair ON moving, an biml
sof'-nose bullet 60 throo deer, throo
Pete st. Cyr's boys headl Eat
zhaquette damn-fool thingl"
1T goes either side out" said the
hunter. II can turn 1t, you know"
Il turn heeml ! turn heem" said
Trudeau. suiting the action to the
word. Red is bettaire, by gosh--in
zese wood"
Trudeau watched his companion az
he made his laborious way through
the cutover chaos until he disappear
ed; but he did not see him pause
when out Of sight of camp, and turn
toward the lake.
II would rather 1t were any one
else" said Van Dorm, as II to some
thing that walked BY his side; "but
what difference does 1t make? Why
not let him finish his work.
The sheer difficulty of the country
brought back to Van Dorm something
like the forester's alertness. The lus
for lumber had ravaged the spiry for
est, and left, inextricably tangled, tn,
: wrecks of the noble trees-fores
maidens whose beauty had been theil
destruction; only the crooked ant
ugly having escaped. SO deep and com
! pick was the wreckage that 1t seemed
like the spilikins Of a giants game 0
Jack-straws-gnarled logs, limbs Xix,
chevaux-de-frise, saplings and under
brush growing up through chaos
And spread over and sifted through al
was the snow, as light as down.
Van Dorm must have told the trutl
as to his former visits; for he wen
on like one used to this terrible
: maze. Nowhere could he take tire
J steps straight forward 1t was Away
climbing up, or leaping down, or goini
2 around, or crawling under. Here thicl
leaves upheld the snow, and In tn
!, dry pine straw on the ground he coul,
I hear the forest mice rustic and scurry
J There field was smoothed over b
+ the snow, as trap Is hidden by sand
+ covering debris just high enough t
q lmperil the limbs of the pedestrian
] Yonder was a tamaraek swamp to
|. thick to be pierced: and everywher
g 1t was over and under and up an
8 down, and desperately hard, for mile
and miles, with no place for repose.
q He gazed away over the strang
abomination of desolation, blindly r,
|. fiecting on mans way of coming, dt
e Ing his worst, and passing on wit
E stated appetite, leaving ruin-as h
had done here. He wondered VIII
, that tall tract of virgin pine over q
/ the right had been allowed to escapt
t standing against the sky like blac
wall, spiked with tall rampikes H
]" stared fixedly at the snow. the blu
n shadows, the black pines, somnambl
S listic again.
. To the something that seemed
p walk by his side, he spoke of thes
e things, as if 1t had been visibl
e Strange actions, strange thoughts fl
n the president of the Kosmos Chem
e cal Company, the great antagonist
p Loree of the Solar Selling Compan
r. the David to Lorees Goliath. ii
a swoydfsh to the colonel's whale
IL Think, however of David, with all tt
y stones spent against the giants bue
a Ter, and covering within the leth
d reach of that spear like a weaver
e. beam: or Of the swordfish, vii
s. broken weapon. hunted to the ute
1, most black depths by the oncomir
Y silent yawning destruction. And
n Van Dorns case. the enemy was a
If avenger as we'll as a natural foe.
d Poor little Kosmos Chemical Cor
j, pany with its big name, its great d
1t positssof "a prime commercial nece
l. sity''-see prospectus-its dependent
e. ON railways with which Loree was {
< terms, of which Van Dorm new,