The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-11-23

name Of Silent Water
"Spect you'll be back again. Mr..
Quaritch. as soon as you've fixed them
new mining contracts. and then, may
be. we'll try wolf hunt. There's Il
tidy pack comes out on the Lac Noir
ice when it's moonlight
But the shackles of business are not
so easily shaken off and the spring
had already come before another va
cation in the woods had begun to
merge into possibility. About this
time Linda Petersham rang me up on
the telephone and demanded my pres
ence mt lunch.
But | am engaged" said l, What
is it,"
Il will tell you when you come. l
want you
made another effort to explain my
position. but Linda had said her last
word and rung off. | smiled as ! call
ed up the picture of small Greek
head crowned with golden hair. Il pair
! of dark blue eyes and Il mouth wear
ing a rather imperious expression.
The end of it was that | went. for
have known linda all her Efe. The
Petersham family consists of Linda
and her father. and, though in busi-
ness relations Mr.. Petersham is pow
or to be reckoned with. at home he ex-
lists for the sole apparent purpose of
carrying out bis charming daughter S
wishes 1t is delightful house TO go
TO- for they are the happiest people
know.
found myself the only guest. which
surprised me, for the Petershaln man
sion has reputation for hospitality.
James. want you TO do this fol
me. want You TO persuade pop not
TO do something
Il? l persuade him? You don't
need me for that-you. who can make
him DO or not do anything. just rs you
wish
Il thought could. but find can't
How is that?
Well. he is set on going back to
Kalmacks"
"Kalmacks? know it is the place
Julius Fischer built up in the noun
tains. He used to go shooting and
fishing there"
That is II. It's place you'd love-
lots of good rooms and standing way
back on mountain slope. with miles
Of view and n stream tumhling pasi
the very door. Father bought it last
year and with it all the sporting rights
Julius Fischer claimed The woods are
full of moose, and there are beaver and
otter. and that's where the trouble
came in"
But Fischer had trouble from the
day he went up to shoot at Kalmacks.
/ lie had to run for it, so | was told.
( Didn't your father know that? Why
did Mr.. Petersham have anything to
do with the place."
oh, it was just one OF pops no
rather weary tolerance of the modern
daughter
They are a dangerous lot round
! there"
He knew that. They are squatters
--trsppers who have squatted among
! those woods and hills for generations
/ OF course they think the country be
longs TO them. Pop knew that, and in
his opinion the compensation Julius
I Fischer offered and gave them was in
adequate"
1T would be-" commented.
could without effort imagine Julius
| Flscher's views on compensation. fol
had met him In business
well. father went into the matter
and he found that the squatters had &
good deal to be said for their side oil
the case. so that he did what he
thought was fair by them. He paid
them good high prices for their rights
or what they considered to be theiI
rights. for In law. of course. they pos
sessed none. Every one seemed pleased
and satisfied, and we were looking for
ward to going there this spring for thu
fishing when news came that one Of ia
ther's game wardens had been shot at.
"Shet at?''
Linda nodded the Greek head l ad