The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1914-02-17


Highamson. for we took the head
down to him to set up. since Joe
assured me that tho old man had
once worked with success at a taxi.
dermist's.
Joe and walked over and found
him living with his daughter. Jansy
Lyon, for tho police had never been
successful in discovering the identity
OF the avenger OF Big Tree Portage.
The two seemed very happy together,
but must acknowledge that I feared
from what ! saw that tho beautiful
Janev would not continue to bear the
name OF Lyon much longer. I said a.
much to November Joe a. We were
walking back.
That's nature" said no. "oid
man Highamson told mo that neither
Baxter 0urd nor Miller don't give
her no peace. Well, guess wom-
ans better married anyway"
How about a man. JoeT" I asked.
IT may be all right for them As
don't get tho pull o. the woods too
strong, but for him that's heard the
looms calling on the lakos. It's differ
ent someway."
10y. Yet there are some very pretty
You've seen more ,nan have, Mr..
Ouaritch." said Joe. iaushinSiy: "hut
you don't get no kilograms from Mrs.
Quaritch telling YOU TO come home
and sing TO baby" ~
To this too trenchant remark
could think OF no Immediate reply,
and we continued our way for some
time In silence. II was drawing on
toward evening and had begun to
rain when we turned from the
woods into the mile long trail that
led to Eovember's shack. His quick
glance fell at once upon the ground,
and following his eve. / saw the im'
preston OF fresh tracks.
what do they tell you?" I asked.
for Il was always a matter of in.
terest to me to put Noyember's skill
to the little DALI tests that came In
my way.
airy yourself" said he.
They were ordinary tracks. and.
look as l would. I could not CLEAN
much information from them,
"a man In NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. an
right / asked.
November Joe smiled sr,mly.
mot lust quite. The man isn't an
Indian; he's q white man, and he car
RES biz news, and has not come very
far"
you're sure?" I said. STOPPING 70
examine the troi, more closely b,,t
wi;homt result " "''' '''''' 0''
"Certaint The indian mecca ain IN.
no raised heel. These have. He's no;
come far: he's travelling fast-see. no
springs from the ball of the foot: and
when a man finishes a tourney on the
run. you may be sure he thinks he's
got q good reason for getting 70 the
end OF It. This trail leads nowhere
but to my shack. and we'll sure ind
Ten minutes later. when we came In
sight Of November's home. we were
aware OF . big man sitting on . log
smoking his pipe beside the door. He
was middle aged. with q hard face.
and there was more gray In his russell
beard than his age warranted. AZ soon
MS We appeared ne ieaped UP ana
came across the open TO meet US.
"Blackmask IL ut 1t again!" no
cried. =.
! saw q CLEAN OF anticipation. II
not pleasure. cross November's race.
He turned TO mo.
River star Pulp Company's Camp C."
he said. ia IKE TO make you known
to Mr.. Quaritch. Mr.. Close" This
courtesy concluded. ne ADDED IN MS
denperate zones Whats biackmask
zone now 1885,.
nos az MS o,u tIIcNS' nut TINS
year Wen lay hiH py tne heeis: or
my names NOT Joshua Close: Inc
speaker looked up anu seeine my
puzzled expression addressed himself
to me.
Last year there were five separate
robberies committed on the road be-
tween Camp G and the settlement"
he explained. Each time II was Just
q single lumber jack who got held
UP, and each time a man in q black
mask was tho robber. November here
was away"
up in Wyoming with Q Philadel-
phia lawyer after elk" supplemented
the tall young woodsman.
"The police failed to make any ar
rest, though once they were on the
ground within four hours OF the hold.
up," went on Close. But oil that 10
ancient history. It II what happened
10 Dan Michaels last night that
brought me here at seven miles an
hour. Dan has been working for
pretty nigh a three months stretch,
and the day before yesterday he came
into the ONCE and told me his mother
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