The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-11-21
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 Just that. ltone worked a line O traps. and Sal was fixed to make her living and the boys that way. Said woman was liable to be as successful q trappeF as a man. She's at it near three year now. and she's made good. Lives with her boy about four hours. walk nor'west of here. with not an. other house within five miles of her She's got young sister, Ruby. with her on account of the kid. as she has to be out such lot-"
 Not much later was following No vember,s nimbIy moving figure upon as hard woods march as ever care to try. I was not sorry when a thong of my moccasin gave way and Joe all lowed me a minute to tie 1t up and to get my wind.
 There's Tom Carroll, Phil Gort and TnJin Sylvester" began November ab- ruptly those three. They're Saily's nearest neighbors. them and Val Black Val's a good man. butn
 But what ?'' said absently
 '.Him and Tom CarroIl's cut the top notches for Sally's favor so far ..
 <sBut what's that got to do withs'-- Come on.' snapped November and hurried forward to SaIIy's lonely cabin Joe knocked at the door, calling at the same time: It's me. Are you there. Sally 2''
 The door opened an inch or two -.Is 1t you. Joe2''
 November thrust his right hand with its deep scar across the back through the aperture .4You should know tha cut, Sal: you tended it T
 asCome In. Come inv'
 I followed Joe in the house and turned to look at Sally l saw slim girl with gentle red brown eyes thaf matched the red brown of her rebel Hous hair. a small face pale under its weather tan. but showing line of milk white skin above her brows. She was. in fact. extremely pretty. with a kind of good looks had not expected and ten seconds later I. too. had fallen under the spell of that charm. which was all the more powerful because Sally herself was unconscious of 1t.
 You've been long in coming. Joe. 2 she said. with a sudden smile. You were away. Of courseY
 Aye. just got back fore we started for here He looked around. Where's young Dang
 live just got him off to sleep on the bed there" She pointed to deerskin
 
 ssyVhat. They been frightening him 2 Mrs Rome looked oddly at November. stNo. but if he heard us talking he might get scared. for the man who's been robbing me was in this room not six hours ago. and Danny saw him.
 November raised his eyebrows. eeHuh. That's fierce!'' he said. .sDan- ny's rising three. ain,t he2 He could &ell.n
 seNothing at all It was after dark. and the man had his face mufled. Danny said he was real good man He gave him sugar from the cup board.' said Sally.
 stHis hands. what like was his hands He gave the sugar."
 T thought of that, but Danny says: he had mitts on. It's more,n thres weeks now since found out the traps were being meddled with. It was done very cunning. but have my own waa of batting them. and the thief, though he's a clever woodsman and knows q heap. never dropped to that. Some times he'd set 'em and bait em like as if they were never touched at all, and other times he'd just make it appeal as if the animal had got itself out ;
 "He must have left tracks. said Jos
 
 when snow was falling He's cu1l ning.''
 .sDid any one ever see his tracks bu youT'
 Sylvester did,
 .How was that?" said Joe. with sn den interest.
 .sI came on Sylvester one evenins when was trailing the robber.' :
 "Perhaps Sylvester himself was til. rObber." E
 Mrs Rome shook her head.
 ssIt wasn't him, oe. He couldn't a known I was comin' on him. and his tracks was quite different, .
 ssWeIl. but tonight? You say the thief come here tonight? What did ht do that for?' said Joe. pushing the to bacco firmly into his pipe bowl
 'tHe had good reason.' replied Sal iy, with bitterness. Last Thursday when I was on my way back from put ting my letter under your door I heard something rustling through the scruE ahead of me 1t might have been E lynx, or 1t might have been a dog. but when l come to the trap saw thu thief had made off that minute, fol he'd been trying to force open the trap and when he heard me he wrenche6 hard. you bet, but he was bound t