Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1916-02-18
CHAPTER XVI-Continued.

1.-THE Preacher!" she gasped aloud,
"Oh, father! What have | done!
have shut my ears to the winds of
Cod"
When, an hour later, she came up
on the cook-shack porch and stood
leaning in the doorway, spent with
her wild passion, Ma Daily grimly fed
the fire in the range, setting about
the supper for the men left at camp
Mother" said Siletz duly. "she
he'd"
yes know 1t. But what you goin'
TO do, child? You love him an you're
Ttght-so would l eff was thirty year
East"
The general turned to her work and
n sigh heaved her ample breast.
Its all in the days work." she
thought, AN you had to take your
chanel, Johnny-but you're strong, my
COn, you're a strong man-like yer
daddy"
So began a strange time in camp.
Daily came home In three days. eager
and grim-lipped, and in the pocket Of
his flannel shirt he carried the big
check for which Sandry had worked
and struggled. He had delivered the
Taft in safety, along with the scaler's
report. receiving che payment which
had been ready in the hands of
ehin, gray man who leaned from the
steamers rail to exchange a few curt
words.
Ma Daily cornered him in the kitch-
en- late in the night as he finished
Ais careful rounds of the camp
Son." she said gently, "they's
hard knock comm to you an | want
10 give you warnin', though l know
you'll take it standin. Johnny, as yer
daddy took all O. his, an I've seen
him take some corkers.
Il know what you've always thought
o S'letz, son, sence she was teensy
Ghap-I've watched her quiet ways
open yer heart an seen her walk in,
an I've hoped myself some day it'd
all work out, fer she's always turned
10 you in trouble. It's instinct. But
Eon~-son, haven't you seen nothip'
sence Sandry come among us? Haint
re read the signs?" The foreman had
stopped at the sink and lifted a tin
dipper of water for a drink At the
last words he put the vessel slowly
down untouched and turned an amazed
lace toward the old lady. His blue
eyes were wide, and the mother glo-
Tied like a girl in the good man
strength of him-the broad shoulders.
abe muscled arms, bare to the elbow,
she shapely back and the straight hips
Of the hill-climber
What you talkin' of, MAJ" he asked.
lest this. Sletz laid out her heart
der all TO see when they brought Sandry
Aome an that-that Jezebel woman
shamed her before us all She said.
On the heels o. tn child's cry of love.
shat she was Sandrys promised wife.
thnk she lied-but Sletz is breakin
Aer heart fer the Easterrer."
Here. without another word Ma
Daily opened a door behind her and
xreaked through. closing it softly.
OF such inherent tact was she, she
DID not wish even his mother TO see
ksg John Daily take his hard knock.
ssen though he took it standin'." with
xuly q tremor of the hand that held
she dipper.
When he met Siletz in the morning
BE looked at her with eyes little
more haggard-there was a deeper
line at the corners of his mouth.
The girl bore traces of the first an
guish she had ever known in the pal
kr OF her face. the duh look of smol-
Rering flame under the daze of help
&ssness.
There was no one In the eating room
besides themselves. Collins was out
N the hills with the crew, for at the
hrst sight of Ssndry still alive. llaiiv
had given orders TO go on with me