The Huttig news., 1916-02-19

Eci O1ttiL MtHl DIlHulN out l1IO the sunlight. She stood a moment. her breath coming and going in great gasps. like that of a doe mortally wounded, and in her eyes was no light
 Like the wounded doe, she fled to the hills for sanctuary. Coosnah swung into his pace behind her: and presently, after an hours climb, they reached the great fir stump on the crest of the ridge. Here the girl flung herself on her knees, gripping her braids in savage fingers, and for a wild space something within her that she had never known in all her life arose and shook her She had gone back 8 thousand years. Blind rage was upon her-she wanted to fight as the pre-. historic female fought iol her mate.
 So she knelt and rocked in the lust of fury while the little clouds sailed ill an azure sky and the hill streams trickled to the valleys, and suddenly bird in a high pine top dropped string of notes. clear. silverv, spar- king tor all the world like the dia. mond notes of flute and instantly she covered under them covering her eyes in instinctive guilt.
 The Preacher" she gasped aloud "oh. father What have I done, have shut my ears to the winds of God!o
 when, an hour later she came up on the eook-shack porch and stood leaning in the doorway, spent with her wild passion, Ma Daily grimly ted the fire in the range, setting about the supper for the men left at camp
 Mother, said Siletz duly, she lied
 "Yes-I know it. But what you goin to do, child? You love him an you're right--so would 1 ef was thirty year younger, for he's a man, East CT no East"
 The general turned to her work and a sigh heaved her ample breast.
 It s all ill the days work" she thought, an you had to take your ehanct. Johnny-but you're strong. my son, you're 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 raft in safety, along with the sealers report, receiving the payment which had been ready i'll the hands of thin 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 his careful rounds Of the camp
 Son" she said gently, 'they's a hard knock comin to you an 1 want to give you warnin'. though I know you'll take it standin', Johnny, as yer daddy took all 0 his, an I've seen 1 him take some corkers.
 T know what you've always thought O s letz, son, sence she was a teensy chap-Iye 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 shes always turned to you in trouble. It's instinct But son-son, haven't you seen rothin senee Sandry come among us? Hain't ye read the signs?" The foreman had stopped at the sink and lifted tin dipper of water for drink. At the last words he put the vessel slowly down untouched and turned an amazed face toward the old lady. His blue eyes were wide and the mother glo- ried like a girl in the good man. strength of him-the broad shoulders, the muscled arms, bare to the elbow. the shapely back and the straight hips of the hill-climber.
 What you talkin of, ma?" he asked
 Jest this. Sletz laid out her heart fer all to see when they brought Sandry home an that-that Jezebel woman shamed her before us all She said, on the heels O th child's cry of love- that she was Sandry's promised wife. l think she lied-but Sletz is breakin' her heart fer the Fastener"
 Here. without another word, Ma Daily opened a door behind her and creaked through, closing it softly
 Of such inherent tact was she she did not wish even his mother to see big John Daily take his hard knock, even though he took it standin'." with only a tremor of the hand that held the dipper.
 When he met Siletz in the morning he looked at her with eyes a little more haggard-there was deeper line at the corners of his mouth
 The girl bore traces of the first an guish she had ever known in the pal Tor of her face, the dull look of smol- dering flame under the daze of help lessness.
 There was no one in the eating room besides tsemselyes. Collins was out in the hills with the crew. for at the first sight of Sandry still alive. Daily had given orders to go on with the work and Siletz had stopped between the tables at supper time
 Will the Siletz stay?" she had asked simply and it had taken no more than that. The camp went ahead in. definitely
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