The Yale expositor., 1916-02-03
CHAPTER XII.
eIlmmerlnss Of the Great Game.

The work went forward swiftly
along the new line. By the end of the
week the new cutting was in full
swing. the long saws singing. the
buckers' broadaXes flashing among the
everlasting green. the whole inlaced
mass of detail working together.
What do you think of our chances
now. John?" asked the owner.
Al. Hain't no reason why we
won't win. TIL Dillingworth, said
John Daily whimsically, she's ben
furnishin tn goods ever sense ] can
remember"
True. But she was in pretty close
straits for cash. You know she's
worth, standing timber, land. options
and equipment, something like a mil
lion hundred and flfty-nine thousand
dollars, at the pinch price | paid OF
fifty cents a thousand feet on the
stump. At anything like her face
value shed easily double It. And of
course you know she's mortgaged TO
her neck-the East Belt and all the
northeast stumpage-"
Daily shook his head. I'm gettin'
completely mussed up" he said.
Well, she was. Her mortgages ag.
gregated a half million--in three diff.
ferent places. About half Of them |
paid The rest is hanging fire. Frazer,
who should have been a mighty rich
man, got out with a quarter of a mil.
lion fiat. | don't understand him"
Neither do |. but I'd stake my head
on old man Frazer Why I've worked
for him ten years! He bought in in
eighty-nine."
We'll, there's a lot of mystery some
where about, and as soon as I'm al
liberty intend unearthing things"
Miss Ordway was working fever
ishly these days. Her rose-leaf cheeks
were flushed each noon when she
came from the little south room, and
her sea.blue eyes were full Of an in
ner excitement.
Shell make goUd," Sandry told him
self, She's got the dreamer's look. tht
pride, the 10y, the mighty, arrogan
egotism. And she's drunk on the at
mosphere or the wilderness, the lone
liness, the sense of world's-end."
Young and Of abundant health, abuD
dant vitality, filed with the urge o
ambition, abetted by an unusual ciey
erness, Miss Ordway was indeed in tn,
way of great things and she knew IL
Also with her clear vision she was be
ginning tc see something else tha
added to the flush in her cheeks. some
thing as great as her goal of fame, ant
she faced IL with her high courage an,
confidence.
This was the meaning to her of Wa
ter Sandry.
About this time she began TO widel
her range of vision, to see all over tn
Wild, green country, it seemed TO her
and to catch glimmerings OF thing
that sent her to Sandry, so full of vita
prescience that she was as charges
wire in her eagerness and her delight
Mr.. Sandry," she said one evenin
as they stood together on the foot-lo
and watched the brown tidewater gC
ing down toward the distant sea, or
going to tell you something. bt
lieve Hampden is crooked as hadeG
and I'm going after him"
That's funny" said Sandry, ID
you know, I've had the same notion {?
She stretched out her hand.
Let's go after him together. Wha
do you say?"
W-e-ll,".-Sandry took the hand, a
exquisite thing, and held IT in his ow
moment. warmly, closeH-'I ar
pleased and fattered by your offei
but don't Just fancy your KNOWN
this Hampden man. He's-he's coars
and bad. Miss Ordwny."
But isn't Il worth a little risk
What big thing is ever accompIishe
without some risk? And think. Nj
Sandry-isnt Hampden trying to rui
the Dillingvorth company? In othe
words, to ruin your
There was tingling, suggestive tin
bre In hei low voice, q subtle, flattel
ing tone that thrilled the young owne
strangely.
Miss Ordway." he said admfr1ngil
as a mans TREND you're simpi
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