The Huttig news., 1916-02-19


 'Busted!" he said bitterly, legs too He's erumpled like a broken tulei If don't take is out of Hampden. | hope I'll burn in he'll"
 He gathered the scattered blankets from ush and tree branch and laid the Fastener upon them Then this simple on of the hio country went off by himself into the shadows to hink
 What should he do?
 Here was is employer. this East erner who. was going through the or deal by fire to win his right to live and fight in the wild and, ana he was all but worsted. down and out. His life was not worth copper-that coin of which the large West takes no mo- t1ce-and far on the shores of the other ocean was that old father of whom he had told Daily in the quet talks at night. It would take quick work to get Sandry to d doctor and word should be sent East at once
 On the other hand, if Sandry should live and the contract had been lost his i fight would be over. Those mort gages Of which he had spoken vaguely would he foreelosed and the Drlng- worth would become a thlng of the past the East Belt go by the board and Hampden would be supreme III the hills.
 No, by heaven. ned want her to go through dead or alive, an I'll see her there!' was Daily's ultimatum as he rose from the log m the pink flare of sunrise, and could he have known all that Sandry would lose with that con tract and the Dillingworth his hatred of Hampden would have been deeper still. for Sandry was his friend.
 He went back to the huddled Indians and the silent figure on it's blankets
 sMemnSloo ? he said decisfyeiy make quick pole sing. You an big Bin an Multoowah an Jim Pine. tree will take Sandry back to camp Go first to Toledo an, get Doc Hooker have him do what he can there an go along to camp Tell him to stay with Sandry day an night till I get back Hurry now
 
 picked out by name set about their 1 appointed task. In less time than a white man would take to begin they had laid clean saplings along blankets edges warped short spreader at top and bottom to hold the poles the width of mans shoulders apart, and the sling was ready
 NOW said Daily grimly travel ike hell, boys. but carry him soft, for hes broke like the ferns when a pine falls
 Tenderly they lifted the owner of the Dillingworth and laid him in the hollow of the blankets.
 His foreman cast one look at him as the Indians swung away on the back trail and turned his face to the jammed raft He studied the problem from all sides. Then he took his re- maining Indians, for none of them were beyond work from their shaking up, got off the mooring chains and snubbed the monster to the shore pines fore and aft. Then he calmly prepared to wait the turn of the tide onS WOuIu lOOS6 uefSelI.
 The damage at the brow was slight. The lift had come a moment too soon to hurt the big raft much. Several of the binding chains at the extreme head of her had been broken, loosen ing the ends of the logs which slid downward and apart, giving her the appearance of ragged broom.
 Snamishta, like all the coast Indi- ans, was a good waterman. He of fered to dive for the broken chains and Daily let him go. In three hours he had found all the ends, fastened to them hauling lines. which the others used to bring them up, the breakage was repaired and Daily was ready to mend the broken nose as well as he could. He needed to circle the loos. ened logs with the chains again, and he went about it in a simple manner.
 There was no getting under the raft from the front because of the jam against the shore, even if Snamishta could have managed the tide and en- dured the time under water. There fore it must be done from the other end
 So Daily laid the chains across the spreading nose, attached a long tow. line to the shore ends and dropped them into the water. The line was then led to the stern under the moor ing chains, around and forward to the brow.
 He then lay down for needed rest until the sucking green water grew slower and slower and finally stopped altogether.
 With the first insidious movement of the flood tide the grooming and creak. ing set up again throughout the giant, and the foreman was on his feet at once as she began, almost impercep- tibly, to back out from the shore. The ends of the chains were hauled up, slipped forward and fastened securely after the logs had been coaxed to- gether as much as was possible with rope and peavey and cant nook
 By jingo!" said Daily, but that was a blast. The son-ofagun must