The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1916-07-13

looked down the shining length o,
his canal. and then forward at tho
pathieha waste yet 10 DO traverued
10 save bis option on the lands be.
yond lale Bonnie. I'm goinx to
beat Il out front today and get the
new Htun'H in N+Awiyns. Two
weeks gone ont OF our sixteen. Doc
tor Dick. Coin TO be closc work. ("
An hour later he was on hia way.
Laure went with him and Big Jim.
The launch would leave her at
Iohn-theFuoi on It's return trip.
That night Ciell and I sat down
10 a silent supper in the cook house.
Many shuffled in and ont.
You can't get hack 10 The
hsron's very we'll" observed Clell.
unless you wait til the mosquitoes
quit this evening rush. All the
same. Doctor Dick. don't want you
here, To stay all night. that f."
stared NJ him somewhat In.
cretulously. WHY" muitered.
lie was laughing now. "oh. you
won't understand. The things 60,
me-that's all. That fellow
Niiiisms--I just want 10 stand in
his shoes a day and night and face
1.-THE big failure He went off
without n word, leaving HIS plant
in my charge-and he knows hate
him--and could ruin him Why
It's big"
looked at Ciell silently.
Il could throw a monkeywrench
into some OF his gear" he went on
evenly. and ruin him. or match
into this oil waste" lie rubbed his
hard hands. Look. Doctor Dick.
Throe months ago was iackey
for ten.million dollar trust--and
never could get close enough 10 a
man In II to know whether he was
real or not. A big real man. That's
the fine thing down here. Things
count. You can hate big-or
love-"
He checked himself and his gaze
grew long out OF Mangy's sodden
window at the splendor OF that sky
Il was hoping he'd fail--just as I'd
known failure. The city had
screwed me up that way-to
hating tension. Why. was sore
because ! couldn't get married on
dinky twenty-five a week-and
stick at n dog.trot for the Amalga-
mated Electric the rest OF my lief"
He laughed sheepishly. Married."
Well" I said placidly. there Is
not a deal in marriage that should
interfere with ones happiness. But
It's funny this thing is put up TO
you. Maybe you don't know how
we are fixed--both Mary and my.
self--to say nothing OF lot more.
I've got absolutely every dollar !
possess sunk into virgil's Internal
land scheme. And Mary"
Doctor Dickl" he exclaimed.
its true. Mary and well,
everything else failed Virgil tho
last two months. Besides what |
had IN beforehand all Mary's little
fortune and she's always put by n
few thousand year--I've cleared
out OF everything to keep this CON
Germ afloat. hate to confess I'm
a fool. believe-on my soul
we're all cleaned out. Only this
fellow--Virgil--somehow. you can't
help trusting him"
Yes" Clell muttered, that's
what bothered me- 30 long |
didn't want to- And now"
See here" | retorted. you say
you hate him."
Yes" He made grand flour.
sh off to the outer world. IT'S as
great IA love. like the fellows
game, you see. He Is the creator,
fighting the sea back from hun
ired thousand acres OF the earth
Tor other human beings to live on.
see now why he used TO look on
Mary's culture crowd MS merely |
3hildren-and mo as a whimperer |
who imagined ho was licked to be
Tin with"
| could hardly conceal my wonder
It him For Mary's sake" muir.
and he looked quickly at |
ne and shook his head.
I'm all over that. was Jealous
" him--but that's gone. Mary's
rec. made good. you see: and
Williams will have to see It. He
ie's got to see I'll"