The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1916-03-16
CHAPTER XII.
eIImmerIna, Of tbs or.a. Gam.

The work went forward swiftly
siong the new line. BY the end OF the
week the new cutting was in full
swing, the long saws singing. the
ouckers 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 l 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 fifty.nine thousand
dollars at the pinch price | paid of
nfty cents thousand feet on the
stump. At anything like her face
Vaiue shed easily double II. 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 sett,n.
completely mussed up" he said.
We'll. she was. Her mortgages az.
6regated half million-in three dif
ferent places. About half of them I
paid. The rest Is hanging fire. Frazer.
who should have been a mighty rich
man. got out with a quarter of a nil.
lion Nat. | don't understand him"
Neither do l, but I'D stake my head
on old man Frazer. Why I've worked
for him ten yearsl He bought in in
eighty-nine."
We'll, there's lot OF mystery some.
where about and as soon as I'm at
liberty intend unearthing things"
Miss Ordway was working fever.
fshly 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 I'm.
ner excitement.
She'll make good" Sandry told him.
self. Shes got the dreamers look. the
pride. the Joy, the mighty, arrogant
egotism. And she's drunk on the AT.
mosphere OF the wilderness, the lone
iiness. the sense of world send"
Young and OF abundant health, abun.
dant vitality, filled with the urge of
ambition. abetted by an unusual cley.
erness, Miss Ordway was indeed In the
way OF great things and she knew II.
Also with her clear vision she was be.
ginning to see something else that
added to the flush in her cheeks. some
thing as great as her goal of fame. and
she faced 1t with her high courage and
confidence
This was the meaning to her of Wal
ter Sandry.
asout this time she began to widen
her range Of vision, to see all over the
wild green country, II seemed to her
and TO catch glimmerings OF things
that sent her to Sandry, SO full of vital
prescience that she was as a charged
wire In her eagerness and her delight
Mr. Sandry," she said one evening
as they stood together on the foot-log
and watched the brown tidewater go
ing down toward the distant sea, 'T'm
going to tell you something. | be-
lieve Hampden is crooked as hades.
and I'm going after him"
That's funny" said Sandry. do
you know. I've had the same notion p
She stretched out her hand.
Let's go after him together. What
do you say?"
well, l,"-Sandry took the hand, an
exquisite thing, and held It in his own
q moment, warmly closely--"l am
pleased and fiattered by your offer,
but ! don't just fancy your knowing
this Hampden man. He's--he's coarse
and bad. Miss Ordway."
But isn't 1t worth O little riskY
What big thing is ever accomplished
without some riski And think. Mr..
sandry-isn't Hampden trying to ruin
the Diilingworth company? In other
words, to ruin your"
There was a tinsling. suggestive tim
bre In her low voice. . subtle. nattsr-
ing tone that thrilled the young owner
st1ngely.
Miss ordwsy." he said Admiringly.
-ss . mans hisaA yss'rs simply
yeNar