The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1916-01-27

came c,no'.t ana headed For ',c shore
to give the girl all the play SHE needed.
estate to ours he said to Crawford.
"A goliwhopper:' gnrg~l Uncle
B,ny "Dont v git fused. Miss
wy, ne He's swallered til hook. r !
tlo..'t Know nuthin' bout bass"
"UmrIe BILLY. shall cry II lose
him."
Took the bait of'n tn bottomt
Whut d'y' know bout that? An don't
this knock OIL Pidgin galley west?
Huh?"
"rherp he breaks again!"
Lester weighed Crnnford's catch and
injure the fins,
CHAPTER VII.
A Chip Of the Old Block.
n MIGHTY humping followed
IA this act OF the delighted I'm
~ Gle Billy. Here was fish
worth mounting. Pour and
three-quarters"
But Crawford did not hear him.
He was watching the girl. the girl Of
his idle dreams, the girl he had always
known to he somewhere among the
milionS mate for him. helpmeet in
sorrow, comrade in joy, wife. Young
and strong and brave; scarlet Tipped,
brown eyed, 1.-the.
Till this spectacular moment he had
not known; but now he knew that
when she had entered Uncle Billys
hnn h,+ i,fr h,,t tan,
days ago she had also entered his life,
never to go out of it.
Diana. Who she really was did not
matter. Where she had come from,
still less He loved her.
Day after day the perfect SepteIn-
Der weather had held; day after day
they had tished and hunted and eaten
shore dinner together and day after
day some new charm, some fresh angle
of beauty, had been disclosed TO him.
Romance!
II can't bulge him! she painted
Stumbling did no good
Presently the fish concluded that he
could possibly get rid of the torment
by dashing in the direction from which
it seemed to emanate. A mile min
ute!
She choked back the hysterical sobs,
which caught ut her throat. Never had
she known a bass so strong. Between
Horseshoe and Long island runs gut.
nine or ten feet deep. The bass kept
to this,
He came toward the boat, passed it,
os<,E
Kingston, some few miles away, no,
stop over evidently. His destination
was Kingston. The line began to sing
again and the girls fingers stung.
"Hold him now!'' shouted Crawford,
more excited than lie had ever been.
before. Make him fight you. Don't
let him run again--ah!''
The tiger broke, shaking the line saw
agely and twisting in mid air.
-Four times he Glove the water. and
then lie began to come in on his nose,
as they say, fighting wildly every inch
of the way, for life and liberty. may
hap for his wife and family, for he is.
4 the only fresh Water fish who mas ~
family and who protects his young
yal:lntly, even ferociously-no scoun-.
drelly cannibal like the brook trout.
The girls throat ached. her eyes. her
arms.
When the fish turned over on his side
she put the net under him, but she had
not the power to lift him into the boat.
Uncle Billy had to bring him in. and
proceeded to do so with a "Ha, ha!'
and ''Ho, ho!' and "Whut d'y' know
bout that?"
"Oh" murmured the girl, closing
her eyes for moment.
"Well done!' cried the happy Gran
ford. Its half after 12-time for
lunch"
Uncle Billy hauled out his drawer
seat and paved about for the scales.
The great black fellow heaved to and
fro on the hook.
"Great -hossi-phat! Five pound.
two ounces!' he announced.
"Splendidv'
"I'll mount 'em both," declared
Uncle Billy. AN mebbe tn boys back
at tn village won't squint some when
they sees 'em! Oh, my!'
In the very center of Horseshoe is
land there lies circular shallow pond,
with the inlet at the head.
Out of the magic channel the two
boats flew. skirting the island anG