Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1916-01-07
CHAPTER XII.


The work went forward swiftly
slong the new line. By the end of the
week the new cutting was in full
swing, the long saws singing, the
Fuckers 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 fifty-nine thousand
dollars, at the pinch price l paid of
nfty cents 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. Ppm gettin'
completely mussad up" he said.
Well, she was. Her mortgages ag-
gregated half million-in three DIFF
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 quarter Of a mil
hon 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."
Wen, there's lot of mystery some
where about, and as soon as Pm at
noerty l 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.
She'll make good" Sandry told him.
self, Shes got the dreamer's look, the
pride. the joy, the mighty, arrogant
egotism. And she's drunk on the at.
mosphere of the wilderness, the lone
illness, the sense of world send"
Young and of abundant health. alum
dant vitality, filed with the urge of
ambition, abetted by an unusual cley-
erness, Miss Ordway was indeed in the
way of great things and she knew il
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 it with her high courage and
confidence.
This was the meaning to her of Wal.
ter Sandry.
About this time she began to widen
her range of vision, to see all over the
Wild. green country it seemed to her.
and to catch gsimmerings of things
that sent ker to Sandry, so full of vital
prescience that she was as 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, I'm
going to tell you something. / be-
heve 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 2"
She stretched out her hand.
Let's go after him together. What
do you say?"
Well, "-Sandry took the hand, an
exquisite thing, and held it in his own
moment, warmly. closely am
pleased and flattered by your offer,
out ! don't just fancy your knowing
this Hanpden man. He's-he's coarse
and bad. Miss Ordway."
But isn't 1t worth a little risk?
what big thing is ever accomplished
without some risk? And think, Mr..
sandry-isn't Hampden trying to ruin
the Dillingworth company? In other
words, to ruin your
There was a tingling. suggestive tim
ore in her low voice, a subtle, f1atter.
ing tone that thrilled the young owner
strangely.
Miss 0rdwsy." he said admiringly,
as mans friend you're simply
greatI"