The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-01-20
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CHAPTER XVII.
Tho Shot In the HlIl..
9Y DOOl NEAO AND COI1NqNY

j no onOt IN inc FIIiIo.
At camp they met a party, headed
by the foreman, just starting out II
search of them. Their absence hac
been discovered only when Daily, com
ing in from the north, where his work
had been laid out. had asked for San
dry.
At sight OF him the three women
standing together at the foot-log gave
evidence, each in her way, OF those
emotions which the suspicion of his
fate had stirred.
On Mas face was an unbounded
pride that he had come through a
man OF parts. abundantly able to caro-
for himself among harder crew On
Miss Ordway's there lay vast relief,
while Siletz played with the collar OF
her blue shirt with trembling fingers
and mostened her dry lips.
Sandry Turned and looked up at the
darkened east with profound Joy. He
swept mis- eyes north TO where the red
heaven flared and staggered to his
office.
Three hours. ma" he croaked in a
voice Of warning. only three hours
sleep for Ell OF us. II you give us
longer I'll never forgive you
It was true, as Collins said, that
they had only begun to fight.
Through the hours, days, nights that
followed the saving OF the East Belt
they took no note OF time. Up along
the blackened, devastated valley the
soldiers moved their camp. Ma Daily
shut the cook-shack and suborned a
wagon to haul her big range up and
deposit 1t alongside the camp stoves
of Company II, where she dispensed
coffee to her men and all others with
impartial zeal. Miss Ordway. her skirts
tucked up from the contamination OF
the burned earth which rose in hot.
black puffs at every moving foot. was
compelled to help IL she would hold that |
espionage over Siletz from which she !
hoped to realize her ambition. A bit
ter hatred sharpened her blue eyes
upon the girl. and she ached TO seize
her and tear out OF her blouse that
packet OF proofs She was angered
Mt herself that all her cleverness had
failed to recover them before this.
So the hours passed with smoke and
heat and a sun like copper shield.
Men came and went in relays, sleeping
upon the ground for short shifts. rig
idly apportioned and observed. The
flood of flame, runner after an arrant
haA nd In Iaanfnp
pillows in among the northern hills 1t
seemed a thing of irresistible might,
but the toilworn men hung to its flank
with logged persistence. emboldened
and encouraged by the success on the
east ridge.
Sandry, limping painfully, and bag
gard as a ghost, stuck with the van
guar. despite Mas commands and
)aily's warnings. At each fresh sight
II his face the girl Sietz was wrung
With anguish. II seemed as II he could !.
'ear no more and yet the spirit in him !,
Rove him on
Once she ventured timid protest. !
What is the timber worth II you |,
ie?" she asked plaintiyely, and San :
ny. still somewhat of boy, parted
he yearning question. :
who would carer" he laughed
'ryly. would you. Little Squawg"
The girl did not answer. but as she ..
lrned away the ready mist sprang to y
er eyes and he reached contrite :,
and to her shoulder. !,
Forgive mel know you would" :
II seemed to Siletz as the horror :.
wept north an3 the men we're lost =
Or hours in the dim Businesses, that =
was about to happen.
She felt prescience of disaster
hitch Coosnah shared. and they two u
God apart for long spaces OF time.
lent. listening, the muscles OF each
rawn taut. From time to time the IL
reat mongrel would squat upon his
aunches, lift his heavy muzzle toward =,