Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-03-03
CHAPTER XIV.
Fight! Fight Like He'll"

Fight right Like HE'LL"
So began yelled hostilities between
these two. AT first Miss Ordway GOV
cred her fury with a smile and tried
every art Of Cancellation, but SiletZ
held far from her. Night and day she
kept the packet in her breast, though
for what end she did not know. She
knew only with her unfailing instinct
that it must lever go east to the
cities, or infinite harm would befall
Sandry. Also, as unfailingly, the same
instinct warned her not to show them
% him, even though their possession
might mean his safety. The primal
cunning of woman kept her from be-
ittling or b%etraying her rival.
Sandry was becoming more and
more anxious about the East Belt.
Iore and more he feared the contin-
ency of having to fall back upon a
Foman for help at the last, and this
as particularly Calling to his man
God.
1t had become a personal question
it'll him, the getting" of Hampden.
he timber at the north was running
letter than they had expected. and
Daily and Collins with the lumber
jacks from Sacramento and the 81
washes were doing splendidly. Still
the magnificent belt was the Dilling-
worth's future and it was in grave
jeopardy.
From time to time he ran across
Hampden along the shores of the
backwater, at Toledo, or IN the 81.
1etz road. Here the Yellow Pines
owner often rode to meet Miss Ord
way who had lessened her efforts in
his direction since he had given her
all the material she needed for his
own undoing. He was more wild
about her than ever, and added tC
his enmity for Sandry the mighty
spur of suspicious jealousy.
So July dragged out in blue heat
and August blazed down upon the
hills.
The eastern lawyer at Salem was
ready to give up in despair. Not one
JlIlCSl pOllI ouOWCu lloClL WhCl COI
he could hang a thread of evidence
and one day Sandry, sitting on the
east porch, shocked the heart int
Miss Ordway's throat.
81 believe l will write to New Yorl
for the great Farnsworth," he said
tits a mighty risk, for he'll bankrup
me If he comes, though it's hardly
likely he'll bother. They don't know
the chances for big work out here.
And the woman shut her teetl
hard, while the blood left her fac,
in pale anger. Siletz, on the step
played with Coosnah's ears and she
too, lost a bit of color.
The next day Miss Ordway made
flying trip to Salem, stopped over
train, and went on to Portland. Their
she sought out the most well
~thought-of legal firm in the city an
was closeted for three hours in it
private offices.
She was much too shrewd to trus
the great scheme in the hands of
Salem firm. But here she had bur
gled after all, for her newly allie
lawyer, a ~fine-looking, open-faced ir
dividual, followed her to Salem O
the next train, bearing copies of he
mysterionsly Obtained proofs c
Hampden's guilt, which were as goo
as warrants for his %arraignment an
that of the amorous young commits
sioner.
The ring" was wider than sh
had n conception of and reache
afar throughout the state.
She was not half over the Coas
Range on the one-horse railroad whe
her lawyer laid the copied papers O
the commissioners private desk.
IT'S come at last" he said tensely
somebody's leaked"
And in a lightning flash the con
missioner knew what had become {