The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1917-05-12

| to her; to make her, against Q score
of burly cousins, his own; and never
to release her from his sudden arms
again. =.
With De Spain to think was to do;
Mt least to do something. but not with
out further careful thinking, and not
! without anticipating every chance of
failure. And his manner was to cast
up all difficulties and obstacles In q
situation, brush them aside, and have
his will II the heavens fell; and he
now set himself, while doing his rou-
tine work every day, to do one par
ticular thing-to see, talk to, plead
with, struggle with the woman, or girl,
rather-child, even, to his thoughts. SO
fragile she was-this girl who had
| given him back his life against her
| own marauding relatives.
His friends saw that something was
absorbing him in IN unusual, even an
extraordinary way, yet none could ar
rive at certain conclusion as to what
It was. The one man In the country
who could have surmised the situa-
ton between the two-the barn boss,
McAlpin-if he entertained suspicious,
was far too pawky to share them with
! anyone.
When two weeks had passed without
De Spain's having seen Nan or having
heard of her being seen, the conclu-
sion urged itself on him that she was
either i'll or in trouble-perhaps In
trouble for helping him; moment
later he was laying plans to get into
the gap to find out.
Nothing in the way of venture
could be more foolhardy-this he ad-
mitted to Understanding, he con-
soled himself by rejecting, but some
thing stronger than danger could JUS
| tify it. OF all the motley Morgan fol-
lowing within the mountain fastness
he could count on but one man to help
| the derelict, Bull Page. There was no
choice but to use him, and he was
easily enlisted, for the Calabasas affair
had made heroic figure of De Spain
in the barrooms. De Spain, according
ly, lay in wait for the old man and
intercepted him one day on the road
to Sleepy Cat, walking the twenty
miles patiently for his whisky.
.You must be the only man in the
gap, Bull, that can't borrow or steal
n horse to ride" remarked De Spain,
stopping him near the river bridge.
Page pushed back the broken brim
Of his hat and looked up. "You
wouldn't believe it, he said, impart-
Ing cheerful confidence, "but ten
years ago had horses to lend to every
man tween here and Thief river" He
nodded toward Sleepy Cat with a
wrecked smile, and by a dramatic
chance the broken hat-brim fell with
the words: They've got 'em ALL"
"Your fault, Bull"
"Sayw Up went the broken brim,
and the whiskiea face lighted with a
shaking smile. 'you turned some trick
on that Calabasas crew-some fight"
Bull chuckled.
"Bull, Is old Duke Morgan Repub-
licanT
Bull looked surprised at the turn of
De SPANS question, but answered in
good faith: "Duke votes most any
ticket that's again the railroad"
'How about picking couple of
good barnmen over in the gap, Bull?"
"What kind of job y got.Y
"See McAlpin the next time you're
over ut Calabasas. How about that
girl that lives with Duke?"
| RnH'o foca EUAfad NNonI Cow
she's little hummer pc
II hear she's gone down to Thief
river, teaching school,"
"Came by Dukes less'n three hours
ago. Seen her in the kitchen maxim
bread"
They're looking for a schoolteacher
down there, anyway. Much sickness in
the gap lately, BullY'
''On'y sickness / knowed lately is
what you're responsible for y'self." re-
sazs
torted Bull with grin. "Pity y left
any chips at al from that Calabesas
job. eh?'
"See McAlpin, Bull, next time you're
over Calabasas way. Here"-De Spain
drew some currency from his pocket
and handed a bill to Page. Go get
your hair cut. Don't talk too much
wear your whiskers long and your
tongue short"
"Right-ow
"You understand"
take II from old Bull Page, he's a
worlds wonder Of q sucker, but he
knows his friends"
"But remember this-you don't know
me. II anybody knows you for friend
Of mine, you are no good to me. Seer
Bull was beyond expressing his COM
prehension in words alone. He winked,
nodded, and screwed his face into a
4 thousand wrinkles. De Spain, wheel
ing, rode away, the old man blinking
first after him, and then ut the money
in his hand. He didn't profess to I'M
derstand everything in the high coun-
try, but he could still distinguish the
principal figures at the end of bank
note. When he tramped to Cal2basas
the next day to interview McAlpin he
received more advice, with q strong
burr, about keeping his own counsel,
ana q little expense money to run him
until an opening presented itself on