Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1917-12-26
CHAPTER III,
r.gg - III
The crevasssae..

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{, For an hour before the. Hannah
icreached Katma Miss OMEN was, busy
! getting aher little brood ready Her
4 heart wls as tender as a Madonna Ito
| these lambs SOIL fitted to face, a frigid
4 waste. Their mother had been q ,goed
woman She could tell that But she,
b ,had5 nor way2iof Knowing what Kind Of,
sqaaastheir father might be. wien then
said their shifting good-bys at KatmA,
she ssXas osuspiciurs1y ssHight AND
merry,rss pon the children were -1augA,,
Ing againowiths her! yiio bio aEsss
One glaacesat their father wt6 in,
troduced himself It'd Miss D.NAit az.
John Hustled, relieved heb thant great,
! H. His. spontaneous, delight d. SEEING
them gain and his, choking gratitude.
to her for having looked aftef THEM
were 81 evidence cepduati tAat Ethis kind:
i eyed man meant tedhe boeK, fshthheeqP ddndb
l,mmh49}ffberbJe bis recovered Attle nf6otks..
Her temporary ,famiSy sab6F I6H the
end Of t BhHs wAaH saads casle4 so@;bys
J. 70 TIE, gHs 5yben theynttsfea away
uSshhf Y&M 9Eseslybtn hstssasa;nl "
~ EllIt3t NAs Passing lHssaad o~S4ten
SIf{sSM {IHiSAb54 ppenedw lHrd STATE ff6&om
t'aS6Tb tt3 g9dA,, yhe eyes drshe Young
N~b9{aaRh Wexeb blinded uwitts tsdB @hd
she Vas biting her lip-to~ keep back
the emot ii@Gg a tRRab yslk1 QsM He knew
she s Was9 ooyerye dopd Gof-, tsalaaetheaess
aaAldfeH, buff be bgaesse6kn at yasqatpA-
N6hals reaS : At, fAr hes, sNhssa sshep too,
@as' az Inta9SRtv IS s% Child ,tpab me
IN this frontier land. VIDA bnxsne&e
found her sed3 ~ smg1ygfbnqfl htsabtik or
Mspfhtehs s..9 Sr Fl RFlsf Of %oestsanpsn
tAat0s fStHs 11sft Jbshinssao@Iailtse
xafe harP4fffge d4fw Rsis@mwsRH' nah
shieAt ihha4r HE craft had alyaBs fbi&SesR
1t came mes On ,ta9 rain III jfs ths nSeelsdsn.
HesvysySHdsSS Swept. iaGfass drssq xse
rh96AAeeahffhs, md the, so4deASiky 14tehssf
liAe ahsYnitt-box. The KusiRtg roatiiks
gent, driven indoQrs.-resorted to
bridge. MISS 0'Neill read. G9rsRssSt
}iottxwrStur aetttteeifEss daWdfed over smeg-
? azmasSAad aduhged a IIfernatsly, ,ias thee
lasHes.paaaSfa rf sd' the ne 5 .ssmoking gee1ne
b where, aaacd8hafG,n' Strong, aohsEq9Nara!
hmernhnnt from Faifbanks,d and pain,
tlofosnur.deugR mft1eers Had settled them,
selves to a poker game, that r wast tor
last alld night and we'll into the next
day.g 9.QI9Q J'' .,,,,,,. a 81,
n OF the two bridge tables, all the
players were old-timers except MRS.
Mallory. She had come in over the
ice for the first time last winters The
other women felt that she was a bird
of passage, that the frozen Arctic
could be no more than a whim to, her.
They deferred a little to her because
she knew the great world-New York,
Vienna, London, Paris. Great names
fell from her lips casually and care
lessly.. She was full Of spicy little
anecdotes about German royalty and
the British aristocracy. It was no won.
der, Gordon Elliot thought, that she
had gather, stunned the little. social set
Of Kusiak. al JA- .'7 u ia 49, ..s .ye+
ThreughdNorthrup and Trelawney q
new slant on Macdonald was" given to
ansdnn. He had fallen into casual
talk with them f af1er' od DIM the
sore decksI,r6 Ills Surprise, thes Young
man discovered that they bore him no
rgrulgesat all for his, interference the
night before!nAh no'en77A
.1"But we amt thre1sh with Colby,
Mactlnalae setSnTrela&ney eSpl3aIihh!esdl, Il,
"Nhhdy 4ydlen't say we're going to get
0him. Nothing like that Here's the,
point. Ne stand forlLiborI He stands S9 ms
foroCapital, oasee2A' Things gai tr What what
they, used to be in9Alaska, and It's be-
cause of Colby Macdonald and his
friends. They're grabbers - that's
what they are. They want the whole
works. Understand? It's up to US
to fight, amt it,"
T.otor Elliot mt this viewpoint be-