The Mena weekly star., 1917-11-15
,opyrioht. 1916. by Little, Brown & Co.
SYNOPSIS

SYNOPSIS
 |. ,sua Benton, left penniless orphan.
 to ioin her brother Charlie, who is s.,r,ne lumber in British Columbia.
 rharlie tells Stella of his prospects and xaacrlbes his primitive manner or hVlhB' ! Hs introduces neighbor Faui AoOey
 charlie and Stella proceed to his logging -.s.n on Roaring lake. Stella Is aghast at fSS baroness of 1t and Is repelled by the .,8eouthness of the lumberjaeks.
 rba cook has been discharged and Stella 5,aa the cooking. In need of more men. Fnarlle borrows a crew from Jack Fyfe.
 Fyfs pays a visit Stella Is repelled by &:ni. although she feels the force of his hsfsonality Stella wants to quit, but her 14other dissuades her. He takes the gang b4csS to Fyfes camp.
 Stella visits Fyfe's camp while her broth sr is there It Is an improvement over Eharlle's Fyfe visits the Bentons and dnells a drunken riot among the logsers
 A week or so after their return in s6rting over some of her belongings fUe came dcIONS luc tlSNh NhulA AiS hdA piyen her-that $270 which represented fhe only money she had ever earIed in nor life. She studied it a minute, then 1ent out to where her husband sat eerched on the veranda rail.
 .'You might cash this, Jack" she sug kested.
 He glanced at the slip.
 Better have it framed as memen- tn" he said smiling. You'll never fhrn two hundred odd dollars so hard again. hope. No, I'd keep it if I were gou. If ever you should need l. it'll always be good unless Charlie goes 6roke'
 There never had been any question of honey between them. From the day of their marriage Fyfe had made her Hefnite monthly allowance, greater Nm than she needed or spent.
 "As a matter of fact" he went on, Elm going to open an account in your nnme at the Royal bank so you can hegotiate your own paper and pay your :Awn bills by check"
 # She went in and put away the check. It was hers. earned, all too literally, in fhe sweat of her brow. For all that it Fepresented she had given service three Fold If ever there came q time when 4hat hunger for independence which had |been famed to flame in her brothers Kitchen should demand appeasement- Fhe pulled herself up short when she found her mind running upon such an eyentuality. Her future was ordered. 'She was married-ere long to become a |mOther Here lay her home. All about .her ties were in process of formation, |ties that with time would grow strong Fer than any shaekles of steel, constrain- Ing her to walk in certain ways-ways sthat were pleasant enough. certain of Iease if not of definite purpose. ], Charlie Benton came to visit them. Strangely enough to Stella, who had |never seen him on Roaring lake, at least dressed otherwise than as his log |gers, he was sporting a natty gray suit, he was clean shaven. oxford ties on his feet, a gentleman of leisure in his garb. If he had started on the down grade the previous winter, he bore no sign of 1t now, for he was the picture .of ruddy vigor, clear eyed, brown skin med, alert, bubbling over with good spirits.
 Why say, you look like a tourist, BVfe remarked after an appraising glance.
 I'm making money, pulling ahead of the game, that's all," Benton retorted .cheerfully. 'I can afford to take hol- lday now and then. I'm putting mil Hon Feet month in the water. That's going some for small fry like me. Say, this house of yours is all to the good, Jack. It's got class, outside and in. Makes man feel as if he had to live up to it, eh? Mackinaws and calked boots don't go with oriental rugs and oak floors"
 You should get q place like this as soon as possible, then" Stella put in ufyly, ito keep you up to the mark, on cage aesthetically, one might put fl"
 It's a touch of civilization that looks good to me" Charlie declared. You can put my private mark on one of