The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-07-04
By CONDO

Miss Benton drew the purse from
her handbag and gave IL to him. He
pocketed it and went off down the
wharf. with the brief assurance that
he would be gone only a minute or
so.
The minute. however, heightened
TO nearly an hour, and Sam Davis
had his blow-off valve. Kissing, and
Stella Benton was casting impatient
glances shoreward before Charlie
strolled leisurely back.
You needn't fire up quite SO
strong, SAM" he called down. I'VE
won't start for a couple of hours
yet"
"Sufferin' Mosesr' Davis poked
his fiery thateh out from the en-
CINE room. II might "a known bet
tern to sweat over firm up. You
generally manage to make about
three false starts TO one getaway"
Benton laughed good naturedly and
turned away.
do you usually allow your men
to address you in that impertinent
way?" Miss Benton desired TO know.
/. Charlie looked blank for a second.
Then he smiled and linking his arm
affectioHately in hers. drew her off
along the wharf, chuckling to him
self.
MY dear girl" said he, you'd bet
ter not let Sam Davis or any OF
Sans kind hear you pass remarks
like that. sam would say exactly
what he thought about such mat
ters to his boss. or King George. or
TO the first lady of the land. regard
less. Sabe? We're what you'll call
primitive out here. yet. You want to
forget that master and man business.
the servant proposition. and proper
respect. and all that rot. Outside the
English colonies in one or two big
towns. that attitude doesn't go in
b. c. People in this neck of the
woods stand pretty much on the
same class footing, and you'n get in
bad and get me in bad IL you don't
remember that. I've got ten loggers
working for me in the woods
Whether they're impertinent or pro-
Aoft toA' w hAc VI c. 81 iOh6 as liltl
handle the job properly. They're
men, you understand. not servants.
None of them would hesitate to tell
me what he thinks about me or any
thing / do. If / don't like IL, I
can fight him or fire him. They
won't stand for the sort OF airs
you're accustomed to. They have the
utmost respect for n woman. but a
man is merely two-legged male hu-
man like themselves. whether he
wears mackinaws or broadcloth, has
a barrel Of money or none at all.
This will seem odd to you at first.
but you'll get used to it. You'll find
things rather different out here"
II suppose So she agreed. But
it sounds queer. For instance, IL
one OF papa's clerks or the chauf-
feur had spoken like that, he'd have
been discharged on the spot"
THE logger's a different breed"
Benton observed drily. cor. perhaps
only the same breed manifesting un-
der conditions. He isn't servile. He
doesn't have to be-"
why the delay. thor" she revert
ed to the point. II thought you
were all ready to 60"
lam" Charlie enlightened. but
while I was at the store Just now,
Paul Abbey 'phoned from Nancou-
Yer TO know IL there was an up
lake boat in. His people are big
lumber guns here, and it will ac.
commodate him and won't hurt me
TO wait couple of hours and drop
him off at their camp. I've got more
or less business dealings with them.
and it doesn't hurt TO be neighborly.
He'd have to hire a gas boat other.
wise. Besides. Pauls a pretty good
head"
This. of course. being strictly her
brothers business, Stella forbore
comment. She was weary OF travel,
tired with the tension of eternaIly
being shunted across distances
anxious to experience once more that
sense of restful finality which comes
with journeys end But, in a
measure, her movements were no
longer dependent upon her own vo.
lition.
They walked slowly along the
broad roadway which bordered the
lake until they came to a branchy
maple, and here they seated them
selves on the grassy turf in the
shadow of the tree.
Tell me about yourself" she said.
How do you like It here, and how
are you getting on? Your letters
home were always chiefly remark.
able for their brevity."
There isn't a great lot TO tell"
Benton responded. I'm Just begin.
ming to get on my feet. \ raw, un-
tried youngster has n lot to learn and
unlearn when he hits this tall tim.
Der. I've been out here five years,
and I'm just beginning to realize
what L mequal TO and what I'm not.
I'm crawling over a hump now that
would have been lot easier II the
governor hadn't come to grief the
way he did. He was going to put in
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