The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1920-02-06
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/ fore. Now you take Dutchrnan or
Dago-their ways amt our ways. Out
| they're more or less human. THESE
people amt They paint their houses
yellow and green, when they paint EN-
| at all. l never saw yellow mouse
with green porch in my life I'll
come up here"
.Jusr a difference of taste. Mr.. Con-
nell"
maybe" sale Lafe, splitting. May
no it's all right not 10 have sense TO
| plaster their houses. so as to freeze TO
death in winter time. Maybe it's all |
right TO run to Father Lucy when /
there's n forest fire, instead of getting I
70 work and putting it out. Maybe M
can pray II out for them got nothing
against the place, except that my wire
Clarice and the kids are in Shoepury-
port. and I'd rather rot here alone than
bring 'em up. But what's the use
/ I'm here and / got to stay here, ne
ended, Struggling his shoulders.
i Lafe was a bad cross-questioner. and
) the task put upon him by Brousseau
: was not only uncongenial but impos-
t sibIe for a man of his temperament.
S However he made q valiant attempt
:, to draw Hilary out You're thinking
0 of spending some time here, MIR. AS
e kew?" he asked.
n "Pve come to take charge. I'm gong
to stay" said Hilary.
t LATE looked at him curiously. What
e sort of man could this be who chose
of his volition to reside in ST. Bonl-
4. face?
% 81 guess you'll change your mind
,e when you've seen it little longer" he
II said incredulously.
"On the contrary, Mr.. Connel. l
mean to take hold, and mean TO make
S. it pay. 1t hasn't paid very well, l I'M
he derstand?"
he Lafe foundered 1--WE heard IL
III don't pay as much as It ought"
at 81 understand that most of the tim
IN Der is below the size at which cutting
is allowed?"
As Late stared at him. "Why. then
to rules are for government land!' ht
sr- answered. "You can cut any size OIL
et freehold The timber amt so bad
ut leastways, some of it amt"
re, Hilary began to think hard. On thi
lie, point Lamartine had clearly and def
llr nitely lied to him.
ed TOO much fir on the property?" III
of asked.
9TH "Why. there is some fir" concede
he Lafe But there's some good spruc
OF along the Rocky river" he added
again oblivious of his instructions.
The 81 saw a good pile in the river"
ing "Why, that amt our cutting-nf
he much of It." said LATE. "Most of tht
he comes from the Ste. Marie limits"
s.Where is Ste. Marie?
Ellie "Ste. Marie's two miles along II
hat coast. beyond our settlement" sa
LATE. "Most of our hands come fro
Ned there. It's tough place, Mr.. Aske'
Der I seen some tough towns in the Yves
but this has got 'em all beat, with ii
she smuggling of brandy, and the drinkln
II and the fights every Saturday night
there was a man knitted there Ia
week: and not a policeman within L
out ty miles, and nobody except Faith
ex- Lucy. and he can't hold en-.
Oh what want TO know" said Hilar
ass' ais. what this company is that "
10 speak about. and how they come to
u the Rocky river for their logs"
iee' Iafe hesitated, but only for n
eih' ment. Then he mentally cast Brol
laNe seau to the winds; for, after all,
UP Hilary meant to know, nobody cot
preyent it Brousseau's instructio
the NOW iliis '.'ii'e ..,n to co
the II e D,,.,,, hox-e
- company of their own. Their Inn
:, - touch ours on the west, across
!. river, and run ten miles or so ba
',,,,, into the bush. right alongside GU
'S They got the right to float their IL
/ ,-ir
and ooWh .iie
the Anu uoo ~ 20
INIT. MI. 4uoiii s1.,1Y
eoot' mill by the year to the company.
Hilary was staggered for the
ment. Morris, as his uncle's manas
90 leasing the mill to Morris, a partner
-, Rrousseau's company, seemed a gu
role.
.ssR ..How do they tell our lumber II
NSYl theirs?" asked Hilary presently.
~ "Oh. that amt hard" said Ii
you see, the jobbers, who subie
tbe tracts. know how much their
have cut. And its scaled In
woods before they shoot II &c
stream. l guess there amt no Q
~ Guilty there, Mr.. Askew. And you
II Mr.. Norris representing both conce
N he naturally does his best by Doti
~ EN-"