Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1920-02-20
CHATTERTON'S
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8 By WILL T. AMES 4
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&c, 1920, by Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.)
Were to pick up four more lengths
at the Red Barn." announced Peltier,
the train boss, to McNider, the engi-
neer of the log train.
"Who said so?' demanded McNider,
hating in his task OF tinkering the
leaky cyclinder of the queer little loco
motive.
His N1bs,. replied Beltier with a
kSag of his shoulders that confirmed
indication of Ere hch descent pro-
BE gratuY Gus
Al breathless gTAdl-
company's road(
|lUborated the tram
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going to do with a
er?" exclaimed Pei
him if he had for
IS Janice was going on
he bawled me ent !. ask
H,ught was; said they
zen and twelve on the
bfher haul twenty
e,' commented the
Ecu are! We haul the
|slss 4sreener goes-+and like
tell get smashed fiat between
of tweMe-inch butts!" And
boss took himself somberly
that the five lengths" of
&c Logs were slowed as safe
rucks an human care could
vlev 'eltier. middle-siZed. strong,
IYne. hsNs been born to the woods like
his father before him. But he had
Yielded to the pet desire of the father
and had gone to school and college.
For Peltier, senior, was making little
money as woods iobber and was pos
sessed to spend it on an education for
the boy; which is often the way with
men who have had no schooling them
selves. The war came when Dave
was in his sophomore year at Tech
and he had gone over with the first
contingent of foresters
I When he got back it was to find his
father dying. the little business melted
away and the task Of getting a living
before him. He had been train boss
for the Burke outfit when the new
manager, Greener, came; and he had
at once attracted the attention Of Miss
Janice Greener when that young WOm-
an arrived. month ago, to visit her
brother and, principally, to get new
material for the paintings of winter
woods and lumber camps which had
already brought fer some measure of
success.
1
lists contempt for the cOnventi0nali-
ties, had permitted herself and per
mitted Peltier a degree of intimacy in
their friendship that led, as, the down
hill flow of water, to q frank confess
sion of regard by the young woods
man; for Dave Peltier had never
thought of himself as the inferior of
any being on earth.
The consequences had been calami-
tous. Janice Greener suddenly discOv-
cred that her artist colony democracy
was only skin deep-and she had
stung Peltier as a woman can sting
a man only when she realizes that it
is the difference in their social posi-
lions which alone makes his proffered
love impossible of acceptance. This
was two days before Janice's depar-
ture from the camp.
Miss Greener should have travelled
in the cab Instead she had insisted
in riding, somehow, on the logs. So
Peltier, obeying an order Of the man
ager, had built an ingenious little plat
form of planks over the rear truck Of
the fifth length, above the logs. Here,
nestled among half a dozen old fur
coats. the headstrOng girl was snugly
perched as the lurching train bumped
alongksu its twenty-nnile journey to the
mills. At the Red Barn came to her
Peltier urged on by visible worry.
Miss Greener." he said, won't You
please ride the rest of the way in the
cab. It's really dangerous among the
logs. We're going to take on four
more lengths here; they'll be behind
YOU. If anything happens youth be
right in the middle Of it."
mfr. Peltier," returned Miss Green
er. 'I do not wish you to concern your
self with my safety at all. don't IN
derstand why my brother keeps in a
position where a little nerve is neces-
sary a person $3.50 extremely APP
prehensive."
What could man do after that but
turn on his heel and stalk away? And