The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-10-07
PineCliff
b JESSIE E. sHERwiN

%. 1920. Western Newspaper Union.)
IAN right and title" repeated Will
bur Deane after the lawyer who had
Informed him that lie was legatee to
a small portion Of the estate of Peter
Groll. That means that l own a
house and lot at-what's the name Of
the outlandish placer" M ny.
pine Cliff, but "a house and lot
scarcely describes the benefice. In the
first place it is remote. Fish and game
abound, mostly nothing else. 1t is in
the widest part of Wisconsin,, the
| favored hegira of the sportsman. A
rough: lumber shack is the general res
idence amid burned-over stumps and
primeval forest"
swell, I need change and I think
l will go up there and look over my
inheritance"
There Is your deed" remarked the
lawyer, handing Deane an envelope.
You have simply to record it. think
your uncle told me that the last time
he visited Pine Cliff, he made arrange
ments to allow an old trapper and his
child to occupy the place for nominal
rental, but that is only a verbal lease
from season to season" ~:
Every good" smiled Dea-e, indulg-
ing In visions of bachelor Eousekeep-
ing, of free deer meat, wild honey and
choice game, and nightfall saw him on
the train bound north on his expert
o< MI ~
one, except for few hundred miles.
Then came belated connections, final
fifty miles in an emigrant cabOOse
twenty more in broken down wagon
over a corduroy roadway and at dusk
he reached what there was Of Cross
ed Hotel" half score of lumber
camp cabins and a general store ald
postOffice combined. It was after. a
night of sweltering upon homemade
cot without mattress or covering,
that Deane awoke the next morning to
hire a guide who would pilot him to
Pine Cliff, better known as "Old Day
tons place." =.
"'Why that?" inquired Deane, seek
ing en1ightment. ......
"Oh, Jacob Dayton and his daughter
have lived there for five years and the
original owner seems to have forgot
ten all about it." was the explanation.
"Yes, I heard the tenant had a
child" remarked Deane.
"A child? She's grown up into a
good deal of smart, clipper young
lady since she came here. Why didn't
YOU notify them you were coming?
They meet most of the vacationers
here and drive them in their rig wher-
ever they wish to camp along Bas-
cOmbe river"
Deane viewed tire only piece of real
estate he had ever owned in list
less way. The house was intensely
ugly looking, the few acres about It
covered with stumps and rocks. One
token of color and beauty attracted
where brief reach of hollyhocks and
wild rose showed. Deane paid the
guide his charge and crossed the
creek on bOulders: AS he approached
the Eouse tall, pretty girl, seemingly
Is, came to- the doorway. 1t was
pleasure to gaze upon the only woman
~ creature Deane had seen passing
over some two hundred miles. She
Wore a neatly fitting calico dress and
dafntily decorated moccasins, and her
delicate hands and perfectly arranged
wealth of curling brown hair might
/ I,Sx ~
sfve devotee of fashion. There was
winning grace in her smile and the
bend of Ter head Deane exerted him
self to appear as a thoughtful gentle
man extending full consideration to a
young lady entitled to the completest
chosen words he revealed his identity
and the object Of his visit.
"Father will be here soOn,' said Err
ma Dayton. eve have wondered that
no one has been here to see about the
place through the years and we were
thinking of removing to the city. You
see father and have made the best
of our lot and he is getting old. This,
is my work." and inviting Deane, in
side, she indicated table where
mass of feathers and some fish hooks
and wire showed. &
''This is my work and has been for
some Time" she explained. There is
a chicken farm across country twenty
miles and it's owner furnishes me with
my feather supply. l made few bats
for fishing party some time ago and
seemed to have invented trout bait
as to fneness and color with which
they were very successful. Since then
these rich anglers who visit here seem
to think they cannot do without my
special invention, and some Of them
spread the news among the club mem
bers in several large cities and ] have
had lot of orders as result. Then,
too, sporting goods house in Chicago
has written n1e, asking If am IN pO-
gsition to supply Them u
It was a pleasure for Deane to CO
operate with this wildwood flower, so
sweet and innocent and yet SO fully
fTnhnp(1 with tie commercial instinct