The Dolores star. [volume] (Dolores, Montezuma County, Colo.) 1901-current, 1920-06-04
By VICTOR ROUSSEAU
by Irwin Myers

him inside the room. ana toot
beside him
| Hilary looked Mt him with n -.
steal smile. Were finished
This AFFAIR. coming on top of IN. M
ceiling of those jobbers' lease, NH
ended me-"
LATE scratched his. chin bu, !.
nothing to this
You see" said Hilary. "nccord,,.
my reckoning we shnll have abop,
ty thousand dollars on hand NJ.
September first That will las, n,
Christmas. On the first Of the
we shall be up against 1t. We ~
another sixty thousand to carr
through the winter. till naye,.
opens and we call sell our cutting
banks going to lend us anything y
| our record"
| 1--WE can ship six thousand cord
December first" said LATE.
"Thirty-five thousand dollars-pae
hnps less"
I'VE could get more out Of ID
river bottoms suggested LATE.
and shut down in the midi.
March,"
AS far as I can see" I.afe bu-. r.
out. you'll be about ten Thousand 4 t.
Mr.. Askew. assuming things 90 iat.. IA
well. That's why I came here. ~
see. it's Nike this. I've got nearly ID
thousand in the First National b. D
nj Shoeburyport. Mass. Clarice-Y
Conneli that is-wouidn't let me u
her a house on the instnllment "
as I wanted to. She said rs I'd nsn.l
know when we'd need the money I'd
II couldn't pay up on time they'd ~
1t away from us somehow. no map
what the contract said. II seensf.
mighty unreasonable to me. Mr. u
kew. but I'm glad now--I sure 81
glad" rs
"Lafc." said Hilary. "are you crs'
enough to suppose I'm going to ID
the money that you and Mrs, Conn
have been saving up for home, "a
put it into this bankrupt concernT
"Oh. shucks!'' said LATE, W
that amt nothing. guess | know
good thing when see one. I'm lcsIs
ing 1t To you. Mr.. Askew, at-any NJ
you want to pay me-
"Lafe. you're fool" said HilsIs
. trying to keep his voice steady: zig
. tempted. But I'm not going to III
it."
! "Then guess I'll take tne next III
/. home," shouted Lafe. ~ amt god
] to work for busted concern wlHf
2 going to leave me stranded up here 4
! midwinter. not drawing u cent. ID
Clarice-my wifa-and the kids L
I Shoeburyport. No, sir You tab
e that or I'll leave. 1t amt so crss
d as you think. TT. give me an interas
e in getting the last ounce out of "
( men-and guess Clarice will N
e prove. And when the concerns on y
i own legs. you-why. you can raise nj
wages"
+ Council. you're n trump" said Hl
5 airy. "I'll take 1t. Yes. I'll take it. b.
r cause know now that I am going 4
I we're as much in earnest as we ar
e Good Lord. what Il Respondent foa
I've been,''
!. Same here" said Lafe. II was jus
2 hopeless. till you made me SCI
, straight"
. why. it was you made me Sc
: straight" said Hilary. snow. Con
nell. we'll push things hard from thi
, very minute. Wen start in cuttin
: along the river. and Wen float tn
logs right down stream to the mill an
I well keep Dupont and his schoone
coming and going till navigation close
, even if we make Riviere Rocheus
. look as bare as our bank account wa
looking just now. Baptiste will D
: worth score when he understands
He broke or suddenly. and the tw
men, struck by the same though
looked at each other.
, ~ wonder why Baptiste went on
, soon as he'd dynamited the jam" sol
, Hilary.
: He felt ashamed of his suspicion
Yet, remembering that day VINE
: Baptiste was comforting with Pier''
he could not wholly rid himself
them.
: "Lafe." he said. "what was 1t 20
heard those men saying after the N
cident? You started"
"Why. guess that wasn't nothln'
, Mr.. Askew You know how excle
, these people get over trifies. They'
r Just like flock Of geese gabb'ln
. around"
What was 1t. Lafe?"
: "Just nonsense. sir. Not worth J
3 peating, but-well. you see. It's III
way. Some darned fool said that SOM
= body had sawed part way through %
r logs Of the boom"
, Then for the first time the words
' Madeleine Rosny came back to Hlla'
/. Look to your boom! Look to Wv
BOOM"
He hung his head and flushed VII
i. shame. II seemed impossible to as'
ciate that act Of treachery with hef'
J. Yet, struggle AZ he did. her |"
| Wnssls haunted B,t,r,