Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1921-03-26
CHAPTER II-continued.

les, steele knew Dill. Dill WelSueu
two hundred pounds, and he would
choose the biggest of the steers he
drove down to the lower levels in the
winter and, twisting its horns, would
make 1t lay over on its side. Besides.
both of the men assumed that Dan
must be only In the first stages of his
malady.
And even as the men talked, the
train that bore Dan Failing TO the
home of his ancestors was entering
for the first time the dark forests of
pine and fir that make the eternal
background Of the Northwest. He was
wholly unable to understand the
strange feeling OF familiarity that he
had with them, a sensation that in
his dreams he had known them al
ways, and that he must never go out
of the range of them again.
Dan didn't see his host at first. For
the first instant he was entirely en-
crossed by a surging sense of disap-
pointment-a feeling that he had been
tricked and had only come to another
city after ALL He got down onto the
gravel of the station yard, and out on
The gray street pavement he heard
she clang of a trolley car Many au-
tomObiles were parked just beside the
station, some of them foreign cars of
expensive makes. such as he supposed
would be wholly unknown on the
frontier A man in golf clothes
brushed his shoulder.
Dan looked up to the hills. and he
felt better He couldn't see them plain
u The faint smoke of distant for
est fire half obscured them. Yet he
saw fold on fold of ridges of a rather
peculiar blue in color, and even his
unframed eyes could see that they
were clOtred in forests of evergreen.
Over the heads of the green hills Dan
could see few great peaks; Nc
Laughlin, even and regular as paint
cd mountain; Wagner, with queer
white gashes where the snow still lay
IN its ravines, and to the southeast
The misty range Of uncovered hills
that were the Sickeyous. He felt de-
el3edly better. And when he saw old
S'as Lennox waiting patiently beside
the station, he felt he had come to
ne right place
Il would be interesting to explain
why Dan at once recognized the older
man for the breed he was. Silas Len
noz was not dressed in a way that
would distinguish him. It was true
mat ne wore a flannel shirt riding
trousers and rather heavy, leathern
4 oeotS But spOrtsmen all over the
iaee OF the earth wear this costume at
saadry times. Mountain men have a
q l+eni'ar stride by which experienced
persons can occasionally recognize
mem but Silas Lennox was standing
s.t4 when Dan got his first glimpse of
'l5.a The case resolves itself into a
iaP.e matter of the things that could
~ read in Lennox's face.
nan disbelieyed wholly in book
ahl told how to read characters at
sa~ Yet at the FIRST glance Of the
oFonzed face his heart gave a
ols little bound A pair Of gray
met his-two fine black points In
aer hard gray iris. They didn't
pas, him. or at either side Of him.
bis chin ar his forehead. They
SEQ right az MS own eyes. The skin
the eyes was burned brown by
SIN. md the flesh vas s. lean- that
= eheekbones showed plainly. The
was straight; but yet it was
savage nor cruel. 1t was sim
determined.
anoz came up with a light. silent
80 ana extended his hand. You're
aillngs grandson. aren't youg"
asked "Tm Snas Lennox. who
30 know him when he Iiecd on
divide. You are coming 10 spend
inner and fan on my ranch"
immediate result of these
besides relief. was TO set Dan
how the old mounrsIneer
o-n5zed him He wondered If
aaT physical resemblance TO
11.ather Bet this hope was
% earth at once. His telegram
AIMED about his maiady. and
lfse the mountaIneer had picked
= ont simply because he had the