Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-09-20
-,u,o pEGrNs THE STORY

s,tss Of Jonathomn e. a; a. mG%s,S. a;,.d :, m ore
gskss EE,u"ssy. K U"Sy Kennedy says No
dsS d Killed man named ben
Ssmsron, their partner @ m go'1h 49, ptv
ssctirs IN mG X .nnsSv m aid tho kin.
fc0sppv, fc0ps,.r ~, believes MCGUIRE and sets
ss.t to oiroumoent Kennedy. MO
esirs learns ,na. M :, .;oh 1et% borSood' h "a inc
~ hy,r9 of !" his former partner. and
ssswy;,s, Peter to pdy her q million
EiIas the moment me d. msndoo !"
Iennedv s, = W"yuire estate to pisit
is and there meets Beth Cameron
md iearns ,cho she %. Sho oemoyss -
Peter y ao1oish p.ter has received ,oord
M eups p,ipce.s inc Galitzin, a friend IN
E.rope, that the Boishep;k' p, are On
NJ track, a"s 'ne ,s, ,uy nres.noe ] amomo
home to htm op W s,,ninontenfs
w .en Oh "st1I m IVeus III frat az.
Ered op Wn. GnuI ;rolous Of him.
istenf. ,, 1, ,";tk Befh Cameron.
Dem de We ~ ~ he danger In tho
TAsre seom Hit. froubls.
ssnp 0 '" '",.,w I'm roNTINvrEs
AND hnnH - o"'
N rrRsT Peter had thought that
l IA .a,v,dually many Of the men hked
mu ~. J,,. wbet M could for
N, he nad aono 80 49,. .,.,...
6sIr comfort and paid tnem INC h,she's
~. iustifiable, but gradually he FOUND
80. ,neusnce was being undermined
Oat nis n s,,tr-sd iaov,nu which
snd that tho Boou '. -
v.,sr had at first tried 10 toierate nao
80, "a loafing on tho job, and finally
"i"'u :" 20 rebe,lion. More men
v overt ae.' " .nd otbsr. With even
bad been sent a""' 81. 49, -.
:, .bsm had enunciated Bolshevist
po"e y, "a, - anu 10 Flvnn,s or
doctrines as WIN 10 I.c..,.. a.,oa
iscobi's. Jonathan N Mc"uire s.'ou
!. !. type which represented the hier-
,,.o,,b and was therefore their
Peny VI snsmv Peter in a quiet
eereoIaiy hunk house one night had
tan tn mt once Jonathan X. Nc
yem tpem h.sn as moor as. IL not poorer
vulfo nsu 80 ~ .bem. But even as he
nan, Sn' Nd felt that his words had
SPOKE ne ,nress;on mrr II was what Nc
@soe Nv no,v that mattered. they told
Sufe WI ~ this land. all this lumber,
nlm. az M,sonIs's and they'd get it,
sn ,,,po with great earnestness,
%o, ~ . norsonal experience of which
M n .n,id not dream. Peter pointed out
~v .U, wbst had happened and was
70 T S.,n.ninu In Russia and painted
~. r,uor;ng nicture of helplessness and
.,;"n hnt thev smoked their mines
.,,.nns and answered him not at all.
n, sn'msr ,rsro NOT IN he reasoned with. II
nT Tsr;at cana to America they were
I;,,,oo suy go 70 trv Il Tbev would try any-
NJ. orco
NJ, Shad Wells was "canny" and
p.,.r Ind never succeeded in tracing
an, ~ The accidents or any of the dis
s.rsons directly 70 his door. Without
evidence against him Peter did not think
/. Wise to send him out of camp. for
m,ny of the men were friendly to Shad
,rd his dismissal was sure TO mean nm
unbeayal of sorts. Peter knew that
|Gbad hated him for what had happened
A. the cabin. but that in his heart he
s..aa ~ onr,o az. ;nto tha nron ,yharo
: renetition of his undoing in public
|migbt destroy bis influence forever. So
M Peters face he was sullenly obedient,
|tstinv care Ia give the nppearance OF
carving ont his orders. while as soon
IA Peters back was turned he laughed,
loafed and encouraged others to do the
same.
And for the last week Peter had not
liked the looks OF things. At the lum.
her camn the work was almost Mt n
standstilf. and the sawmills were silent,
Jesse Brown had told him that Flynn
and jacob had been at the bunkhouse
land that the men had voted him down
when % tho foremap had tried - send
them away. Il was clear that some
radical step would have to be taken at
once to restore discipline or Peters au-
thority and usefulness as superinten-
dent would be only a matter of hours.
1t was Of all Of these things that
Peter thought as he bumped his way in
the "fivver" over the corduroy road
through the swamp land which led to
the lower reserve, and as he neared the
scene of these material difficulties all
thought Of Hawk Kennedy passed from
hl mind.
There was the other danger. too. that
had been one Of the many subjects Of |
Ue letter OF Anastasie Galitzin, for |
teter had no doubt now that the for
elgner with the dark mustache who had |
followed him down from New York and
who some weeks ago had been sent out
'i the camp was no other than the agent
y the Soviets, who had forwarded to
London the information as to his
Peter had not seen this
man since the day of his dismissal, but
ne suspected that he was in the plot
With Flynn. jacob and perhaps Shad
Wells to make mischief in the lumber
amp.
The opportunity that Peter sought m
sring matters to a focus was not long
n coming, for when he reached the
'awmills, which had resumed dcsultory
operations, he found Flynn and Ja-
Soi, the Reds" calmly seated in the
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