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


two hundred pounds, and he would
choose the biggest of the steers he
drove down to the lower levels in the
winter and, twisting It's 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
bis 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
'he 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
~ The faint smoke of a 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 clothed in forests of evergreen.
over the heads of the green hills Dan
could see few great peaks; Nc
Laughlin even and regular as a paint
81 mountain; Wagner, with queer
white gashes where the snow still Law
IN its ravines. and to the southeast
The misty range Of snow-covered hills
mat were the Sickeyous. He felt de-
Vas Lennox waiting patiently beside
4 tHe station, he felt he had come to
die right place
II would be interesting to explain
n why Dan at once recognized the older
81 man for the breed he was Silas Len
nox was not dressed in A wav that
would distinguish him. It was true
u mat ne wore a flannel shirt. riding
u trousers and rather heavy. leathern
81 oo''S. But spOrtsmen all over the
81 'b'e OF the earth wear this costume at
sloory times. Mountain men have a
u peculiar stride by which experienced
81 persons can occasionally recognize
4'em but Silas Lennox was standing
s.'A when Dan got his first glimpse of
''.'4. Inc case resolves itself into a
''p'e matter of the things that could
he read in Lennox's face.
"4n disbelieved wholly In a book
~ '6l tod how 10 read characters at
sA~ Yet at the first glance OF the
I. oronzed face his heart gave
.olS little bound. A pair of gray
s met his-two fine black points in
nara gray iris. They didn't
laSt him. or at either side of him.
ar bis chin ct his forehead. They
'@sa right az mis- own eyes. The skin
4aa the eyes was burned brown bv
- sun. and the flesh vas So lean that
e eheekbones showed plainly. The
was straight; but yet II was
eaVage nor cruel. 1t was sim
p determined.
-ahox came up with a light. silent
-a and extended his hand. You're
%" Rulings grandson. aren't your"
asked I'm Snas Lennox. who
70 know him when he lircd on
divide. You are coming TO spend
INNER and fall on my ranch"
immediate result Of those
besides relief. was to set Dan
'eF'ng how the old mouutalneer
" recognized him. He wondered II
gag any physical resemblance 70
-'ahdfather. BIT this hope was
20 Earth at once. His telegram
explained about his malsdy. and
curse the mountaineer had picked
'- 'a' simply because he had the