Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1921-04-16
BY EDISON MARSHALL
Copyright. 1920. by Little. Brown & Co

Copyright, 1920 by Little Brown & Co.
with a steel cable, hut an ordinary
line or leader breaks like a cobweh.
When hls majesty the steelhead takes
jhe fly aud decides 10 run. it can be
learned after time that the one
thing that may lee done is to let out all
the line and with PRAYER and humble
ness try 10 keep mp with him.
Dan no longer wore his glasses
Every day his eyes had strengthened.
lie could see more clearly now. with
his unaided eyes. than he had ever
seen before with the help Of the lens.
And The moonlight came down through
a rift in the trees and showed that his
race had changed, too. 1t was no
lon~cr SO white. The eyes were more
intent The lips were straighler.
It's been two months" Silas Len
noX told him, half the four that you
gave Yourself after you arrived rere.
Ana you're twice as good now as when
You came"
Dan nodded Twice, Ten times
as good I was a wreck when came.
Today | climbed halfway up Baldy-
within a half mile of Srowbird's cab
in-without stopping to rest"
Lennox looked thonqbtfuI Marc
than once, of late, Dan had climbed up
toward Snovbir,l.s cahio II v.o. ,,.,a
that his guest ana his danohtar had
become The best of co,unopiors in rho
two months. but ON sncona tho,,gb+
LennoN was MOI In the le,st af,aid ot
complications The love or tho n,oun-
tain women does nor 90 nut in nbvs.
jcal interiors "Wboavar ,st. ho,. "
he had said will have IN ,.,n,a hon.
ana his words SIN held gooa Tho
mountain women rarely n,jsto,l, "a nm
terual tenderness for nm anuaoItno
man for love If wa>n't nm Dan v,as
weak cxcppt from the ruvaeoS Of his
disease bur he was SIN q lono wov
from Snovhird'S ideal Altbouob nan
had courage and that same rigid self
control that was an old quality in his
breed, he was siill a long way from
physically strong man. Ii was still
an even break whether he would ever
wholly recover from his malady.
But Dan was not thinking abont
this now. All his perccptions had
>haIpcned down to the finest focal
point. and he was irving fo catch the
spirit Of the endless forest fhot
stretched in front Of lie house. HIS
pipe had gone out. and for long time
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lee Straining too. with ineffective
senses, trying TO recognize and name
The faint sounds that came so tjnoliuo
and tremulous out Of the darkness. As
always, they heard the stir ana rustic
Of the gnawne people; the chipmunks
in the shruhbery, the gophers who
like blind mi>prs, had ventured forth
from their dark burrows; and per
maps even the Scaly glide of those
most-dreaded poison people that had
lairS in the rock piles
Dan felt that AT last the wilderness
itself was speaking to him. He had
waited a long time to hear its voice
His thought went back to the wise
men of the ancient world. waiting to
hear the riddle of the universe from
the lips of the Sphinx, and how he
himself-more in his unconscious self
rather than conscious--had sought the
eternal riddle of the wilderness. He
had asked questions-never in the
form Of words but only iuenable
warnings Of his soul-and an last il
had responded. The strange rising
and falling song was its own voice, the
of fine Wilderness