The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1921-01-28
copyright. 1920. by Little. Brown : c

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with steel cable, but an ordinary
line or leader breaks like a cObweb.
When his majesty the steeIhead takes
the fly and decides to run. 1t can be
learned after a time that the one
thing that may be done Is to let out all
the line and with. prayer and humble.
ness try to keep up with him.
Dan no longer wore his glasses
Every day his eyes had strengthened
He could see more clearly now, with
his unalded 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
face had changed, too. 1t was no
longer so white. The eyes were more
intent The lips were straIghter.
Its been two months" Sllas Len.
nox told him, half the four that you
gave yourself after you arrived here.
And you're twice as good now as when
you came.'
Dan nodded. "Twlcel Ten times
as good ! was wreck when came.
To-day | climbed halfway up Badly
within a half mile of Snowblrd's cab
in--withont stopping to rest
Lennox looked thoughtful More
than once, of late, Dan had climbed up
toward Sn0wbird's cabin. 1t was true
that his guest and his daughter had
become the best of companions In the
two months; but on second thought.
Lennox was not In the least afraid Of
complications. The love of the noun
tain women does not go out to phys.
zeal interiors. Whoever gets her, !"
he had said twill have to tame her, "
and his words still held good. The
mountain women rarely mlstOOk a ma
ternal tenderness for an appealing
man for love. II wasn't that Dan was
weak except from the ravages of bis
disease; but he was still long way
from Snowbirds ideal. Although Dan
had courage and that same rigid self
control that was an old quality in his
breed, he was sthl long way from
a physically strong man, II was still
an even break whether he would ever
wholly recover from his malady.
But Dan was not thinking about
this now. All his perceptions had
sharpened down to the finest focal
point. and he was trying to catch the
spirit Of the endless forest that
stretched In front of the house. His
pipe had gone out, and for long time
Lennox hadn't spoken. He seemed tc
be straining too, with ineffective
senses, trying to recognize and name
the faint sounds that came SO tlnglinl
and tremuous out Of the darkness. Al
always, they heard the stir and rustl,
of the gnawing people; the chipmunks
in the shrubbery, the gophers who
like blind misers, had ventured fortl
from their dark burrows; and per
hops even the scaly glide Of thos'
most-dreaded poison people that hat
lairs in the rock piles.
Dan felt that at last the wilderness
itself was speaking to him. He hat
waited long time to hear its voice
His thought went back to the wis'
men Of the ancient world, waiting t
hear the riddle of the universe from
the lips OF the. Sphinx, and how h
himself--more In his unconscious self
rather than consclous--had sought th'
eternal riddle Of the wilderness. III
had asked questions--never In thu
form OF words but only ineffabl'
yearnings of his s0ul--and at last !
had responded. The strange risinl
and falling song was Its own voice. tn
articulation of the very heart and sou
of the wilderness.
"Ifs the wolf pack" Lenn0x toll
him softly. "The wolves have jus
Joined together for the fall rutting.
"Then this means the end of tn
SUMMER Dan asked
an way, but yet We don't coun
the summer ended until the rain
break. Heavens. wish they woul'
start I've never seen the hills $
dry, and I'm afraid that either Der
| Cranston or some Of his friends vii
decide it's time TO make little mon
ev fighting forest fires. Dan. I'm sus
| picious of that gang. | believe they'v
got a regular arson ring, maybe wit
INSCRIPTIONS stockmen behind then
and perhaps just penny-winning dea
of their own. suppose you kno'
about Landy Hlldreth-how he's prom
Used to turn states evidence that wi
send about a dozen of these vipers
the peniteutlary?" &4
"Snowbird told me something abou