South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-04-27

Cdiduldn Sllll stared at the ruins.
"Eet is all Ba'teese' fault"
4 though you were my friend
Ba'tiste."
"Sacre! I am"
Then show it, I've got about
fifteen thousand in the bank. There's
enough lumber around here TO build
new saw-shed. and money to buy
a few saws. And ! need help-I
won't be able 10 move without you.
But"
QUIZ"
But" and Barry smiled at him,
If you ever mention any response
bility for this thing again-you're
fired. Do we understand each other? %
The next morning Barry went TO
Denver, and in week returned TO
Tabernacle, thence across country TO
camp
He found no Ba'tiste but there was
something else which held Hous-
tons interest for a moment and
which stopped aim. staring wonder
ingly into the distance. a new skid
way had made its appearance on the
side of the jutting mountain nearest
the dam. Logs were tumbling down
ward In slow, but steady succession,
10 disappear. then to show them
selves. bobbing jerkily outward to-
ward the center of the lake. A
thunderous voice was booming belli-
gerently from the distance:
You lie-un'stan' Ba'teese say
YOU lief you no like Get. jus
what-you-say-climb up me. Un'-
stan? Climb up me-"
Houston broke into a run. racing
along the flume with constantly in
/ creasing speed as he heard outburst
after Outburst from the giant trap
per, interJected by the lesser sounds
/ of argumentative voises in reply.
Family he heard a wOman's voice,
I then Ba tistes i'm sudden command.
GO ou-you no belong here.
. Ba'teese, he handle this Go long,"
Houston. at last made the turn OF
I the road as 10 followed the fiume, and
saw the broad back of the Canadian.
I squared as he was, half across the
road Facing him were five men
with shovels and hammers, work
men Of the Blackburn camp. Hous-
I ton looked more closely, then gasped.
1t was another fume: they were
making a connection with his own.
What's this mean?" he demand
ed angrily.
The foreman looked up caustical-
. IT,
I've told YOU about ten times,
/ he answered. addressing himself TO
Ba tiste. We're building a connec-
tion on our flume"
our funnel" Houston gasped the
words II own this fume and this
lake and this fume site"
If your names Houston, I guess
YOU do" came the answer. But if
YOU can read and write. YOU ought
90 know that while YOU may own it.
YOU don't use IT, That's our privi-
lcEe from now on, in cold black and
white AS far as the law is con-
cCrued, this is our dume, and our
water. and our lake. and our woods
back there. And were going 10 use
all OF EN-. as much as we please
and is your business 10 stay out OF
our way
CHAPTER VIII
The statement took Houston of
his feet for a moment; but recovery
came just as quickly. a recoiI with
+ The red splotches of anger blazing
before his eyes. the surge OF hot
+ blood sweeping through his veins.
The heat of conflict i'm his brain. His
ECod hand clenChed. 4 leap and he
had struck the foreman on the point
T OF the chin. sending him Keeling
backward while the other men
rushed 20 his assistance
That's my answer 10 YOU" shout
ed Houston.
Rum tell Thayer," shouted the
foreman. and then with recovering
strength. be turned for a cant hook.
D But Ba'tiste seized 10 first.
Here comes somebody" Ba'tiste's
grip tightened about the cant hook
and he rose. squaring himself. Hous-
ton seized the club and stood wait
ing a few feet in the rear. in readi-
ness for anyone who might evade the
au.Wark OF blows which Batiste evil
IDENTIFY intended 10 set up.
4 moment more and Ba'tiste. with
sudden exclamation. allowed his
cant hvoN 90 drop 90 the ground.
Get is Thayer and Wade. the
sheriff from Montview. and his
deputy. Peun Have ne fool heem
too?"
The sheriff pulled two legal docu-
ments from his pocket. and unfold
ms them, had shown Houston the