Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-04-26
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A series of mysterious accidents
in the lumber mill left him by his
father on the condition that he
maintain a high output. has con-
WINGED
BARRY HOUSTON that his super.
intendent.
FRED THAYER, is guilty of sabo-
tage. Motoring from Boston to
the timber lands in Colorado,
Houston's automobile plunges
ove a cliff a few miles from
Tabernacle. where the mill Is
located.
Houston is nursed back to health
BA'TIsTE RENAUD. an eccentric
but wh~ole-hearted French-Cana-
dian who became a trapper fol-
lowing the tragedies of his sons
death in France and the unsolyed
murder of his wife. In Ba'tiste's
cabin Houston meets
MEDAINE ROBINETTE, a girl OF
twenty who owns adjoining timber
land. Ba'tiste agrees to assist
Houston and they decide to in
vestigate a mysterious telegram
which caused Houston's trip from
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10 tlAClp tNGI a 1AiC WhCL "a
operator isn't there? !"
AT loon. He go out to dinner,
and he leave open the door. If Get
Is something You want. walk in"
Thanks" A strange eagerness
wal in Houeton's eyes. IT think I'll
be able to get up tomorrow. Maybe
I ~ walk over there"
CHAPTER ~
"Bon-good." came from Ba'tiste
as they turned into the little village
Of Tabernacle the next day. "Bon-
tho agent is leaving"
You walk as though going into
the station to loaf. Ba'tiste will
come behind-and keep watch"
Barry obeyed. A moment o
and he was within the converted box
car. Houston turned hastily toward
the file hook and began to turn the
pages of the original copy which
hung there.
Suddenly he bent forward and x
AHMED a notation in a strange hand:
"Missent Houston. Resent Black
burn"
It explained much to Barry Hous-
ton, that scribble of -four words. Il
told him why he had received a tele-
gram which meant nothing to him.
yet caused suspicion enough for a
~two-thousand- mile trip.
~. c. Blackburn,
" Deal Building, Chicago. Ill.
Our friend reports Boston deal put
over OK. Everything safe. Sugges.
start preparations for operations in
time compete Boston for the big
thing. Have Boston where we want
him and will keep him there.
THAYER.
Hastily Houston crawled over the
railing, and m%otioning to Ba'tistc.
led him away from the station.
The giant traced out the words.
He looked III sharply.
Boston? You came from Bos-
ton?"
Yes. 1t must mean that Thayer'5
been running my mill down to help
along some competitor. You'll notice
that he says he has me where he
wants me-"
"Oui-yes. But has he? What
was the deal?"
az don't know. Suddenly Houston
frowned with presentiment. "Thay-
er'e been going with Medaine a good
deal, hasn't he?"
"Oui-yes. When Ba'teese can
think of no way to keep him from
It,"
1T couldn't be that he's made
some arrangements with her-about
her forest lands?"
but Ba'teese would have hear OF
eet." came the repetition. mo, eet
is something else. Ba'teese will try
to learn who eet is, this Blackburn"
They parted. Ba'tiste to lounge
back into the tiny town. Houston to
take the winding road which led
back to the cabin.
lie glanced ahead and noticed the
trim figure of Medaine Robinette
swinging along the road. old Lost
Wing trailing in her rear, astride a
calico pony and leading the saddle
horse which she evidently had be-
Wtome tired of riding. She had not
yseen him, and Barry hurried toward
her, jamming his cap into a pocket
that his hand might be, free to greet
her. He waved airily as they came
closer and called. But if she heard
him. she gave no indication. Instead.
h turned-swiftly, Houston thought
and mounted her horse. A moment
later she trotted past him, and again
he greeted her, to De answered by a
nod and a slight movement OF the
lips. But the eyes had been averted.
Barry could see that the thinnest
veneer of p~oliteness had shielded
something else as she spoke to him
-an expression Of d~istaste. of dis
IKE, almost I0athing.
1t was thus that old friends had
passed him by in Boston; it was thus
that men who had been glad to Dor
row money from him in other days
had looked the other way when the
clouds had come. A strange chill
went owe him.
"Thayer's told her!"
s He spoke the sentence like a man
repeating the words OF an execution.
His features suddenly had grown
haggard. He stumbled slightly as he
made the next rise in the road and
went OF slowly, silently, toward the
cabin.
There Ba'tiste found him, slumped
on the bench, staring out at the
white and rose pinks of Mount Talu-
chen. yet seeing o n of IT.
"You worry, huh? Ba'teese help.
There are men at the boarding
house."
THE Blackburn crowd?"
80. Seven carpenters and others.
>They work for Blackburn. They
Are here to build a mill"
y ION Medaine's land then!" But