Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1904 — Page 7

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The Blazed Tr ail By STEWART EDWARD WHITE

SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS CHAPTERS. Chapter I—Morrison A Daly, lumbermen on the Sagauaw waters of Michlgun. drive a hard bargain with Rudway, a contractor. II and Ill—Harry Thorpe, having left his dependent sister Heleu, at service, tries for work at Morrison A Daly’s, fails and takes a job at choring until he can go to Radway's camp. „ IV—Thorpe at Rudway's making lumber road. The men attempt haziug. Thorpe puts on the gloves und knocks out the champion. V and Vl—Radway running behind owing to slack management. Thorpe a "swamper. Death of his chum, Paul. The men "chip in for the widow." Radway goes home for Christmas, leaving Dyer, the scaler. in charge. VII and 1 lll—Long delay waiting for roads to freeze. Thorpe hurt and seut to Sisters' hospital, Radway fails Thorpe out of work. IX-Thorpe demauds pay of M. A D. fur work done by Radway. The contract was illegal, and the firm have profited by the work done. M. AD. settle the account, X—Thorpe provides for Helen's education and goes into the north woods to locate valuable tract. Makes a friend of Injun Charley and a Chicago bov tourist. Wallace Carpenter. XI and Xll—Wallace has capital und helps Thorpe buy land. Dyer, the old scaler for Radway.' is out looking for land for M. A D. Thorpe goes to Detroit to head off his rivals' land purchase. XIII and XlV—Wallace sends telegraph order to Thorpe at the land office just in time to head off M. A I>. in a $30,000 purchase. M. A D. offer to buy. Thorpe won't sell. War declared. XV and XVl—Tint Shearer, former foreman for M. A D„ hires with Thorpe. Thoffjte takes forcible possession of a dock M. A D. have built abutting his new purchase. The rival firms agree to work in harmony. XVII—M. A D. close a gate in the dam above Thorpe's logs. Thorpe puts out a sentinel with a Winchester. Mischief ends, hut M. A D. bring two suits agitist Thorpe. XVIII. XIX. X.Xnnd XXl—Thorpe lias a poor case in court, but he buys a government tract which M. A D. have robbed of timber, to play off against them. Wallace loses heavilv in speculation, and Thorpe’s firm puts up $(30,000 to save him. Five years pass, and Thorpe is bewitched by 0 dream girl. XXII and XXlll—Hilda Farrand reaches the woods w ith a party . including Wallace's sister. Hilda is an heiress, and Wallace urges Thorpe to win her. Love in the forest. Hilda saw-Thorpe leave Detroit for the woods and always loved him. XXlV—Hilda asks Thorpe to spare the forest w here they first met Its sale will save the sinking firm. "Nothing better than love." she says. "Yes. the duty of suecess." Thorpe declares. They separate XXV. XXVI. XXVII. and XXVIII—WhiIe driving the logs down stream the flood bursts. A dam lias beeu blown up with dynamite. CHAPTER XXVl—Continued. Jimmy Powers, curly haired, laughing faced, was irrepressible. He badgered the others until they threw bark at him and menaced him with their peaveys. Always he had at his tongue’s end the proper quip for the occasion, so that in the long run the work was lightened by him. When the men stopped to think at all they thought of Jimmy Powers with very kindly hearts, for It was known that he had had more trouble than most and that coin was not made too small for him to divide with a needy comrade. Thorpe approved thoroughly of Jimmy Powers. He thought him a good influence. He told Wallace so. standing among the spectators on the cliff top. "He is all right” said Thorpe. “I wish I had more like him. The others are good boys too.” Five men were at the moment tugging futilely at a reluctant timber. They were attempting to roll one end of it over the side of another projecting log, but were continually foiled, because the other end was jammed fast Each bent his knees, inserting his shoulders under the projecting peavey stock, to straighten in a mighty effort It was a fine spring day, clear eyed and crisp, with a hint of new foliage in the thick buds of the trees. The air was so pellucid that one distinguished •without difficulty the straight entrance to the gorge a mile away, and even the West Bend, fully five miles distant Jimmy Powers took off his cap and wiped his forehead. “You boys,” he remarked politely, “think you are boring with a mighty big auger.” “My God!” screamed one of the spectators on 1 top of the cliff. At the same instant Wallace Carpenter seized his friend’s arm and pointed. Down the bed of the stream from the upper bend rushed a solid wall of water several feet high. It flung itself forward with the headlong Impetus of a cascade. Even In the short Interval between the visitor’s exclamation and Carpenter’s rapid gesture It had loomed In sight, twisted a dozen trees from the river bank and foamed into the entrance of the gorge. An Instant later it collided with the tall of the Jam. Even in the railroad rush of those few moments several things happened. Thorpe leaped for a rope. The crew working on top of the dam ducked instinctively to right and left and began to scramble toward safety. The men below, at first bewildered and not comprehending, Anally understood and ran toward the face of the jam with the intention of clambering up it There could be no escape In the narrow canyon below, the walls of which rose sheer.

Then the flood hit square. A great sheet of water rose like surf from the tall of the jam; a mighty cataract poured down over Its surface, lifting the free logs; from either wing t!ml»ers crunched, split, rose suddenly into wracked prominence, twisted beyond the semblance of themselves, liere and there single logs were even projected bodily upward, as an apple seed la shot from between the thumb and forefinger. Then the Jam moved. Scotty Parsons, Jack Hyland, Red Jacket and the forty or fifty men liad reached the shore. By the wriggling activity which is a river man’s alon& they succeeded In pulling themselves beyond the snap of death’s jaws. It was a narrow thing for most of them and a miracle for some. Jimmy Powers, Archie Harris, Long Pine Jim, Big Nolan and Mike Moloney, the brother of Bryan, were in

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worse case. They were, as has been said, engaged in “flattening” part of the jam about eight or ten rods below the face of it When they tinally understood that the affair was one of escape, they ran toward the Jam, hoping to climb out Then the crash came. They heard the roar of the waters, the wrecking of the timbers; they saw the logs bulge outward iu anticipation of the break. Immediately they turned and tied, they knew not where. All but Jimmy Powers. He stopped ehort in bis tracks and threw his battered old felt hat defiantly full into the face of the destruction hanging over him. Then, his bright hair blowing In the wind of death, he turned to the spectators standing helpless and paralyzed forty feet above him. *

Threw his battered old felt hat defiantly.

It was an instant’s impression—the arrested motion seen in the flash of lightning—and yet to the onlookers it had somehow the quality of time. For perceptible duration It seemed to them they stared at the contrast between the raging hell above and the yet peaceable river below. Yet afterward, when they attempted to recall definitely the impression, they knew it could have lasted but a fraction of a second. “So long, boys!” they beard Jimmy Powers’ voice. Then the rope Thorpe had thrown fell across a caldron of tortured waters and of tossing logs. CHAPTER XXVIII. ETOING perhaps ten seconds the survivors watched the end of Thorpe’s rope trailing in the flood. Then the young man with a deep sigh began to pull It toward him. At once a hundred surmises, questions, ejaculations, broke out. "What happened!'” cried Wallace Ca reenter. “What was that man’s name?” asked the Chicago journalist, with the eager instinct of his profession. “This is terrible, terrible, terrible!” a white haired physician from Marquette kept repeating over and over. A half aozen ran toward the point of the cliff to peer down stream, as though they could hope to distinguish anything in that waste of flood water. “The dam’s gone out,” replied Thorpe. “I don’t understand it Everything was in good shape as far as I could see. It didn't act like an ordinary break. The water came too fast. Wby, It was as dry as a bone until Just as that wave came along. An ordinary break would hare eaten through little by little before it burst, and Davis should have been able to stop it. This came all at once, as if the dam had disappeared! I don’t see.” His mind of the professional had already begun to query causes. “How about the men?” asked Wallace. “Isn’t there something I can do?” “You can head a hunt dawn the river,” answered Thorpe. “I think It is useless until the water goes down. Poor Jimmy! He was one of the best men I hat*. I wouldn’t have had this happen”— , The horror of the scene was at last beginning to filter through numbness Into Wallace Carpenter’s Impressionable imagination. “No, no!” he cried vehemently. “There is something criminal about it to me! I’d rather lose every log in the river!” Thorpe looked at him curiously. “It is one of the chances of war," said he. “I’d better divide the crew and take in both banks of the river,” suggested Wallace. “See If you can’t get volunteers from this crowd,” suggested Thorpe. “I can let you have two men to show you trails. I need as many of the crew as

possible to use tiffs flood water.” “Oh, Harry!” cried Carpenter, shocked. “You cap’t be going to work «gain today, before we have mode the slightest effort to recover the bodies!” “If the bodies can be recovered, they shall be,” replied Thorpe quietly. “But the drive will not watt. We have no dams to depend on now, yon must remember, and we shall have to get out on the freshet water.” ' “Your men won’t work. I’d refuse Just as they will!” cried Carpenter, his sensibilities still suffering. Thorpe smiled proudly. “You do not know them.” “By Jove!” cried the Journalist in sudden enthusiasm. “By Jove, that is magnificent!” The men on the rtver crew had crouched on their narrow footholds while the jam went out. Each had clung to his peavey, as Is the habit of river men. Down the current past their feet swept the debris of flood. Soon logs began to swirl by—at first few, then many—from the remaining rolhvays which the river had automatically broken. In a little time the eddy caught up some of these logs, and immediately another Jam threatened. The river mem without hesitation, as calmly as though catastrophe had not thrown the weight of Its moral terror against their stoicism, sprang, peavey in hand, to the Insistent work. Thorpe’s face lit with gratification. He turned to the young man. “You see,” he said in proud simplicity. With the added danger of freshet water, the work went on. At this moment Tim Shearer approached from inland, his clothes dripping wet, but his face retaining its habitual expression of iron calmness. “Anybody caught?” was his first question as he drew near. “Five men under the face,” replied Thorpe briefly. Shearer cast a glance at the river. He needed to be told no more. “I was afraid of it,” said he. “The railways must be all broken out It’s saved us that much, but the freshet water won’t last long. It’s going to be a close squeak to get ’em out now. Don't exactly figure on what struck the dam. Thought first I’d go right up that way, but then I came down to see abont the boys." “Where were you?” asked Thorpe. “On the pole trail. I got in a little, as you see.” In reality the foreman had had a close call for his life. “We’d better go up and take a look,” he suggested. “The boys has things going here all right.” The two men turned toward the brush. “Hi, Tim!” called a voice behind them. Red Jacket appeared, clambering up the cliff. “Jack told me to give this to you,” he panted, holding out a chunk of strangely twisted wood. “Where’d he get this?” inquired Thorpe quickly. “It's a piece of the dam,” he explained to Wallace, who had drawn near. “Picked it out of the current," replied the man. The foreman and his boss bent eagerly over the morsel. Then they stared with solemnity into each other’s eyes. “Dynamite!” exclaimed Shearer. CHAPTER XXIX. EOR a moment the three men stared at each other without speaking. “What does it mean?” almost whispered Carpenter. “Mean? Foul play!” snarled Thorpe. “Come on, Tim.” The two struck Into the brush, threading the paths with the ease of woodsmen. It was necessary to keep to the high inland ridges. The pole trail had by now become impassable. Thorpe and his foreman talked briefly. “It’s Morrison & Daly,” surmised Shearer. “I left them ’count of a trick like that. I been suspecting something. They've been laying too low.” Thorpe answered nothing. Through the site of the old dam thqy found a torrent pouring from the narrowed pond, at the end of which the dilapidated wings flapping in the current attested the former structure. Davis stood staring at the current. Thorpe strode forward and shook him violently by the shoulder. “How did this happen?” he demanded hoarsely. Tlie man turned to him in a daze. “I don’t know,” he answered. “You ought to know. How was that shot exploded? How did they get in here without your seeing them? Answer me.” “1 don’t know,” repeated the man. “I jest went over in th’ bresh to kill ,a few pa’tridges, and when I come back I found her this way.” “Were you hired to watch this dam, or weren’t you?” demanded the tense voice of Thorpe. “Answer me, you fool.” “Yes, I was,” returned the mam a shade of aggression creeping Into his voice. "Well, you’ve done it well. You’ve cost me my clam, and you’ve killed five men. If the crew finds out about you, you’ll go over the falls sure. You get out of here! Pike! Don’t you ever let me see yottr face again!” The man blanched as he thus learned of his comrades’ death. Thorpe thrust his face at him, lashed by circumstances beyond his habitual self control. “It’s men like you who make the trouble,” he stormed. “Stupid fools who say they didn't mean to!, It isn’t enough not to mean to; they should mean not to! I don’t ask you to think. I you to do what I tell you, and you can’t even do that,” He threw his shoulder into a heavy blow that reached the dam watcher’s face, and followed it immediately by

another. Then Shearer caught his arm, motioning the dozed and bloody, victim of the attack to get out of sight. Thorpe shook his foreman off with one impatient motion and strode away np the river, his head erect, his eyes flashing, his nostrils distended. “I reckon you’d better mosey," Shearer dryly advised the dam watcher, and followed. Late In tin 1 afternoon the two men reached Dam Three, or, rather, the spot on which Dnm Three had stood. The same spectacle repeated itself here, except that Ellis, the dam watcher, was nowhere to be seen. “The dirty whelps!” cried Thorpe. “They did a good job!" He thrashed about here and there and so came across Ellis blindfolded and tied. When released the dam watcher was unable to give any account of his assailants. “They came up behind me while I was cooking,” he said. "One of ’em grabbed me, and the other one kivered my eyes. Then I hears the ‘shot’ and knows there's trouble.” Thorpe listened in silence. Shearer asked a few questions. After the low voiced conversation Thorpe arose abruptly. “Where yon going?” asked Shooter. But the young man did not repljt* He swung, with the same long, nerirtms stride. Into the down river trail. Until late that night the three men—for Ellis insisted on accompanying them —hurried through the forest. Thorpe wnlked tirelessly, upheld by his violent but repressed excitement. Shearer noted the fire in his eyes and, from the coolness of his greater age, counseled moderation. “I wouldn’t stir the boys up,” he panted, for the pace was very swift "They’ll kill some one over there; it ’ll be murder on both sides." He received no answer. About midnight they came to the camp.

"You must not got ” he commanded.

Two great fires leaped among the trees, and the men were grouped between them, talking. Evening had brought its accumulation of slow anger against the perpetrators of the outrage. Even as the woodsmen joined their group they had reached the intensity of execution. Across their purpose Thorpe threw violently his personality. “You must not go!” he commanded. Through their anger they looked at him askance. “I forbid it!" Thorpe cried. (TO BE CONTINUED.)

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