Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 42, Number 26, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 22 February 1923 — Page 2

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The .' . I Strength of the Pines i By EDISON MARSHALL oAuthor of —''The Voice of the Pack”

CHAPTER XXX—Continued. ■ —l3 Btrt -nt--came about ahafThen' nw 'othfy biwim-vs for Matteo*' trtSn The recovery- of his blankets that, lie had supposed would be tiefr to the saddle The snow was thick between, and lip was within twenty feet of the animal's body before-he, glimpsed it clearly again. And he felt the first wave of wonder, the first promptings of the thought that the horse he had shot down was not his, but one that lie, had never seen before. But there ..was no time for the thought to go fully home. Someone cried cut' —a strange, half-snarl, of hatred and triumph that was almost lacks I Ing In all human quality—and a man's j body, leaped toward him from the | thicket before which the horse had fallen. It was Simon, and Bruce hnd mistaken his horse for the one he had ridden. Even In that Instant crisis he did not forget that he had as yet neglected to expel the empty cartridge from the hqrrel,, of his rifle and to throw in the other from the mngashoulder, working' the lever at the same time, But Simon's leap "was too fast for him. ' His strong hand seized the barrel of the gun and snatched it from Ills, hands. Then the assailant threw it hack, over his shoulder, and in !!<o “snow. '' " The 'two men stood face to face t.t last. All things else were forgotten. The world they had known before*- a world of sorrow* -iwfl- piiev* ures. amT” woods end homes—faded out and left no realities except each other’s presence. All about them were the snow flurries tlmt emit,t not penetrate, anil it was as if they were two lone contestants on an otherwise uninhabited sphere who had come to grips at last. The falling snow gave the whole picture, a curious tone of unreality and dimness. Bruce straightened, and. his face was of iron. “Well, Sitpon,” he said. ‘You’ve come." The man's byes burned red through the snow. “Os course I would. Did you think you could escape me?" “It didn't much matter whether I escaped you or not,” Bruce answered

Cho Two Men Stood Face to Face at Last. rather quietly. “Neither one of us is going to escape the storm and the cfild. I suppose you kitow tiiat." “I know that one of us is. Because one of us is going out—a more direct Raj—first.. Which one that is doesn’t much matter." His great hands clasped. “Bruce, when I snatched your gun right now I could have done more. I could have sprung a few feet farther and had you around the waist-taken by surprise. The fight would have been already over. I think I could have sione more than that, even—with my own rifle as you came up. It's laying there, Just beside the horse.” But Bruce didn’t turn his eyes to look at it. He was waiting for the attack. “I could have snatched your life just ai well, but I wanted to wait,” Simon went on. “I wanted to say a few words first, and wanted to master you —not by surprise—but by superior strength alone." It came into Bruce's mind h£ could tell Simon of the wound near his shoulder, because of it no fight between them would be a fHir test of Superiority, yet the words didn't come to his lips. He could not ask mercy of this man, either directly or Indirectly, any more than the pines asked mercy of the snows that covered them. “You were right when you said there is no escaping from this storm,” Slmon'Vent on. “But it doesn’t much matter. It’s the end of a tong war, and what happens to the victor Is neither here nor there. It seems ail the more fitting that we should meet (iat as we have —at the very brisk of

Copyright by Little, Browh, and Cos. death—and -Death should be waiting at the end for the one of us who sur--rkvtis; this *-~iU • town We Bruce gazed in amazement. The dark and dreadful poetry of this man's nature was coming to the fore. The wind made a strange echo to his words—a long, wild shriek as It swept over the heads of the pines.’ "Then why are you 'waiting?” Bruce asked.' "So you can understand everything. But I guess that time is here. There Is to be no mercy at the end of this fight, Bruce; I ask none and will give none. You have waged a*war against me, you. have escaped me many times, you have won the love of the woman I love —and, this ,is to be my answer.” His voice dropped a note, and he spoke more quietly. “I’m going to kill you, Bruce.” “Then try it,” Bruce answered steadily. ‘l’m in a hurry to go back to Linda." Simon’s smoldering wrath blazed up at the words. Both men seemed to spring at the same time, TMt arms ' " f hi# Th#' rocked a long time—rback and forth In the snow. For the first time Bruce had full realization of Simon's mighty strength. With all the power of ills body he JStel. Jttt. .aeaßU.-Win.. tt- his feet, hqj , trying to tear g tree, from the ground. , V ‘. But Surprise at the other’s power was not confined, to- Bruce , abme. iSiinpn.kjiew that;- he had an-opponent wort fry of The iroq of his. awn muscles, a and he put nil his terrible -might..into the battle. He tried to reach Bruce’s throat, but Lbfijmin's strong'fffouTflgT IleTu the arm against his side. Simon's great hand reached to pin Bruce’s arm; and for the first time he discovered the location of his weakness. y * lie saw the color sweep from Bruce’s face and 'water drops that were not melted snow come upon it. It was ali the advantage needed between such evenly matched contestants: And Simon forgot his spoken word that he wished this fight to be a test of superiority alone. His fury swept over him like a flood and effaced all things else; and he centered his whole atthek upon Bruce's wound. In a moment he had him down, and lie, struck once into Bruce's white face with his terrible knuckles. The blow sent a strange sickness through the younger man’s frame; and tie tried vainly-to struggle to ills feet. “Fight 1 Fight on!” was the message his nflnd dispatched along his nerves to his tortured muscles, hut for an instant they wholly refused to respond. They had endured too much. Total -nnconsciousness hovered above, him, ready to descend. Strangely, he seemed to know that Simon had crept from his body and was even now reaching some dreadfnl weapon that lav beside the fluiniform of the horse. In an Instant he had it, ajd Bruce's eyfcs opened in time to see him swinging it aloft. It was Ills rifle, and Simon' was aiming' Vl murderous blow at him-with its stock. There was no chance to ward it off. No human skull could withstand its shattering impact. But that war of life "and death- in the far reaches of Trail’s End was qot to end so soon, At that Instant there was an amazing intervention, A great gray form came lunging out of the snow flurries. Their vision was limited to a few feet, and so fast the creature came, with suhh incredible, smashing power, that he was upon them in a breath. It was the. Killer In the full glory of the charge; and he had caught up with them at lust. Bruce saw only his great figure looming just over him., Simon, with amazing agility, leaped to one side Just in time, then battered down tlie rifle Stock with all his strength. But t tie blow was not meant for Bruce. It struck win-re nimed —the great gray shoulder of the grizzly. Then, dimmed and half -obscured by the snow Autries,- there began as strange a battle as the great pines above them had ever beheld. The Killer's rage was upon him, and the blow at the shoulder had arrested his charge for a moment only. Then he wheeld. a snarling, fighting monster, with death for any living creature in the blow of his forearm, and lunged toward Simon " again. It was the Killer at his grandest. Simon had no chance to shoot his rifle. In the instant that he would raise it those great clans and fangs would be upon him. He swung It as a club, striking again and again, dodging the sledge-hammer blows and springing aside in the second of the Killer's lunges. He was fighting for his life, and no eye could bemean that effort. Simon himself seemed exalted, and for once it appeared that the grizzly had found an opponent worthy of his might. They were of one kind, and they seemed to understand each other. The lust and passion and fury of.battle were upon them both.

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The scene harked back to the young days of the world, when man ami, SpW'WidfteiHl. - •" The tenet ■gr.vi gen veand silent, just the same. The elements warred against them from the clouds—that ancient persecution of which the wolf ..pack sings on the ridge at night, that endless strife that has made of existence a travail and a scourge. Man and beast ami storm—those three great foes were arrayed the same as ever. Time swung backward a thousand-thousand years. The snow seemed to come from all directions in great clouds and flurries

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He Swung It as a Club, Striking Again >*and Again, Dodging the SledgeHammer Blows and Swirging Aside In the Second of the Killer's Lunges, and streamers, and time fter time it wholly hid the cont'-miits. from Bruce’s eyes. At such tit: lie could telt how the fight was g- by sound alone—the snarls of tl - Killer, the wild oaths of Simon, I :■* Impact of the descending rifle but' Bruce gave no thought of taking riTir: "Both were enemies; his own s;r< zth seemed gone. The cold ieepmed; Bruce could feel It creep ;,g Into his blood, halting its flow, thu-auning the spark of life within him. The full light of day had come nut upon the land. Bruce knew the wilderness now. All its primitive passions were in play, all its mighty forces at grips. The storm seemed" to be trying to extinguish these mortal lives; j - clous of their intrusion, kinging- for-rtre-wfirW tr knew before iiving tilings came to dwell upon it. when its winds swept endlessly over an uninhabited earth, and its winter snows lay trackless and its rule was supreme. And beneath it, 'bltnrt"T(V"ffie knowbdge that in union alone lay strengtli te oppose its might —to oppose all those cruel forces that make a battleground nf life —man and beast fought their battle to the death. Linda came stealing but of .the snow —following the grizzly’s trail —and crept beside Bruce. She crouched beside him, and his arm went about her as if to shield her. She had heard tlie -sounds of the bat tie -from -afar: she had thought—That Bruce was tin* contestant, and her terror had left a deep pallor upon her face; yet now she gazed upon that frightful conflict with a strange and enduring cairn. Both she and Bruce knew that there was but one sure nmqneror, and that was Death. If the Killer survived the fight and through the mercy of the forest gods spared rhrlr llvesr“There remained the blizzard. They could conceive es no circumstances whereby further effort would be of the least avail.

The scene grew in fury. The last burst of strength was upon Simon; In another moment lie.would be exhausted. The hear had suffered terrible punishment from the blows of the rifle stock. He recoiled once more, then lunged with unbelievable speed.. His huge paw, with, all his might behind it, struck tlie weapon from Simon’s hand. It shot through the air seemingly almost as fast' as the bullets It had often propelled front Its muzzle, and struck the (trunk of a tree. So hard It came that the lock was shattered; they heard the ring of metal. The hear rocked forward once more and struck again. And then all the sound that wns left was the eerie complaint of the wind. Simon lay still. The brave fight was over. Ills troll had ended fittingly—in the grip of such powers as were typical of himself. But the bear "did not leap upon him to tear his flesh. For an instant he stood like a statue in gray stone, head lowered, as if In a strange attitude of thought. Then the great grizzly uttered one deep note and half-turned about. His eyes rested upon the twan, but he did dot seem to see them. Then he turned again and headed off slowly, deliberately, directly Into the face of the storm.

[ CHAPIER XXXI I The flurries almost immediately obscured tlie Killer’s form, and Bruce turned Ids attention buck to Linda. Ilfs the end," he suld quietly. “Why hot hen- as well ns anywhere else?” Tlie horse on which was tied their scanty blankets whs miles uwuy by now; its tracks were obscured in the snow, and they could not find their way to any shelter that might he concealed among the ridges. But before the question was finished, a Strange note had come into his voice. It was as if Ids attention had been called from Ids words by something much more momentous. - The truth" was that it had liVen caught and held by a carious exnreaahm, on tlut-gkfo. ”tmr AU.tlt once*sie*prg to fW* • -j-* • ' - “Bruce f” she cried. “I’erhnps there's a way yet. A long, long change, but maybe a way yet, Get your rifle —Simon's is broken —and come with nte.” ’ Without waiting for.him to rise she struck off into tlie storm, following the huge footprints of the bear. Tlie man struggled with himself, summoned all that was left of his reserve supply of strength, and leaped up. He snatched, his rifle from tlie ground where pinion had thrown it. and in an instant was . beside her. Her cheeks wore blazing. “Maybe it Just means further torture," she confessed to him, “but don’t you want to make every effort we can to save ourselves? Don’t you want to tight till tlie last breath?” She glanced up and saw her answer in the growing strength of his face. Then his words spoke too. “As long as the slightest chance remains,” he replied. “And ’JP&SFE* KSpaPtire -f f- I ten meP •to nothing?’-’- ~~yrr He smiled dimly. She took fresh heart when she saw he still had strength enough to smile. “You don't have to ask-me that.” wune. t me—it came so straight and sure it was as if a voice told me,” >he .explained hurriedly.- She didn’t look at him again. She kept her eyes inlent -aetitr ih a Jtws >•'jftwtja&a*.; Td'-fiiiss' them for a second- meijWfW' tlqti \Airld of whirling, snow, to lose them forever. “It was after the hear had killed Simon and had gone. away, lie acted exactly as if he thought of something and went out to do it—exactly as if he had a destination in view. Didn’t you see —hi 9 nnger j seemed to tlie in him and he started off in the face of the storm. I've Watched the ways of animals too long not to know that he had something in view. It hasn’t food; he would have attacked the body of tire horse, or even Simon's body. If lie had Just been running away or wandering, lie would have gone with the wind, not against it. He was weakened from the fight—perhaps dying—and I think—’” He finished the sentence for her, breathlessly. “That he's going toward shelter." “Yes. _ You know, Bruce—the bears hibernate every year. That’s my one hope now—that tlie Killer lias gone to some cave he knows about to hibernate until this storm is over. I think from the way he started off. so sure and so straight, that it’s "near. It would .be dry and out of she storm, nfid if we could take it away from .him- we eoH+d- make a -fire that'tile' snow wouldn't put out, IJ would mean life —and we could go on when the storm is over.” “You remember—wj> have only One cartridge,” TeSyi know —I heard you Tire. And - It’s only a thirty-thirty at that. It’s a risk —as terrible a risk as we’ve yet run. But It’s a chance.”' They soon became aware that they were mounting a low ridge. They left the underbrush and emerged Into the open timber; And all at once Bruce, who now walked in front, paused with lifted hand, and pointed. Dim -through tlie flurries they made out the outline of the bear. And Linda's inspiration had come true. There was a ledge of rocks just In front —a place such as the rattlesnakes had loved in-the blasting sun of summer—and a black hole yawned in its side. The aperture hud heeh almost covered with the snow, ami they saw that the great creature was scooping away tlie remainder of the white drift with his paw. As they waited, the opening grew steadily wider, revealing the .mouth of a little cavern in the face of tlie rock.

“Shoot 1" Linda whispered. “If he gets inside, we won’t be able to get him out.” But Bruce shook his head, then stole’ nearer. She understood; he had only one cartridge, nnd he must not take the risk of wounding the animal. The fire had to. be centered on a vital place. He walked steadily nearer until It seemed to Linda he would advance straight into reach of the terrible claws. The Killer turned his head and saw Bruce. Rage flamed again In his eyes. He half-turned about; then poised to charge. The gun moved swiftly, easily, to the man’s shoulder, his chin dropped down, his straight eyes gazed along the barrel. In spite of his wound never had human arms held more steady than his did then. And he marked the little space of gray squarely between the two reddening eyes. The finger pressed hack steadily against the trigger. The rifle cracked In the silence. And then there was a curious effect of tableau, a long second in which all three figures seemed to stand , deathly stiil. . The bear leaped forward, and It seemed wholly impossible to Linda that Brace could swerve aside in time to avoid the blow. She cried out in horror as the great paws whipped

down In the place where Uruce nud stood. But the man hnd been pro pared for this very recoil, and he hud sprung uslde just as the cluws raked past. And the Killer would hunt no mor* In Trail’s End. At the end of thal leap he fell, his great body quivering strangely in the snow. The lead bad gone straight home where it had been aimed, and tlie charge itself had been mostly muscular reflex. He lay still at last, "a gray, mammoth figure that was majestic even In death. No more would the deer shudder with terror at the sound of his heavy step In the thicket. No more would the ‘herds (T?* Into- stampede at the sight of his great shadow, on the* Sfee*Oregw •Rrbntaes’ awaigaaKrthe. mg-. us *tat uu: breed. , • •••••• To Bruee and Linda, standing breathless and awed In the snowflurries, his death imaged the passing of an old order —tlie last stand that the forces of tlie wild hnd made against conquering man. But* there was pathos in it, too. There was the symbol Os mighty breeds humbled and destroyed. But the pines were left. Those eternal symbols of the wilderness—and of powers beyond the wilderness — still stood straight and grand and impassive above them. While these two lived, at least, they would still keep their watch over the wilderness, they would stilt stand erect and brave tothe buffeting of the storm and snow, and In their shade dwelt strength and pence. The cavern that was revealed to them had a rock floor and had been hollowed ojut by running water in\ges of some of the long tree roots.that extended down Into It, and the Hfe-giV-ing warmth was a benediction. Already the drifting snow had begun to co'ver the aperture. “We can wait here until the blizzard is done,” Hrii<e totS Linda, sr "lie sat beside him in the soft gtaw of the fire. “We have a little food, and w# can cut more from the body of the . grizzly when wo need-It. There’s .dead get our bearings atfd walk out.” She sat a long time without answering. “Ami after that?” she asked. ■ lie smiled. “No one knows. It’s ten days before the thirtieth—the blizzards up here never last over three or four days. We’ve got plenty of time to get the document down to the courts. The law will deal with tlie rest of the Turners. We’ve won, Linda.” His hands groped for tiers, and he laid it against his lips. -With her other hand she stroked his snow-wet hatr. Her eyes were lustrous in the firelight. , ' “And after that —after all that is settled? Y’ou will come back to the mountains?” “Could I ever leave- them!” he exclaimed. “Os course, Linda. But I don’t know what I can do up here — except maybe to establish my claim to my father's old farm. There’s a hundred or so acres. I believe I’d like to feel the handles of. a plow in my palms.” “It was what you were made for, Bruce." she told him. “It’s bofti in you. --There’s-w-htttidred aerw-there’-*-and three thousand —somewhere, else. You’ve got new strength. Bruce. Y'ou could take hold and make them yield up their hay—ond their crops—and fill all these hills with the herds.” -Slie-stretehed-out Tier-arms. Tlien_alL at once she dropped them almost as it in supplication. But her voice had

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He Ma.ked the Little Space of Gra> Squarely Between the Two Redden Ing Eyes. regained tlie old merry tune he had learned to love when she spoke again. “Bruce, have I got to do all the asking?” His answer was to stretch his great arms and draw her into them. His laugh rang in the cavern. “Oh, my dearest!” he cried. The eyes lighted in his bronzed face. "I ask for everything—everything—bold that I.am! And what I want worst—this minute—” “Yes?” “ —ls just—a kiss." She gave It to him with all the tenderness of her soft lips. The snow sifted down outside. Again the pines spoke to one another, but the sadness seemed mostly gone from their toft voices. I THE ' '*-

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