The Wateree messenger. (Camden, S.C.) 1884-1942, March 28, 1934, Image 7
SYNOPSIS
8t?phen Drake, with his four-year
old ion, la rescued from a blizzard by
Jim Flynn, big timber operator, whom
Drake has robbed. Flynn forgives the
theft, and Drake, until bis death, 1m
presses on the boy. Stove, the debt they
Vow* "Old Jim." Twenty years later,
r*Bt?ve meets "Younn Jim" Flynn, his
benefactor's son. Sent by Old Jim, In
capacitated through an accident In
which Kate, his daughter, is tempo
rarily blinded, to take charge of the
company's ? the Polaris ? woods op
erations, the youth ts Indulging In a
drunken sprced. Learning of Polaris'
dire straits, and hoping to do' some
thing for Old Jim, Steve hastens to
the company's headquarters, lie finds
Franz, a scoundrel, plotting against
the Flynn Interests. Worsting Franz
In a flat fight, the Polaris crew, by
lucky chance, assumes that he Is
Flynn's son, and he does not disillusion
them. Steve takes charge, as "Young
Jim." A photograph of beautiful Kate
Flynn, which Steve finds, Immensely
Increases his deslro to aid Old Jim.
He learns MacDonald, eccentric old
Scotsman, holds timber vital to the
Polaris Interests.
H 1
CHAPTER III? Continued
? s ?
Steve decided to wntch I,aFane
closely, Jost now lie was chaining
some setters and, after a moment,
?with a final playful toss of the young
Pest child, set off Into the woods with
two bird dogs. After he went, a great,
gray creature that had been pacing at
his chain length while LaFane sat on
the bench, but which lay fiat, head
on his paws, while the man was near,
rose to his feet. He resumed that
restless pacing, back and forth, back
*nd forth, watching the children with
ears stiff, . . .
For another hour .Steve and McNally
talked and might have continued so
nntll noon had not a shrill, long
drawn scream brought them to their
feet
Steve was first to the window. Fie
saw LaFane's three children on the
beach, walking toward the store, the
youngest with a hand held by each of
the others. The scream came again
and they turned and saw what Drake
saw, a huge, wolf-like dog, a length of
chain attached to his collar curling
and snapping behind him, racing along
the sand,' head low, the hair along
Ills back on end.
A man appeared In the doorway of
the store, looked out and whirled back.
The children stood still an Instant and
then the eldest, with a frightened cry,
ftugged at the baby's hand and ran for
sanctuary.
"Come on !" cried Drake. "Get a
gun, Mac !"
He vaulted out the window and ran
to intercept the dog but he could not
cover the distance rapidly enough. He
could hear the ragged roar In the ani
mal's throat as he swerved a hit to
circle the quarry, could see the orange
glitter in his eyes and the flicker of
saliva on his lips.
"Hi 1" he yelled In a voice sharp
with fear. "HI, you 1"
He might as well have whispered to
the winds of heaven !
The children had stopped, were hud
dled together ns the dog. lashing with
his fangs at the youngest, ripping a
slash in her dress but evidently miss
ing flesh, went past, whirling to a
stop. His feet clawed in the wet sand
for hold to turn a"hd be at them again.
The man reappeared in the store
doorway, rifle butt against his cheek.
"Don't shoot !" Steve cried. "Don't ? M
No need of that warning: the man
saw that he could not send a saving
bullet without grnve danger of having
It Injure the child. He came down the
steps, limping badly, and hobbled for
ward.
The largest girl, sweeping the others
behind her protectlngly, stooped,
scooped her hands full of pehhles and
sand and as the dog rushed her,
fangs bared, flung the grit full In his
face.
It drove him, blinking and raging,
from his course, made his rush harm
less and gave Steve Drake time to
close In.
No more than time. The dog leaped
for the baby and bore her down. The
teeth had missed a hold hut Steve saw
blood on the child's cheek where a
paw had rnked. as he raised a foot
for the kick that lifted the animal,
spun him about and threw him clear
of the little girl.
"Pick hor up I Oet her away! Kim!"
he shouted to the largest, stamping
and kicking at the dog.
Ills toe caught the beast on the
point of the nose ns he leaped In to
accept this challenge. With a short
[ yelp the creature backed away, cir
cling, and Steve, not taking his eyes
from him, stooped and seized a stout
hardwood stick which lay on the sand.
The dog had forgotten the running
children, evidently. He circled the
man, Jaws drooling, eyes fixed. Steve,
turning as the dog moved, braced him
self for the rush which he knew would
come.
When It did come It was with that
suddenness which only a creature with
the wild In his blood could summon.
He hurtled straight at the man.
. With a grunt, Drake put the whole
of his strength into the hlow. The
club caught the anltnal along the ribs,
knocked the breath from him In s
belching grunt and sent him roiling.
He went over twice, chain wrapping
about his body, and even though the
man closed quickly, raining blows, he
scuttled free and circled briefly at a
safe distance.
Once again he rushed, hurling his
hundred pounds of fury through the
air, straight for Steve's throat. Thjs
tlltt* the club cauftht him atop the
skull a i he ifc'*?nt down with a yelp.
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The limping Individual with the rifle
was close, shouting, his weapon at his
shoulder.
"Put up that gun 1" Steve snaj^ped.
"You'll get me ? "
He struck at the dog's back. but the
animal threw himself sideways, going
with the blow and, scuttling a few feet
to safety, whirled again.
"Now !" panted McNally, coming
with a gun himself. "Get back I I'll
fix him !"
"Let him alone," said Drake, lifting
his eyes Just long enough to see the
children disappearing Into the doorway
of the store, to see their moth?r, who
had run past him, close behind them.
"This seems to be a kind of personal
matter."
Indeed It was. The look In the dog's
eyes was of such unmistakable hatred,
so Intense, so personal that It carried
a direct challenge.
Again a rush, but this time the ani
mal feinted, went under the swinging
club and slashed at Steve's thigh as
he passed. The fangs missed by
inches. But the next time the club
found its mark, blood slavered from
the dog's lip and he backed off slowly,
grudgingly until Prake, setting his foot
on the dragging chain, checked his
retreat
Steve walked down that chain with
the precision of a tightrope walker,
keeping his full weight always on it,
and the dog, digging Ijls feet Into the
sand, strained backward with all his
strength, throwing his head from side
to side as he sought to tear free. . . .
The animal was belly down, now,
and Drake raised the club high. One
fair blow on the skull and ?
"I/et me take him," said a voice
close behind.
LaFane was looking at the great
beast, face unperturbed, but he was
But th? Next Tim* tho Club Found
It* Mark.
breathing quickly and when he turned
his gaae to the others an expression
lay In the eyes such as Drnke had
never seen before.
"What you were going to do would
spoil my chance," he said quietly.
"Chance?" Steve demanded In
credulously. "Chance for what?"
"To save myself in the eyes of my
children, perhaps. I>et him go . . .
please."
Amazed. Drake hesitated ; then took
his weight from the chain. The dog
turned to skulk away, licking his
chops.
LaFane Rpoke : "Duke!" The word
wns crisp and sharp, not loud. "Come
In!"
The animal hesitated, stopped; the
tall dropped between his legs, he low
ered his head In shame or fear.
"Come In !" his owner Insisted and
snapped his thumb. Slowly, then,
belly to the sand, the dog slunk
toward him.
"flood Lord, man, are you going to
keep that thing around after what al
most happened?"
"Yes," said LaFane. "And because
of what almost happened." He
searched Drake's fare and his mouth
twitched. "If I killed him before I
made him safe for them, what would
the children think of me?"
Steve scratched his head.
"Well, that's one way to look at It,"
lie muttered. "Rut what . . ."
LaFane, evidently, wns not Interest
ed In what Drnke had been rbont to
ask.
"Heel I" he said and started for the
store, dog close behind.
lie did not look at the creature
ngaln. The children nnd his wife were
In the doorway, the woman trying to
still tho frantic crying of the youngest.
The man brushed her aside, almost
roughly. He took the babe In his hands
nnd held her out before him. Then,
with a quick movement, he crushed
her close, putting his cheek to her
scratched cheek, wrapping his arms
about her.
lie started off for his home as others
approached. The dog slunk st his
heels. As he passed, Drake saw that
tears were on the man's fnce,
"A queer one, for sure," he snld,
thinking of McNally's words.
That afternoon Steve found LaFane
In the store.
"I want to send a telegram In to
town," ho said "Can you start early
In the morning?"
"I will start now," he snld.
"That's fine of you but It Isn't nec
essary."
"Anything you want of me I wlU do,
Young Jim,** LaFane said quietly. "If
you had not been here . . . He
shrugged. "1 have you to thank for
something which Is priceless."
He went out abruptly and Steve felt
that In those few words he had con
veyed as much feeling as most men
could In an oration.
The message which Steve sent out,
addressed to Katharine Flynn, was as
follows :
"Am on Job. Situation bad but i
nothing Is impossible. Don't expect
letters until I have something to re
port. Jim."
He had experienced some qualms
about the signature, but It hud to be.
No concern would be content to know i
that a stranger held Its destinies In J
his hands and he knew that the truth
would be the last straw for the burden
which Old Jim and his daughter bore.
Immediately, he commenced Inform
ing himself of the Polaris holdlnga
He went to inspect the proposed route
of the railroad, temporarily, at least,
blocked. He looked over other possi
ble routes; all, he agreed, were out of
the question because of the nature of
the terrain.
"It looks," he told himself, "as
though we'll have to beat either Franz
or this other man, MacDonald."
On the fourth day, after meeting
with Wart In and the wood-choppers
and conceding to their demands, feel
ing guilty at spending another's money
and yet bolstered by the knowledge
that It was the only way out, Steve set
out te Inspect the lower river.
McNally was busy and Steve, want
ing gome one familiar with the coun
try along, asked LaFane to go In the
canoe with him.
For a mile no word was spoken.
Then LaFane said, "This Is the I^aird's
line."
Steve was wondering about the own
er and how he might be approached
when they shot around a sharp bend,
coming from strong current to a quiet,
velvety pool.
It was a surprise to see another
canoe there, and a sort of shook to oh
serve Franz In the stern, holding It In
the shallows by a paddle against
bottom. A decided shook, however, to
meet the peculiarly angered glare
| turned on him by the white-haired
mountain of a man who sat In the
bow, a fly rod in his huge hand*.
"Thanks !" was his first word, spoken
bitterly. "Thanks, Meester LaFane 'nd
yer companion! Thanks fer puttln'
doon th' grandest fish that swims th'
stream I"
Steve turned the canoe quickly iito
the shallows and brought It to a halt.
"I'm sorry, sir!" he said. ''We
couldn't see around the bend. I didn't
know ? "
"Seel Know! What gude'd It've
done, had ye? What glide to me. I'd
choose to know!" Ills gray eyes
burned.
"1 wouldn't have done lt^ for the
world, sir!" Steve protested. ~"T know
what It Is myself, to work over a
fish."
"Ay! Wl' spinner, likely! Most
yoong men use th' spinner. They're
not anglers; It takes an angler to
ken !"
"Yes," Steve agreed. "A splnn, r
fisherman, a plunker wouldn't under
stand. For them, a fish Is meat. For
the dry "fly" . . , He's something else
again. I'm sorry. Come on. LaFane."
He spun the canoe about and they
proceeded. He was conscious that the
Scotchman was eyeing him. somethlnc
like puzzlement evidently mingling
with Mb HI humor.
LaFane spoke after n time:
"It's little things that touch hun
ofT . . . or win his friendship.
Likely, he won't speak to you for
months."
They rounded a hend or two nnd
the voice of the river became a mutter.
"We stop here," LaFane said.
"That's Twenty Mile rapid below us.
A man don't run It unless he has to.
And then, only some get through."
They beached at n trail nnd stepped
out. A sharp hend was below n-id
following the nnrrow ledge of rocks,
they moved nlong to where they could
see the beginning of the rapid. Stevi
shrugged as he surveyed the rock
strewn torrent.
"Franz did it once," LaFane said, ns
though sensing what his companion's
shrug Indicated. "Two years ago. It s
what got hi in Into good standing with
MacDonald. MacDonald couldn't do
It even In his younger days, nnd he
was a good man, too. Some men nre
like that : they'll have nothing to do
with any other until ho can beat them
at something they're good In. Franz
Is no fool."
Steve thought this Inst might have
been added as * warning. And ho
thought agnln thnt this compnnlon wns
n strange creature.
The Laird was not In sight on their
roturn and when they came to the
pool where his great trout lived Steve
called n halt and sat there for many
minutes, peering down Into the dark
water. It was A .iuperb lair for ? hlg
fish, presenting Hazards which would
put the best of anglers to n disad
vantage. For some time they r<v i
malned there, moving up and down |
while Steve, though saying little. ]
studied the character of the hend. |
As they entered Good-Bye lakeafcaln i
La Fane, apropos of nothing at all,
said :
"Old Jim left a fly rod and tackle
here two years ngo. t have fresh lend
ers."
"Thanks," muttered Steve an I
grinned. This fel.ow wns good I
(TO IIR
Woman's Right to
Thought of Self
Weakness in Self-Sacrifice
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"Kindness Is sometimes the most
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And wives especially make this mis
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Nobody who has lived a while In
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Perhaps when she speaks of wom
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Perhaps by the too "kind" nnd
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If a school is necessary to correct
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let us not confuse them with lack of
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approve or suggest to anyone that
selfishness might be anything but
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