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4 THURSDAY, T)ECi:IBn 2!. I)1L PLATTSMOUTII ST"MI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. PAGE 7. f November Joe The Detective of the Woods By HESKETH PEIGHARD Copyright. 1313. By Hesketh Prtchard CHAPTER XV. Man In the Black Hat. I v,.ne silent for a moment. TI. it IVtershuin turned tc I ';:t ; ick. "What K yon think of it. v ? I'- n: Vim have oiue experience of these squatters u i if re Do you think Hi i .can business?" "Tliere ain't much f'ttt'.iv.z about Mountain iikii." Puttick iinswer i! bitterly. "And now I says this to you. .Mr. P tel sha and I can't never :ty nothing stronger. If you're mind ed to icfay on tii-re ;it this phee. you i.n;t pay if you d :it want Miss Pe tersham ri ; j it "r killed." ".My daughter?" "T.'iafj. how 1 rcid it. What else cald he i:;f..n? lit sai 1 you'd be sor ry a!l j nur lire." bud keaveusl Lvili The most hard mod radians would in t hurt a woman You don't tl.ink it possible?" iVter- tl..lUl lUrilfiJ to UIO. tl.ink that Linda ruts a wry great risk liy s".a iag '' 'Then she shall go." Put whin Linda vn called and the facts i;;;i.L' clear to Lor Sue ttbsolutc !v rtfusid to leave Kalmacks. "You will force me to pay the nuu ey, then." said I'c tersham. "though 1 am well aware that this demand will only be the t:r.-t of many. Whenever these blackmailers want "fLO'.'J. aye. or jlC.cw. th-y know they wiil only hae to ask me to supply therm Put 1 can't risk yon I'll pay." Joe turned to Petersham. '!f you climb down now I'll Le riht sorry 1 hit come v. ith you. l don't hold with Lacking down under a bluff." I. who knew Joe. was surprised to bear him offer so dctiuite an opinion in such strong terms, but Linda clap ped lier Lands. "It's all t.osiser.se. ir.'t it? Why. if any one attempted t hurt me Joe woidl make him regret it. wouldn't you. Joe?" She Unshed him a glance of la r glorious eyes. 'I'd sure try to hard enough.' re I lid November. "And now. Mr. . u:r ri;:h. I'll ask Pen here to show me ju-t w!;ere t.:e t'cila stood wiicu Le bold him up this morning." Joe went down to the Lr.vok. and I went with him. Wo were soon be tide the cauoe which Puttick Lad been I'. ,QT i : i T : "Here's where I was. and there's where !'C stood." said Puttick. poiritin to it small nms of rock close by. "And there's the piaee I set down nry waudi." November glarcel over the details and then followed the t:;:il: of the brook for some distance. I'resently he returned. "Did you strike Lis trail?" asked rut tick. "No. the -stones lead riht away to the lake, and like as not he came iu a cnuoe." "I..ke as iKt." agreed Puttiek and resumed his work on the ea::- which Lad been so rudely interrupted earlier in the day. We found Lin. -It in the living room arranpin. some tishin tackle. She at once appealed to Joe. "Oh. Joe. 1 wai.t to try some of those LncKsh lures Mr. Ouaritch pivc me. Im pom;; to f;sh. and 1 want to i:v this two jointed pole. Will you fix it for me?" "I'd like you to make uie a prom is... Miss Linda." "What is It?" "Not to go ut at nil today." would very likely sit here, and he was afraid." "Afraid? Of what?" said Linda sud denly trom behind us. "No one could hurt me here. Why. I could call for help and you are Loth here. You could protect me." "Not agnin-t a rifle bu'iet," said Pe tersham. "For my sake, go iu. Linda!" As he said the words from fr.r away :;m the sound of a shot- Distance robbed it of that acrimony with which the modern rille sj'eaks. and it struck a dull, even drowsy note upon the air if that languid afternoon of late t-prir;s. "What can that beT cried Linda. As if in answer came the sullen far oT sound three times repeated, and then, alter an intervaL a fourth. "hootim:!" cried Linda again, very w!.;te. her blue eyes wide with terror. "And it's from the direction of Scniis Jake!" "Hen! Ben Tuttickr roared Pcter jdiam. Put loud as was Lis voice, Linda's call rose higher. "Here. 1 am!" We heard Futtick's voice from inside the bouse, and he ran cut a minute later. "We heard five shots from Senlis Inke." I baid, "We must start at once, you and I. Mr. Petersham will stay with Miss Linda- Puttick looked me in the eyes. "Are you tired of your life?"' be ask ed griirly. "We have no time to think of that. Gci ready r "There was five shots." Puttick said deliberately. "I heard 'em mysedt. That means Joe's dead, if it was him they shot at. If we go we'll soon be dead too." "Oh. you coward!" cried Linda. Puttick turned a dull red. "I'm no coward. Miss Linda, but I'm no fool. I'm u woodsman. I know." "There is a good deal of sense in what Peu says." 1 put iu. "1 think his best place is here with you. ile "You dou't think I'm In danger?" "You're in great danger. Miss Linda." "Then you mnst go out with me. Joe. If you are with me they will not dare" "Look here. Miss Linda, if you'l! stay in the house just over today I wouldn't wond'T but it might be quite safe for you to co out tomorrow and ever after." "Joe. you mean you have discover ed" "No: I ain't discovered nothing, but if you stay in the way 1 ask maybe J shall." Joe took up his hat ' Where are you sing. November?" I asked. "Over to Senlis lake. Mr. Quarltch Will you see Pen Puttick and tell him 1 won't be back till lateish and will he cook the potatoes and the cornflour cakes if I don't i;et bat k to time? Miss Linda, will you please tell every one. even your father, that yon have a mighty painful head and that's why you're staying in?" "Yes. .Joe, " said Linda. After Joe's depart ure 1 took a baok Hid sat wiin it In the veranda, where I was joined in due course by Linda and Mr. I'etershani. "It's col here, the only cool spot in the place today." remarked Petersham "Yes. and don't the spruces smell sweet?" said Linda. "Joe cut them t gi e ii.e shade." She pointed to a row of tall sapiings propped against the rail of the verau da so as to form a close screen. "Joo always thinks of things for peo ple." she added Petersham glance-d trom me to Lin da. "If your headache is bad you had better lie down in the house." he said. "It is ever so much better, but I'll fetch some smelling salts." I was alwut to offer to tiring them for tier when I caught her fathers eye behind her back and remained where i was As soon as she had gone In Peters ha in stepped up to me and whispered : "To give her shade." he repeated I looked around and nodded "There is always shade here." h iviti on "The sun can't get in through the pines on this side. The wood i- ti ickest here." "That's true." 1 agreed. l-oking at the close grown junipers that stood In front of i. "Joe stacked these sap lings against the rail for some other reason." "Of conrse. fie knew that Linda shall stay to help you in case of need I'll go aud find Joe. After all. it's as likely as not that he was tiring or per haps some one else was tiring at a bear." I hastened forward at the best pace I could attain until from a ris ing knoll I caught a glimpse of SeniLs Jake. The !oies: pa-:!i lie'o !-,. I fell in a series of short steep inclines I labored up these little hills and ran down the slopes. ' Suddenly I tame to a turn j.n 1 was about to rush down a ; sharp dip when a voice, seemingly at my si.Ie. said: "That you. Mr. Quaritch?" "Joe! Where are you?" "Here!" 1 followed the voice and. parting some branches, saw Joe lying on the iV t. j. r Joe Leaned Against the Maple Tree and Lcokcd Down on Him. grouucL His face was gray under Its tan, and a smear of Mood had dned opon his forehead and cheek. "You're wounded!" 1 cried. "His second passed through the top of my shoulder." "His? Whose?" "Him that shot at me." "Did you shoot back?" "lie lies about teu paces west o that small maple." "You saw him?" "Hardly. He had a black hat. I saw it move after be bred his fourth, and I shot back. If you'l! give m your arm, Mr. Quaritch, we'll go up WW I and take a look ;it Mat" With difficulty and with many pauses we reached tin- top of the little ridge, i The dead man lay as Joe had saal J quite near the small map!-. The built-: j had entered ids throat. He was a long I haired, black bearded man of medium size Joe leaned airvint the maple tree and looked down at him. "1 seem to know the fellow's face." 1 said. "Yes; you seen him the day we come, cutting wood by the shack." "Now. Joe. lean on me. and we'll try to make for home," for i saw fie was very weak "Must jiit look around. Mr Qua ritch See hero! Ho is srto';iiig his pipe Look" at thr nsrni a regular handful of them He must '' lain for me all of a tioiir before I rn along. Here's his r;t'e a ".'KIM Wonder who he is?" Joe lay back, panting. "You're not aide tn walk." said I. 111 go iia-.-I. to Kalmv.eks and get a rig to l ring y...j home." "No. Mr. Quaritvh. It would never be right t do (hat. It Wo :'.d give the oth r li Has warning." "The others;" "This (h ad ;i ''a's p:.r::H is " "Yiiii knov.- he has s,,me. then?" "Mie anyway. I'.;;t let's be moving Cut me a po!-' l-o as 1 can ue it as a cru'ot!." I dii! as l.e asi;. (1. and i Mimonci-d our ku.g ai.d. far him. paii.i'r.l walk back. CHAPTER XVI. The Cr.pU.r2. A S we walked .1 v gae me in little jci l.s the sl-.ry i" his adeii "ii li:re. '1 slarled oi:t. MTT J :.a ri I h." he began, "and i ,, ,-,l ihe lake to the camp '.;!. ere I'.ill Y.'oi ke was tired al you n.i:i.l Mi-s Linda d.opMed a 1 loo,'.: there? I had a seal' !: for !t, but I u.iin't lir.'d It. though I iv!!. e across what I'd l.o; to lind a l.t ol traek men's tracks." "Who had been there since Satur day?" "Huh! Yis: only about two days old. After awhile 1 built a l it of a tire and cooked a pinch of tea in a tin I'd fetched along. Then after lui:!:" Joe always called lunch -dunk" "I started back. I was coming along easy, not on the path, bat in the wood about twenty yards to the south of it. rnd a fore I'd giK' above three or four acres a shot was t::vd at me from above. The bullet didn't strike me. but as 1 was in a wond -rfal poor place "for cover just three or four sprmvs end half a dozen sticks of wild rasp berry I went down, pretending ld got the bullet, pitch.-.! over the way a man does that's got it high up. an I 1 took care to get the biggest spruce trunk hat ween me and where I think the shots come from. "Sometimes, if y. ti g tr'wn like that, a man"! f t ratt h tt-like an 1 come out. but not this one. (Tuess I'm not the first he's put a bit of lead into, lie lay still an 1 tired again got me in the shoulder that lime, ami I gave a k'e-k and .-diovid in among the rasp-U-rry canes in good earnest. Lad some of them wkitey buds in my mouth and was .-hewing of th -m. when the fe!!a shoots twice more Loth :ais:-c.;. i :u u he kind o' paused, and I g'.u ss:es lie's going to nice to where he can let me have it again. "I see the black hud on hi in for a mo meat an.l then I lets drive. I tried to get up to have a look at him." "Surely that was risky. How could you know he was d"ad';" 'Heard the bullet strike and saw the hat go bad: ward. A man don't nev er fall over la- kward v. L; ri he's rduim ming. 1 couldn't get to Lin fainted. I guess. Then you come along." . Evening hud f:'-"eii before we ulti mately arrived at K;!lr;:ir!:s. We ap proach.".! the house wiih care and en tered by a window at the hack, as Joe thought it possible the front en trances might b? commanded from tin w-ood on t hat .' ide. We v.ent i.t once to th" room wh'Te Worl.e was lying ami J"C g-ve him a rapid description of the man he had shot. "That's Tom'.inson." raid Worke at ozne. "Them two brothers lives to gether. Whut have they be n d. in:::" "You'll know afore night." replied Joe "What a-e th' ir names?" "Dandy i. the one with the black bean'.. wh:S: h'.ru they calls Mr.; py is a fc:;v colored nan." "Thank yon." said Joe. "Now. I'.ill. if yon ke"p them names to jor.r.e'.f I'll como back in half an hour and tell you vi ho it was shot you." On Joe's ,-pptarance Linda started up tuid ran to him. "You're wounded!" she cried. "It's not bin" nunh. Miss Linda." Put as wo laid him down on the com li he seemed t lose consciousness Petersham brought brandy, and Linda, holding Joe's head upon her arm. put it to his lips. lie swallowed some of it and then nisijtod upon sitting r.p. "I ir.'tst bind up your shoulder. We must stop the bleeding." IJudn's dis tress and anxiety were very evident. And Joe had to give way. With her capable ami gentle hands Linda soon dieted the wound and afterward in sisted on sending for Puttick to help him to his bunk. "So you've got it?" Puttick said. "1 warned you. Lucky you're not dead." "Yes. ain't it'.'" returned Joe. Well I knew that soft drawl, which Novenilw's voice never took except in moments of fiercest tension. "You'd best join your hands above your head. P.en Pun irk. Lock thr thumbs. That's right!" Joe had picked my revolver from t!u: , table and held it pointed at Puttick'? breast. rie's mad!" screamed Puttick. "Tie his hands. Mr. Quaritch. Miss j Linda, will you I'leasi; to go away?' i "No. Joe. Do" you think I'm fright linn: I know you re t rave. uui a man acts freer without the women looking on.' Without a word she turned and walk ed out of the room. "Puttick"-- going to confess, Mr. Pe tersham." went on November. "I've nothing to confess, you fool!" "Not even that story you invented rbout the man with the red banket across his face the man who wasn't "never there?" "What's he ravin about?" cried Put tick. "Have you forgot them long uairef Tondinson brothers that" The effect of this speech on Puttie! 'was instantaneous. Evidently he leap ed to the coneb'sion that he had beei bi rrnyed. for he turned and dashe; for the dof. We flung ourselves upot him and by sheer weight bore him t( the ground, where we quickly overpow ?red him. snarling and writhing. Some hours later we sat round No vember Joe who was stretched upon the couch. Puttick had been tied up and imprisoned in the strongest room. "No, Mr. Petersham." .Toe was say ing. "I don't think jou'il have much more trouble. There was only three men in it. One's dead: one's locked, up. and I dare say we'll t.nd a way of dealing with No. ",." "What I don't understand." said Lin da. "is how you found out that Putti' k was iu it. When did you begin to sus poet him?" "Last night, when Mr. IVtorsham didn't go to ltutier s cairn. 1 he leiias v. !:o promised to meet him never put in there either. That was queer, wasn't it? of course it could n.eau one thing -that some one had told 'cm that Mr. I etor-harn weren't coining. There was only us three, and Puttick knew. So Puttick must 'a' been the one to re!'.." "i'.ut. November." I said. -Putt:-1: over left the house, for you remem ber you found no tracks on the sand How. then, could he let them know?" "I guess he waved a lantern or made seme other sign they'd agreed on." "I'.ut why didn't you tell me all this at once?" exclaimed Pe;.ors.ham. "P.eeause I weren't sure. Their not going to I'.utler's cairn might 'a' been i 'nince. Put this morning, w hen Put ti k comes in with his yarn about the man with the red banker across hi-f:e-e that made him hold up his hands and threatened him when he was mending the canoe. I begun to flunk we shouldn't be so much longer iu the dark. And when I went down and bad a look around by the river. I know at once his story was a lie. and that Le d got an interest in scaring Mr. Pe tersham away." "How did you know that?" "Y'ou mind Puttick said the fella, ccme just when he was beginnin" to mend the canoe? I tool: a look at the work he'd done on it and he couldn't 'a' got through all that under an hour. He's ti.ed a little sqiruv of tin over the rent as neat as neat. And then wasn't It queer the fella should have (c:u.' oil him there a place be wouldn't be in not cue morning of a j hundred?" J "You believe he iu;.de up the whole I story? And that no one came at all?" "I'm proity sure of it. There wasn't a sign or a track and as to the ft lla's jutupin" from stone to stone, there's distances of fourteen and sixteen feet between. Still he might 'a" done it. or he might 'a' walked in the water. and I were not going to speak till I j were sure." 'tin on. We're stil in the dark, Joe." said Linda. "Weil. Miss Linda, you remember how Puttick advised Mr. Petersham to pay or go. and how I told him to stick it out. and when I'd given him that advice. I said to you that I was going across to Senlis hike, and rsked Mr. Quaritch to toil Puttick. I thought there was a good chance that Puttick would put i n one of his partners to scare me. You see nobody knew w hich way I were going but yon and him. so it'd be fair certain that if I was interfered with it would prove Puttick ; guilty." "That was clever, though you ran a horrible risk. Was there any particu lar reason why you chose to go to Sen lis lake?" '"Sure. I wanted to see if any one bad been over there looking for your brooch, uu'y us and Puttick knew it was lost, and you'd said how your fa ther had paid ch llirs and dollars for it. When a thing like that's lost woodsmen '11 go miles to try to find it. and Puttick must 'a' told the Tomlin sens, for there was tracks all around; our tire where we boiled the kettle." "Do you think they found my brooch?" "Huh! No. I pick" it up myself live minutes after you drop' It. I only kop' it. pretendin' it was lost, as a bait like. I've told you what happened to me coining back "and how I had t shoo? Dandy Tomlinson. His shooting at me after I was dawn give me a sur prise, for I dhln't think he'd want to do more than scare mo. but I guess it was natural enough, for Puttick wa? gettin rattled at me always nosiu' e round." "It's all very clear. Noven her. anri we know everything except who it was tliot Pill Worke." "I guess Muppy Toinlinsoti's the man." "What makes you think that?" "Pill wis shot with a -l.VTo rifle. P-th Ptmick and Dandy Toiulinson carries CJO-oO's. Muppy'a ritie is a -iC-V." "How can you know what sort of ride was used to shoot with? The bullet was never found." said Linda. "I picked up the shell the tirst time I was over with you." "And you never told me "Put that doesn't matter. !" said she. What I'm really angry w ith you for is your mak ing lie piomise not to go out e-terday and then deliberately going out your- self lo draw their fire. Why did you do it? If you had been killed 1 should never have got over it." "And what "ml I have done if you'd been killed. Miss Linda?" "What do you mean. Joe?" said Lin da softly. "I mean that if one of the party I were with got killed iu the woods while I was their guide I'd go right into Quebec and run a boarding nouse or become a politician. That's all I'd be good for!" CHAPTER XVII, The City or the Woods? LTIIOUOII Dandy Tomlinson's A bullet had passed through Joe's Z .shoulder, it had left a very ugly wound, but the young woods man's clean and healthy life stood him in good stead., and the process of heal :ug wont on rapidly. We had fetched a d ctor from Priani ville. w ho left a string of instructions, which Linda carried out as closely as he could. Indeed, she would have de voted most of her time to Joe. but he managed to make her spend a good part of each day out of doors. Some times he wou'd beg for a fish for his supper and she must catch it herself to prove how well she had profited by his tea liing. There were half a hun dred things he suggested, not one of which was obvious or trifling, until I marveled at his nig. unity. "You are fimiiag the time long, Joe?" i said on one occasion. "No. Mr. Quaritch. the hours slip past quick ci!ii!;;.'u. I've never had a lie-by and awhile for thinking since I been a man.' There's a good few puz zles to life that wants facing one time r another. I s'poso.'" "Which puzzle is it that you are fac r.g now ':" "Mr. Petersham wants to be the mak ing of me." "Then you're about the luckiest yov.r.g man in this hemisphere." Just so. and 1 fed Lis kindness is rv.ore'n I eVf-orve. IIed make me bead warden here for a bit first and then send some kind of a professor to teach me Low to talk and fix me up general ly." He paused. "Weil, that sounds very reasonable," I commented. "And after they'd scraped some of the moss off me he'd put me into bis oliice." I hid the astonishment I felt at this announcement. "After that it'd be up to me to make good. He'd help all be knew." "It sounds a very brilliant future for you. November." .Tee v.-.-s silent for a moment- "It does. Mr. Quaritch." he said at length iu a different tone. "And it gives me something to think about. So they caught Muppy all right? Him and Put tick "II find prison a poor place after the woods " "1 can feel for them." said I. "for 1 am leaving the woods tomorrow my self. I inust get back to Quebec." "Huh. yes! There's no call for yoa to stay longer." "As to that, you'll be here for quite awdiiie yourself." lie made m reply, and when I turn ed from the window to look at him he was lying with bis eyes closed, and, thinking he was tired. I left him. At the end of the south veranda was situated a small detached room which we had turned into-a workshop, and early the same afternoon I went around there to repair a favorite fish ing rod. The veranda was empty as I passed through it, but presently Peter sham joined me. "That fellow November Joe is an in fernal fool!" he said presently. "Tie is a dolt without an ounce 'of ambi tion!" "In Ids own sphere"- I began. "lie is all very well in his own sphere, but be should try to rise above it." 'He has done uncommonly well for himself so far." I said. "He has made good use of his brains and bis experi ence. In his own way be is very, very capable." "That is true enough, but he has got about as far as he can go without help. As you say. he has done all this for himself. Now. I am ready to do a good deal more for him. I'll back him in any line of business Le chooses to follow. I owe him that and more. Heaven knows what might have hap period to Linda but for him." v "You owe a good deal to November." I am well aware of it." replied Pe tersham. "I am convinced I owe him Liuda's life." Something in Ids tone showed me his further meaning. I dropped my fish ing rod and stared at him. I knew Linda had enormous influence over her father, but this was beyond imagina tion. "You'd never allow it!" I exclaimed. "Why not?" he retorted angrily. "Isn't Joe better than the Hipper dude? Or Phil Pitsheim or than that Italian count with bis pedigree from Noah in his pocket? Tell me. where is she going to find a man like Joe' Why. he's got it in him to do things big things and I hope I'm good enough republican- not to see the injustice of nailing a fellow down to the spot where he wr.s born." "Put November would never dare look so high! He's modest." '-Ho'll get over that!" "I doubt it." I said. "Besides, you are reckoning without Liuda. How do you know that she" "Naturally I don't know for sure nliotit Linda," be answered shortiy; then, glancing at bis watch, be got up. "Just about time to get uy mail ready." We bad been upon kin jr, in low tones, for the subject of our conversation naturally did not lend itself to loud talk, and besides, during the last quar ter of an hour or so a murmur of voices from the verandah had warn ed us to be enrcful. We hgd nut shut the door leading to the veranda.a it was the only one, jtBd we needed it open for light ami air. Peti rshr.ni walked toward it, but. instead of step ping out, lie turned and hud a hand like a vise on my arm.. "Quiet! Quiet for your life!" be whispered. "She must never know we were here!" "Put, Joe. you're mistaken. Joe. I wish it!" It was Linda's voice, shy and trembling as I had never heard it. "Ah, that's all your great goodness. Miss Linda, and I haven't earned none of it." I pointed frantically to the door. We must shut that door and shut out those voices, but I'etershani - swore at me under his breath. "Darn, you know those hinges screech like a wildcat! It can't be helped, for it would kill her to know we heard a word of this." We crept away into the farthest cor ner of the workshop, but even there phrases floated to us. though merciful ly we could not bear all. "But father would help you, for you know you are a genius, Joe." "All I could ever do lies in the woods. Miss Linda: woodsways is the whole of it. A yard outside the wood and the meanest chap bred on the streets could beat me easy. I can t thank yon nor Mr. Petersham the way I'd like to, for my tongue is slow." Here his voice fell. "Put if you hate the ity life so much you must not go to the city.'" It was Linda again. "Live your life in the woods. I love the woods too." "The woods is bleak and black enough to them that's not born among the trees. Them that's lived outside alius wants more. Miss Linda." A long interval followed before the voices became audible again. "Oh. no. no. Joe!" Petersham clutched my arm once more at the sound. "Y'ou're so young. Miss. Linda, you don't know. I'd give my right hand to believe different, but I can't. It wouldu't be best not for you." November's tone moved me more than Linda's passion. He was a man fighting it out against his own heart. I knew well the power of attraction Linda possessed, but somehow I had not guessed how it had worked on Joe. I had. indeed, been right in so far that Le bad not dreamed of aspiring to her; nevertheless the cpisole would mean pain and loss to him. I feared, for many a day. Once more T hr-rird him. "Don't you xLiuk I'll be proud every hour I La e to live that you was so good to me. Miss. Linda? 1 shan't nev er forget it." "Joe. 1 think I hate you!" she cried. And then the quick tap or.' her footsteps told us she had run into the he use. There was absolute silence f.-r a min ute or two. At length Joe sighed beaV U.y and with the slow laborious move ment of weakness went t J hi loom. When all seemed safe Petersham and I stole out of biding like thieves, aud. though we exc hanged no word. Peter sham was swearing violently under his breath until lie shut his otlice door. Rather to my surprise November Joe came out for awhile after supper, be cause he said it was my List evening rt Kalmucks. Neither he nor Linda gave r.ny s"g;i t'::.t : '. g unu: u.il had passed between them. iuJ.'cd. we were gay enough, and we bad c'iiarlcy Paul in to sing us some l'reucii-Cana-ciian songs. After saying good by as well as good, night to Linda and her father I follow ed Joe to his room. "I won't wake you up in the morn ing. November." I said. "There's noth ing like rest and sleep to put you on your legs again." "I've been trying that cure. Mr. Qua ritch. and 1 won t be long behind you." "Oh, where are you going to?" "To my shack on Charley's brook. I'm kind o' homesick like, and that's the truth." "Put how about Mr. Petersham's w ish to give you a start in his business in New Y'ork or Montreal?" "I'm not the kind of a guy for a city, Mr. Quaritch. All the chaps 'd get turning round to stare at the poor wild fella, and I'd sure be scairt to sleep in one of them up in the blue sky houses anyway!" He laughed. "Put you would soon be used to city ways and perhaps become rich." "That was what the mink said to the otter: 'Go you to the city and see the sights,' says he. but the otter knew the only way he'd ever see the c ity would be around some lovely gal s neck." November Joe had no idea how far I could read into bis fable. "And what did the otter say?" "Huh. nothing! lie jvst went down bis slide into the lake and got ohasin' fish, and I guess be soon forgot be missed seein the city all right." "And bow about you. Joe?" "I cuess I'll get chasin' fish. too. Mr. Quaritch." When I arrived at the depot at Pri amsville in the morning, to my sur prise I found November Joe there be fore me. "Why, Joe!" I exclaimed, "you're not fit travel." "I thought I'd go on the cars with you. Mr. Quaritch. if you'll Lave me There's a good many times to change before we gets to Silent Water, and I'm not so wonderful quick on my feet yet." He soon grew strong again, and be wrote me of bis trapping and shoot ing, so at any rate he is" trying t for pet all that be renounced at Kalmucks. Put will Linda have no further word to say? And if she I wonder. THE KXD. Wall Paper. Gcrinj Sl Co. Phonr 3G. Farm Loans at Lowest Hates. T. II. POLLOCK. 12-14-tfw "hom vn: t t n i:. ." v l r 1 1 I f . iln V. " "bitter of the ).-i;itf ef At.i.i- 1 . .1 1 . . .. I : To Ml l'et.-otis I ate ,., j s.,,.l I 1 ';.!! Yi'.. v.:!' take neto-e ti a! en tie v!a ihiy f i ' in 1 .'. 1 '.' 1 t , t',tr- v .; . 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M a i c i-ti'iee t" 1 ; .- I ii. : e.- ! ! ,.! lei ln C-, ,., tie- , , ; ! , , u i a -. i !'.' 1 1 ,e, ! i . a i i - -rate, t "- wi! : !."t t i.i; i.-.-ri i : nn.! t.iat t.- n ill. in tt.e tlast llit!f ill. '. . ..f 1 1 No. t . west i' a iter i N. ' , i i : , t , a Tv. tit v-eju :.t '-"'. 'I'liini'i ii' ci-o i till Null:., Iliiii:.' 'bi'iili'i'ii i III llit-l of ti.e i,t : If ,. i : i i . ni la -, Nei : il- k.'. Si: pi sale to teaiai'i epi t, en. I om I'ate.i t I.i. :.:i. .1.,. ol I ... n, '. . A. I'., b'i I. 'I i CI. IIS i; s. 1 1 K. Kxee.,.,,.' ,,f ,. ;il we, all. I t' - l,i. Iiull! e!' I "l . in I. .' a I,. I .... a - ,1 k.WVLS A: 'p.ili: I -i N. A ( 1 'I !! - In tlie Coi.nty Court of Cass County. Ni !;:a.-l.a. LP'.iAL NOTICIl In ti.e Matter of the Kslate of John M. Jih'son, I Ifcciisc 1. To All Pei'sons Iniere-tcai : You are he: ' by notiiie l that on th : th day ef December, A. I. I'.HI, at 10 o'clcck a. m., in the County Court Loom in the City of P!attsmoul!i. in said county, there wiil be a he:r ii. jr upon the f'r.ul report of the admin j. tiato!' r.f -ni i elate and his peti tion for iiui.1 settit-ment ; that at anid time and r.!acc evidence will be taken and an order entered naming the heirs-nt-lgv. of said clecca.scu, ami us ?igrmg t!.e reniclue of .sai 1 estate, if any, to the heirs; that all objections to said report and petition must l.e file i iii this court on or before i-aid hour of said day. Dated this l'Jth day of December, A. D. 11)11. Py the Court. ALLEM J. BEESOW County Judge. 12-14--:vk:- 31. Tritsch, refracting optician, at (.'cring Co.'h Wednesday and Sat urday evenings. Examination free. Tor Sale. A number of pure bred Plymoj:h Rock hcr.s. Mrs. R. M. Si ruder, M'. r- ray, Neb. Telephone 4-N.
