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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1927-03-03, Page 2Trial !s not equalled by any other tees. His, Terrible Dawn BY WILLIAM MERRIAM ROUSE, PART 1. The wide, low doorway of the blacksmith shop gaped red and black to Mark Rowland, as bhough it were the grinning mouth of a small hell. The tinkle and clang of iron on anvil met him; and the hiss and spat of hot iron in water. He could see the skinny -armed master of the place out- lined against the glare of the forge. More like a crow than a blacksmith. Rowland wanted to talk to old Aaron Hardy, and he walked straight into the place .with his chin drawn in and his knotty "fists swinging. He went in expecting trouble because of Hardy''s attitude - toward him these six months past. "Aaron," he began, balancing upon the balls of his feet, "I've come to see you about Edith." The eyebrows drew a little nearer to each other and came to rest. Hardy waited a matter of half a minute be- fore he spoke, and then his words. were slow. I thought you'd come about her, Mark, as soon as I heard you was going to build a dam above the gorged. "Yes," said Rowland, "the dant'll be finished this fall. In the spring I'll bring •a big drive of logs down the Dundor and I'll have a mill ready to saw then by the time they're out of the river and piled. I'll be able to give Edith as good as anybody's got in Dander Gorge." Upon that he rested his case. Hardy knew es well as he himself did that he was thirty years old, a wildcat in a fight, and considered one of the most promising young men in the county. "You said anything to Edith?" asked the blacksmith. "Yes." "What did she say?" "It's all .right with her. She said to come to you." "Hub!" It was impossible to guess what the grunt expressed. "You ought to 'build the dant below the gorge, Mark, and put in a gristmill instead of a sawmill." "The place for a mill pond is above the gorge," answered Rowland sharp- ly. He had not come there to talk about his business affairs. "My idea about that ain't the same as yours, Mark," "Well1" "You mean you want i should say something about Edith?" One of the shaggy eyebrows raised and lowered. "Yes!" Rowland laughed, although SAW it with a 50 ON Sisals sharp longer Cuts easier. Saws faster e1MONos CANAaA RAW Co.LTO. MON: REAL VANCOtiAER, CT. JOHN, N.R., TORONro " Stylish Dress for 15 cls!P9 It hasps a lot when a woman is wise to home dyeing. Ok!, faded dresses made the new colors of the hour. Just es perfect as any professional dyer could do it—if only you'll use reo,i dye. It's easy to Diamond dye dozens of things, and„do wonderful tinting of timderwear and all dainty pieces. Using true clye-is the secret. You can Dia- mond •dye all your 'curtains and covers, scarfs and spreads; any material, and right ever other colors. So easy, it's ,fan! FREE: ask the druggist for the Dia- mond Dye Cyclopedia for suggestions and easy directions; actual piece -goods color sameies,` etc. Or the big ilioe- trated book, Color Graft, free, write DIAMOND DYES,Dept. N,?, Windsor, Ontario. Make ie NRW For Jbt, ori►, ,'. 9 with a touch of impatiebee and ap- prehension. "I guess I won't say anything, Mark." It was the answer that Rowland had net expected. "That means you're against me!" said Rowland, in a low voice. "And I don't think she'll marry Hie unless you say you're friendly." "Neither do I!" Aaron Hardy look- ed him squarely in the face. "Not that she ain't welcome to if she wants to. I wouldn't ever treat either ono of you any different" "That's the devil of it! That's why she against doesn't want to go ' you." "Yes -.. "You're holding off to see whether I snake stoney out of my mill or not!'." "It ought to be below the gorge," replied Hardy, without raising his voice. "Suppose you get a freshet, or anything else goes wrong, and your logs go down through the gorge? It would cost inore'n they'd be worth to haul 'ern back with teams. They'd be scattered all the way from here to the lake. And you can't have a sawmill below the gorge on account of the trouble of running logs through it— not with, profit." "Nothing will go wrong," said Row- land. "I'll see to that!" "A gristmill below the gorge would grind grist and ,Hake flour for you fine and easy with that fall of water." Now Rowland became_ confirmed in belief that the whole matter was a question of his prosperity, That Aaron Hardy's opinion of his abil- ities was far from his own enraged him. "I'll build a dam and sawmill above the gorge in spite of you or anybody else!" he growled, with.outhrust head. "And I'll marry Edith! You don't know tae, Andy Hardy!" "I know they call you the Iron Man, Mark," said the blacksmith, Without a change in voice or manner. "I've worked with iron all my life." "See what you can do with me, then!" Rowland turned with this and walked toward the doorway. "I'll build the dant and make the money and starry the girl!" He passed out into the sunlight, and he had not gone a dozen steps before the renewed sound of hammer and anvil carne to hint, just as though his visit had bean of no importance. Clang! That would be cold iron that old Aaron struck, Clang -clang -clang! Let him pound! He would have more luck with his iron than with the Iron Man. Mark Rowland had made up his mind to follow his nose in a direct line into the future and toward Edith. Let who would stand in the way and get bumped. He went straight to the brown, low- eaved house where Aaron Hardy and his daughter had always lived. At this time in the afternoon she would be in her garden; he walked around the house and found her there, as softly brown of hair and eyes as the soft dress that she wore. She Was the glow in which his -iron softened. Just at that moment he glimpsed a kinship between the look in her eyes for him and the look in her spaniel's eyes for her—between her and the September brown and gold of the world. She made him feel like that, in flashes. "Yoin father won't give his con- sent," he said. The dog stretched up against his leg, but he brushed it away, absently. "It amounts to that —he seemed to be against me." "And you quarreled?" 'She smiled as she asked the question, and Row- land marveled. "Yes, in a way. I'm sorry." He was .sincere enough, although the firmness of his purpose was not light- ened by so much as theweight of het little finger. "I thought you would." She looked away, toward the forest back of the village. Rowland stepped nearer to her and tried to take her in his arms. She lifted her hand, a slender white barrier between them, and his arms felt to his sides. "You-" He found his tongue thick and unwieldy. "You weren't -like this—last night!" "No, Mark, I wasn't!" "But I think you knew he'd be against me—I think so now!" 'I did!" She smiled into his eyes, "That's whyI kissed you!" Rowland :felt himself tinged with a red blush. One of the things he loved most about her was what he called her iron frankness. Nevertheless, it often startled hien. "Maybe you know what made him do it?" he asked, being certain that he .himself understood the emotive. "No, I don't. I just felt that he was going to." "And what shall we do?" He asked the question hesitatingly, for it touch- ed the crux of the matter, his happi- ness. "Wait!" The word etched itself miserably upon his consciousness. Even until then be had cherished a little hope that she would stand with him and defy Aaron Hardy. "You go ahead with your plans, Mark." Mack disappointment began to creep upon him; and with it camel; wrath that flourishes in darkness. Wrath ,against the old crow, Hardy, Who woe. casting his shadow Over them. "Does that mean that you won't (marry me, Edith? Are you holding off, like him, to see=” He stopped. That eves an un- worthy thought with respect to her, fdie he knew that the giving of her love wee not conditioned upon any- thing—that it was his own, now, and that it was only Herself which she withheld, ' "It's hard," she said softly. "All I knew is that he has been right in the past. If he said 'you can't marry Mark Rowland!'. I'd go over to the jarsonage with you right now. It's ust because I think he must•have a' good reason for being against it,: Mark!" "You' woii"t parry' me?" he asked: "Is that it?" "I won't say that, Mark!" 'There was a film of tears in her eyes now, although she still smiled. "I want him to feel differently about it." He swept her into 'his arms and, kissed her half 0 dozen times. She did not resist, but there was the feel- ing that he held only the body' of Edith Hardy. He let her go so sud- denly that she staggered. "I'll make him change his .mind!" Ise cried; ;and he went out of the gar den, leaving her there with the un- easy spaniel whining at heti feet, He had the key, he felt. She would not marry him without her father's ;approval, but when the piles of sawn lumber rose in his mill -yard the ob- jection of old Aaron Hardy would be gone. That was it: "I'll make him come to time in less than a year," stuttered Rowland, as he went back to the head of the gorge where his men were at work, "Or, by the rusty hinges of hell, I'll break myself!" Wtih that resolution driven into his mind as the spike of a• peevy drives into, ,a log, Mark Rowland set out to get more work out of the 'gang of plaid-shirted huskies than any man had ever get before. Of course there were difficulties. As on the frosty October morning when Mike Powers, Rowland's fore- man, balked at an order to lead his men waist deep into the river to stop a newly `developed leak in the dam. Upon that occasion Rowland climbed up the front of Mike Powers, and for thirty minutes the men, who were lumberjacks in winter, river drivers in spring,' and jacks of all trades in summer and fall, saw as good a: fight as the Adirondacks had furnished them in half a dozen years. Powers lay on the floor of Dr. Shat - tuck's office until the doctor came driving in from his long round of calls, and it was ten days before he was able to go to work again.' Row- land worked the day of the fight. During the time Rowland kept away from the quiet brown house of. the Hardys, and he found no occasion to go to the blacksmith shop. With- out a legitimate reason he did not intend to seek out .Aaron Hardy again until he could lead the old man out. of his shop and point to a wheel turn- ing above the gorge—bid hint listen to the sound of a whirring saw, mak- ing good logs into lumber. It eame about, however, that ]ie had an honest errand at the shop when he began to snake his arrangements, dur- ing the winter, for the drive, he need ed some ironworlc and many feet of chain for the boom which, come spring, would be stretched from shore to shore above the pond to hold back the mighty flood of logs he expected to bring down from the woods On high water. It was right and natural that he should order his chains and iron- work there in Dander Gorge, The fierce eyebrows of Aaron Hardy waggled a question when Row- land entered the shop, but as lie began to state his errand they settled to rest, and by the time the specifications for the chains were fully made, the old man was as kindly as though there had never been a word of quar- rel between them. Ile promised the chains at a just price, and that such of the ironwork as was to be hand - forged should he ready well before there was need for it, Mark Rowland knew, that Hardy had always kept his word both in letter and in spirit with the men of Dunder Gorge, and he should have gone away from the black cavern of the shop with his mind at rest. But this was not the case. As to the delivery of the work and the time of payment he was satisfied; his feel- ing of unrest was due to something deeper and more vague than the :tnat- ter of a log -chain or a ring -belt. 1n the presence of Hardy he felt that he stood before something which iron could not pierce, or, piercing, could not conquer. The .same quality was in Edith. In her it was like the breath of June to hint; in her father the same quality roused, a wilt madness:' G i of desire to crush. This much he Irecogntized; and he resolved. to beat it. out of the way in the .old man just as' Ilse expected to take it to himself in the girl. 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