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His Terrible Dawn
]3Y WILLIAM MERRIAM ROUSE.
PART I.
The wide, low doorway of the
blacksmith shop gaped red and black
to Mark Rowland, as though 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 -
,p 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
gorge".
"Yes," said Rowland "the dani'll
be finished this fall. lin the spring
I'll bring a big drive of logs down
the Dunder and I'll have a mill ready
to saw them 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 Dunder Gorge."
Upon that be rested hie case. Hardy
knew as 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."
"Huh!" It was impossible to guess
what the grunt expressed,. "You.
ought to build the dans below the
Forge, Mark, and put in a gristmill
instead of a sawmill."
"The place for a mill pond is above
the•gorge,'t 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."
"Well?"
"You mean you want I should say
something about Edith?" One of the
shaggy eyebrows raised and lowered.
"Yes!" Rowland laughed, although
with a
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with a touch of impatience and ap-
prehension.
"I ,guess I won't say anything,
ivlark.
It was the answer that Rowland not marry him without her father's
had not expected. ,approval, but when the piles of sawn
"That means you're against me l", lumber rose in his mill -yard the ob-
said Rowland, in a low voice. ' And jection of old Aaron Hardy would be.
I don't think she'll marry me unless gone. That was it.
you say you're friendly." "I'll make him come to time in less
"Neither do I!" Aaron Hardy look- than a year," muttered Rowland, as
ed him squarely in the face. "Not he went back to the head of the gorge
that she ain't welcome to if she wants • where his men were at work, "Or, by
the rusty hinges of hell, I'll break
myself 1"
Wtih that resolution driven into his
mind .as the spike of a peevy drives,
into a log, Mark Rowland set out to
"Y'ou're holding off to see whether get more work out of the gang of
I make money out of uty mill or not!" plaid-shirted huskies than any pian.
"It ought to be below the gorge," had ever got before.
replied Hardy, without raising his Of course there were difficulties.
voice. "Suppose you get a freshet, or As on the frosty October morning
anything else goes .wrong, and your when Mike Powers, Rowland's fore -
logs go down through the gorge? It man, balked at an order to lead his
would cost more'n they'd be worth to mien waist deep into the river to stop
haul 'en back with teams. They'd be a newly developed leak in the dans.
scattered all the way from here to the Upon that occasion Rowland climbed
lake. And you can't have a sawmill f 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
sunnier and fall, saw as good a fight
as the Adirondacks had furnished
then in half a dozen years.
Powers lay on the floor of Dr. Shat -
tuck's office until the doctor came
driving in from his Iong round of
creep upon him; and with it came tiro
wrath that flourishes in . darkness
Wrath against theold crow, Lardy,
Who : was .casting his eiradow r
ove
"Does that mean that you won'
imarry me, Edith? Are you holding
tyaine .iltaality roused' a wift madness'
Of desu`e to crush, This much he
recognized; and he resolved to beat at
out of the way in the old roan just as
he expected to tyke it to himself in
t the. girl.
0(To be concluded,)
oil, like ham to see—
Be stopped, That was an un-
worthy thought with respect to :her,
for he knew that the giving of her
love was not conditioned upon any-
thing—that
ny_thingthat it was his own now, and
that it was only herself which she
withheld;
"It's hard," she said softly. :"All I
know is that he has been right in the
past.�If he said 'you can't mai ry
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 won't marry 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
hint to feel differently about it."
He swept her into his arms and
kissed her half a, dozen times. She
did not resist, but there was the feel-
ing that he held only the body of
Eolith Hardy. He let lier go so sud-
denly that she staggered.
"I'll make him change e his mind!"
he cried.; and he went out of the gar-
den, leaving her there with the on -
easy spaniel whining at her feet.
He had the key, he felt. She would
te. I wouldn't ever treat either one
of you any different."
"That's the devil of it! That's why
she doesn't want to go against you."
"Y es: '
below- the gorge on account of the
trouble of running logs through it—
not with profit!'
"Nothing will go wrong," said Row-
land. "I'Il see to that!"
"A gristmill below the gorge would
grind grist and make flour for you
fine aneseasy with that fall of water."
Now Rowland became confirmed in
belief that the whole natter was a calls, and it was ten days before he
question of his prosperity. That was able to go to work again. Row
Aaron Hardy's opinion of this abil- land worked the day of the fight
ities was far from his own enraged During the time Rowland kept
hint.away from the quiet brown house of
"I'll build a dam and sawmill above the Hardys, and he found no occasion
the gorge hi spite of you or anybody to go to the blacksmith shop. With
else!" he growled, with outhrust head. out a legitimate reason he did not
"And I'll marry Edith! You don't intend to seek out Aaron Hardt/ again
know me, Andy Hardy!" until he could lead the old man out
"I know they call you the Iron Man, of has shop and point to a wheel turn -
Mark," said the blacksmith, without' ing above the gorge—bid him listen
a change in voice or manner. "I've to the sound of a whirring- saw, mak
worked 'with iron all my life." ing good logs into lumber.
"See what you can do with me, It came about, however, that he had
then!" Rowland turned with this and, an honest errand at the shopwhen he
walked toward the doorway. "I'll ; began to make his arrangemnts, dur-
build the dam and make the money ing the winter, for the drive, he need -
and marry the gull led some ironwork and many feet of
He passed out into the sunlight, chain for the boons which, come
and he had not gone a dozen steps ; spring, would be stretched from shore
before the renewed sound of hammer Ito shore above the pond to hold back.
and anvil came to him, just as though 'the mighty Rood of logs he expected
his visit had been of no -importance. Ito bring down from the woods on high
Clang! That would be cold iron that; water. It was right and natural that
old Aaron struck. Clang-clang-clangl i he should order his chains and iron -
Let him pound! He would have more work there iii Dunder Gorge.
luck with his iron than with the Iron! The fierce eyebrows of Aaron
Man. Mark Rowland had made up ;Hardy waggled a question when Row -
his mind to follow his nose in a direct; land entered the shop, but as he began
line into the future and toward Edith.' to state his errand they settled to
Let who would stand in the way and' rest, and by the time the specifications
get bumped. for the chains were fully made, the
He went straight to the brown, low- old pian was as kindly as though
eaved house where Aaron Hardy. and ,there had never been a word of quer-
his daughter had always lived. At , rel between them. He promised the
this time in the afternoon she would chains at a just price, and that such
be in her garden; he walked around' of the ironwork as was to be hand -
the house and found her there, as , forged should be ready well before
softly brown of hair and eyes as the , there was need for it. Mark Rowland
soft dress that she wore. She was the • knew that Hardy had always kept his
glow in which his iron softened. Just f word both in letter and in spirit with
at that moment he glimpsed a kinship the men of Dunder Gorge, and he
between the look in her eyes for him r should have gone away from the black
and the look in her spaniel's eyes for i cavern of the shop with his mind at
her—between her and the September; rest.
brown and gold of the world. She ! But this was not the case. As to
made liini feel like that, in flashes. !the delivery of the work and the time
"Your fatherwon'tgive his con-; of payment he was satisfied; his feel -
sent, he said. The dog stretched up Ling of unrest was due to something'
against his leg, but he brushed it' deeper and more vague than the mat -
away, absently. "It amounts to that'ter of a log -chain or a ring -bolt. In
—he seemed to he against ine." !the presence of Hardy he felt that
"And you quarreled?" She smiled he stood before something which iron
as she asked the question, and Rowe; could not pierce, or, piercing, could
land marveled. !not conquer, The same quality was in
"Yes, in a way. I'm sorry," He Edith. In her it was like the breath
was sincere enough, although the: of June to hint; in her father the
firmness of his purpose was not light- l
ened by so much as the weight of her I
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 antis.
She lifted her hand, a slender white!
barrier between them, and his arms
fell to his sides.
"You—" Ile found his tongue thick
•and unwieldy. "You weren't—like'
this—last night l"
"Na, Mark, I wasn't!"
"But I think you knew he'd be
against nie—I think so now!"
"I did !" She smiled into his eyes.
"That's why I kissed you!"
Rowland telt himself tinged with a
red blush. One of the things he loved
most about her was what he calleel
her aeon frankness. Nevertheless, it
often startled him.
"Maybe you know what made him
do it?" he asked, being certain that
he himself understood` the motive.
"No, I don't. I just felt that he
was going to."
"Arad 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 consriousnfss.
Even until thein he had cherished a
little ;!lope that she would stand with
Min and defy Aaron Hardy, "You go
ahead with your plans, Mark,"
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