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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1927-03-17, Page 7Terrible I)4wn BY WILLIAM MERRIAM ROUSE. PART IL A Wonderful Story, The winter drew on, toward spring. „ The snows game and piled high,; and • Scaramouche is the hero began to melt; while Mark .Rowland of the greatest historical re, - grew 'in stature among the men of the countryside, He was about to mance written in ten years I A • take his place in that unformed but mans man, a woman's hero---- cleft/to group to which belonged he loves, fights and wins Alexander Peabody, the principal lives, storekeeper and town supervisor, the in the frenzied, fearless days of Rev, Eller, Phinney, Dr.. Shattuck and rho .rest who had made places o the French Revolution. You'll importance for themselves. They had live, love, fight and win with seen him grow, and they seemed him as' ou read Rafael Saba - like the spirit with which he attacked y life, ltini s wonderful story which For it was no small thing, for a starts in this a er next week. risk all savings p p ahis s young man tog a venture like building a' sawmill . Watch for the first chapter of above the gorge, Only Mark Row- t'Scalamotxche.'' land, the Iron Man, could make a go of it, they said. If it succeeded, as. it seemed destined to, it would help mainly that the darn would not stand the village and bring what was against the rush of ice and the later wealth for that place to its owner. 1 voluine of water, but it had stood, and Early in April the ice went out of ` so far as could be seen there was the river. With that event the plans not a leak to be found in it. and preparations of Mark Rowland' Rowland brought himself blankets, came to fruit. The dam withstood a lantern and a• lunch, and*settled the impact of ice and the steady drive down with his pipe, more comfort- of rushing water, and Rowland's able than he had been in months. The faith in his works was justified. His thing was done. Tomorrow the men drive started back in the lumber would come in and begin to handle woods, near the headquarters of the the logs. In a. few weeks he could Dander. firs teams began to draw in lead- old Aaron forth from his shop material for the sawmill. Aaron and point to piles of sawn lumber. Hardy delivered the ironwork and His mind leaped to Edith and June, the chains, and the boom was stretch -'month of brides. ed across the river in anticipation of the logs. Black and glistening they carne Rowland smoked and ate and cat- napped with his back against a log. The rain held off, so he was dry and upon the welling breast of the Dun -!-warm in his blankets, and if he could der. At first by ones and twos and have seen the children of his dreams, threes, then gathering in clusters, the boom and 'dam, he would have and then the gleaming, muddied been quite happy. But he could hear - water grew dark with them and a them through the darkness—the hiss - great raft formed behind the con- fines of the boom—itself made of logs chained end to end. Back from it for fully a mile up the river, which had widened its banks because of the dam, the sticks Of' timber lay level and almost •mo - ing of water under the logs and the roar of the cataract that poured over the dam and down into the gorge. The blade ight wore itself out slowly, and at length he count see a difference between earth and sky. Tree masses grew against the lighter tionless, with the stream driving heavens. The clouds broke and a underneath. The spiked,, boots of a pale star looked at him. Grayness driver could walk as upon a floor came over the earth and the rushing from bank to bank of the river.waters. The lantern dimmed. When The Dunder rose swift and high he could distinguish the logs as sep- that year, on account of the heavy crate things he put it out and rose. snows, yet it was not worse than elderly men could remember having seen before. Rowland, however, SING: pr.. it %ere is far more MAGIC KING POWDER irked i !rd Canada than of all other brands combined MADE IN CANADA NOALUM e,W.GILLETT CO. LTD, TORONTO, CAI be meant? Bowland swung a Menet, in • fist, 'What's that got to do with the link in the chain?" he dem ended,. "What's that got to de with me, damn you?" "It's the sane with water," persist- ed Hardy, standing still. "You got to work with it! You got to work with things unless you want to get smashed." "With it?" Rowland stared at Bine There was an idea somewhere in that. It glimmered, flirting with his mind, and grew into a light, "You mean a gristmill below the gorge would have been working with the river?" "Yes, Mark. But you've always set your mind on malting things. do what you wanted 'eni to." "By heavens," muttered Rowland softly, "I'11 make the river carry those logs with it to the lake, and I'll sell 'em for enough that will pay all my debts, anyway!" "Thank the Lord!" The eyebrows of Aaron Hardy jerked and trembled. "It did seem as if you never would learn it! But I thought you'd bend, if you was real iron like they say!" No more did Mark Rowland have any desire to batter or to kill: But he had tsaid a price for the knowledge of his iron obstinacy, and the rem- embrance of that price filled him with a sadness grayer than his terrible dawn at the boom. "Yes, Aaron, I guess I've learned something," he said. "But I'm ruined just the same." "Ruined?". snapped Hardy. "You're made in the firel You go along over to my house and tell Edith to get you some hot breakfast!" "Aaron!" cried Rowland. "Do you mean that Edith—that you—" "You do as I told you!" answered the blacksmith. His eyebrows fairly danced a . jig. "I was only waiting for you to find the flaw in yourself!" (The End.) • MANY POOR TEAS NOW SOLD. A lot of very cheap tea bas recently been placed on the market. This tea is mostly very inferior in quality. Good Enough. Farmer—"My darter, she's all for smokire •those wretched cigarettes, but I won't 'ave it!" Visitor—"You don't agree with .the habit, then?" Farmer—"No, sir, I don't! A corn- cob pipe was good enough for 'er mother, an' it's got to be good enough for 'er!" b 1 c m c b c t utts of timber and would growcalm- r only when it came to the low-lying, lacid course of the river beyond. The ani was gone, the logs were going, he mill *as useless. Motionless, Mark Rowland watched he physical thing happen; motion- esss he remained while home to him ame the understanding of what it eant. The prosperity that he had seated had melted out of his grasp. With it went the approval of Aaron Hardy, the marriage with Edith!, and eyond that the life he had desired and fought for. Gone in less than five minutes of gray dawn. Why? He had done everything to- ward success that his brain could con- eive, and he had built with a sure hand and the force of a great will. With slow movements he went toward he oak where the boom had been moored. He followed the chain down to the edge of the water and began to draw it in slowly. There must be some answer in things themselves, and first of all he wanted to find out why the chain had pared. If the water had suddenly swept to unheard- of heights he could have understood it—but not the parting of the chain. Part of the broken link lay in his hand. This was the link 'that had let his future go down the gorge, and he saw that it had a flaw in it. Not a completely hidden flaw, but one which he thought should have shown itself to a careful eye, which he believed should have given off a false ring to, careful ears. Ilad Aaron Hardy, i then not tested the chain that he His notched stick at the .water's edge showed that the river had fallen an inch or more. He had seen the night found it necessary to trip the gate through; now he could eat and pre - of his dam, by knocking out the pare fqr the day's work . that lay planks, so that part of, the excess of ahead of him. water could go, roaring through the Then struck that blow which had , sluice. Otherwise the water might been swinging toward him behind the had sold and for which he had been have risen above the leeway allowed screen of his perceptions. The final responsible? Or had he tested it midi to the boom by its chains, with thelance which he threw at the taut willfully let it pass with the flawinit? result that the logs would have float boom met the parting of a link in the "He knew the boom would not hold eti over it. chain that held the log nearest the with a chain like than; whispered On the day when the Dunder near- bank to its mooring, a two -foot -thick Rowland, "and hetookthat way of ed its own high-water mark the drive was practically in. The gang was tailing up along the course ' of the • river, and shortly they would come into the village. Then the logs would be let into the mill pond gradually, drawn out, and piled ready for the saw. Rowland considered the situa- tion and was satisfied. At the end of that day, which had been lowering and with a hint of of the gorge. rain in the air, he sat upon a stump a mighty host. They responded as a The grof the blacksmith shop at ono end of the boom and wondered whole to the sweeping • current of the were open doorsthe a black. The hop whether he should remain up through river, and clang to iron came out with ring the night 'of rising water or go to The boom strung itself out along hateful to Rowland. Into the a heir There did not seem to be any the opposite shore. It was wide open place of shadows, into the red glare • cause fol 1 m The boom chains now. Irresistible, ,mightier many 1 lk d ith a long and steady stride. The crowlike figure cf Hardy was blocked against the river were to Brea records glow. He turned with a sooty face, and at sight of the visitor his m y h d th` t f b eye- brows twitched up and down. He :tool between the forge and the an- vil, a big hammer in his powerful fist. "The logs went down the river," announced Rowland, in a voice chok- ed brit clear enough, "and took the dam with them." ""It was a big risk, building at the head of the gorge," said Hardy, without surprise. "There was a bad link in one of the chains you sold me—a flaw!" "They's a flaw in most everything, one way or another, Mark!" If it had been possible Rowland would have hated him more for that. Be took a step nearer. "I'in going to take °'t ont of your hide and bone, you old buzzard!" lie growled. "Piece by piece and inch by inch! A piece for every link in that damned chain!" The old roan looked at him in sil- ence; his brows 'shifting slowly out' When he - again. �Y11a •and back : o F. place g ! spoke it was with calmness. I "You do as you think best," he said, "but first` off I want you should I watch me a minute." • ITe hent swiftly and picked up a cold bar. Rowland did not move to interfere. He was indifferent as to whether his revenge began on tete in- stant or a minute later. Time no Imore mattered. And he was con- temptuous of any defence old Aaron could make, even with hammer or bar. Upon the cold iron the hammer fell with a harsh clang -clang that - billowed and broke against the roof nne wails 'IX the shop. .a stun dear - ped his hammer and thrust the bar into the white .hot heart of the forge. , He jammed the bellows handle up ' and down, sweating. In a moment he lifted the bar out with his tongs and held it to the anvil. Clink clink! Sparks red and gold broke out in plunges from the hammer, The end gf the bar was bent over in a leailti'- ful right angle, Aaron tosseel it into dropped a tub of water. His hands to his sides. The hammer and tongs thumped and clattered upon the floor. 'That's all, Mark," he said. "You watched me! You got tcs work with iron—not against it. I been working iron all my life." The strangeness of. the thing stay- ' ed Rlowland's hand long enough ee that he realized that the old man Was standing defenceless before him. Why 'didn't the old fool fight"? What did Minard's—the dependable liniment. oak. That end of chain jerked and fell slack. The other end disappear- ed -into the water. The log swung out. Slowly the whole boom moved,; and with it stirred and moved the mass of logs behind. A pioneer stick of •timber darted his world. "I'll crush the, life out- of him as he's .crushed mei" he said, with the same determination he had brought to the buildiri* of his dans at the head getting rid of.'me. Now he hated Aaron Hardy. He had that which his mind subconsci- ously demanded—a• person other than. himself to blame for his disaster. 01d Iiardy became the personal devil -in toward the freedom of the mill pond, and toward the dam. Another, and others followed.. The boom swung wider open. ,The logs moved out like oar . appeared to have play sufficient, water was roaring through the sluice and over the dam, and unless the k all by an - inches he a nothing o ear in that direction. It was, more a feeling that he was bound up in this child of his will than any fear for its safety that made him determine to remain `there until dawn. The danger had been times than the hared of pian, the log horde gathered force. It thundered against the dam, it clogged the sluice, its members upreared themselves and tumbled Iike acrobats., of the forge, he ova e w The darn went out as though' It were a toy of niud and little sticks: It melted into the frothing log -fleck- ed deluge .that poured down the gorge; a flood that spurned against the rock walls and splintered the solid Examining Board Formed Canada Essay Contest Professor Wallace Chairman Many Boys and Girls in Town and Country Districts Out to Win Honor and Cash. Professor 'Malcolm W. 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