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Notary Public. Solicitor for the Dom-
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JOHN GRIEVE, V. 8.
Honor graduate of Ontario Vetetin-
ary College. All diseases of Domestic
Animals treatzd. Calls promptly attend-
ed to and charges 'moderate. Ve terinat y
Dentistry a erecialty. Office and resi-
dence on Goderich street, one door east
of Dr. Se't's office. Seaforth.
F. RBURN, V. S
Honor graduate of Ontario Vacate-
afy College, and honorary member of
the Medical Association of the Ontario
Veterinary Collene. Treats diseases of
all Domestic Animals by the meet mod -
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flotel, Mein etreet, Seaforth. All or-
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04tention. Night calls received at the
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C. J. W. KARN,
J25 RichmoCed street, London, Ont.
npecialist : Surgery and Genito-Urin.
ary diseases of men and women.
DR, .GEORGE HEILEitagN.
steopathIc Physician of Godericie
Specialist in women's and children's
diseases, rheumatism, acute, chronic
and nervous disorders, eye, ear. Pose
ard throat. Consultation free. Office at
Cornmercial Hotel, Seatorth, Tues4„ay
and Frfday-er, 18 antra till I. lane
DR. F. 3. BURROWS.
Office and residence-Goderich street,
feast of the Methodist church, Seafortn.
Plecnie No. 46. Coroner for the Cou:nty
of Euxun;
DRS. SCOTT St MCKAY.
3. G. Scott, graduate of Victoria and
College of °Physicians and Surgeons.
Ann Arbor, and member of the Ontario
Coroner for the County of Huaore
• C. 'MacKay, hoeor graduate of Trinity
University, and gold medallist of Trin-
ity Medical College; member of the Col-
lege of Physicians and Surgeons, Ontario.
eons DR. H. HUGH ROS.
Graditabe of University of Toronto
Faculty of Medicine, member of Col-
lege of Physicians andSurgeorte of On-
tario; pass gradusle ceurses inChicago
Clincal School of Chicago; Royal Oph-
thalmic Hospital, 1,4ndon, England,
University College 'llosottal, Landon
England. Office -Back of the Dominion
Bank, Sc-aforth. Phone. No. 6. Night
cans aaswered from residence, Victoria
street, Seater th.
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THOMAS BROWN.
Licensed auctioneer for the coun Lies
of Huron and Perth. Cortespendeece ar-
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avanag
Forest
Ranger
The -Great Conservation
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By HAMLIN GARLAND'
Copyright, lnlIO. by Hamlin Glad
"I take off' my hat to yap," respond
d Cavanagh. "Yon area man."
Once back at his cabin after leaving
Wetberford„ Cavanagh set himself to
.00king some food, to take back with
him to the peak. He brought in hie
nerd: horse and burdened him with
PIMP outfit and Utensils and extra
slot hing. He filled his- pockets 'with
'such medicines as he pawned, and
zzo at last. just as night was falitngt he
aarted`back over his difficult trail.
Wetherford met him at the door,
longer the poor old tramp, but a priest,
"tie who has devoted himself to
Cbriat's service.
"How is he?" asked the ranger. -
"Delirious." replied the herder, "I've
'led -to hold him to his bed. I'm -glad
• meve come. It's lonesome up here,
come too ierr. Set your tent
'own there by the trees. I can't have
-on Infected, Keep clear of me and
~els camp."
"I've .got some food and some extra
lothine for yon."
"Put 'em down Isere, and in the
morning drive these sheep away, That
seise disturbs the dego, and I don't
he It myself; they sound lonesome
end belpless..That dog took 'em away
for awhile, but brought 'ern back
again. Poor devil, he don't know what
:o think of It all."
Ross did as Wetherford commanded -
elm to do and withdrew a little 'way
down the slope and without putting
up his tent rolled himself in his blan-
&tee etui went to sleep.
•The ranger's first duty in the morn-
ing was to feed the faithful collie and
to send him forth with the flock. His
next was to Imitd a fire and cook some
breakfast for Wetherford, and as ,.he
Out it down beside the tentdoor he
heard the wild pleedIng of the Basque,
who was struggling vit.h his nurse,
doubtless in the belief that he was
beingkept a prisoner. Only a few
words- like "go home" and "sheep"
were intelligible to either the nurse or
the ranger.
.
Cavanagh' waited till a silence canoe,
then called softly, "Here's yonr break-
fast, Wetherford."
-Move away," retorted the man
within. ."Keep your distance."
Ross walked away a little space,
and Wetherford came to the door.
"The dago is sure sick. There's no
two ways about that. How far is it
to the. nearest doctor?"
"I could reach one by phone from
the Kettle ranch, about twenty miles
below here."
"If he don't- get better today I reck-
on we'll have to have a doctor." He
looked so white and old that Cava-,
nagh said:
"You need rest. Now, I think I've
had the smallpox. I know I've 'been
vaccinated, and if you go to bed" -
"If you're saying all that preliminary
to offering to come in here you're
wasting your breath. I don't intend
to let you come any- nearhr than you
are. There is work for you to do, Be-
sides, there's my -girl: You're detailed
to look after her."
_ "Would a doctor come?" asked Ross
quite huskily, moved by Wetherford's
words. "It's a tiard climb. Would
they think the dago worth it?"
Wetherford's face darkened with a
look of doubt. "it is a hard trip for a
city man, but maybe he would come
for you -for the government."
"I doubt it, even if I were to offer
my next month's salary as a fee.
These hills are very remote to the
townsfplk and one dago more or less
of no importance. but I'll see what I
can do."
Ross was really .more concerned for
Wetherford himself than for the
Basque. "If the fever is something
malignant we must have medical aid,"
he said and went slowly back to -his'
own camp to ponder his puzzling prob-
lem.
One thing could certainly be done,
and that was to inform Gregg and
Murphy of their herder's illness. Sure-
i,y they .weuld come to the rescue of
the collie and his flock. To reach a
telephone involved either a ride over
into Deer Creek or a return to the
Fork. He was tempted to ride_ all the
way to the Fork, for to do so would
permit another meeting with Lee. But
to do this. would require many hours
;freer, and half a day's delay might
peove fatal to the Basque, and, be-
a.les, each hour of, loneliness and tell
rend e red Wetherford just so Mucli-
. more -open to the ,deadly attack of the
tiketrite.
I t was hard to leave an old and ,
!woken man in such a drear and wind
contested spot, and yet it had to be
done; so, fastening his tent securely
behind a clump of junipers Cavanagh
mounted his horse and i ode away
ecross the boundary of the forest into
Deer Creek basin, Which h d been the
hone of much contention for neatly
four years. It had once been a part of
the forest, but under pressure the pres.
Went bad permitted it to be restored to
the public lands opal for entry. P
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was ;not "agricultural grounds," as
certain ranchers claimed, bet it was
excellent summer pasture, and. the
steeepmen and cattlemen, had leaped
at. once Into warfare to possess it.
-Sheep were beaten to death with Clubs
he, huadreds, berdere "were hustled oizf
of,. the ,pttrk with„ropes _about theft
_Peeks 110 Weir toutats-,deatrOYedi and
.all. this :within a few.,inties of the for.
,e $bqundare. Where one small sentinel
.kept effective watch, and ward.
-Cavanagh had never' been over this
tralibut once. 'itud he was trying to
locate tlhe.Cliff from avbich e fleck Of
:Sheep had been hurled by cattlemen
Some years before when he perceived
a. thin column of smOke rising from a
-rocky hillside. With habitual watch-
fulness as to fire, he raised his glass
to his eyes, and studied the spot It
was evidently a campfire and smolder.
lug dangerously, and, turning his
AWL
H a PER
horse's head,
stamp It out.
patrol, but th
duty was clea
• As he drew
ceive signs of
ground was littered with uteesils. It
was not an ordinary campfire, and the
ranger's heart, quickened. "Another
eheep -herder has been driven out and
his tent and provisions burned!" he ex-
claimed wrathfully.
His horse snorted and shied as he
rode nearer, and then a shudder passed
through the ranger's heart as he per-
ceived in the edge of the smoldering
'embers a boot heel and then -a charred
hand! In the dpctoke of that fire was
the reek of human flesh.
For a long time the ranger sat on his
horse, peering down into tbo, ashes
until at last it became evident to his
eyes that at leapt two sheep herders
had been sacrifi `ed on the cattleman's
altar of hate and greed. '
All about on 4ie sod the story was
written all too ilain. V Two men, pos-
dibly three, had 1een murdered, cut to
pieces and burnel not many hours be-
fore. There sto d the bloody spade
with which the bodies had been dis-
membered, and tl4ere lay an empty can
whose oil had ben poured upon the
mingled camp utensils, tent and wagon
of the herders in Ithe attempt to Incin-
erate the hack -el and dismembered
a i
limbs of the victi s. The lawlessness
of the range h' d(6 culminated. The
ferocity of the hei1dr had gone beyond
the savage. lierej in the sweet autumn
air the reek of tie4 cattleman's venge-
ance. rose like ome hideous vapor,
poisonous and ob cene.
The rangersic ened as the bloody
tale unfolded ranger,
f before him. Then
a fierce hate iof uch warfare flamed
In his heart. Co Id this enormity be'
committed under any other civilized
flag? Would any ether government in-
terrhingle so foolishly, so childishly, its
state and federal authority as to per-
mit such diabollsn ?
In his horror, hi sense of revolt, he
cursed the state If which he was a.
citizen. He woul I have resigned his
commission at the moment, so intense
was his resentmen of the supine, care-
less, jovial, shatter' government under
which he was se ing.
"By the Lord," he breathed, with
solemn intensity, "if this does not
shame the .people of this state into
revolt, if these fiends are not hound-
ed and Irtmg, I will myself harry them.
I cannot live and do my duty here un-
less this /crime is avenged by law!'
Chilled, shaking and numb, he set
spurs to- his horse and rode furiously
down the trail toward the nearest
town, so eager to spread the alarm
that he could scarcely breathe a deep
breath. On the steep slopes he was
forced to walk, and' his horse led so
badly that his agony of impatience
was deepened. He bad a vision of the
murderers riding rast into far coun-
tries. Each hour made their- appre-
hension progressively the more diffi-
cult.
"Who were they " be asked himself
again and again. 'What kind of man'
did this thing? W s the leader a man
likce Ballard? Ev n so, he was' hired.
By whom? By r ncbers covetous of
the range; that as absolutely cer-
tain."
It was long la er noon before he
came to the end of the telephone line
In 5 little store ad postoffice at the
upper falls of Der creek. The tele.
A CHARRED HAND 1
he rode toward it to
It was not upon his
t' did not matter. His
-near he ,began to per -
a Vbroken `camp. The
THE lit1TRON » EXPOSITOR
phone bee a hooth fortunately, and he
soon had iIedfield's r but his voice
was slo strained hncl ;mita-tura] that his
chief did not revettnize
"is flint e.ott, !Thee '! he tito mat-
ter? Your voice see ride 'he:tree."
Ross composed himself anti told his
story briefly. "I'M at Kettle Ranch
postoffice. Now listen. The limit of
the cattleman's ferocity has been
reached, As I rodedownhere to get
Into communication *with a doctor for
a sick herder I came upon the scene
of another murder and burning. The
fire is still smoldering. At least two
bodies are in the embers."
At last, bit' by bit, from hurried
speech, the supervisor derived the
fact, the location, the hour, and di-
rected the, herder to ride back and
guard the remains till the sheriff ar-
rived. - -
"Keep It all quiet," warned- Rbss,
"and get the sheriff and Va ;lector to
Come up here as quick as Yon', can.
What Is this country coming to?! .he
cried_ In. despair. • 'Mill this deed:go
unpunished 'like the rear ‘: •
Redfield's voice had,lost its optimis-
tie ring; ' "I den't know; Iam stun-
ned by it all. Den't;do anything tusk
Ross. Walt till,t come. Perhaps this
Is the turning point! out here. he
up at the earliest ntoMeet,"
The imbittered and.. disheartened
ranger then- eaRed• up tee Vaginla,
and .the sound other sweet voice turn-
ed his V thoughts V to other end It .a
-sense more rimportant • •Inattass; for
when she heard his name she cried
out with such eager longing and ap-
peal that his heart leaped; "Oh, I wish'
you were keret Maher has been wen*
today. ' She is eehhig for You. Paul
YOU- come down and see ua? She wants
to tell you something;" • •!,
"I can't -I 'can't1"' he 'atammeredwy/
-I--I'm a long way Off,! and I haVe`
Important work to do. heit'Avill
come tomorrow. Dear girl; there is
a sick man far up on the mountain
side With no:one to carel for him but a
poor old herder, who- is in danger .of
falling sick himself. I mist go back
to them; --but, believe me, I will come
.just as soon as my duties, will let me.
You understand me, donit you?'
Her voice was fainter as -she said,
"Yes, but I -it Seems hard to wait"
"I know. Your voice has helped me.
I was In a black mood when I came
here. Pm going back now to do my
work, and then I will V come to you.
Goodby."
Strangely beautiful and very subtle
was the vibrant stir of that wire as it
conveyed back to his ear the little sigh
with which she made answer to his
plea. He took his way upward in a
mood which was meditative, but no
longer bitter.
CHAPTER XV.
SHADOWS ON THE KIM
HE decision which Cavanagh
made between love and duty
distinguished the officer 'from
the man, the soldier from the
dvilian. He did not hesitate to act,
and yet he suffered a mental conflict
as he rode back toward the scene .of
that inhuman sacrifice on the altar of
greed.
"It will be hours before any part of
the sheriff's posse, can reach the falls,
even though they take to the swiftest
motors, and then other long hours
must Intervene before I can ride down
to her. Yes, at least a day -and a night
must drag their slow course before I
can hope to be of service to her." And
the thought drew a groan of anxiety.
from him. At such moments of mental
stress the trail is a torture and the
mountain side an inexorable barrier.
Halfway to the hills he was inter-
cepted by an old man who was at
work on an irrigating ditch beside the
, road. He seemed very nervous and
very inquisitive, and as he questioned
the ranger his eyes were like those of
.a dog that fears his V master's band.
Ross wondered about this afterward,
but at the moment his mind was busy
with the significance of this V patient
toiler with a spade. He was a prophet-
ic figure In the most picturesque and
sterile land of the stockman. "Here,
within twenty miles of this peaceful
fruit grower," he said, "is the crown-
.ing infamy of the freebooting cowboy."
He wondered as he rode on whether
the papers of the state would make a
jest of this deed. "Will this be made
the theme for caustic comment in the
eastern press_ for a day and then be
forgotten?"
As his hot blood cooled he lost faith
en even this sacrifice. Could anything
change the leopard west into the tame-
ness and serenity of the ort? "No," he
decided; "nothing but death will do
that This generation, these fierce and
bloody hearts, must die. Only in that
way can the tradition of violence be
overcome and a new state reared."
At the foot of V the toilsome, upward
winding trail be dismounted and led
his weary horse. Over his head and
about halfway to the first hilltop lay
a roof of fleecy vapor. faint purple
BAD BLOOD
Is The Cause of Boils and Pimples.
When boils or pimples start to break
Out on your face or body you may rest
assured that the blood is in an impure
state, and that before you can get rid of
them it will, be necessary for .you. to
"purify it by using a good medicine that
will drive all the impurities out of the
sy .3 C
:..,zirtlock Blood Bitters is a blood purl -
Nig remedy. One that has been on the
market for the past' forty years: One
that known from one end of the country
to the °tiler as the best blood purifier
.i.t exitenee.' It cures bode, pimples and
al other diseases arising front bad blood,
13!DILS CURED.
Mr.. Andrew' B. Collier, River Glade,.
- N.B., was troubled with boils for years,
in fact, did not know what it was to be
rid of them until he used Burdock Blood
Bitters. It cured him.
PIMPLES CURED.
Mr. Otto Boyce, Yarker, Ont., had
his face and neck break out with pimples.
He tried severalkinds of medicine with
out success. Two bottles of Burdock
Blood Bitters banished them. •
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IN STERLI
areamosery around to listen In word-
less silence -in guilty silence. the
LIVES A OIRI, ythis country for nearly thirty years.ranger could not help believing.
Redfield spoke. "Sheriff Van Horne.
'ou and I have been running cattle in
Who Suffered AsManyGirls
Do --Tells How She
Found Relief.
Sterling, Conn.—" I am a girl of 22
years and I used to faint away every
month and was very
W0111k. I was also
l'with
and we've witnessed all kinds of shoot-
ing and several kinds of hanging, but
when it comes to chopping and burn-
ing men I get off. I shall personally
offer a reward of $1.000 for the ap-
prehension of these miscreants, and
hope you'll make it your solemn duty
• to bunt them to earth."
"You won't have far to go," remark-
ed Ross significantly.
"What do you 'mean?" asked the
bothered a ot
sheriff.
fmapemeareness, I I "II mean this slanghter, like the oth-
read your lieue book.' ers that have taken place, was V
the
'Wisdom V for Wo. I work of cattlemen who claim this
Inettearid jaawbow V range. Their names are known to us,
there had been on." V•
I
keted by Lydia E. • A. silence followed -so deep a silencei
0 Vegeta- that the ranger wa convinced of the
faetttbat in the VCI e of his listeners
stood these who,--lf--V they had not
shared in the slaughter, at least knew
the nameeV of the guilty men.
At Jest the sheriff. spoke, this time
with a sigh, n hope you're all -Wrong.
Cavanagh. rd hate to think any:eon-
stituent of -mine hat sanctioned` this
job V Give mellutt lantern, VVCurt1s."
The group of ranchers dismounted
and followed the sheriff, ever to the
grewsome spot, but Redfield_ stayed
With the ranger. .
"Have yotr any suspicion, Ross?'
"No, hardly a suspicion. However,
you know -as 'well as I that this- -Was
not a sudden outbreak, This deed Was
planned. It re'presents the V feeling. of
many cattlemen-1n•everything but the
extra horror of its execution, V9t
was the -work of drunken, Infuriated
men. But I ammore deeply' concern-
ed ever Miss Wetherford's Vdistresa
Did she reach youV by telephone to-
night?" .
°Igo. What's the trouble?'
"Her mother is down again. I tele-
phoned her, and she asked me to come
to bet, but I cannot go, for I have a
case of smallpox up on the hill. Am-
bro, the Basque herder, is down with
It, and another herder Is up there alone
with him. I must go back to them.
But meanwhile I wish you would go to
the Fork and see what you can do for
her." ' V • .
His dnicei filled with emotion; touch-
ed Redfield, and he said, "Can't I go to
the relieteof the herder?"
"No; yob must not think ,of it You
are a man with a family. But if you
can find any one who has had the
smallpox send dilin up. The old herder
who in nursingthe patient is not strong
and may drop at any moment. Then
ire up to me."
The men cable back to the campfire
conversing in low tones, some of them
cursing in tones of awe. One or two
of them were small farmers from Deer
Creek, recent corners to the state, or
men with bunches of milk dows, and
to them this deed was advesoine.
The sheriff followed,, saying: :i"Well.
there's nothing to do but waif till
morning. The rest of you men better
go 'home. YOU can't he of any use
here."
For more than three bourn the sher-
iff and Redfield sat with the ranger,
waiting for daylight, and during this
tire
time the tire of every man in the re-
gion was ought up and discussed.
Among others, Ross mentioned the old
man in the ditch.
"He wouldn't hurt a bumblebee," de
dared the sheriff. "He's. got a bunch
of cattle, but he's the mildest old man
in the state. He's the last rancher in
the country to even stand for such
work. What made you mention him?"
"I passed him as I was riding back,"
replied Cavanagh, "and he had a scared
look in his eyes."
The sheriff grunted. "You imagined
all that The old chap always has a
kind of meek look."
It was nearly noon of a glorious day
as Cavanagh, very tired and very hun-
gry, rode up to the sheep herder's tent
Wetherford was sitting in the sun
6t1mly smoking his pipe, the sheep
were feeding not far away, attended
by the dog, and an air of peace covered
his sunlit rocky world. -
"How is the Basque?" asked the
ranger. •
Wetherford pointed upward. "All
over." .
"Then Vit wasn't smallpox?" -
"I reckon that's what it was; it
sure was fierce. I judge it's a case
of Injun burial -no ceremony -right
here in the rocks. I'll let you dig the
hole (I'm just about all In), but mind
you keep to the windward all the time.
I don't want you spotted."
Cavanagh understood the V necessity
for these precautions, but first of all
came his own need of food and rest.
Turning his tired horse to grass, he
stretchedV himself along a- grassy, sun-
ny cranny between the rocks and there
ate and afterward slept, while all about
him the lambs called and the conies
whined.
He was awakened by a pebble tossed
upon him, and when he arose, stiff and
sore, but feeling stronger and in bet-
ter temper, the seri was wearing low.
Setting to work at his task, he threw
the loose rockOutof a hollow in the
leilge near IV, and to this rude sepul-
cher Wetherford dragged the dead
man, refusing all aid, and there piled
a cairn of rocks above his grave.
The ranger took a hand at the Vend
and rolled some huge bowlders upon
1 the grave to insure the wolves' defeat
• "Now burn the bedding," he com-
manded. "Tile whole camp has got to
gm and your clothing, too, after we
,- get down the hill."
"What will we do with the sheep?'
"Drive them over the. divide and
leave them." •
All these things Wetherford did, and,
leaving the camp in ashes behind him,
Cavanagh drove the sheep before him
on his homeward way. As night fell
the dog, at hii command, rounded them
up and put them to bed, and the men
went on down the V valley, leaving
the brave brute on guard, pathetic fig-
ure of faithful guardianship.
"It hurts me to desert you, old fel-
low," called the ranger, looking back,
"but there's no help for it. I'll come
up in the morning and brills's= Arne
Compound, and
decided to try it; end
t. has made me 'keel
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In color and seamless in texture.
Through this he must pass, and it sym-
bolized to him the line -of demarcation
between the V plain and the mountain,
between order and violence.
Slowly he led his horse along the
mountain side, grasping with eager. de-
sire at _every V changing aspect -of the
marvelous mountain scene. It was in-
finitely more gorgeous, more compel-
ling, than his moonliant experience the
night before.
As he led his horse out upon a pro-
jecting point of rocky ledge to rest his
love for the range came back upon
him with such power, that tears misted
his eyes and his throat ached. "Where'
else will I find such scenes at this?"
he asked himself. "Where in all the
lowlands could such splendors shine?
How can -1 leave this high world in
which these wonders come and go? I
will not! Here will I bring my bride
and build my bathe. This- is my
world."
But the mist grew gray, the aureole
of fire faded, the sun went down be-
hind the hills', an the chill of evening
deepened on the trail, and tie he .re
approached the scene of man's inhu-
manity to man the thought of camping
there beside those charred limbs nail-
ed for heroic resolution. He was hun-
gry, too, and as the air pinched he
shivered.
"At the best the sheriff cannot reach
here •before midnight," he said; and
settled down to his unsought, e netting
vigil. .
His one relief lay in the me alicom-
.
position of a long letter to ir-
ginia, whose life at that moment was
a comfort to him. "If such purity,
such sweetness, can- come from vio-
lence and vulgarity then surely a new
and splendid state can rise even out
of the ashes of these murdered men.
Perhaps this is the end of the old,"
he mused, "perhaps this is the begin-
ning of the new," and as he pondered
the last faint crimson died out of the
west. "So must the hate and violence
die out of America," he said, "leaving
the clear, sweet air of liberty behind."
• He was near to the poet at the mo-
ment, for be was also.the I6ver. His
allegiance to the great •republic stood
the test. His faith in democracy was
shaken, but not destroyed. "I will
wait," he decided. "This shall be the
sign. If this deed goes unavenged
then will I put off my badge and my
uniform and go back to the land where
for a hundred years at least such
deeds as these have been impossible."
He built a fire as night fell to serve
both as a beacon and as a defense
against the cold. He felt himself
weirdly remote in this vigil. From
his -far height he looked abroad upon
the, tumbled plain as if upon an ocean
dimly perceptible, yet august. "At this
moment," he said, "curious V and per-
haps guilty eyes are wondering what
my spark of firelight may mean."
His mind went again and again to
that! tall old man in the ditch. What
was. the meaning of his scared and
sorrowful glance? Why should one
so peacefully employed at such a time
and in such a place weir the look of
a hunted' deer? Wbat meant the tre-
mor in his voice?
Was it V possible that one so gentle
should have taken part in this deed?
"Preposterous suspicion, and yet he
had a guilty look."
At last, far in the night, he heard
the snort of a horse and the sound of
voices. The law (such as it was) was
creeping up the mountain side in the
person of the sheriff of Chauvenet
county and was about to relieve the
ranger from his painful responsibility
as guardian of the dead.
At last V he came, this officer of the
law, attended (like V a •Cheyenne- chief)
by a dozen lesser warriors of various
conditions and kind, but among them
-indeed, second only to the sheriff -
was Hugh Redfield, the forest super-
visor, hot and eager with haste.
As they rode up to the fire the officer
called out: "Howdy, ranger? How
about it?"
Ross stated briefly, succinctly, what
he had discovered, and as he talked
other riders came up the hill and gath-
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it was long after dark when
entered the canyon just above the
in. and Wetherford was • shiveria*
from cold and weakness.
"Now, you pull up just outside ths‘
gate and wait there till Vj• bring VQ,
some blankets. Then you've got to
-strip' to the skin and start.the werldi
p.
•
"ILL OVER."
all over again," said Cavanagh.
build V a fire here, and we'll cremate
your past. How about it?"
"I'm willing," V responded Wether -
ford. ."You can burn everything that
belongs to me but my wife and my',
girl."
All through the ceremony which told
lowed ran this self banterVI1IVV be
all V ranger, barring a commission," he
said, with a grin as he put On the. =
olive yellow shirt and a pair of dusty,
green trousers, "And here goes my
past:" Vile added as VtosSCd his done.
tatninated rags upon tbe fire.
"What a corking opportunity th make
a fresh stare' commented Cavanagh.,
"I hope you see it."
"I see it, VbuVt it's hard to live up WI
your mark."
When every precaution had been.1
taken the renger led the freshly scrub-
bed; scoured and transformed fugitivel
to his cabin.
"Why, man, you're fit for the state);
legislature," he exclaimed as they
came into the full light. "My elothein
don't precisely Vtheet every. demand youi
make upon them, but they give yow
an air of command. I wish your velfe!
could see you now." Then. seeingthati
Wetherford was really in earnest, he
added: "You can VStay with me asiongi
flf; you wish. Perhaps in time yo:i
might be able to work into the servie
as a guards although tEICV chief is get.,
ting more and- more insistent on real
foresters."
'inhere were tears in Wetherford's,
eyes as he said: "You cannot realize1
what this clean, warm uniform meansi
to me. For nine years I wore the,
prison stripes- It is ten years since ki
was dressed like a man."
"You need not worry about food ori
shelter for the present," replied Cava -i
nagh gently, "Grub is notcostly Vhere,
and house rent is Jess than nominal:1
so make yourself at home and geti
stronz."
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