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Zurich Herald, 1928-03-01, Page 2A "Trial Will Convince! sA ORANGE PEKOE isTio A Is not equalled b r any other tete. T84 His Terri Dawn BY 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- 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, "1'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 Roseland "the dam'll be finislied this fall. In 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. Pll be able to give Edith as good as anybody's got in Dunder Gorge." Upon that he rested his 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. ayes. " "What did she say?" "It's a11- right -a th her:- "She -said to comb' `to you." "Huh!" It was impossible to guess what the grunt expressed. "You ought to build the dam 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 sante 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 Sftlrfja Sfaorpo longer Cuts easier. Saws faster 6IMONDS CANADA SAW CO.LTO. MONTREAL VANCOUVER. ST. JOHN, 14.3., TORONTO "A Stylish Dress for 15 cis!" It helps a Iot when a woman is wise to home dyeing. Oita, fa e,d dresses Masse the new colors of the hour. Just tis perfect as any professional dyer 'could do it --if only you'll use real tlye. It's easy to Diamond dye dozens of things, and do wonderful tinting of underwear and all dainty pieees.'Using true dye is the secret. You can Dia- mond dye all your curtains and covers, scarfs and .spreads; any material, and right over other eolrrss. So easy, it's fun! 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' Are you holding diff, like him, to see,--" Ho 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 it was his went, now, and that it was only herself wllX'eh 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 marry Mark Rowland!' Ind 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?" "7 won't say that, Mark!" There was a film of tears in her eyes now, although she still smiled. • "I waist him 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 Edith Hardy. He let her go so sud- denly that she staggered, "Pal make him change his mind!" he cried; and he went out of the gar- den, leaving her there with the un- easy spaniel whining at her feet. He had the key, he felt. She would not marry hien 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," muttered Rowland, as he went back to the head of the gorge where his men were at work, "Cir,, by the rusty hinges of hell, Pll 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 <^,.ny roan had ever got 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 inen waist deep into the river. to stop a newly developed leak in the dein. 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 theblacksmith shop. With- out a legitimate reason he did not intend to seek out Aaron Hardy again until he could lead the old .noon out Of his shop and point to a wheei'jn- ing above the gorge ---bid hie teen to the sound of a whirring saw, mak- ing good Iogs into lumber. It came about, however, that he had an honest errand at the shop when he began to make his arrangements, dur- ing the winter, for the drive, he need- ed some ironwork and many feet of chain for the boons which, come spring, would be stretched from shore to shore above the pond to hold back the nighty flood of logs he expected to bring down from the woods on high water. It was right and natural that he should order hi.s chains and iron- work there in Dunder Gorge. The fierce eyebrows of. Aaron 'Hardy waggled a question when Row- land entered the shop, but as he began . to state his errand they settled to Irest, 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 guar - rel between them. He promised the chains at a just price, and that such of the ironwork as was to be hand - forged should be 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 gong 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 neat- ter of a log -chain or a ring -bolt. In the presence of Hardy he felt that be stood before something which iron i could not pierce, or, ,piercing, could !not conquer. The same quality was in Edith. In her it was like the breath of June to him; in her :father the a "You're bolding off to see whether I snake money out of my mill or riot!"' "It ought to be below the gorge," readied Hardy, without raising his "Suppose Suppose you get a freshet, or anything else goes wrong, and your logs go down through. the gorge? It would cost nre'n they'd be worth to haul 'em 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 -I land. "I'll see to that!" "A gristmill below the gorge would grind grist and make 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 I Aaron Hardy's opinion of his abil- ities was far fronf 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 me, Andy Hardy!" "I know they call you the,. Iron Ran, Mark;" said •`trio blacksiith, 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 dam and make the money and marry the girl!" He passed out into the sunlight, and he had not gone a dozen steps before the renewed sound of hammer and anvil came to bins, just as though his visit had been of no importance. I 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 Iran 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 an the September brown and gold of the world. She made hiin feel like that, in flashes. "Your father won't give his con- sent," he said. The dog stretched up 1 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. -lest in a way. I'm sorry." He was sincere enough, although the firmness of his purpose was not light- ' ened by so much as the weight of her :little finger. j "I thought you would." She looked !village. toward the forest back of the !village. Rowland stepped nearer to !her and tried to take her in his arms. She Iifted her hand, a slender white barrier between them, and his arms !fell to his sides, "You—" He found his tongue thick incl unwieldy. "You weren't ---like this—haat night!,, "No, Mark, I wasn't!" "But I think you knew he'd be against ere—I think so now!" "I diel!" She smiled into his eyes. "That's why I kissed you!" Rowland felt himself tinged with a red blush. One of the things he loved. most about her was what 11e called her iron frankness. Nevertheless, it often startled hies. "Maybe you know what made him do it?" he asked, being certain that he himself understood the motive. "No, 1' don't. I just felt that he • was lotng to." 1 "And what shall we do?" Ile asked ithe question hesitatingly, for it touch - the crux of the matter, his happi- Wait!" The word etched itself miserably upon bis conseiousnt'ss, i Even until then he had cherished a I little hope that she would stand with hien and defy Aaron Ilardy. , "You go !ahead with your plans, Mark," Meek disappointment. began io A Pebble was the Cave Man's Candy! It kept Ida mouth moist and fresh on his hot, rocky road. Calling on his sweetie, ho took her a Striooth," white stone! 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