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The men, with the taciturnity of their class in the presence of a stranger, said nothing. "Well, bub," finally drawled a voice from the corner, "blowed that stake you made out of Radway, yet?" "That you, Shearer?" inquired Thorpe advancing. "You're the man I'm looking for." "You've found me," replied the old man dryly.
We'll have him take us out, some still day. We'll be there in a few minutes now. See the cranberry marshes. Sometimes there's a good deal of pine on little islands scattered over it, but it's very hard to log, unless you get a good winter. We had just such a proposition when I worked for Radway. Oh, you'll like Radway, he's as good as gold. Helen!" "Yes," replied his sister.
In her heart she felt an intuition that something must happen soon. She waited for it to come with a kind of hushed excitement. At the beginning of May she received a letter from Radway in which he told her that the Pennant was leaving the West Indies. Taking it for granted that he would keep his promise of coming to Roscarna she was distressed to think that the shooting season was over.
"He can mak' de cut in de meedle of de fores'." "That's right," agreed Bob Stratton, "they's the west half of eight ain't been cut yet." So they sent a delegation to Radway. Big Nolan was the spokesman. "Boss," said he bluntly, "she's too cold to work on them plains to-day. She's the coldest day we had." Radway was too old a hand at the business to make any promises on the spot.
At the stumpage rate your million and a half which Radway 'appropriated' would be only three thousand. But for the sake of argument, we'll take the actual sum you'd have received for saw logs. Even then the million and a half would only have been worth between eight and nine thousand.
Would you care to take the job?" "How much a thousand do you give?" asked Radway. "Four dollars," replied the lumberman. "I'll look at it," replied the jobber. So Radway got the "descriptions" and a little map divided into townships, sections, and quarter sections; and went out to look at it.
Only it must be a strong man, with the strength of the wilderness in his eye. The next morning Radway transferred Molly and Jenny, with little Fabian Laveque and two of the younger men, to Pike Lake. There, earlier in the season, a number of pines had been felled out on the ice, cut in logs, and left in expectation of ice thick enough to bear the travoy "dray."
After an interval, Tim Shearer, Radway and Kerlie came out again. "Where's the boss?" asked Shearer. "I don't know, Tim," replied Wallace seriously. "I've looked everywhere. He's gone. He must have been all cut up. I think he went out in the woods to get over it. I am not worrying. Harry has lots of sense. He'll come in about dark." "Sure!" said Tim. "How about the boy's stakes?" queried Radway.
Five ballots were held without a choice. On the sixth, Mr. Harris was elected, all voting for him but himself. It was then moved that his election should be ratified by acclamation, which was lost, in consequence of his again voting against himself. "MR. RADWAY moved that the House now take up the remaining candidates, and go into an election for breakfast. This was carried.
"Well now I AM sorry!" cried Radway, "you can turn in and help though, if you want to." Thorpe greeted the cook and old Jackson Hines, the only two whom he knew, and set to work to tie up bundles of blankets, and to collect axes, peavies, and tools of all descriptions. This was evidently the last wagon-trip, for little remained to be done.
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