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By this time Parker's crew had been increased to a score of laborers, and he had picked up three yokes of oxen and four horses from the few pioneer farmers who lived near Sunkhaze. With tackle and derrick the locomotive was swung upon a specially constructed sled, and the spurred tires were set upon its drivers.
There ain't a deputy sheriff that will dare to poke his nose within ten miles of our camps." "That's right, Mr. Parker," agreed one of the Sunkhaze crowd. "Once a crew burnt a smokin'-car when they were comin' up from " "No yarns now, no yarns now!" Connick thrust himself against the Sunkhaze men and roughly elbowed them back. "Get on shore an' stay there."
Gideon Ward was fifty miles up the West Branch, looking after a timber operation on Number 8, Range 23, he borrowed leggings, shoe-pacs and an overcoat and hastened on by means of a tote-team. A week later, silent and grim and pinched with cold, he unrolled himself from buffalo-robes and took the train at Sunkhaze.
The bottle began to go about on the sleds, and the refrain of a lumberman's chorus, with its riotous, "Whoop fa la larry, lo day!" came floating back to Sunkhaze long after the great sail had merged itself with the silvery radiance of the brilliant surface of the lake.
"What did I tell ye?" he demanded. "Just as any one might ha' told that lawyer," said a man, clicking his knife-blade. The long autumn passed and winter set in. Snow fell on the carry and the big sleds jangled across. Men went up past Sunkhaze settlement into the great region of snow and silence, and men came down bearded men, with hands calloused by the ax and the cross-cut saw. But Col.
Reporting his predicament to the sheriff would mean sowing news of the Sunkhaze situation broadcast in the papers. "It isn't a matter for the sheriffs," he replied shortly. "We'll consider that the men are hired to transport material and not to fight. We can only wait and see what will happen.
There's nothing old Ward hates so much as he does what he calls 'slingin' on airs, When he drove down from the woods and saw that new window he growled, 'Wal, it seems to me we're gettin' blamed high-toned all of a sudden! He got out, rooted up a big rock and hove it right through the middle of that new pane of glass the only pane of plate glass Sunkhaze ever saw.
The next morning all the male population of Sunkhaze settlement surveyed with rapt interest the preliminaries of getting up steam under the "Swamp Swogon," as one of the guides had humorously nicknamed the little locomotive. Suddenly a bystander leveled his mittened hand above his eyes and gazed up the long trail across the lake.
The giant put up a protesting hand. "Ye sartin done it good, my little man, an' I'm glad to know ye better. But Colonel Gid Ward, sure he lied about ye, or I'd never called ye names at Sunkhaze." "You didn't expect that man to tell the truth about me, did you?" Parker demanded.
"Do you mean that Sunkhaze has kept the Swamp Swogon affair and my kidnapping quiet?" demanded Parker, his face lighting up. He had been fearing what might have gone out to the world about the affair. "A good many was all of a to-do to telegraft it to the sheriff and to your bosses," said the postmaster calmly. "But it seemed better to me to wait a while.
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