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Updated: June 1, 2025
Bill walked with slow deliberation, stopping every three or four feet and scanning the ground around him with his brilliant, keen eyes. The stoker worked like a pointer dog, methodically, and examining each bush clump for broken twigs. But it was Rogers the millman, whose method was more like Bill's, who gave the gathering call.
"How much lumber did you cut last winter off ground that didn't belong to you?" he queried shortly. "Off land not mine?" "You heard my question!" "I cut him off my own land," said the millman with an injured expression. "Some of it." "You scale all the logs I cut. You mark him. I sell him. All right." "You tell it well," commented the Supervisor tersely. "But it don't go, Jo. How much was there?"
A short time after this, when Marco came back to the place where Forester was, Forester asked him what the millman had been saying to him. "He was telling me a story of a bear," said Marco. "Of a bear?" said Forester. "Yes," said Marco, "of a bear in a saw-mill." "I don't see what a bear had to do in a saw-mill," replied Forester.
The widow was a winner of hearts whom not even the wife of Tom Ford, the rich millman and mayor of the town, could rival in social power, so Jim, as the heir apparent, grew up in an atmosphere of importance that did him little good. Little Jim's Tutors "Whiskey" Mason had been for more than three years with Downey. He was an adroit barkeep.
Yet the hammer could not be crushed and, as the wheel had applied its weight, the resistance to its force had caused it to leap from its bearings and go hurtling down the incline. It was a very complete job, even better than dynamiting, and yet Wiley did not blame it on Stiff Neck George. Some miner, some millman, who had seen it done before, had repeated the performance for his benefit.
When it had gone a little farther, the millman pulled a handle, and stopped the motion of the carriage and the log, and, in a moment afterwards, the log began to go back again; the saw, all the time, ascending and descending as before, but without doing any work.
The millman favored surrounding the cabin, and then permitting him with two others to advance boldly to the door and endeavor to capture their man. The packer, Sinclair, suggested another course, which was nothing less valorous than a straight rush for the doors and windows; but Chloride fought that plan.
He forgot to go back to the millman to get the rest of his story, but, instead of it, he rambled down the bank of the river, until he came to a place where there was an old fence, which had fallen down, and the nails were sticking out of the boards. He now wished that he had borrowed the hammer at the mill, and he tried to persuade a boy, who was standing there, to go and borrow it for him.
Marco watched all these movements with great interest. Forester, who had often seen them before, went back to the fire, and held his hands out to it, for, as it was a cold evening, the feeling of the warmth was pleasant. He could see that Marco remained talking with the millman; but the noise of the machinery was so great that he could not hear what they said.
Whether the trammer kissed her good-by or simply kissed her hand was immaterial to him now and, in case it might have been a millman or some miner underground, he laid off the whole night shift. The night-watchman went too, and the stage the following evening brought out a cook to start up the boarding-house.
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