EE I ae Bellefonte, Pa., August 9, 1912. FREGKLES By Gene Strattom- Porter COPYRICHT, 1904, BY DOUBLEDAY, PACE & CO. [Continued from last week. ] SYNOPSIS. Freckles, a homeless boy, is hired by Boss McLean to guard the expensive tim- ber in the Limberlost from timber thieves. | Freckles does his work faithfully, makes friends with the birds and yearns to know | more about nature. He lives with Mr. | and Mrs, Duncan. He resolves to get books and educate himself. He becomes interested in a huge pair of vultures and calls his bird friends his “chickens.” i Some of the trees he is guarding are worth $1,000 each. Freckles’ books arrive. | He receives a call from Wessner. Wessner attempts to bribe Freckles to | betray his trust, and Freckles whips him. | McLean overhears them and witnesses the fight. Freckles’ honesty saves a precious tree, He finds the nest of the vultures and Is visited by a beautiful young girl. She calls Freckles McLean's son. Freckles | calls her “the angel” and helps the Bird Woman in taking photographs. McLean promises to adopt Freckles. | CHAPTER IX. A FIGHT WITH BULLETS. HEN Freckles crossed Sleepy W Snake creek and the goldfinch, waiting us ever, challenged, “See me? he saw the dainty, swaying grace of the angel instead. What is a man to do with an angel who dismembers herself and scatters over a whole swamp, thrusting a vivid reminder upon him at every turn? “You needn't be thinking.” he said to the goldfinch, “that because I'm coming down this line alone day after day it's always to be so. Some of these days you'll be swinging on this wire, and you'll see me coming. and you'll swing. skip and flirt yourself around and chip up right spunky. ‘See me? I'll be saying ‘See you? See her!” You'll look, and there she'll stand. The sunshine won't look gold any more, ner the roses pink, nor the sky blue, because she'll be the pinkest, bluest. goldest thing of all. You'll be yelling yourself hearse with the jeal- ousy of her. The saw bird will stretch his neck out of joint, and she'll turn | the heads of ail the flowers. Wherev- er she goes I can go back afterward and see the things she's seen, walk the path she's walked, hear the grass- es whispering over all the things she's said, and if there's a place too swampy for her bits of feet, maybe—maybe | she'd be putting the beautiful arms | of her about me neck and letting me | carry her over!” Freckles shivered as wih a chill. ! He sent the cudgel whirling skyward, | dextrously caught it and set it spin- | ning. “Maybe she'll be wanting the cup me blue and brown chickens raised their babies ic. If there's any feathers falling that day, why, it's from the wings of me chickens—it's sure to be. for the only angel outside the gates will be walking this timberline, and every step of the way I'll be holding me breath and praying that she don't unfold wings and sail off before the hungry eyes of me.” When the week was up Freckles had his room crisp and glowing with fresh living things that rivaled every tint of the rainbow. He curried bark and filled up all the muckiest places of the trail. It was middle July. The heat of the last few days bad dried up the water about and through the Limberlost, so that it was possible to cross it on foot in almost any direction if one had any | idea of direction and did not become completely lost in its rank tangle of vegetation and bushes. The heat was doing one other thing that was bound to make Freckles, as a good Irishman, shiver. As the swale dried its inhabitants were seeking the cooler depths of the swamp. They liked neither the heat nor leaving the field mice. moles and young rabbits of their chosen location. He saw them crossing the trail every day as the heat grew intense. The rattlers were sadly forgetting their manners, for they struck on no provocation whatever and didn't even remember to rattle afterward. Daily Freckles was compelied to drive big black- snakes and blue racers from the nests of his chickens. Often the terrified squalls of the parent birds would reach him far down the line, and he would run to the rescue of the ba- bles. He saw the angel when the carriage turned from the corduroy into the clearing. They stopped at the west entrance to the swamp, waiting for him to them down the trail, as “fold them it was safest for the horse that he should do so. They followed the east line to a point oppo- trail was safe for her. laughed at his fears. telling him that it was the polite thing for him to do anyway. “Oh,” said Freckles. "so you was after knowing that? Well, 1 didn't s'pose you did, and 1 was afraid you'd think me wanting in respect to be ! preceding you!" The astonished angel looked at him. caught the irrepressible gleam of Irish fun in his eves, and they laughed to: gether. Freckles did not realize how he was talking that morning. He showed her many of the beautiful nests and eggs of the line. She could identify a num- ber of them. but of some she was igno- rant, so they made notes of the num ber and color of the eggs, material and ' construction of nest, color. size and shape of the birds and went on to look them up in the book. At his room. when Freckles had lift- ed the overhanging bushes and stepped back for her to enter, his heart wars all | out of time nnd place. The angel drew | a deep breath and stood staring. first , at one side, then at another, then far “1's i just fairyland!” she cried ecstatically | Then she turned and stared at Freckles off down rhe cathedral aisle. exactly as she had at his handiwork. “What are you planning to be?" she asked slowly. “Whatever Mr McLean wants me i 0" be replied. " “What do you do most?” she asked. “Watch me lines.” “1 don't mean work:" “Oh! In me spare time T keep me room and study in me books.” “Do you work on the room or the books most?’ “On the room just what it takes to keep it up and the rest of the time on me books." The angel eyed him sharply. “Well, maybe you are going to be a great scholar,” she said, “but you don't look it. Your face isn't right for that, but it's got something big in it—something just great. 1 must find out what it is and then you must go to work on it. Your father is expecting you to do something. You can tell by the way he talks. You ought to begin right away. You've wasted too much time already.” Poor Freckles hung his head. He bad never wasted an hour in his life. There had never been one that was his to waste. The angel, studying him intently, read his thought in his face. "Oh, I don't mean that!” she cried. with the frank dismay of sixteen. you're not lazy! Nobody would ever think that from your looks. It's this I mean: There is something fine, strong and full of power in your face. There is something you are to do in this world, and no matter how hard you work at all these other things nor how successfully you do them it is all wast- ed until you find the one thing that If you could go any- you can do best. where you please and do anything you want, what would you do?” “I'd go to Chicago and sing in the First Episcopal choir,” answered Freckles promptly. The angel dropped back on a seat; the hat she had taken off and held in her fingers rolled to her feet. *‘There,” | she exclaimed vehemently, *you can see what I'm going to be. Nothing, absolutely nothing! You can sing? Of course you can sing! It is written all over you.” “Anybody with half wit could have seen he could sing without having to be told,” she thought. “It's in the slenderness of his fingers and his quick, nervous touch. It is in the brightness of his hair, the fire of his eyes, the breadth of his chest, the muscles of his throat and neck and, | above all, it's in every tone of his voice.” “Will you do something for me?" she asked. “I'll do anything in the world you want me to,” said Freckles largely, | “and if I can't do what you want I'll go to work at once and I'll try till 1 can.” “Good,” said the angel. “Go over there and stand before that bank and sing something—anything you think of first.” It was a children’s song that he had led for the little folks at the home many times. To fairy land we go, With a song of joy, heigh-o! In dreams we'll stand upon that shore And all the realm behold. We'll see the sights so grand That belong to fairy land. Its mysteries we will explore, Nothing could have given the intense sweetness and rollicking quality of Freckles® voice better scope. He for- got everything but pride in his work with the sound of his voice. He was on the chorus, and the angel was shiv- ering in ecstasy when clip, clip, came the sharply beating feet of a swiftly ridden horse down the trail from the north. They both sprang toward the entrance. “Freckles, Freckles!" called the voice of the Bird Woman. They wero at the trail on the instant. “Both those revolvers loaded?’ she asked. “Yes,” said Freckles. “Is there a way you can cut across the swamp and get to the chicken tree in a few minutes and with little “Of course go flying” said the Bird “Give the angel a lift up be- will ride the horse Little Chicken in back. His mother i Borsa. “PHEN GO FLYING,” SAID THE BIRD WO ! MAN. came so clore, I felt sure she would . enter the log. The light was fine, so | set and focused the camera and cov- ered it with branches, attached the | long hose and went away off over 100 ' feet and hid in some bushes to wait. | A short, thick man and a tall, dark ' one passed me so closely 1 could al- | most have reached out and touched | them. They carried a big saw on their | shoulders. They said they could work ; until about noon, and then they must | lay off until you passed and then try | to load and get out at night. They | went on-—not entirely out of sight— and began cutting a tree. Mr. McLean i told me the other day what was likely | to happen there, and if they get that | tree down be loses his wager on you. | Keep to the east and north and hustle, ! We'll meet you at the carriage. I am | always armed. We will separate and ! creep up on them from different sides ‘and give i1u-m a fusilade that will ! send them ilying. You burry, now!" | She gathered up the reins and started | briskly down the trail. The angel, hat- less and with sparkling eyes, was clinging about ber waist. Freckles worked his way with great care, dodging limbs and bushes with noiseless tread and cutting as close to where be thought the men were as he felt that he dared if he were to remain unseen. As he ran he tried to think. It was Wessner, burning for his re- venge, aided by the bully of the local ity. that he was going to meet. He must follow the Bird Woman's plan and meet them at the carriage, but if they really did mean to try to help him be must not allow it. Let the angel try to handle a revolver in his defense? Never. Not for all the trees in the Limberlost! She might shoot herself. She might forget to | watch sharply and run across a snake ! that was not particularly well behaved | that morning. Freckles permitted himself a grim smile as he went speed- "Ing on. | When he reached the carriage the : Bird Woman and the angel had the ' horse hitched to it, the outfit packed | and were calmly waiting. “Give babe one of your revolvers, | quick!” said the Bird Woman. “We | will all creep up until we are in fair "range. The underbrush is so thick i and they are so hard at work that they will never notice us, if we don't make 2 noise. You will fire first, then i {will pop in from my direction, and ! then you, baby, and shoot quite high, or else very low. We mustn't really hit them.” | Freckles protested. ! The Bird Woman chose the middle | distance, and for a last time caution: | the angel to lle down and shoot high, as she moved away. Freckles’ revolver spat fire. Lead spanged on steel. The saw handle flew | from Wessner's hand and he reeled | with the jar of the shock. Black Jack | straightened, uttering a fearful oath. | His hat was raken off by a shot from | the northeast. The angel had not wait. (ed for the Bird Woman, and ber shot could scarcely have been called high. | At almost the same instant the third shot whistled in from the east. Black Jack spang into the air with a yell of complete panic, for it ripped a heel from his boot. Freckles emptied his second chamber and the dirt spattered over Wessner. Shots poured in thick and fast. With- out even reaching for a weapon, both men broke for the east road in great, leaping bounds, while leaden slugs sung and hissed about them in deadly earnest. Freckles was trimming his corners as closely as he dared, but if the an- gel did not really intend to hit, she was shaving the limit in a scandalous manner. : [Continued next week.] Theory and Practice. “I am a friend of the people,” said he. “The people must rule.” “But,” reported a courtier, “the peo- ple are opposed to the measure you propose. They don't want it." “They don’t, eh?” said he, banging the tabie. “I'll show 'em. 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No debt shall be created by oron behalf of the State, except to su; casual defi- ciencies of revenue fone! in , suppress in- surrection, defend the State in war, or to pay ex- isting debt; and the debt created to supply defi- ciency in revenue shall never exceed, in the ag fresate at any one time, one million of dollars,” amended 80 as to read as follows: Section 4. No debt shall be created by or on behalf of the State, except to supply casual defi- of revenue, | invasion, suppress in- surrection, defend the Btate in war, or to pay ex- isting debt; and the debt created to supply defi- ciencies in revenue shall never exceed, in ag- | H gate at any one time, one million . however, That the General Assembly, irrespective of any debt, may authorize the te a Ea ars ot ollars for the purpose of im al . ing the highways of the a true copy of Joint Resolution No. 1. ROBERT MCAFEE, Secretary of the Commonwealth. Number Two. A JOINT RESOLUTION Proposing an amendment to section seven, arti. | cle three of the Constitution of Pennsylvania, so as to permit Section 1. Be it ved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, That the fol is amendment tothe Constitution of monwealth of Pennsylva nia, in the provisions of the eenth a Section 2, seven, article three of the Constitution of Pennsylvania, which reads ollows: as follows: 7. The General Assembly shall not pass any local or fa) Jaw authorizing the crea- extension, fl : the healing th aia apsiting of Neus: tiv, tow | 5 Ch the f or school 3 or f bridges crossing st which form bound a or this and any other : streets or alleys: town to cemeteries, graveyards, or public t : Authors ot RS ion or legitimation of “Loca g or changing LouNY seats, erecting “incorporaiing cities owns. of villages, or va seid conducting of elections or fixing or Changing the place of voting: . “ Yoices: hi bo } i sr i or school dis. t 3 “Creating offices, or prescribing. the powers in ties, s, A and duties of oificers § i counties, y pola or collection of debts, or the regl estate: A Ee fe Se hes oath mea or constables: tribunals, or ihe enforcing of tua: management of schools, 5 repaint of school Bouses and the of money for such purposes: “ a er minors or persons un der disability, except due notice to all . fics in Intereet, 1 be recited in the special enact- | perf necting trains, returnin regu trams" within, ‘FIFTEEN. DAYS." Seapoft || 1S in accordance with the | numbered - | the the Constitul | and safety of persons employed by the State or by any county, city, borough, town, township, school district, village, or other civil division of the State or by any contractor or sub-contractor work, labor or services for the State, or for any county, city, borough, town, township, achool district, village or other civil division Creating co ions, or amending, renew or SNE the charters thereof: pie ng ranting to any individual the right to lay down a railroad track: NO a he local law by the gd en special or aw t rtial re- of a general law; but laws ha focal or such powers shall have vided general law, nor where the have Ee to grant the same or give the £ : i 3 for relief asked for. A truecopy of Joint Resolution No. 2. ROBERT MCAFEE, Secretary of the Commonwealth. Number Three. A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION. Proposing an amendment to section th article eight of the Constitution a a vania, Section 1. Be it resolved by the House Representatives of the Commonwealth He ot sylvania ( That ouse consenti t i Provided, That such lectins shall alwen be held in an odd-numbered year,” so as to read: oh Sait nin ested by, the general or munici; elect! i ear, their offices until the first Monday of the next succeedi ren NUT ary » A true copy of Concurren ER ision No. 3. Secretary of the Commonwealth. Number Four. A JOINT RESOLUTION. Proposing an amendment to section one of rticle nine of the Const . Vania, relating to tx Ritution of Pennsyl proposed as an amend the Consiutionof te Commortweaiihol Peay centh thereof:— 7 : 2, Amend section one of article nine of the Constitution he : ul of Pennsylvania, which Z : £ g g £5 Number Five. A JOINT RESOLUTION. an amendment to the Constitution of Be it resolved the Senate and House of Rep- a aa Pennsylva- Dian Cencral Assembly met, That following of EE utah ions of the eighteenth article thereof: — Article IX. 3 i got ; ofsl I i E I il | i i i i I I j | f it 53 interest £ i ie Be hii li Selden
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