FRECKLES By Gene Strattom- Porter COPYRIGHT, 1904, BY DOUBLEDAY, PACE & CO. [Continued from last week.] SYNOPSIS. | | | | i i i + he softly lifted his head. Nearer and | were they of the hypocrite and bun § because like them, but how he loved Out in the world where he going were the majority like them or throwing classes? Freckles did not know. but he reached the ultimate conclusion that people like the Bird Woman, the angel, McLean and the Duncans were very rare, hence their when distant voices aroused him. and nearer they came, and as the heavy | Freckles, a homeless boy, is hired by Wagons rumbled down the east trail | Boss McLean to guard the expensive tim- he could hear them plainly. The gang | ber in the Limberiost from timber thieves. were shouting themselves hoarse for | Freckles does his work faithfully, makes the Limberlost guard. Freckles didn't friends with the birds and yearns to know | gq that he deserved it. He would more about nature. He lives with Mr. and Mrs, Duncan. He resolves to get books and educate himself. He becomes interested in a huge have given much to be able to go out to the men and explain how it was, but only to McLean could he tell his | pair of vultures and calls his bird friends Story. | his ‘chickens.’ Some of the trees he is guarding are worth $1,000 each. Freckles’ He receives a call from Wessner. | At the sight of Freckles the men | threw up their hats and cheered. Mc- ' but big Duncan gathered him into his | S\N books arrive. | Lean shook bands with him warmly, | “IT WILL JUST BE A QUESTION OF WHO | If ye and me agree that a thing ought | to be done, and | watch in your place, why. it's bound to be all right with McLean. Ought ye put on your Sab- bath day clothes?" Freckles shook his head. He knew what he had to do. but there was no use in taking time to try to explain it to Mrs. Duncan while he was so hur- ried. He exchanged his wading boots for shoes, gave her his club and went spinning toward town. He knew very well where the angel lived. He bad passed her home many times, and he passed it again without even taking his eyes from the street, steering | straight for her father's place of busi | | | Wessner attempts to bribe Freckles to’ arms and bugged him like a bear and | went skimming around the trail on it | betray his trust, and Freckles whips Mclean overhears them and witnesses fight. Freckles’ honesty saves a precious tree. He finds the nest of the vultures and Is visited by a beautiful young girl. 8he calls Freckles McLean's son. Freckles calls her “the angel” and helps the Bird Woman in taking photographs. McLean |jeve his senses. Also he was greatly promises to adopt Freckles. | Freckles and the angel become very friendly. Assisted by the Bird Woman, they drive Wessner and Black Jack, tim- ber thieves, from the Limberlost. CHAPTER X. W FRECKLES WINS HONOR. HEN the men reached the trail reckless yelled at the top of his voice: “Head them off on the south, boys! Fire from the south!” As he had hoped, Jack and Wessner instantly plunged into the swale. A storm of lead spattered after them. They crossed the swale, running low, with not even one backward glance, and entered the wood beyond the cor duroy. Then the little party gathered at the tree. “I'd better fix this saw so they can't be using it if they come back,” said Freckles, tnking out his hatchet and making the saw teeth fly. “Now we have to get out ot here with. out belug seen,” said the Bird Woman to the angel. “It won't do for me to make enemies of these men, for | am liable to meet them about my work any day.” “You can do it by driving straight north on this road,” sald Freckles. *] will go ahead and cut the wires for you. The swale is almost dry. You will only be sinking a few inches at most. In a few rods you will strike a cornfield. 1 will take down the fence and let you into that. rows and drive straight across it uati! you come to the other side. Be foliow ing the fence scuth until you come to a road through the woods east of it Then take that road and follow east until you reach the pike. You will come out on your way back to town and two miles north of anywhere they are likely to be. Don't for your lives ever let it out that you did this,” he earnestly cautioned, “for it's black en- emies you would be making.” Freckles snapped the wires, and they drove through. The angel leaned from the carriage and held out his revolver. Freckles looked into her face and lost his breath. Her eyes were black and ber face a deeper rose than usual. He felt that his own was white as death, “Did | shoot high enough she ask. i gang here the first minute possible. ed sweetly. “I really forgot about 1y- | Ag goon as | feel that we have the ing down.” Freckles winced. Did the child know how near she had gone? Surely she ¢) i ig felled it's hard to tell what a could not. Or was it possible that she | trae will prove to be. It won't do to had the nerve and skill to fire like that | joave you here longer alone. Jack has ly? “1 will send the first reliable man 1 one and it stands to reason that you meet for McLean," said the Bird W¢- | gre no match for him. Which of the man, gathering up the lines, “If 1 don't meet one when we reach town we will send a messenger. If it wasn't for having the gang see me 1 would go myself.” Round eyed, Freckles watched the very limited. There had been people 8 E g | | | i i i 1 ‘ 1 | Follow the fur. | | him. | choked over a few words of praise. The gang drove in and finished felling the tree. | When the last wagon rolled away | McLean sat down on the stump and | Freckles told the story he was aching to tell. The boss could scarcely be- | disappointed. “I bave been almost praying all the way over, Freckles,” he said, “that you would have some evidence by which we could arrest those fellows and get them out of our way. but this will never do. We can't mix those women up In it. They have helped you save me the tree and my wager as well. Going about the country as she does, the Bird Woman could never be ex- pected to testify against them.” “No, indeed; nor the angel either, sir,” said Freckles, “The angel?” queried the astonished McLean. The boss listened in silence while Freckles told of the coming and chris- tening of the angel. “1 know her father well,” said Mc- Lean at last, “and | have often seen her. You are right, she is a beautiful young girl. 1 do not understand why her father risks such a jewel In this “He's daring it because she Is sucha Jewel, sir,” sald FKreckles eagerly. “Why. she’s trusting a rattlesnake to rattle before it strikes ber, and, of course, she thinks she can trust man- kind as well. The man isn't made that wouldn't lay down the life of him for her. She don't need any care. Her face and the pretty ways of her are all the protection she would need in a band of howling savages.” “Did you say she handled one of the revolvers?” asked McLean. “She scared all the breath out of me body.” admitted Freckles. “Seems that her father hax taught her to shoot. The Bird Woman told her dis- tinctly to lie low and blaze away high, just to help scare them. The spunky little thing followed them right out into the west road, spitting lead like hail and clipping all about the beads and heels of them.” “Now, will they come back?’ asked McLean. “Of course.” said Freckles. least Black Jack will. “At Wessner might not have the pluck. And the nest time"— Freckles hesitated. “What ?" “It will just be a question of who shoots first and straightest.” “Then the only thing for me to do is to double the guard and get the rarest of the stuff out helow we wil come. The fact is in many cases un- gang would you like best to have with g Just then | come 2 5 i] g? ; 8 ; 1 § ! : i i Hi i 55835 E Br 245% ih 8 : ; g g F 2 : ; Jt i i i : Ee 1 i f Sgex 1 lite 11 iH : | ; : : : (F i : 2 f 3 EF ; § i : : g i § Eis is g Sg g : uf § g : i : on a preliminary trip before he locked it in his csse and started his minute examination ot his line on foot. He glanced around his room as he left it. On the moss in front of his prettiest seat lay the angel's hat. He went and picked it up, oh, so carefully, gazing at it with hungry eyes, but touching it only to carry it over to his case, where he hung it on i the shining bandle bar of the new wheel and locked it In among his | treasures. Then he went out to the trail with a new iook on his face. He | was not in the least afraid of any thing that morning. He felt he was the veriest Daniel, and all his lions seemed weak and harmless. Black Jack was not a man to give up his purpose or to have the hat swept from his head by a bullet and bear it meekly. Moreover, Wessner would cling to his revenge. When Freckles gained his room he tenderly laid the hat upon his book shelf and, to wear off his awkward- ness, mounted his wheel and went spinning about the line again. “Weel, | be drawed on!" exclaimed Mrs. Duncan an hour later. Freckles stood before her, holding the angel's hat. “I've been thinking this long time that ye or Dunean would see that sun bonnets werena bLraw enough for a woman of my standing, and ye're 2 guid laddie to bring me this beautifu! hat.” She turned it about, examining the weave of the straw and the folinge trimmings, passing her rough fingers over the =atin tiex delightedly. Ax she held it up. admiring it. Freckles’ aston ished eyes saw a new side of Sarah Duncan. She was jesting. but under the jest the fact loomed strong that there was something In ber soul cry- ing out after that bit of feminine tin- ery. He resolved that when he reached the city he would send her as fine a hat as the angel's if it took $30 to do it. She lingeringly handed it back to him. “It's unco guid of ye to think of me," she sald lightly, “but | maun question your taste n wee. D'ye no think ye had best return this and get a woman with half ber hair gray a little plainer Weaddress? Seems like that's far ower gay for me. I'm no’ saying that it's no’ exactly what I'd like to hae, but 1 mauna mak mysel’ ridiculous. Ye'd best give this to somebody young and pretty, say about sixteen. Where did ye come by fit. Freckles? If there's anything been dropping lately ye hne forgotten to mention it." “Do you see anything heavenly about hat hat?’ queried Freckles, holding up. The morning breeze waved the rib- bons gracefully, binding one about Freckles’ sleeve and the other across his chest, where they caught and clung as if magnetized. “Yes,” said Sarah Duncan, “it's ex- actly what I'd call a heavenly hat.” “Sure,” said Freckles, “for it's be- longing to an angel!” Then he told her about the hat and asked her what he should do with it. “Take it to her, of course!” said Sarah Duncan. “You think I should be taking fit home?" he said. “Of course ye must,” said Mrs. Dun- can. “Ye gaz awa and take the bless- ed little angel her beautiful hat.” “Are you sure it will be all right?” urged Freckles. “Do you think if Mr. McLean came he would care?’ “Na,” said Mrs. Duncan, “I dinna. Carrying the bat. Freckles passed a | long line of clerks and at the door of | the private office asked to see the pro- prietor. When he had waited a mo- ment a tall, spare, keen eyed man faced him and in brisk, nervous tones asked, “How can I serve you, sir?” Freckles handed him the package and answered: "By delivering to your daughter this hat, which she was after leaving at me place the other day when she went off in a hurry. And by say- fog to her and the Bird Woman thet I'm more thankful than I'll be having words to express for the brave thing they was doing for me. I'm McLean's Limberlost guard, sir.” [Continued next week.) Medical. New Strength for Bad Backs BELLEFONTE RESIDENTS ARE LEARNING HOW TO EXCHANGE THE OLD BACK FOR A STRONGER ONE. Does your back ache, feel weak and painful? Do you suffer headaches, languor and ression? L s the urine discolored, passages irregu- ar? Ihe kidneys are calling for help. Sick kidneys cannot do their work. Backk ye kidney ache. ache is y A Tocure it you must cure the Use a tested and en kidney remedy. 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No which have been the fees, or the powers heretofore issued, or wi may hereafter be is. istrates id eTine, justices of Peace. mag Hi SE on Te Sahn tun or $ lating the management of schools of A we wank under- the bullding or repairing of school houses and che ground railways of, stieet Shiu Jovar, of money purposes: Senances thefest, shall he considered 20 4 of - Lp i un. | eight of article nine Es oF Section der disability, except after due notice to all par. | Vaniaor of this amendment, if the net revenue ties in interest, to be recited in the enact- Xived from said property for a Désiod of five years, ment; sithef before of aftes the thereof, or, Remitting penalties and f or same is constructed by the or neve egally pac nto the treasury mi , after the , shall > property rom taxation: have sutiicient to pay and sinking- turing: . » Wining or manufac. fad Ch A yoda id obligs. “Creating corporations, or amending, renew- | DY liens upon the and shall ing or extending the chariers herent impose no Municibal Ee a ar ranting to any corporation, association or | ities or counties issue obligations to individual any special or exclusive privilege or foe the construction of,_property, » pro- 30 an Pa. y astociation OF sue” cbljgations to A onsies may isos, enact such special or local law by the partial re. properties shall have been completed and in op- peal of a law; but laws repealing local or sation fof a patios one year; and said munici- may be passed: and counties shall not be required to levy al a Ina be Dated puting os. ag re on. ea. op fund Chart, and privileges in case where the granting of ga. 3s required by ection ten of nine of Privileges shall have pro- | the until after said pedi gna a; nr where te ois | perl hve evs by aid have to grant the same or give the | ties or one
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