BIG
TIMBER
By
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SINCLAIR
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CHAPTKR XVIII
"Out of the Xlght That Covers Me."
The Waterbug limped. Her engine
misfired continuously, and Barlow
backed the mechanlca} knowledge to
remedy its ailment. He was {satis
fied to let it pound away so long as
it would revolve at all. 80 the boat
moved slowly through that encom
passing smoke at less than half
speed. Outwardly the once spick and
span cruiser bore every mark of
hard usage. Her topsides were foul,
her decks splintered by the tramp
ing of calked boots, grimy with soot
and cinders. It seemed to Stella
that everything and every one on
and about Koaring Lake bore some
mark of that holocaust raging in
the timber, as if the fire were some
malignant disease menacing and
marring all that it affected and af
fecting all that trafficked within its
smoky radius.
But of the fire iffeelf she could see
nothing, even when late in the aft
ernoon they drew in to the bay be
fore her brother's camp. A heavier
smoke cloud, more pungent of burn
ing pitch, the shores, lifted
in blue, rolling masses farther bark.
A greater heat made the air stifling,
causing the eyes to smart arid grow
watery. That was the only differ
ence.
Barlow laid the Waterbug along
side the float. He had already told
her that Lefty How, with the greater
part of Fyfe's crew, was extending
and guarding Benton's fire trail, and
he half expected that Fyfe might
have turned up there. Away back
In the smoke arose spasmodic cough
ing of donkey engines, dull resound
ing of ax blades. Barlow led the
way. They traversed a few hundred
yards of path through brush, broken j
lops and stumps, coming at last into I
a fairway cut through virgin timber,
a sixty foot strip denuded of everv
growth, great firs felled and drawn
far aside, brush piled and burned.
A breastwork from which to fight
advancing fire, it ran away into the
heart of a smoky forest. Xlere and
there blackened, fire scorched
patches abutted upon its northern
|'!ahk, stumps of great trees smold
ering, crackling yet. At the first I
such place half a dozen men were
busy with shovels blotting out
streaks of fire that crept along the!
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dry leaf mold. No, they had not
seen Fyfe. But they had been
blamed busy. He might be up
above.
Half a nifle beyond that, beside
the first donkey shuddering on its
anchored skids as it tore an eight
een inch cedar out by the roots,
they came on Lefty Howe. He
shook his head when Stella asked for
Fyfe.
"He took twenty men around to
the main camp day before yester
day," said Lefty. "There was a
piece uh timber beyond that he
thought he could save. X—well, X
took a shoot around there yesterday
after your brother got hurt. Jack
wasn't there. Most of the boys "was
at camp loadin' gear on the scows.
They said Jack's gone around to
Tumblin' creek with one man. He
wasn't back this mornin', so I
thought maybe he'd gone to the
Springs. I dunno's there's any occa
sion to worry. He might 'a' gone
to the head uh the lake with them
constables that went up last night.
How's Charlie Benton?"
She told him briefly.
"That's good," said Lefty. "Now,
I'd go aroun dto Cougar bay if I was
you, Mrs. Jack. He's liable to come
in there anytime. You could stay at
the house to-night. Everything
around there, shacks and all, was
burned days ago, so the fire can't
touch the house. The crew there
has grub and a cook. I kinda expect
Jack'll bo there unless he fell in
with them constables."
She trudged silently back to the
Waterbug. Barlow started the en
gine, and the boat took up her slow
way. As they skirted the shore
Stella began to see her eand there
the fierce havoc of the fire. Black
trunks of fir reared nakedly to the
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and beach. Nowhere was there a
preen blade, a living bush—nothing
but charred black. a f melancholy
waste of smoking litter, with here
and there a pitch soaked stub still
waving its banner of flame or glow
ing redly. Back of those seared
skeletons a shifting cloud of smoke
obscured everything.
Presently they drew in to Cougar
bay. Men moved about on the
beach; two bulky scows stood nose
on to the shore. Upon them rested
half a dozen donkey engines, thij.-k
bellied, upright machines, blown
dead on their skids. About thee
In great coils lay piled the gear of
logging, miles of steel cable,'bloc'.ts,
the varied tools of the logger's trade.
The Panther lay between the scows,
with l„ines from each passed over
hr towing bitts.
Stella could see the outline of the
white bungalow on its grassy knoll.
They had saved only that, of all the
camp, by a fight that sent three men
to the hospital on a day when the
wind shifted into the northwest and
sent a sheet of flame rolling through
the timber and down on Cougar bay
like a tidal wave, so Barlow told
her. He cupped his hands now and
called to his fellows on the beach.
No, Fyfe had not come back yet.
"Go up to the mouth of Tumbling
creek," Stella ordered.
Barlow swung the Waterbug
about, cleared the point and stood
up along the shore. Stella sat on
a cushioned seat at the back of the
pilothouse, hard eyed, struggling
against that dead weight that seemed
to grow and grow in her breast.
That elemental fury raging in the
woods made her shrink. Her own
hand had helped to loose it, but
her hands were powerless to stay
it: she could only sit and watch and
wait, eaten up with misery of her
own making. She was horribly
afraid, with a fear she would not
name to herself.
Behind that density of atmos
phere the sun had gone to rest. The
first shadows of dusk were closing
in, betokened by a thickening of the
smoke fog into which the Water
bug slowly plowed. To port a dim
ming shore line; to starboard, aft
and dead ahead, water and air
merged in two boat lengths. Bar
low leaned through the pilothouse
window, one hand on the wheel,
straining his eyes on their course.
Sudednly he threw out the clutch,
shut down his throttle control with
ona hand and yanked with the other
at the cord which loosed the Water
bug's shrill whistle.
Dead ahead, almost upon them
came an answering toot.
"I thought I heard a gas boaf,"
Barlow exclaimed. "Suflferln' Jeru
salem! Hi, there!"
He threw his weight on the wheel,
sending it hard over. The cruiser
still had way on. The momentum
of her ten ton weight scarcely had
slackened, and she answered the
helm. Out of the deceptive thick
ness loomed the sharp, flaring' bow
of another forty footer, sheering
quickly as her pilot sighted them.
She was upon them and abreast and
gone, with a watery purl of her bow
wave, a subdued mutter of exhaust,
passing so near that an active man
could have leaped the space be
tween.
(To be Continued)
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Life's Problems
Are Discussed
By MRS. WILSON WOODHOW.
The cry everywhere to-day Is for
efficiency. System is a god and the
card-Index is its prophet.
Even the taking on and discharge
of employes Is now regulated In many
large establishments by a scientific
method and according to a set of
psychological tests. Promotions and
demotions come automatically as the
chart on individual performance kept
by a force of experts shows a rise
above or a fall below a fixed standard
of accomplishment.
Yet so long as the functions of
"hiring and fil ing" lie within human
hands and until some machine is in
vented to govern the processes of ad
vancement and retrogression, there is
bound to be in such matters a strong
clement of prejudice, favoritism,
"pull" and pure whim.
Smithers was a clerk in a large
bank. I call him Smithers because
that is not his real name and this is
a true story. I doubt very much Tt
any bank clerk was ever called
Smithers outside of fiction, and they
are all of the Smithers family.
At any rate, this particular Smith
ers one day fell under the obser
vation of the president of the bank.
There was nothing done on Smithers
part to produce this result. It was a
pure case of destiny.
Every afternoon in passing out of
his office the eye of the president
swept over that roomful of indus
trious young man and took no more
note of them individually than if they
were a flock of sheep. He didn't even
know their names; they were merely
a set of cogs in the machine he was
operating.
But on this especial occasion,
through some fell circumstance, his
glance lingered on Smithers and the
image of that unfortunate youth
lodged in some niche in hia memory.
The president himself was scarcely
conscious of it at the moment. His
mind was absorbed in far weightier
matters —whether to use the mashie
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And Smithers, equally unconscious,
tolled away at his ledger! until quit
ting: time, then joined the homeward
rrsh for dinner, and that night re
turning from the movies told his girl
that with his Christmas bonus and
the five-dollar raise he was sitro to
get the first of the year he saw no
reason why they might not pull off
the for-better-for-worse thing the
ft llowing June.
It is only the young men who see
visions. The old ones dream dreams,
and that night the president, as tlie
result of a rather diversified after
theater supper, dreamed a peach. As
he pitched and tossed upon his pil
low, various of the Incidents and peo
ple which had fallen within his Uen
during the past few years trooped
from the subconscious and regrouped
tleniselves into a strangely tangled
and fantastic but vivid nightmare.
Most unaccountable of all, the vis
age of Smithers, known to the presi
dent only through that one cursory
glance, persisted in claiming the spot
light and assuming the leading role
in a "crook drama" wherein through
a novel and brilliantly audacious
method of falsifying accounts the
bf.nk was robbed of over a million
dollars. ,
The next morning the president was
down at the bank before the doors
v. ere open and conducting an investi
gation. To his great relief, he found
the hooks absolutely correct and no
shortage of any kind. But the night
mare had been too realistic to dis
miss from his mind. So he summoned
the head of the department in which
Smithers worked.
His chief gave a good report of the
young man. "He's steady and reliable
as a clock. I'm planning to put him
ir. charge of the out-of-town accounts
next year."
The president started as if he had
e'een stung. In his dream it was the
out-of-town accounts which Smithers
had manipulated to his own profit.
So the guillotine fell. And Smith
ers' blameless record and three years'
devoted service to the bank were sac
rificed to the malevolent shades of a
deceased lobster.
As another instance, a friend of
mine who is a lawyer had a stenog
rapher over whom he exulted as a
jewel of her kind. She was rapid,
accurate, keen-witted, everything that
ceuld be desired. But she managed
ir. some way to grow a disfiguring
mole on the tip of her chin, and the
lawyer said he simply could not keep
his mind off it when she was in his
presence. It diverted his thoughts
and disturbed the flow of his dicta-
tion. and finally wore so on his nerves
that he was obliged to discharge her.
Unless you stop to consider vari
ous causes, few people realize how
much personal caprice counts In bus
iness. Many a deserving employe has
lost out because the boss's liver hap
pened to be out of order, or because
he had been bickering with his wife
before coming to the office. Many an
undeserving one has received prefer
ment on grounds just as illogical.
We are all swayed more or less by
our whims and prejudices. AVe deal
at certain shops and avoid others for
the most fantastic and unreasonable
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restaurant because we have a ground
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We decline to employ a lawyer or
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"t do not like you, Dr. Fell,
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And chiefs, foremen, superintend
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and chart systems can ayer the fact
There is this to be. -said on the
other side of the question. The law
yer is more important to the office
than the stenographer; the president
more important fo the bank than a
Smithers. It is, of course, unreasona
ble to discharge a faithful and com
petent subordinate simply because
his face or some peculiarity of dress
or mannerism happens to get on
somebody's raw nerves. But one is
surprised to learn how many dismis
sals, cloaked under other excuses, are
really elue to this cause.
"I could not stand that girl's whln
ning voice," one man rather shame
facedly confesses.
"That eternal Mona Ijisa smile 'got
my goat." says another.
"He was a good man, but his shoes
squeaked," complains a third.
There is no way to cope with this
fcrin of Injustice. An employe may
study an employer's peculiarities and
try to conform in every way to his
little prejudices, only te> find that he
has aroused suspicion and distrust by
this very complaisance.
The answer to the difficulty lies in
the fact that no two people have ex-
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actly the same prejudices. What one
employer woulil call a whininK voles
another would term plaintively sooth
ing tones. The smile that Rot ona
man's Koat would prove a source ot
inspiration to another.
And the person who honestly, faith
fully and consrientiously fulfills his
obligations is not K>oinK to serve lons
as a football for fate."
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