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the georgetown herald wednesday evening august 20th 1941 haw in the wind by hlcn topping miller cdajpteu xiv the rrfen at the mill bad worked night unloading the wrecked car pairing the track loadingagafri isregarding the raw wind thatolew through the valley the occasional spit of snow branford wills had worked with them observing and ustening making himself as help ful and unobtrusive as possible he did not deceive himself something was wrong at the mill there was much shouting and rough talk but there was also a secretiveness a watchfulness it appeared to wills that among the older hands there was also an uneasy discomfort they were uncertain of each oth- er and a few had an air of inso lence a tendency to swagger but wlup could not discover that any definite animosity was directed to ward him they were curt and one or two were a bit scornful of his ability in matters of strength or skill but there were no covert sneers to be detected no goading or in sults he was a tenderfoot and an outsider and they let him know it but that was all it was growing day when he re turned to his room at the clark cot tage to snatch a few hours of sleep hiftgs were a trifle shaky his throat felt raw but he was grimly resolute some undercurrent was working in the morgan mill and he intended to what it was and what force impelled it he had a double motive he was indebted to virgie and if he could soh e this riddle of sabotage and put an end to it it as little enough to do to epay thai debt and there was marian somehow he had to repair his blundering make himself a man again in her eyes he slept uneasi ly wakened vhen the morning whis tie blew ada clark s mother protested as he set out again sheepskin collar shrugged high around his ears youll be down again and worse than ever if you dont take better care of yourself she declared but he gave her a onesided grin and tramped off his two sandwiches tn his coafpocket at the mill office he found virgie already at her desk with lucy and daniels standing about their faces worried come along in virgie ordered as he opened the door youll have to know about this seven men uit this morning the spams and the two ander sons lucy added billy mount and his boy and lucius her eyes were sorrowful and accusing her manner said louder than words this is your fault daniels was fiddling nervously with the bunch of keys in his fingers for an instant branford wills got the impression that daniels was evading that there was something defensive in his man ner but he put that aside they were all worried virgie most of all that west virginia stuff has to go through she said we 11 have to have somebody to tend the deck er for twenty years billy mount had tended the great machines tak en a fierce pride in the texture of the pulp that rolled through the presses could 1 do it wills volunteered i have ordinary intelligence i think i could do what billy mount could do i need you outside virgie said with the andersons gone well need somebody to get stuff in but why should those fellows quit wills aked theres no oth er place for them in town you treated them well they probably had reasons fair ij good reasons daniels was a trifle dry r look here it im in any way responsible for this wills began vigorously but virgie waved a hand sit down and keep your head on and your shirt tail in im re sponsible for this wallace withers wants to buy this mill somehow or other hes working against me how i dont know yet but i will know its a fight wallace says he 11 put me out ol business if i dont sell maybe he will but he 11 have a merry little time doing it if you people want to stick with me of course we 11 stick said lucy eagerly it might stanley daniels sug gested be possible to compro mise virgie blazed at him compro ruse do i look like a woman who would compromise business daniels defended is built on cornprornises it has to be threaten u iui vei lift a hand is that a uu ihinkt i th nk you an- fighting a definite trend mrs muruun daniels grew a trifle oratonca youre living in an era which will see the death of the small business of individual en terprise personal control there is an inevitability in it that you do not recognize it may mean defeat or you and i think you are the sort oi person who would suffer pretty bad ly in defeat so youre thinning about my feel ings are you well thesd are my feelings in case tny of you are in the dark 1 had father see the miu that david morgan built destroyed every brick ever wheel every bolt in it than to haggle with wallace withers or surrender if thats crazy im crazy now get to work all of you lucy gei champion on the wire and tell em i want seven hands for a few days decker men and outside hands theyve got part- time people always on hand they can spare we won t grind today well clean the mill come along you boys r she was heicel executive all day the atmosphere of the mill already tense grew galvanic as she cracked the whip of her indomitable will lucy fields went about breathing excitedly but wills helping old frank emmet to clean and oil the drumbarkers and the toothy cables that snaked the green wood in for grinding kept a thoughtful watch even granting that this man with ers who coveted the mill had some how been able to engineer the vari ous calamities that had descended on the plant in the past few days there remained to be discovered he means by which he had worked ct individualism cannot always suf vive and so you think virgie cut back that i ought not to fight thai 1 ought to let wallace withers so you re thinking about my feelings are you wills was not satisfied he meant to do some sleuthing on his own he waited till the whistle blew at night and lucy had put on her shab by green coat and gone out then went to the office where virgie sat studying a map on her desk out side murky lights burned in the j ard and steam drifted down to lie in torn cold wreaths along the ground virgie looked up at him and it ap peared to branford wills that there was something deeper than weari ness in her strong face she looked a little stricken as though some thing had been taken away from her that could not be returned she showed him the map this is what worries me she said this land that belonged to tom pruitt this is what withers is counting on this timber acreage he and payne and those other fellows the ellow tom shot have got a court rder allpwing them to cut timber enough to satisfy their claims and ou know what that means the court cant go up there and scale up stuff theyll strip it and with what timber is standing there they can set up a mill and run it for three or four years long enough to worry me anyway and youre convinced that with ers is at the bottom of all your troubles what else can 1 think he came o my house last night and made threats maybe theyre just using urn to handle local contracts and onnections that outsiders couldnt jut over mountain people are pe- uliar theyre suspicious of a stran- er but a hometalent crook can do juite atotwith em i reckon wal lace thinks he s tn let me see that map again vills said he had been a maker of naps virgie remembered he an bored the colored sheet with an nk bottle and a slide rule and stud id it i filed an injunction to keep them t this morning virgie said filed it for tom of course ii niy not work they may have the udge sewed up tom does what i 11 him usually but i dont always n there quite soon enough i went er at daybreak but i should have jne yesterday they d been there ahead of you ut surely he wouldnt listen to i don t know its worrying me ie breathed wearily like a spent i nner they sent a lawyer to ire tom late jesterday they told m that cragg was filing suit a nst him for fifty thousand dol rs damages perhaps they can 1 it in law havent looked inlc that s nnt the point they gave m a good scare and then the of tred to settle s- he sicned some thing and he dovnt know what he signed so everything you have done for him may be lost doesnt he under- hand that youre loiv ntr out for his interest you couldn t un id a moun tain man im afraid jp to a cer tain point theyll listen beyond thai- theyre rampant individualists aa voung daniels says tom has al ways been a helpless old body- da vid looked after him but no moun tain man believes that a woman i ould know more than he does is there a blueprint of pruitts iract anywhere its here in the safe do you ant it 1 want it and 1 want to see the land could 1 havea car and some one who knows the way to go over there tomorrow ill sen3 you a car and a dnv br what do you want to see it for even tf i keep those men out of it it will so back to tom 11 never timberil i think wilis said that 1 was once lost in that region the out line on this map is somehow famil ar it gives me an idea id rath er not talk about it till i m sure of it most young chaps virgie was dry want to talk first and do some thing about it afterward at home that night virgie stretched her slippered feet to the fire and faced her daughter reso lutely i said you were going she stat ed grimly who else can i trust this is more important than your silly personal prejudices marian stood stormily staring out a dark window how do ynu know it is impor tant because he says so oh moth er can t you see that all this wal lace withers business is just a co incidence wallace withers heard about the trouble in the mill and he thought it was a good time to jump in and try to bluff and scare you the spains and the andersons and billy didnt leave because of wal lace withers i u never believe that they didn t want to work under wills and they resented his sherlock ing around the mill you won t be lieve me but lucy thinks the same a i and so does stanley daniels so you ve alt your heads to gether and decided that im a senile old fool eh mother i didnt say that please i don t ask much from jou mighty little i m not asking now i m telhng you you d bclltr i irt it seven andrew will hue the car ready marian sighed i m not trmt to be tiresome mother 1 wont to help if only you would see i ve seen enough and heard enough im tired ive worked fourteen hours today and had trou ble enough tomorrow you ii drive the car over to hazel fork and i want to hear no more about it marian set her chin did it ever occur to you mother that i might have something to say about the management of the mill im a stockholder i own as much stock as you my father left it to me i suppose drawled virgie scornfully youd like to have all the pulp dyed lavender theres this about it mother ii tom voted with me you wouldn t be keeping brpnford wills on to ruin our mill virgie stood tall her face had turned stony and white as death and i suppose if i dont run things to suit you youll sell the mill to wallace withers you and tom i really think i have some rights mother you have it will be a relief to me too if youll exercise them you might vote to discharge me and hire somebody else to get out pulp that would be a help im worn to the bone and i could use some rest you could also figure out where the payrolls are coming from and how that car of chemicals with bill of lading attached is going to be un loaded and paid for id like a day m bed and i could go to the mov les ive only seen a couple of shows since david died maybe ill join the little theatre could they use a fat old woman with a more or less bass voice and brokendown arches mother you know i never meant no you didnt mean that kind of authority none of you ever do the young brash things who want to run the world you want to give orders in an arrogant tone but when it comes to getting out in the frosty woods at five oclock in the morning or up on a hot slope in the middle of may when theres a nun dred acres of fire rolling down into your timber no you never mean tnings like that you havent linked up yet the old fundamental that ft long with authority goes a devilish int of bone grinding work but may tit you re going to discard that with ill the rest of the old fashioned fun dimentals marian looked small and wan im sorry mother i u go to morrow i 11 be ready at seven but may 1 go to the little theatre meeting now baby virgie faltered she was imperious no more she was a tired woman with whitening tem ples if i have t6 fight you too marian gave a little strangled sob im horrible she choked to talk like that to you as we see by j a strang 3 during the last couple of months he have heard a good deal about sending city children to the coun try for a couple of weeks it looks like a good idea not only win these children an in health but they will also learn how the different doings are accomplished in the country listen to almost any quiz program and you will likely realize how little many city folk know about the everyday doings that are so familiar to anyone brought up in the country however the sum mer holidays are almost over and he canadian national exhibition is next the program if we who live out- the cities owned a broadcasting station this might be a good time to sponsor a movement to have the city folit entertain the country children for a couple of weeks in order to allow them to attend the exhibition coun try children need a change just as city children do and they could also learn a great deal about city life in a couple or wepks often these city children that are sent to ttv country obtain permission to stay an extra two weeks and even then dislike going back to town we wonder if the country children would feel the same way about the situation should they be en tertained for the same length of time by the city folk we imagine that they might be glad when their two weeks were up and they could get back home away from the noise and rush ol city life they might then appre ciate more their own peace and quiet ness not to mention the abundance of fresh air that is every day available for the country youngster v v v skunks seem to be plentiful this summer two full grown onehad the nerve to march across the gar den tbe other day just a few feet be hind us as we were cultivating of course e didnt bother to dispute their right to do so in a letter from sundrldge ontario received this week they report black beaf very plentiful in that locality the writer men tioned that eight had been seen in his disinct the scarcitj of blueberries miy have had something to do ftith the bears coming out more in the open ut hss welt armed we don t suppose imotio would ntutnpt to dispute blirk bonr s notion anymorf than we would tlu a ion of those skunks by the w- one of thts skunks has gone to tlu h ip himtlni ground with some li id in his carnss when the wmri is in tlu rikht direction we can sn tmii tlu kiink is cone but- not- forgot ten j in mr mtfiiailai s news parade column in last weeks herald he mentioned the coming local pall fair tlu rp ire irnnv simple in- nn uions tint in oishy included that ill hdi to pep up the fall fair we lunent it tended the local fair as yet md are not fimllinr with any special ittractlonr that ma hat- been intro duced one novelty that we thought wns both popular and amusing was a rare for pnirs of bos 12 years of age and under with a homemade wagon during the race one boy rode the wag on while the other boy shoved it for half the distance they then turned around ohanged places and the first pili back home get the money the race was on bare ground rather than on pavement another innovation that we intro duced one year created not a little interest we donated a threestorey wedding cake to the local iode and suggested to them that they raffle it off at the fair they sold tickets on it at 10c or 3 for 25c and it went over big incidenuy it was a good adver tisement for us we had hoped that soire old bachelor would win the cake however it was a middle aged widow that drew the lucky ticket v v v still having the fall fair in mind we always gave a special prize for the best essay on some named sub ject open to boys and girls 14 years of age and under we recall one girl in particular winning the prize for three years in succession then the following year when she would be 15 winning a special prize sponsored by the central ontario bus lines on the subject my home town the prize for this es say was 50 00 in cash and you can imagine how pleased that young lady was over that prize come to think of it we were rather proud of that young lady ourselves incidentally she is now go 50 50 with our fighting forces gajoawe fivi victory they clasped each other light and over her childs shoulder vir gie looked up at the pictured face of david morgan and her deep cour age returned a successful school teacher and no doubt she will be taking quite a pride in her pupils ability to write essays v v v we are constantly being re minded to save gas and oil these dajs while going through the huge chippawa power plant at queen- ston our guide asked us what we thought this particular machine was in the corner we told him that we thought it was a cream separator curiously enough that is just what 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