Phil Rushington's Friends, or, Springvale Boys in a Lumber Camp — page 29: what you’re looking at

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e DO AND DARE WEEKLY. ‘That’s ficht, ” said Vint. “No kind of CHAPTER X. s os vic > counts like knowing how to treat every CONCLUSION, oe an as if he were a man, with a heart and a “Yes,” exclaimed the girl. x hi head to cheer and to teach. That is Rush, Thena Rock rose to her feet, and Rushing- bot every time. But—ah! What is going on ton could see that she was trembling with ex- citement. 9) fe ES Vint pointed toward the black line of uncut “T came to warn you,” she said, before he - forest, could again speak. —* a ~ s e “That fringe of undergrowth seems to have “To warn me?” repeated Rush. life in it,” was Grayson’s comment. “There are fifty men from another camp 4 a : Flash—flash—flash! Bang—bang—bang! down yonder, and my father has brought ee. The spurting flame told of the discharge of them to recover possession of this, and he 2% "rifles, even before the rattling reports reached says that he will not leave a man of this gang 27 an 2 the ears of the observers at the door of the to tell the story if they put up a fight against i. lodge. him. I came to tell you.” 3 Rush had spoken 4 word and given the The cirl spoke rapidly, and it seemed as if ; "money to the last man in the line just as the she hardly knew what she was saying. Be- a rifle shots broke upon the air. Heturned in fore Rush could reply, she turned with the time to catch the flash of the last of the evident intention of running away from him. shots. / He caught her arm and detained her. Ae ‘ ip ‘J dil ey + ~ a ee el - % — pet “Men!” he called, without a tremor in his “T expected something of the sort,” said ep Zs tones. “You will get under cover, so none Rush. “I am ready for what may come, and bof the bullets can nip you. But if that crew. he won’t drive me out of the camp. This is a gets fairly into camp, and tries to take pos- my property, and I will not be driven off from rad a session, I’ll give the word for all hands to it. If his men trespass, I shall set my hun- dred men on to them, with orders to defend | E sail into them. Quick! make for cover! _ There are only three rifles in the crowd, and themselves and the camp against the lawless — have as many. It will be a fight with crew. You may warn your father, if you axes, i if it gets to be a fight of any kind.” wish.” _.Gray and Vint retreated into the lodge. “You had better go back and get authority, Mr. Rushington, and then there will have to ss ‘ But Rush, just as he reached the door, was You are so young, and you sure that he sawa shadowy form skulk be no fight. might—but I must go. You needn’t thank _ around to the rear of the cabin. 99 He sprang silently in pursuit—reached the me. “But I do thank you, Thena Rock. It was Your father B esbin=sped around the corner of it—and _ nearly stumbled over a crouching ficure close brave of you to come to tell me. to the wall. did not send you?” “Oh, no. He would kill me, I believe, if he knew I did it.” : NB re ee ee ee «a _ “Thena Rock!” he exclaimed. Eo ~~ F oe * or ¢& —"" 7 y | ET ENS Ca SOT ee RIOR 'S © Le NS ST ae See Rae oe eS RT <_ hare