Argosy, Vol. 1 (December 9, 1882) — page 106: what you’re looking at

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AN ADIRONDACK RIVALRY. 99 berry Lake, who frequently made the trip over the road through the woods to Newton Falls. Tom had been in the paper mill there, and for a while had enjoyed the reputation of being one of the brightest hands employed by the company. Then that quality of his make up, which has blighted the future of many a man in a higher position in this world’s affairs, ambition, cropped out, and Jameson received his walking papers one morning for instigating a strike among his fellow workers for higher wages. Tom Jameson naturally drifted back to the home of his boyhood, Cran- berry Lake. But he carried his boundless ambition with him. He said he was only going to be a guide until he could get something better to do outside the woods; but it was not in Tom’s nature to sit down and wait until that something turned up. His reputation as a master of wood craft grew, and the hunters that year found in him a capital guide. Hi Chester up to that time had been considered by the people of Hare- wood and the settlement’s sportsmen visitors to be the best man on the lake with whom to camp and hunt and fish; so when Tom Jameson put in his bid as the best guide, the rivalry between the two men commenced. Then there was soon a second cause of rivalry between Hi and Tom When Tom was a little fellow he had been a great favorite of the late Mrs. White, and now that he had come back home again, old Bob liked to have Tom come to see him and talk of his dead wife. _ But Tom soon found another interest at the log hut near Umstead Land- ing in that woodland beauty, Carrie White. When the girl had come to know Tom, she had straightway found that he possessed the same desire which was always uppermost in her mind, an ambition to be somebody besides a dweller in the wilderness. At first, the man charmed the girl with tales of the life in the world with- out. He told her of what he wanted to be, how he was going to leave the lake as soon as a certain city sportsman, whom he had guided that spring, found a position for him in his works at Syracuse. And finally he had asked Carrie to quit her old home anu marry him and go out into real life and live. Carrie White would undoubtedly have complied with the wishes of her new lover if it had not been for the old affection she still had in her heart for Hiram Chester. She confessed to herself very often that she knew that Hiram was the better man of the two. He was fair and honest, whereas Tom was getting the reputation down at Bishop’s of being a little too sharp in his transactions. So the girl was in a quandary. Her heart declared for her old flame, but her ambition tried to convince her that her life’s desire would be satisfied by marrying Tom Jameson and going to live in a city. When Tom came up the lake, then, the morning after Randolph Bancroft had told the news to Hiram Chester, and announced that he had been ap- pointed a game constable, the old feeling towards Hi was forgotten, and then and there she pledged her heart to Tom Jameson. As soon as they could, the two planned, they woul the hated woods for ever. d get married and leave ecomilEclooolks COLNT