Two months passed away. Winter set in. The camp was built and inhabited. Routine had established itself, and all was going well.
The first move of the M. & D. Company had been one of conciliation1. Thorpe was approached by the walking-boss of the camps up-river. The man made no reference to or excuse for what had occurred, nor did he pretend to any hypocritical friendship for the younger firm. His proposition was entirely2 one of mutual3 advantage. The Company had gone to considerable expense in constructing the pier4 of stone cribs. It would be impossible for the steamer to land at any other point. Thorpe had undisputed possession of the shore, but the Company could as indisputably remove the dock. Let it stay where it was. Both companies could then use it for their mutual convenience.
To this Thorpe agreed. Baker5, the walking-boss, tried to get him to sign a contract to that effect. Thorpe refused.
"Leave your dock where it is and use it when you want to," said he. "I'll agree not to interfere6 as long as you people behave yourselves."
The actual logging was opening up well. Both Shearer7 and Thorpe agreed that it would not do to be too ambitious the first year. They set about clearing their banking8 ground about a half mile below the first dam; and during the six weeks before snow-fall cut three short roads of half a mile each. Approximately two million feet would be put in from these--roads which could be extended in years to come--while another million could be travoyed directly to the landing from its immediate9 vicinity.
"We won't skid10 them," said Tim. "We'll haul from the stump11 to the bank. And we'll tackle only a snowroad proposition:--we ain't got time to monkey with buildin' sprinklers and plows12 this year. We'll make a little stake ahead, and then next year we'll do it right and get in twenty million. That railroad'll get along a ways by then, and men'll be more plenty."
Through the lengthening13 evenings they sat crouched14 on wooden boxes either side of the stove, conversing16 rarely, gazing at one spot with a steady persistency17 which was only an outward indication of the persistency with which their minds held to the work in hand. Tim, the older at the business, showed this trait more strongly than Thorpe. The old man thought of nothing but logging. From the stump to the bank, from the bank to the camp, from the camp to the stump again, his restless intelligence travelled tirelessly, picking up, turning over, examining the littlest details with an ever-fresh curiosity and interest. Nothing was too small to escape this deliberate scrutiny18. Nothing was in so perfect a state that it did not bear one more inspection19. He played the logging as a chess player his game. One by one he adopted the various possibilities, remote and otherwise, as hypotheses, and thought out to the uttermost copper20 rivet21 what would be the best method of procedure in case that possibility should confront him.
Occasionally Thorpe would introduce some other topic of conversation. The old man would listen to his remark with the attention of courtesy; would allow a decent period of silence to intervene; and then, reverting22 to the old subject without comment on the new, would emit one of his terse23 practical suggestions, result of a long spell of figuring. That is how success is made.
In the men's camp the crew lounged, smoked, danced, or played cards. In those days no one thought of forbidding gambling24. One evening Thorpe, who had been too busy to remember Phil's violin,--although he noticed, as he did every other detail of the camp, the cripple's industry, and the precision with which he performed his duties,--strolled over and looked through the window. A dance was in progress. The men were waltzing, whirling solemnly round and round, gripping firmly each other's loose sleeves just above the elbow. At every third step of the waltz they stamped one foot.
Perched on a cracker25 box sat Phil. His head was thrust forward almost aggressively over his instrument, and his eyes glared at the dancing men with the old wolf-like gleam. As he played, he drew the bow across with a swift jerk, thrust it back with another, threw his shoulders from one side to the other in abrupt26 time to the music. And the music! Thorpe unconsciously shuddered27; then sighed in pity. It was atrocious. It was not even in tune28. Two out of three of the notes were either sharp or flat, not so flagrantly as to produce absolute disharmony, but just enough to set the teeth on edge. And the rendition was as colorless as that of a poor hand-organ.
The performer seemed to grind out his fearful stuff with a fierce delight, in which appeared little of the esthetic29 pleasure of the artist. Thorpe was at a loss to define it.
"Poor Phil," he said to himself. "He has the musical soul without even the musical ear!"
Next day, while passing out of the cook camp he addressed one of the men:
"Well, Billy," he inquired, "how do you like your fiddler?"
"All RIGHT!" replied Billy with emphasis. "She's got some go to her."
In the woods the work proceeded finely. From the travoy sledges31 and the short roads a constant stream of logs emptied itself on the bank. There long parallel skidways had been laid the whole width of the river valley. Each log as it came was dragged across those monster andirons and rolled to the bank of the river. The cant-hook men dug their implements32 into the rough bark, leaned, lifted, or clung to the projecting stocks until slowly the log moved, rolling with gradually increasing momentum33. Then they attacked it with fury lest the momentum be lost. Whenever it began to deviate34 from the straight rolling necessary to keep it on the center of the skids35, one of the workers thrust the shoe of his cant-hook under one end of the log. That end promptly36 stopped; the other, still rolling, soon caught up; and the log moved on evenly, as was fitting.
At the end of the rollway the log collided with other logs and stopped with the impact of one bowling37 ball against another. The men knew that being caught between the two meant death or crippling for life. Nevertheless they escaped from the narrowing interval38 at the latest possible moment, for it is easier to keep a log rolling than to start it.
Then other men piled them by means of long steel chains and horses, just as they would have skidded39 them in the woods. Only now the logs mounted up and up until the skidways were thirty or forty feet high. Eventually the pile of logs would fill the banking ground utterly40, burying the landing under a nearly continuous carpet of timber as thick as a two-story house is tall. The work is dangerous. A saw log containing six hundred board feet weighs about one ton. This is the weight of an ordinary iron safe. When one of them rolls or falls from even a moderate height, its force is irresistible41. But when twenty or thirty cascade42 down the bold front of a skidway, carrying a man or so with them, the affair becomes a catastrophe43.
Thorpe's men, however, were all old-timers, and nothing of the sort occurred. At first it made him catch his breath to see the apparent chances they took; but after a little he perceived that seeming luck was in reality a coolness of judgment44 and a long experience in the peculiar45 ways of that most erratic46 of inanimate cussedness--the pine log. The banks grew daily. Everybody was safe and sound.
The young lumberman had sense enough to know that, while a crew such as his is supremely47 effective, it requires careful handling to keep it good-humored and willing. He knew every man by his first name, and each day made it a point to talk with him for a moment or so. The subject was invariably some phase of the work. Thorpe never permitted himself the familiarity of introducing any other topic. By this course he preserved the nice balance between too great reserve, which chills the lumber-jack's rather independent enthusiasm, and the too great familiarity, which loses his respect. He never replied directly to an objection or a request, but listened to it non-committally; and later, without explanation or reasoning, acted as his judgment dictated48. Even Shearer, with whom he was in most intimate contact, respected this trait in him. Gradually he came to feel that he was making a way with his men. It was a status, not assured as yet nor even very firm, but a status for all that.
Then one day one of the best men, a teamster, came in to make some objection to the cooking. As a matter of fact, the cooking was perfectly49 good. It generally is, in a well-conducted camp, but the lumber-jack is a great hand to growl50, and he usually begins with his food.
Thorpe listened to his vague objections in silence.
"All right," he remarked simply.
Next day he touched the man on the shoulder just as he was starting to work.
"Step into the office and get your time," said he.
"What's the matter?" asked the man.
"I don't need you any longer."
The two entered the little office. Thorpe looked through the ledger51 and van book, and finally handed the man his slip.
"Where do I get this?" asked the teamster, looking at it uncertainly.
"At the bank in Marquette," replied Thorpe without glancing around.
"Have I got to go 'way up to Marquette?"
"Certainly," replied Thorpe briefly52.
"Who's going to pay my fare south?"
"You are. You can get work at Marquette."
"That ain't a fair shake," cried the man excitedly.
"I'll have no growlers in this camp," said Thorpe with decision.
"By God!" cried the man, "you damned--"
"You get out of here!" cried Thorpe with a concentrated blaze of energetic passion that made the fellow step back.
"I ain't goin' to get on the wrong side of the law by foolin' with this office," cried the other at the door, "but if I had you outside for a minute--"
"Leave this office!" shouted Thorpe.
"S'pose you make me!" challenged the man insolently53.
In a moment the defiance54 had come, endangering the careful structure Thorpe had reared with such pains. The young man was suddenly angry in exactly the same blind, unreasoning manner as when he had leaped single-handed to tackle Dyer's crew.
Without a word he sprang across the shack55, seized a two-bladed ax from the pile behind the door, swung it around his head and cast it full at the now frightened teamster. The latter dodged56, and the swirling57 steel buried itself in the snowbank beyond. Without an instant's hesitation58 Thorpe reached back for another. The man took to his heels.
"I don't want to see you around here again!" shouted Thorpe after him.
Then in a moment he returned to the office and sat down overcome with contrition59.
"It might have been murder!" he told himself, awe60-stricken.
But, as it happened, nothing could have turned out better.
Thorpe had instinctively61 seized the only method by which these strong men could be impressed. A rough-and-tumble attempt at ejectment would have been useless. Now the entire crew looked with vast admiration62 on their boss as a man who intended to have his own way no matter what difficulties or consequences might tend to deter63 him. And that is the kind of man they liked. This one deed was more effective in cementing their loyalty64 than any increase of wages would have been.
Thorpe knew that their restless spirits would soon tire of the monotony of work without ultimate interest. Ordinarily the hope of a big cut is sufficient to keep men of the right sort working for a record. But these men had no such hope--the camp was too small, and they were too few. Thorpe adopted the expedient65, now quite common, of posting the results of each day's work in the men's shanty66.
Three teams were engaged in travoying, and two in skidding67 the logs, either on the banking ground, or along the road. Thorpe divided his camp into four sections, which he distinguished68 by the names of the teamsters. Roughly speaking, each of the three hauling teams had its own gang of sawyers and skidders to supply it with logs and to take them from it, for of the skidding teams, one was split;--the horses were big enough so that one of them to a skidway sufficed. Thus three gangs of men were performing each day practically the same work. Thorpe scaled the results, and placed them conspicuously69 for comparison.
Red Jacket, the teamster of the sorrels, one day was credited with 11,000 feet; while Long Pine Jim and Rollway Charley had put in but 10,500 and 10,250 respectively. That evening all the sawyers, swampers, and skidders belonging to Red Jacket's outfit70 were considerably71 elated; while the others said little and prepared for business on the morrow.
Once Long Pine Jim lurked72 at the bottom for three days. Thorpe happened by the skidway just as Long Pine arrived with a log. The young fellow glanced solicitously73 at the splendid buckskins, the best horses in camp.
"I'm afraid I didn't give you a very good team, Jimmy," said he, and passed on.
That was all; but men of the rival gangs had heard. In camp Long Pine Jim and his crew received chaffing with balefully red glares. Next day they stood at the top by a good margin74, and always after were competitors to be feared.
Injin Charley, silent and enigmatical as ever, had constructed a log shack near a little creek75 over in the hardwood. There he attended diligently76 to the business of trapping. Thorpe had brought him a deer knife from Detroit; a beautiful instrument made of the best tool steel, in one long piece extending through the buck-horn handle. One could even break bones with it. He had also lent the Indian the assistance of two of his Marquette men in erecting78 the shanty; and had given him a barrel of flour for the winter. From time to time Injin Charley brought in fresh meat, for which he was paid. This with his trapping, and his manufacture of moccasins, snowshoes and birch canoes, made him a very prosperous Indian indeed. Thorpe rarely found time to visit him, but he often glided79 into the office, smoked a pipeful of the white man's tobacco in friendly fashion by the stove, and glided out again without having spoken a dozen words.
Wallace made one visit before the big snows came, and was charmed. He ate with gusto of the "salt-horse," baked beans, stewed81 prunes82, mince83 pie, and cakes. He tramped around gaily84 in his moccasins or on the fancy snowshoes he promptly purchased of Injin Charley. There was nothing new to report in regard to financial matters. The loan had been negotiated easily on the basis of a mortgage guaranteed by Carpenter's personal signature. Nothing had been heard from Morrison & Daly.
When he departed, he left behind him four little long-eared, short-legged beagle hounds. They were solemn animals, who took life seriously. Never a smile appeared in their questioning eyes. Wherever one went, the others followed, pattering gravely along in serried85 ranks. Soon they discovered that the swamp over the knoll86 contained big white hares. Their mission in life was evident. Thereafter from the earliest peep of daylight until the men quit work at night they chased rabbits. The quest was hopeless, but they kept obstinately87 at it, wallowing with contained excitement over a hundred paces of snow before they would get near enough to scare their quarry88 to another jump. It used to amuse the hares. All day long the mellow89 bell-tones echoed over the knoll. It came in time to be part of the color of the camp, just as were the pines and birches, or the cold northern sky. At the fall of night, exhausted90, trailing their long ears almost to the ground, they returned to the cook, who fed them and made much of them. Next morning they were at it as hard as ever. To them it was the quest for the Grail,--hopeless, but glorious.
Little Phil, entrusted91 with the alarm clock, was the first up in the morning In the fearful biting cold of an extinct camp, he lighted his lantern and with numb92 hands raked the ashes from the stove. A few sticks of dried pine topped by split wood of birch or maple93, all well dashed with kerosene94, took the flame eagerly. Then he awakened95 the cook, and stole silently into the office, where Thorpe and Shearer and Andrews, the surveyor, lay asleep. There quietly he built another fire, and filled the water-pail afresh. By the time this task was finished, the cook sounded many times a conch, and the sleeping camp awoke.
Later Phil drew water for the other shanties96, swept out all three, split wood and carried it in to the cook and to the living-camps, filled and trimmed the lamps, perhaps helped the cook. About half the remainder of the day he wielded97 an ax, saw and wedge in the hardwood, collecting painfully--for his strength was not great--material for the constant fires it was his duty to maintain. Often he would stand motionless in the vast frozen, creaking forest, listening with awe to the voices which spoke80 to him alone. There was something uncanny in the misshapen dwarf98 with the fixed99 marble white face and the expressive100 changing eyes,--something uncanny, and something indefinably beautiful.
He seemed to possess an instinct which warned him of the approach of wild animals. Long before a white man, or even an Indian, would have suspected the presence of game, little Phil would lift his head with a peculiar listening toss. Soon, stepping daintily through the snow near the swamp edge, would come a deer; or pat-apat-patting on his broad hairy paws, a lynx would steal by. Except Injin Charley, Phil was the only man in that country who ever saw a beaver101 in the open daylight.
At camp sometimes when all the men were away and his own work was done, he would crouch15 like a raccoon in the far corner of his deep square bunk102 with the board ends that made of it a sort of little cabin, and play to himself softly on his violin. No one ever heard him. After supper he was docilely103 ready to fiddle30 to the men's dancing. Always then he gradually worked himself to a certain pitch of excitement. His eyes glared with the wolf-gleam, and the music was vulgarly atrocious and out of tune.
As Christmas drew near, the weather increased in severity. Blinding snow-squalls swept whirling from the northeast, accompanied by a high wind. The air was full of it,--fine, dry, powdery, like the dust of glass. The men worked covered with it as a tree is covered after a sleet104. Sometimes it was impossible to work at all for hours at a time, but Thorpe did not allow a bad morning to spoil a good afternoon. The instant a lull105 fell on the storm, he was out with his scaling rule, and he expected the men to give him something to scale. He grappled the fierce winter by the throat, and shook from it the price of success.
Then came a succession of bright cold days and clear cold nights. The aurora106 gleamed so brilliantly that the forest was as bright as by moonlight. In the strange weird107 shadow cast by its waverings the wolves stole silently, or broke into wild ululations as they struck the trail of game. Except for these weird invaders108, the silence of death fell on the wilderness109. Deer left the country. Partridges crouched trailing under the snow. All the weak and timid creatures of the woods shrank into concealment110 and silence before these fierce woods-marauders with the glaring famine-struck eyes.
Injin Charley found his traps robbed. In return he constructed deadfalls, and dried several scalps. When spring came, he would send them out for the bounty111 In the night, from time to time, the horses would awake trembling at an unknown terror. Then the long weird howl would shiver across the starlight near at hand, and the chattering112 man who rose hastily to quiet the horses' frantic113 kicking, would catch a glimpse of gaunt forms skirting the edge of the forest.
And the little beagles were disconsolate114, for their quarry had fled. In place of the fan-shaped triangular115 trail for which they sought, they came upon dog-like prints. These they sniffed116 at curiously117, and then departed growling118, the hair on their backbones119 erect77 and stiff.
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