Billy had not only accommodated the trouble-seekers in this regard but had nearly knocked the noses off their freckled7 faces as well, after which he had proceeded to lick, on sight, each and every Sand-sharker with whom his lonely rambles8 brought him in contact. But his victories lacked the old time zest9. He missed Maurice's "Gee10! Bill, that left swing to his eye was a corker"; missed Elgin's offer to bet a thousand dollars that Billy Wilson could lick, with one hand tied behind him, any two Sand-sharkers that ever smelled a smoked herrin'. Victory was indeed empty of glory. And so the glad days were sad days for Billy. It was an empty world. What boy in Billy's place would not have been low-spirited under like conditions? What boy would not have paused, as he was doing now, to itemize his woes11?
He was seated on a stump12 in the new clearing which sloped to Levee Creek13, fingers locked about one knee, battered14 felt hat pulled over his eyes. The green slope at his feet lay half in the sunlight, half in the shadow. Across from a patch of golden-rod, the cock bird of a fox-scattered quail-covey whistled the "All's Well" call to the birds in hiding. Ordinarily Billy would have answered that call, would have drawn15 the brown, scuttling16 birds close about him with the low-whistled notes he could produce so well: but today he was oblivious17 to all save his thoughts.
Two weeks had passed since the robbery of the Twin Oaks store and that which he and Maurice had planned to do towards finding the Scroggie will and capturing the thieves had, through dire18 necessity, been abandoned. Sickness had claimed Maurice just when he was most needed. For days Billy had lived a sort of trancelike existence; had gone about acting19 queerly, refusing his meals and paying little attention to anybody or anything.
It had become a regular thing for his father to say each morning, "I guess you ain't feelin' up to much today, Billy; so all you have to do is watch the gap and water the cattle"; which was quite agreeable to Billy, because it gave him an opportunity to be by himself. Men who sit in the shadow of irrevocable fate are always that way; they want to be left alone—murderers on the eve of their execution, captains on wrecked20 ships, Trigger Finger Tim, who was to be shot at sunrise, but wasn't.
Billy wanted to shadow old Scroggie's ghost and so discover the will; he wanted to seek out the robbers of the Twin Oaks store and earn a reward; he wanted Maurice Keeler with him; he wanted to hear Elgin Scraff's laugh. But all this was denied him. And now a new burden had been thrust upon him, compared with which all his other woes seemed trivial. Old Scroggie's namesake and apparent heir had turned up again. Billy had seen him with his own eyes; with his own ears had heard him declare that he intended to erect21 a saw-mill in the thousand-acre forest. This meant that the big hardwood wonderland would be wiped away and that Frank Stanhope would never inherit what was rightfully his.
It seemed like an evil dream, but Billy knew it was no dream. Scroggie, astride a big bay horse, had passed him while he was on his way to the store with a basket of eggs for his mother, and he had pulled in at the store just as Deacon Ringold had taken the last available space on the customers' bench outside, and Caleb Spencer had come to the door to peer through the twilight22 in search of the Clearview stage, which was late. Noticing the stranger on horseback Caleb had hurried forward to ask how best he could serve him.
Hidden safely behind a clump23 of cedars24 Billy had watched and listened. He had heard Scroggie tell the storekeeper that he and his family had come to Scotia to stay and that he intended to cut down the timber of the big woods. He had then demanded that Spencer turn over to him a certain document which it seemed old man Scroggie had left in Caleb's charge some months before his death. Billy had seen Spencer draw the man a little apart from the others, who had gathered close through curiosity, and had heard him explain that the paper had been taken from his safe on the night of the robbery of his store. Scroggie had, at first, seemed to doubt Caleb's word; then he had grown abusive and had raised his riding-whip threateningly. Here Billy, having heard and seen quite enough, had acted. Placing his basket gently down on the sward he had picked up an egg and with the accuracy born of long practice in throwing stones, had sent it crashing into Scroggie's face. Gasping25 and temporarily blinded, Scroggie had wheeled his horse and galloped26 away.
But today Billy, musing27 darkly, knew that Scroggie would do what he had said he would do. The big woods was his, according to law; he could do as he wished with it, and he would wipe it out.
With a sigh, Billy slid from the stump and stood looking away toward the east. What would Trigger Finger Tim do in his place? When confronted by insurmountable obstacles Trigger Finger had been wont28 to seek excitement and danger. That's what he, Billy, would do now. But where was excitement and danger to be found? Ah, he knew—Lost Man's Swamp!
Billy's right hand went into a trouser's pocket; then nervously29 his left dived into the other pocket. With a sigh of relief he drew out a furry30 object about the size of a pocket-knife.
"Ol' Rabbit-foot charm," he said, aloud. "I jest might need you bad today." Then he turned and walked quickly across the fallow toward the causeway.
Some three miles east of the imaginary line which divided the Settlement from the outside world, on the Lake Shore road, stood a big frame house in a grove31 of tall walnut32 trees. It was the home of a man named Hinter—a man of mystery. Before it the lake flashed blue as a kingfisher's wing through the cedars; behind it swept a tangle33 of forest which gradually dwarfed34 into a stretch of swamp-willow and wild hazel-nut bushes, which in turn gave place to marshy36 bog37-lands.
Lost Man's Swamp, so called because it was said that one straying into its depths never was able to extricate38 himself from its overpowering mists and treacherous39 quicksands, was lonely and forsaken40. It lay like a festering sore on the breast of the world—black, menacing, hungry to gulp41, dumb as to those mysteries and tragedies it had witnessed. It was whispered that the devil made his home in its pitchy ponds, which even in the fiercest cold of winter did not freeze.
For Billy, who knew and understood so well the sweeping43 wilderness44 of silence and mysteries, this swamp held a dread45 which, try as he might, he could not analyze46. On one other occasion had he striven to penetrate47 it, but as if the bogland recognized in him a force not easily set aside, it had enwrapped him with its deadly mists which chilled and weakened, torn his flesh with its razor-edged grass and sucked at his feet with its oozy48, dragging quicksands. He had turned back in time. For two weeks following his exploit he had lain ill with ague, shivering miserably49, silent, but thinking.
And now he was back again; and this time he did not intend to risk his life in those sucking sands. From a couple of dead saplings, with the aid of wild grape-vines, he fashioned a light raft which would serve as a support in the bog, and carry his weight in the putrid50 mire51 beyond. Strange sounds came to his ears as he worked his way across the desolate52 waste toward the first great pond—scurrying, rustling53 sounds of hidden things aroused from their security. Once a big grey snake stirred from torpor54 to lift its head and hiss55 at him. Billy lifted it aside with his pole and went on.
Great mosquitoes whined56 about his head and stung his neck and ears. Mottled flies bit him and left a burning smart. The saw-like edges of the grass cut his hands and strove to trip him as he pushed his improvised57 raft forward. Once his foot slipped on the greasy58 bog, and the quicksands all but claimed him. But he pushed on, reaching at last the black sullen59 shallows, putrid and ill-smelling with decayed growth, and alive with hideous60 insects.
Great, black leeches61 clung to the slimy lily-roots; water lizards62 lay basking63 half in and half out of the water, or crept furtively64 from under-water grotto65 to grotto. And there were other things which Billy knew were hidden from his sight—things even more loathsome66. For the first time in his life he experienced for Nature a feeling akin6 to dread and loathing67. It was like a nightmare to him, menacing, unreal, freighted with strange horrors.
One thing Billy saw which he could not understand. The greasy surface of the shallow pond was never still, but bubbled incessantly68 as porridge puffs70 and bubbles when it boils. It was as if the slimy creatures buried in the oozy bottom belched71 forth72 their poisonous breath as they stirred in sleep.
So here lay the reason that the swamp-waters never froze even when winter locked all other waters fast in its icy clutch! What caused those air bubbles, if air bubbles they were?
At last, sick and dizzy, he turned from the place and with raft and pole fought his way back to the shore. Never again, he told himself, would he try to fathom73 further what lay in Lost Man's Swamp. Weary and perspiring74, he climbed the wooded upland. He turned and dipped into the willows75, intending to take the shortest way home through the hardwoods. On top of the beech76 knoll77 he paused for a moment to let his eyes rest on the big house in the walnut grove. In some vague way his mind connected its owner with that dead waste of stinking78 marsh35. Why, he wondered, had Hinter chosen this lonely spot on which to build his home? As he turned to strike across the neck of woods between him and the causeway the man about whom he had just been thinking stepped out from a clump of hazel-nut bushes directly in his path.
"Why, hello, Billy," he said pleasantly. "Out capturing more wild things for the menagerie?"
Hinter possessed79 a well modulated80 voice whose accent bespoke81 refinement83 and education. He had come into the Settlement about a year ago from no one knew where, apparently84 possessed of sufficient money to do as he pleased. An aged42 colored woman kept house for him. He held aloof85 from his neighbors, was reticent86 in manner, but nothing could be said against him. He led an exemplary if somewhat secluded87 life, gave freely to the church which he never attended, and was respected by the people of Scotia. With the children he was a great favorite. He was a tall man, gaunt and strong of frame and well past middle age. His face was grave and his blue eyes steady. He was fond of hunting and usually wore—as he was wearing today—a suit of corduroys. He kept a pair of ferocious88 dogs, why nobody knew, for they never accompanied him on his hunts.
"No, Billy," he assured the boy, "Sphinx and Dexter aren't with me today, so you have nothing to fear from them. I doubt if they would hurt you, anyway," he added. "You can handle most dogs, I am told."
"I'm not afraid of no dog, Mr. Hinter," said Billy, "but I've been told your dogs are half wolf. Is that so?"
Hinter laughed. "Well, hardly," he returned. "They are thoroughbred Great Danes, although Sphinx and Dexter both have wolf natures, I fear."
"Is that why people don't go near your place, 'cause they're scared of the dogs?" Billy asked.
Hinter's face grew grave. "Perhaps," he answered. "I hope it is."
"Then why don't you get rid of 'em?"
Hinter shook his head. "Nobody would have them, they're too savage91; and I haven't the heart to make away with them, because they are fond of me. I've had those dogs a long time, Billy."
"I understan'," said Billy, sympathetically.
Hinter put his hand in his coat pocket and drew out an ivory dog-whistle. "Would you like to know them, Billy?" he asked, his keen eyes on the boy's face.
"I wouldn't mind," said Billy.
Hinter put the whistle to his lips and sent a warbling call through the woods. "Stand perfectly92 still," he said, as he placed the whistle back in his pocket. "I won't let them hurt you. Here they come now."
The next instant two great dogs plunged93 from the thicket94, their heavy jaws95 open and dripping and their deep eyes searching for their master and the reason for his call.
Standing96 with feet planted wide Billy felt his heart beat quickly. "Easy, Sphinx!" Hinter cried, as the larger of the two sprang toward the boy. Immediately the dog sank down, the personification of submission97; but its bloodshot eyes flashed up at Billy and in them the boy glimpsed a spirit unquelled.
"Be careful, Billy. Don't touch him!" warned Hinter, but he spoke82 too late. Billy had bent98 and laid his hand gently on the dog's quivering back. The low growl99 died in the animal's throat. Slowly his heavy muzzle100 was lifted until his nose touched Billy's cheek. Then his long flail-like tail began to wag.
"Boy, you're a wonder!" Hinter cried. "But you took a terrible chance. Dexter!" he said to the other dog, "don't you want to be friends with this wild-animal tamer, too?"
Billy, his arm about Sphinx's neck, spoke. "Come, ol' feller; come here," he said.
The great dog rose and came slowly across to him. "Good boy!" Billy slapped him roughly on the shoulder, and he whined.
"Well, it's beyond me," confessed Hinter. "I've heard that you could handle dogs, young fellow, but I didn't think there was anybody in the world besides myself who could bring a whimper of gladness from that pair. Now then, Dexter! Sphinx! away home with you." Obediently the big dogs wheeled back into the thicket.
Billy started to move away. "I must be gettin' home," he said. "The cows'll be waitin' to be watered."
"Well, I'll just walk along with you as far as the Causeway," said Hinter. "My saddle-horse has wandered off somewhere. I have an idea he made for Ringold's slashing101."
He fell in beside Billy, adjusting his stride to the shorter one of the boy. In silence they walked until they reached a rise of land which had been cleared of all varieties of trees except maples102. Sap-suckers twittered as they hung head downward and red squirrels chattered103 shrilly104. In a cleared spot in the wood, beside a spring-fed creek, stood a sugar-shanty105, two great cauldrons, upside down, gleaming like black eyes from its shadowy interior. A pile of wooden sap-troughs stood just outside the shanty door.
Billy's eyes brightened as they swept the big sugar-bush. Many a spicy106 spring night had he enjoyed here, "sugarin' off"—he and Teacher Stanhope. The brightness faded from his eyes and his lip quivered. Never again would the man who was boy-friend to him point out the frost-cleared stars that swam low down above the maples and describe to him their wonders. Those stars were shut out from him forever, as were the tints107 of skies and flowers and all glad lights of the world.
Hinter's voice brought him back to himself. "He is blind, they tell me, Billy."
Billy gazed at him wonderingly. "How did you know I was thinkin' of him?" he asked.
Hinter smiled. "Never mind," he said gently. "And how is he standing it?"
Hinter's eyes fell away from that steady gaze. Billy turned towards the log-span across the creek, then paused to ask suddenly: "Mr. Hinter, who owns that Lost Man's Swamp? Do you?"
The man started. "No," he answered, "I don't own it exactly, but I hope to soon. It is part of the Scroggie property. I am negotiating now with Scroggie's heir for it. It is useless, of course, but I desire to own it for reasons known only to myself."
"But supposin' ol' Scroggie's lost will comes to light?"
"Then, of course, it will divert to Mr. Stanhope," answered Hinter. "I must confess," he added, "I doubt very strongly if Mr. Scroggie ever made a will."
Billy was silent, busy with his own thoughts. They crossed the bridge, passed through a beech ridge69 and descended109 a mossy slope to the Causeway fence. As they sat for a moment's rest on its topmost rail, Hinter spoke abruptly110. "I saw you fighting your way across the swamp this afternoon, Billy. Weren't you taking a useless risk?"
Billy made no reply.
"You are either a very brave boy or a very foolish one," said Hinter. "Will you tell me what prompted you to dare what no other person in the Settlement would dare! Was it simply curiosity?"
"I guess maybe it was," Billy confessed. "Anyways I've got all I want of it. It'll be a long time afore you see me there ag'in."
Hinter's sigh of relief was inaudible to the boy. "That's a good resolve," he commended. "Stick to it; that swamp is a treacherous place."
"It's awful," said Billy in awed111 tones. "I got as far as the first pond. It was far enough for me."
"You got as far as the pond!" Hinter cried in wonder. The eyes turned on Billy's face were searching. "And you found only a long shallow of stagnant112, stinking water, I'll be bound," he laughed, uneasily.
"I found—" Billy commenced, his mind flashing back to the bubbling geysers of the pond—then chancing to catch the expression in Hinter's face he finished, "jest what you said, a big pond of stinkin' dead water, crawlin' with all kinds of blood-suckers an' things."
He leaped from the fence. "Good bye," he called back over his shoulder. "I hear old Cherry bawlin' fer her drink."
Hinter was still seated on the fence when Billy turned the curve in the road. "I wonder what he wants of Lost Man's Swamp," mused113 the boy. "An' I wonder what he's scared somebody'll find there?"
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