'Under The Winter Stir’ - Part Five
(The Istory: Alden Wallace has
been swept fiver a cliff by an
avalanche while searching for the
huge vein of mica he fee's lies
on the Winter Star. In the mean
time, Verba Williams has dis
covered the truth of her birth
from her dying mother and is
trying to assuage the shock with
“nerve medicine”).
BY W. L. (CUSS) RATHBURN
It was sheer velocity that saved
Wallace from going to tvs death.
For, had he been coming down the
mountain with less momentum he
couldn’t have spanned the distance
between the shelf of the cliff and
the leafy hammock of inter'actng
vines, bn airs and laurel branches
where he landed like a trapeze
actor in a net, and which was
equally buoyant.
Wedged as he was between the |
branches, and pinned down by
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briars, it took Wallace some time i
to extricate himself. But, luckily,
he still had his jackknife, and
when he had cut some of the lar
ger vines, the laurel branches
slowly sp>U, lowering him to a
plush carpet of rotting leaves.
When he had regained his wits,
and taken inventory of damage
done to his person, Wallace was
ready to proceed despite some
rather painful bruises. Something
seemed to tell him that he had
no time to sPare, that he must
proceed at once to the summit of
a nameless pinnacle. But, for
some reason, it had never oecured
to Wallace why he wanted to scale
that pnnacle.
A distance of about 200 yards
from where he had landed
found a logging road and fo'low
ed it to where it faded out, near
I the gap that lay just back of the
j pinnacle.
With no more effort than"* the
I climbing of a slanting ladder
Wallace scaled the pinnacle, won
dering why he had been so silly
as to try it from the other side.
The summit was a miniature de
sort of sand and shale in the midst
of which was a huge bould ". Sit
ting atop this, Wallace was con
fronted with the quest cn: Why
am I here, and that same ques
ton repeated itself several times.
As Wal'ace gazed .nto the dis
tances, searching for so"-' land
mark that he might ide.T-fy, #nd
seeing none except the Winter
Star, he became interested in an
area of dark green that contrasted
sharPly Wth the back'••round of
Lighter green. He knew this was
Rhododendron, and that, . the
l : ghter green was blackberry
briars and Peruvian Cherry. And
as he looked, it occured to him
that the laureled area approximat
ed a fair map of the S'atp of
Texas. While tlv.ikir.g thus, the
question of why he was there again
obtruded, and, as if in answer, a
tending I rfht hit him squarely
in the eyes, temporarily blinding
him.
The first thought that occured
to the young mountaineer was
that someone was throwing the
sun in h : s eyes by means of a
mirror, a trick he had pulled many
a time at schoo l , but reasoned that
such could not be the case, be
cause the d'stance was too great
for anyone to see him, even if
! they knew he was there.
And then it dawned on Wa'lace
that what he had just seen was
exactly what, he had been looking
for all his life—a mfca vein
There was only one brilliant
flash, but it had been enough to
assure Wallace that a large piece
of mica was exposed to the sun.
With reference to the Texas map.
the sliding object was somewhere
near the northeast corner of the
panhandle. And Wallace’s know
ledge of the wi'derness caused
him to start'“Took'ng for some
landmark, and one as near as
Poss’b'e to the spot where he had
seen what he felt sure was a mfca
out-cropping. But all he could find
was a tall spruce which he judged
to be somewhere in the vicinity of
‘Wrehita Falls.”
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Wallace felt sure that once he
reached the tall spruce, it would
be only a matter of searching
out the area before he found
some s'gns of an outcropping.
It is of no Interest how Wad ace
negotiated the intervening wilder
tiess, but two hours had elapsed
before Wa'lace reached the tall
spruce.
A few feet from the foot of the
tree, Wallace saw signs of an out-
and this led him to a
cluster of boulders partially draped
with moss which contrasted sharp
ly With the lighter color of yellow
ish white quartz.
Among tlfis moss-covered heap
if boulders mica varying from
the size of a man’s hand to that
of a washboard were sticking
everywhere. The young man cou'd
scarcely refrain from shouting,
“Uncle Walt, I've found it!”
Within two weeks Wal'ace had
erected a crude cabin on the
site of his prospect near where a
cold spring gushed forth.
In the meantime, Wallace had
told no one except Gordon Bates
about his find. Bates was already
getting legal matters in shaPe to 1
file a claim for Wallace, and had!
already advanced sufficient funds !
for ammunition, food supplies and;
tocls.
Wal'ace was just coming out of
the ©urnstown Hardware where he
had purchased some shells for
his 30-30 rifle, for groundhogs are j
plentiful in the Appalachians asi
well as delicious.
“Looks like you’re in a real
jam,” said Sheriff Batten as he
accosted Wallace, “Let’s ta'k
about it at the office.” It was at ,
the office that Wallace learned j
that Aaron Williams was dead, j
and that he was under arrest for j
his murder.
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all by itself.” And, as he said
this, reached under the desk, and
came up with Wallace’s rifle. It
had only been fired once, and the
empty shell was in the chamber.
Although Wallace had many
friends, none were sufficiently in
fluential to do him much good.
But Gordon Bates did employ a
'awyer to defend Wallace, but all
he did was plead the boy guilty to
second degree murder : in order, as
he put it, to save him from the
gas chamber, and Wallace drew a
sentence of 20 years which, as the
judge explained, was only because
he was young and had a clear
record.
While in jail, Wallace’s only
visiters were the Meadows family,
Sarah Renfro and Mr. Bates. Some j
people are 'oathe to show kind
ness to a man charged With the
murder of a wealthy man. "
Dan Stovall, who was jailer now,
was exceptionally nice to Wallace,
and secretly did many favors for
him, but he had his orders, and
wouldn’t let Lola go near the
cage.
The time had come fir Wallace
to be taken to the capital to be
gin h : s sentence, and Wallace was
in the Sheriff’s office.
Dan Stovall was looking at a
road map while the sheriff looked
over some papers lying on his
desk. Finally, the sheriff looked i
at Wal'ace, and said, “Well,;
Wallace, my advice is to make a j
model prisoner, and always make
it a point to be sorry of what
you’ve done,” At this, Wallace
sA'd, under his breath, “Aw, go
drop dead,” but little did he think
that Sheriff Batten would do just
that, and within the next few
minutes.
Sheriff Batten bod started to
say something when a commotion
in Hank Murphy’s Blacksmith Shop
caused him to leave the office
by the back door. When about five
minutes bed ptssed, Slick Peebles
rushed into the office saying,
1 "Come quick, I think Sheriff Bat
, ten’s cashed in.” t
Stovall, with Wallace, in tow,
hurried out to the blacksmith shop
Just in time to hear Dr. Grayson
say, “I had known for a long time
tjhat he had a bad heart.”
Back 'in the olfice, Peebles, who
was the town marshall, said,
'‘You’ll*6 not going to try to de
liver that one by yourself, are
you?”
He’s worth more dead thar.
a'ive,” Stovall said, hitching up
his gun.
They rode for miles in silence,
before Stoval l said, “Don’t take
it so hard. It might not be true.”
“There's none of it true,” Wallace
I said glumly. - Several minutes
elapsed before Stovall said, “Y .
know, Wallace, I thyik y„u~
about as guilty of Aaron W'"'v,rV
murder as I am of killing Sheriff
Batten.”
“But you’re taking me to the
Pen just the same.” “Now what
ever gave you a silly idea like
that?”
“I don't follow you. Why talk
in parables, or whatever you call
it?”
“Well, I know what you mean,
so r'l be a little more to the point
when I get to a place where I
can get those bracelets off.”
; “Ycu-y*u mean you’re turning
: me loosp ?”
“Novyt if f wasn’t I sure wouldn’t
let you get those arms free, ‘cause
I hear you’ve got more power than 1
gumption.” j
The car swerved off to the
right through a cottonfield, and
headed toward a woodland a mile
1 distant from the highway.
(TO BE CONTINUED) ,
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