Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp; Or, The Old Lumberman's Secret

g with her parents she had so much to do, and that there wa

to the girl's experience and she found it vastly entertaining to sit at a broad window with her unc

is felt boots, with rubber soles and feet; the fact that he wore no linen and only a string tie under the collar of his flannel shirt; hi

little about stiff collars and laundered cuffs, or cravats, smart boots, bosomed shirts, or other dainty wear for men. He was quite innocent of giving any offence to the eye, however. Lying ba

e shepherd boy went out with his sling to meet the giant. Uncle Henry was six feet, four inches in height and broad in proportion. The cha

once, "are all the men in the

n feet he isn't quite sure, for he's so ticklish that you can't ever measure him," and Uncle Henry's chuckle burst into a full-fledged laugh. "He's j

Sam had got considerably under the weather, anyhow, from fooling with hard cider. So he wa

trough!"

an to pump water into it for the cattle. Maybe Long Sam needed a bath, but not just that way. He rose up with a yell like a Choc

ny queer twists to it. His bluff, honest way delighted the girl, although he was so different from Papa Sherwood. As Momsey had said, Un

shiny eyes and very white teeth, who seemed always on the broad grin, to wait upon them. Nan made a mental note to write Bess Harley all about the meal and the service,

ed streets hedged on either side with brick houses. The snow was still falling, but it looked sooty and gray here in the city. Nan began to feel

the lake. He beckoned to a taxicab driver, and Nan's trunk was found and strapped upon the roof. Then off the

o many people, despite the storm! So many vehicles tangled up at the corners and waiting for t

wled Uncle Henry. "And just as different

with a sigh. "Doesn't it ever get to

t, all evening long. And stores keep open, and hotel bars, and drug shops, besides theatres and the like. There's

" said Nan complacently. "But, of course, I'd like to see all the people and the lights,

treets. The air even isn't clean," went on the lumberman. "Give me the woods, with a fresh wind blowing, and the w

ot of trouble, Uncle Henry,

faced scoundrel, and I've no more use for him than I have

was not a new hotel; but it was a very good one, and Nan's heart beat high as she followed the porter inside

ther necessities. The porter carried this for her and seated her on a c

p to the rooms Nan found a pretty little bath opening out of hers, and the maid came and asked her if she could be of any help. Th

ed. He had pulled off his boots and was tramping up and down th

ise for this big body of mine all day. Sitting in that car has made

night. But he would not leave her alone in the hotel. "No, sir," said Uncle Henry. "Robert would never forg

r good night and told her she should always bid him good

ig lumberman, "and boys get over the kissing stage mighty

, I believe you'd spoil her to death!" cried Nan, the next morn

e below up there, sometimes," he said. "You think this raw wind is cold; it is nothing to a black

ken now. But we may have some cold snaps

he wore high fur boots, the fur outside. Her mittens of seal were buttoned to the sleeves of her co

d on her corridor very much, and the boy who brought the icewater, too. There really was so muc

Henry left the hotel for the train. It was a "night letter" sent from Buffalo and told her that Momsey was all r

hey traveled at first by the Milwaukee Division of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad; and now another

at nine o'clock. She climbed into the upper berth a little later, sure that she would not sleep

almost immediately, lulled by the rocking of the huge car on its springs, and did no

The train swept them up the line of Lake Michigan, sometimes within sight of the shore, often along the edge of estuaries,

rain they traveled in, Nan Sherwood certainly was tired of riding by rail. The station was in Marquette County, near the Schoolcraft line. Pine Camp was tw

for the door of the car. Nan ran after him in her fur clothing. She had found before this that he was right a

ig freight house, and a company of roughly dressed men to meet them. Behind the station a numb

all man in patched coat and cowhide boots, and with a rope tied about his waist as

part of his face was as sharp as that of a fox, and he really looked like a fox.

ll give you something to go to law about in a hurry. Come, Nan. Don't let that man touch so much as y