. The dune country . or two exceptions. He thought that most ofthem were headed fer the coals. Happy Cal, was one of his pet aversions, andfrom a human standpoint, he considered him atotal loss. They had once been friends, but Sipeswas now mififed and there was rancor in hisheart. Cal had gone off someres, but the woundwas unhealed. The trouble originated over theownership of a bunch of tangled set-lines, whichhad got loose somewhere out in the lake, anddrifted ashore some years ago. It was concededthat neither of them had owned the lines origi-nally, but Cal thought they ought to belong tohim
. The dune country . or two exceptions. He thought that most ofthem were headed fer the coals. Happy Cal, was one of his pet aversions, andfrom a human standpoint, he considered him atotal loss. They had once been friends, but Sipeswas now mififed and there was rancor in hisheart. Cal had gone off someres, but the woundwas unhealed. The trouble originated over theownership of a bunch of tangled set-lines, whichhad got loose somewhere out in the lake, anddrifted ashore some years ago. It was concededthat neither of them had owned the lines origi-nally, but Cal thought they ought to belong tohim as he had seen them first. Sipes descried the soggy mass and carried it upthe beach to his shanty. Cal came after the prizebefore daylight the next morning, but found thathe had been forestalled. Sipes spent two days in [82] OLD SIPES getting the tangles out and had stretched the linesout to dry. One night they were mysteriouslyvisited and cut to few days later a piece of board, nailed cross- ?• V (^ wise to a stake which was driven into the sand,appeared about a mile down the shore, betweenthe two shanties. On it was the crude inscrip-tion i^*^*^ 7/?^ Partys that cut them lines is knone/While protesting that he was perfectly inno- [83] THE DUNE COUNTRY cent, Cal looked upon this as a deadly personalaffront, and the entente cordiale was foreverbroken. After this Sipes bored a small hole in the sideof his shanty, through which he could secretlyreconnoiter the landscape in Cals direction whenoccasion required. He was satisfied that Calwould be up to something some day that he wouldcatch him at, and thus even the score. I had noticed a similar hole in the side of Calshut, during a day that I had spent with him twoyears before. Since the disappearance of Cal the old man hadused the peep hole to enable him to avoid the visitsof a certain other individual with whom he hadbecome disgusted. Through it he would studyany distant approaching figure on the shore thatlooked s
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