It should also be said here that Judy's father never again appeared in
the Ozarks; at least, not in the Elbow Rock neighborhood. It might be
that Jap Taylor was shrewd enough to know that his reputation would not
permit him to show any considerable sum of money, where he was
known, without starting an investigation; and for men of his type
investigations are never to be desired.
Or it is not unlikely that the combination of money and the city proved
the undoing of the moonshiner, and that he came to his legitimate and
logical end among the dives and haunts of his kind, to which he would
surely gravitate.
CHAPTER XXIII.
IN THE ELBOW ROCK RAPIDS.
The day following that night of Brian Kent's uneasy wakefulness was a
hard day for the man and the woman in the little log house by the river.
For Brian, the morning dawned with a sense of impending disaster. He
left his room while the sky was still gray behind the eastern mountains,
and the mist that veiled the brightness of the hills seemed to hide in
its ghostly depths legions of shadowy spirits that from his past had
assembled to haunt him. The sombre aisles and caverns of the dimly
lighted forest were peopled with shadowy memories of that life which he
had hoped would never again for him awake. And the river swept through
its gray world to the crashing turmoil at Elbow Rock like a thing doomed
to seek forever in its own irresistible might the destruction of its
ever-living self.
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