townships, sections, and quarter sections; and went out to look at
it. He searched until he found a "blaze" on a tree, the marking
on which indicated it as the corner of a section. From this corner
the boundary lines were blazed at right angles in either direction.
Radway followed the blazed lines. Thus he was able accurately to
locate isolated "forties" (forty acres), "eighties," quarter
sections, and sections in a primeval wilderness. The feat, however,
required considerable woodcraft, an exact sense of direction, and a
pocket compass.

These resources were still further drawn upon for the next task.
Radway tramped the woods, hills, and valleys to determine the most
practical route over which to build a logging road from the standing
timber to the shores of Cass Branch. He found it to be an affair of
some puzzlement. The pines stood on a country rolling with hills,
deep with pot-holes. It became necessary to dodge in and out, here
and there, between the knolls, around or through the swamps, still
keeping, however, the same general direction, and preserving always
the requisite level or down grade. Radway had no vantage point from
which to survey the country. A city man would promptly have lost
himself in the tangle; but the woodsman emerged at last on the
banks of the stream, leaving behind him a meandering trail of
clipped trees that wound, twisted, doubled, and turned, but kept
ever to a country without steep hills. From the main road he
purposed arteries to tap the most distant parts.

"I'll take it," said he to Daly.

Now Radway happened to be in his way a peculiar character. He was
acutely sensitive to the human side of those with whom he had