Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 27, 1922, Page 8

PAGE EIGHT. ° “Gbe Casper Daily Cribune WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 27,1922 The Littl e R “ d F por BARNEY GOOGLE--Sparky Gets a $100 Sun S'hade. “By Billey De Beck BY ROBERT W. CHAMBERS INSTALLMENT NO. 8. foliage of great evergreens, to scan the trail abead and the forest alsies| 1 below—these Mohawk panthers that 2 from above | hem, hidden close to the their comrades on either| ttle ravine, through which is lodge at Summer House ran. We could not see them, ) never doubted were there. | r of their tree-cat scouts were| visite I made the sign; our~ rifies| crashed out. And, thump! slap! thud?! town came their Gead a-sprawl- ing and bouncing on the dead leaves. And up rose their astounded comrades | n every hollow, bush and windfall. | to drop fat at our rifles’ crack,} and no knowing if we had hit any among them. A vell of smoke sy low among the ferns in front of us. There was a] terrible silence in the forest, then| screech on screech rent the air, as the panther slogan rang out from our | unseen foes; and, Uke a dreadful echo, | burled thetr war cry back 7 — weit wecora \/ — PIT’ THE Poor 2; and we all sprang to our feet ‘4 ved awit Ptawiraccrose hing EXPECT Tas Cow || PeoPLe THo— n our own rifle amoke SWaP— Hap IT KINDET2 NASTY, There came a shet, and a cloud} Pretty sort So NO Coat oF spread among the boughs of a tall/ fae THis wuiter ANYTHING — but the fellow left ht 4 down on tother side, 1, and my wild Saguena: ter him in u falsh. w Saguenay selze something, mad struggle, and ran for- vard with Tahioni, only to hear the| yeiping scalp-cry of the Montagnais, land seo him both knees on his vic- | tim's shoulders, ripping off the scalp, his arms and body spattered with biood. | I saw Tahbion! chasing a strange In-| dian through a little hollow full of ferns; saw Godfrey Shew raise his 2 rifle and kil! the fugitive as coolly us A RECRUIT. though he were a running buck. Stertied, I turned and caught a| Over this distant ridge, ike sha-| glimpse of something slinking on the | dows, I could see somebody's light feet ridge between our fiankers. And| running, oheckefed against the sun- presently I di¢ eee the Screechow!l/ shine beyond, and I fired, judging a run forward and hurl a clod of moss/ man’s height, if stoopig. And saw| into the thicket; and the Saguenay | something dark fall and roll down into} broke cover like a scared dog. a gully full o? last year's damp and “Come,” said I, dragging him along, | rotting leaves. “what the devil do you want of us?) Re-charging my rifle, I strove to Dia I not bid you go in peace?” realize that I had slain. Thiohero spoke sharply to him in| ‘Tha Screech-owl, locked in a death his Jargon; then, at his reply, looked | struggle with a young Mohawk, broke up at me with the flaming ayes of a| his arm, stabbed him, and” too'c hi | ] Who's Who » = 5 Trail CLAUDIA SWIFT, accompanies Ls Johnson and bees PENELOPE GRANT, ¥ Seotch girl to remain at the lodg Penelope tells Jack Drogue of a of a wh shape hovering ove: at war. Her Scotish sacond sight impresses Jack as gets forth with | NICK STONER, good friend and able ranger, on the trail of the Sacar Gago—atter TAHIONI ir the woots » “THE RIVER REED,” prophetess of the 0; iM wks on the Iroquois | | is met = ‘REE NES, IuDEeD — -BU_DLE UP = i YY: = z Re ae PRetry Bap Nicht on The Foon, evi > : as oe : Be Hankruua— idas, For /emM— GvESS WERE lucky— — Vie KNOCK Woop. REECH OWL and WATER SNAKE, Oneida Indianas, who pledge themselves to Drogue's party, cap ture. SAGUENAY, “YELLOW LEAF,” an unpainted Indian who tells also of Mohawks taking scalps on the West river. THE LITTLE RED FOOT ts the mark of victims who die fighting ne Oneida maid paints ol on her breast, and Drogue's party adopts the symbol t avenge the scalps the Mohawks have| taken. went down under water as I reached | them | came up blinded, staggering. lynx. scalp before I could run to his aid. | pda hate face Eng tte Lidterng Tas TPT MND “Brother,” said ehe, “this Montag-| And there on the ground wy four | MMF: where she lay jn shallow water, | BRR? : SEERA AD = . $ az and dragged her ashore behind me. | jf SKEEZIX, THAT'S THE HE'S GOING PICKED A NAME, s hunter has given an account that|other scalps, two of white children ‘ *| ‘Then came a thrashing, splashing the Marquas have prepared an ambus-/ with the Little Red Foot painted on| { cade, knowing we are on the Grest| all aye aed ee hg a ae bere gh Trail.” | Av the same instant T heard « great | marshy creek, and, below us. I saw a W mest Tor (ve evEeR seen i Bu PLAY* with FoR moRE THAN TEN MINUTES. YO BE A RECLLAR 4 MOTHER — IT's PAL TO YOU. WHAT . PAL! - NOU/ Goins TO 1 ao ries iE Him? T said cooly: “What reason does roaring and cursing and’ a crash | 0m" Mohawks leap into the water | the Saguenay give for returning to us the river-side willows, and was | ®74 thn pte ies cog er | rifle among us that was Ury enough} tas ~ _ |to take a toll of our enemies crossing Sindy THs T | the West rive nin sight! J ze Lord. what a’ day! And not fought | ad pictured battles, No! For it was Ullnd combat, and neither may: aged as planned nor im any. kind of order or Cisc ne Nor did we ever, as T have said, scover how many | enemies were opposed to us, And I am certain they believed that a full] regiment had struck thefr rear; other wiee, I think i: had proven a very bloody business for me and my ‘peo: | ple, \ | . Lord, Lord! What a battle! For all| | were filthy with blood. and there wer: | brat ns and hair and guts sticking to | | we knives and hatchets, and bodies avd limbs all smearef!. Good God! Wa thin war. And tho green files already whirling around jis tn the sunsh'ne and settling on the faces of the deadj— The little maid of Askalege, leaning on her brother’s shoulder, was cough- ing up water she had swallowed. Nick, with a bolody sconce. but no SAux- eveny TME 1 BRING HES NOY, SHE Feeps IT To = AY MISTAKE? (THOUGHT HARDUD> Ion MAKING THAT ANotst- thy Just | worse damage, sat upon a rock | and THAT Pore ares Uns TesTING His. washed out his clotted hair, * | bi i Feeving 3g “Heil!” quoth he, when he beheld aR = PRetTY: me. “Here be Y with a broken poll, | o and yonder goes the Indian who gave it me.” { ‘Sit still, idiot!* said I, and set the ranger's whistle to myp lips. | White and red, my men cams run- ning from their. ferocious “hunting. ot a man was missing. had taken te: nny Silver scalps; and, as among my white people ed such trophies, “my | Oneidas skinned the needles of aur and, like all Indians, counted} aip a glory. no matter whose | bullet dropped the game. } 5 for me, my throat was 80 swollen | and bruised I could scarce speak or/| swallow i Howver, there was work still to be done, so I took Godfrey and Luyanes, : “The Naked Warrior I clutcnec was y ocled that my fingers slip-|tho Screech-owl, and the Water. ; or <= : = Ped over him as if it were an eel J plucked at snake; motioned Yellow Leaf, the| = with such a tale?” bd horritt ~ ~pig! Montagpais to follow, and set off) \ i Bfarieaoes's ena weoliady Sinan ave) Roti otO eee TIER Game cna |e age ee Mapeaicin are WINNIE WINKLE, THE BREADWINNER. Santa Claus Is Quite Human Sli only, of all Iroquois or white men he fing a Mohawk warrior, who was|°UF Shemies ‘so deep into the wilder-| ear : ; has ever encountered, havo treated clinging to him and striving to uae|Des that they would never forget the| MERCY! JUST LISTEN To )}— s PERRY WINKLE! WHAT g THATS A FINE WAY To TALK ABouT : him like a man and not as an unclean his hatchet Big Eday. | “THAT AWFUL RACKET !!! S 1S THE MEANING OF AW THIS ROTTENOL’ | A. CHRISTMAS PRESENT THAT SANTA THIS THING MUST BE AN beast. | We made but @ dozen Ieaps of it, BACK TO THE LODGE. SOUNDS LIKE A : ALLTHIS NOISE 27 UTOMOBILE AIN'T |p CLAUS BROUGHT YOU ~ ISN'T IT ? OLU-MODEL! TAINT GOT ‘He says that my white brother has and were in a wasp-nest of Mohawks| ‘The sun was high when our sentinel BONER FACTORY! eae fe ! 1 CAN'T | ARENT YOU ASHAMED OF YOURSELF 23, NO SELF-STARTER! 1 told him he 1s a man, and that if this | ere we knew it. : hatled a detail from Fish House, : ce TN GOSR- & ; GOTO ECE SUNGIN AT. ia true he will act as real men act. | 1 heard Nick roar again with pain| bringing us a sheep, three sacks of oa j Lela Base WELL.BLIEVE ME 3s = ‘He says he desires to be painted) ana fury, but had my hands too-full|corn, and a keg of fresh milk. cf cociand / BLAMED, BLINKETY b Sates | 4, SANNY CLAUS CERTAINLY upon the breast with a little red foot,| to succor him, for a wild beast painted I had bathed me in the Viale Wa- RD *. EN r BLANK THING Go SANNY CLAUS DON Og Got STUCK, WHEN and wishes to go into battle with us.” yellow was choking me and wrestling! ter; had eaten soupaat, turned over as eS y 1 ey See HE BOUGHT THis CAR It Thus another Indian joined the ex-| the off my feet, and Uttls Thiobero was|my command to Nick, and now was PR AUTOMOBILES 3! = pedition. | fighting lke a demon with her knife,|ready to report in person to the com: ’ seis BATTLE. 2 on the water's edge. mandant at Summer House Point. ‘© cross West river here,” said I The naked warrior I clutched was| My Saguenay and. I set forth by “and.go by the left bank in the same | eo vilely oiled that my fingers slipped | cance: ; I order of march, crossing the shoulder| over him as though it were an eel I Presently a Continental on guard of the mountain by the Big Eddy, then | piucked at, and his foul end stinking | hailed our canoe. We landed. A cor-} by fording the river once more, so as to) breath in my face was like a full fed| poral came. then m sergvant—one Cas) take their ambuscade from the north | bear's par Quaint, whom I knew—and so we rE znd in the rear. | Then, as he strangled me, out of| were. pagsed on, my ‘Indian and I. They seemed to understand. The \aarkening eyes I saw his arm lifted—| Saluted, and the officer's salute ren- t Montagnais, in! his new. paint, came|giimpsed the hatchet's sparkle—saw| dered; he became curious to seo the| “round behind me like some savasN!an arm seize his, saw abroad knife| fresh scalps flapping at my Sague.| e dog that trusts only his omuer: | Pass into his belty as though {t had] nay’s girdle, and the new. war-paint! “who first sights @ Mohawk," s2id/been butter—pass thrice, slowly. rip-|and the oll smelling rank in the eweet | Ps as pam not tire CASS aap Ding upward so that he stood there, | air. | $n" te own vanity ts de-| elready gralloched, yet still breathing|~ But I told hing, aa! j ; ae sire for glory. No. | He shall retura| horribly and no bowels in him... Tl pe dual come unuees Whe chit wave in a ring around her strolled and loll-| She tzughed and plucxes a grass:-|).. The partition which Sir John haa| {> Scehis. | T Kissed ‘her; dnd st ‘wen © me and =oport what he sees. For| His falling hatchet clinked among thé| account; was a certain Stajor West, | &¢ # dozen Continental ofticers in butt} lade. |; ;SBaip she laughed in her enchant-| made for a gun-room, and which now | ‘°;", Pea. Ls it ts my business to order the conduct| stones. ‘Then he sank like a stricken| fail, lodging at the Sommer viowe, and Blue and gold: “I aid not forget you,” she said. | Ing little way, and bent her bright| served to enclose Penelope's chamber, 4.7 P84. pecni vealcomed Ike a brother “. apa oan exept | Dalb, BeNewed and leds Bo T passed the gate and walked to.| | There was no'resson why, but the| That ts amazing,” said 1, “al Bead. “And, presently: year es deterrents en ca at Balle (aati peace : eye Ate xmountitn's; shoulder, . ro.| gating aeeeo ee my \Gaguensy | ward ‘the lodge. Sir John‘ blooded | Scene chilled “me. 3 | maid so run after and so courted.” ‘“Jobn Drogue- B lagen bee eed ipa and others | trom my firet warctrall. And afte I tw swe sour qeeaiec te ee 5, “Brot ne brot er!” in my |cattle were grazing ahead, and I eaw| ‘Have you been tn battle?” Pene-! She plucked another blade of grass, “I hear you, Penelope. | ad Rr ees ape ae Kiadmired'| nad-completea my renokt te the-co rounded and giant bowlders and nae | cars: and felt Iils hand timidly sseving| Flora at the well, and Colas busy |lope asked. aust ac: ats, alll sAU ebm tences ver. | 1 20. got mish) warts -apoplen -atock: | 207 ne Casmnnenaeed: Riese, BOURC teenie Major. wher mover teen: a3 were creeping southward toward the| But in‘my Pe instincts toca sn ae PES Abr Spb gate agee ty sa AE ich Mortal Bao RS at ee gakd Aad Wie Corded uy oooh dike ren | SBtit: to: the "verge af: flaiverpoeteons Labo A ey je autres polar ay ieaate dng 8a weeding under the \south| a Aitit & silebce: ‘ut am most nappy not ete what hak jerte wore hinikins, |." Waiyoree oi Longe aoe white people: aul Fomitiortaen, free to spend the day at the Summer f re = ‘ying, 2 a Is you returne in- safety.” but her seem graver. 1 ir Ke % x je % i Suddenly, Nick caught my arm in a| wounded to the death; and I saw two| And I saw something else that halt-| “Did. you ever—ever think of me?”|. “Tell mee" sald I, “are you happy?"| garments.. They are in the Toate Histo fay soldier's leather, sack. Eee ieee teas itm fe Goa ey | Mohawks, had got the Uttle maid of/ed me. For, seated upon a low limb I asked. “[ act contentel. I loye my Mis-| You shall choose’ for. yourself and! Then I'took her hands and said wy Emouated eruvéus tectae eee se—in the| Askalege between them, and were|of an apple tree, her two'little fect! “Whe replied in surprise. | tress Swigt. “I love and pity Lady; young men before the Continentals; thanks; and she looked at me and an Withee ee e drowning her in the Big Eddy hanging down,.and garbed id I, “that being oc-| Johnson. . Yes..I am happy take their shure.” }awered. “You are “welcome, John’ further tae toon a 7 cae the water. 7: flowered chintz and snowy fic sought after! ©“I know they both ia) Twas. touched. and thanked her. | Drogue.” | tor me SV § in a flying leap he ¢ Grant, a. y 20 many might T. “So you should he happ And now, it being noon hou! T do not Know! what possessed me — Cop: ‘Siar in Ove me, and ail f there casilyy have And admired ag you are v We walked togeth house." to put my arm around her.. She flush- ' Anot q