Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 5, 1923, Page 10

PAGE __..: The Lady of North Star RY OTTW .L. BINNS AUTHOR 0 H F “A MATING IN THE WILDS.” | INSTALLMENT WHo' WHO Joy Gargraye, daughter wealthy Canadian, 1s visiting in land when she is enticed into a } marriage with of Dick Bracknell, son of Sir James |’ Bracknel!. A wild youth, he sells the fecret of an army gun tq a fore!gn “But the spring comes. government and Js forced to flee from | ang with the spring comes life and the country to northwest | the kindling of the heart."” Canada he becomes known as “Koona} Roger asked abruptly, “How long Dick” 1 is wanted by the sovern-| wilt the ice hol bou?”" ment for selling liquor to the Indians. is not to be told.” Siboa Roger Bracknell, his cousin, follow-} pointed across the river to wher ing differences with hs ur Sir) triby y flowed into the river. James, over th latter's matrimonial | wateg es dow there and plans for h goes to Canada and) to the strength of this. It may break lecome: corporal in the Northwe: the ice here, and spread over the} Potice. He signed the! sur € Listen.” | nding Koona Dick. The corpotal listened. The air was} Lodge. Joy's home, he of indescribable sound, rs two shots and finds Dick lying | moaning and growling, quite differ- d. He sees Joy near by | ent from the sound of the soft wind Believing htm — dead | in. the trees: ‘ger goers on to the Lodge. He is, There came a sudden crash far met thete hy out in frent, and the next moment a Adrian Ra idee Scwanse atl fissure showed in the i ’ ae is the first, and there will - zis : . thers,” shouted the Indian. “The ir Joseph Rayner, J¢ law in} break up has come! The spring has a, who later persuade eat certain papers. \t tho «A cry from the camp startled them, cknell hears f nd divin w had happened, the ona Dick is hi} {white man began to run. When he had not recognized him as he "ad / reached the fire he found Joy, and grown a beard—and learns of Joy’s| as their eyes met, she answered the ge which has been kept a sec question in his. ret. Roger is convinced that Joy did] “Yes,” she said, “a moment ago. not shoot Dick. Upon returning to] He knew me again at the last.” | where he had left Dick, he| With the help of Sibou he bent a finds that the “body” has disappear-| couple of young spruces, that his | ed. He was wounded but carried| cousin's body might have the aerial away by his Indian servant, Joe, Roger Bracknell starts out in pursuit and catches up with his cousin. The| latter, covering him with a gun,]| forces him to give his word not co attempt his capture; takes a!l Roger's | but three and drives away Roger's dogs die of poisoning a while he is walking back a tree falls | and breaks his leg. Chief Louis, head of a tribe of In Gians finds and takes care of Fox He ‘tells him that the death cf Joy's father was not an accident, as has een supposed, .but that the ice on the River on which he was traveling a Meantime the death of f-| frey Bracknell, Dick's brother, oc-} curs. | Rayner, telling Joy that Dick was dead and that he knew of her mpar- riage, proposes to her, but is refused. He starts out on a search for Dick. | Rayner and Joy quarrel as he starts! out for the north. Word comes vy Chief Louis's men to Roger that a strange white man And two “bad” In dians are aveling northward and that they asked {nformation abou: Koona Dick. coger finds Dick in a cab suf. fering from scurvy. Dick tells him his dogs also died of poison and that he had believed Roger himself had poisoned their meat. The corporal is convineed that it was not Dick who caused Mr. Gargrave’s death. He sets out n to find the stranger the In dians to!d him of. Rayner comes to Dick’s, cabin and tells him that Joy is.on her way join Roger and that either bel him (Dick) dead or in ignora the law against bigamy or in defi-| ance of it. Dick enraged at Roger. Rayner resumes the trail and| Joy, hoping to find Roger, enters Dick's cabin. Babetto La Farge accompanies Joy. to| ring ce of When Dick menaces his wife, she | stops him with pistol 7 Joy's Indian servant, and Joe, Dick's | servant, are Killed in an attack on the cabin. Convinced that T ! js the leader in the attac Babette and Dick flec together. is very ill and having heard Joy's story has made peace. Jim, George's | #9n, escapes and tells Roger of the attack. Roger arrives to find all—| besteged and besiegers—gone. | Dick, Joy and Miss Farge are | captured by Indians but are rescued by Roger. Dick, eager to “do the| decent thing,” gallantly battles to! cover the others’ flight ely wounded bu stopping the pursu nd is desper successful Indians. usk that night Roger and the vy discussed the attack on Dick cabin. “You have suspicions, Miss Gar grave. Tell me exactly what you! think.” “I will,” she broke out impulsive- ly, “and God forgive me if I do him wrong! I think my cousin Adrian! was responsible—Mr. Rayner, you know, whom You met at North Star.” “I think you right," he an- swered slowly. “We must be very | careful. If there {s.real warrant for | our suspicions, then Adrian Rayner will be a very desperate man.” “I am sure of that,” she inter jected impulsive. “I felt it, when | he left North Star on ou 1| ordered him away, and as I could I came to look for you | “It was good of you to be ous for my’ welfar he anxi broke in auic! That v but natural,” she said quietly. “You were working for me. and when I known to that I must knew that a danger ur su threatened you, I felt Du aware of it.” can only meet Adri shall be able to prove i ail that we suspect 1 You and Babette and my ows the 1m. your father ner and h then th y pute When the next dawned, Diek | Bracknell was condition to avel. He was clearly much weaker, | 1 at, times he lapsed into delirium which the hearts of two of nose with him were wrung | Joy did not love him, but there Was a great pity in her heart fo: the wayward man At the outer edge of the cam} Roger met Sibou. The latter waved a hand towards the river, on the frozen surface of which tiny streams ginning to run “It ys aol’ agrecd the corporal | and the snow-blind man. | Voyageurs’ NO. TWELVE. prrow comes the spring and | new said the Indian thought- fully. “The woman nurses the man who dies, what is she to him?" ‘She is. his wife.’ | loves him not! I have ht in her eyes." He broke “But she sepulchre practiced by tribes, Half an hour later the dead man | was lnshed to the young trees which were released, carrying the body high in the air. Such portions of the buridl service as Roger could romember were recited. “We will start in like, he said later. good, but it will rrow, and we can get some way towards Chief Louis’ camp. Once} ther ice or no ice will not matter We shall bs able to get canoes.”" “¥ she said, “Yes, in an hour. There is no reason why We should linger here now.” They started before the hour was out; and traveled hard until the edge of dark. In the night the cor-| poral was €wakened by a crash and in the morning he new that sled- traveling was over. A stream of water was flowing on the surface of! the Northern an hour, if you he ice is not} be worse to-! the ice. Something caught Sibou's keen eyes, something moving. He} ited it out to Bracknell “There is ‘a man there. He i ning this way | He will never com ed Bracknell, t warn him. He will to return.’ | a} “He walks s! comme sil * man seemed to be making an erratic courge, and more. than once} just skirte fissure. | adden u_ started. | The man is blind,” he sald. “See | how he walks. hands in frent grop-| He did not sce the ing for the w The stranger, whoever he was, stumbled over a cake of ice thrown out on the surface, and as he picked himself up, he took his next step into a stream running fast over the yfelding surface. He withdrew the foot instantly and half turned to try another course. “It is the snow-blindness," said S:bou. “He cannot see. He only fee . and there is danger everywhere him.” dh," cried Joy, “can nothing be done “Something can be tried," answerel corporal, S'bou and he moved towards blinded man in imminent risk of their lives. A providence seemed to watch over the man. He had turned again and now was running towards them, They were but fifteen yards apart, when suddenly Sibou stood still and gripped his companion’s arm. Behold!" he said quick “The man who was with me when the trafl was blown up before Mr. grave.” cknel] also stood still at the figure shambling them. ‘There was a dis. traught look cn the man's face, a madness of fear that convulsed it, but in spite cf that Roger Bracknell rec ognized it. It was the face of Adrian Rayner ‘The ice parted, and a little lane of turgid water appeared between thera the “Look out, Rayner! For God's sake, out!” Rayner gave a great cr: ar, and began to run away from the bank. He ran only a@ little w > BARNEY GOOGLE. _Cbe Casper Daily Cribune MONDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1923. iff SPARKY ~ SES WHATS HERE! YOUR NAME 'sS° UP for THE BIG “HAMBURGER STAKES” , FEBRUARY. TY . 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There was no laughter on her face, but the blood was warn: in it, and her eyes were shining. “Oh, my dear!" she said, half sob- BO wnt cmnto ene ———— as ok her = bing wb elsans ss us he took fh EMILY, | Tune MRS — lien ocr “At las' he whispered, then to-| BLOSSOM KNOWS MORE IT MIGHT gether the: turned ds walke | ABOUT SKEEZIX THAN | NOT, AMY. | BE FOR THE Have A towards the lodge. SHE'S TELLING. BO You! IT WOULD | BEST. NOBODY “I think I had better tell you some | THIMK THE REAL bad news at onc aid Roger, “and | MOTHER WILL dismiss the unpleasantness once and} COME AND GET for al I told Sir Joseph Rayner \ HIM FROM WaLT? of his son's death, without telling | = é him all that lay behind it: He| 1 seemed to regard it as In some way a judgment on himself, and he made a confession to me. “A confession!’ Joy stopped and looked at him with eyes that were wide with fear, “You do not mean that che knew that Adrian in tended—— “He knew nothing. Even now he does not know that your father death was anything but accidental. | The confession he made had to do with his financial affairs. It appears that he had speculated rashly, that his affairs have become very much olved, and that absolute ‘contre! of your money was needed to save him.” “I gave it!” cried ‘ and it did s | | | | | | { ve him. of his ventures turned out very well hfter al, but that matters noth now. Adrian was the apple of his We BQUSHED UP ON MY ENGLISH eye. When we go to England- TO MAKE A CRUSH ON Copyright, 1922, wy the Bell Synai- te, Inc. | (Another Fine Insta‘lment Tomorrow.) <_< NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION Department of the Interior. U, Land Office at Douglas, Wyom January 11, 1923. Notice is hereby given Crawford C, Richardson, heir Frank J. Smith, deceased, of Cas: | per, Wyoming. who, on December, 20, 1919, made homestead entry} No. 012271, for W%, NB%, sec-| tion 21, and NW% ‘section 22.| township 34 N., range 79 W., sixth principal meridian, has filed notice; of intention to make final three year proof, to establish claim to the land above described, before Mar- ion P. Wheeler, United States com- missioner, at Casper, Wyoming, on| the 19th day of Februaryy 1 Claimant names as witnesses: 8 .. Thornton the line ho followed, and unconscious | sit" of Casper, Wyoming. Oo? its existence, he dashed straight |~ * B. J. ERWIN, into it They saw the plunge, and Register. watched painfully There was nol publish January 15, 22°39, and Se MSAK LANCLGR® Harther, sian. of hire February 5, 12, 1923: 1S INSIDE. AND WANTS TO \s they gained St, the, corporal saw in eh SEE YOU ABOUT COWLECTING, g: look of ‘Horror: on: dey Garerave®|| -NOTICE<FOF PUBLICATION JHE RENTS IN THIS HOUSE! * - inne 7 Department of the Interior, U. 5. Do ee tee Ae Land Office at Douglas, Wyoming, January 19, 1923. | piled the comeral meaningly-nen{ Notice is hereby given that Ray- eee ia welt the a porate} Mond C. Rubush of Casper, W3 See neath ming, who, on May 21, 1921, made a tee iked once more|homestead. and additional ' hom tO tee ae omed once Tiew,|stead entries, No. 028921, 028922, | Boe eee eee Mee tere Kinch |for homestead, S14. and additional giveneuited (ha Teullie Gan homestead N%4 section town- “It is the judgment of God.” ship . range 80 W., sixth prin : . se cipal meridian, has filed notice of It was five and a half months later, intention to make final three-year) when Bracknell, f from | Proof, to establish claim to the land | Tinglanh, Walked up the road from |above described, before Marion P. | the river leading to North Star Lodge,| Wheeler, United States Commis-/ There was a touch of frost in the alr. | Hix gaze was fixed on the place} wh road turned, eagerly ex-| pectant, and from behind came the ong as his men unpacked bert Amiotte, sioner, at Casper, Wyoming, on the third day of March, 1923. | Claimant names as witnesses: | Oscar Walls, William Burch, Al-| B, McMahan, all of| BE A TERRIBLE BLOW TO war. / KNOWS A THING ABOUT \_ THE PARENTS) Yy—— BLOSSOM DOES. Tear Aiew ENGLISH TEACHER, Miss BEAN - TH’ TENANT UP IN 4B. HASN'T PAID HIS RENT YET! WILL You RUN UP STAIRS AN’ GET IT 2! TELL HIM TL, BERIGHT IN! HUNCH MRS. Qs -cmerso Tweude. WALT'S BRINGING \ HIM ‘UP AND IT WOULD BE A CALAMITY NY BODY ELS soT him. JUST THE SAME 1T WOULD BE BETTER THAN TO HAVE HIM GROW UP AND GO TO THE PENITENTIARY OR SOMETHING SX UKE THAT! HE'S oe Ta Happy To SEE You TAKE AM INTEREST (N YouR, NO soe | WELL, I'D NEVER , ADOPT A CHILD UNLESS | KNEW THE PARENTS. HE MIGHT GIVE WALT NO ENO OF TROUBLE IN LATER YEARS - YOU NEVER : CAN TELL! | DON'T THINK ANYONE COULD BO MORE FOR, WALT (ve iS SURE THING Boss ! TLL COLLECT THAT RENT FOR YE RIGHT AWAY !! WELL, WHERE'S )} ASK HIM FOR TH’ RENT TH’ MONEY 2 FWHY-ER-HE SAID TF 1 HE'LL THROW ME DOWNSTAIRS AN’ BREAK EVERY BONE IN MY BOpy! HE NEARLY KILLED ME!!/ EVER You GO RIGHT BACK AN’ TELL AGAIN, HIM HE CAN'T SCARE ME OUT OF MY RENT THAT EASY !!f “Wwhat in there 1 he laughing eee 7S. 3. ERWIN, |section 18. township 29 N., R. 88|Wyoming; John Dodds, of Casper, iam H. Cheney of Freeland, Wyo-|the land above described, before| More than 1.000 varieties’ of ‘wheal ee ee ee | Register. |W: EWNEM, SWMNE, NW%|Wyoming; Alex Cuthil, of Casper,|ming, who, on January 15, 1918.|Marion P, Wheeler, United States|are grown, and the number. Is. con Far up trom the lilac tree? | Publish January 22, 29 and Feb-|SE% section 13, township 29 N.,| Wyoming. iT January : 1920, made homestead |Commissioner, at Casper, Wyoming, |stantly increasing. A face that’s brighter and finer far, /ruary 5, 12, and 19, 1923, range 84 W., sixth principal merid- B. J. ERWIN, and ‘additional homestead entries:|on the 7th day of March, 1923. It laughs and ft shines, cl, cl! —— |ian, has filed notice of intention to ; Register. |No. 015806, 015813, for homestead|” Claimant names as witnesses: Tho honk. oF: geese overhesa for NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION _ |make final three-year proof, to es-|_ Publish January 29 and February |WigNW4." NENW, | NW%| Charles N. Richards, William 1 OARSENESS moment drowned the words, but the Department of the Interior, U. S.|tablish claim to the land above de-|5, 1923, NE% section 33 and add tional Bird, Albert Huffard, Edward 1.) pr ee st oi hed in a tnoment later. |Land Office at Douglas, Wyoming, 'scribed, before Marion P. Wheeler, —- homestead SW%S E%SW.|McGrangh, Jr. all of Freeland, Ewallow a owly small pieces fort! ne it home, ‘January 24, 1923 : United’ States Commissioner. at} NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION NE%4 section % | Wyornl ¢ throat. do: tice is hereby given that Jane, Casper, Wyoming, on the 8th day = WM SW ction B. J. ERWIN, 8 e a4 De of Casper, Wyoming, wh March, 1923. | Department ot es inte r. U ae As zane uw sizth Register: va A on July 18, 19 made homest Claimant names as witnes Land Office at Douglas, Wyoming, | principal meridian, ilec : . J = ' 1 ntry. No, 010087, for SW'4SE A Lew Stillway, of Casper, Wyo-| January 26, 1923, [of intention to make final three-| Publish January 20 and Febr Over 17 Bitton fan eed Yoo ‘ It was J section 7, N%NW'%\ming; Harry Hoshaw, of. Alcova,! Notice is hereby given that W:lk|ycar proof, to establish claim to 5. 12, 19 and 26, 1923, é