The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 28, 1938, Page 15

WHILE HAWKEYE AND UNCAS SET OUT FOR THE DELAWARE VILLAGE WHERE CORA MUNRO 1S MNELD CAPTIVE, HEYWARD SPEEDS TOWARD THE HURON CAMP WITH DAVID GAMUT TO SAVE ALICE ... SICKENED WIiTH WORRY OVER THE FATE OF HIS DAUGHTERYS AND EXHAUSTED BY THE GRUELLING MARCH, COLONEL MUNRO, ON | THE VERGE OF COLLAPSE, 5l 1S LEFT BEMIND IN A SAFE HIDING-PLACE WITH OLD CHINGACH- GOOK TO PROTECT AND CARE FOR HIM . PASSES THE ORDEAL D MOST OF THE BLOWS OF HIS TOR- MENTORYS, HE REACHES THE WAR POST, WHERE ACCORDING TO INDIAN CUSTOM, HE IS SAFE FOR THE MOMENT, THOUGH STILL A WHILE INTHE CAMP, HEYWARD SEES UNCAS BROUGHT I A& = "= . PRASONER . THE FORMELRY 15 POWERS LESS TO HELP HIS FRIEND: THE HURONS FORCE UNCAS TO QUN GAUNTLET L [1GHLIGHTS o HISTORY - - N 2 @c=cruse s HAD PLACED THE SCOTCH CROWN UPON THE HEAPD OF ROBERT BRUCE, HIS ENEMY, EDwWARD 1 OF ENGLAND PUNISHED THE HEROIC COUNTESS BUCHAN BY .o CONFINING HER IN AN OPEN CAGE SHAPEPD LIKE A CROWN, : OF 1306 o CASTLE OF BERWICK - INST anD WEST MET IN LAFCADIO HEARN BorN ON A GREEK. ISLAND (1850), THE SON OF AN IRISH OFFICER INTHE BRITISH ARMY AND A GREEK PRINCESS, HEARQN ,WRITER OF EXOTIC BOOKS AND ESSAYS, WAS EDUCATED IN FRANCE AND ENGLAND, . WORKED FOR MANY YEARS AS A NEWSPAPER MAN IN THE UNITED STATES AND LATER. WENT TO JAPAN, MARRIED A JAPANESE , BECAME A SUBJECT OF THE- MIKADO ANP WAS BURIED- ) WiTH BUDDHIST RITES. MAJoR HEYWARD SPEAKS FRENCH FLUENTLY, AND KNOWING THAT THE HURONS ARE ALLIES OF FRANCE, BOLDLY ENTERS THE INDIAN CAMP POSING AS A WANDERING FRENGH CANADIAN FAITH-HEALER - X DAVID GAMUT LEADS THE YOUNG OFFICER TO ALICE Y PRISON IN THE CAVE ~~WITH A CRY OF THANKFULNESS ALICE RUSHES INTO HEYWARDYS EAGER ARMS. DAVID DISCREETLY RETIRES e Casot 1497 IN THIS TINY CRAFT THE ADVENTOROUS VENETIAN, SAILING FOR THE ENGLISH KING, HENRY YIT, DiISCOVERED NEWFOUNDLAND, ESTABLISHING = = ENGLANDY CLAIM == TO THE NORTH S IN FRIENDLY FASHION BY THE UNSUSPECTING HURONS AND ASKED TO CURE A SAGAMORES DAUGHTER WHO IS PAST HELP HEY\WARD MUTTERS A PRAYER OVER THE DYING GIRL. »AN COMES IN , IER . OF PET { OF THE TRIBE, . THE REDSKIN 15 MAGUA ;HOME . FROM THE MUNT, MAGUA . INSTANTLY RECOGNIZES HEY- WARPD ~-THE YOUTH IS TDAPP&?! * THE DISTAFF SIDE OF THE HOUJSE - SoMETIMES THAT EXPRESSION 15 USEP IN SPEAKING COLLECTIVELY OF THE FEMALE MEMBERS OF A FAMILY., BEFORE SPINNING WHEELS WERE INVENTED, SPINNING WAS DONE SLOWLY AND LABORIOUSLY BY HAND WITH SPINDLE AND DISTAFF, THE LATTER BEING THE STICK ON WHICH THE FLAX OR WOOL TO BE SPU wAr Qow Tets B SINCE SPINNING WAS SUCH ANT PAQT OF