Evening Star Newspaper, April 27, 1926, Page 30

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. Do You Know— That competent instructors will teach you how to make artistic lamp shades. No charge if materials are pur- | was wrapy und the leather case. | On it Iay a note, which read: the morning of the ftirst Wednesday in June, not so long ago, a tall man, g and ervect but otherwiss one 1d he kind, @ good deal of, vipt, stood i the doorway of whing one of the innumerable | \iberta. Close to his feet reposed a lurge, woolly dog minzly relaxed slumber, cars cocked and eves wide an, dog and hu in keeping. Utility, their dominant note » rough hewn but well “ther The man, dressed in a anvas shivt, with sleeves well nd trouser ends tucked wse fitting boots h ain | i and hut sxion that each \nemer wilderness else than course, appeiarances are oiten deceptive. The spacious une. led into a small couple of bunks, « smoother which formed the tloor, hin seemed Lo b ALLY three clumsy ch an ove and a litter of g cle, cook- say, for three-quarters the area covered by the low roof- the place was a_hranch store esta ished by the Hudson Ba ption of pe s from f h and west « country where existence was almost phenomenally difficult The man, who looked to be 40 years | of age, was actually under 30 He might own a W iped head and | regular, clean-cut features: if he pos- ing attributes, | of untidy hair and a three d stubble on cheks and chin | concealed them. ‘The dog, owing to his thick (‘u:«!,i suggested obesity, wh as he was actually a lean hound of wiry muscles anine intelligen | as nature herself llmt wore | the most misleading mask. On that | fine morning Moose Lake was a mir yor of burnished silver set in A frame of golden brown rock, white sand and A wealth of v but which liter he rain- | fitting description—for Summer is short and Winter is lon the far North. Not even the Indians, born and bred to polar cold, rd | Moose Lake as a health resort October. Yet there were not lacking | definite signs of continuous human habitation. The uneven floor showed a worn track from the nce and around the table. On a shelf were a few books, lop-eared by much use. A Shakespeare, in purticular, w hroken-backed and positively grubb In rear of the main building were two | sreat plles of sawed wood. Close Lo These, stoutly constructed, with pad locked doors, was a small hut, obvi- | 1y designed to hold a stock of dried | and pemmican, the frozen and fat- protected flesh of aniy ind birds, which in its allotted se: as to be cut out with an ax befo! boiled into an excellent stew effe some one lived t round. Those w amenities of Moos months of the y enlightenment wherefore e «‘anadlan mo g ymlul unduly inquisitive. ny poor devil chose to leave the outer world and dig In there—well, let him | The present tenant did not seem sreatly worried by his lot. He had sted and was rolling some o between the of his s when his clear blue eyes—eyes which at most times conveyed a hint of wistfulness «h overed a small black speck 3§ way at the | northwent end of the lake. The silver changed to blue t owing to the shadow cast by a great hill, on whose northern upper slopes the Snow neve melted. The log hut occupied a clear ing on a southwesterly spur which thrust a wooded bluff well out into the center of the lake. It admirably sitnated S purpose near the water, protected from the full fury of *the worst perched high enough to uive a w view of the two only 1 le lines of approach, that fr the south, rep 0 2 other the immeasurable said the man aloud, | must be Joe and his sh, three the fine weather, of course. I'l just be able to have a scrape before | they turn up.” In justice to the unshaven one, i should be explained here that ail the seven razors he kept in a leather case marked twith the days of the week had gone ou: of service about the same time. Ile sent themn to Peace River Landing, 80 miles av friendly Indian, about the middle of May, and thes been roturned at a ate hour the previous night. The dog inse. It was not his bu: ness to deteit canoes at the Lop o the i of schedule. | lake. But he could see, smell or hear # timber wolf when other huskies would be engaged in the innocent and healthful pactime of ca .un‘ng fleas. | ile not only kflew that and a Siwash el when a kettle tiited some of its con. tents into a tin cup. He was inter. ested in the shaving operations, too. | \ smooth cheek was nicer to lick | than a bristly one, “The razors were packed in a piece | of soft hide, corded in such manner | that ne water could penetrate in the | rvent of a canoe upsetting. An | I'nglish newspaper, one of the really | “Dear Jim: Sorry 1 haven't a s You must get one from Ed- ni I enclose a copy of the Over- il, just to hand. There's a photo in it of a guy just like you. Yours till hell “Geo ;.0 MacDonald." “Gac 3 rge,” Jim told the entially. wonder who the guy > is? Poor bliszhter : the resemblance is only =kin deep. Ile threw the paper on the table and began a v i lathering. The first razor he tried was in the pink of condition, and in three minutes he looked a different man. Taking a pair of scissors from a bos and grab- bin: wall mirror off the window sheli, he went outside and cut his hair ather skilltully. By this time the canioe was less than a mile away. le fud vet w few ininutes in which to clance through the newspaper before strolling down to the rock which would e the newcomers as a land ins stag The pictur rning which that “good old scout, " had written was soon found " . ed, it ohker . v n nature n's blue eyes theit wistfulness and blazed ‘in BE FORTY YEARS OF AGE, DER THIRTY. stantily into a fury that was worse | than voleanic, being glacially vindic- | were glowering at & pie- very pretty girl and two istocratic, the younger and rather stout. were posed in front of a| \tining old stone porch. The p(\r-l ¢ of another quite a young- . this—was inclosed in an oval | ih blocked out part of the back- sround. Beneath ran a couple of ex ! planatory lines: | Mr. Alistair Spenser Panton and his fixncee, Miss Eileen Grant, with Lord | Oban at Inverlochtie. (Inset)—The Hon, John Bridgnorth Panton, whose | nned by the courts, | ¢ little Eileen—marrying that Asp!” muttered the man named ,” who, nevertheless, was remark- like the Hon John Bridgngrth anton, or must have been Lkg him some five or ears earller. “Then es softened. little kid!” he murmured “How in God’s name has this wretched business come about? Well, let's see page eight.’ (Copyright. 1 Louis Tracy.) morrow | BLIND MAN IS HELD ‘ AS ROBBER'S DIRECTOR| | Woman Says He Ordered Thres tuy Take $3,500 in Jewelry From Her. ated Press. s h / YORK, April 27.—Harry Silverman, 48-year-old blind news dealer, was held without bail yester- day after Mrs. Harriet Sakin had charged that she was robbed by men acting under his direction. 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