New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 4, 1922, Page 3

Discontinued Patterns Of Celebrated WHITTALL RUGS In All Grades And In All Sizes THE SNOWSHOE TRAIL | B Y. EDISON MARSHALL (Little, Brown & Co. TODAY Bill Bronson guides Virginia Tremont and her flance's uicle thieir quest in the Canada for Vi hury, who v ously. the dered | Kenly on them. many 1 to his trapi Lounsbury and V. the other side of In the cabin Bill and Virginia cemforts, GO ON WITH THE STORY Virginia smiled and fished in the pockets of the great slicker coat she had worn the night of the disaster. She produced a little white roll, and with high glee opened it for him to see. Wrapped in a miniature face towel was her comb, a small brush, and a toothbrush! Bill then -walked, with some tri- umph, to the bunk on which Virginia had slept the night before, and lift- ing it up, fevealed a great box be- neath—bags of rice and beans, dried apples, marmalade and canned goods, enough for some.weeks at least. “The one thing we haven't got is meat,” Bill told her, xcept a little jerky; but there's plenty of that in the woods if we can just find it. And| 1 don't intend to delay about that. if | the snow gets much deeper, we'd have to have snowshows to hunt at all.” “You mean—go hunting today?" we can stir up a meal.” v, they ventured out tes. Bill walked in front, breaking t He carried the ancient rifle ready in his hands. He earnestly hoped that they might run into game at once. Later the moose would go to their winter feed- ing grounds, far down the Every day they delayed, their chance of procuring meat was 1 He led her over the ridge to the marshy shores of Gray Lake. They ited in the shadow of the spruce. “Don’t make any needless motions," he cautioned, “and don't speak aloud. They've got eyes and ears like hawks."” It was not easy to stand still, in the snow and cold, waiting for game to appear. Virginia was uncomfort- able within half an hour, shivering| and tired. 1t was a long wait that they had beside the lake. Then the girl felt his hand on her arm. “Be still,” he whispered. “Here he comes.” Although she had never seen such an animal before, at once she recog- nized its kind. The spreading horns, the great frame, the long, grotesque nose belonged only to the moose—the greatest of American wild animals. At the roar of the rifle she cried out in excitement. The old bull had traversed the marshes for the last time. bing . bl irt tind Wi V. The shoulder of a bull moose \\':lsi never a load for a weak back. " Bill skinned out the quarter with great care; then, stooping, worked it on his back. Virginia took his gun! and led the way back over their snow | trail. Twilight had fallen again when they made the cabin. Bill showed her how to broil the| steak in its own fat, and he cooked hot biscults and macaroni to go with it. No meal of her life had ever given her greater pleasure. After- ward he lighted his pipe. “It's strange that 1 don’t want to smoke myself,” the girl told him. “you? Why should you?" “I smoke at home. 1 mean I did. It's getting to be the thing to do| among the girls T know. Somewa the thought of it doesn't scem inter- esting any more.” He had an impression that she was wpeaking very softly. But he under- stood when she paused. He was heights. | and N. E, A, Service) AAAAAAAAAAAAA and key of the changed. “The north wind,” Bill said simply. Virginia's eyes grew wide. “What does it mean?” she breathlessly. “Winter. The northern winter. I've seen it break too many times. There's no chance for doubt any more. Per- haps we can drown out the sound of it—with music.” He walked toward the battered in- strument. Her heart was cold with- in her, and she nodded eagerly. “Y —a little ragtime.” “I haven't any ragtime,” the man explained humbly. “I could only bring up a few records, and so I took just the ones I liked best. They're simple things—I'm sorry I haven't any more."” She looked at this man with grow- ing wonder. | He put on a record. She recognized | the melody at once. It was Drdla's | “Souvenir'—and the first notes seemed to sweep her into infinity, | It was a moment of enchantment, The music rose high, fell in soaring leaps, trembled in infinite appeal, and slowly died away. Outside the storm | increased in fury. | And it was well for her peace mind that she did not glance at He was watching the girl's face, his eyes wistful as no human heing had | ever seen them. | The soaring notes, with the dread- ful accompaniment of the storm, had brought home-a truth he had tried to deny. “I love you, Virginia,” ecried the inaudible voice of his soul. *Oh, Virginia—TI love you, I love you." VI. was one of Bill Bronson's basic | creeds to look his situation squarely | in the face. He had tried to avoid a| truth that ever grew clearer and more | manifest—Ahis love for Virginia ] He had told himself he wouldn't) give his love to her. He would hold that back, at least. He had reminded | himself of the bridgcless gap that separated them. But there was no | use of trying further. In the stress land passion of the melody he had | found out the truth. But if he couldn’t keep this knowl- edge from himself, at least he could hold it from the girl. It would only bring her unhappiness. It would de stroy the feeling of comradeship for him that he had hegun to observe in her. It would put an insurmount- able wall between them. night had vaguely | asked, of | Bill. | Tt no suspicion of his thoughts. She was still enthralled by the after-image of the music. But goon the noise of the storm began to force itself into her conscionsness. Vaguely she knew that this night was different from the others. The two previous nights she had been ill and half-unconscious; her very help- sness appealed to Bill's chivalry. onight she stood on her own feet She was suddenly face to face with the fact that the night stretched be- fore her—and she in a snowswept cabin in the full power of a strange Virginia had man. But all at once she looked up to find Bill's eyes upon her, full of sym- | pathy and understanding. ou'll want to turn in now,” he told her. “You take/the bunk agaln, of cours I'll sleep of the floor. I'm | comfortable there. And now I've got to fix your boudoir.” He took one of the s that gerved as a chair and stood it up on the floor, just in front of her bunk. Then, holding one of the blankets in his arm and a few nails in his hand, he climbed upon the box. She under- stood in an instant. He was curtain- ing off the entire end of the cabin where Virginia slept. The girl's relief showed in her face, hoxe atartlad tn lnd that the whole tone “You can go in there now,” he told S [to sleep with it | teach VEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, A i her. *But there's one thing—I want| Virginia to show you—before’ you turn in.” “I want to show you this little pis- tol.” He took a light arm of steel from his belt—the small bered and automatic weapon which he had killed the grouse, “It's|of it hung ju only a twenty-two,” Bill went on, “'but [one of the g it shoots a long and shoots ten of 'em, f you pull the | the cabin. trigger, You could kill it, it you hit him right.” “Yes?" And curious interlude parting. “You see this little cateh behind the | his reading. trigger guard?”’ The girl nodded.| Other eveni “When you want to fire it, ail youlore, the wa have to do is to push up the littie catch with your thumb and pull trigger. Tomorrow I'm going to“teach | vou how to shoot with it—I mean shoot straight enough to take the head off a grouse twenty feet, And 5o it will bring you luck, I want you | under your pillow."” | flashed through he iteful smile playe Bil “You cali- | in their moment of [ surp (Ce Understanding and a slow, her lips. “I don’t want it, told him “You'd feel safer with it,”” the man urged. He slipped it under her pil- low. “And even before you learn to shoot it well—you could—if you had to—shoot and kill a man.” He smiled again and drew her cur- tain. Bill Sent There West to his promise to to shoot. The next target practice. . While Virginia cooked lunch, Bill cut young spruce trees and made a sled; and after the meal pushed out through the whirling snow to bring| in the remainder of the moose meat. | It was the work of the whole aft- ernoon to urge the sled up the ridge and then draw it home through the drifts. was true Virginia fay they Nad ty instead of movement Judge Joe T. organizations. organized u was lonely all the time Bill was absent. can call want to,” she told him. blue |are silly out here.” Bill looked h with | helped him pre outs at it [in a spruce tree, fifty feet in front of The skin was fleshed and caribou with [ hung up behind the stove to dry. | “It's going to furnish the web for she wondered at this|our snowshoes,”” he explained. In their talk that evening she was ised to learn how s of the that he observed, the | he illustrated his points from lif nued in Our Next Issue). SCHOOL SENTENCES BEING GIVEN BOYS For Infractions Of Law Instead Of To Jails As Has Been Palm Beach, Tlliterate boys and girls under the age of twenty-one who are brought into municipal court here in future will be sentenced to the school of opportuni- jail launched Barman, paper publisher and editor, and back- od by the Rotary club and other civic The school of opportunity has been along ial public school with a board of three trustees consisting WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4, 192, . - ARCONRD A NN }Qf;‘é'ro\{, b 7 N o AN P : Log! Discontinued Patterns Of Whittall’s and depressed me Virginia, if you “Last names gratitude, and she the meat. Some le the cabin door; ams was suspended full had been he told her Nature Hving creatures and in the daytime T !HNORAMA TALMADGE .in “GHOSTS OF YESTE TOMORROW, FRIDAY AND SATURD. ANGLO PERSIANS, ROYAL WORCESTERS, TEPRAC WILTONS, PEERLESS BRUSSELS At Genuine Big Reductions TO ADDRESS BIBLE CLASS, Dr. A. B. Moss of New York will address the KEveryman's New Britain, Sunday, Rev. Dr. Moss will be 'in this city in attendance at the win- ter institute of t#e Epworth league and has accepted -an invitation to speak to tF class. Dr. Moss is as- sistant secretary of the board of for- eign missions, of the Methodist church, 4 Rev. city, Bible cl of January | Pl S i SEW FOR HOSPITAL. | The Woman's Aid of the IYirst Bap~ |tist church is holding a business meeting this afternoon. Various are ticles will be made for the New Brit- ain General hospital. IR A RDAY ‘A Selznick Pirture ThisORIGINAL Malkedi Milk Sy AY AT FOX'S will not classes of t young wom to 6:30 p. m to 9:30 p. Earman, City Manager Carl Riddle cor and Chief of Police Frank Matthews. Business men have offered to provide suitable clothing for students who otherwise might feel embarrassment hecause of their attire and Judge Earman has taken it upon himself to provide texthooks, having placed an order for $500 worth of readers, arithmetics, spelling and writing hooks, to which subjects the course of study will be confined. The youngsters sentenced to school will become members of cial classes and will be instructed by a teacher employed by the city school | hoard. Classes will be held in the city school building at hours which Done Fla., Jan. 4.-— In order have individ will be and wh their way t as the result of a by Municipal former news- n hook, a they will the ceremor the ik spe- the lines of the of Judge —advt. m, limited to second iflict with the regular he school, the gitls and " - NOCOOKING en to attend from 3:30| The "Food-Drink" for All Ages. ., and the boys from 6:30 | Quick Lunch at Home, Office,and Fountains. Ask for HORLICK'S. ge5-Avoid Imitations & Substitutes - the instruction, twenty membe the pupils have work hrough a simple spelling | reader and fractions | iiplomas with ail to a high| students may classes that ual given ny incident school commencement. Best butter 59¢ Ib. Russell Bros.' DOINGS OF THE DUFFS TOM, GO CALL OLIVIA AND SEE |F YOoU CAN PERSULADE HER To EAT SOMETHING -~ SHE’LL BE SICK NEXT- [T WHY, HASN'T SHE BEEN EATING ToDAY P Not Eating Is Some Task SHE HASN'T EATEN A THING SINCE NEW YEAR'S-SHE SAYS SHE'S DIETING To REDUCE = CANYOU BEAT 1T ? SHE GETS MORE BUG IDEAS THAN ANYBODY | KNOW BOST = = R /‘4/7‘17 TAKES &MORE THAN ) WILLPOWER [ ~N @ @ FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS OH, MERELY TAKE WHATGHA A FEW LNER GONNA DO, OLIVIA CUT OUT THIS NONSENSE AND COME DOWN AND EAT SOMETHING - | ADMIRE YouR WILL POWER AND ALL THAT | HAVE TO WEAR THESE HANDCUFFS! s WHY,SWALLOW THEM , OF COURSE " HOW DO THOSE PILLS 7 WKNOW THAT You WANT 'EM T' 60 T' YoUR LINER AN' NOT T' YOUR