New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 12, 1922, Page 11

HE WSHOE TRAIL Ti SNOW. N EDISON MARSHALL (Little, Brown & C (Continued From Last Issue), The same rifle shots that brought bad: dreams to Bill had a much more lucid meaning for Joe Robinson and Pete the Breed, the two Indlans that were occupying Harold's cabin, “Four shots,” Pete sald at “Lounsbury's signal.” “That means—big doin's,” Joé pro- nounced gravely. “We go." Then they put on their snowshoes and mushed away. There was no nervous waiting at the appointed meeting place—a spring & half-mile from Bill's cabin. Harold Lounsbury was already there. A stranger to this land might have thought that Harold was drunk. Un- familiar little fires glittered and glowed in his eyes, his features were drawn. The breeds walted him to speak. “Where's Sindy?"” he asked at last, “‘Over Buckshot Dan's—just where you said,” Joe replied. “Of course Buckshot took her back?' The Indians ndded. “Well, I'm going to let him keep her. I've pgot a white squaw now—and soon I'm going out with her to the Outside, But there's things to do first. Bill has found the mine.” The others nodded gravely. “And Bill {s as blind as a mole— got caught in a cabin full of green- wood smoke. He'll be able to see again in a day or two. 8o I sent for you right away.” The breeds nodded again, less phlegmatically “The mine's worth millions—more money than you candream of. Each of you get a sixth-—one-third qivided betweeh you. As soon as we'Se fin- ished what I've planned, we'll tear down his claim notices and put up our own, then go down to the recorder and record the claim,” Harold went on. “Then it's ours. No one will ever gues No one’ll make any trouble. “Both of you are to come to the cabin, just about dark. You'll tell me you have been over Bald Peak way and are hitting back toward the Yuga village. “Bring along a quart maybe two quarts would be better. And sometime in the early evening give Bill what's coming to him."” “Do him off—?" Joe asked stolidly. “Make it look like a fight,” Harold went on. “Insult him—better still, get in a quarrel among themselves. He'll tell you to shut up, and one of you flame up at him. Then strike the life out of him before he knows what he’s about. He's blind and he can't fight.” & “What you want us to use?” Pete asked. “This?’ He indicated the thin blade at his thigh” ‘“Maybe use rifle?” Harold’s eyes looked drowsy when he answered.” Something like a lust swept over him; this question of Pete's moyed him in dark and evil ways... His father's blood was fn the full.ascendancy at last. “There's an old pick in the cabin— Bill had it prospecting,” he said. XXIII. Bill's eyes were considerably better when he wakened—full in the day- light. The warm wet cloths had taken part of the inflammation out of * them, and when he strained to open the lids, he was aware of a little, dim gleam of light. He couldn’t make out objects, how- ever, and except for a fleeting sha- dow he could not discern the hand that he swept before his face. Sev- eral days and perhaps weeks would pass before the full strength of his sight returned. His greatest hope at present was that he could grope his way about the cabin and build a fire for Virginia. Building /the fire, however, was & grievous task. He felt it #ncumbent upon him to move with utmost cau- tion so that Virginla would not waken. By groping about the walls he encountered the stove. Feeling told him that hot ' were still growing in the ashes. vhe fumbled about the floor for fuel as Harold had provided. He found a plece at last, and soon a cheery crackle told him that it had ignited. He grinned with delight. But his joy was a trifle premature. At that instant he tripped over a plece of firewood and his hands crashed agalnst the logs. “Oh, blast my clumsiness he whispered. Virginia stirred behind her curtain. “Is that you, Harold?" she asked. She was wide awake. “No. It's BlIL” “Well, what are you doing up? Did Harold—do you mean to sa§ you built the fire yourself?” “That's me, lady—" “Then you must have your sight again—" The girl snatched aside the curtain and peered into his face. “No such luck. Coals were still glowing; all I had to do was to put in | a plece of firewood. But I'm all well otherwise, as far as I can tell. How about you?” The girl. stretched up her arms. “A littlé stift—and now—I want you to tell me just hew this blindness of yours—is going to affect our getting out.” It was a serfous question. “I don see how it can affect us a great deal he answered. *I realize you don't | know one step of the way down to Bradleyburg, and I can't see the way; but Harold knows it perfectly.” As If the invocation of his name were a maglc summons, Harold opened the door and entered. He car- | ried Bill's loud-mouthed rifle in the [ hollow of his arm. “You've been hunting?” cried. . “Of course. 1 figured we needed | meat. I carried Bill's rifie because T don’t trust the siwhts of mine. They were a yard off that day I shot at the | saribou.’” | “Dia you see any game?” Harold’'s eyes met hets and nar- last, patiently for a trifle of ® booze— coals Then such Virginia FO X’ - STARTING “JUST AROUND ? .|found Harold. .| replied, genially. nd N. E. A Bervice) rowed, ever so slightly, 'But his an- swer was apt, "l saw a caribou- about two miles away. There didn't Seem a chance in the world to hit it, but considering our scarcity ot meat, I took that chance, Of course, I Aldn't hit within ten feet of him; Bill's' gun lan't bullt for such long ranges. I shot—four times," BiIl did not reply, He was thinking about those same four shots. It was incomprehensible that they should :m\'o made such an impression upon him, “And for all.that Bill hasn't got his slght back yet, we're going to start down tomorrow,” Virginia went on in a gay volce. She glanced once at Bill, but she did not see the world of despalr that came into his face at the delight with which she spoke, “You and I will take turns pulling the sled; Bill will hang on to the gee- pole, And BIIl says you know the way. We're going to dash right through—camp out only two nights.” That afternoon both Bill and Vir- ginia started with amazement at the sound of tapping knuckles on the door. Harold's eyes were gleaming. XXI1v Harold saw fit to answer the door himself He threw it wide open; Vir- ginla's startled glance could just make out two swarthy faces, singularly dark and unprepossessing. “We—we mushin’ over to Yuga— been over Bald Peak way,” Joe said stumblingly. “Didn't know no one was here, Want a bunk here to- night."” “You've got your own hlankets?" “Yes. We got blankets.” “On your way home, eh? Well, I'll have to ask this lady.” Harold seemed strangely nervous as he turned to Virginia. “A couple of Indians, going home toward the settlement on the Yuga,” he explained quickly. A “They've come from over toward Bald Peak and were counting on putting up here, to- night. That's the woods custom, you know-—to stay at anybody's cabin. Do you think we can put 'em up?” “Gpod heavens, we can’t send theni on, on a night like this. It is awk- ward, though—about food—" “They've likely got their own food.” “'Of course they can stay. Bill can sleep on the floor in here—you can take the two of them with you into the little cabin. It will be pretty tight work, but we can't do anything else. Bring them in.” Hhrold turned again to the door, and in a moment the Indians strode, blinking, into the candlelight. Virginia shot them a swift glance and was instinctively repelled: but at once she ascribed the evil savagery of their faces to racial traits. Bill, sitting against the cabin wall, tried to make sense out of a con- fused jumble. of thoughts and im- pressions and memeories that flooded in one _wave to his gnind. e had assumed af once that the ftwo breeds were Joe and Pete, whom he had encountered when he first Why, then, had the latter made no sign of recognition? He resolved® to know the truth. “It's Joe and Pete, lsn't it?” asked abruptly in the silence. “Pete—Joe?" Joe answered at last, in a bewildered tone. ‘“Don’t know 'em. I'm Wolfpaw Black—he's Jim- my—Jimmy DuBois.” he } Except for a little lingering uneasi- ness, Bill was satisfied. Vitginia went on with her supper preparations, and at last the three of them drew chairs around their crude little table. The two breeds took their lunch from their packs and munched it, sit- ting beside the stove. All at once Joe grunted in the still- ness, and all except Bill whirled to look at him. He went to his pack and fumbled among the blankets. Then, a greedy light in his eyes, he put two dark bottles upon the table. * Virginia was suddenly deeply afrald. She looked at Bill, forgetting for the moment that in his blindness he could not see what was occurring and that in his helplessness she could not depend upon him in a crisis. She turned to Harold, hoping that he would refuse this offering at a word. And her fear increased when she saw the craving on his face. “Have a drink!” Joe invited. Bill started then, but he made no response. Harold moved toward the table. “You're a life-saver, Wolfpaw,” he “It's a cold night, and I don't care if I do. Virginia, pass down the aups.” (Continued in Our Next Issue). WHEN IT I8 SHELLFISH YOU WANT THEN IT 18 HONISS’S TO VISIT 20-30 State Street Hartford Telephone 3374—3375 S SNDAY THE - CORNER” BY FANNY HURST—AUTHOR OF “HUMORESQUE" NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 1022 COLLEGE STUDENTS EVER INCHEASING Thirty-Five l;er Cent. 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