New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 10, 1923, Page 10

RETRIBUTION b EDISON MARSHALL - mark of ignorance or \li-breeding, told you the island's na me, It fits it perfectly, it NEGIN HERE TODAY Ned Cornet goes on a \oyage to Northern Canada and Alaska to ex change silk and velvet gowns with the Indian trappers for fine furs, | Nod Ned Is accompanied by his fiancee, | "Mr Lenore Hardenworth, and the latter's| Chilled through—one of them is near mother, | to collapse from exposure Will you Pess Glibert, seamstress, and the |save that il iater and help me get captain's assistant, MeNab, are wop. |[them to a fire? ried hecause Captain Knutzen is im-| 1or all the creeping terror that was Libing too freely of liquor, Together | POSSERSINE his ¥ Ned made & they. steal Into Ned's cabin and con- | rAve effort {0 hold hi voice steady fiscate his remaining stock. When | The man looked down at him, his Ned Ands the liquor gone he blames | !ID curling, “Pardon my negligence.” Bess for the theit and she confesses. he replied easily, "Of course she The craft runs into a heavy nlll.-llnl'.'l used ‘to the cold yet——but that and is shipwrecked, Two life-boats | W!!! come in time,” He howed slight- are lowered and in one captain to the shivering girl on the shore, Knutzen, Ned, Lenore and Hess| It you follow my tracks up in the After many hours the captain sights | Wood, you'll find my shack—and land, ' Pess bears up bravely, but|there's a fine in the stove. Lenore seems almost unable to bear d bent, selzed an the hardships, ts from the bhoat, ore's side, “I'he you, Miss Gillbert straightened, white-faced, Doomsdorf, these girls dve is 1y armful of then stepped captain will he said to NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY | help With the waves and the wind be- hind them, Knutsen saw the gray < line that was the istand slowly k | strengthen, ‘The time came at Inst when his weaker arms were shot through with burning pain, that Ned could also make it out. It was stil weary miles away, And there was still the dreadful prohability-——three chances out of four—that it was un- inhabited by human heings, Soon the island bezan to take shape, revealing itself as of medium size in comparison with many of the islands % of Bering Sea, yet wscemingly large # | enough to support a kingdom, The canoe pushed farther harbor. But at that instant who had sat so quiet that her companions had thought her asleep, uttered a low cry. For all its subducd tone, its living note of hope and amazement cansed ‘both men to turn to her. Her whitc face was lifted, her hiue eyes shining, and she was pointing to the fringe of | 2 | timber at the end of the trail in the snow. “What is it?” she asked tone. “Isn't it a man?" Her keen eyes haj beheld what Knutsen's had missed—a dark form half in shadow against the edge of the scrub timber. For all that it was less than a auarter of a mile distant. both men had to strain to make it out. The explanation lay partly in| the depths of the surrounding | shadows; partly in the fact that the form was absolutely without motion. Knutsen drove his oars with added into the \ 51| Vi 1M SHOT CRACKED OVER THE e Then ne and the golden-haired gir! he loved started together through | the six-inch snowfall toward the woods. Bess, stricken and appalled, {but’ yet not Knowing which way to turn, took the trail behind them. t Knutsen still waited on the shore, | Leside the hoat. Doomsdorf, incredible to Ned and ! Bess, was wholly plausible to him. force into the water. The boat|He feared him to the depths of his leaped forward: in a moment mor:‘\ heart, yet in some measure, at least, | they touched the hank. |these three were in his charge, and | Their deliverer, a great blond man|if worst came to worst, he must ceemingly of Northeastern Europe, Stand between them and this island | was already at the water's edge|fevil with his own life. He had| watching them with a strange and in-|*faved on the shore after the others explicable glitter in gray, sardonic had gone so that he might find out eves. He was a ‘mighty, hearded |the truth. | man, clothed in furs; already he was| He was uot Jong in learning. bent, his hands on the bow of the Through some innate, vague, almost boat. Already Ned was climbing out iuéxplicable desire to shelter his three upon the shore. charges and to spare them the truth, © Partly to remove he wanted to wait until all three of the &illy dismay | 0 that had overwhetmed him, partiy be- | them had disappeared in the wood; Le- cause it was the firet thought that|but even this was denied him, would come to the mind of a way-|hore and Ned, it is true, had already faret of the sea. Knutsen turned with | Vanished into the patch of forest; but 2 question. “What island is dis?" he | Bess seemed to be walking- slowly, asked. waiting for him. Doomsdorf was The*stranger turned with a grim, [ bent. now, unloading the stores and meaning smile. “Hell," he answered | rfémaining blankets froin the canoe; simply. lut suddenly, with one motion, he Both Ned and Knufsen stood erect|Showed Knutsen where he stood, to ‘stare at him. The wind made| With one great lurch of his shoul- curious whispers down through the|ders he turned over the empty boat long slit of the river valley. “Hell and shoved it off into the sea. The Knutsen echoed, ‘Is dat its name first wave, cnh‘hinz it, drove it out “It's the name [ gave it YuuH‘OY reach. “You won't need that think it's that hefore you get away."|&gain,” he said. . X1, With & half-utteréd,- sobbing. gasp The stranger's voice was deep and|that no man had heard from his lips full, so far-carrying, so masterful, | before, Knutsen sprang to rescue it. that it might have been the articula-| In an instant he had seized it, and tion of the raw elements among which | standing hip-deep in the icy water, he lived, rather than the utterance of | he turned to face the blond man on human voca! chords, | the shore. The latter roared once His accent was plainly not that of With savage mirth, a sound that car- an American. He had not been horn | ried far abroad the snowy desola- to thc English tongue; very plam!)iflfln: then he sobered, watching with he ‘had learned it, thoroughly and la- | glittering eyes. i Loriousiy. | ” He was dressed from head to foot SE s in furs and skine of the most rare| and beautiful kinds. His jacket and | trousers seemed to be of lynx, his cap was unmistakably silver fox. The blond hair grew In a great mat about his lips and jowls. His nose was straight, his eyehrows heavy, ali his features remarkably even and well-proportioned. Tt none of thesc Jesser features could he noticed be- cause of the compelling attraction of his gray, vivid eyes. “Pardon me for not making my- eélf _known sooner,” he began in his! deep, sardonic voice. “My name fs| Deomsdorf—trapper, and seeming'y | owner of this island. At least I'm | the only living man on it, except| ‘yourselves." His speech. though ~eareless and queerly accented, had no ‘The simplest way.to end a corn is Blue-jay. Stops the pain in- stantly. Then the corn loosens and comes out. Made in clear liquid and in thin plasters. The action is the same. At your druggist Welcome to | | flashed out and up. | the bhonds thatheld | behind usual, correct fit and hang of your gowns and waists by using thissnap fastener that willnot cut the thread or wear nd ?m Yetitholds 10¢ for a dozen, at all notion counte THE AUTOYRE CO, OAKVILLE, CONN, ““It Stays Sewed!”’ “Let it go,"” he ordered simply, His right arm lifted slowly as If In fradvertence, and rested almost limp | across his breast, His blond beard { hid the contenmiptuous curl of his lips, Knutsen's hand moved toward his | hip, In the days of the gun fights, in the old North, it had never moved more swiftly, In this second of need | I'he had remembered it too late, And | his great hand, though fast, was in- | finitely slow, The great arm that lay | ncross Doormsdorf's breast uuddvnl)‘ The blue steel of a revolver barrel streaked in the air, and a shot cracked over the sea. Knutsen was already loosed from him, Deliver- ance had come quickly. His face, black before with wrath, grew blan and for a long instant he groped I potently, open hands reaching. But the lead had gone straight home; and | there was no need of a second shot. The late captain of the Charon | swayed, then pitched forward into the ] X1v. Bess had followed the trail through the snow clear to the dark edge of | gray waters, | the weods when the sound of voices | her caused her to turn. Neither Doomsdorf nor Knutsen had spoken loudly, Indeed, their tones had been more subdued than as is often the way when men speak in moments of absolute. test, Bess had not made out the words: enly the deep silence and the move- ments of the wind from the sea en- | abled her to hear the voices at all Thus it ‘was curious that she whirled, | face blanching, in knowledge of the | impending crisis. | Thereaftér the drama on the shore |seemed to her as something that could not possibly be true. Except for the fact that Dooms- dorf stood alone on the - shore, it might have been all the factless inci- dent of a tragic dream. ‘ Slowly she stiffened, rallying her faculties, fighting off the apathy of| | terror. Presently her whole con-; eciousness seemed to sharpen. 1In an instant of clear thought she guessed, broadly, the truth of that tragedy be- | side the sea; that Knutsen had died in a desperate attempt to break free from an unspeakable trap into which he and his charges had fallen. It means she must work quick. She must not lose a single chance. The odds were desperately long al- ready: she must not increase In an instant more Deomsdorf would he glancing about to see if his crime were observed. If she could conceal the fact that she had witnessed it, h would not be so much on guard in tlie moment of crisis that was to come, Her body and soul seemed to rally to mighty effort. 8he was already at the edge of the tinfber. Stooping down, she made cne leap into its sheiter. 8he was none too soon: already Doomsdorf | had looked back to see if the coast | were clear. - Everything depended on Ned hence- forth. She couldn’t work Monl‘.‘ With his aid, perhaps, they could de- | [stroy this evil power under which |they had fallen before it could pre- | | pare to meet them. Doomsdorf’s | cabin—a long, log structure on the I hank of a dark little ‘stream—was only a hundred feet distant in the | wood. Now that she was out of| sight of the shore, she broke into a frenzied run, | | | | (Continued in Our Next Issue) Thousands regain and retain bounding health this way. Very Simple. Read how reasonable —a FREE book. Call for it. $ALESMAN $AM Say “Bayer” and Insist! DICKINSON DRUG €0, nsure the N | | Lattie F.!plmny |by E, | wBz |reader, and the WBZ Trio, | “America’s First Fast Mail.” them. | © ' MARRIED ON HER BIRTHDAY Miss Helon Gawelel Bride of Francls Swider at Sacred Heart Ohurche Large Reception Follows. 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