The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 31, 1922, Page 9

OF eS rir re. es owshoe Trail his face. siescended upon him wrists being drawn He struggied for cons tonic faces. The worst his Hite descended upon him do with mer” he asked. do with me? he asked. wayly, XXXIV the had been put and he was permitted packing, That won't go—I'll Virginia Hey ray i take : ? straight. that well. if : : a ‘did last a one that you will get you up at night also die” apable girl of “society and bard. speaking true. The @ozes into a river. | ted (Continued From Page 6) Then as unconsciousness Harold felt hin back and tied “Why, Harold. you are to be our truck horse,” Virginia replied | then,” as she banded Bt “You are going to pull the | ard show the way down more | jeft dawn came full over the Clearwater, Bill and were ready to start. When had been thoroly cowed and instructions given him, about @nkles and removed from his wrists to do procedure was § eeeding simple; ail available blankets | were piled on the sled and made fato a bed for Virginia, and @ie first,” “Besides, to use ferce on me; you know the way and Bill can't You know if you kill me you'll enough,” Virgtota replied | Uy.) “But take just this litte | of advice. Bill and I were all to dying when we thought we won't mind it now/ are going along! Up your hands a little, and are going to pull the sled camp at night you're co- the wood. Don't think minute I'm going to be afraid | if you disobey one order— | one step against at our mercy; we are not And Bill will tet) you I Perhaps you fact last night.” Harold had learned. He bad | you're trying to cheat us out of the way to breed friends—you're go- | @ chance to learn ‘went on, never a quaver “I won't wait to make M shoot you thru the neck easy and as quick as I'd shoot a I haven't forgotten night; I'm just eager @ chance to pay you for it” grew more sober. “This ing—the onty one and the I'm go to watch you every minute and And the fact! it we can’t co on without have a jot of influence if you 8 step against us. We may ourselves, but you know what “This was not the sheltered, that him now. These words were of the woodswoman; the eyes gazed into his were unwaver. He knew that she into you | that usness., Opening bis eyes, he saw their sar. terror of a » Could they win thru? Were they © know the hardship of the jou ney, starvation and bitter cold, only to find death ome still, enchant ed gion of the forest that atretohed in front? Was fate st ting with them, whispering hope only to shatter them with defeat? Were they to know hunger and exhaus tien, pain And travail, unti! finally their bodies dropped down and yielded to the cold? They could not keep up long without the inner fuel of food. Their chance of finding game seemed hopelessly small, even at firet. Before they reached the frozen river it seemed beyond the possibilities of mirac ven the tracks of the little people—such ferocious hunters marten and ermine—were gone from the snow There were no tracks of caribou or moose; the grouse had seemingly buried in the drifts. The only creatures that had not hidden away from the winter cold wore the wolves aad the coyotes, furtive peo ple that could not be coaxed into the range of Virginia's pistol. For ail her’ outward optimiam her heart grew heavy with despair They crossed the river, coming fout where the old moose trail had “My God, what are you going to! “My God, what are you going to an instant as and the his | the ex the you us it in ad. courage Fetaliation oozed out of him as ) They lengthened the thong that | st hie ankles together, giving bin) | passed; already the Spirits of Mer | dle of the sentence, gone down to the ford. Here they had seen the last of Kenly Louns bury and Vosper, ab t forgotten now. Virginia told Harold to stop she recalled those events of months before. “So much has happened since eo said. “It only they had Her words died away tn the mid and for a mo ment she mt gazing with wide and startied eyes. For all that sigh’ was juet beginning to return to him, Bill was strangely and unex plainably startled too, sensing the suspense indicated the girl's tones. Harold staring. He could not see what saw, at first. She pointed, unable to speak In @ littic thicket of young spruce there was a curiously shaped heap of snow, capped by a dome of snow that extended under the sheltering branches of a young tree. Instantly Harold understood. Some tong bundle had been left there before the snow came; when in Virginia it had been throwh down, {ts end had caught in the branches of a young tree where only a small amount of snow could reach it “See what it ts.” ‘The man drew Virginia ordered. the sled nearer and with desperate energy beean to knock away the snow. His first discovery was a linen tent-—one that would have been familiar {n- deed to Bill But digging further he found a heavy bundle, tied with & Tope and rattling curiously in hie arma. At Virginia's directions he laid tt in the snow and pulled the sled up where she could open ft. Bill stood beside her, not daring to guess the truth. “Oh, my 4Garling™ «he cried at last, drawing his head down to hers She couldn't may more, She could only laugh and sob, alternately, as might one whose dearest prayers had been granted The bundle was full of food— dried meat and canned goods and a small sack of flour. They were some of the supplies that to save himself the work of caring for, the faithless Vosper had discarded when, with Kenly, he had turned back from the river. At the end of three bitter days, Bill Bronson stood onee more on the hill that looked down upon the old mining camp. The twilicht was growing in the glen beneath, already it had cast shadows in Virginia's eyes. She sat beside him on the sled. It bad been ‘eruel hardship, the three days’ journey, but they had made it without mishap. At night they had built grent fires at the mouth of their tent, but they had not escaped the curse of the cold The daye had been arduons and long. But they had conquered: even now they were emerging from the dark fringe of the ‘spruce. Virginia was on the rapid road toward gecovery from her wound It had m severe; while she was lying still on the sled it had not had every chance to heal. A few! stitches by the doctor in Bradley burg, a thoro cleansing and ban laging, and a few more days in bed wou v erious conse quences, F ght had grown dily better as the da had probably | turned, | OUR BOARDING HOUS E / ASIO. ‘CHECK, EH? HOORAY FOR YOUR UNCLE, BUS !« Now YoU CAN PAY ME “TH’ Me ! Yos'RE ATURK Now = ALLA KASHA CHEK! * mM \ | j - w) | Gen j*prang up one and one over the | town. Bill bent, and the girt rained | aio stats wen oe on tel] | NUL can Go Bur | — | maid You re id —ar a’ tires ye | ‘You ONT TAKE ALL E, LET Him, | “Yes. 1 can’t belleve—tI'm saying | 4) THOSE TOYS WITH You- pep ve g00d-by to the spruce.” Pur “And you're uot, Vieginial” The THEM AWAY NOW: ‘To! man's voice was vibrant and joy AW, | WANNA “}—< *_ | “Well have to come tack TAKE'EM ALonG| Jotten, to oversee the running of the TO SHOW EM tw half of eve 7 least > " i we can stay at the ol cabin TO ESTER! just the same. The woods are beau | tiful in summer.” | “They're beautiful now." And they were, She told the truth. For ali their savagery, their fearful strength, their beauty couid not be den They ch spire, tall and ghostly in the twilight, and Bill's strong arms pressed the girt close. She understoo: and amie happily. “Of course, B she told him. “There is no need to watt In @ few days I'll be strong enough nd be tt de was decided 4 in the quai ‘They would . old town of Bradieyburg, in the shadow of the spruce They would return, these two. The North had claimed them—but had not mastered them—and they would come back to see again the caribou feeding tn the forest, the whirling snows, and the spruce | trees lifting their tall heads to the winter stars. They would know the old exultation, the Joy of com Miet; but no blustering storm or | wildefness voice could appal them | }now, In the security and harbor of their love, no 1 was k enough to chill them, no darknew appal their spirit The Norther H in the twilight sky. Far away a coyote howled disconsolately—a cry tha was the voice of the North itself. And the two kissed more and pushed on down to Bradieyburg (The End) WHAT THE FAIRIE | } i] t it | F ibe | The fairies pack bores with them and put them in the hat ADVENTURES OF THE TWINS Clive Roberts Barton THE GOSH SAKES *THIS GIFT CHECK FROM MY UNK AIT GONNA DO ME A TURN= You DUMS WOULD PUTTTH’ SIX WASHERS YowE}} BUZZ ON tT FoR WHAT L OWE You= CAN'T YWwarr aw LET ME SETTLE WITH YOU OUT OF MY OWN JACK, So L WONT HAVE “To DISTURB THIS DOINGS OF THE DUFFS L “WIS To ALEK ~UELL } \ RE SURDRISED How TCAN DRAW Qor TBuster GOTA CHECK FoR*I0,. — FROM HIS RICH UNCLE ==" ATTL TAR AHERN , q RY NAW BUS, T CANT WAC ANOTHER DAVY ON “TH’ FOUR LULUG You OWE ME « TLL GET tT CASHED FoR You DOWN KT “WW CIGAR STORE *I KNOW TW’ ROPES “THERE! PME LE LEP LD PEER PLE “ou! BO DIDNT SPRAIN WIS WRIST WRITING OUT"TH’ AMOUNT OF 'AT CHECK, DID WE BUS2= AINT HE THUNK YoU SAID WAS SO RICH HE USED ORIENTAL RUGS \N“TH' COAL BIN’? a —y a | O£. * | el By POTLATCH David looked at Peggy Perry looked David; David gave Perry a little punch | and Peggy seemed to understand | | that he wanted her to ask Mrs./ Martha a question, | *Thut most times when Seattle | was very little, the children did not be afraid of the Indiana, did . Mra. Martha?” 1 “We were not afraid of the In dian children,” Mra. Martha told and at then | for she said: | the r Qrattle abe ) Page 587 BY STANLEY WB Ory ye (F) HALF MAN HALF MOKENA 7S MA ¢ THE OLD HOME TOWN Row toc Be Ll Kc ll f - i AS ANIMALS \\ 7 & RARE’ 7 BIRDS bg - =: | DONT CAREY WHERE YOU KETCHED IT-)Z THERE AINT NO \7""" SUCH ANIMAL!! 7 | A vat & . J POP WITHERSBEE ATTENDED “THE FAMODS = HIGGINBOT TOM ANIMAL SHOW LAST AIGHT. = COMING HOME {4-77 — GF oc {T CAME OUT OF WIS DENCIL~ T Saw (T come! I OREW 'T OUT OB MY | OWN HEAD } EVERETT TRUE = ——+ —— WILL You DO THAT, Georae £ —— THATS eine! Fine? veer wen. ALG RIGHTY! % Po IO Accu Ricuty— ike DOr: * IN SRATTLE wood for thelr great fire, and we saw them coming, coming in twos and threes and foyrs in their canoes with crude s “And at Inst the day of the pot- latch came. “Night came, and the party be A. came wilder as darkness fell. We ator the brow of the hill and wat The fire burmd and crackled, Indiang sat silent about it, their knees drawn up, their dark eyes brooding. India with folded across (Ul GOOD NIGHTY and watched ote ns danced with slow crouching and leaping, raping and crouching. And as they danced they lifted their voices in a low wailing chant Suddenly from somewhere there leapt into the circle of the dancers « tall savage clad in wolf skins, who danced faster and faster, and faster as the wailing chant increased in volume “Women took up the chant and the night filled with the weird sound, They wer a chief, long since dead, but was wailing over pmnee very great The Mother c the In “Children not stay here. noise grew ed to us not to go near nd she said, ‘we ean. No telling what those Indians will do. Look! Oh! Look! t thet awfulr ‘9 Be Continued terrifying. | “It makes no difference what his ‘Wait for the doctor’s verdict?” for @ full walking step but) had permi him, at close range, | stores her, “and many children had no enough to leap or run. They /to behold Virginia's face. | wis fear of the Indiang at all, but ton bis rile ee ot A half-mile back, just before they Again the Twins followed the! humming-birde or owls or whatever we were so close to that ‘terrible . ns that ‘e Lag te or a ert | spproached me first fringe of the |crane, Buakins coming after. Along | the fashion is that season on hata, massacre that some of us couldn't aa and water, and lash hem | spruce forest, they had met @ trap-/ the “ge of the queer fairy fac- why they find whol new boxes of Corat the teens eke | his wrists. Then they slipped| per just starting out on hie 1 tory they all w t until they came to ‘em right on their shelves and they nyth oo thong of the sied across his} and he had gladly consented to take ‘another room bigger than the rest| think someone has sent ‘em. And so “I recall one other time when iders and under his arms like) Harold the rest of the way into| where the most tremendous buzzing | they have, but it's my little fairy mother as well as we was most | > pl a kyack. They were | town. RS re — ot bi — be and humming and fussing was go-| good-workers that do it dreadfully frightened. a . ip in the North, where the |ing on. “And when there aren't any “For . nad paghe forest was laden with the| population is so scant and the offi-| “What do you make here?” asked | orders, Mr. Hunter Man has to leave poate, amp ae Painne Dnt morning silence; the trees! cers so few, to take an active part | Nancy. hin gun at home and the birds go | De®? Preparing for a big potlatch @ draped in snow. It wes cold, in law enforcement—and this trap “Pied: id Mr. Crane. free. That bluebird there is one down on the beach not far from Defrost’ gathered § quickly| per was glad of the opportunity to) “Bir ered everybody together,|Mra, Richman ordered for her our house, And we watched the the mufflers that they wote assist them in the care of the pris-|and Nick added, “I thought they |«pring bonnet and the lark is for her preparations with witha interest out their line. All too well they!oner. He wan to be lodged in prix |came out of eres. daughter, They'll wear ‘em both, 7 | Ww what lay before them. With-|on at the little mining camp to! “0 es, real ones do,” aid the never dreaming that Belinda Blue children give anything new and) food to keep their bodies nour-| face a charge of attempted murder | rane But come in and I'll tell|bird and Lemmy Lark are singing |{ Unusual | d and warm, they could scarce-|--a crime th In the Northwest you all about it. You sae, we dye | away as happily as ever.” | “We saw them get their slabs “celia ppon boa tog their o pro seer is never ha os “fg feathers of all shades and kinds! “That's very good work,” nodded and mats together and build the | ewhere on the; “And you weren't drowned he|here and then*make them into birds | kind Naney. “And now, when feath:) see gaan eae ies a they would encounter game.|trapper marveled, when he had got that look #o real you can’t tell them, lers come floating up to the aky, we'll || [on# low shedlike thing they Ho ie a chance it was, this late | his breath We've been mournin’ except that the n't move or! know where they are going, won't|| Called the ‘potlatch house’; we saw | eo: they knew all too sure! ju for dead—for month f. Anything frem poll-parrots to we, Nick, and we'll ask mother to/] them gather and pile the drift- for all this knowledge Bill and| “Drowned—not a bit of it.” Vir- | jack daw Hey're for hats.” rip up her old pillows and Mt the| Virginia were cheerful |ginia answered gayly. “And don't) “Hate? 1 astonished Nancy. feathers fly out, We'll tell her all) ™ IRE AR 1 haven't much hope,” Bill told | mourn y more.” "Yes, to put on hate, The fairies the Lawd of Runaway th. | er when she wax tucked into the! The trapper said he wouldn't and | pack hoxes with them and put them ar My head was on his shoulder, nis| a the sled. “Put it’s the only | hastened off with his prisoner, de- | in the hat And when Mra. (To Re Continued) | kins was on my lips, And it was) le we have.” | ligt indeed to be the firat >| Trim or M vo to order more (Copyright, 1922, by Seattle Star) | totally difte from any kiss I had) Bhe smiled at him. “At least, Bill,| pase the good word of their d ~/endured in the movies. | well have done erything welerance thru Bradjeyburg, Bill I forgot myself, Forgot my blinded | could, Good-by, little cabin—where | well known and liked thru all thot a \ é eye ‘orgot everything except the T found happiness. Sometime per-| portion of the North his sup f f M St security of Jimmy's arms and the fiaps we'll come back to your" posed death had been @ real blow to Con essions OF a ovie MAY’ | | Sondervess of dttaray'n kine The man bent and kissed her, andthe t people (Copyright, 1921, Beattly Atary I did not see myself as acting a gave the word for Harold to Lill felt wholly able to follow the} “ pert in a play. 4 |broad snowshoe track the half-mile . YTS Pp rare mapper TwUy ITN mo Kk " I forgot my pride. 1 whispered. | Blowly they headed toward the} farther into town. The footsteps of| CHAPTER LXXVII—I GET A NEW KIND OF KISS | «7 wasn't tuir to you, Jimmy! 1 river. old could hardiy feel the the sled. Bill mushed behind. ed by the gee-pole. The draped treem they had know well spoke no word of farew« The crust was perfect; Har-|the men had grown faint weight of | uway—and Virginia and he were guid: |Jeft together on the bill white.| They had nothing te nt fir n so|They simply watched the slow er croachment of the twilight. L “You don't understand, May. 1]couldn’t be a star in the McMasters'|haven't been fair! I tried to con-| 1 way no more constellation—and remain—the gitl| vince myself that you couldn't act “Tt can—S do understand! And I|-you could marry!” | your bad parts so marvelo can put your doubt into wordat 1 And then came Jimmy Alcott’s re-| were not yourself cruel stormed You believed that I|ply to my darling! And then a horrid memory chilled | jeouldn’t possibly have arrived, 11 1 was setzed suddenly tn his arms | me. I escaped from his arms and -| verdict may be?” | “I'm not going to leave the house, dared agai “I am pledged, May!" rn wait down in the drawings “Ginette! She wrote you daily at| ‘It makes no difference to you If 1|T0m." the camy » WM aust go the rest of my days with{. Then he went out of the room and cheek? J cautght my breath hard, 1 had de , elded my future for myself, Never would I know the comfort of his “My deart was out of dont She a broad red band down one No difference if I grope to my gra with a car No difference if I hide > arms agmin—it my beauty were gone My very dear! Ginette job, And going to Lon rsecuted me for names of cinema compan behind black glasses with huge rims? 1 held out my hands, Jimmy seized | You love beauty as much fis Cis pete oat ons them and we ced softly until the loves it. Think, Jimmy! There inay had myo seared buzz of the phone brought us back to|be Years and years of uglines — (To Be Continued) 2 the realities of the time and the helplessness for me!’ wi place. “You talk as if it mattered! As it] Largest rock salt deposit In the Jimmy answered the call. It was/ anything mattered except the sweet.| United States extends from northern from the specialist's office. His sec-;ness and the cleanness of your] Kansas to western Texas, | retary sent word that the doctor} soul! | would be with te in half an hour.| He would have taken me in bis! You'll smile, too, when you drink My nurse must be in attendance to take off all the bandages, rms away: but I motioned him|Boldt's Coffee—ONLY § centaenad- vertisements ~ he, again