Show THE GUNNISON VALLEY NEWS GUNNISON UTAH Aina '0 0 By MAB0L1D) TITOS CIIAPTIJK VI — Continued -8- — ended with the question directed at Standing Cloud and the old chief rose quickly to his feet amidst a growing tumult of voices Black Beaver was up as well und crying to be heard but with a majestic silencing gesture Standing Cloud stayed him und checked the confusion of voices “The little trader has spoken 1” he cried “The little truder has said he will do things which we can see with our own eyes If the little trader’s medicine is greater than Black Beaver's will we not be pleased to see it my children?” They Would be pleased to see it Indeed! Cries of approval resounded) Short harangues followed Rodney declared that he would start at dawn so all might see and turned to watch Rickman speak lowly and energetically with Black Beaver urging the magician to some fuhther sjategy He CHAPTER VII Night again and Rodney Shaw tnade his simple camp beside the head waters of (he Laughing Musquash Camp for him meant a fire and a cleared place in which to lay his blanket Not to lay his body Just A blanket the blanket spread half upon the ground and mounded up with branches to the size of a man's body and the balance spread across this hummock which would appear to vengeful eyes in the faint glow from embers as the figure of a man asleep While he smoked in triumph with the ob’ men last night he had watched Burke Rickman’s face He had seen the man stalk finally to his canoe with defeat gnawing at his pride And he knew what to expect Fine opportunity this for a trad as Rickman had outgeneraled beenl A chance for the attainment of a triple objective with a single blow With Shaw gdne vengeance would be his trade would be secure for the company beyond any possible challenge and with Shaw unreturned from this errand into Windigo country the influence of Black Beaver already bought and paid for by Burke Rickman would never again in that generation be questioned Just before sundown Rodney came to the deposit of white clay lie filled the square of sheeting lie bad brought with him bound it to a Package with thongs and in the last of daylight made his camp which was to be no camp At some little distance back against the bole of a tree llmtlock across his knees he sat down to await what he told himself might be the most momentous mteival of bis life Rodney even with the conviction that his life would be sought before dawn dozed wakened doed wakened again with a Ruth Wyeth Spears e Harold Titus WNU Service though and went sideways and down over the rim of the ledge from sight as Shaw disappearing poised to spring With a cry Rickman struck the water and Rodney teetering on the edge strained his eyes to mark the He plare where he would emerge heard but could not see The man gasped hoarsely as he came up but he began to swim at once Seconds passed for Shaw drag ging out painfully as the fear that the man would escape him became manifest “You wolverine!’' he cried "You While a man dog Rickmanl sleeps you’d He stilled his own breathing for an instant and heard Rickman crashing through the forest making downstream far enough away to make pursuit futile Goods were hustled ashore and into the trading room and Indians came hurrying staring much and crowding greatly and talking in excited voices Their futures lay wrapped in those packages In the morning trading began with hunters and their families thronging the stockade through all the hours of daylight and for long after darkness had fallen They moved about eyeing this Little offered was fingering that new the great bulk of the goods were staple and after the inspection a pipe was lighted and squatted on the floor about Shaw while Basile and others brought goods the debts were accepted Tobacco was passed but Shaw shook his head firmly at requests for whiskey When the trading was finished whiskey would again be passed And now fjhaw returned to his not before establishment with half a hundred For days this procedure was rouweight of white smooth clay in f tine For hours at a time Rodney with hunters package trooping sat on the floor of his trading room through his gate to stare at this bargaining arguing ‘Net thread he my brother?” “Four might say plus of net thread That is all The ball of thread is the skin Skin for skin Or: "No No spirits No more than the taste when we end our trading At the grand medicine I will give my brothers plenty Not "But the warrant exists!” the ma"And Leslie’s man jor thundered Giles does not deny the story that Shaw and his employer quarreled over the goods What can I do?”— And his boots went clump clump clump as the lovely Annette dropped her face into her hands and wept And after a time he patted her hand and his gruff voice grew al- most gentle "There! That’s better my And what is that in your dear hand? A feather? A black ostrich Oh I did not know it plume was some secret t”— as flushing quickly Annette thrust the remnant of the black plume into her bodice and began to talk of Giles So down the hill again as the sun sank went Annette dismayed but Make This Attractive Ottoman and along purposeful And a few who happened streets r wooden box from the the ends as at C an anotherf near felt their eves bulge as the It should be about as go over the top and d thesij mademoiselle walked alone on the long as the width of the chair with as at D Jss r z z beach with the gnarled and leathwhich the ottoman is to be used Cut a piece of hen v muslin uda ' c ery Giles now an employee in the The depth of the sides should be fasten tightly over the cotton &V great warehouse four inches as shown here at A the corners of the n uslin At midnight the major roused at ajla C The legs should be made of two E Sew with heavy "read the rapping and descended to his by two’s or you may have a set of F and then tack as at G door and there was Annette nicely turned legs from an old taTo make the covci stretch "Giles will make affidavit!” she ble or other piece of furniture top tightly over the m:i hn ands' “He tells that Leslie gave gasped that may be cut down to the right it along the sides thro f his goods to Rodney without reserFasten in place with long lin then make a stra’ t the length He tells before witnesses vation! screws through the corners of the band to go all around nd add and he will sajl so to the marshal box as shown here at B ruffle to it and the justice!” About half a bat of cotton will before” Every Homemaker 'wild hat “So all is settled!” boomed the be needed After the fifth day following Put five of six layers a copy of Mrs Spear new “So when young Shaw remajor of the cotton on the top cutting SEWING Basile’s arrival few hunters re Forty-eig- i pages turns he will be vindicated and free the first layer about four inches mained near the establishment and todirection for mal’ -” smaller all around than the top slipcovers Rodney’s men were busied with preand dres n g table “Returns? Returns!” The sharp- - of"the'box paring the place for the rigorous Place it in the center restoring and upholstering chai ness of her cry so in contrast to seasons to follow Cut the next layer a little bigger couches But some Indimaking cur' uns for her look of a moment before ans remained nearby and and the others still bigger until ery type of room a d among caused the major to hesitate “That purpo hese was the Weasel once ejected the last one is the same size as Making lampshades is the important matter rugs on majorl rom the post but in this period of That he be not returned! Do you the top Now cut a layer of cotton mans and other useful a rticlesk Shaw’s good will toward the band not understand?”— with an impa- - to go over the top and down over the home Readers wishing a as a whole tolerated within the should send name and addrei tient stamp of a tiny foot “Burke stockade Rickman is there enclosing 25 cents to Mrs Spea If Rodney is 9 WWWUHmOWWW He was given no attention shoul210 South Desplaines St Chlcaf dered out of the way while Shaw taken from his establishment by sol- Illinois even a for i brief diery absence his dealt with more dependable individtrade be gone! It is all Rick will uals man asks majorl Another message Then the Weasel would seat himA Quiz self at a distance and scratch his must be sent recalling the lieu- tenant and voiding the warrant!” jack with a stick and lament when you hive t Annette clasped her hands be- Each day he performed so but 1 What is the only walled city I each night he paddled 'from his neath her trembling chin in an eco Ido in America? a stasy of hope which went out like a ’odge across the lake to the com2 Why is the snuffed candle when the sky blue? pany fort and met Burke Rickman major 3 What land lies closest to 0 dea threw up his arms in a and whispered what he had learned helpless grees latitude and 0 degrees longiAnd so Rickman paced his enBecause that (Jay an or9 gesture tude? 1 closure and drank and fumed and der had arrived calling a detach4 What was Aaron Burr’s conment to Detroit and the counted the tinve reckoned the garrison spiracy supposed to have been? miles his letter to Maclver would would be so drained of men that 5 What harbor has two tides a je borne that day estimated the it would be impossible to spare others for such an errand as was day? weeks it would be before the oppo6 What is the length of the sition fort would find itself without proposed longa leader Indeed he’d write an order to est pipe line in the world? 7 Name a few authors who The canoe reached recall Capes! He’d write an order had Mackinac to that wait a long time for financial would bring Capes back to his Hickman’s letter was handed at last to Donald Maclver post without even stops for food success And the Scot A Resolution 8 How long a line would and other company heads read and and rest! On his honor that order it take Shall we make a new rule i frowned and set their minds to the would be something to read he’d to go over the Great Pyramid life from tonight always to t task in hand write an order to peel a 'man’s reaching the earth on each side? to be a little kinder than is neee Maclver climbed the hill and sat ears but he could not send if There I sary? — James M Barrie with the major and the no chance no chance Answers grizzled old was ollicer veteran of many an Indian whatever But let any company or 1 Quebec battle individual come to him again and was far less comfortable f °f dust than he would have been under check inhptfnnpr fire try to wheedle him into” pulling of hostile chestnuts from the fire and atmosPhfre savages wha happened He grumbled and He'd skin them fi lighl' Th and ' p protested and Coast col- But oared But he gave in knowing a alive he would Noth:: could be done 2' surrender in the field in such an To tor a new empire in the LIQUID instance was a lesser hazard than whatever fIrtt dT Southwest out of Mexican or Lou- - salve noseTABLETS a disturbance And so as eastern orops Headache 30 in Washington stars faded and a lsiana territory canoe with Capes the lieutenant Annette went slowly down the hill’ Beet I U' 5 The harbor of aud four soldiers embarked Southampton that cheeks as wet with tears as the England day the warrant for Rodney Shaw grass was with dew the black 6 The longest pipe line was resafe in an official dispatch case feather tight in a hand which cently built under American diAnd then indeed the clenched desperately major was rection across Asia Minor and exin for it V tends for a distance of 1150 miles Flying up the hill to the fort Nightfall And a canoe making 7 Joseph Conrad Annette Iedere burst in wrote for 20 the its weary way toward Rickman’s upon Them the Cleanse Help old soldier years before he sold a book In And the establishment stared at in the gathmajor of Harmful Body Wssts the first nine years of and George Berand paced ering dusk by men at the stockade Yoor kidftyi m constantly flinf' nard Shaw’s literary endeavor he before his desk and pulled at wnntc matter (rom the blood itretab his gate kidney sometime lag la their wnrimustache and harrumped as he ad“The fort I” came a voice from realized About $30 A A Milne cot act a Nature intended— (al mitted that yes soldiery was on the canoe as paddles ceased diD- - earned about $100 the first feovc impurities that U retained year he spent as a poisoa the lystea and upeet the the way to bring young e author Rodney pmg: “Is this the Astor establishmachinery i hhaw back to answer to a ment?” stcetched over Symptom may b naning been® the Ame g charge of murder parliament headache attacks ol and over the top from “Yes Who asks?” up ni(hta availing yRf "But it is not so ol under the would from eye— fading major! It Is “Capes Mack—” measure f rnVf0 fartb'L common talk in the town that anxiety and lot of pep and 38 Ml restto B the “Ah Capes! Capes at last! 9tbr "If" ol kidney or bladder m Land thing was infamously gotten up to here order may be bunting ocnntg 'e Capes! Here you men help wment urination delay Rodney! Your own surgeon them! So lbt There ahould he no doubt that Quickly but easy ' has said the man died from no knife Ah w treatment is wiser than nut ' Capes!” Rfead to Con$Ider Doam't Pills Doan's bar beeo sJJ wound!” (TO BE CONTINUED) new friend for more than forty T j They bav a oftTth largest oil companies w Are recommended by grateful vPm tbe nted States says that country over Ati four mngkbstl through advertising it is able to in market it product at les mill per Is in ion narrow PETa Jlsk Me Another lr 0 General Say "KUDBUrS1 i 'That Is the Important Matter Major!” burden and chatter about it and touch with old men and young men overstepping natural reticence to make voluble protestations of friendship That was Rodney Shaw’s hour of triumph lie had discredited the jossakkid and more He had lifted himself in the eyes of these natives to a figure that would go down in song and story And in the house of the other tiader was only black and murderous despair No Indians except tliai handful which had accepted his credits before Rickman to beg tobacco and wheedle further presents 1 lie place was all but deserted by etnrt natives and his men went about No sound and yet an awareness of near dangei spread through him tlie tasks of repair to which they hud boon assigned with hushed like fire lie felt the skin of his voices and frightened glances at the back creeping and softly slowly quarters making not the slightest rustle he commander’s Rickman considered this and rose to his feet rifle at ready that: night raid ambukh long waits His camp fire still glowed He could see from where lie stood the for a chance shot from a distance None would do Shaw was no fool blanket folded over its! deceptive He would not expose himself or go pile of boughs But not a sound now And unguarded in a few And then suddenly a man stood days his brigade would arrive and before him an outline of darkness he would have men in plenty to against darkness Vague indistinct protect him unreal His face writhed in agony as he But the click of a hammer was thought of those oncoming canoes A not unreal! It was like a shot Itself week of In contrast to the silence of the would be trading and the Pillagers obligated beyond repair and mght Rodney could discern then So long as Shaw lived and was free M kneeling to meet and greet hunters— figure strained forward nd the faint gleam of So light from long as the man was free! the embers was caught on the barThen he stretched as a man will rel of a rifle as it swung into posiwho is suddenly at peace after protion And he laughed longed trouble He went blind with rage for an Rickman sat down after instant and heard himself cry out as his and drew paper the other rifle cracked and he fired laughter and quill and ink before him and beblindly wildly and knew he had gan to write slowly and at length missed when a gun clattered to rock and the vague figure swayed and then staring through the paneless window he saw Conrad Rich lunged toward him across the enclosure and summoned He threw himself forward him with a shout grap pling for the man's throat A fist “Yes Burke’” bashed into his mouth throwing An outdoor be a canoe leave tosport new to America him to one side He floundered to 8treama- B has no night" the trader said “Four men but practiced for years in many his knees and grappled 18 His Select them from the again guded solely by best European countries made its debut hand clutched Rickman's powder toine will be in charge ” paddles For shootin New York horn and jerked when a recently it loose and ing rapids the boat is equipped with "A canoe? Tomehi? rv cial train was chartered to take spedropped it as he swung for belter mnckinac?" over a sp forward which can 00 persons interested in hold be faltbooting fastened around the to the Connecticut ‘P®11 And by way of Given Bav waists of Rickman hurled himself on Rodriver to enjoy PaddIer- An inflated cushion with the current behind it will be the introduced sport and ney bearing him down and they a 8bsorb the shock of quicker march” rolled on the ledge The g faltboot in GerFingers had originated bounding waves or shooting but I don't “Sut Shaw's throat now rap- holding him many observes Albert Stoll Jr in N° ypu wouldn't even guess! 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