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Show mm - . ami i r i m n h hh ? m m m ui Under Frozen Copyright by Persa Pub. C. ( CHAPTER III Continued Taradees, for surer snapped the bowman as they landed. "Come on, we hunt for deml" And Omar plunged ahead into the bush. The had traveled less than a ; hundred yards when a familiar yelp, from somewhere upstream, sounded sound-ed above the fret o? the river. "Smoke I Hell find their trail P muttered Jim, Then fear for the safety of the dog he loved led him to push rapidly on up the river shore while Omar cut back Inland behind the scene of the ambush. Suddenly, deep in the forest, a rifle was fired and Jim's heart sank, as he beard the husky's yelp. "lie's shot Smoker Furious with the thought of his gallant dog gasping out bis life from a bullet wound, Jim plunged ahead In the direction of the rifle shot Shortly he saw a dark patch through the spruce and threw his rifle to his shoulder. As he lined his sights, the dark face of Omar appeared, head , tilted as If listening. listen-ing. Jim reached his friend's side. "Did you fire that shot? Where's Smoke?" he demanded. "I thought he was hurt" "I shoot at dat feller I Smoke's after him now in dose cedar. It ees so t'lck you see nodlng." , "You saw him?" "Ah-hahl" Separating, the two men started circling the dense cedar growth. Jim had not traveled a hundred yards when he heard Smoke's roar, followed by a shot, then the sounds of a struggle. Plunging through the thick undergrowth, mad with anxiety for the safety of his dog, he saw a running figure turn and swing with clubbed rifle at the black-and-white bulk of the pursuing pursu-ing Smoke. With a muffled roar the hurt dog again lunged at the Indian; again the clubbed rifle crashed as the husky leaped. Knocked back to his haunches, j with a shake of the head the great dog closed with the , Indian, who was desperately trying to load as he ran. The tusks of Smoke snapped as his one hundred and forty pounds bore his quarry to the earth. Throwing himself on the enraged dog, Jim balked the lunge which would have torn the throat of the helpless man on the ground, then dragged the battle-mad Smoke from his prey. "Throw that knife away or HI let him have youl" Jim commanded, command-ed, holding the straining husky as the OJibwa, rolling away from the snapping fangs, reached for the sheath on his sash. "Now He where you are I If that shot hit him, I'll put him on you, anyway." But there was no sign of blood on Smoke's trembling body. ' Then Omar, drawn by the shot, reached them. "Ah-Tiah I So Paradecs sen' you? Wal, I fink we camp here tonight w'lle yon tell w'at you know 'bout M'sieu Paradees, ah-hah P With the Indian walking ahead, prodded by Omar's gun, they returned" re-turned" to the canoe and made camp. Supper over, Omar began the inquisition in-quisition of the sullen OJibwa who had remained dumb to all attempts to make hlra talk. Lighting his pipe, the half-breed freshened the fire, then squatted beside the prisoner, whose feet were pinioned with raw hide, and said quietly In Ojlbwa: Ton have woman and children?" The mlnk-llke eyes of the Indian shot a furtive glance at the lined visage of the man who squinted Into the fire. Jim watched with curiosity the drama the wily Omar was staging. Then he mumbled a faint, "Enh-enh I yes." '. "If yon wish to see the Lake of the Sand Beaches again, you speak with a single tongue," went on the inquisitor In OJibwa, as If talking to himself, his eyes Btlll fixed on the fire. Too He to me, nowl" Omar suddenly stormed, turning a face distorted with passion on bis man, as his iron fingers gripped the Indian's throat, "and I'll feed your heart to the ravens P The cowed prisoner flinched from the steel point of Omar's knife which pricked bis chest Ton speak with a split tongue and the wolves will pick your bones P Omar's left hand closed on the Indian's throat till the terror-haunted eyes, of the gasping man protruded from his gray face. Then the half-breed abruptly released re-leased him, replaced his skinning knife In Its sheath, and resumed bis silent contemplation of the fire. Fascinated by the drama, Jim watched the two across the fire from behind a screen of tobacco smoke. "Ion lak' to see de sun rise once more?" The stiff lips of Omar scarcely moved as be rasped out the question in English. But the prisoner was silent Axiln the Impassive Omar, gaz- by GEORGE MARSH AS THE STORY OPENS At hit fur poft Suniet House, la tb Cuudian north, Jim Stuirt, trader in charge, with hit headman, Omar, reacues drilter on an overturned canoe, Aurora LeBlond, daughter oi hit rival in the (ur busineaa. Made comfortable, Aurora prove to be charming companion. LeBlond, with Faradif, hit half-breed half-breed lieutenant, arrives in search of the misting girl. Paradia displays enmity toward Jim, though LeBlond acknowledges bis gratitude. Before leaving, Aurore and Jim arrange to exchange notes on certain island. Going there, Jim is ambushed am-bushed by Paradia and forced to travel toward the LeBlond post. On the war he overturns the boat, leaving his half drowned enemy oa the beach. Jim discusses plans with his superior, Andrew Christie. Ditpleated at the trade showing, Chrittie allows Stuart, at his request, one year to "make good." He leaves the post feeling he has been unjustly treated. Returning to Suniet House, Jim and Omar are fired upon from ambuth. Ing Into the burning birch, was transformed Into a fury as he suddenly sud-denly turned with a snarl on the OJibwa. "What did paradees pay you?" , Flinching from the knotted visage vis-age of his tormentor, the prisoner nevertheless stoically held his silence. si-lence. After a period of motionless contemplation con-templation of the fire, the half-breed half-breed rose and, taking bis ax, stripped a neighboring spruce sapling sap-ling of Its branches. Then he gathered gath-ered an armful of dry spruce sticks and blrchbark and dropped the kindling at the foot of the tree. Jim glanced at the OJibwa. Ilor-ror Ilor-ror filled the Indian's eyes as he watched the deliberate preparations for the last act of the drama. Going to his pack, Omar produced some rawhide thongs, then picking up the visibly shaking prisoner as If he were a child, carried him to the spruce and, binding his arms, lashed him to the tree, and calmly pushed the spruce kindlings around his feet But gray as was the face of Omar's victim, on which stood out great beads of sweat, his stiff Hps emitted no sound as his hopeless eyes watched the half-breed lift a red coal between two birch sticks and calmly approach the tree, "You talk now?" grunted the executioner. Slowly the dry lips of the Indian moved. "He let dem starve dees long snow," he moaned, In English. "Paradees sen you?" demanded Omar, dropping the coal Into the kindlings. "Eef I splk lie drive dem alone Into de bush to starve." The bark and spruce sticks ig nited. The red flames licked slow ly toward the feet of the man bound to the tree. "Paradees sen you?" came Omar's reiterated question. The burning sticks snapped at the feet of the fainting man who fought with his fear. Then, as the heat reached his legs, his nerve crumpled. "W'at you do eef I splk?" he whimpered. "Yon spiy all de trut' an we let you go 1" came the quick answer. "I splk," murmured the Indian and fainted where he stood. With vigorous kicks Omar and Jim scattered and stamped out the fire, then unbound the Indian and doused his face with water while he blinked doubtfully at them from where he lay. "Paradees sen' you?" repeated the pitiless inquisitor. The man sitting on the ground nodded. "LeBlond, he know dls?" The prisoner shook his head. "On-lee "On-lee Paradees.' "How he mak' you do dls t'lng?" "My famille." The Indian rapidly explained in OJibwa that two poor winters and a broken leg had put him heavily In debt to the North-West company for supplies. They had already refused re-fused him further "debt" when. Par- adis had come to him in his desperation despera-tion and offered to put him on his feet If he would ambush the returning return-ing canoe of Jim and Omar, whom MacLauren had met on the portage, A grim smile . widened Omar's stiff mouth. "I go to dis LeBlond, ah-hah. But you go wld me." "He weel keel me, dls Paradees, eef you tell dem what I splk to you," protested the other. Then It was arranged that the Indian, whose canoe was hidden up river, should return at once to Le-Blond's Le-Blond's and bring his family to Sunset House, where Jim would outfit out-fit them for the winter. Following this, Jim and Omar secretly decided to take the Indian to LeBlond's and face Paradls. They could count on Pierre Migwan, their prisoner, deserting de-serting Paradls and bringing his family to Sunset House, for he would not dare show his face again at the post across the lake, once Paradls learned he had been betrayed. But It would take some urging to get the Indian in the face of Paradls to repeat re-peat his story to LeBlond. Yet that was what the friends Intended to make him do. LeBlond's head man had been accessory before the fact to the attempt at murder. This LeBlond Le-Blond could not Ignore, for Jim would notify Christie at once and a canoe of the Provincial police would appear In September. At last the luck of Sunset House had turned and they would make the most of it CHAPTER IV JIM STUART watched the distant Islands masking the North-West company post slowly clear in definition defini-tion as bis peterboro rode the liquid miles. Behind him, squatted on his heels, paddled the worried Pierre Migwan. In the stern, the thick arms of Omar Boisvert, in unbroken un-broken cadence, pried the long paddle pad-dle off his thigh. It bad not been easy, the persuasion of Migwan, but the promise of absolute protection from Paradls and food for his family fam-ily through the long snows, with a company Job for his dog-team, had at last prevailed against bis fears. As for Jim Stuart his heart beat high with elation, for, after all, he was to see her again before she went south again watch that Intriguing In-triguing smile break from the corners cor-ners of her mobile mouth and her dusky eyes light with mockery. Should he have a chance to talk to her? After the episode with Paradls Para-dls at the split rock, and from the nature of his mission to the post, It was unlikely, unless she saw them land and approach the trade-house. trade-house. And this smooth city man, Mac-Lauren, Mac-Lauren, was he after her as Omar warned him, or was It merely a business busi-ness trip to his string of posts? The peterboro finally slid be tween two Islands and "Bonne Chance," as LeBlond called his fur post, lay before them, in a large clearing across a mile of strait The two-storied, whitewashed trade and store-house was even larger than that at Lake Expanse, while the number of cabins straggling along the shore Indicated a large staff of company Indians. Jim smiled stiffly at the thought of what Christie demanded of his own little trading station across the lake with his two aids, Omar and Esau, in competition with the resources re-sources of Louis LeBlond. Then the realization that within the hour, he might see, talk to her, drove his business worries from his mind. The coming of the peterboro was drawing curious stragglers to the beach. Jim saw the door of the large trade-house open and two men appear, to stand, hands to faces, as If studying the strangers through binoculars. He turned to the men behind him. The face of the Indian was harried with fear. Omar grinned while his silts of eyes, burled between be-tween bushy brows and bulging cheekbones, glinted with the light of anticipation. That day he should see Louis LeBlond humbled, threat ened with the coming of the Provincial Provin-cial police and his head man, with the sweat of fear on his face at the story Pierre should tell. .The canoe slid In to the beach to a chorus of yelps from the post sled dogs who were driven off by the company servants gathered to inspect in-spect the arrivals. Then LeBlond, accompanied by MacLauren, reached the beach. "Good day, Mr. Stuart" said LeBlond Le-Blond coldly, glancing curiously at the Indian who pressed closely to the square bulk of Omar. Stuart shook hands with the two men. "I have some business with you gentlemen," he said, "which will require re-quire the presence of my man and this Indian. Can we talk in the J trade-room?" "Of course," answered LeBlond, with a nod toward Pierre. "I know this man." "Yes, but your man Paradls knows him better," added Jim dryly. "Can we have Paradis present at this talk; he might wish to ask Migwan Mig-wan some questions?" "Yes, If you want him." LeBlond looked quizzically at the speaker, then sent an Indian in search of Paradia. "What's all the mystery, Stuart r demanded MacLauren with a laugh. "Going to accuse somebody of murder?" "You're a good guesser, MacLauren," Mac-Lauren," bit off Jim, and the glint In his gray eyes caused tie partners part-ners to exchange surprised looks. When they stood behind the closed door of the large trade-room, LeBlond asked: "Now, to what do we owe the honor of your call?" "In law courts I believe the defendant de-fendant is entitled to be confronted confront-ed by his accuser. Well wait for Paradls." Jim turned to the nervous ner-vous Indian whose uneasy eyes alternately al-ternately sought the faces of the white men and shifted appealingly to the wooden visage of Omar. HIE LEW SUN. LEHl. UTAH Mars rwWJ grle "Now, Pierre, you're going to tell this story just as you tola it 10 us. Paradls is not going to put a hand on you or bother you on the way to the canoe. If he tries it" The blood flamed Into the dark face of LeBlond as he broke In: "You're pretty free with your talk here, Stuart 1" Jim's cold, gray gaze met the frown of the other. "You'll understand under-stand when you hear this story," he said quietly. Paradis opened the door of the trade-room, his dark features picturing pic-turing the strain under which he labored, but he evidenced no surprise sur-prise at the presence of the men from Sunset House. He met the glittering eyes of the OJibwa, Jim's amused, 6mlle, and the savage glance of Omar, who stood, arms folded, the fingers of his right hand touching the handle of his knife, with equal indifference. . "Good day, Monsieur Paradis," said Jim. "Pierre, here, 'has a little lit-tle story to tell your employers." Turning to the excited Indian, Stuart continued: "Now tell these gentlemen Just what you told us." "What have I to do wid thes Indian?" In-dian?" demanded Paradls, assuming assum-ing an air of surprise, as he stroked his small mustache. But Jim noted the unsteadiness of his hand. "Keep quiet I" rasped the Interested Inter-ested and perplexed MacLaurea "Let him tell his story." Questioned by Jim when he faltered, fal-tered, his eyes shifting fearfully from the black face of LeBlond to the sneering Paradls, Pierre told, now In English, now in OJibwa, how he had been refused supplies for the winter because of his old debt, and in despair was about to leave with nls family when Paradis approached him with the scheme to ambush Stuart's canoe on its re turn up the Woman river from Lake Expanse. As Migwan accused Paradls of plotting the shooting of Omar and Jim, the sneer faded from the head man's face. With a snarl he flung at the Indian:. "You liel You dirt eater P "One minute, Paradis I" rasped Jim. "Let him, finish l" LeBlond was studying his assistant assist-ant through narrowed eyes. "Right here, I -want to say," said Jim, "that It was only after a long grilling, when i he feared for his life, that this man named you, Paradis." Par-adis." "When you put eet een hees head, eh?" sneered the other, palpably palpa-bly uneasy under the searching scrutiny of Louis LeBlond. "No, I didn't put it Into his head I didn't have to," drawled Jim, enjoying the baiting. "After giving you that swimming lesson, I Just naturally thought you were the skunk behind this shooting." Paradis denied having any part In the ambush. "Eet ees a lie all He I" he protested. "I refuse dis Pierre flour an' he mak' up de story." "But why should he take it out on me and my man here unless he was paid to do it? He had nothing against us. He never saw us before," be-fore," demanded Jim. "And how did he know we were at Lake Ex panse? You told him and you learned It from MacLauren." "He want to rob you of your gruo i" "Nonsense! He knew we weren't freighting supplies our canoe was empty." Then Jim turned to grave- faced LeBlond and MacLauren who were exchanging whispers. "If I re port this thing to Christie at Lake Expanse, there'll be a police canoe here In September. You know what tnat means?" Leiiiond nodded. "We don't want the police In this, Mr. Stuart," he said quietly. "It's a bad mess, but you've only got this Indian's word against the word of Paradis. If you report this thing to the author Ities it will make no end of trouble. They'll have all of us down to the railroad and hold us there as wit nesses." "It certainly will be serious not only for Paradls but for the North West Trading company," agreei Jim with a stiff smile, while wrinkles of amused satisfaction furrowed Omar's square face as hp watched the apprehension in the eyes of LeBlond. "But I don't In tend to have Indians bribed to fire va me oy your people." he went on "If he'd hit one of ns. It wnnM have put you out of business and you a stand trial to boot" "You don't believe I had any knowledge of this?" protested LeBlond. Le-Blond. "No, of course not" "What d'yuh want ns to do Stuartr asked MacLauren. "Were gm this thing deeply ant there's only this Indian's word against thai of Paradls." TO Bg CONTINUED.) Mors) Pleasant I had rather have a fool to mak me merry, than experience to make me sad, Shakespeare. SHOWING HOW TO CUT DISEASE LOSS Simple Rules for Guarding Farm Poultry. . Ey following five simple rules in planning a farm sanitation program, pro-gram, It is possible to reduce losses from diseases and parasites to a minimum, according to C. M. Ferguson, Fergu-son, extension specialist in poultry for the Ohio State university. The first rule, he states, consists In confining the hens entirely to the laying house or to the cinder yara. If a yard is used the cinders should be removed each year. A system of rotated yards around the bouse will permit the birds to De on fresh eround each year and permit cultivation of the yards while they are not being used for poultry. Rotate the chicks, is Ferguson's second Btep In a poultry sanitation program. Rearing chicks In confinement con-finement has not proved to be adapted adapt-ed to farm conditions except for a few weeks when the chicks are small. Wire porches or cinder yards offer a means of confinement for a few weeks, but as soon as the chicks are old enough to be without with-out heat they should have access to good green range. Fall house cleaning, another step In the program, also helps in cutting cut-ting losses from disease and parasites. para-sites. The removal of all contaminated contam-inated material, and a thorough disinfection dis-infection of the house Is the only guarantee that the pullets are going to be free of attack from such disease dis-ease producing organisms as may have been carried over from the flock during the previous year. Careful cleaning throughout the year and proper disposal of droppings drop-pings and litter are also essential parts of an effective plan for guarding guard-ing the birds against the ravages of disease. Matter of Insulation for the Poultry House While dead or trapped air Is one of the best Insulating materials we have, an air space between two walls does not Insulate very well because the circulation of the air carries the heat or cold from one wall to the other, says the Wisconsin Wiscon-sin Agriculturist But If dry sawdust saw-dust mill shavings, or chopped hay or straw Is packed in Ughtly to fill this space and prevent air circula tion such a wall makes a very warm and comfortable poultry house. In using such filling, however. It is wise to make the inner and outer walla as tight as possible so as to minimize the danger of the filling getting damp and partially losing its Insulating value. Also the upper up-per and lower boards should be put on with screws for quick removal, so that the sawdust can be easily taken out and sunned or renovated in case It becomes damp or Infested Infest-ed with mites. Feeding Too Late It was formerly a common practice prac-tice to feed baby chicks too soon after hatching but now many farmers farm-ers and poultrymen are going to the opposite extreme and waiting too long before feeding. About 24 hours are required to complete a hatch. That is It will be 24 hours from the time the first chicks hatch until the last ones are out of the shell. If the chicks are not fed until un-til more than 43 hours after the hatch Is completed some of the chicks are more than 72 hours old before they receive any nourish ment The long wait makes them weak and past desire to eat Forty-eight hours after the hatch ts completed is now recommended as the maximum amount of time to withhold feeding. For best results the first feed should be given earlier. POULTRY FACTS The brooder should be In order and well heated before the chicks are received. Ordinary washed gravel Is very satisfactory for grit or grinding material for the laying flock. Minnesota's poultry business Is placed at more than $60,000,000 an nnally by the state university. Feed chicks 43 hours are hatched. Earlier feeding Is un necessary, ana tnerefore wasteful. It Is good business to hatch chicks early. Pullets must ha hatched early If they are to lay nign-pncea iaii and winter eggs. To get the greatest Yalue out of alfalfa or clover hay fed to poultry poul-try or rabbits, the hay should be cut la pieces from one-fourth to one-half one-half Inch long. Before 1920 only 30 to 70 per cent were raised. Due to control of the diseases which attack turkeys, the percentage has been raised to 85 to 90 per eent of the hatch. Sunlight not only aids In Improving Improv-ing the general health of the poultry poul-try flock but also tends to Increase laying and to improve the sheB strength of the eggs. Good Demand for Honer The bee business Isn't much affected affect-ed by depression, the Department of Agriculture reports. 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