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Show the payson cnrcnxirr.E. II staler Frozen Stars By G eore Mareli Copyright bf Penn Pub. Co. ( WNU Service) tioned with his free hand, but th hooded head was turned from him. "Shei right In line of fire If he shoots I" groaned the rapidly approaching Jim. Then the prostrate lead dog rose. The whip handle of I'urad.s crashed on his head hut, crouching, the husky lunged the length of his traces; his Jaws snapped, and be pulled his tormentor to the snow. As Paradis fought to fret; himself the girl reeled to the skeleton lead dog anchored by his traces. Again and again she slashed at the rawhide tugs Loose, the maddened husky was on the driver, tearing at his throat, "Aurore !" Turning, the girl dropped the knife she held, nnd, like one In a dream, made an uncertain step forward, hands outstretched her marveling ejes on Jeem! the man who ran to her. she cried, as his arms took Jeem her. "I never saw you. Jeem! Ive found you found you at last he murmured to the sobbing girl crushed to his breast. Oh, I knew youd come come for I ! CHAPTER XIV Continued 1 8 tar dimmed In the withering dawn, six lean hunk lea, followed by trailing ribbon of frozen breath started down the river, purple with shadow, between the bleak buttreaaea of the bills. Hiding the aled where the wind bad eeoured the Ice, breaking a path on hie anowahoee for his foundering dog where drifts barred the way, 3! in pushed north. The sun lifted In the southeast to rim the white ridges with fire. Then, up the silent valley drifted a long wnll on the freezing air. The ears of the plodding team lifted. Their black nostrils quivered as they ought for the scent of their heredi- the A tary enemy. "The wolves are after gome breakfast I muttered Jim snapping Ida whip as the dogs trotted over a stretch of wind scoured river. Again the far cull reached the team. Lifting his nose, the shaggy leader sent back the answering challenge of the husky, as the team behind him snarled and yelped In their excitement. A half mile below, the rivet made a sharp turn, teaching the bend, Jim, who was breaking trull, stopped In bis tracks; then, calling to his team, hurried ahead, as three gray shapes left dark object In the snow and slunk from the river lee Into the forest. What was that by the trull ? Jim approached the thing In the snow which the wolvea had left. After alll" he groaned. "Is this the end?" llad she despaired of his coming? Did she wait there In the snow for the man who was too late? Old with dread, Jim stumbled forward. followed by his dogs, and looked. Torn by the fangs of the starving wolves lay the carcass of a husky, lean to emaciation. With a cry of relief and Joy, Jim ehonted to Ills sniffing dogs. Weve got him, hoys I His dogs are done! lie left this one yesterday, hut lie didn't travel far In that Mow I Two miles farther on, a fresh sled trail leaving thp timber for the river Jre marked the lant camp of 1'uradls. Hut Jim's auxlous search found no messnge from the girl whose moccasins lind marked !he snow. Then with a shout to each of his flogs and a hug for ttie bony leader the race was on. Three four hours lead with three dogs dying on their feet separated Jim from the girl he Had followed Into the frozen heart of Klwedln. Before the sun hung high In the south he would reach her have her In his arms. Aurorel Down the white valley slaved the team with Its mad driver, floundering drifts, where the through breast-higuow billowed like the sea ; scrambling at a wild gallop over the wind-hainered reaches, drawing closer, ever closer, to the fleeing aled of Purudls. Spurring big panting dogs with curse and caress, merciless alike to himself Stuart and bis team, the pressed on. Then the river widened and the white plain of a lake opened before the hollow eyes of the exhausted Jim. Heaving his spent dogs on the snow, Stuart climbed a snow drifted boulder. Painfully hla squinting eyes followed out across the glittering the sled-trai- l lake. He looked long, blinking In the e from the anow; then leaped from the boulder and staggered to his team. They're out there. Wolf! Weve caught 'em, boy! We've won I Circling the lean neck of the lead-dowith Ma arms, Jim kissed the scarred skull of the great beast whose gallant heart had kept the flagging team on the tralL Out over the while lake, broken by drift, reeled the drooping dogs, red tongues swinging from lowered heads, urged by their frenzied driver. "Two miles more. Wolf; only two miles more, nnd were through I" pleaded the strained voice of the man who tad crucified his body to reach the goal hla eyes at last visioned Across the lake creeping spots on the snow beckoned him on. Minute by minute he gained on the moving team ahead. Kneeling on his sled, his rifle !u his hands, Stuart's weakened eye sought the figure of Aurore. Hut fused dogs and people the Ju a black blur. Rapidly the pursuing team closed on Then the sled ahead It quarry. The dogs were down shopped. Jim dropped his mittens and cooked Ms rifle. The beaten Iaradls would Are at the coming team would not quit without a fight. If she'd only leave the sled run into the snow! Didnt she see him know he was coming? separated the Rarely a rifle-sho- t teams when a tall figure lurched from the stalled sled and stood over the broken dogs sprawled In the snow. Then an arm lifted a long dog whip fell; rose again and fell. his dogs to He was trying to lash tnelr feet! Was he mad out of his bead? Wouldn't he fight? Why didn't he see thorn close on his heels? Jim railed to the huddled shape on Aurorel Lie Aurore! the sld. down I Get out or the way !" lie mo half-craze- d , sun-glar- me There, In silence, while the starved worried the dead tuan In the snow, Jim held to his heart the girl he tiad followed four hundred white miles to find on the nampless luke. Her wild sobbing ceased and he gently pushed hack the hood from her thin face. "Starved !" he murmured. Starved, and worn out The ghost of her old smile returned aa her great eyes shone. "Starved? Yes, starved for you, Jeem for the sight of your sled. Then the fur of their hoods met. shutting out the white world around them. "We must get back up the river, and make camp." said the Intoxicated Jim, at length, shocked hack to reality by the freezing air, I'll take hi dogs, They were certainly poor brutes. game! And that lead dog, when you cut his traces" Oh I she broke In. "I forgot the Get them, Jeem I I can't look dogs at hla face, there! Leaving her, Jim went to the lead-dostill guarding hla kill In the snow. As he approached, the skeleton huaky slowly rose to his feet, hair stiff on his lead-do- I gaunt frame, and his fangs hared In a snarl. The eyes of the man opened In aniuzemeut, hla jaw sagged, as the girl watched. He thrust hla bare hands, palms upward, toward the threatening dog. The lifted lips slowly sheathed the white fangs. The dog's flattened ears rose from hla battered skull. The snarl died In Ids throat. He sniffed curiously at the man facing him who had not si ruck. Jim's wondering eyes blurred at the on red welts raised by the the black muzzle nearing hia extended hands. "Smoke! he choked. Smoke, boy; don't you know Jim? The bloodshot eyes of the husky searched the face of the man. Ills black nostrils diluted. He took a cautious step forward his nose seeking the hnnds thrust toward him hands which Rtirred vague memories blurred by months of brutality and starvation. Another sniff and dim recollection of a muster who never struck, whose voice was a caress, harrassed his dazed brain. Smoke! It's Jim ; JIra, boy I Dont you remember Jim. Smoke?" With a whimper, the dog fiercely nuzzled the outstretched hand as, at last, poignant memory of the lost master flooded hi brain. He sprang upon the man kneeling In the snow, his red tongue covering him with ntad caresses as he yelped and whimpered his Joy Then, weak as he was. Smoke circled Jim again and agatD In a mad gallop, to return to the waiting arms and hear s his ears had the crooning once known. You've been beaten and starved and broken, boy, but Its over now. There'll be happy days for you and Jim! Then on the hairy skull Stuart's groping fingers found the furrow left by the bullet which had stunned Smoke at the portage, enabling Iaradis to take the dog with him In his fleeing canoe. While Smoke yelped and whimpered, leaping upon him lu an eestaey of Joy, dog-whi- love-word- g sun-glar- e haunted by the thought of her day la the power of the man who had paid. A be kneeled, busy with the sled M lashing, he suddenly touched shoulder. "Jeem !" He looked up. "Why del you follow? For hatred of hint or love of me? She hud her answer In tits eyes as he bent and kissed her. she smiled through 'I riumphiintly her tears. even after imj do love me With a murmured protest, tie kissed her tenderly. Hut she was not through. She rtiohed and turned Jitu'9 face tow ird to r That dead man there "Look at me has mm h to answer for hut not that! he wotshiped me He was mad-b- ut ted me! I didn't trust him ami always carried my knife. He knew I was ready to kill myself I" You think my love is so small a this" ! thing?" "No: she sobbed. it, lover of mine! I It certainly was word glbodlegwason well-cu- t knickers the ao Insult to that which aet off her shapely leg crime, he had thought. Uut what I R must It was to cut hair like that Then he waist. her to have rippled remembered the laughed aloud a he In the blue eyes of Mary dls-u- st of the Inspector at Lake once asked her Expanse, when he hair. when she Intended to bob her or hair her cut wouldnt No Mary Bake shorten her skirts either. were somewhat behind arnl-- as tltm-sMary was the only the would rewhite girl ou the great lake main so. was Of course, the astute I.ePdond off well PH on iiurnlng his daughter sled-loa- tee-har- west. "What a welcome I" he laughed. "Even the skies are outdoing themselves for onr homecoming." She turned and circled his neck with an arm. It's too heantlful to be real, Jeem. In the rich color of her dark face there was little trace of the agony of the days which had passed. Do you think you can endure It here for awhile with me, Aurore of the sunset cheeks?" he tensed. "With skies like this and Jeem could live at Stuart to love me, Mitawangagnma forever. For reply he tilted back her chin, burled In Its fur hood, and kissed 1 her. As Smoke led the galloping team up the lake shore to the post, the guns of a group of Indians, led by Omar and Ksuu and Jlnaw, the Rattlesnake, saluted agnln and again. Up througa (he tipis of the hunters which dotted the clearing Jim drove his dogs to the stockade gate. Swinging the laughing girl to her feet, they hurried to the house where Sarah waited In the doorway. Nin! n'go! Meester Jeem, I glad The wide face of the excited Sarah knotted tnipotently In her endeavor to hide her tears. "Sarah," he laughed, patting her broad shoulders, Tve brought back Mrs. Jim to live with us." With a laugh, Aurore hugged the embarrassed OJIbwa. "Sarah and 1 will always agree. We both love Jeem Stuart. They were In the lighted living room, when Jim choked, coughed, then burst Into laughter. "Sarah! What In the Look! Look at Sarah's glbodlegwason !" With the pride and assurance of the wearer of a Farls gown, Sarah stood In baggy knickers on which she had lavished so many painful hours, awaiting the approval of the convulsed Aurore and Jim. "Sarah, theyre beautiful!" cried Aurore, while the Ojihwa grinned In delight. Jim's thoughts went hack to his first meeting with Aurore. To the picture of a dark head beside a submerged canoe which the seas buried as they drove rast. his memory Joined the dripping figure of a shivering girl, standing In Marthe's doorway, dis missing the adventure ns a Joke. Then her cool Indifference to the scandalized OJihwnsI He had road that they were like that these present-dagirls. He chuckled at the memory of how she rose from the table to display her whipcords, to the consternation of the No false modesty Inquisitive Sarah. there I In fact, he admitted, modesty did not anpear to enter Into the picture. And how she had seized on that ! of Relief and Joy, Jim Hit Sniffing Dogs. Jim glanced at the crumpled Iaradls, gray face distorted In the grimace of death. You were lucky, Paradis," he said to the thing In the snow. "If Omar or I had taken you alive ou'd have died slow, l'arndls, slow and hard!" Taking Aurore sleeping hag, he cut loose the remululng two dogs and returned to her. "I didn't tell. I wanted Smoke to recognize you." she said as Jim wrapped her snugly on his sled. "1 think he knew me, and often 1 stole At night he always food for him. came to me when we made camp." Don't talk about It!" Jim protested. In Winnipeg. Strange, shed escaped long before the lapse of another thousand years, for wood pulp paper Is short-lived- . Even by going to the trouble of Interleaving all Its nenvpapor files with sheets of tlne paper the New York lublic library has no expectation that they will he luinde-nhi- e for more than about a hundred years. Odd though It seems, It Is cert tin that the student of a century or two hence will he nole to em-n- 't pienv of legible newspapers dating tip to Its Value Demonstrated by Chicken pox, a disease which annualIn Illinois poully takes a heavy toll be controlled with now can flocks, try more safety as a result of experiments which the division of animal pathology and hygiene. College of Agriculture, durvac- cines. Pigeon pox vaccine proved superior to chicken pox vaccine, and consequently the former is being recommended to farmers and flock owners. Then an Arm Lifted, a Long Dog Whip Fell, Rose Again and Fell. black It was eyes and that magnetism. magnetism; no doubt about that. The man on the bunk In the trade-houshad sucked In a deep breath at the memory of his struggle to get the girl Into the canoe the dead weight of her In his strainso long with those dangerou d ing arms. He remembered, too, with a deep drawing In of the breath, the weight of her In his arms as he took her from the lake the touch of her hair on his face. And the day he returned from that glorious stolen visit on the Island, to confront an anxious Sarah and Marthe. Well. Sarah," he had said, as his boat shot Into the beach, "you see I am hack safely. You see her? demanded Sarah. Yes. She wear dose glbodlegwason? "No." Jim was amused at the Interest of his cook In the recent guest of Sunset House. She didn't wear em. She wore a white dress." Sarah and Marthe exchanged quizzical looks. And she had on white silk stockings and white shoes. went on Jim, enjoying the curiosity of the two What d'you think of that for wompn. Klwedln?" Seelk ajlgan! The chins of Sarah and Marthe dropped In amazement. "Seelk, lak' dis?" demanded the former, pointing to Aurore's crimson scarf which she always wore. "Yes. On her foot? Nla ngo! gasped astonished and disapproving Sarah. "She pur seelk on her foot?" "The women wear silk stockings In the cities, Jim explained, and followed Esau and Omar to the trade-houswhile the bewildered Marthe and Sarah wagged dark heads at the unbelievable news that women put so precious a fabric as silk to such base uses. He remembered, too, Aurore's playful promise to provide Sarah with a pair of silk stockings. "Do they shock you, mon ami?" Aurore had asked, noting the amused smile as his approving eyes swept her graceful legs encased in silk stock1 the e, ings. No, they are most becoming. I was thinking of Sarah's horror lust night, when I told her you wore silk stockShe almost choked with surings. prise. Nla! n'go! she gasped. 'She put seelk on her foot?"" "The poor old soul !" The girl rocked with laughter. "So she was horrified at the thought of silk stockings? Im Just going to send her a pair for Christmas. Whats her size?" Jim's face had sobered as he gravely considered the matter. "Good lord, I should say the largest they make." And as he smilingly surveyed the hags which, like Turkish trousers, hung to the Indian womans outcurv-in- g and ponderous ankles, he turned soberly to Aurore, ns Sarah rolled triumphantly back to the kitchen. "Do you realize what this means? You nave lured an Indian woman to break the habit of a lifetime, you sorceress. Is it strange that your gihodieg-wasoenchanted a poor white trader? With a bound she reached him and smothered his pealing laughter with her lips. THE END. n about ISoO, for they nre on rag paper. The papers, however, chronicling man's subsequent conquest of time and space, the dawn of the eras of flight, wireless, electrification and television, will crumble like ashes at his touch. Already the file of a weekly London Journal of only fa) years ago. preserved in the Bro;ob Museum ldirary, has met with that fate. Loudou Spectator. Nothing to Learn "Do not toll us," said III Ho, the sa-of Chinatown, "that women are e learning to tight. They aiwaj knew how." Washington Star. Hox Proper vaccination at this season of the year will prevent losses from canker, avian diphtheria or chicken pox during the winter months, according to the laboratory. There is no medicine or serum that wdll cure the infection, but vaccination will prevent It. Growing stock that Is running on range should be vaccinated during June, July and AugusL If vaccination Is put off until fall, egg production may be lowered as a result of the extra handling of the birds as well as by the reaction from the vaccine. Potent vaccines properly administered to healthy, young chickens produce an immunity against chicken pox that probably lasts for a year or longer. It is Important, however, that chickens be free from intestinal parasites and other diseases before they are vaccinated. The pigeon pox vaccine which Is now being recommended causes less reaction than the chicken pox vaccine, and therefore may be used with less danger. A practical immunity Is induced by the pigeon pox product. A limited supply of the vaccine prepared by the division of animal pathology and hygiene is available at a nominal cost to qualified veterinarians for Veterinarians purposes. taking advantage of this supply are required to make a careful record of the vaccination, age and condition of the chickens vaccinated on blanks furnished for the purpose. 4 St., t alt LakJ c,i!'2!,! 1666. ilailhitr furnished Experiments. University of Illinois, has made ing the past year with different Few Records Preserved for Future Historians It Is pretty safe to predict that almost ail our hooks, and practically all our hound files of newspapers and magazines, will have crumbled to dust E, iX3 VACCINE WILL SAVE LOSSES IN FLOCKS , 1 With a Cry Shouted .ndTlv.ly.vour,JPu. Ex-pan- d toward Sunset llousa As the excited dogs took the sled toward the post at a gallop, the driver, kneeling behind the hooded Aurore, pointed Into the Keeps Skin YouS er 1 Snug In the spruee beside a great fire, they camped that night and feasted, In their happiness oblivious of the fierce cold which drew down the stars until they glittered close to the spruce tops while the aurora pulsed across them m flushes of green and rose and pearl. Then hack up the Wlnlsk they Journeyed, Smoke and his gaunt team-niate- s loose while Jim's feeding thickened their blood. of Meeting Omar with a food, J1 J and Aurore passed the Sturgeon and reached the Iipestones. From there, Omar hurried south to carry the news of Aurores safety to Lel.lond nnd aid Ksau with the Christmas trade, while Jim turned east on the Fort Hope trail. "Were going to see a friend of mine. Father Joan of the Oblate misJim explained with a sion, Omar, we'll he home for "Tell them grin. New Years. 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