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Show THE SAUNA SUN. SAUNA, UTAH an OJIbwa, the old man started ahead of them down the Sturgeon on hla lone search for Jlngwak. Time and again Jim had endeavored to learn how be hoped to circumvent the medicine man who had such a hold on the hunters of the Sturgeon, but Esau had kept his own counsel. With a smile, the wily old Indian had replied: Eet may be Esau ees too old. Ilees back no longer carry de beeg load for de companee. Ilis leg are stiff for de winter trail. But he has seen manee t'lng and hees Eef he nevalre memory ees long. come back, eet mean hees head, also, ees no good. More he refused to say, and Omar, cold gaze met his scrutiny. Then he when questioned by the curious Jim, quietly said; as he again looked Into had shaken his head doubtfully as he the fire;. You will never come back. explained Esau's reticence. The old Jim studied the. wrinkled mask of mans plan was so wild In Its details thfe old OJibwa, framed In Its long and depended for Its success so largegrizzled locks. Had he come to warn ly on luck that Esau dared not divulge them as a friend, or was he seeking to It to his chief. learn their pluns, only to send the inSo Stuart parted with his friend formation ahead of them? with misgiving Id his heart. The loyal You have lived through many old Indian was going down the SturWisdom has come snows," he said. geon into the enemies country, alone, to you through the. years. You know to fight for Sunset House. What that Jlngwak Is a liar or you would could he do to Jlngwak there, In his not sit here and look me In the eye. stronghold, one against many? This Paradis has filled his tipi with He gripped the old Ojibwas hand flour and tea and tobacco, why? BeIn parting. I dont like to have you cause Jingwak keeps the hunters from go alone, Esau, Jim said. ' We ought trading with the old company. But to fight this out' together.. ttds is finished. LeBlond has sent Y'ou an your fader was de good Paradis far south to the Nipigon. of me, replied Esau, his eyes fren The old Indian looked up with with feeling. I am ole man. bright You say Paradis has puzzled eyes. Soon I go talk to your fader. Wen I ' gone south? meet heem, he ask, Esau, how you Yes." leeve de boy? I wan to .tell heem d.6 The seamed visage of the Indian boy ees ver fine wid-dbeeg trade at stiffened In thought as his narrowed .de House of de The Setting Sun. eyes sought Ills moccasin. Then he old mans, fingers gripped hard On said: He has put a spell upon the Jims. Dat eas wly I .go to fin Jingyoung men on the Sturgeon river wak. this Jingwak.: If you go there they Turning, Esau shoved off the canoe will kill you. and was soon out of sight behind a At the words, Omar Boisvert rose timbered point. In the gray eyes to .his feet, shaking with rage. ThrustiStuart, as he watched the dip and ng tiis clenched fists at the OJibwa, swing t Esaus paddle until the bent he opened and closed his fingers. back of the .old man disappeared, ' I there was the mist of With these hands," he stormed, memory and will .choke the- breath from the lying the emotion of a full heart. ' Go back and .throat' of this wabeno. The father he had burled on the send your young men to tell him we shore of far Gods lake rwhat would are coming. Tell- him that Omar he not give today for his companionBoisvert who broke the neck . of Big and hla counsel? ship Pierre, at Fort, Severn, with his fist, . Is coming to drive, him out of the . It was September, the moon of the Sturgeon river country. Tell him If he stays,- Omar Boisvert, who sets mating of the caribou; September, bear-trap- s with his hands, will tear when through the wild valleys, the lifting sun rolled back curtains of his tongue from his throat. Inflamed with passion, Omar stood mist, veiling ridges touched here and over the squatting figure of the Old there with yellow and gold by the Indian, who gazed up at him with a magic wand of .the frost ; September, when the muskegs were blue- with look of mingled surprise and regret. ripened berries and the loons, restless You think me the friend of Jing. with the urge of far Journeying, called wak and this Paradis, h.e said calmly. atsunset across . nameless lakes. Y"Ou jure wrong. .1 come here because I am their enemy, Jingwak took my North, on the vast marshes of the great bay, the legions of the geese .daughter, from me. In silence the Indian rose, shook were assembling for their autumn to' ride 'the ' first hands, and went to his birchbark. As rendezvous later winds south over the green he pushed out from the shore, he said stinging the seas of and the 'flaming spruce him to Jim,, who followed with the Your . canoe Islands of the hardwood ridges. . customary, will never pass this way again." Passing over the spawning beds of ' ' the sturgeon, at the outlet of the Lake Well, what dyofl make of him? asked Jim of 'the silent figures of his of the Great Stones,' where, for a. mile, on the sandy bottom, the dark shapes friends. Was he nosing around to find out something, or was' he of the hnge fish were visible beneath .the peterboro, Jim and Omar entered bringing a friendly warning? He . Is . fren of Jlngwak said the river from which the old OJibwa had warned them they would never ' Esau, and Jlngwak 'Is scar.e'. lie ees return. Two days journey downAh.hah! agreed Omar. scare.- lie got no Paradees to help stream, where the river widened to' form a large lake, Jim hoped- to find heem' now.. . But In spite of the confidence of his the' man they sought. How, when he. found him, he was to break the power' men, Jim' was troubled. What he .deof the sorcerer, he did not know. But sired was to bring about the downfall the future of Sunset depended of the sorcerer by peaceable means on It, and In his desperation, Jim was to gain the friendship of the hunters, to go far how far, the man but It looked as If he would fall. If prepared realized who that failure In the trade the old Indian was to be trusted, they would mean In the end the lofes of would be lucky to get out of the SturAurore LeBlond, did not date admit geon with whole skins. How far the to himself. adherents of Jlngwak were prepared All the morning the peterboro rode to go he already knew. . In the end it the swift current of the Sturgeon. meunt bloodshed, and that meant deToward noon the' drum-bea- t of rapids' feat the enmity of many of the huntwhich the old OJibwa had warned ers whose trade he sought: And dethem they could not ryn, sounded in to Sunset House feat meant good-bears. Then, as they dropped their and. Aurore LeBlond. For he would with their poles toward alongshore, in Lave-no- t comeven a future the first broken water, they saw the the pany's .service to offer her. As he portage trail leading, from the river brooded- with, his thoughts, the day shore back into the timber. island with the daughter of the They landed, and Omar, first swingman- whose, wiles were fast drawing a haunch to his back on a tump-lining (lie iret of defeat about the little fur of th'e yenrling moose they had shot more like seemed he post' 'something at daylight, balanced the heavy,' had read more the fancy of a dream soaked peterboro on' It's center than reality. Those brief hours of unacross his thick shoulders and thwart alloyed delight had been given him to walked briskly off up the trail. .To torment his memory In the years to Omar the man who had Boisvert, come. She would never return to the five bags of company flour a packed Lake of the Sand Beaches. half-milwithout resting, thi-s- . back' The . following morning, Esau left while awkward to balance In the load, a small birch-barthem.-- ' Traveling-I. .. thick brush, was a toy. canoe he had got by trade from (TO BE CONTINUED.) MercolizedWax Under Frozen Stars Itj GEORGE MARSH PROM THE BEGINNING At hU lur post. Sun Houkc, la th Canadian north, Jim Stuart, trader In 'charge, with hi's headman, Omar, reacuea .Aurora Le Blond, daughter of Stuart, rival in tha tur buaineaa. Iron an overturned canoe in the lake. In a spirit of fun, ahe and Jim 'arrange to exchange notes on a certain island. LeBlond, with Paradis, hla half-bree- d lieutenant, arrives In search of the mixing girl. Paradis displays enmity toward Jim. Going to tha Island to aae if Aurora ha. left tha promised note, Jim ie ambushed. by Peradi. and. forced to travel toward the LeBlond poet. On the way ha overturns the boat, leaving his enemy on the beach. Jim's superior, Andrew Christie, displeased at Stuart's trade Paradis bribes an showing, allows him, at his request, ono year to "mak. good. Indian to ombuah Jim and Omar. Tha attempt fails, and Jim takes tha Indian to LeBlond. After hearing tha story, LaBIond discharges Paradis. Jim and Aurora ' acknowledga their mutual love, though Aurora la returning to Winnipeg, and Jim baa planned a canoe trip to make a personal appeal to the Indians, who have persistently refused to trade their furs with him. He finds that Paradis has enlisted their superstition to discourage them from trading with Stuart. CHAPTER V Continued tered from his hands. . ' Theyll take her away from Jim, down there In the city-- Smoke. They' wont let him have her,', but Smokell always love old Jim, wont he? . as the rifles again exploded. In his fear the Indian In the bow of the canoe pledged- headlong Into the river and made for the shore,, while his mate flattened on the floor of the canoe. Then from the willows,' two men' paddled rapidly 'across the stream to the drifting canoe, while the third covered the craft-withhis rifle. Running ' the peterborp ' alongside, Omar stepped Into the birch bark ancj, lifting the gray-faceyoung OJibwa In his great .arms, with a Curse threw him Into the water.' We not' shoot JiJag, de skunk; an' we not shoot at you, dfs tam!' roared ' the Infuriated half-breedeprived of his vengeance by the commands of Stuart. "But de next tam, I weel split your troat lak I stab de caribou. ' . . As the frightened OJibwa swam for .the shore, to the peter-ber- o and finished the work of the rifle shots in destroying the carioe, by , So. the man and the grent dog he had once carried inside his fur parka aa a puppy, sat side by side, in perfect ' understanding, while the flush of the aky slowly faded through the long northern twilight In the mirror of the lake. Then, as Jim held a lighted match to his pipe, In- the Indigo gloom of the spruce of the mainland across the straight, there was the flash and roar' of a rille, followed swiftly by another. A bullet wrenched the shattered , - d ... ' pipe from Stuarts teeth. Then he dove headlong for the bushes,' as Omar and Esau took cover on the opposite side of the dead fire. You heet?" called Omar. ' No I hunching Jim, growled toward his gun which stood, propped against a bush. If they want war give It to em! Again the twilight silence wis spltt by the guns on the mainland, and bullets spattered around the camp, while the excited Smoke yelped as he raced back and forth, still .untouched. Theyll ruin the canoe If we dont stop em!" stormed the maddened fur .trader, as he drew himself within reach of his gun. Here, Smoke, they'll get you I Here! Down." Then the rifles, of . Omar and Esau opened on the . ambush two hundred yards across the strait.-.- ' Shortly the repenting gunk of the three men, firing at the flashes, made the opposite shore too hot for the single, shot rifles in the ambush. The shooting stopped. .Well, the war on tho Pipestone Is called Jim. on, Omar! I think theyre making their getaway nfiaid well cross In the canoe In the dusk ' and hunt em." ' Knowing that rifle sights were pow Invisible In the murk' of the opposite, ahore, Jim stood up, to' And Omar the canoe. calmly examining Now who ' do you suppose pulled" that trick, Esau? Pose young men follow- us fro'm decamp. I suppose theyre some-oParadis people only they dont know that theyll never, see him again..Omar approached Jim and thrust a face into his, the fierceness, .of which even the gathering dusk did not soften.-Defollow us and shoot to keel. Do I use dees now, wen I feel de neck of dat Iaradees? The half breed pointed to the long skinning knife alung from the sash at his. waist. . Yes, I guess you're Justified In using anything, now, Theyre after us and theyll get us too. In this country. If were not careful.- Caine pretty close with that first shot. Got my pipe rjght under my hand. I didnt' know aa Indian could shoot so straight. Dese peopl goin follow us, said Esau. . Wen de moon go down, we drop down de riviere an' wait for dein een de mornin. ... ! agreed Omar. . We mnk a leetle ambush for dem." As the night thickened before the moon died at midnight, the peterboro from SunRet House silently left the Island, and dropped down through the shadows to the outlet and Into the river. A few miles downstream they turned In and made camp. . Jim wrapped himself In his blanket with Smoke beside him, to wrestle with a difficult problem. Clearly the Indians who had followed them down the lake would stop at nothing to drive them out of the country. With these paid henchmen of Paradis on his heels, he could not go on. But to allow Omar and Ksau t'o.shot them out of their canoe In the morning, much as they deserved it, would be bad generalship. They had kinstned among the Pipestone OJibwas who would take up the feud, thus started, and Jims mission was one of conciliation. Yet he had to defend himself, and Omar and Esau would be hard to handle. The sun was high In the sky on the following morning before the three who waited In the river willows saw a canoe turn the bend above them. Clearly the two paddlers were confident that the peterboro was somewhere far ahead of them downstream, for the men In the willows plainly heard their voices. There was the muffled click of steel on steel as three rifles were cocked. Then the willows were silent. Presently, as the birch bark canoe drifted abreast of the ambush, there was a roar, as the guns spat from the shore. The paddle of the bowman fell, splin ' With a cry of terror the sternnian swung the nose of the craft toward the opposite bank, 10-- - d Omar-ret-urne- . The talkative old man was delivering quite a lecture on speedy travel to the young man with whom ' he shared a compartment. Yes, we travel fast these days, he But have you ever thought of said the flight of time of the fleeting hours of youth, the golden days that swiftly pass away? Have you ever counted the minutes ?" Look here," said the young man, 1 dont quite get the suspiciously, hang of this. Are you trying to sell me a watch? Salt Lake Citys cNgwest Hotel A It Looked to Her A Helen followed her father to. the barn and stood for awhile . d Three-year-ol- watching him oil harness. When she returned to the house her mother said, Whal Is daddy doing at the barn? Helen replied in a bored way, Oh, hes Exwashing ' 'the horses garters. change. HOTEL TEMPLE SQUARE Impetuous Campaigning- Do you think you might appeal to the collegiate vote by making your talk . more classical? Im afraid to try! it, answered Senator Sorghum. .My more conservative constituents might be afraid the boys would become so enthusiastic as to go further and start one of these student riots tn' my behalf." Wasn-IngtoStar.. 200 Tile Baths 2Q0 Rooms Radio connexion in every room. RATES FROM $1.50 . Juil oppoiitt Mormon TabtrnacU ERNEST C. ROSSITER, . HARD TO TELL- . . Mgr. Tbe Bait I'm sure Dolly will make . - an. Ideal wife. Whenever I go to her home I find her busily darning her father's socks. I fell for that, too, until I notice It was always the same sock." ' . - bo-Jo- g. try--in- . . - - 'They'll' Take Her Away From jirp Down There. 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To remove wrinkles use one ouaoe Powdered Baxolite lf diaeoived w pint witch head. At drug atom. opening .great seams with his knife. Then he tossed overboard the bag of provisions, with the rifles of the Indians, and abandoned the . waterlogged craft. Now travel home in your moccaIn OJibwa sins, ended the half-breed to the Indian as he reached the shore, and tell them how we gave you a .swim and let you go! Wondering what further evidence of Jlngwak's hostility awaited them, but forced by the necessity of breakInfluence In the ing the conjurers ' Pipestone country If Sunset House were to survive, Jim continued down the river. . ' CHAPTER VI '. Through the '. Pipestone chain of lakes truveled the. canoe from the south, visiting the fishing camps, and denouncing Jingwak as a false sha- man, an Imposter, the paid agent of Paradis and LeBlond. Ofieu the np-- . peals of Jim and Omar were met with sneers and shouts, of dissent. More than once, superstitious Indians refused to talk to them', and frightened women herded their offspring into t he tipis at the coming of the white trader, with the Evil Eye, but to Jlui's satisfaction, most of the older Indians listened, while many were friendly. And sullen and black notwithstanding faces among the younger men, the progress of the peterboro through the Pipestone country .had not been again molested. But one night an old OJibwgt came to their camp on the Lake of the Great Stones, which emptied Into the ' ' . Sturgeon. You are going down Into the Sturhe asked, geon river country? the tobacco and dish of tea Jim offered him. "Yes, replied Jim In OJibwa, this false shaman, Jlngwak, has turned the hunters against us for the pay of Paradis. We are going to find him and make him eat his lies." For a long Interval the old man smoked, his sllt-llkeyes on the fire. Ho not go. He is Then he said: waiting for you." Jim glanced at the Interested faces of Omar and Esau. Was this man friendly or a spy? he wondered. I am glad," he said. "I feared he would run away." The old Indian lifted questioning eyes to the bronzed face of the white man. For a space he seemed to measure the metal of the speaker whose ' e - . Dont you think Mrs. Strougmlnds husband Is naturally a gentle, patient . maa? . Sometimes I think he Is and sometimes I- think hes just plain scared. Son Yes, dad. 'Since you haven't had time to help me with my home.'. work, I havent had one low mark, - Late Stayer Again ' does that Virginia, Break for .Johnny Well, son, youre getting some good marks'this term. Father young-ma- ' do? , . . " What young man, papa?" " one three the calls that nights. "Why, a' week and never notices the clock. Oh,- papa, he has political aspirations.. He really, expects to be elected ' . ' . a legislator. him not to pracHm.' Well,, tell sessions around tice any ' . hete, . 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