Show THE ISLE OF RETRIBUTION By Illustrated EDISON P. P by R. R W. W g copyright MARSHA Little Brown Brawn Co 1023 Continued from yester yesterday ar And perhaps the administering bands ands halted In their work for forone OnO one part of an Instant His I wet et clinging clothes had been removed and blankets already warmed armed were cre being wrapped upped about him He lIe IcU ell Into deep restful sleep But flut it ended all too soon A great hand shook him snatching him into i j tf sitting position and a great f. f k bearded face unspeakably terrible I j i. i Mn 1 n the toe we weird yellow light ol ot the lantern l showed shoved close to his own i V n Up S Up and out he was shouting t 1 It Jt will be light Ight enough to work by by Cm m. m e you ou have breakfast Out OutA I A before I boot you ou out Ned ed ed pulled on his clothes scarce- scarce II 1 Jl wondering at the fact that they K iw rere re hanging miraculously dr dry f ck of ot the stove and immediately to Lenores Lenore's side He forgot II t. t l own aching muscles In distress 01 her and his arms went about her ber drawing her face to his own reentered the room then ithe gazing at nt them In amused empt contempt and Ned Instinctively straightened 1 lf J trust youre you're not hatching hatching- mu- mu the lie sardonic voice came out fot ot Just no now New answered some spirit Theres not J use to hatch mutiny things g gas as they are dont don't sa say Theres There's a rifle o 0 the wall vall empty empty- ut the pistol I carry is al always ays ed led Why dont don't you try to take r away i tI vay from me Then his voice olce 1 i surly and rumbling again dt qt enough nough of ot that nonsense You YouiA j iA dow v Q what would happen to you it itt if t xo tried to do anything anything Ive Ive I've- told 1 u that already alread Theres There's work to do today Theres There's got to be another Cabin logs Cabin logs cut built up roof root put 4 oh a l-a a place for the three of ot you to toJ J hunk bunk That's the work today The three of ot you ought to get a big pI piece ce Q oC or it done aone today today- J Miss liss Is she well enough nough she help your WILe Wife with the housework toda today v I U will tako tAke a nil three of you OU to Atthe 18 the work Ill I'll lay out Lenore can canto i to d doi do her stint with the oth- oth t L j And nd hereafter when you ou ad- ad l me call mo me sir sir- sirA A mere merc i Ater ter of employers employer's discipline discipline- 4 he knew his master Ned H iced o ed in agree agreement Yes sir he l J turned simply One thing else I Il i C f iI tant be expected to do real work I 1 this kind of cl clothes thes Youve You've laid 0 ut 11 t furs and skins for the 1 I Want ant to get bet something too that rj 4 MIll keep me warm and dr dry 1 not responsible for the you brought with you ou You Hid havo have had greater respect t for tor foro It o north Besides it gives me r I assure you ou to see you rr T as you ou are It tones up the thel l party part gripped trIpped ripped ot of his late conceit that E l t otherwise have ha concealed It itI I f him Ned Oed caught every ves- ves g o of the mans man's irony Do I get rm m clothes he demanded nUt When lIen you OU earn them was the theIn i- i r. r In a few days das more you'll ning your our traps and everyou every- every g t ou catch at first you ou can Youve You've got to prove pro yourself s att at f than the animals before I Vt get t the right t to wear their their 19 previous day and night had full of revelation for Ned and andie ie e started forth from the cabin I his axe there occurred a little I e 0 that tended even further to f ater his changing viewpoint ng with triumph at the theer cr er ciman's mans man's subjection Dooms- Dooms ti rl called sardonically from the I y doorway trust I 1 cant can't help you ou In an any ho asked the premeditated inin In- In ln in his tone Ned whirled to face tace faceA A I Then Then f for r an instant h he stood U with wrath 8 hel answered His promise I I t V sir was forgotten In his I I g You rou can at least treat me he be respect desen deserved ed by a good nn an an I It I t l e e amused lines lIne came about I i I fierce A I IJ eyes ees good J an n. n eh he echoed Yes Y es Id 14 work fair enough esterI yester- yester I 1 Walt Wait Just a minute Je e e turned Into his door in a I. I mo- mo 1 ft reappearing with a a. saw and f IiI ral iron s from among his Tilles of ot tools He put them in I ds d's 4 hands ands and the latter received m with a L delight never neer I I heed at an any favor of ot fortune In the past rth rt h he w worked the stiffness and I I n in n that yesterdays yesterday's toil had left In s muscles seemed to pass away J ax swung easily casIly in his arms en the tho first tree was chopped he set Lenore and Bess at off oft the branches and ng ng the twelve-foot twelve lo logs s for the came about that he chopped I several trees before the two gL had bad finished cutting and the first Seemingly Le- Le not yet recovered from trying experience of two nights I oze e. e for she wholly failed to do I I Li a part of ot the work What was i W at this end of St e labor Bess id 40 lid did alone The r unmistakable inference was that N d. d would have hae to double his own peed eed In order to avoid the lash at night The day turned out to be not greatly different from the one preceding pre- pre ceding Again Ned ed worked to abe ab- ab e lute exhaustion the only apparent apparent apparent ent change seemed to be that he accomplished a greater amount of ot work olk before he finally fell tell Insensible Kle ble in the snow This wa was 8 the twi- twi hour and prone In the snow v h h- hlay lay like a G warrior among his i fallen About hm him was as a ring of i trees chopped down and with Bess' Bess a aid ald d. d trimmed of ot their limbs notched and sawed Into lengths for the c cabin They had only to be lifted on one upon another to form the cabin walls Bess had collapsed too as the I twilight hour drew on and Lenore alone was able to walk unaided to I the shack Again Ned ed lay insensible I ble We on the floor beside the stove I but ut tonight long past the supper hour he was able to remove hIs bis 7 own own wet clothes and to devour f fome eme me of the unsavory leftovers from I the meal The third day was given gh-en to the great logs one upon another another an an- another other for tor the walls of ot the cabin It jt was in reality the hardest work he be had yet done a as to shift shUt each lo log 10 into place took every ounce of lifting power the man had The girls could help him but little here for both of them together did not seem to be able to handle an end endot of ot the great logs He found he had to lift each end in turn Yet he was able to drag to the cabin tonight and torpid with fatigue fatigue fa fa- fa- fa tigue take his place at the he crude supper table He didn't remember getting up from his chair stripping off ott part part of hIs bis wet clothes and falling among the blankets that had left for his use on the floor noor Almost Almost Almost Al Al- Al- Al most at once it was dawn lawn again A new more vivid consciousness was him when he hs wakened The stabbing ache in his legs and arms was mostly worn off now but there was e e. sharp pain in the small of ot hIs hig back that at first seemed absolutely unendurable But it ft waned too as he went to the work of finishing the cabin laying the roof and hanging the crude door It was with a a certain vague qualIty quality quality ity of ot pleasure that he regarded this cabin he had built bunt with his own hands finished now except for tor forthe the tho chinking of ot the logs It IL was the first creative work he had ever ever done and he looked at It and saw that it Jt was as good The cabin itself cabin itself was was- roomy and snug here he could find seclusion from and his imperturbable able squaw gave him a a. rusted discarded stove and it jt was almost jO Joy to see It standing in its place With permission he devoted a L full fun day to procuring fuel for it Four days more the three of ot I them worked at the task of laying I in fuel Ned fuel Ned doing the lions lion's share of the work of ot course Bess toiling tolling to the limit of her fine young strength Lenore making the mereat merest merest mer mer- est eat pretense The r result of ot the latter's lat lat- ter's idleness was of ot course ourse that her two companions had Md to divide her share of work worle between them Every day allotted th them m certain duties duties so so many trees to cut cut up into stove wood or some other no less arduous duty and he ho seemed to have an uncanny ability to drive them Just short of actual complete exhaustion They consumed great quantities of food particularly food particularly Bess and Ned What would have been a full tull days day's rations in their own home enough concentrated nutriment to put them in bed with Indigestion did not suffice for a 0 single meal Never ever before had Ned really known th the love of ot food red food red meat the fair good rice grains white while and fluffed but fluffed but it came upon him quickly enough enouch h now He hadn't forgotten hadn't-forgotten forgotten that the first furs taken would be his and he needed them sorel sorely enough Indeed In Indeed Indeed In- In deed the matter was beginning to tobe tobe tobe be of ot paramount importance to his health and life Besides the trappers trapper's life lite offered more of Interest than that of the woodchopper It would carr carry him through those gray valleys valles and over oer rugged hills that tha t now when he had time to look about him seemed to invite his hi exploration Best of ot all the work would largely carry him him I away from Irom presence If only he could spare Lenore not only by permission of ot I but b by the consent of ot the her her- self The matter came ame up that night while was sorting out some of his smaller traps Well light out tomorrow he said The sooner we get these things set the better The water furs seem to be absolutely prime already alreadY Im Im I'm sure the land Jand furs must be too Ive I've laid out three lines sometimes lInes sometimes Ive I've trapped one one and sometimes another an an- other Two of ot em are four day lines Unes and one a a. five day line that line that Is ts they take four and five da days s 's re respectively respectively re- re I to get around On each one Ive I've built series of huts or shacks all of them with a a. stoye and supplies of ot food and you put putI I up In them for the night They are area area a a. days day's march apart giving you OU I time lime Ito to o pick up your skins reset and so on as you go be bo away from me an and this I cabin for days at a time but if youre you're figuring on any advantage I from that Just put it out of ot your our ourI mind the sooner the better Maybe l I you ou think you OU can sneak enough time to make mako a. a boat smuggle It down to the water and cast off ott Let me assure you OU you'll have no notime notime notime time to sneak You'd never get more than a few hours' hours start and the they wouldn't help you at all on the tho thoIce Ice fields I trust theres there's no need to mention penalties You already know about that I And maybe you OU are thinking it I will be easy enough to slack slack not not trying to catch much so you wont won't have many to flesh a and ad d stretch stretch maybe maybe hiding what you do catch Ill I'll Just say this I have a pretty prett good idea how this country skins each runs runs just just how many mans line yields ields with fair trapping trapping- Im I'm going to Increase that estimate by 20 per pel cent cent and and that's to be your our I wont won't say my what that amount is now But if at the end of the season youre you're short short-by by one skin skin look look out It means that you'll have to be about 20 per cent smarter and more Industrious than the average trapper But man man man- manNed Ned ed protested Were Vere not experienced experienced- learn quick enough Arent Aren't you OU the dominant race And I warn you OU again you'll better drop bitter tears every time you OU find where a wolverine has been along and eaten an ermine out of ot a trap The man was not Jesting They knew him well enough by now the piercing glitter of ot his keen gray grayeyes grayeyes grayeyes eyes the odd fixation about his pupils pu pupils pu- pu pils pits that was always manifest when he ho was most In earnest was plainly in evidence now v. Thus It was with the most profound amazement that Lenores Lenore's companions companions' suddenly saw her beautiful mouth curling in a smile For themselves they were lost In despair All Ali too plainly had merely hinted at the cruel rigors of the trappers trapper's trail Yet Lenore was smiling Then Ned saw with a queer quer little tug of his heart that the smile was I Inot I Inot I l not meant for him I Lenore was smiling at r She was looking straight his gray eyes Her cheeks s were flushed a lovely pink her eyes were smiling too she presented an image of ot ineffable In Ineffable in in- effable beauty Im afraid I wouldn't be much I good to you as a a. trapper she began began be began be- be gan quietly her voice of ot cloying I sweetness Im afraid Id I'd only get In the way and scare the little little little- I mines ermines you call them them out out out of the country Mr lor do you know how well I can keep house And the wile was not without re re- re suits The usual scoffing refusal did not come at wt once to the bearded lips Perhaps the master was flattered flattered flattered flat flat- that Lenore was so tamed perhaps he wished to reward her I attitude of ot friendliness so that Bess might take rake example You want to stay here with Sindy and me eh he lie commented at last Well Sindy might like some help Im I'm willing willing but but Ill I'll leave it up to your two friends They'll have ve to work all the harder to make up for forIt It especially It-especially Bess Dess I was v as going to have you OU two girls work together I He watched Neds Ned's face with l keenest keen keen- een- een est eat interest The younger oun er man fi flashed hed in his earnestness Ills his adorIng adoring adoring ador ador- ing gaze on Lenore Im only too glad to make it easier for you you he said his hIo crooked boyish smile dim at his lips the one thing thing- that maters to to help you all I can In this case though though though-Bess Bess Is the one to I say X Lenore perceptibly stiffened as Neds Ned's gaze turned to Bess It didn't flatter her that her lover loer should even take taie Bess into consideration tion She had grown accustomed to receiving his every duty But tt rt came about that Lenore and her little Jealousies did not even find a place In Bess' Bess thought She returned Neds Ned's gaze her eyes eye lustrous lustrous lustrous lus lus- trous as if It with tears and she understood understood understood un un- un- un wholly the prayer that was In his heart Of Ot course she may stay here she said Well make out some some- hO hoW trap lines lay in great circles coinciding at various po points fn En order to the number number num num- I ber of cabins needed to work them and ultimately swinging back to to the home cabin in the thicket be beside beside beside be- be side the sea They were very simple simple sim aim pie to follow he explained explained explained-Bess' Bess' Bess line running up the river to the mouth of OC a great tributary that flowed from the south the camp b being being be be- ing known as the Eagle Creek cabin thence up the tributary to its forks known as the For Forks s cabin up lip the left leU hand forks to Its Hs mother springs the Spring cabin and amid then straight down the ridge to the home cabin four tour days' days Journey In all drew tor for her guidance a simple map that would remove all danger of ot going astra astray Neds Ned's route was slightly more complicated yet nothing that the |