Show X X X X A MARY 0 0 mava g i f SU SUCCEEDS f f 0 li ON 0 I 1 7 j 0 li 0 t MAIN STREET 0 0 t 0 to p I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 a 0 0 g 0 0 by LA LAURA URA milt MILLER E R 0 0 b 0 i a NU r as axx X X X 0 S by taura miller HOSTESS OF TORCH torchlight LIGHT FISHING LAKE lao lac du flambeau als seemed in a 1018 1015 it i very deserted little main street originally etwas it was a sandy tr trail all through great 1011 te pine trees from indian fishing village to indian hunting grounds then french voy voya in search of beaver followed it ind and trims trans its indian IRMO was wall wali ORM gam near the torch light fistal ing nging lake into their own tongue followed americans who persuaded the descendants of Il lawatha to lac du flambeau the ali center of a pert permanent na but year utter after year ar generation after generation say eay the old men inon the tha trail remained the same pine alne shadowed moccasin printed printe d high bleh way any nineteen fifteen saw it sun bitten dusty desolate running through a devastated dea va country past a 9 wrecked A will beyond rows 0 desert ed cd cabins that mill workers had tseu used while the company stripped the reservation of its timber one painted house stood apart at t the lie end of tit the trail where thu the lake inko waves up to meet it it one buo of the two remaining clumps of troea trees stood near bear one of 0 tile the tevi few sp spirits brits which had bad absorbed from ruthless business the good to be learned and avoided the dwelt in the painted house the one pair of ayea that paw the tha green beauty that would soon clotho clothe tho the land and tile the fiall that begged for in the tha long choln chain of lakes belonged to the dweller in the painted house there was question from her husband when mrs lira benedict gauthier Oaut proposed to put all the family savings into it a summer hotel for fishermen and their families there was opposition from the indian tribe only to be overcome by long and patient councils there was argument even from some of tier her most progressive progress iv advisers when it became known that sho she wanted en an architect to design the hotel and proposed a highly paid man cook and maids in crisp black and white uniform dut but the architect and the cook and the maids became realities the indians indiana found guiding Pa hermen both lucrative and pleasant plen Bout as a change from their farming of the cigany guests who drift back to lac du flambeau summer after summer not a few have become fast friends of both mr and mrs gauthier Gau friends such its as would never have crossed cro ased the doorsill of a couple marooned in the painted house on the lonely trail the final dramatic touch in the story to many folk lies in the fact that mrs lira gauthier Oaut like the village has an indian name given her py by a pagan godmother in n a wigwam in token of her own ojibway blood |