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Show THE LEHI SUN. LEIH. UTAII J rdmen meter Ji) by GEORGE MARSH Frozen U Stars sxro o wtij occ one mn mOfBb&WXbc (BDG (Hip " I the Lake of the announced Jim old Indian, with VJS w inkles, who left SI? the tlpls ll -TwUhtospeakto fJraUere. SeDd pSsrheaSked I smart, of the old com-t com-t M'and this is Omar, 5 m.' Tere ?V L is intelligence m tne Urei of the old man (prosed Stuart, and he Kb too, were under the fjtatfik, the soberer. L Journeyed far. What I come to the Pipestone to t L bj the calm Insistence fojlbwa, Omar broke In, 111 hear when yon have L bunters together. Send $n bere with word to the feathered skin of the In-fee In-fee creased with a dry smile wintered: "Who are yon orders In the Pipestone j I laugher goodnaturedly as Id the Indian a plug of nig-"Mj nig-"Mj father has swallowed of a dore and they prick J,!. There Is tobacco and the canoe. Send for the . -1 ; grta, the old man ordered ijs, who stood near the fining to the talk with 1 interest, to take Stuart's i a'yuh think of him? Eta9 got Um?" whispered Jim I jtotelL" Isntered to the old Indian as id rapidly to the group of land awed squaws near the 1)5 have seen many long ?m and go," he said In a Too have lived long and laces of many men. Look r Do I speak with a single l Indian met Jim's eyes with laze. He removed the pipe Bled with Omar's tobacco, a replied: 11 know the face t Site man. In my youth I many long snows for the lany down at Fort Hope at There I learned from the fether that there is no truth !ne men. But the people J not listen to me." belle this Wabeno, JIng- wj believe him and the aaa, Paradis." stirred by the open ? of the shrewd old man, Possible ally. He must fated. 1 1 jonr namer Zotalre, they called me at my father was half -e It this Jingwak nowr mers to the Sturgeon Mr, three sleeps toward iater. SerMenthl8Freh- ? u here the last long gSadog-team." f Jlngwak tell the Ojib- e and the post of the :, kP them from 1 B their furs?" VS,f0W' 8pIrlts he that the House &m 18 the ome of ;d,rsyou have the evil ?- not all." to Wat 1 ten! m 3essikIb' liar. ISoUp,d with ub,Jfaof the 'iil WUh The fteeti bulged tklUli toward inched canoe it lti ,,ov Md .'t Westlimliig AS THE STORY OPENS At Ui far post. Sunset House, in tlx Canadian north, Jim Stuart, trader in charge, w.th hi. headman. Omar, rescue. i a drifter on an overturned canoei Aurore LeBlond, daughter o hia rival in the fur business. LeBlond. with PmT dis, hii half-breed lieutenant, arrives in search of the mining girL Paradis dis. playa enmity toward Jim. Before leaving, Aurore and Jim arrange to exchange notea on certain bland. Going there, Jim ia ambushed by Paradia and forced to travel toward the LeBlond port. On the way he overturnt the boat leaving hit half drowned enemy on the beach. His auperior, Andrew Christie, displeased at the trade showing, allows Stuart, at hia request, one year to "make good " Returning to Sunset House, Jim and Omar are fired upon from ambush. Paradis has bribed an Indian to kill or disable them. The attempt fails and Jim takes the Indian to LeBlond. After heanng the story LeBlond discharges Paradis from his employ. Jim and Aurore acknowledge their mutual love, though Aurore is returning to Winnipeg, and Jim has planned a personal appeal to the Indians, who have refused to trade their furs with the company he represents Jim visit ing the Indian camps finds Paradis has enlisted their superstition to discourse trading with Stuart concerning this white man from the House of the Devils. From the actions ac-tions of the men and squaws It was evident to Stuart that Jingwak's efforts, ef-forts, successful as they had been tn keeping the trade of these people peo-ple from Sunset House, had failed to Instill fear of him personally, except among the most superstitious. supersti-tious. For at his request they had come to look at him and listen to his words. After passing tobacco to the men, Jim told them that their fathers for two hundred years bad traded with the old company, and always had received fair treatment. To save them from a long journey south, the old company had built a post on the Lake of the Sand Beaches, and wished to trade with them. But Paradis bad come among them with lies which only children would believe. In his pay was a false shaman who lived on the bounty of the North-West company. As Jim mentioned the name of Jingwak, from a group of young men In the rear of the OJibwas rose groans of protest "It la a lie 1" shouted a youth; but the voice of Zotaire lifted above the clamor of dissent "Blsanl Keep quiet 1" commanded command-ed the old man. "You listened to Paradis when he said that this man who speaks had the Evil Eye and talked with devils. Now listen to him, and judge for yourself who speaks with a double tongue." Jim's heart leaped at the old Indian's In-dian's defense of him. Here was a friend in need. Then Jim told the Indians that he would come in December, De-cember, the little moon of the spirit, with dog-teams loaded with honest trade-goods, and save them the long trip south. At the announcement there was a nodding of heads among the older old-er men, but from the rear of the assembly as-sembly groans and cat-calls. However, How-ever, when Omar told them of the disgrace of Paradis by his own chief how he had been sent to NIplgon, a hush fell upon the swart-faced audience. au-dience. Shaking hands with most of the older men and women, Jim returned to the canoe, to find Esau and Omar squatted on the beach, watching Zotaire Zo-taire trace with his fingers a rough sketch of the trail north to the Sturgeon Stur-geon river. Through the afternoon the three friends paddled down the first of the Pipestone lakes and made camp on an island near the outlet To the north lay other and larger lakes of the Pipestone chain, which formed the headwaters of the Sturgeon river. Eating their supper of ban nock, fried pike, and tea, they considered con-sidered the situation as they smoked. "Too bad old Zotalre wouldn't come with us," regretted Jim. "He seems to have influence with these people." "He had fear to travel to de Sturgeon," Stur-geon," replied Esan. "He tell me dey might keel heem eef dey foun heem wld us." "Paradees and Jingwak got plentee fr'en' up dere," added the brooding Omar. "We're In for trouble on the Sturgeon, Stur-geon, I guess. But I'm going to find that crooked fakir, trouble or no trouble,", snapped Jim. 'Tve got just one year to get some of that fur, or quit" For a space, Omar looked at his discouraged chief, as he sat elbows on knees, head Li hands. Then the half-breed rested an iron-hard hand on Jim's shoulder, as be said: "We stay een dees countree and hunt for dat Jingwak until de Ice drive us souf." "But suppose we do not find him, how're we going to .break his hold on the Indians?" "Leave dat to Omar and Esau." "What d'you two intend to do? You can't kill him, yon know, yon old wolf. You'd ruin me If yon did. And they'd get you before you got out Remember, you've got a family" fam-ily" The black eyes of Omar twinkled as they met the sphinxlike gaze of the old Indian. "Esau and Omar find de way to feex dat wabeno." But Jim saw little hope In the situation. He had recklessly undertaken under-taken to double the trade of Sunset House within the year by getting some of the Pipestone and Sturgeon river fur from LeBlond. But would these OJibwas trade with him whon he stole a march on his rival ana came to them on the Bnow in December? However. the wn ht one line of action open at pres ent, ana tnat was to visit them, show nimseir, and talk to them n ho had talked to the fishing camps up the lake. Then the thought of the girl who had begged him to stay at Mltawangazama until she went soutn drove his present quest from his mind. Was he ever to see hor again? Would she come back in the spring? If she did, she would find a defeated fur trader, out of a Job, who had had the boldness to make love to a girl who could only pity mm. As the quiet lake went rose colored under the flush of the afterglow, and the shadow-packed spruce of the adjacent shore of the mainland deepened from nurnle to violet, Jim smoked with his bitter thoughts, while Omar and Esau "They'll Take Her Away From Jim Down There In the City, Smoke." talked together in low tones. Then. as his clouded gray eyes lifted from the embers of the supper fire Into which he had been staring, a cold nose touched his hand and a massive, mas-sive, hairy head nudged his arm, while a pair of slant brown eyes sought his. "Hello, Smoke 1" Jim circled the neck of the dog with his arm. "Smoke loves Jim, even if he's a poor fur man, and a fool to love her." As if sensing the mood of the man who held his devotion, the dog whined, his red tongue caressing Jim's hand. "They'll take her away from Jlm: down there in the city, Smoke. They won't let him have her, but Smoke'U always love old Jim, won't he?" So the man and the great dog he had once carried Inside his fur parka as a puppy, saf side by side in perfect understanding, while the flush of the sky slowly faded through the long northern twilight in the mirror of the lake. Then, as Jim held a lighted match to bis pipe, in the Indigo gloom of the spruce of the mainland across the straight there was the flash and roar of a rifle, followed swiftly by another. A bullet wrenched the shattered pipe from Stuart's teeth. Then he dove headlong for the bushes, as Omar and Esau took cover on the opposite side of the dead fire. "You heetr called Omar. "No!" growled Jim, hunching toward his gun which stood propped against a bush. "If they want war give it to 'em 1" Again the twilight silence was split by guns on the mainland, and bullets spattered around the camp, while the excited Smoke yelped as he raced back and forth, still untouched. un-touched. "They'll ruin the canoe if we don't stop eml" stormed the maddened mad-dened fur trader, as be drew himself him-self within reach of his gun. "Here, Smoke, they'll get youl Here! Down I" Then the rifles of Omar and Esau opened on the ambush two hundred yards across the 6trait Shortly the repeating guns of the three men, firing fir-ing at the flashes, made the opposite oppo-site shore too hot for the single shot rifles in the ambush. The shooting stopped. "Well, the war on the Pipestone Is on, Omar I" called Jim. "I think they're making their getaway-afraid getaway-afraid we'll cross In the canoe In the dusk and hunt 'em." Knowing that rifle sights were now invisible In the murk of the opposite shore, Jim stood up, to find ' Omar calmly examining the canoe. "Now, who do you suppose pulled that trick, Esau?" "Dose young men follow us from de camp." "I suppose they're some of Paradis' Para-dis' people only they don't know that they'll never see him again." Omar approached Jim and thrust a face Into his, the fierceness of which even the gathering dusk did not soften. "Dey follow us and i shoot to keel. Do I use dees now, w'en I feel de neck of dat Para-dees?" Para-dees?" The half-breed pointed to the long skinning knife slung from the sash at bis waist "Yes, I guess you're Justified In using anything, now. They're after us and they'll get us, too, in this country, if we're not careful. Came pretty close with that first shot Got my pipe righf under my hand. I didn't know an Indian could shoot so straight." "Dese peopl goln' follow us," said Esau. "W'en de moon go down, we drop down de riviere an' wait for dem een de mornln'." "Ah-ha," agreed Omar. "We mak' a leetle ambush for dem." As the night thickened before the moon died at midnight the peter-boro peter-boro from Sunset 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 blan-ket with Smoke beside him, to wrestle with a difficult problem. Clearly the Indians who had followed fol-lowed 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 Esau to shoot them out of their canoe In the morning, much as they deserved It would be bad generalship. They had kinsmen among the Pipestone OJibwas who would take up the feud, thus started, start-ed, and Jim's 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 wil-lows saw a canoe turn the bend above them. Clearly the two pad-dlers pad-dlers were confident that the peter-boro peter-boro 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 si-lent Presently, as the birch bark canoe drifted abreast of the am- bush, there was a roar, as the guns spat from the shore. The paddle of the bowman fell, splintered from his hands. With a cry of terror the sternman swung the nose of the craft toward the opposite bank, as the rifles again exploded. ' In his fear the Indian In the bow of the canoe plunged 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 with his rifle. Running the peterboro alongside, Omar stepped into the birch bark and. lifting the gray-faced young Ojibwa in his great arms, with a curse threw hlra Into the water. "We not shoot Jijag. de skunk, an we not shoot at you, dis tam!" roared the Infuriated half-breed, deprived of his vengeance by the commands of Stuart "But de next tam, I weel split your t'roat lak I stab de caribou." As the frightened Ojibwa swam for the shore, Omar returned to the peterboro and finished the work of the rifle shots in destroying the canoe, by opening great senms with his knife. Then he tossed overboard over-board the bag of provisions, with the rifles of the Indians, and abandoned aban-doned the water-logged craft "Now travel home in your moccasins," moc-casins," called the half breed In Ojibwa 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 nf Jlnzwak's hostility awaited them, but forced by the necessity' of breaking the conjurer's Influence In the Pipestone country if Sunset House were to survive, Jim continued con-tinued down the river. (TO BB CONTINUED.! Term of Contempt A picayune was a small coin such as a Spanish half real or an American Ameri-can five-cent piece, and thus it meant a "trifling sum." The expression ex-pression "Not worth a picayune" now Is used to express the fact that . i m vitrt ifttla nr fa rung is lu '-w - fear cl0MMtwti) ciimi siaob rr teh buxkbs or iron boat ha, s. . pvt. orp. It's easy on hands, it's easy on clothes, it's fine for dishes I Does more work because it makes 50 more ends richer, quicker, longer lasting suds. Never balls op) rinses clean, softens water. Procter & Gamble (D&a as coa "STONE AGE" MONEY ON ISLAND OF YAP Coins That Are Somewhat Hard to Steal. Tap, you may remember. Is a tiny, almost microscopic island that is part of the Caroline group, lying between be-tween Guam and the Philippines. An insignificant spot of land as far as size goes, it caused quite a poth er after the allies took It from Ger many after the war. It is valuable as a cable station and as a relay ing point for radio, and a great many fists were shaken over it until un-til its status finally was settled. This was done in 1922 by a treaty signed by the United States and Japan, recognizing the Japanese mandate over the Island, but securing secur-ing to the United States certain cable rlghta Nothing much was heard about Yap again until about five years later, lat-er, when the immigration bureau announced that the inhabitants of the island were snubbing us. At the time when immigrants from every where on the globe were trying to crash our gates, the haughty Yap-landers Yap-landers joined with the Bnooty folk of Muscat Nauru, Ruanda and French Togoland and . would have none of us. ' The Yaplanders are now back In the news again under somewhat picturesque pic-turesque circumstances. The Chase National bank, of New York, main tains in its main office one of the largest collections of moneys of the world. The big-hearted Yaplanders and their coins weren't represented. and so to overcome this defect the Islanders got together .and shipped the bank a few coins three speci mens of their money, which is called -fof . The money arrived a day or so ago practically In the form of bowl ders. It seems the innocent Yap landers are ateo a conservative outfit out-fit and they still stick to the old Stone age standards. One coin sent is about 200 years old, is 20 inches in diameter and weighs 120 pounds. It is reported this coin has the value of an 18-foot canoe, one-quarter of an acre of land, or about 10,000 coconuts. co-conuts. It is said, for instance, that when a Yaplaader transaction Involves In-volves too great a sum to be moved conveniently the new owner simply chisels his mark on his money and leaves it in his neighbor's yard until un-til he can round up enough help to tote it home. 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