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Show HIE LEHI SUN, LEII1, UTAH f1 v UfeH J 3 3 ler Frozen Stars triTBy AS THE STORY OPENS I . . HouW in the Canadian north, Jim Stuart, trader in a, to I f'V j, Omar, rescues a drifter on an overturned canoe, ,3, rival in the fur business. LeBlond, with Par.. KuBlw"-arrivei in March oi the missing girL Paradia dis- tpttaif-breed wu e(ore vjng, Aurore and Jim arrange to exchange amitj J"7 (i,,. there, Jim ia ambuahed by Paradia and forced po,t. On the way he overturn! the boat. leaving 4 to" ,M " ,he oejch. Hia auperior, Andrew Christie, displeased M droWiT allows Stuart, at hia request, one year to "make good." it pile how'gunllie Jim and Omar are fired upon from ambush. Paradia V . r - n kffl or disable them. The attempt faila and Jim takea the feHbrf m. LfW the atorv LeBlond diachargea Paradia from , .dih Am - . ... . . . ..Lmainla, their mutual love, thnuvh Anmrm ia ur nh and Jim haa planned a personal appeal to the Indiana, jftini T J zLa. their fura with, the company he represents. Jim, visit- ,u IikIUs amps L fit Swwt. finds Paradis baa enlisted their superstition to discourage CHAPTER VI 10 rhaln Les traveled the canoe from k rutins the fishing camps, importer, the pad agent UdHttd LeBlond. Often the i of Jim and Omar were met fetm and shoots of dissent. than once, superstitious In-Erased In-Erased to talk to them, and ied fomen herded their off-t off-t into the tipis at the coming I shite trader with the Evil t to Jim's satisfaction, most older Indians listened, while 1'srere friendly. And notwlth-? notwlth-? sullen and black faces f the yonnger men. the prog-j( prog-j( the peterboro through the ne country had not been i tested. But one night an $bw came to their camp on ke of the Great Stones, which p Into the Sturgeon. to are going down Into the pd river country?" he asked, jing the tobacco and dish of in offered blm. ! replied Jim in Ojibwa, ffalse shaman. JIngwak, has the hunters against ns for Ij of Paradis. We are going him and make him eat his a long Interval the old man id, his slit-like eyes on the fire. he said: "Do not go. He Is -fit for you." ; I glanced at the interested "f Omar and Esau. Was this friendly or a spy? he won-i won-i 1 am glad," he said. 1 1 he would run away." $ old Indian lifted question-1 question-1 to the bronzed face of the I man. For a space he seemed mm the metal of the speak-iose speak-iose cold gaze met his scru-Then scru-Then he quietly said, as he 1 looked Into the fire: "Ton sever come back." I studied the wrinkled mask of fi Ojibwa, framed in Its long N. lock! Had he come to them as a friend, or was he h to learn their plans, only N the Information ahead of I . . i have lived through many " he said. "Wisdom has come p through the years. You that JIngwak Is a liar or yon foot sit here and look me In P This Paradis has filled his ? onr and tea and tobacco. Because Jingwak keeps the f fma trading with the old fl Bat this Is finished. Le- a sent Paradis. far south c "ipigon. Indian looked up with say Paradls has : "gt hls moccasin. Then he VL " 1,018 "Pell npon the !yoy0n g J.J8hak!n8 with raee. vieucned fists at E-j , 'Kith !.. 'St! he opened and closed his I th. ST choke th breath th feo. Go hnVDrat of th,s to SVnd 8end your Ten Z I Wm we ar fc,Wlthhlsflst.lscom-iC20D, fc,Wlthhlsflst.lscom-iC20D, of to Stur- o JB; Tea h,ra lf be :t aS til m hand8' wU1 tear eaT?.hI throat- witb m r th. . """'"n, umar ' 0i,a.Thattln8 fignre of ,5 think. surprise I come enemy. if n A , tti th. n mena of JlnK- 'Yon .J- e said lak ' their J Daughter from 'W.?111 l his hlrr-hhorv j from the 6hor; he said to Jim, who followed him with the customary "bo'Jo's," "Your canoe will never pass this way again." "Well, what d'you make of him?" asked Jim of the silent figures of his friends. "Was he nosing around trying to find out something, or was he bringing a friendly warning?" warn-ing?" "He is fr'en of Jingwak," said Esau, "and Jingwak is scare'." "Ah-hahl" agreed Omar. "He ees scare'. He got no Paradees to helD heem now." But In spite of the confidence of his men, Jim was troubled. What he desired was to bring about the downfall of the sorcerer by peaceable peace-able means to gain the friendship of the hunters, but it looked as lf he would fall. If the old Indian was to be trusted, they would be lucky to get out of the Sturgeon with whole skins. How far the adherents ad-herents of Jingwak were prepared to go he already knew. In the end it meant bloodshed, and that meant defeat the enmity of many of the hunters whose trade he sought And defeat meant good-by to Sunset Sun-set House and Aurore LeBlond. For he would have not even a future fu-ture In the company's service to offer of-fer her. As he brooded with his thoughts, the day on the Island with the daughter of the man whose wiles were fast drawing the net of defeat about the little fur post seemed more like something he had read. more the fancy of a dream than reality. Those brief hours of unalloyed delight had been given him to torment his memory in the years to come. She would never return re-turn to the Lake of the Sand Beaches. The following morning, Esau left them. Traveling in a small birch-bark birch-bark canoe he had got by trade from" an Ojibwa, the old man started start-ed ahead of them down the Sturgeon Stur-geon on his lone search for Jingwak. Jing-wak. Time and again Jim had endeavored en-deavored to learn how he 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. Hees back no longer carry de beeg load for de companee. His legs are stiff for de winter trail. But he has seen manee t'ing and hees memory ees long. Eef he nevalre come back, eet mean hees head, also, ees no good." More he refused to say, and Omar, when questioned by the curi ous Jim, had snaRen ms neaa doubtfully as he explained Esau's reticence. The old man's plan was so wild In its details and depended for Its success so largely on luck that Esau dared not divulge it to his chief. So Stuart parted with his friend with miselvine In his heart The loyal old Indian was going down the Sturgeon into the enemies' country, alone, to fight for Sunset House. What could he do to Jingwak Jing-wak there, In his stronghold, one against many? He irrlpped the old Ojlhwa's hand In parting. "I don't like to have you go alone, Esau Jim said. "We ought to fight this out together." to-gether." "You an your fader wasde good fr'en of me," replied Esau, his eyes bright with feeling. "I am ole man. Soon I go talk to your fader. Wen I meet heem. he ask, 'Esau, how you leeve de boy? I wan' to tell heem de boy ees ver fin wld de beeg trade at de House of de Setting Set-ting Sun." The old man's fingers gripped hard on Jim's. "Dat ees w'y I go to find Jingwak." Turning, Esau shoved off the canoe and was soon out of sight behind be-hind a timbered point In the gray eyes of Jim Stuart, as he watched the dip and swing of Esau's paddle until the bent back of the old man disappeared, there was the mist of memory and the emotion of a full heart . The father he had burled on the shore of far God's lake-wbat would he not give today for his companionship and his counsel 1 It was September, the moon of the mating of the caribou September, Sep-tember, when through the wild valleys, val-leys, the lifting sun rolled back curtains of mist veiling ridges touched here and there with yellow and gold by the magic wand of the frost; September, when the muskegs mus-kegs were blue with ripened ber-ries ber-ries and the loons, restless with the urge of far Journeying, called at suuset across nameless lakes. North, on the vast marshes of the great bay. the legions of the geese were assembling for their autumn rendezvous later to ride the first stinging winds south over the green seas of the spruce and the flaming Islands of th hardwood ridges. Passing over t'he spawning beds of the sturgeon, at the outlet of the Lake of the Great Stones, where, for a mile, on the sandy bottom, the dark shapes of the huge fish were visible beneath the peterboro, Jim and Omar entered the river from which the old Ojibwa had warned them they would never return. re-turn. Two days' Journey downstream, down-stream, where the river widened to form a large lake, Jim hoped to find the man they sought How, when he found him, he was to break the power of the sorcerer, he did not know. But the future of Sunset House depended on It, and In his desperation, Jim was prepared to go far how far, the man who realized real-ized that failure in the trade would mean in the end the loss of Aurore LeBlond, did not dare admit to himself. All the morning the peterboro rode the swift current of the Stur-geoa Stur-geoa Toward noon the drum-beat of rapids which the old Ojibwa had warned them they could not run, sounded In their ears. Then, as 1 il Again and Again the Two Took Careful Aim and Fired at the Distant Craft they dropped alongshore, with their poles toward the first broken water, wa-ter, they saw the portage trail leading lead-ing from the river shore back Into the timber. They landed, and Omar, first swinging to his back on a tump-Hne tump-Hne a haunch of the yearling moose they had shot at daylight balanced the heavy, water-soaked peterboro on its center thwart across his thick shoulders and walked briskly off up the trail. To Omar Bolsvert, the man who had packed five bags of company flour a half mile without with-out resting, this back load, while awkward to balance In the thick brush, was a toy. With his tump-line Jim lashed the two guns to a provision bag, swung it to his back, adjusted the h. ad-strap over his forehead, and piled on the rest of their outfit, while Smoke thrashed off through the "bush" after snow-shoe rabbits. For a half mile the trail held to the high land back from the river, then turned toward the water. Bent under his heavy load. Jim followed the moving legs of Omar under the peterboro. From the slowly Increasing In-creasing clamor of the rapids, Jim Judged that they were nearing the end of the carry and approaching the river, but his sweat-blinded eyes did not lift from the moccasins moc-casins of the man in front Suddenly, the legs of Omar came to a halt Curious. Jim raised his head banded by the tump-line, but th canoe on Omar's broad back. blocking the trail, alone met his blurred eyes. Then, to his startled ears came Omar's hoarse whisper: "De gun! Quick !" "What Is it? Game ahead?" Jim wondered, as he slipped off the headstrap. As his load slid to the ground he wiped the sweat from bis eyes and squinted past Omar toward the river. With x bound his heart started drumming against his ribs. There, twenty yards up the trail. leering at the waiting Omar, stiff as a spruce under tne canoe, pnl Paradis. "Trapped I" muttered Jim, working work-ing desperately to free the rifles from the knotted tump-llne which bound them to the pack. Airnln came Omar's whispered warning: "De gunl Tak' to MiRhl Oueekl" followed by leer of Paradis: "So you come to vlseet me?" With his gun almost free, Jim neard a movement in the bush, and looked np to see two Indians burl themselves at the man waiting, legs braced, under the canoe. As they came headlong on, with a lunge of his great shoulders Omar pivoted and swung the heavy peterboro peter-boro crashing Into their beads, at the same time slipping hU tump-llne tump-llne and avoiding the falling boat. Then with a roar the enraged half-breed half-breed met the rush of a third man and. lifting blm above his head In his vise-like grip, flung the writhing writh-ing body to the trait Leaping over the stunned Indian, he made for the surprised Paradis. Dodging Into the brush to escape the charging Omar, Paradis shouted: shout-ed: "No knives I" as two OJibwas catapulted Into the half-breed from the rear, bringing him to his knees. But they were fighting to take alive a man whose strength was a byword from God's lake to the Barren Bar-ren Grounds, and. as he tripped and fell with two clawing Indians on his back, legs twined around his, Omar snarled: "I tak' you, too, Paradees I" When Omar clubbed his first assailants as-sailants with his swinging canoe, Jim, with his hands on his lashed gun, was hurled to his face by the Impact of two heavy bodies. As he fell the realization that all be had worked for all he loved hung on the next few seconds, flashed through his consciousness. They had not knifed him; Thought they could take him and omar with their bare hands, did they? The old fury he had known In many a trench fight overseas returned re-turned as Jim fought the men on his back who sought to pin him to the ground. A desperate heave and he twisted and thrashed in their clinging arms until he reached his knees. A wrench, and he had a hand free, as they fell to the trail a heap of straining, panting men. Chin clamped on chest to cheat their clawing fingers seeking his throat again and again Jim hunched his fist over the shoul der Into the Jaw of the man who faced him, then by sheer strength bent back the head, until, with groan, he fainted. Desperate with the knowledge of the white man's superior strength, the remaining Ojibwa clung like a cat with arms and legs, to Stuart's back, but wrenching himself from his grip, Jim beat him to the ground. On his knees, the hands of the dazed Indian fumbled with something on the trail, as Jim rose panting to his feet Then, with a blind lunge he lurched forward with Stuart's recovered knife, to meet the crash of a swinging fist which crumbled him in a heap, Omar I Picking up the knife, Jim hurried ahead to aid his friend. As he ap proached, from the Ump bodies of tw men rose a pair of massive bleeding shoulders, from which shirt hung In tatters. His heart checked as the sun flashed from knife blade and a crouching figure left the brush to run at the square bulk of Omar's back. "Behind you, Omar ljwarned the running Stuart At the words, Omar leaped far to the side and turned to face the danger. But the courage of Paul Paradis was not equal to meeting the black fury of the unarmed half-breed, and he dodged Into the spruce and disappeared toward the river. "We get de gunl" panted Omar, "dere are more of deml" Tearing their rifles from their lashings, Jim and Omar followed Paradis. As they ran, from the dl rectlon of the stream sounded the yelp of Smoke.- "Hes struck 'em! Hurry up or they'll get him!" cried Jim, la creasing bis speed. Again above the distant drum beat of the rapids lifted the angry yelp of Smoke. Then two rifle shots drove Jim headlong, his heart cold with fear for his dog. 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