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Show THE TBsmSKl&&3' 2L 1MTT TTV VOICES 7 bu -- GEORGE MARSH if ". V "THE tti ' .i lihifitw THE WINDIGO COPYRIGHT by THE PEHN PUBLISHING CO. yt It was not long before the potent spirits asserted themselves In the Frenchman's manner, which grew ap d SYNOPSIS. With David, guide, Brent Steele, of the HisMuseum of Natural American tory, la traveling: in northern Canada. By a stream he hears Denlse, daughter of Col. Hllalre St. Onge, factor at Walling River, play the violin superbly. He inhalf-bree- troduces himself and accepts an Invitation tb make the post his home during; his stay. He finds the factor worried and mystified. The "log; chateau" Is a real home. From St. Onge he learns of the mysterious creature of evil, the wlndlRO, and the disappearance of a canoe and Its crew, with the season's take of furs. CHAPTER II Continued She shook her head, wistfully. "At the Conservatoire they had planned for me a career, but father was coming out to Canada and I could not have him come alone." "She was the favorite pupil of the great Mario," announced St Onge, proudly, "but her love for her old father could not suffer a separation, so she Is sharing with me " the frenchman rose and nervously paced the room, then, with a gesture of hopelessness, finished,- "the loneliness and the hell of this spirit-ridde- n valley." Steele's eyes were on the tine profile of the girl as she followed her father's nervous pacing. Frankly Ignoring his presence, she made no effort to conceal the solicitude pictured by her sensitive face. What a sacrtice she had made! To give up career, life all--that people, cities, civilization mean to Jbe artist how could St. OnKe have permitted It? What a tragon at Wailing edy he had stumbled ' - AUTHOR. OF OF THE TRAIL WHELPS OF THE WOLF " TOILERS preciably warmer. "Monsieur Steele," he said, "you doubtless ask yourself why I, a retired colonel. In the army of France, should find myself a trader of fur for the Itevlllon Freres In Canada should have brought a girl, educated, refined, to this wilderness?" "It was, of course, a surprise, sir, to find a woman of the charm of the remarkable musical talent of your daughter here. In this valley. It Is marvelous her playing. She should have a career, Bir." "Yes, a career!" echoed St. Onge, as he poured himself another drink, "and she has lost It, lost It because she would not leave me." The liquor had aged the once hand some face of St. Onge. Lines multiplied about the eyes and mouth as he slouched In his chair. All trace of the soldier had vanished; In his place sat a man, broken conquered by life. "You have not been In Canada long?" Steele ventured, that the hoping Frenchman would now talk more freely. "Four years. I was a year at Al bany at school, you might say, learn ing the ways of the trade. Then they sent me here." "You found It hard this life In the North after France?" The factor straightened In his chair. His dark eyes snapped. His face stiffened. He looked the leader of men. "Hard, monsieur? I have faced - River! "I've' told Dijvid he could go down the , river with Michel, sir," Steele hastened to change a too painful subi. - ject. "The? will find nothing, monsieur." "Has Michel told yon exactly what they ore going to look for. Colonel St. Once?" The factor stopped his pacing. "Why, what Is there to seek, monsieur, except the evidence which has escaped us?" "Bared on a familiarity with the way David's mind works, coupled with an Idea of my own, my guess Is that they will not spend much time following the shore." St. Onge's black eyebrows lifted In surprise. "What do you mean; they are going Into the back country?" "Precisely." "What for?" "To find a trail "A trail through the muskeg? But they couldn't get out that way. A trail leading where?" "That's what puzzles me, colonel." "Oh, you are wrong ! My men never stole that fur. We shall find something yet to prove they were broken op In the big rapid " "And then, father. It may be too Inte." added the low voice of Denlse St. Onge. The bronzed face of the old soldier noticeably reddened at the remark, but he avoided his daughter's eyes. It was Greek to Steele this Innuen do, and besides, he was hungry for 'music. "Please, mademoiselle. Just a little more If you are not too tired," he t. egged. But the guy mood was not to be recaptured. She fhook her head, put aside her bow and violin, and with chin In hand sat with brooding eyes on the bearskin rug at her feet. As the factor talked of the trade, the glance of his guest shifted constantly to the masses of the girl's hnlr. stray tendrils of which caught and held the light of the cnndles; to the hand of the artist, with Its tapering lingers, which masked her cheek ; to the trim foot. In the house moccasin, and rounded nnkle; and within him was born the determination to help this girl In her secret trouble. If the aid of n stranger were possible. Shortly, with a few words of apol ogy, she bade them good night. With a sigh, as she left the room, the factor went to a cupboard and produced a bottle and two glasses. "You will onor me, monsieur, by Joining me In a glass of cognncT This, and the books, I Insisted on baring tf I were to be exiled to this val ley." Steele poured himself a modest drink. "It Is not right, colonel, that yoti should squander this good stuff few weeks I shall be upon me. In in New Tork, while your supply Is r She Shook Her Head Wistfully. hardship all my life In Algeria, Senegal, the Sahara. It's not the hardship here. It's the humiliation, for one who has led his regiment of cavalry in two Moroccan campaigns, to receive the orders of a former "You mean Lascelles. at Albany?" "Yes!" St. Onge was patently laboring under strong excitement It seemed to Steele that a revelation was Imminent, but the factor turned to the bottle. "Monsieur," he protested, "you do not flatter my cognac!" "I am enjoying It sir," replied Steele, pouring himself a drink to humor his host, to which he added water, for the brandy was powerful. That the cognac habit was an old story with St. Onge was evident, and the younger man wondered what relation a fondness for strong liquor had to St. Onge's presence In Canada. Then he opened ab- ruptly: "By keeping this post active, under the conditions here In this valley, Lascelles must have realized the chances he took. I cannot understand a of Judgment doing such a thing." The face of the Frenchman hardened. "Why this post was built In this place, I do not know ; but I do know why Lascelles sent me here." St. Onge leaned toward Steele as he repeated bitterly. "He sent me here to ruin me." "To ruin you?" gasped the other. "I don't understand. It Is to his Interest as an Inspector that every post In his district should make a profit?' Then he suddenly remembered the mystcrt-ostatement of Michel. "M'sleu celles ees no fool; he not keep eet Tom fur; he keep eet for noder reason." That explained It; the head man knew. "But why?" pressed the curious Steele. The factor rose and paced the floor, his hands working nervously. Turning limited." impulsively to the nino he had niet but a few hours before, he exclaimed: "It Is not wasted If appreciated, "Why I am telling you this, I do not prolested St. Onge. "but I fear yon. have a suspicion of It ; you have hard know. It Is an affair the most private, It a taste there," and he deliberately but I am alone with my troubles and filled his own glass, and raising It you are a gentleman a man of heart. who the tosit, "Tour health, mon You will understand." Steele tingled with expectancy. tear, and the devil take the Wlndlco "It surprised you to hear that I was and thcli friends t" swallowed the sent here to make a failure of the randy fur-trad- TIMES-NEW- NEPHI, UTAH S, rade. but that Is the truth," went or the factor. "But for what reason, sir?" St. Onge shook with emotion. "Because that canaille at Albany desires to marry my daughter J" Steele wondered, now, why he had not guessed. Of course, the failure of St Onge as a trader would put him Into the bands of his superior at Albany, so he had been sent to the doomed fur post on the Walling. "You will leave the company, then?" he hazarded, sick with thoughts of the girl who was the stake In this mad game of Lascelles. "I must. If I fall here. Up to this year, I have beaten him. In spite of the odds shown a small profit And this year, at Portage Lake, we had a good trade better than ever before In spite of La fl a mine. But the loss of this fur canoe destroys our four years' profits. Monsieur, I am a ruined man." There was little Steele could say. For a space St. Onge walked the floor with his bitter thoughts, then he began : "We have been a proud family, the St. Onges. My grandfather fought nn- der the great Napoleon. My father was killed at Sedan. We have always been soldiers, bearing an honored name, but I, the last, am unworthy of it. Cards and this," pointing to the bottle, "have done It. They lost me my old home In Touralne; my poor wife died while I was deep In the Sa- hara, at Lake Tchad. She Is all I have left Denlse." The voice of St. Onge softened as he spoke of his daughter. Then he finished fiercely : "Give her to that bourgeois? Never!" Conscious of the fact that the voice of the enraged factor carried to the remotest corner of the house, the embarrassed Steele rose to check further revelations which could prove only a source of pain and mortification to the girl who heard them. "It is very late, sir we may be disturbing your daughter," and he offered !" when his hand with a "good-nigthe pat of moccasins drew the attention of both men. Clothed In a loose garment, caught at the waist by a Cree sash, her wayward hair In a great coil at the nape of her neck, Denlse St. Onge stood In the doorway. She was a figure of peculiar beauty and dignity as she calmMonsieur Steele ly said : "Father, doubtless desires to rest after his long journey. It Is late." St. Onge pulled himself together. "Pardon me, monsieur, you are tired. Good night." Red with confusion, Steele met the level eyes of the girl who had heard her personal affairs so Intimately discussed with a stranger, anil marveled to find there no humiliation, no an'er, as he murmured a good night and sought his room. There, for a time, he sat smoking, as he watched the moon drift down to the purple ridge beyond the river. His thoughts traversed the events of the day ; the meeting with Denlse St. Onge ; the news of the loss of the fur canoe nnd the panic of the post In dians; the startling revelation by the factor of what the future might hold for him and the girl downstair. As for this fur canoe St Onge was palpably holding back something there. But what? And his daughter had he Could It be told the whole story? that she had already bound herself to Lascelles, to save her father? That would account for the heartache, but not for the fear he had seen in her eyes at the rapids. Fear of whom? Would the old soldier. In spite of his protestations, allow hex to sacrifice herself? This Wlndlgo matter what a rare chance for a first-han- d study What a of the OJibway superstition! monograph It would make for the museum ! There was certainly much to do here nntll they were forced to race the Ice down to Neplgon. Steele undressed and was soon asleep. Presently, from a dream In which timber wolves in full cry were running an old caribou across a frozen lake, he waked to find himself sitting upright In his cot. Across the valley floated a low wall. The man stirred. For a space the hush of the forest night returned. Then from the somber shoulder of the ridge rose sobbing as of a creature In torment Wide awake now, nerves tingling, The Steele sprang to the window. voice ceased. The man waited, expectant. Whs It a trick of his senses, had he dreamed It, or Then the eerie wail filled the night with horror, rising in wild crescendo to climax In a demoniacal shriek. The brain of the excited and mystified man at the window was working swiftly. "Lynx," lie muttered, "Sol Wolverine? No, not at this time of the year. Wolf? Impossible!" Then his mouth shaped a grim smile. "Tlu Wlndigo ! Apparently the Windigo Is performing for Steele's benefit What can the thing be? (TO I)B CONTINUED ) u All Age$ Poetic - For my part, I can cull no age absolutely unpoetlc; how should it be so since there ate always children to whom the acorns and the swallow's eggs are a wonder, always those human passions and fatalities through which Garrlck as Hamlet In bob wig and knee breeches moved Ms audience more than some have since done la velvet tunic and plume? . . . Te be quits fair toward the ages, a little ugliness as well as beauty must be) allowed to each of them, a little Implicit poetry even to those which echoed loudest with servile, pompot-s- . and trivial prose. George K.I tot. DUTCH ANDERSON ' j News Notes I Utah UTAH STATE FAIR L SUPPORTED KILLED BY POLICE ji It' a Privilege to Live in GERALD CHAPMAN'S PAL, NOTED GUNMAN KILLED IN MICHIGAN WITH OWN GUN After Fatally Wounding Officer Gun Is Turned On Bandit; Finger Prints Identify Thug As T- - ' Of Hunted Man Muskegon, Mich. The bandit &.uiu here after he had shot and fatally wounded Charles Hammond, city detective, was positively identified as Anderson, noted thug and pal of Gerald Chapman, super-bandiThe identification was made by fingerprints of the slain bandit and those of Anderson. Secret service operators who arrived here also aided In the identification. "There is no question but that it Is Anderson," said Peter Hansen, chief of police. "The fingerprints tell the story, while the Bertillon measurements also show it to be Anderson." Police took the prints of the bandit's fingers as he was dying at the station. Fingerprints of Anderson arrived here and Lieutenant Roy Ferris of the identification bureau at once declared they were the same. Anderson went to his death fighting. So did Detective Hammond, who although fatally wounded, wrested the revolver from the bandit's hand in an alley in the shadows of the police station and then killed Anderson with the latter's own weapon. The arrest was made after Anderson, who had f2200 in counterfeit $20 bills on his person, had passed one for a box of candy at a restaurant. Hammond was detailed by Chief Hansen to pick the man up. Hammond and J. W. Engalls found him mixing with the crowd on Western avenue, the main business street, and then Engalls pointed him out. "I am not sure he is the man who passed t!i3 bill, but he was in the store," said Engalls, who is a brother of the cashier at the restaurant where Anderson p:.ssed the counterfeit bill. Hammond told Anderson to accompany him to the station. He walked ' along until ho was nearing the city hall, where tli3 police station is located. Then he slipped a revolver from his pocket and fired. The first shot went v.ild and struck a store window across the street. The second bullet hit another store window. Anderson ran into an alley at the rear of the city hall. Hammond followed in the face of the gun fire, and as he grabbed Anderson the bandit turned and fired at close range. The bullet went through Hammond's lung and liver. Hammond wrested the revolver from Anderson and fired a shot into his body, severing the main artery from the heart. Hammond, rcundei sagged against the wall and patrolman George Thompson, attracted by the shots ran to him. "D-.tc- h" t. Engine Hits School Bus; Six Killed Nahunta, Ga. Six were killed and twenty-fou- r children approximately injured when the Atlantic Coast Line's fast New York to Florida passenger train No. 81 crashed Into a loaded school bus at a grade crossing here. The bus which collected children in this vicinity, was nearing the town school when It was struck midsection by the train. The force of the impact scattered the children about the track and road. Col. Coolldge To Winter In Capitol Washington. Colonel John Coolldge, father of the president. Is planning to forsake his Vermont home for a winter stay at the White House. It Is probable that he will arrive here before his Plymouth farm Is snowed in and will remain here until the winter breaks. Physicians who attended the Colonel during his Illness last summer are understood to have advised him he can safely make the trip to the ccpitol and that it would be best for him to take advantage of the comfort of the executive mansion. Braves Sea To Save Life Nome, Alaska. Tom Peterson of Teller, about 100 mllos north of Nome, recently braved the icy and tempestuous waters of the Bering sea to save the life of a woman of that city. The woman was ill. Peterson sped to Nome In a small launch to get a doctor. Nome's only physician could not leave his fatlenta so Peterson and Instructions back to Teller and arrived In time to save the woman's life. RACE BIG Spanish Fork. The Spanish Fork sugar factory Is now cutting an average of 1476 tons of beets every twenty-four hours. The factory was originally built for 600 tons daily capacity, but has been Improved and the efficiency of the force built up until now It is doing nearly three times the work originally intended for It Farmlngton. "Take me! Take me! Come, get me!" Shrilled In the frightened voice of a baby girl, over the road of the Farmlngton flood on August 13, 1923, these words were destined to save a little life and incidentally to make a hero of Dr. R. Clarence Robinson of Farmlngton. According to word received in Salt Lake Dr. Robinson for his bravery has just been awarded a bronze medal by the Carnegie hero fund commission which met in Pittsburg recently. Panguitch. An unsolved murder of a quarter of a century ago may come to light as the result of the discovery of a human skeleton, partly gnawed by rats, in an arroyo known as "Lady Peterson's Pot," near here. The remains, surrounded by an old muzzle-loadin- g cap and ball rifle, a large bullets and quantity of home-madother antiques indicative of an earlier age, were found by a group of school boys, who were out for a hike on Mammouth mountain. Salt Lake City. Salt Lake business and professional men are responding eagerly to the call for volunteers to "put over" the chamber of commerce 1926 advertising campaign to be staged November 16 to 22. Figures Just Made Available Show Best Returns Of Any Fair Ever tld In State; Officials Are Well Pleased ake City. The Utah State Fair Association, in the balancing of the books as of October 31, was more gratitified at the splendid showing which gave the association a balance on hand of $10,204.03, this, too, after having expended more than $15,000 in the erection of a new poultry build- ing, Improvements to buildings and grounds of $3,471.48 and $3,511.50 for a new roof to the grand stand. The figures and report of the association for 1925, which were presented to the meeting of the board of directors, showed receipts of $80,429.-5- 8 and the expenditures about $10,000 less than that. The receipts from the racing association amounted to more than $16,000 of which concessions were $7,325.00; track rental $4,350.00, and purses from racing association, $4,800.00. The figures follow: Receipts Legislative appropriation, track $7325; $25,000; Concessions, rental, $4350; purses from racing association, $4800; exhibitors' fees, space in buildings, 1924 $253.-3auto space in building, building, $2,265; manufacturers' building, $1,741.75; miscellaneous, $86; total, $4,346.13; space on grounds, 1924, $12.25; space on grounds, 1925, $306; total, $318.25. Hay and straw, $30; sundries, $38.06. Cashiers' receipts, gate admissions, $30,758.75; carnival, $1,499.99; cash over, $2.15; total Grand total, $80,492.58. Disbursements Salaries and wages $3,454; fair grounds labor, $2,182.06; office expense, supplies, $178.69; office assistants, $478.75, total, $657.44; directors' dining room, 697.50; stock supplies, $123.35; printing and stationery, $502.19; travel expense, $504.65; postage, $119; gate expense, $1040.65; policing, $310; horse races, $499.50; rental, $24.40; ' attractions and music, $3917.50; premiums, $20,473.60; advertising, $3,109.74; decorations, $345.80; judges and assistant supervisors 0G; miscellaneous items $124.05; repairs, 765.86; fair ground supplies, e 5; 8; Provo. Battling desperately but nnavallingly against the powerful University of Utah eleven, the B. Y U. Cougers were forced to take the short end of a 27 to 0 score. Salt Lake The first snow of the season visited this section on election day and greatly hampered traffic. Salt Lake City. Greater Salt Lake now has a population of 164,110 according to the 1925 city directory. Greater Salt Lake two years ago had a population of 146,000, making the percentage of increase in the two years greater than that of any other city in the intermountain region. Ore-gon and Washington. The directory contains 1600 more names than last year, which means an actual increase of 3200. Provo. The Provo canyon road project, which was begun more than a year ago, will be completed soon, according to Robert Patterson, dep;ity state road engineer, in charge of the work. Mr. Patterson says that with the completion of the project, the traveling public will be given the beat road in the history of the canyon. American Fork. John L. manager of thirty of the J. C. Penney company Btores, and his father William Firmage, have returned home, after a trip through nine states, visiting different stores operated by the company. William Firmage has five sons, who are managers for the company, and wears an honor button by reason of that fact Price. The Price Chamber of Commerce is sponsoring a move to establish a community hospital here that will serve not only Price, but the entire county. It will replace an effort to locate a clinic, then Intended primarily for the benefit of school children suffering from defective teeth and diseased tonsils. Payson. To commemorate the seventy-fifth anniversary of the founding of Payson, a big diamond jubilee celebration was held here. The affair was arranged by the local Lions club and the proceeds from the various features will be used for the Boys' and Girls' recreational home to be built in Payson canyon next summer. Salt Lako City Salt Lake City had to authorize Its treasurer to borrow $300,000 from local banks on short-ternotes to provide cash for current expenses until the end of the year when tax funds for the year will begin to come in. Salt Lake Municipal budget requests for 1926 indicate that the various Salt Lake City departments con $2,-23- 9. $132.45; electricity $1,462.53; improve- ments to buildings and grounds, poultry building, $15,335.64; grand stand roof, $3,511.50; balance, October 31, 1925, $10,204.03; grand total, $80,492.58. 7; Mrs. Stillman To Get Divorce New York. The New York World said in a copyrighted interview obtained from Mrs. Anne U. Stillman at Grand Anse, Que-- , that Mrs. Stillman has confirmed reports' that her banker husband, James A. Stillman, ha3 agreed to give her a divorce. She is also quoted as announcing1 that after her divorce she will not marry Fowler McCormick, son of Young McCor-micwho is staying at Camp Stillman as Mrs. Stillman's guest, is also quoted as denying reports of a possible marriage with Mrs. Stillman. "I am too old and he is too young' Mrs. Stillman told her interviewer. Mrs. Stillman said that the banker agreed to a divorce last summer. Everything is agreed upon, she said, except the terms of the financial settlement She has been receiving an annual allowance of $90,000. k, m template for next year expenditures aggregating some $300,000 more than they are expending this year and 'apmillion dollarR proximately in excessr of the estimated revenue for 192C. This means, that unless the more than three and one half millions requested in the tentative budget are materially cut. Salt Lake City faces an increase In either the municipal tax levy or in water rates and other fees, or both, it is pointed one-ha- TRACK PATRONAGE WAS FACTOR IN SUCCESS OF STATE SHOW lf out, Trovo. Fred Hinckley, veteran B. Y. U. lineman suffered internal InFormer Congressman Dies 8omervllle, N. J. George A. Post juries In the game against the University of Utah which will in all prob71, former congressman from Pennend his football career. It was sylvania and prominent In railroad ability here. Hinckley's condition, allearned died who at his circles, suddenly not considered sorlotis. Is likethough home here, will be buried In Oswego, ly to necessitate an operation. N. Y his boyhood home. He was Local nimrods who Gunnison. a former president of the Hallway have been hunting deer In Twelve-tullBusiness Association of the United canyon report that the animals States and was also at one time na- are plentiful this year. The season tional counselor of the United States has been exceptionally with good, Chamber of Commerce. Death was fsed abundant, and the deer are fat and In good conditions. due to heart trouble. e Police Are Charged With Graft Chicago Charges of graft involving 300 policemen and payments of $8000 a month have been made by Patrick H. O'Donnell, attorney for two members of the Genna gang, leadrs of an alcohol ring, on trial for killing two policemen last June. He offered as evidence to prove his charges records which he said showed each policeman's star number opposite the amount paid him. Barred from introducing the evidence in the murder trial as irrelevant, O'Donnell said he would give his information to the federal government. Corruption At Polls Charged Pittsburg, Pa. Election day in Pittsburg was ushered in with a police raid on the office of William Conroy, independent candidate for burgess at Holmstead, a suburb, resulting in the arresrt of seventy-eigh- t men and the seizure of about 5000 tax . receipts and a number of ballots. Police claimed the men arrested were and were taken into the borough to vote. Football Player Dies Of Injuries Pocatello, Idaho Ernie Conan, Idaho Technical institute student and a member of the Tech football squad, died In a hospital at Burlcy, Idaho, according to word reaching here. Conan was injured iit a football game between Albion Normal college and the Tech. The was diagnosed by attending physicians a concussion of the spinal column and resulted in complete in-Ju- |