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Show THE TIMES-NEW- S, not understand what you mean S'ot being auperstitlous, Michel, David and I have nothing to fear," he pro-I do ested, hoping to draw her out. Oh, monsieur, you do not know all I There are so many" The abrupt entrance of St. Onge cut oft what Steele sensed she bad Intended as a wani ng. Monsieur Steele!" the factor, with what was palpably a forced liveliness of manner. "You have not changed your mind since our talk, eh? Too will honor us by spending September at Walling Itiver?" "Father," Denlse protested, "Mon sieur Steele does not know " St. Onge turned petulantly upon his daughter. brave man Monsieur Steele Is and a scientist; he has no fear of your Indian devils and Wlndlgoes." But be has a right to know all. if he "lie shall know all, my dear," broke In the factor, evidently desirous of stopping further reference to what was blind mystery to the younger "Good-mornin- 1MT 1 TTKr .7 VOICES GEORGE MARSH AUTHOR. 'TOILERS OF OF THE TRAIL THE WHELPS OF THE WOLF COPYRIGHT by THE PENN PUBLISHING CO. i Is" "What d'you think It Is?" asked TO FIGHT Steele, closely watching the features of St. Onge lu the dim starlight. SYNOPSIS. With David, "Who can say?" replied the Frenchd guide. Brent Steele, of the man, with a shrug. ."It may be some man. American Museum of Natural crazed beast wolverine or lynx or We shall have a week, mademoi History, Is traveling In northern bear. And then," he looked hard Into selle, before David and Michel re Canada. By a stream he hears Denlse, daughter of Col. Hilaire Steele's eyes, "it may be the added turn, to make our plans, St. Onge, factor at Walling River, Steele in Uel'euse of his host; but play the violin superbly. He At the words, David, who had been throughout the simple breakfast of himself and accepts an invitation to make the post his listening, turned to Michel in surprise. trout, toast and coffee, his active home during: his stay. He flnds But the face of the head man was brain was busy with the strange atthe factor worried and mystified. wooden. The OJibwny's narrow eyes titude of St. Onge and Its cause. The "Iob chateau" Is a real home. shifted to those of Steele, and for a From St. Onge he learns of the At the trade-housthe factor and mysterious creature of evil, the space white man and red held each his guest learned from the still shaky "Wlndisto," and the disappearance other's gaze. e that Michel and David of a canoe and its crew, with the Was the Frenchman, after all, suhad packed a canoe and provisions season's take of furs. Then at perstitious? Steele wondered. Had his over the portage at daylight. But night the "Wtndleo" gives a weird performance. Even Steele nerve softened, after what he had now before starting down river on his Is mystified. heard with his own ears; or was he quest with David, Michel had done his work well. Not an Indian dared playing a game? "Colonel St. Onge," said the Ameri leave the post because of the demon CHAPTER II Continued can after a space, "this thing has got which the wily head man had assured 5 to be followed up run down In wait for them. So, them was Steele strained from the window, scotched ! To you. It's vital ! To me, for a timelying St. Onge could count on waiting for a repetition of the wail. as a scientist. It's the opportunity of keeping his post servants, and then But the voice which had defiled the a lifetime. With your permission, "Well, who can foretell what Is on night was hushed. From the clearing David and I will stay here and lend a the knees of the gods, monsieur?" came the whimpering of awed huskies, hand until the winter threatens to he said with a characteristic shrug. the wolf challenge smothered In their break." Through the following days while throats. Among the dim shapes of the The factor Impulsively offered his he Impatiently waited for the return Indian shacks beyond the trade-hous- e hand. "Thank you, monsieur! I shall of David, Steele occupied his time not a light flickered. They were as be most grateful for your aid." with the study of two Interesting subthe houses of the dead. The post and Denise St. "And Mademoiselle St. Onge?" asked jects Tete-Boul- e people lay in their blankets, stiff with Steele, deeply curious. "She heard It Onge. And he found In each much fear. Like a shroud, panic had fallen all?" to stimulate his curiosity. The Inon Wailine River. tocalled-mdian, once a twist of nigger-heaIt when she "Yes, began. r Throwing on his clothes, the man She was of knife a bacco and the gift skinning have but there very brave, awung from the window and dropped been so many things lately " St. had established friendly relations. to the grass below. The house, also, Onge checked himself. "Mi was led to repeat the tales of huge was dark St. Onge doubtless drugged chel," suddenly he said, swiftly changing the tracks in the muskeg and night wallDid she lie subject, "we must look after the In ing which he had brought to the post with cognac, but she? numb with fright, or was she gallantdians at once. But what can we tell during the summer. To Steele, familiar ly struggling with the mystery? with shamanism and the practice of them now, after this?" As he approached Michel's dark "We tell dem de Windigo weel ketch sorcery among the Ojibways and shack, Steele was puzzled. Had the dem on de riviere eef dey leave now,' Crees, this squat red man, with his Iroquois and David also weakened? replied the ready-witte- d high cheek bones and close-se- t eyes, head man. Rut two silent shapes, carrying someon was something of a puzzle. Steele As himself stretched Steele again who thing In their hands, met him at the his cot, he wondered If there would be soon learned that door. owed his name to the likeness of his down that for the girl night -- "Ton heard It, Michel?" demanded sleep Crees stairs what thoughts were hers as she broad face to the was possessed of more than ordinary Steele, searching the swart face of of her future; the lay facing problem as they left the shack, a the problem of which the sole solution Intelligence. for traces of excitement. " demanded Steele In seemed at that moment to rest with The features of Michel were set Monsieur Lascelles one on the river of conversations their Fort at Albany. like stone as he said : "De Windico shore, "why should this Windigo wish get de fur cnno"; now he get de pos'." There was no one in the living room to harm this post; the people, here, "What d'you mean?" quickly de- when Steele entered have never done him an Injury?" early the followmanded Steele, fearing that the Indian The mink-lik- e eyes of the Indian of from the direction but ing morning, In the head man had at last triwidened with fear at the mention of women's the kitchen came the sound of umphed over his Intelligence that he, voices. He was examining the shelves the dread name, which was taboo. too, had succumbed to the general of French and "Dis ees bees countree. Long tarn English classics when terror. he heard the light footfall of mocca- ago, he onm here on dis riviere," the "Michel mean," explained David, sins behind him. Diffident at meeting Indian muttered, evidently 111 at ease. "that de Indian will leave de pos' Denise St. Onge whose humiliation "Was It the Windigo who drowned of after tonight." the night before must have been deep, the men with the fur canoe?" The white man was relieved. These but For a space the Ojibway smoked naturally curious as to her mental two. at least, had not been stampeded condition after the night wailing, he In silence, then spat far Into the waon the rldgre, turned with : by the nameless thing ter before he answered. $nd then, as they reached The shore. I We mademoiselle "De crew ov de not It began again. are all here, you see, safe and sound. drown' eat up !" And he opened his From the crest of the ridge came In spite of the serenade of our friend." wide mouth and snapped his jaws. an unspeakable mewing, now strangeThe fine eyes of the girl were heavy "Will be .come again by night to now unearthly: followed with shadows, but to his relief, were the ly post here?" by the moaning of a mangled thing In not unfriendly. She has not slept, The Indian slowly nodded. torture. Further than repeating to Steele thought Steele. The Windigo has got It ceased. The white man heard her, too. that In August he had peen huge the rough breathing of the men beside We tracks in the muskeg and heard cries "Good morning, mademoiselle! him. Slowly the click of steel on steel turned In a voice without spirit, and at night similar to those which had marked the cocking of two rifles. there was no life In the colorless face wakened the post, could Then upon the heavy silence broke as she went on: "Yes, we are still not be led to talk. But what Interthe prolonged walling of an Ojlhway here, as you say; but after last night ested the American especially was to woman for her dead. I trust you realize what my father hear, later, from Denlse St. Onge, that the squat post hunter was beItlgld, the three men listened. The faces In this terrible valley." "It Is most mysterious," he said, wailing with the already stampeded walling climaxed In maniacal shrieks. "but you must not allow It to get your Indians the fate which menaced them. Again the night was soundless. Turning to Steele. Michel muttered: nerve. You are an educated woman, "This Tete-Boulought to he sup"Tete-Boulees right: dat pes ver' mademoiselle; you must hold your pressed." he suggested to St. Onge. ? had t'lng to hear." mental grip. Of course "Your daughter tells me that he keeps "What Is It, David?" Steele demand- it Is, but there Is a solution mad wolf the Indians In a ferment with bis ed of his friend. or wolverine probably." As he spoke, wild tales of demons and Witidignes." "Kef David was on dat ridge, he he strove to pierce the reserve of her "I've told him to stop It. But he tell yon." was the dry response. dark eyes to the thoughts they masked. Is very, superst Itlons. When he first "Hut It was horrible ghastly!" she rame here from Albany, he was a "There's nothing on four feet In this country that could do that. There replied. "Is It to be wondered at that most valuable man very Intelligent." may be something In this Windlgc the Indians are In a panic and these "lie's doing a lot of barm. now. I storv. after all. Is It beast, bird, or poor women whose husbands were with wish Michel were here. You need devil. Michel?" the fur canoe; they are Imbeciles from him." "Eet may be erar.ee wolverine; eet terror. I found them this morning In "Yes. he understands the Indians. a cabin, too frightened to cook the and can mrty be ilovll ;' eet may be Wfnillgo quiet them." agreed the fnclnr but eet foenlsh dees pos' all de same." breakfast of the children." wearily. "And he la wasting his time It hazfor them." he As the "So you cooked sadly shook his down river." arded with a smile. Surely, Mademoihead, the caterwauling began anew. "I am not so sure of that. They With beads thrust forward the selle St. Onge had not lost her nerve. may find something." Ami Steele three men on the shore strove to If she could think of the children." smiled Into thp Frenchman' eye The girl flushed. "One could not quizzically, but met n blank stare. pierce lis mystery. I'.ut this time, as a the voice rose to climax, (lame shot have them suffer, monsieur." Then muzzles of two rifles and the with n Hash of white teeth, went on, re smothered In the report "Hut we all feel better, now that the Well, with Steel on Iti trail, a ev echoing from the ridge. sun Is out." the "Windigo" is likely to have at the human blanketed the smiled silence touch. Steele valley. a lively time. And Steele 7 "Has your ftither told you that I am iid David and Michel fling halletige of lead to the staying here, with his permission, to rkness which menaced follow up this Windigo?" (TO BE CONTINUED She glanced tip In surprise. For an now that Instant her eyes fell, the dark brows Clock Hat Only One Hand igo know ne righting Wood left in contracting In thought; then she met An Ingenious clock with Mil one Uver," cbticklcd Steele, when his quizzical look. hand Is Installed in nn oflice In Port "Ynu are going to fight the Win- land. Ore. An Knglisli naval nllieer. f .unnronchlng footstep. "V?" called the voice of digo? You, a stranger who have no who wus wrecked. Is credited with the A hn fired those shot?" After being shipu recked Interest T" Invention. "I'.ut I have very great Interest, and thrown on a desert Isliind, he 'Siavll, colonel; did you am sent into the field found J'ht among the few effects he y Steele, curliiui to mademoiselle. I to !t the factor's nerve. liy the museum study this fcoit of had saved waa a watch with the min nnn gripped thing. Michel. Puvld and I are going ute h.tixl gone. Necessity of telling " l to Fight him and solve him." time with only the lu nr bund Inspired f ' Steele's iirm. "I've been listening 'Hut you do not know the dancer!" the officer to divide the dial into spin e with tny daughter," he sold In a strained voice. "I went to roui-- you, Iler face was very grave as she faced Indicating one minute Intertills nml but you had gone. It's the last straw, him, and he now knew that his sur- from this rough pattern a marine rlock There was wa fashioned thai nerves Its purpos l!l not stay mise had been correct. .My Indian monsieur a welt lis the old type with iwe band iniiili that be had not been told. ifter this ' . half-bree- WTln-dlgo- e Tete-Boul- 1- - ,, V.. X. d Tete-Boul- e e half-bree- "Tete-Boule.- "Good-mornin- fur-can- cat-lik- Tete-Boul- e e Nerve-racking- hard-heade- half-bree- r d d rt t 1 e NEPIH. UTAH gloomy statement that drew from the proud and happy minister an unusual ly harsh rejoinder. "Y'ou ought to be kicked all the way ome for saying such a tiling as that. Joe Sikes." Turning to the slim, pretty girl who walked beside him across the campus, he said com fortingly: "Don't mind this old croak-- , er, Jane dear." A word in passing about Jane Sage.; above Slender, graceful, slightly medium height, just turning Into young, womanhood, she was an extremely; pretty girl. She adored Oliver October. There had been a time when she was his sweetheart, but that was ages ago when both of them were young! Now he was supposed to be engaged to a girl In the graduating class and Jane was going to be an old maid so the Mulish romance was over. Late In the fall of 1911, young Oli ver, having passed the age of twenty- one, packed his bag and trunk, shook the dust of Burnley from his feet, and COPYRIGHT.BELL S YN O I CATE.(w N.U. SCRVICE-accepted a position In the construction of a Chicago engineering many were the battles he fought In her department and investment concern. defense. OLIVER AND JANE Early in 1013 he was sent to China The time came when Oliver October his company on a mission that kept by to what told " had be Baxter, age ten, SYNOPSIS Oliver October him In the Orient for nearly a year and not did In blm If was store he for Baxter, Jr., was born on a vile October day. His parents were mend his ways. For, be it here re a half. A week before Christinas. 1914, ltumley Dispatch came out with prominent in the commercial, corded, Oliver not only possessed a the social and spiritual life of the the announcement under a double a san but quick surprisingly temper, town of Itumley. The night that head that Oliver October Baxter was Oliver October was born a gypsy guinary way of making it felt. returning from the Far East, where he queen reads his father's fortune He was a rugged, freckle-facehnd been engaged in the most stu and tells him what a wonderful a brown with hair, curly youngster son his future has before htm, enterprise ever undertaken but adds that his son will never puir of stout legs, and a couple of hard pendous reach the aee of thirty, that he little fists, with which he made his by American capital. When he arrived, he was met at the will be hanged for a crime of temper felt. which he is not guilty. by a delegation. depot a was after witnessing particular It "I can't believe my eyes no, sir, I ly ferocious battle between Oliver and old Oliver, quaveringly as Sammy I'arr. that Joseph Slkes and can't," cried CHAPTER II Silas Link decided that the boy must he wrung his son's hand. "You're back 2 be warned of the fate that awaited again, alive and sound." You bet I'm alive," answered Oliver Ten Years Later him If his awful temper was not October, laying his arm over the old Ten years passed, years of change curbed. And so It came to pass that young mnn's shoulder and patting his back. and growth Rumley had not stood still during the decade. It was the Oliver October learned what was In 'It's mighty good to see you, and It's store for him If his "fortune" came wonderful to be back In the old town proud boast of its most enterprising citizen, Silas Link, that It had done true. In the presence of his father, again. Hello, ITncle Joe! Well, you see they haven't hung me yet." a great deal better than Chicago : it his good friend, Mr. Sage, who had op "And they ain't going to If I can help had tripled Its population. posed telling the boy, and the Messrs Oliver Baxter, Sr., owned one of Link and Slkes, he was made to realize it," roared Mr. Slkes, pumping Oliver's the new business "blocks" on Clay the vastness of the dark and terrifying arm vigorously. "Not on your life: It's all fixed, Oliver. We've got you street. It was known as the Baxter shadow that hung over him. When they had finished, he cleared the appointment of city civil engineer block, erected in 1800. ma was here,' of Rumley." Mary Baxter died of typhoid fever his throat. "I wish my "You needn't worry about that, fawhen young Oliver was nearing seven. he said, his lip trembling. "Amen to that," said Mr. Sage, fer ther. Til not accept the position." Her untimely. demise revived the Mr. Baxter brightened. "You won't? prophecy of the gypsy fortu- vently. "Amen!" repeated Mr. Link In his Good for you ! That'll show Joe Slkes ne-teller. People looked severely at most and Silas Link they can't run everyprofessional voice. each other and In hushed tones dis Mr. Sage laid a hand on the boy' thing." cussed the Inexorable ways of fate. It Presently they drew up In front of was the first "sign" that young Oliver's the Baxter residence, and as they did fortune was coming true. so an uncommonly pretty girl opened Of an entirely different nature was the front door. the agitation created by the unshe cried. "Hello, Oliver righteous behavior of Josephine Sage, "Hello, Jane !" he shouted back, as who had finally succumbed to the lure he ran up the steps. "Gee ! It's greHt of the stage, leaving her husband and to see you. And, my goodness, what a am In to life's her order child. gratify big girl you are." bition. Half the women In town, on He was holding her warm, strong learning that she was going to Chicago hands In his own ; they were looking for a brief visit with her folks, went straight Into each other's eyes. around to the parsonage to kiss lier "Y'ou haven't grown much," she said Excoriation and a stream of good-by- . -ill I told you so's" were bestowed upon slowly. "Except that you are a man i and not a boy." the pretty young wife and mother LH I "That's it," he cried. "The differwhen It became known that she was ence in you Is that you're a woman not coming back. and not a girl." Herbert Sage was stunned, bewil "Come in," she said, with a queer She wrote him from dered dignity that she herself did not underChicago at the end of the first week stand. of what was to have been a fortnight's When he came downstairs, after visit to her mother. She was leaving at once for New Y'ork, where she bad having unpacked his bags and scatbeen promised a trial by one of the tered the contents all over the room, he found the "company" already as greatest American producers. A month sembled. As might have been ex later came a telegram from her saying she was rehearsing a part In a new pected, the guests Included Rev. Mr. piece that was sure to be the "hit of Sage, Mr. Slkes and Mr. Link, and one outsider, the mayor of Rumley, the season." Mr. Samuel Belding. "Too will be proud of me, Herby," she wrote, "because I will take mighty "What's this I bear?" demanded the latter sternly, as he shook hands with good care tbt you never have any reason to be ashamed of me or for me the young man. "Your father's Just to be ashamed of myself. You know been telling us you won't accept the what I mean. I don't suppose I will distinguished honor the city of RumWhat's say my prayers as often as I did when ley has conferred upon you. you were around to remind me of them, the matter with It?" but I will be a good girl Just the same." "The truth of the matter Is," Oliver That was four years ago. Her confiseriously, "I have other dence In herself bad been Justified. I'm going Over There In Febplans. "I Do." Said Sir," Oliver, "Yet, and. for nil we know, the same may be It's all ruary with the Canadians. said of Herbert Sage's confidence In shoulder. "Do you Ray your prayers settled. I'm to have my old Job back her. She had the talent, the voice, the when the war Is over." every night. Oliver?" beauty, and above all,, the magnetism I do." sir "But it's not our war!'" cried Mr. "Yes, and so there was no holding her back "Well er if Brother Baxter doesn't Sikes. For two successive seasons she ap mind, and If you gentlemen will ex"It's everybody's war," spoke young peared In a Chicago theater, followln cuse me, I think I will go upstair with Oliver out of the very depths of hi In long New York rtins of the pieces Oliver ii ml ami listen to his prayer." soul. "We will be In It some day. which she was playing. A little later on. the tall, spare pasOh, I'll come back, never fear. You Finally, In otie of her letters nn tor sat on the side of young Oliver's see. I'ncle Joe, I've Just got to pull a in prospective engagement nounclng trundle bed and talked In a confiden- through alive and well, so that I can London, she put the question to him: tial whisper. be bung when m time comes," "Do yoii want to get a divorce from "I am g"lng to tell you something. me. Herby?" Hi reply was terse and Oliver, Hnd I want you to believe It. brought from her the following tin Nobodv on this earth can foretell the Off to the wart Well, he's dignified but manifestly sincere tele- future. All that talk about your besafe. He'll have to come back I. so do stick we'll gram: "Neither to be hanged. ing bung some day Is poppycock pure tlil thp cow come home. Sailing Fri poppycock. Don't you believe a word Will cable. Much love." day. of It. I came upstairs with you Just She made a "hit" In tendon In the for the purpose of telling you this TO HE CONTINl'BD.) big musical success of that season, not really to hear your prnyers. Now They liked her so well over there that don't you feel better?" What Am I? tl.ey wouldn't let her go back to the "Yes. sir." said Oliver. "I do." I have scattered bread( rusts, tin State. "What I want you to do, Oliver, I to cans. Sunday supplements, paper er go on lending regular boy's plates, paper bugs, chicken bones and She wa greatly missed by little Oil life. Do the things that are right and fruit skins from the wilds if Maine ver October. For some reason per square, be honest and fearless and to the tip of Florida. I have backed forest tree and left haps she did not explain it herself at no harm will ever come to you. Now ant rate, she did not go to the trouble turn oer and go to sleep, there a caiuptires burning from the California of spei nintlng she had taken h tre good boy." coast to the Atlantic seaboard. And the kind hearted minister went I have hooked apple mendous fancy to the child. This small from New hoy of five or six was the only being In downstair feeling that he hnd given England orchards, walnuts from the town with whom she could play to the poor lad something beside the Willamette valley and oranges from her heart' content, and she made the gallows to think ubout. our southern state. own tiny baby, I have rolled rock most of Mm. Il-Into the sap.lane. Interested but did not amuse It 1 not the purpose of the narrator phire depths of Crater lake and thrown her. of this storv to deal at length with the tin can Into gurgling brooks in every Oliver as always to have n warm dcs. exploit, mishaps and sensation stale In the t'nlon. I have seen all, heard all, know all corner In her heart for the gay Aunt of Oliver October a n child. He was ,isepl hie. but new diverting km lues re seventeen when be nleft Burnley high and In tny weiik way have destroyed freshman at the much. duced his passionate longing fur her to school and became I am the American tourist who ;i tnlld but pleasant memory. Perhaps, state university. The Inst of the three too her own daughter had something decade allotted to him by the gypsy through careless and thoughtless act was shorn of Its first twelve month o d" with Josephine's fading from tinbrink's dishonor to responsible, respectOld when he received hi degree. As Mr. able and careful fellow traveler ker's ndiid. For .limie Sage, at the age of six, Sike announced to Keterend Sage at Colony Memorial. the conclusion of the commencement vii by fnf the prettiest and the most Most advlep I good, bnt you re j:i).-h- t after young lady In Burnley. exercise, he hnd less than nine more s h"" chosen swain, and year to live at the very outside a given no will power with It HUer d OLIVER L OCTOBER; BARR McCUTCHEON GEORGE ) d n filter H Hi SSJ: f- ans-were- a-- |