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Show THE TIMES-NEW- jNEPHI. UTAH S. The Valley of Voices OLIVEK OCT By GEORGE MARSH Author of 'Toller, of the Trail" "The Whelps of the Wolf "MY VALLEY!" Dy George I often came here to dream and play away the day that Is, I did," she Barr KcCutcheon day. The old man had that day offered him an interest In the business If he would remain In Rumley. Oliver vns grateful, but he declined the offer, saying he had a profession In which b wanted to make good. Mr. Baxter's reversion to the subject came when Oliver, looking at his watch, announced that he must be running along, as be was due over at the to Jane and her Sages to say good-b- WNU Service Copyright. Bell Syndicate OLD OLIVER laughed, "Poor Charlotte at times SYNOPSIS October Oliver was bored, oh, so bored Was It not ' Baxter, Jr., was born on a vile "What sort of a chap Is Doc Lanso. Charlotte?" October day. His parents were Jane?" sing, In the commercial, prominent "Enh, enh! Yes!" mumbled the OJibShe started, and for a moment her social and spiritual life of the a definite plan of campaign could be way woman, who sat on a rock apart d town of Humley. The night that were fixed intently on bis eyes from two. framed. her restless eyes sweepthe Oliver October was born a gypsy face. There was an odd, starqueen reads his father's fortune ing the scrub below them. tled expression In them. and tells him what a wonderful On a morning when the warns Sep"Charlotte Is not bored now; she's "He is very nice," she answered, and his son has before him, future tember sun. lifting the g river scared to death," suggested Steele but adds that his son will never father. they both fell silent. mists, rolled them back on ridges, with a laugh. reach the age of thirty, that he An automobile approached along the "Well. I'll walk pnrt of the way with be a will of crime for here and there already flecked with hanged "Has she not reason, monsieur?" tree-lineto a stop at you," said his father crossly. "I'd like street, coming which he is Ten not guilty. the yellow and gold of a protested Denlse. "Hut we have not to see If I can't coax you to change the front gate. Mrs. Baxter years elapse. birch or poplar, Denlse St. Onge apbeen here, she and I, since midsumdied when Oliver was near-in- g "Hullo!" exclaimed Oliver. "Here your mind about coming Into the store. seven. Josephine Sage, peared at breakfast In whipcord and mer. And I miss It so." If you don)t mind, we'll take the lower conies the gentleman himself. wife of the minister, caused a "You fear to come here now beheavy boots. Steele stared In surprise "Good evening, Jane," said young road along the swamp. It's a short sensation when she goes on the at the change In face and manner of lieve In this thing?" He welcomed the stage. . Her daughter Jane and Lansing as he came up to the steps. cut for you saves you a quarter of a his hostess. The ghost of worry had opportunity to put the question diyoung Oliver become greatly at"How are you. Captain Baxter? Wontulle or more." tached to each other. After left her eyes, which shone with high rectly. A few minutes before 9 o'clock Oliderful isn't it?" night, finishing college, young Oliver spirits. Her mood of silence had given The dark eyes frankly met his. "Is "Wonderful," said Oliver, who wasn't ver October appeared at the home of accepts a position In Chicago a to way with an engineering company. gayety foreign to his knowlthere not good reason, monsieur, for thinking at all of the physical aspects Hev. Mr. Sage, somewhat out of breath He goes to China. Upon his reedge of her. fear In a woman? After the fur canoe of the nigtit. and visibly agitated. he In turn Canadian the enlists "This beautiful morning, monsieur, and that night?" "I'm awfully sorry to be so late," he Twenty minutes later he looked at army. wrist-watcCharlotte and I go to wave an au as had been her reply, Natural exclamaan his "Father and I had a long uttered apologized. CHAPTER III revoir to the summer which passes." Steele intuitively sensed that she was and trying confab and I I couldn't tion, and sprang to his feet. "Charlotte Is to be envied," he re- dissembling to avoid his inevitable "I must be going Jane," he said. He get away. Ood knows I hate to say it, CHAPTER III As the dnys passed at Walling plied, charmed with the note of cheer- questioning was willing to have blm took himself off in haste. but I'm glad I'm going tomorrow." believe that she, too, was a victim Iliver, and the dread voice failed to fulness. As he strode off down the street he "No, you shouldn't say it, Oliver," Home From the War Her eyes lighted with amusement. of the general superstition. Hut she break upon the crisp September nights was conscious of an extremely uncomsaid Mr. Sage. "Poor man, he Is really Its of the recurrence horror, The war was over. Oliver October fortable feeling that they were glad to not responsible these days. You see, with a "It Is possible that it might be ar- had betrayed herself the morning her a be rid of him. A queer little chill of Oliver, for nearly 30 years he has lived Baxter came warnpeople timidly took up the old order ranged that we take with us a body- father cut short her through without of their days. The rabliit snares in guard," she said archly. "Of course, ing. Well, the day was young and he scratch. dismay struck in upon him. For a mo- In dread of well, of the absurd thing In April. 1010. he sailed from Brest ment he felt utterly desolate and be that gypsy woman said." the forest were again visited and re- it Is not for ladles to demand the feared to press her then for an exset by the women, who traveled in presence of cavaliers " And that Is why he wants me to planation of what she patently de- and mi the tenth of May arrived In wildered. He felt lost. Why, It meant "Take me, oh fair lady, as thy sired to avoid. So with a nodded asHumley, discharged from the army, that he and Jane couldn't be playmates stay here, so that he can watch over pairs for mutual encouragement, and e was prevailed knight !" he begged. one day sent to her question, he changed the jobless. On the way home he stopped or chums any longer. nnd protect me?" over in Chicago to notify his employFour days later Jane met blm face "Laggard though .you are, you may subject. upon by the factor to go out with "Exactly." "We are to have gay music today, ers that he would he ready to resume to face In the street, and looking another Indian after moose, for the escort us to my watch tower, where "If I really believed that to be the As lie meat. left, Charlotte and I go to play the spring mademoiselle. You remember, you work after a month's fort needed fresh case, Uncle Herbert, I I would stay." straight Into his eyes, asked: rest. He was blandly informed that the OJibway gravely shook the hands north, and to wave a bon voyage to promised we should be merry." "What is the matter, Oliver? What Jane, who had been silent during the of the fearful women and children the last of the geese." brief colloquy between her father and "Yes, today the violin shall sing as soon as anything turned up they have I done?" "It Is charming of you, mademoi- of Joy ; It Is too beautiful here to be would he pleased and happy to take "Done?" Oliver, was studying the young man's gathered pn the shore, bidding them to allow me to go," he sad. Even though the first gray geese him hack into the concern, but at look upon him for the last time, for selle, "Don't be stupid. Have I offended face Intently. She was puzzled by his at the of the year pass south, I shall send present there wasn't u vacancy in you? Why haven't you been up to see manner and by bis expression. delighted having by night he and his comrade would said, I cume over by the back road, along me?" be mangled flesh In the maw of the girt to himself In her gay mood, them no message." Sight. "And this message Is it a secret?" He decided to be quite frank about the swamp," he explained, catching Accompanied by the stolid Charlotte, Windlgo. Heing a captain in the army and "A secret, monsieur? What secrets "Did you hear that fool?" Steele carrying a birch bark basket contain used to plain speaking, he told the as- It. "See here, Jane, we've always been her In the act of staring at his muddy HKkpd St. Onge. standing near him ing the lunch, and whose swart face can a woman cherish In these forests?" tonished general manager what he pals. I don't know -- xactly how tilings shoes. "Father walked part of the way Her reply had been spontaneous. Inwith me. Gee, what a panning he gave on the beach. thought of him and the whole works nocent of subterfuge ; then. In his besides, and airily went his way. me! It was terrllUe, Mr. Sage. I saw "This thing has ruined him as a lifted eyebrows and humorous curl of red. I I had to run I couldn't stand This time there was no delegation hunter," replied the factor, "he will It. O d, how miserable I am!" lip, she caught the reflection of the at the station to meet him. His fattier never recover from it." double implication of her question, and Sammy l'arr were waiting for Jane and her father listened, speech "1 think I'll run upstream to the and her face flushed to the temples. him when the train pulled in. less, and presently Mr. Sage arose and riffles this morning and catch some "Have you ever longed to Journey went into the house. Old Oliver eyed his son narrowly. dore for supper," said the younger south with the passing geese?" he The clock on the town hall struck 12 "What's this I hear about them not man as they returned to the trade-housbefore Oliver reluctantly bade Jane quickly asked, gallantly covering her taking you back on your old Job?" he embarrassment. J'As you play them demanded. good-nigh- t and started homeward. On He extended his hand, Later, a second canoe quietly left down the skies, do you not wish to which young Oliver gripped in both his way home, through the heart of the post, but when the boat readied Join them?" town, he passed the rather pretentious of liis. the riffles, a mile above, the occupant Why, Monsieur Steele, you have house in which the Lansings lived. "Aren't you glad to see me back, continued fish but to not did stop stolen my dreams," she cried, radiant alive and well, dad?" he cried. There were people on the broad ver upstream following the shore. And with surprise. "Always, as they pass, anda, lie longed for the companion''Of course, I" tu glad you're back, when the flash from the paddles of I stand here calling to them to lend I've been ship of friends merry friends. He sonny of course, I am. the craft above ceased, and the spot me wings to follow follow Into the turned in at the stone gate and wv'ked for this ever since you went on the river which was the canoe, I try to lure them back with praying south. followswiftly up to the house. boat away. Hut, didn't I say you were a the moved to the shore, my violin but no, they pass. So I fool for giving up a $7,(K) job to go "Hello, Ollle," called out Sammy ing, also turned In, and was lifted send them down the wind to a mad over and mix up in a war that wasn't Parr. and hidden In the alders. Then the quick-stemy bon voyage, my fare- - any. of our business?" Young Lansing came V the top of attained premonition of Tete-Boul- e well until spring pipes them north." the steps to greet him "Oh, I'm not down and out. you a partial fulfilment, for on the shores She had risen. And her eyes, shin "I've heen up saying good by. to Mr. know, dad." broke in young Oliver. of the Walling started a man hunt ; with emotion, her face, vivid with "So, cheer ing was I'm not worrying." and Jane. And the funny part Sage up! hut the incentive In the hunter the color of her thoughts, strangely "Course you're not worrying," was of It Is that I may not go nway tomornot a craving for human flesh, but stirred the man who listened. The his father's sour retort. "You've got "The row, after all," said Oliver. a mild curiosity. of her straight body, from, me to fall back on. with a lines think I ought not to leave my the home to Sages good T.efore sunset the safe return to trim feet, held his eyes. and shoulders father." He spoke In lowered toiies, e grub mid a darned fine business and his partner post of Watching her. Steele asked himself to drop Into w hen I'm dead and gone." for Lansing's ear alone. was heralded with Joy, although they what this strange girl, tense as the "I quite agree with them," said the His sen could hardly believe his had failed In their hunt. Hut it was her her moods of with violin, strings other stiffly. ears. He was bewildered, hurt. well after dark before the second of aloofness and silence, followed by "Have a highball, Baxter?" called Sammy gave Oliver a significant canoe slid silently In to the stony 'And This Message Is It a Secret?" swift changes to whimsical gayety and look. Sammy. beach. lightness of spirit, was coming to "Not tonight, thanks. I've got to he As the two young men hurried "You had no luck this afternoon, betrayed misgivings she dared not mean to him. As her eyes again met ' running along. Father may be waiting nothing?" voice. Denlse St. Onge appeared at his he wondered what memories be across the platform with the bag caught you monsieur, me. for and bundles, he found opportunity to Night, everybody." up laughed St. Onge as Steele .appeared the trade-housshould carry down to Neplgon in OctoAnd he was off. The group watched say to the new arrival : for supper. "You will not go without your rifle, ber. him stride swiftly down the cement "Your father will be In a good hu"As a matter of fact. Colonel. 1 monsieur?" queried St. Onge as Steele And the message yon send with walk. Sammy was the first to speak. went huntin;, but the game was ton Joined them. the geese?" he ask?d. "There Is home- mor In a minute or two. It's Just a "Well, I call that sociability, don't "Is the Windlgo dangerous in broad sickness in it for your France your habit he's fallen Into since you've been "No. What's the Matter, Serepty?" nine for sport." away. I guess It's that Infernal gypsy you? What the dickens is the matter St. Onge's black brows lifted. daylight?" facetiously asked Steele. Touraine?" He's as peevish as blazes stand with ever seen The bronze face of the factor red"Ah." she sighed, "Is It not nntural. business. you and Lansing. But, with him? First time I've "You are cryptic, monsieur." a good part of the time." Baxter with a grouch." I do long for the roses Ollie dened. monsieur? not a fair wliile I'm it's only suitor, Steele. "Well, to confess." laughed They drove off In Sammy's car while and square of me to keep out of the "The Windlgo may strike In the and the poppy fields the warm sun Early the next morning, Serepta "I whs Interested to see how much Oliver monsieur. Who piled bis old friend with ques knows? or on the Orimes called Joseph Sikes on the teleand roads white the night, laughter day Her free. do Joyous Interrupted laugh men would really your hunting It Is well you go armed." And he of the people. There Is no laughter at tions. him. phone. and t found out." "Where Jane? he asked sud handed the Mannlleher to the Ameri"Did Oliver Baxter stay nil nigtit Wailing River now." She raised her "Oh. you don't know how relieved I s canoe?" "You followed who took It, mystified, irritated, In 'eloquent "The denly. with hands can, you?" she Inquired. "I mean old gesture. 8 cried. "so thnt the expia am, she "Yes. I watched them for a few that the man to whom be bad offered "Jane Sage? Oh, she's around nation. Is It? You wanted to give me Oliver." winter here Is so long so cold. The no showed as sign hours, but they "No." his services should withhold his con eternal wind In the spruce does It not same as ever. Things are a lot easier eery chance In the world to catch a of taking to the hush. I traveled over fidence. ' me there are for Mr. Sage now. I guess maybe you beau and to To "Have you seen anything of him thin too? to you, speak him. It's awfully keep to those ponds Michel told me about. Led by the girl, hardly recognizable always the voices voices of hunger haven't heard about his brother dying kind of you, Oliver, but It's also very morning?" Tomorrow, If you have a man who in her sudden metamorphosis from a and pain and death." out In California an leaving him silly. Don't let me find you staying "No. What's the matter, Serepty?" will help me pack the meat, I'll get creature of reticence and aloofness to he didn't sleep here last night, summer or winter," he said, quite a hit of money. It looks like a away again '." "Yes, "Well, a moose." one quick with life, vihnfnt to the "the voices are everywhere. In the pretty serious affair between her and nnd there ain't a sign of him around an so And June end toward drew never left the magic of the sunlit September hills. white-water"Ami Tete-Boul-e I I guess maybe you'd the spruce, the hills. Doc Lansing." with Jane and Oliver back on the old the place. river?" come Joe." "What's that?" demanded Oliver. footing not better And often. In the breeze, the forest up, they took the trail to an Isolated ridgi us before, quite the same "Not while I watched him." n art led. about a mile back front the river. The long and the short of It was, becomes one great orchestra." secret hitter's to conviction the owing The Watch tower was aptly named The factor shrugged significantly. "You have heard It. too?" she Oliver Baxter had vanished ns com'I gins It's all hnnnencd since you that he was playing hob with the doc"He's bush shy' now and will not for unlike most of the high land of cried, "the sweep of the violins, the went away. Doc's aly been prac- tor's peace of mind. pletely as If swallowed by the earth It was the general opinion that Hut what Is there to do?" the country, the hill was rapped by moaning of the cel'os?" hunt. ticing here since Inst summer. Fine Oliver's otherwise agreeable and and was "I always hear them In the sumfeller." "Have you thought that he might a bare brow of rock commanding a exactly what happened to In Humley was marred by that whilom stay him. There was not the slightest doubt "I don't seem to remember him," said his father's he shamming to avoid work? Is tie little valley studded with a chain mer, from a river; with the drumIncreasing a sweep beat of rapids as accompaniment." of miniature lakes, mind of his horrified friends lnzv?" Olive' dully. "You say she's er In and Irritation over the factdespondency that he not In the had wandered out upon the he "Ah. there Is much of the poet love with blm?" that "No. be always was a good packer of rolling forest faded into the haze a Job but apparently only was out of of the southern horizon In you. monsieur." And for an Instant met a ghastly fate In had and unci hunter. "Looks that way," said Sammy, It's the Windlgo." swamp no effort to obtain one. was "Is it not beautiful my valley. here was a Held In the girl's eyes one of the countless pits of mire whose In the week past. S'eele had seen "lie's dead gone on her. Theremaking were old when man's times the monsieur?" she asked with a wide which set wild thoughts slirrlng In that's sure." no man knew or cared to fathom all too little of the girl whose perscolding became unbearable, and but depths hi brain. "Hut our winter Is beautiPrescn'ly Mr. Baxter cackled. He for the pleadings of Serepta Crimes even in speculation. sonality hud so vividly aroused his sweep of her'." arm. he repented. "Anil you ful, also, in mood.' she went on. was in hiuh good humor again. "Heautiful Notwithstanding the almost universal Interest, whose moods, defying ann lyand the counsel of Mr. Sage, Oliver come here often?" "The q'llet days with the sun on the "SiT-p'belief that poor old Oliver Baxter was Crime Just can't wait to would have sis, only added to her charm. Condehis and bags packed "l es that Is, we used to come snow I love then to walk In the fee yoii." be declared. "You know burled In the black mire of the swnmp vinced that beyond a dread of the tidy " She caught her parted. And Die winding snow-shosearch was at once instia state-wid- e forest. sl e fccep'nir boose for me now." alternatives which the future might here: but lately "Don't to attention pay nny him, tuted continued. "This his distracted son, who. for do they not call you to fol"Aunt S Ti pta keeping house f by rails; present to her choice, beyond any pos self up sharply, then Oliver," begged Serepta. "lie's cranky I call my Vale of low?" did not believe that the missing i!le fear of the nrinlfesliitions of valley, monsieur. yon?" that's all. He don't mean what he one, man bad gone to bis death in the loath"Yes. I thought that people would the sii!eriu,inral which the post had Tempe. It Is enchanting to watch the would If break It his heart you he ?:tp to talk if 'ie runic over and say. witnessed, there lurked" a fan.'lbte spring slowly sweep il with lis inniric were to get mud and go off and leave some tract. paint in. here and there, the soft The bank's prompt announcement lived at toy bouse. Hut the cussed pirt him." Evidently Steele has fallen in cause for anxiety, his active mind had love with the beautiful French be-of It K nobo ly think there's anyhlng that Mr. Baxter bad withdrawn thirty-livce!ieless In Its groping fur h green of the young birch leaves, the silver of poplar, and balm of :lteal Two rltiys hundred dollars convinced Oliver s.'ini'hiloM about It. There hasn't been girl. And her feelings? fl.iv to Its nature. CHAPTER IV a denied bit of la!!;. October and a few sound headed IndiWhat the dickens the tilfhf of terror, he had then rim that brook with tie red of willow l.urts. And the first (lower? are you laughing at, Sam?" viduals Hint he had deliberately spent searching the big ridge for sign the of the forest hepatiia. purple anil (TO UK CONTINUED.) his departure from Burnley. "I .last ran over a lien," lied Sam A Mysterious of wolverine, lynx or wolf, bad proplanned Disappearance and woo .'t o'clock on t he after-nooduced nothing In explanation of the Pink and white;" violets before promptly. Shortly and trllllnm " Flat Feet and Rheumatism of June 'Si. the day before Oliver mysterious cries, hut while his eyes anemone Mie paused, tlie dark eyes grew Many persons think they have rheu-mat- . .tune was well along before Oliver October was to leave for Chicago and Old Oliver and Young Oliver nnni i tie drv floor of the forest to or bite when they lei'iin rr""itxlv to cotteiiiohite voice throaty, as she con Hi of the eg an 1 Old Oliver m n new position, obi Oliver Haxfer rlgiit and left. Ms thought find den't wistful the bring quarreling arches, Pi il"; f nn stepped Into tlio bank at the corner of the 0Pv.o'l to c,ucen with the reiterated query: "Whom tinned: "(dice there "as tin terror In have flat feet or broken Maybe to Dr. Solomon Kl rouse In What was here green forests; once we searched nd. M y bud Ik n giorlo'i. was right. Even Clay and I'ershlng street and drew did she fear at th- - rapid-!I. Hnd Hi Charlotte unafraid. for Magazine. r s'retol'cs oC Death swamp, out f.!,."iH In currency. Ui.' .n she nlwett to tell me when St. Ongn llov. lip gave no A young man fell r h a escortr ti ensure tliev possessed 'Come fil from the oak S'T- wii'il: be reason the teller or to the cashier to Interrupted? She hnd said, 'Hut you find usT they called, and dall ing his lady down the aisle of a thea(TO UK d"l thai he would !..! d for the withdrawal of So large an do not know the danger! and. there and 'v nd fearing them and hmiU'lit them ter. Much embarrassed II hour-tut repel' a !!' Many what? Clearly we soii-In are so amount itc c;ih, p' himself a victim of serioi. rhcuuui liMiue to transplant In our garden, but She Knew Hint hei hid in d m of yore. The there wh something tinre thin (Hiwr October, in or IS minute bite tism he stayed In bed nurn,' hi v. fi I'.nl what now " ; f 1. or!d I,,. o In this warning. t s.veet of your Mrs. for upper It. at even. tig. found his ti ' When no ? he he repeated, wondering Illness. "Hut tin' mitty tailed I'ni'i'iC Ho firM wek he "pent many father in a iirpri;n.'ly amiable frame husband to send you a kiss l.y wire? could it be?" to he physician, his tint feet viprr f lie v, ere a! I. .St. to know of mind bin Mr I'axter's good humor Mrs. H I'm n'd so wire. I have So Sule returned from li s pr 'it uitpv. cure free hour with Jane Sat mid h! limes- - dis.ippc im i in a p?i : a' e a siin ri r lii hit sei r i ii.' lounging on her porch did not eiid'ire. lie revived a dispute ftrong suipicloi that the I digraph .ess searc h of the rld.-- to v nit for mil (" mo his ed shoe of j liim. h. lit and "Chailotle properly e fl; ' 'J I r !."' hen tdden y t the return i t David and Ml-they hail had in the stme earlier lu the operator was a girt. (Copyright d With David, guide, Brent Steele, of the American Museum of Natural History, Is traveling in northern Canada. By a stream he hears Denlse, daughter of Col. Hilalre St. One", factor at Wailing River, play the violin superbly. He Introduces himself and accepts an Invitation to 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 "Windlgo," and the disappearance of a canoe and Its crew, with the season's take of furs. Then at a night the "Windlgo" gives weird performance. Even Steele Is mystified. David, Steele's Indian, and Michel, St. Onge's headman, leave for the scene of the canoe's disappearance in an attempt to solve the mystery. SYNOPSIS. half-bree- by the Penn Publishing Co.l (W. N. U. Service. 1 half-averte- low-lyin- frost-painte- d d half-uttere- d Tete-Boul- much-neede- d e. 1 p Tete-Boul- e. ' 1 Tete-Boule'- 1 e ti-in- var-ilii.- - lly-gei- a man' hl , I ! ; ' e : |