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Show THE Friday, March 5, 1926 TIMES-NEW- PAGE SEVEN NEPHI, UTAH S. ffl The Valley of Voices -- Out Valla IS By CHAPTER VII By GEORGE MARSH Continued his surroundings, tested the rope that bound him, and vainly speculated upon his chance of escaping. There seemed to be no outlet to the smaller cave he was In, except through the one In which the wireless was lo cated. It was nothing more than a sort of recess or alcove extending back from the black hole Into which he had let himself. He groaned from the pain In his head. When the entrance to the cave was darkened by the appearance of the two men, he silenced his groans and compressed his Hps firmly. The sea man led the way, and thrust an electric torch In his face. "There he Is, sir," he said. "Reckon I did a good Job of It" Mr. Blake stepped forward and thrust his face down at Dick. For a moment he was quiet, inspecting him closely. Then a grunt escaped his lips. 'Let me have that torch, McGee!" he said abruptly. Taking It from his companion's hand and thrusting It close Into Dick's face, he scrutinized the features In silence. 'We've met before," he added, frowning. "Your face Is familiar." "Then perhaps you can tell me where," replied Dick, determined not to enlighten him. The man was busy with his thoughts, trying to summon from memory a vague Impression. Suddenly his fuce lightened. T have It!" he exclaimed. "You're the man who fished Miss Cutler's bag from the river the day before we sailed. Aren't you? Yes, I recognize you. I don t need your answer." 'I don't deny It, Mr. Blake. Glad to meet you again." The other grunted. Then be asked the Inevitable question: "How'd you get down here?" 'Came down on the yacht," replied George Ethelbert Walsh Dawn was Just beginning to streak the east with faint bars of light, hut In the (rove It was still dark and IT. N. V. S.rrteO (Copyright by th Ftnn Publishing Co.) In the half light. Dick shadowy. (Copyr1ht, HIS. by W. O. Chapmta.) Stumbled along until he came to a WNtJ Snrlc hole that stretched directly fawning lifted knife, a wild-eyeCHAPTER XIII Continued Ojlbway wom- the snow at his feet, and excitedly across his pathway. To Steele's an threw herself upon the surprised strained at his leas,h. He stood on the very brink of It be- would have been suspicious of him. 21 unfore he realized Its presence. CatchI'll have to find out what he told her." "I have nothing to say," she an- Laflamrne. Leaping back, be caught eyes the flat floor of the snow lay In the darkness, but the Indian ing himself with a start be stepped He hesitated between two courses. swered, sitting with chin cupped In and parried the thrust with his fore- broken on In terror: his knees whispered arm, then, with his uninjured hand, back and peered down. The hole was He felt quite sure Miss Cutler could hand, face averted. ees beeg trail !" a natural fissure or break in the rocks, help him to solve the puzzle, but she "Oh, do you mean to say that you wrenched the knife from the mad- "Eet "Good!" And the hound free, four or five feet across and twice that distrusted him, and would squaw and hurled her across perhaps reprefer selling yourself to that store- dened room to the floor." plunged ahead Into the murk. Short- distance In length. Its depth was sent his Inquiries. Marie, her maid, keeper, Lascelles, tr llvlne in luxury the Seizing his coat, he stood for an In- ly, his deep voice boomed through the problematical In the dim light knew more about the mystery than in Montreal, Winnipeg V It was not, however, so much the her mistress ; but she was In love with "You may insult me, monsieur. I stant over the kneeling girl, clasping forest and the hunt was on. As they swung through, the blue discovery of the hole that startled Blake, and have no means of defending myself," her beloved violin, and touched her quite naturally she would gloom of spruce was less deep, the Dick for he had stumbled upon many not betray him. hair then left the room. he broke In, coldly. The dazed Ojlbway crawled to the great dog left them. Again, as they similar breaks In the plateau and 'I guess I'll have to go It alone," Then Laflamrne lost all pitiful figure on the floor, and circled followed, the voice on the shoulder of along the face of the cliff as It was he added finally, aloud. "But I'll and stormed: rose it As the hill defiled the night. the sudden realization that the buzzing watch this wireless and try to Inter"Insult you? Oh, yes! But that Is her with her arms. "De music gone all gone," she In crescendo, a rifle shot sliced It he had been following came directly cept some of Blake's messages. If I the truth, Is it not? .You do not love short off. Far above, the hound gave from beneath his feet. Somewhere be- can get hold of his code, It will be this man, do you? To save your fa- crooned. "Poor m'm'selle !" While they huddled there on the voice. Then silence fell on the forest. low, in the dark space yawning before easy." ther's future you have agreed to marry floor the girl, the light of whose life "They've seen him!" said Staele. him, the mystifying, but no longer mufHe began rummaging around In the him this man you despise I Oh, I and "He snuffed may back track; keep a lookout fled, noises were rising In sharp stachad been out, ruthlessly dark. There were several old boxes know! He's not tit to look at you unDon't shoot too quick or we'll tort cato wave vibrations. the woman of the dark skin, who and packing cases stowed In one cor you beauty !" s White-facejingled In the him!" were wave vibrations all right. ner, and Dick began going through They the girl sat with eyes derstood There was no reply. He looked for Dick recognized their cause the Instant their contents. He was using less cauon the floor silent, as If she did not clearing as two sleds took up the river his companion, but Little Jacques had he peered over the brink. They came tion than the circumstances warranted, trail. hear. gone. from a wireless plant concealed below, rattling the papers as he hauled them "True, you think you hate me now, St. Late that afternoon, Onge Throwing the bolt of his Mannlicher and It had been only their muffled out to examine. hut you would change," he ran on, river, to clear It of frost and ease the action, character, due to the surrounding walls The noise he made deafened him to talking as If to himself. "You may reached the fork of the Stooping with Steele kept on up the ridge. For min of rocks, that had deceived him be- a light step creeping up behind him, have heard hard things said of me, but the spruce, already blue unanvoice the not heard utes now, he had fore. and he was totally unconscious of anhut I swear to you. If you will marry shadow, gave back his call, of the hound, when again the resonant It was Impossible to see more than other In the cave until a quick spring me, Denise St. Onge, I'll show you swered. He turned Into the mouthlake of bass boomed through the stltfce a foot or two below the brink, and behind startled him. He whirled what love Is. I'll make your father the stream and took the Portage the silent shores for nbove him. The dog had turned. The Dick was unwilling to risk exposure around just in time to meet the blow Independent moke you," his voice trail, searching his headed was back. headman Loosing thing by venturing too near Ha sat down of a club directly on his forehead. hroke with emotion, "yes, make you the camp of Michel, but the in its sheath, the man on a rock and listened. Familiar as skinning-knifnot there. He had a glimpse of the ugly face happy! I've loved you ever since you was he said, and cocked his rifle and waited, kneeling he was with various wireless plants, he of the sailor he had picked up out of . "This Is very strange," played for us that night at Albany on a shoe, his eyes boring Into the was unable to read the messages that the sea, and heard him snarl. cut his wood to camp alone. years ago." Deep In the night, St. Onge waked blackness. 'Let that teach you, me son, to keep the unknown one below was sending Laflamrne stopped and looked down Near him, and below, was an open through the air. your nose out of other people's busiwith a gesture of helplessness at the in his blankets, as his dogs gave back "It's In code," he mused after a ness I" woman of stone In the chair. Then he the husky challenge to creatures ing In the timber. Again, the hound After that came a shower of brilliant heard the low words : "You forget, whose scent the freezing air had car- bayed clqser now. The beast was while."Not much chance of reading It the drowsy taking his back tracks. Then Steele without the key." stars and complete oblivion for a monsieur, someone who Is still at ried to helr nostrils. But man did not know that two sled teams saw It. Nevertheless, he waited and lis- time. He crumpled down In a heap at Ogoke." smiling. were passing below him on the WallBounding from the cover of the tened. He had a pretty accurate In- the foot of his assailant and lay there Dick, how to that know "I looks you," he Blake frowned. "You weren't a mem a on of scrub the the trail. River edge opening, beas one as still death. of the ing tuition of the Identity defended, "but that was over, years ber of the crew," he asserted. darkjshape stopped, and reared up low. Blake had spoken of sending InAfter grinning down at his victim ago years. I've given her a home "No," smiled Dick, "I didn't have to wnen Mannas tne ir XIV CHAPTER listening right, structions to the yacht by wireless, for a few moments, the seaman picked work my passage." couldn't tui-- her out. But she hates licher spat In a of arms him In a and for the to up knife and strong tried to dip wanted run me, early by pair rising 'me, "Stowaway?" The beast leaped back Into the ocean Dick had stumbled upon the carried him across the cave as easily On' the night of Little Jacques' reaway with that American, Steele, this "Well, not exactly call It an unin the rifle wall black of spruce. Again, men sat She put on black the day turn to Portage lake the four hidden plant. October! vited guest." ehe heard he had been drowned on the by the fire planning their future move- flamed into the murk. From that distance It was more than Sudden suspicion entered the oth man on a the Still crouched knee, ments. It had been a week since the sounds of the buzzing could the way home." likely face. "Did Miss Cutler know you er's rifle rigid. Sights useless. not be heard up at the house. The There was a long silence, then : beast had howled or visited the trap- - listened, were aboard?" had fired instinct. There had he by In for had David the ""Why were you afraid to have him lines in the district, Dick laughed and shrugged his plant was artfully concealed teen no thud of bullet In flesh. Could cave-likreach Nepigon?" hole, and no one would be arranged with the uplake hunters to he have missed? shoulders. "Ask her," he replied ImLaflamrne started, then laughed. relay the news of his appearance Imapt to stumble upon It accidentally. pudently. two Into shells the rsagaSlipping "Afraid to have him reach Nepigon? mediately. He raised his eyes to find the mast An uneasy expression came Into That's funny! He got some supplies "I'd give ten years of my life if that zine, he circled in tne tlmoer, lining and aerials. They would at least have Blake's eyes, and for a few moments to click. Blind avoid shoes the his on that old bird would sing up there and went on. What do you mean?" to be outside and In clear view. It he was quiet Then quite coolly, hav now, for the moon was masked, ne was Then the girl countered : "Your In- ridge this evening," said Steele. light rapidly, and the growing ing made up bis mind, he said, "No, the In listened for heavy breathing "I got plenty shell een de bag, dians are not faithful to their master, I won't ask her. I'll leave you here tops of the trees were in sharp sil monsieur. We learned that you had added David. "I get tire' waitin' to scrub he faced then the hound houette against the sky. But there for her to find. If she knows you're knew and he had he past plunged mine." ov little Monsieur Steele ambushed after steal- shoot dat gun was no sign of a wireless mast. on the Island, she'll hunt for you." "You'll get your chance before we're missed. A little puzzled, Dick continued to ing his ammunition, and forced him He swung around, and faced the the turned Steele dog, Following to go to his death." done, don't worry. How would you search with his eyes until they sud seaman. "Keep him here, McGee, and In was an hour the but down ridge, "Do you believe that?" demanded like to draw a bead on your friend on a point midwatch him. If Miss Cutler should So he stopped In a cedar denly came to a focus distanced. this Laflamrne evening?" Laflamrne, puzzled. stumble upon him let me know." way between two giant trees. A mowood belt cut his with ax, swamp, "W'en his head. The Ojlbway shook "Is it true?" ment later a smile parted his Hps. It He walked back Into the main cave, I tak' Laflamme's trail I feex heem and scooping out the snow with his was all as plain as day. The aerials "No !" followed by McGee. a fire. shoe, lighted The room was again silent while the wld de han'. I use no gun on heem. were stretched from tree to tree, but "Are you going to let me starve?" In the cover of the thick cedar the In such a man, famed for his cold nerve, his re- Eef I got hoi' dat Black Baptlste, too, way that they seemed to called Dick. "That's hardly fair, Mr. him soon " warmed and with fire hot more hees dan sometln' In fing source, bit his lips blend with the foliage. One would impotency before I break Blake. There's a law against slow back against a trunk he dozed, only "Leesten I" Interrupted Michel. the Icy calm of this strange girl who murder." hardly suspect their presence without as a a start with to hand waken so otsessed him. Then he played his Out over the silent forest drifted a even If on the look careful Without answering him, Blake spoke scrutiny Into faint call like the voice of some furred touched his shoulder. He blinked out for them. trump card. again to the seamon: Michel. David and of the faces four at the The on Insist hunter. lot figures "So you night casting your He nodded his head. "Clever," he "Give him enough food and water "Fooled us again V groaned the dis with that rat at Albany? Then it Is Are stiffened. Again the call, louder murmured. "Blake knows his busito keep him alive, McGee. But don't Steele. heartened for me to save you from yourself. I now, rose on the biting air. ness." overfeed him. You understand?" "At daylight we take de trail and "Where Is It?" asked Steele, In Tack have brought an extra sled. "Sure!" grinned the other. "I won't was from he interrupted Suddenly see heem soon, ue aog weel tree doubt of the direction. your clothes at once I" let him starve not quite." his reveries by the sharp click of a heem." Michel. de "On beeg ridge," replied The girl rose to her full height and When they disappeared up the rude stone below. The wireless had ceased "Surel" Grinned the Other. "I Won't Heaping up the fire the three men Dat not soun like heem." met his cynical look with resolute was climbing someone and steps provided by nature, Dick's heart humming, Him Not Starve Let Quite." But the men at the fire sat with dozed until daylight, then took the out of the hole. Dick bad Just time yes, but In her heart was fear. snipped a few beats. The prospect "You do not dare!" she cried. "They ears alert, noping mar ai last ineir trail of the beast and his pursuer to dodge back and hide behind a big as If he were a baby. Depositing him was not promising. His Imprisonment through the snow. would hunt you from Fort Hope, from waiting was over. tree. on the floor of a smaller cave that in the dark hole would not be pleaswere convinced Steele felt Somewhere when that ahead, they Then, Albany, from Nepigon House. In three A few moments later Mr. Blake opened into the first one, he bound ant. The pain In his head, and the were to the pursuit was over. Somewhere, weeks the police would be at Ogoke. that yet another night they him hand and foot and then proceeded strain of the rope that bound him, a and from after the cave, emerged Hut before the police teams arrived. roll Into their blankets, disappointed, miles away, the beast had tired In the few were bad enough ; but Blake Intendhasty glances around in the dim to revive him. 3o you know what they would do to baffled, a long wall from the ridge he- - black hours and turned at bay to bat Dick regained consciousness under ed to Increase his torture by half a hurried exit from the be made light snow them to their his with In relentle.'l the the hind tle in camp brought your you? They would burn you Dick watched him until he the usual process adopted for reviving starving him. trade-house- ! You do not dare!" feet, every nerve alive. foe; or else in terror of the voice of grove. (TO BE CONTINUED.) around the back of the the unconscious water from a bucket disappeared There was a swift stepping Into the the thunder which he could not shake Laflamrne With open admiration and bis head face over until house. poured s and draw- from his heels, had treed. watched the play of color and emo- frozen thongs of snow-shoe"I guess I'll take a look below," he with a gasp ho raised his voice In Wonder of Nature 1$ Up over ridges and into creek bot tion In the face of the frightened girl ing of rifles from skin cases, then murmured. "Don't think Blake will sharp protest on the bloodhound leash Vision Given to Bird$ the the anxious traveled men, toms stoptaking who confronted him. "Don't! I'm coming to." back In the daytime. Got a clear vision The of birds is an amazing "If you'd flush that way when I say Steele started with his men for the ping to listen for the voice of the dog. come "Reckon I didn't hurt you ss much I love you." he cried, "I'd give all I ridge. The huskies, though savage But the cold silence of sunrise gripped coast for Investigation." thing. A vulture soaring almost out seaman the as deserved," you replied no were There steps leading down have In the world. Why, girl, I'd sell fighters, were left chained to trees, as the forest. over him. "All right. Sit of view sees a carcass lying perhaps At last the tracks led Into a heavy Into the crevice; that is, none of man's bending in a quite Inconspicuous position ; a my soul, If you'd look at me, Just at night they would cut off on the first make yourself easy." an' game trail and their bedlam of yelp- stand of young spruce. The men sep making; but nature had provided an up"Ithen one, and say you loved me!" will If you'll give me a chance. kestrel hovering ut a height of 100 ing would prevent David atid Michel arated, and cautiously made their way easy descent, and as the rocks were This "I despise you !" feet, spies a mouse creeping about In rope cuts." In no worn well Dick dllli had places the grass; a gannet cruising round 200 The sting of the words cut like the from making the still hunt decided through the close growth. I what Intended It That's "Sur. u required a on. Steele with the hound was to feet above the sea observes a fish Suddenly the blood of Steele chilled cully in descending. lash of a whip. His do." should the dim light to find his some distance below the at the breaking point, crumbled. circle and pick, up the trail of the as he heard the voice of Michel. "By little skill inwhen swimming dazed the Sick and blow, Dick by he reached solid hot way around surface, says W. W. White, In the gar! Poor of Pete!" "Despise me. do you?" he snarled. beast If they missed him. was There him. com nt little stared torn. feet the below Fifteen surface, As they swung through the blue "Dare me to do my worst? Suppose I Forcing his way through the sapfort to be gained from a study of the Nineteenth Century Magazine. The punnet's sight Is by no means 'take you at your word? Mon Dieu ! gloom of sprure and fir. the voice lings, he found the Iroquois bending the darkness was greatly Intensified. Dick struck a match and glanced brutal face. shifted from Its walling to the hunt over a the I'm mad enough about you to do anyleast remarkable among keen-eyeshape, Rtiir in as do that?" asked "Why'd you as death. The hide of the dog hung In around him. Nothing at first caught for It has to penetrate water as hlnls, thing! Who It Is. then, yon love?" ing screams of the great cats, then and finally. well as air. A gunnel's hurtle on fish lie thrust his passionate face close to swiftly dropped to the yowling strips from the slushes of terrible bis attention, and when the (lame went man The you "Why'd grinned. poke climax beneath well expresses the action. At claws, while a twrn throat marked the out he scratched another match. This hers. "You hate me you don't want mewing of the mating season, nose down here?" once It checks Its flight, poises for a Lnsrelles! It must be that d d dead Ing, as at Walling River and Rig death snap of the fangs of the Wln-dlg- time he saw the wireless In one corner your Inw It?" there "Was any against of the C8ve, partly hidden from view American you're mooning about! Well, Feather lake. In shrieks of agony, in second, half closes Its wings, and dives Dick si see didn't "I asked. any (TO BK CONTINUED.) by green boughs that formed a rustic with tremendous speed. There Is a he's at the bottom of the Jackflsh, moans of a creature tortured beyond It" prohibiting and flesh In screen front of It. and he forgot you before lie had been endurance of blood and ctoious rorkscrewlike motion In the a cool retorted the "You're one," Novel Nest (. the intervening space, rosslng downward swoop, and at the moment at Ogoke two hours forgot even your nerve. curios-Mother. Then, showing genuine Three of the men who hunted the At the last meeting of the British Dick began an examination of It; but name when he saw Itose!" the water the long, pointed on he "Ilow'd this of entering you get asked, voice on the ridge bad tolled long and Ornithologists' club, Mr. A. L. Butler without the aid of artificial light be She fared his anger proudly, concome from? And wings are folded. Island? Where'd you at but much a for a this "nest" suffered could Idea moment, from Trinidad, exhibited of Its get only superficial tempt In her bloodies. face, until be what d'you want here?" Two Spintter Immortalt mentioned Steele, then slowly her their heels moved 8 short figure whoso which was merely a hollow formed by power. Dick hesitated a second before an"1 don't believe It has a radius of knees gave way and she sank In a flesh was cold with the chill of fear the rotting out of the soft pith at the Maria Kdgeworth Is regarded as "I he said Then frankly: Little Jacques gripped his rifle grimly top of a broken-of- f sapling. The more than thirty or forty miles," be swering. chair. of the novel with a purInventor the on course. down came the yacht, of "It was that American !" he stormed. and followed, thinking of the wife and breadth of the top of he stump was mused. "Perhaps less." pose, of which kind "Castle Rackrent," I get here?" How else could buck at Walling River. children He paused to consider. "In that sent her name Into Immediate only Just sufficient to contain the "Pity 1 didn't finish him myself!" "That, I think's a lie," was the re- which In 1S00, At the foot of the ridge Michel Am stogie egg. and the egg, on the Is a typical example. event," he added thoughtfully, "the tort. fame Then something on the table caught can Mr. It to tell "But you principle, fitted the cavity no yacht Is laid up no ery fur from here I'.lake. He'll be Interested." Ms eye held It! His face went diirk David left Steele to make their sfnlk Miss Edgewnrth'a Influence is enorthat Is, unless that sailor's story Is success with her Her mous. Irish with bis sinister purpose when. with from two directions while he worked neatly that It could not be lifted out Mr. "Are you going to tell RlakeT" to the rcir with the dog and Little with the fingers. The bird Incubates true about her bein? wrecked. novel had much to do with turning a quirk movement, be seized the vio me to He "Surel an' told you spot A fresh trull the In a perfectly erect position with Its doubt It. It's a ;art of the whole mys Once on Waller Scott to the writing ot lin, raised It above his head, and Jacques. get you. He don't want anybody In- Sir he run down head and neck stretched stiffly upterious plot." fiction. prose brought It down with a crnsh on the hound would Inhung until snow his with I'll his Reckon plans. the soft Ite frowned at his Inability to piece terfering puce wards, and Its tall pressed to the side Her society was courted by 'everytable, then dropped It to the floor and Ms quarry. how him to tell you're here anxious would be slow, so the men on shoes of the stump, of which Its upright things together and find a solution who was anybody." Byron adbody trampled It under bis feet. The Itecnllltig Alice Cutler's confession see him. Siong." mired her, and Macaulay was among With a groan the girl fell to her in time would come up with him. figure seems to. form a part. There her enthusiastic worshipers. knee and, gathering the splintered An'l he would need Ihem If the thing species have adopted the habit of that Mr. Blake had assumed all reCHAPTER VIII Is no doubt she Is worth reading toshell of the violin to her breast turned and waited at bay how grea sitting bolt upright on similar stumps sponsibility for the yacht's sudden the lorn body whether incubating or not. saving, he became more puzzled thiin day. If only for the naturalness and taioaned over It as a mother over a would be bis naDick did not have to wait long for vivacity and character-revealinat Sio.'i.ing riwr only too well Indl he to re. stricken child. In this respect accomAssociation of return American Bank of her the excuse the I'.lake "I of what The wonder seaman, en ture led. dialogue. gave ! her. reached hud At last They Is;') trawled for an hour when Women, organized only three years ner." be argued with himself. "He panied by Blake. During the short she Is comparable with Jane Annie, At the sound there was a guttural n! ruptly stopped, sniffed ago, has members In 180 cities. puis! nave given a good one, or she Interval, he made a carefui survey ef another of the spinster Immortal. fled ulih the In ,;v. xeJntnniion from the Author of Tollers of the Trail." The Whelps of the Wolf" d - l, dog-bell- e - e . self-contro- l, hlood-smeare- u d y, tl !r, V I |