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Show THE PAGE TWO TIMES-NEW- of the WIndlgo the voice doom. S. NEPHI, UTAH Friday, March 12, 1926 p3f?cf that position be could not have covered his retreat. "Besides." he thought, "If I have to come back and give myself up, I'll need my hands to break through Into the cave again. It's ten to one I'll have to do It" This lack of confidence In his scheme was In direct contradiction to his former conclusion, but his mind was go harrowed by fear and uncertainty that he was hardly responsible for bis thoughts. In to their "What's the matter Jacques? Think the ghosts?" asked Steele-o- f frightened Cree. "You you not eat up?" he asked. "You nevaire shoot de gun. I bad fear de WIndlgo get you." "No, we got him In the bear trap. In the morning I want you to go up and see him so you can tell the people at Walling River." I weel not look at heem !" "No, no his protested the little half-breeface picturing the horror aroused by : Steele's suggestion. "The WIndlgo, Jacques, we found GEORGE MARSH to be an old friend of yours, sent by Laflamme to frighten the Indians AUTHOR- - OF Pierre, who was at the post lii Sep" TOILERS OF THE TRAIL tember. You must have a look at "THE WHELPS OF THE WOLF him for yourself before you take the COPYRIGHT by THE PENN PUBLISHING CO. news to St. Onge. In the morning we'll send for all the people In the "What! He's In the trap?" district, to come and see him." ' CHAPTER XIV Continued "Ah hah! "Pierre, from Ogoke, he mak' all He nevalre move; an' 22 troubl'?" dis he de face odder ! way." tree on "He Jump heem from de "Yes. He won't scare any more David Joined them. "Dat WIndlgo Michel pointed to the broken branches froze stiff! Dls tarn de trap stop hees hunters In this valley." of a neighboring spruce. "That's what happened 1" groaned howl queek!" But as they approached, CHAPTER XV Steele. "He waited for I'ete to come three rifles covered the black shape ' up, and dropped on his back. Game In the snow. Steele's heart beat high. Now that old Pete! He gave a good account of In the morning Steele with dlflVculty the crazed beast with the evil voice persuaded fearful Little Jacques to himself before he went." In was death, now that there "We not tell de Injun dls," advised lay stiff accompany him to the bear trap on ' David. hope for Wailing River and for her, the ridge. The Cree, with much mur"No, but they're stampeded by this the baflled scientist In Steele clamored muring and many misgivings, cast a What hurried look at the twisted features time. We can't hope to hold any for the key to the riddle. Portage lake hunters after last night. breed of beast, mad or normal, could of the thing, In the trap and turning, It be? ' I guess we're licked." led Steele a 'mad pace back to camp First at the trap, Michel turned to Then Jacques started with his dog-teaSo, burying his staunch friend In the snow, Steele turned back, bitter Steele with a wild oath. for Wailing River with the news "By gar! Look, look w'at we hunt of the victory. with defeat, for his hope of aiding the Iroall dls tam'!" And the Infuriated St. Onges had lessened as the NovemBefore duwn, Michael and David quois slashed savagely at the carcass had left for the scattered camps at ber days wore on. On their return Steele and the Ingripped by the Jaws of steel, till the the head of the lake to dispatch dians found the camp of the OJlbwnys knife blade snapped In his hand. Then east, south and west with the already deserted. On a blazed birch with a heave he turned over the hairy word that the dreaded WIndlgo lay was the message: body with the trap, and Steele stared, frozen In a bear trap at Portage lake "We are going up the valley. You dumbfounded, into the twisted fea- for the eyes of all who would Jourhave not driven away the WIndlgo tures, horrible in the grimace of ney there to see. death, of Pierre ! and we have fear to remain." But what, after all, did this victory "Good G d! Pierre from Ogoke this thwarting of Laflamme's scheme They crossed the river to their to terrorize and depopulate the valcamp, where David, from whom no Laflamme!" In amazement, David and Steele ley mean to him, Steele asked himcalamity, however dire, could banish appetite, was speedily cooking break- bent over the distorted face etched self as he sat beside his fire of birch fast There, also, they found Little with the frenzied despair of the mo- logs that late November ' morning. Jacques, shamed of face, for with the ment when the steel fangs snapped, There was no doubt that the Indians, return of the others, his courage had crushing the bones, and he measured once they looked at the body of revived. Pierre and learned that the Ogoke trader was at the bottom of It all Eating the warm meal which David had cooked, the tired and sleepy men had loosed In their country a madman turned Into their blankets. In the with orders, not only to drive them afternoon David and Steele waked, to from their hereditary hunting grounds, lenrn from Little Jacques that Michel but to kill would be keen for venhad taken his rifle and ax and left geance. There would be: no lack of the camp. As they sat by a huge fire, volunteers among the trappers for a for the trees were snapping wllh the But campaign against the there would be no help from 'the' govstrengthening frost, like a shadow, the Iroquois slipped back across the ernment until spring, and the situariver. tion at Wailing River demanded Immediate action. No, there was noth"Any sign of our friend?" asked Steele. ing to do but pull Laflamme's teeth at "No track on de ridge w'ere we set once, and notify the government later. de beeg trap. Wind shift, eet grow But then the defeat of Laflamme did cold." not mean the salvation of the post-r-- f The men ate In silence, and Oiled ar from It. Lascelles could their pipes. For a time they sat and post, even In the face of a plit-abl- e smoked, too dejected for conversation. future, for the less of the for David hud freshened the tire with canoe had put the place badly In debt a birch log and stood holding a blazto the company. So, with Laflamme ing stick to his pipe, when he tilted eliminated, Denlse St. Onge seemed no his head. Steele watched the expresnearer. Whether he kept the post In sion of the furrowed features In the operation or not, the Inspector would never release her from her promise. firelight slowly shift from mild curiosThe only solution was her father's ity to sudden Interest. "You're not coins to start us out breaking with Kevlilon Frercs but would he do It? Would she allow him again tonight, David?" said Steele. "I hear soiuet'Ing den," was the to, knowing the hopeless alternative Steele rose and held his breath, he would face? ears straining. features of Then the Michel Had Taken His Rifle and Ax Then from the ridge of the fox sets, the man who sat thinking by the fire and the Left Camp. contracted with pain as he realized hardly a . half-mildistant, rose a scream. the minutes until the chill of the the presumption, the futility, so fur This as he was concerned, of his solicitude "By gar! He's at de trap!" And white death Iced bis blood. David leaped for his shoes and rifle, Thing, stiff In Its suit of benr-skifor the future of those at Wailing and started for the ridge, followed by with the huge feet lashed to the legs River. Already she had thrust him Steele and Michel. this frozen mnsquerader, who, from from her. She had condemned him As they crossed the river, the Walling Itiver to the Feather lakes, without hearing. In the end. If they scream again lifted on the freezing from the Little Current to the Medi- won out for St. Onge, and, owing to' air. The men had stopped to listen cine hills, had filled the tipis with what had been told the Revlllon people to locate the position of the beast, for fear, hail at last paid the price. at Montreal, Lascelles dared not close "So you de feller dat keel de man the post, he, Steele, would have her the ridge was a long one, when, as the cry rose to Its climax, it was cut at Stoopln' riviere, an' poor ole Pete, gratitude her gratitude! when once short off to leave the night again ah hah?" muttered the OJlbway, ex- she had come to him with her heart amining curiously the hood, framed In her eyes had vibrated like the quiet. from the scalp of a huge black bear, string of a violin to his touch, had "We go ensee no scare heem," cauand the sklnned-ou- t tioned Michel. paws, pieced into turned Instinctively to him In her the great feet which had left the despair! They were nenrlng the first and still the voice In the night held mysterious trail. In two days Michel find David reAt length Steele found his voice. turned with hunters from the head Its silence. Could the beast he waiting to rush them from cover, like a "To think of all that walling and of the lake keen for a look at the wounded grizzly, wondered Steele. squalling being done l.y an Indian! body of the masquerader who hnd Separated for safety, with cocked What vocal chords ! He was a marvel ! left a trail of terror throughout the rifles, they advanced to the bear trap Must have been trained for It by La- valley of the Walling. And when they Poor old Pete! flamme! We've saw the thing which had been sent by masked In the mow beside the bait. "What you see, squared It for you. How did he kill Laflamme to drive them from their "lie bin here, but miss de trap!" him, Michel?" trap-lineto new and strange limiting "Shoot heem from de tree, den cut country In the upper valley where muttered the Indian, doubled over the snow. Steele and David moved up to heem wld de knife!" their trade would go to Ogoke, there look nt the tracks. The trail led down "How he run on de snow wld dem wns a clamor for vengeance. Later the ridge toward the sworn) trap. feet beat me," wondered David. when dog teams, from the Little-Curre""til he wan' to 'He use snow-shoThe hopes of the three friends rose. to the Medicine hills, hai anIiut why was the Thing so silent? make Wiudlgo track. He lose de shoe swered the call of runners from PortWas he watting to leap on them as he w'en Pete get hees trail." age lake, Michael marshaled the OJIh-waThen the stored bate of weeks for had sprung on the hound? at the trap on the ridge and adWith rifles loose In the crook of the master mind behind this broken dressed them dramatically In their nathe left arm, for the fingers of the tool at their feet the arch plotter, tive tongue. TO BE CONTINUED.) right hand would freeze If exposed, who, with such subtlety had planned and spread like skirmishers, they to turn the valley of the lower WailTiJet in inland Seat stalked the position of the hidden ing Into "forbidden country" which no hunter dnred enter a land under bear trap. There are tides In both the Meditershunned; was ranean sea and the Gulf of Mexico. In Through the blue shadows, Steele a taboo, splrit-rlddestrove to locate the position of the loosed In Steele. the Mediterranean they are So slight fox-se- t "That crook at Ogoke shall pay for as to be almost imperceptible; In the beyond them. Then the warning arm of the Iroquois held him tense all this pay with his skin, with Gulf of Mexico they run from two and In his tracks. He slipped bis right every cent he owns," he stormed. a half to four feet. A delta Is Rn alhand from the mitten to the grip of "Give tne your hands, you two !" luvial plain formed by a deposit of the Mannllcher. What had Mlcjiel Slipping off their mitts the three and and mud carried down a river. seen 7 friends gripped over their victim. As the stream enters quieter waters As If carve 1 from stone the Indian "We swear, here and now, that we the deposit fulls to the bottom and Inkneeled, . rifle leveled, while Steele will run Laflamme and his crowd out creases In area and height unlll It waited breathless for the explosion. of this country, If we stay on the reaches the surface and Is raised by r Then to the surprise of the man snow until spring. Promise!" floods and tides above the whose right hand was fast stiffening "No!" objected David, withdrawing mark. The delta of the Ganges and on Ms gun grip, Michel suddenly rose bis fist, "He ees for me de odders the Brahmaputra has an area of SO.tXH) to his feet. Joining Michel, where for you !" square miles and that of the Nile Is 200 the view was unobstructed, Steele "Right! He belongs to David the miles wide nnd 100 miles long. The Mississippi delta, which encroaches nt jtasped In amazement. There In the police can't have hlrn !" men left a rate of 00 feet a year, has an ares And the three crouched a black now, by the fox-se- t hulk. of 12..TO0 squnre miles. Great deltas the thing In the trap and snow-shne"Shoot, Michel I" he whispered, lev- back to their camp where they found are only found In cornpnmihely tide-les- s Little Jacques huddled hy the fire beseas, because the deposit would eling his Mannllcher. "No use," came the muttered moaning the fate of hla misguided not otherwise have a chance of "I'ete, be rest eesee tonight." friends, whoso rashly had followed you see 17AT"TT7V tat jfUM Ethelbsrt 1 J "' &WJt;fJiMJ t ' lirJf La il I CHAPTER IX wlk . m dog-runne- ft. liii free-trade- r. clo-th- e low-repl- wind-burne- d e ' fox-se- t, s nt e ys high-wate- half-froze- r. I CHAPTER VIII je COPYRIGHT Continued ne knew better than Blake that Miss Cutler would make no rigid search for him. He wasn't sure but she would be glad of his disappearance. "A nice pickle I've got myself Into," he muttered. "They'll leave me here until they're through with their scheme, then likely as not sail away without me. I'll be worse off than Robinson Crusoe." The agony he was suffering made him restless. Unable to sit np quietly and endure the pain, he began rolling his body around, turning over and over until he reached the nearest wall. So far as he could see It offered no way of escape even If he could free himself. He rolled slowly and painfully to the opposite wall. It was the same as the other, with no break In It Then back to the farthest corner of his prison he made his agonizing way. Here, too, the wall of the cave met the bottom and shelved upward gradually to meet the roof. He groaned In despair, and lay quiet, rendy to faint from the excruciating torture of his wound. In this limp attitude, he remained for some time, fighting back the weakness that swept across him In waves. It was cold and damp down there, and for some time Dick was unconscious of any change In the atmosphere of the place; but gradually it came to him that a very faint sea air was blowing upon hla forehead whenever his head was placed In a certain position, ne sniffed at It, and moved his head back. The salty odor of the air lost Its strength. Returning his head to Its former position, he sniffed again. There was an unmistakable draft of sea air fanning his face, very faint and indefinite, but enough to arouse his curiosity. "Where does It come from?" he muttered. He followed his nose until he came to a point where the draft was the strongest. By thrusting his face directly In It, and using his tongue In plnce of his hands, he made a discovery that thrilled him. The salt air was coming through an aperture In the rocks no bigger than his fist By holding his face close to It, he could get the strong salty flavor. "This opens Into one of the sea enves under the cliff," he muttered. But an aperture the size of a man's He fist offered little consolation. could not crawl through it But the very fact that It was there, a narrow entrance to one of the sea caves, aroused his spirits. ' "I might enlarge It," he added, after a long pause, "If I had the use of my hands." It was a forlorn hope, but Dick renlized that his position was desperate, and he had to take advantage of McGee, watching outany chance. side, would not visit him often. Secure In the thought thnt his prisoner conld not escape except through the main entrance, his vigilance would nnturally relax. Dick had to free his hands to make the experiment of enlarging the hole! Unfortunately McGee's training had taught hira to tie a knot that was not easily loosened. A sailor's knot Is about the most difficult to unfasten, nnd the harder Dick strained the tighter the rope seemed to draw. "I can't do It that way," he muttered after a long futile struggle. "McGee's a seaman, nnd I know sailors' knots." He lay back and breathed hard, but his mind was working actively. If he was to free himself It hnd - to be through some trick. He looked around for a sharp rock which might serve to saw the rope In half, but most of them seemed to have their edges worn smooth and round. Again he despaired and dropped back exhausted with the pain of his efforts. He thought of his box of matches. If he could get at them he might burn the rope! He begnn wriggling his hands round to reach his pocket but without avail. Then another Idea occurred lo him. The box of matches was In his trousers pocket By elevating his feet In the air, and shaking them at the same time he wriggled his body, there was a chance he might work the precious box out. He began this experiment as soon as It occurred to him. He rolled his tody up to the side of the nearest wiill, and then begnn shifting his position until he hnd his feet elevated far above his head. Almost standing on his head, with his shoulders on the bottom of the cave, he began n process of shimmying ibat would have been the envy of the most successful exponent of that art. For long time nothing happened. Then he felt the box work tip toward the mouth of hit pocket lis re ? W.G CHAPMAN newed his efforts, performing the most ridiculous antics ; but It stuck, and for many minutes he could not move It farther. He was almost on the point of despair when the box suddenly slipped out and fell lightly to the floor. With an exclamation of delight, Dick dropped his legs, and began eagerly searching for the box with his month. He picked It up finally, and tried to open It with his Hps and teeth, but this was a feat beyond him. Half la anger at his failure, he crunched the wooden box with his teeth and spilled the matches out With another grunt of satisfaction he fished around on the floor until he had a match In his lips. Holding It firmly with his teeth he tried to scratch it against the chemically treated strip. But here again he met with difficulty. The light box constantly eluded him. It would not remain stationary long enough for him to scratch the head of the match against it Again and again he essayed to light one. Dripping with cold perspiration and desperate at his failure, he tried every trick he could think of, and only gave It np when exhausted. With a groan he dropped down. Now what all his skill had failed In accomplishing accident performed for him. In dropping his body back, he landed plump on the box and completely crushed In the sides that his teeth had started. Dick never knew how It occurred ; but one match In the heap must have been so placed that his body forced the Impregnated head against the rough surface of the box. There was a flash and glare, and the whole pile of matches was Ignited. The box itself took fire, forming a good-size- d blaze. Startled at first, Dick stared at the fire, and then realizing that his opportunity was quickly passing he thrust his two hands over the flame until the rope began smoking. It was , a frightful ordeal, for the made no exception to his wrists, burning them as well as the rope. He had to grit his teeth to hold back a cry of pain, but with nil the stoicism he could command he waited silently and patiently until box and matches were consumed. By that time the rope was burning. He waited as long as he could, watching the flames eat their way through strand after strand. Then with a mighty effort he Jerked his hands flames apart The rope parted near the middle, freeing him so he could tackle the rest of his bonds with both hands. Extinguishing the fire, he began feverishly to unfasten the rope that still held his legs. Once free and on his feet, he began exercising his limbs to restore the circulation. Then he flung himself down near the small aperture in the wall, and began tearing nt the rocks. At first he made no perceptible progress, but a piece of rock the size of his fist finally yielded to his efforts. A little examination showed him that the wall was cracked and broken In many places, and that by taking advantage of these he could make better progress. Half an hour of hard work made him Jubilant. The aperture was big enough to admit a man's thigh. Renewing his efforts he enlarged it a little more. Thrusting a hand Into the hole, he found that beyond the mouth It was deeper and wider. It wns nearly an hour later before he had the hole large enough to admit his body. He crawled through eagerly nnd tremblingly. The sea air reached his nostrils now with a strong salty flavor. Dick was sure that the other end opened Into a sen cove. The thought of concealing his method of escape came to him. So far as possible he had to cover np his trail. Returning to the cave he gathered up the other ends of the rope and thrust them Into the opening. Then crawling In feet first, he gathered the loose rocks up and walled up the' opening as deftly as possible. He shuddered a little when the last ray of light was excluded. He felt like a man walled up In a living tomb. If there was no wny of exit at the other end, and If McGee should discover his method of escape and seal up the entrance, he would Indeed be Imprisoned In a living tomb without chance of escape. The horror of such a finish sickened him, and for a moment he hesitated. He started to tear down the wall he hnd constructed, but his panic lasted only a minute. "I mustn't get cold feet," he reasoned with himself. "There must be an outlet on the other end." Buoyed np by this conclusion, he begnn wriggling backward. He wished now that he had entered head first bat Wriggling backward through the narrow hole had many disadvantages, as well as dangers. It was like feeling one's way through the dark with the feet, blindly stumbling along at the brink of a precipice, it was an even chance that the body would be carried over it before the mind sensed the danger. Nevertheless, Dick made slow but sure progress, kicking his heels upward and sideways to feel his way, and when he finally came to a broader place he made the attempt to turn around so he could crawl head first It was a narrow squeeze, and for a time it was doubtful If he could do it Like a squirrel curling up to sleep, he doubled his body until his head was between his knees, and then slowly squirmed and twisted until his position was reversed. After that the going was easier. He could feel his way with his hands and could use his eyes to some extent. It was as black as midnight In the hole, but hla eyes, grown accustomed to it, seemed to penetrate the gloom. The salt air that drifted through the passageway urged him onward. It was growing stronger every moment, and Dick's spirits rose accordingly. The salt air could not get Into the passageway unless there was some opening on the sea side. Fifteen minutes later when he caught a faint glimmer of light ahead, he knew that the worst of his troubles were over. Where there was light there was freedom. He crawled more rapidly after that, keeping his eyes focused on the gradually increasing speck of daylight When he finally reached the end, he found himself on a ledge of rocks some The twenty feet above the beach. fissure In the cliff through which he had crawled had been firmed ages ago by a convulsion of nature. After the mighty upheaval, the rocks had settled down like a mass of crystals, leaving spaces, narrow and wide, with here nnd there a natural cave formation between them. Crawling to the face of the ledare, Dick breathed deeply of the air, and watched the frothy spume rising from the beach below. Considerably exhausted by his labors, he sprawled out in the sun to rest and regain his strength. The beach was below, and tha fop of the cliff fifty feet over his head. There were twenty feet of sheer perpendicular cliff to descend, but after his former troubles climbing down the face of a straight wall did not alarm him. He would accomplish it In some way when he was rested. Lying there In the sun, with his eyes half closed, he was unconscious of the presence of others until a footfall on the rocks below startled him. He sat upright, every faculty alert, a Seizing sensing a new danger. ragged piece of rock In his hand be waited for this new enemy to show himself. There was a possibility that McGee had missed him, and knowing of this passageway to the sea had hurried around to the cliff to Intercept him. Or perhaps he would be attacked In front and back. lie kept a wary eye on the hole behind him, and cautiously craned his head over the ledge to look below. salt-lade- n (TO BE CONTINUED.l Master of the Rolls Once Not Empty Title In the days before printing, the old records were always written In a form which made them literally a roll, says the Dearborn Independent One sheet of parchment was used and the next one was sewed to Its bottom edge, and the process repeated until a document might consist of a hundred or more sheets, or skins, as they were then cnlled, all sewed together In one long strip. A piece of wood was then fastened to either end In the manner of a modern map and the strip rolled up from the bottom Into a great roll or bundle. The reader began at the top, slowly unrolling oue end as one rolled up the other end on another stick. From this form rolls came to stand for manuscripts, particularly official manuscripts or court records. The keeper or master of the rolls was then the high ofllcer who kept the record of the English courts of Justice. Today the president of the chancery division of the high court of Justice In England, ranking next to the lord chief Justice of England, Is cnlled the master of the rolls. OrlgLnnlly the master of the rolls had the custody of the records, but In the course of time this charge became merely nominal. A Strictly Neutral Junior football match was In progress and great excitement whs aroused. One of the backs tackled the opposing center forward, and after much wild kicking both fell. "Foul," said the referee, blowing bis whistle. "Who for?" asked the home captain. "Us." enme the reply from the highly excited official. Vancouver Province. Labrador Is still practically unexplored by naturalist and ethnologists. |