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Show THE SPANISH FORK PRESS. SPANISH FORK. UTAH drove his llgtt sled up to the noses of hla dogs whlto with rime. "Get de stuff on de .sled, qneekl" Here ees cried the excited OJIhway. de word from Michel I" And lie thrust Into Steele's hands a roll of birch bnrk on which, In the syllable writing of the woods Indian, was burned the message from Michel, in OJIhway, left at the Jack pine by Little Jacques. Come to Portage Ink, fas," read Ilen-te- e David over Steeles shoulder. work for de dog I Michel." . In his delight, Steele slapped the heavy caribou skin capote of his friend "The Wlndlgos loose over In the valley 1" he cried, "When can we get there. If the- - snow holds off?" We camp at Portage lak een free sleep mebbe two. De dogs ees tired. I leeve Wallin Riviere onlee one sleep bnek," replied the OJIhway, making the hags fast with the sled lashings. Through the day the team hurried hills of the post the fllent spruee-clnvalley of the Little Medicine. Through the day the men cast anxious looks at the black cloud banks hovering In the north, for no snow had fallen In n t, week and It was overdue. To his Steele had already learned that the dog could easily hold to a fresh trail over the Ice or hard stow, pocked by the wind. But a fall of new snow on a trail was another matter, and the Wlndlgo might not stay In the country. That night they camped on the Wutllng, and lu the morning pushed on up the Stooping river trail to Portage lake, following the sled tracks of Little Jacques. Still the snow held off, but Portage lake and Michel were fifty miles away. In the early afternoon of the second day from the Walling, When the narrowing of the river and .the break 'n the hills ahead Indicated their nearness to their goal, the snow they feared began to fall. Shortly Little Jacques sled trail grew fainter and fainter on the snow, nnd vanished. And by the time the team turned Into Portage lake nnd sought a camping place In the thick scrub hack from the shore, men and dogs were shdeted In white. "Well, weve lost again 1" said Steele, bitter with disappointment. We know hettalr wen we see Michel." replied the philosophic Indian. Sootl, as the early November nleht shut down, like a blanket, on the white lake, the birch logs blazed high before the shed-ten- t and the tea pnll ind the kettle of moose stew were dmmerlng over red coals. If the old boy Is loose now, hell appear nnd sing again somewhere. Theres some consolation In that," dropped Steele, os he filled his pipe. We strike hees trail yet, you nev-nlr- e " David broke short off, to rise and peer suddenly Into the wall of murk hemming In the fire In the acrulj, then walked swiftly Into the blackness beyond, the circle of light 'DIAMOND DYES COLOR THINGS NEW breath, Bteele, i Irjm Jfo lie , VALLEY VOICES 7GEOROE w t MARSH J AUTHOa OF "TOILERS OF THE TRAIL" " THE WHELPS OF THE WOLF" V LvC'OPYRlOHT by THE FENN PUBLISHING CO. f CHAPTER XII Continued 19 "What would he be doing at ing infer?" But Steele already halt guessed. He eum once een de summer he cum wld noder man to tuft her to Wall- Ogoke.1' What? You mean to say that was crazy enough to try to take her by force? Nonsense, Michel'! St. Onga would have had the police at Ogoke within a month. Eet was crazee tIng to try but he try eet." ' "St. Onge never told hie this," said the provoked Atnerlcnn. "It explains her fear when she saw me that day. "She nevalre know 15eeg Antoine try to get her, but she have fear." "So you have always taken care of her since the visit of Big Antoine? Tell me about it" Eet was las June, after dut Indian carry letter from Lallamtne. He tell me Laflarame was 'goln , to get mam'selle, scmetam. So de nex tarn she go to play at de raphle, Michel ees dere. After long tam I hear sometIng move een de bush. 1 wait an see dis Beeg Antoine he watch her but she don know; she play de feedle. I don wan to scare her so I walk on de portage wld de beeg whistle so dey hear me an get out I follow dem tru de bush an" een little tom on de riviere bove de pos, see Beeg Antoine talk to noder feller." Michel stopped, relit his pipe, and smiled tantatlzingly at the Interested ateele. For heaven's snke, go on! What did you do? Why didnt you drill both of them?" Michel blew a cloud of smoke before he said: You see dis Beeg Antoine at Ogoke?" ' - r ' Ogoke; under the pretense of seeking information, had met Rose Latlunime secretly, only to escape surprise and detection by the alertness of his watch-dog- , David. .Thus the situation shaped Itself In the mind of the smarting Steele ; nnd, us It Is ever with the unjustly suspected, he had, with a brave show of indifference, hardened his sore heart to the suffering girl whose turden was already sufficiently greut. But her welfare demanded his early departure from the post and the nym whose thoughts she tilled, left her that morning without an uttempt ut defense or explanation. We were going up the river at I want you to once,- mademoiselle, know lu case anything happens nnd trouble, that 1 have done what. 1 could." The sober eyes of the girl grew wistful. She started as if to speak, then turned her bead, while he watched the blood surge to her throat, her face, then fade. Never had she seemed more lovely more exquisite. A mad desire urged him to take her In his arms to. make her see how hurt wronged deeply her, his love for her; to tell her that It was all so futile so useless, this suspicion of hers, which walled them off from each other. Then she said: You have been so good to us are doing so much. We can never repay you. I wish you all success, monsieur, and a safe return. That was all. Sick at heart he turned awny to the waiting dog teams, followed by the blanketed which, bloodhound, Jingled out of the clearing nnd down to the river Ice on theli . - d Yes." Wal, he move hees head when 1 shoot. Eet was bad shot." Bn It was you who gave him that scar?" Ali-ha- h 1 The plan of campaign settled with the hearty approval of St. tinge, the traps were divided between the sleds, loaded with supplies for two weeks. If the beast, Imitating that terror of the northern trapper, the wolverine, tome row,!Hied robbing the trap-linenight relentless Jaws would yawn under the snow for his unwnr.v feet Jaws, which. If once shut, would hold their victim In grip of sled until the freezing death brought swift relief. Before he started, Steele returned to the house. At breakfast Denise had been gracious, nffahle, but, impersonal, and Steele felt that the mood of the previous evening still possessed her. So, Justly hurt, ho made no attempt to plead his case or correct the Impression she Imd patently suffered herself o nourish the belief that he had !!ghtly gone from her revelation of the secret places of her heurt, thht day on the beach, to a low Intrigue at d - the fire. What Is It, David?" called the man it the fire. But there was no response from the other who hnd Haded . into the night. The excited dogs broke . Into a horus of howls to the accompaniment of the bnss of the hound. There was d something out there In the gloom. Steele rose to his feet. Da- Then a voire called: "Bo'-Jo-! veed!" And he knew that Michel Imd found them. Hello, Michel!" he cried, slinking the hand of the Iroquois, who preWe ceded David to the camp-fire- . did our best to beat the snow here, but It was no use. Now tell us about it I" ; , Seated with his friends by th flaming birch logs, the headman told his story. When he and Jacques reached the Little Current, he hud found all hut a few of the most timid hunters on There had been rutheir trap-linemors afloat In the valley of the howling of the beast at Big Feather, hut the Portage lake hunters had refused to listen to an Indlnn who clulmed that he had heard the Wlndlgo, In .September, on the ridge across from Walling River post. Dut Pierre, lie try do good Job." It was Pierre, was It?" Yes. he try hard to aeare dem on Je Little Curren, too." But to the surprise of Michel; he returned to Portage lake to find a camp of hunters he hnd left but two g lay liefore, wild with fenr nnd to leave the country. For. In Ills the Wlndlgo had filled the night with horror from a neigh orlng ridge. Michel had lost no time n finding the trull and following It down to a cheek where he lost It on he Ice. and although he fo'lo.ved the stream for miles, failed again to pick It up. . Then ho sent Little Jacques with the message which David found ut the rendezvous. - "Well, hes In this country and well :eep nfter him," aald Steele, when the hcmlmun hud finished his story. There was nothing to do but patrol the country, following the trappers comps, In the hope that some night tuck would strike them, and they should wake from their wurin robes to hear the voice. As Bteele rol'cd hlmse'f In Ida htnnketa tinder the shed-ten- t by the fire he w outlet ftl If the girl nt Walling River, who had so lightly weighed him and found him wanting, hnd paused to consider whether the choice of a winter of toll with the dogs, on the snow of the Hudson's Bay watershed, rather than the alternative of the soft life of the city, Imre fti.y Indication of th: singleness of his heart. snow-curtaine- self-defen- ing. wind-packe- rrom What happened to the other man?" lie did not move, said the Iro quols, grimly. Yon hit him?" Beeg Antoine go back to Ogoke alone." And they never came again?" "No, but we had fear." There was a burd glint In the eyes of Steele as he turned to David. "David," he said, I owe you an apology. When w had that snake In our hands we should hnve finished the Job. It would hnve been held by any decent Jury." David lifted his wide shoulders. We feenlsh dut Job sometain, boss. ' As Steele bad foreseen, the running down of a beast patrolling a country of the size of the Walling Itlver valley was clearly a matter of chance. r It was decided that Steele and David, with the bloodhound, whlth they were anxious to test on the snow at once, should work over to the hills and Iligntom lakes Medicine district with the purpose of quieting the Indluns, If possible, and holding them In the country, as well as of waiting the possible reappearance of the night waller. Michel, with Little sent from Jacques, a Frcnoh-Cree- , to work nt the post after the loss of the fur canoe, and the sole Indian to volunteer for such dread duty, were to patrol the Portage Lake country as far as the trapllnes on the Little Current und the Drowning. Both parties were to renort. hack at WallIn the meaning River In two wic-stime, a jack pine at the Junction of the Stooping with the inntn dream was chosen as the message center to which n man from each party was to return In a week for news of the nth- er, and whllher St. Onae would send any Information from the post down In this munner they could cover a great urea of the lower Wall- d -- x. "If the Old Boy Is Loose Now, Hell Appear and Sing Again Somewhere." And,' until the bent slmt them from sight, a knot of post Indians In awed wonder watched the leds speeding south. For that men should thus calmly set out In search f a horrible deuth was a matter their ken. One morning, a week later, Steele was frying moose steak In Ids camp In the spruce, on the Little Medicine river. Three days before, David had started with the dogs for the rendoz voua nt the mouth of the Ktoopln river where (from Portage lake) word would be '.eft on a piece of birch bnrk by the pnrtner of Michel. In the Medicine hills the friends had found most of the Indluns buck on their trap-linehut uneusy and (Yu if u I of the early return of the Wlndlgo, nnd the condi-Ion- s along the Phantom chain of lakes were similar. As Steele sat by his (Ire eating his breakfast of moose, bannock and ten he none of Wlndlgo, the hound, lying at his able, lifted to sniff lie nlr Then n low rumble swelled his black ; hroa Whats the matter, old hoy? Smell eoinethtng?" And Steele putted the log's wrinkled forehead. The wind blowing upstream again the message, nnd springing to his feet, the bloodhound ran toward tin river, sucking In the lilting nlr through quivering nostrlk, then raised his head In a deep throated hay. Curious, Steele left Ills breakfast to follow the dog to the fiver Ice, where already his heavy voice boomed out upon the silence of the frozen forest. For u space he gazed downstream ut a dark object moving up the white trull, then exclaimed: Thais David! And hes pushing the dogs for nil theres In them. News ! He's heard from Michel." Running to the tent. Steele hastily (TO bal UONTlNUS.il I got Ids bugs ready for a swift return China has an area or s.r.Mtai downriver, then returmd to the Ice. In a mn tier of minutes, David, with square miles nnd a population of LVX-UOOP. face circled Id- th Crust from Ida strange' quest. be-vo- pre-nrin- uh-m- t - Among Those Present Just Dip to Tint or Boil to Dye By RUBY DOUGLAS ' 111 (Coovrlsht.) 1 . T.-r- att tJK HAD been on that proverbial, If somewhat exaggerated, Juunt up and down the world, looking for her. And now, Idly scanning the list of guests at a party given In honor of a fumous film star, he found her name Dawn Morrow. It must be she; there could he but one Dawn Morrow. lie recalled, now, as vividly as If It had been yesterday, his first glimpse of her. She must have been about fourteen and she had come out on the putting green to give her father a message that hud been telephoned to the club from his office. lie, Donald Harper, had been her father's carrle. After that he often cuddled for her. She was learning golf that summer and it had been his last season on the links he thought boys over seventeen who couldnt do better than caddie to help out with their approaching college expenses were not much good. And thus, Dawn Morrow had passed out of his life. She did not even know Ills name. She always called him Caddie." Now, hailng taken his bar examinations and having been taken Into a large law office to serve his apprenticeship at his profession, he still wondered where the lovely little girl was and never until today had he seen or heard of her. Aud now, It was only lu a list of "Among Those Present" at a big party. j lie continued to search for her on the street, in the theater, lie scanned newspapers and magazines for her name. One day It occurred to him to hunt up a friend who he knew was a member of the golf club at which he had first seen Dawn. It was Just possible, he conjectured, that her father was still a member and that he had continued bis game of golf. It did not take him long to get In touch with Elliott Gordon and get himself Invited to tlie Country club on a Saturday afternoon in October when anyone who played golf would be sure to be out He did not explain to his friend his reason for wanting to be his guest but merely said that he had once caddied out on that course and hnd a fancy to have a go at the game, now, as a player. Dut on the links, every hole and every hazard of which he knew like a map, he felt a thrill of enthusiasm for life thut he hud not experienced for years, lie hnd studied pretty hard nt college, majored in law his senior year aud worked to pay expenses during the summers. Now, to play, to feel himself firmly planted on the road to success In his chosen profession and to have the hope that just across any bunker he might see the face of the girl he had held In his vision for so long this was Joy indeed! Ills game was nothing to brag about and his friend twitted him not a w . little. a But there was a tang In the air that made even the poorest golfer enjoy his game and the two finished the eighteen holes Justus a great red sunset was being staged over the western hills adjoining the club. Nothing beats a royally red sunset In the country," remarked Elliott "Nothing but a glorious Dawn," murmured Donald, lost In the vision of a girls face. Speaking of Dawn do you know Dawn Morrow, the artist?" asked Elliott Dont look now she's over at that corner table." , Donald nearly cramped his muscles to keep from turning at once to gaze Is she alone?" he upon the girl. asked, stupidly, for want of poise In which to seek an Intelligent question. 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