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Show THE SPANISH FORK PRESS. SPANISH FORK. UTAH lie .Valley f V The Mowby Twins ices By GEORGE MARSH Author of Toller of th Trill, (Copyright bp th Ptna PublUhln lifted knife, a wild-eyeOJlbway woman threw herself uion tbe surprised 21 I have nothing to say," she an- Laflanime,. Leaping back, he caught and parried the thrust with his foreswered. sitting with chin cupped In arm, then, with his uninjured hand, averted. hand, face wrenched the knife from the madOh, do you mean to say that you dened squaw and hurled her across storeto that yourself prefer selling the room to the floor." keeper, .Lascelles. to living In luxury Seizing hla coat, he stood for an InIn Montreal, Winnipeg) I stant over the kneeling girl, clusplng You may Insult me, monsieur. have no means of defending myself," her beloved violin, and touched ber hulr then left the room. , she broke In, coldly. The dazed Ojihway crawled to the Then Laflanime lost all pitiful figure on the floor, and circled and stormed: her with her arms, Is But that "Insult you) Oh, yes! De music gone all gone," she the truth, Is It not) You do not love "Poor m'm'selle!" crooned. fasave To do your this man, you) huddled there on the While they thers future you have agreed to marry floor the girl, the light of whose life him this man you despise! Oh, 1 had been ruthlessly snuffed out, and know! lies not tit to look at you the woman of the dark skin, who unyou beauty I" derstood dog bells Jingled In the White-facesat with the girl eyes as two sleds took up the river clearing on the floor silent, as If she did not trail. hear. True, you think you hate me now, St. Onge Late that afternoon, but you would change," he ran on. of reached the fork the river, Stooping You may talking as If to himself. have heard hard things said of me, hut the spruce, already blue with unanbut I swear to you. If you will marry shadow, gave back his cull, of mouth into turned swered. lie the me, Denise St. Onge, I'll show you what love Is. Ill make your father the 8trcnm and took the Portage lake shores for Ids voice trail, searching the silent Independent make you, broke with emotion, yes, make you the enmp of Michel, but tbe headman was not there. happy! Ive loved yon ever since you This Is yery strange, he said, and played for us that night at Albany Ills wood to enmp alone. cut years ago. In the night, St. Onge waked Deep Laflamme stopped and looked down with a gesture of helplessness at the In his blankets, as his dogs gave back woman of stone In the chair. Then he the husky challenge to creatures heard the low words: "You forget, whose seent the freezing air hnd carto their nostrils. But the drowsy monsieur, someone who Is still at ried man did not know that two sled teams Ogoke. I know how that looks to you," he were passing below him on the WallIUver trail. defended, but that was over, years ing a home her ago years. Ive given CHAPTER XIV couldn't turn her out. But she hates me, tried to knife me, wanted to run On the night of Little Jacques reaway with that American, Steele, this October! She put on black the day turn to Portage lake the four men sat . she heard he had been drowned on the by the fire planning their future movements. It had been a week since the way home." There was a long silence, then: beast had howled or visited the trap-line- s In the district, for David had "Why were you afraid to have him reach Neplgon? arranged with the uptake hnnters to Laflanime (started, then laughed. relay the news of his appearance ImAfraid to have him reuch Neplgon) mediately. Thats funny lie got some supplies Id give ten years of my life if that anil went on. What do you moan) old bird would sing up there on that Your InThen the gtrl countered: ridge this evening," said Steele. dians are not faithful to their master, "I got plenty shell een de bag," mons'eur. We learned that you had added David. "I get tire waitin to Mons'enr Steele ambushed after steal- shoot tint little gun ov mine." Youll get your chance before were ing Ills ammunition, and forced him to go to his death." done, dont worry. How would you Do you believe that?" demanded like to draw a bead on your friend Laflnmnte this evening? I.nfiamme, puzzled. Is It true)" The Ojihway shook his head. Wen I tak La fla mines trail I fees heem NoJ" The room was again silent while the wld de hnn. I use no gun on heem. man, famed for his cold nerve, his re- Eef I got hoi dat Black Baptiste, too, source, bit his lips In lmpotcncy before I break sometln more dan hees flag " Leesten!" Interrupted Michel. the Icy calm of this strange girl who so obsessed him. Then he played his Out over the silent forest drifted a fliint call like the voice of some furred trump card. So you Insist on casting your lot night hunter. The four figures at the with that rat at Albany? Then It Is fire stiffened. Again the cull, louder for me to save you from yourself. I now, rose on the biting air. Where Is It?" asked Steele, In have brought an extra sled. Iack doubt of the direction. your clothes at once!" "On de beeg ridge." replied Michel. The girl rose to her full height and met his cynical look with resolute Dat not souu like lieetn." But the men at the fire sat with eyes, hut In her heart was fear. "You do not dare!" she cried. They ears alert, hoping that at last their , would hunt you from Fort Hope, from waiting was over. Then, when they were convinced Albany, from Neplgon House. In three weeks the police would he at Ogoke. thnt yet another flight they were to But before the police teams arrived, roll Into their blankets, disappointed, do you know what they would do to baffled, a long.wall from the ridge beyou? They would burn you In your hind the camp brought them to their trade-housYou do not dare!" feet, every nerve alive. There was a swift stepping Into the With open admiration I.aflamme and drawwatched. the play of color and emo- frozen thongs of snow-shoe- s tion in the face of the frightened girl ing of rifles from skin cases, then who confronted him. taking the bloodhound on the leash. "If youd flush that way when I say Steele started with Ids men for the I love you." he cried, Id give all I ridge. The huskies, though savage have In the world Why, girl, Id soli fighters, were left chained to trees, as uiv soul. If you'd look at me, just at night they would cut off on the first game trail and their bedlam of yelponce, and say you loved me! "I despise you!" ing would prevent Dnvld and Michel The sting of the words cut like the from making the still hunt decided on. Steele with the hound was to lash of a whip. Illsat the breaking point, crumbled. circle and pick up the trail of tjie Despise me, do you?" he snarled. beast If they missed him. As they swung through the blue Dare me to do my worst) Suppose I take you at your, word? Mon Dleu! gloom of spruce and Hr, the voice shifted from Its walling to the huntI'm mad enough about you to do anyIt Who love?" Is, ing screams of the great cuts, then as then, you thing! He thrust his passlonute face close to swiftly dropped to the yowling and Yon bate don't want mewing of the mating season, climaxhers. It must he that d d dead ing, ss at Walling Iiiver and Big Lascelles American youre mooning about! Well, Feather lake, In shrieks of agony,1 In he's at the bottom of tbe Jackflsh. moans of a creature tortured beyond and be forgot you before he laid been endurance of blood and flesh and ut Ogoke two hours forgot even your nerve. Three of the men who hunted the name when he saw Rose!" She faced his anger proudly, con- voice on the ridge had tolled long and tempt In her bloodless face, until he suffered much for this moment, but at mentioned Steele, then slowly her their heels moved a short figure whose flesh wus cold wit It the chill of fear. ). tiers gine way and she sank In n Little Jacques gripped Ids rifle grimly chair. It wns that American ! he stormed. and followed, thinking of the wife und children back at Walling Itiver. "Pity I didn't finish him myself!" At fhe foot of the ridge Michel and Then something on the table caught his eye held It! Ills face went dark David left Sleele to make their stalk with Ills sinister purpose when, with from two directions while he worked In the rear with the dog and Little a quick movement, he seized (he violin. raised It shove his head, and .Tuques. Once on h fresh frail the brought It down with a crash on the hound would hang until he ran down table, then dropped It to the floor un i Ids quarry. In the soft snow Ids puce would he slow, so the men on shoes trampled It under Ids feet. In time world come up with Mm. to fell her With n gronn the girl And lie would need them If the thing the spUn'er-v- l knees and, gatherin shell of the violin to her breast, turned nod nailed ut Imv how great moaned over It as a mother over a would he Ids nccc.sily the lorn body at Sioaping rlur only too well stricken child. t At Inst ho bpd reached They had 'raveled for an hourtwhen At the sound there vn- - a "t'urnl xelahintlnn from the drr , d ullli the hour.1 alri.;ii.v sl ,i;sd sallied CHAPTER. XIII Continued self-contro- l, . (Coprrtsht.) . 1 ..." e! , self-contro- me-r-y- ou 1 Co.) the snow at his feet, and excitedly To Steele's strained at his leush. eyes the flat floor of the wow lay in tbe darkness, but the Indian on hie knees whispered In terror: "Eef ees beeg trail I" Good I" And the bound free, plunged ahead Into the murk. Shortly, hla deep voice boomed through the forest and the hunt woe on. Aa they swung through, the blue gloom of spruce wus less deep, the great dog left them. Again, as they followed, the voice on the shoulder of the hill defiled the night. As It rose In crescendo, rifle shot ellced It short off. Far above, the hound gave voice. Then silence fell on the forest. eald Steele. "They've seen him I "He may back track; keep a lookout Dont shoot too quick or we'll turn him!" There wag no reply. lie looked for his companion, but Little Jacques had . gone. Throwing the bolt of his Mannllcher It of frost and ease the action, Steele kept on up the ridge. For minutes now, he had not beard the voice of the hound, when again tbe resonant bass boomed through the sIltM above him. The dog hnd turned Tbe thing was headed back. Loosing his In Its sheath, the man sklnnlng-knlfcocked Ida rifle and waited, kneeling on a shoe, bis eyes boring Into tbe blackness. Near him, and below, was an opening in the timber. Again, the hound bnyed closer now. The benst was taking bis back tracks. Then Steele saw It. Bounding from the cover of the scrub on the edge of the opening, a dark shape stopped, and reared upright, as If listening when the Mann-llch- to clear e er spat The beast leaped back Into the black wall of spruce. Again, the rifle flamed into the murk. Still crouched on a knee, the man listened, rifle rigid. Sights useless, he bad fired by Instinct. There had teen no thud of bullet In flesh. Could he have missed? Slipping two shells into the magazine, he circled In the timber, lifting Ills shoes to avoid the click. Blind now, for the moon was masked, he listened for heavy breathing In the scrub he faced then the hound plunged past and he knew he bud missed. the dog, Steele turned rhlge, but In an hour was distanced. So he stopped In a cedar swamp, cut wood with his belt nx, and scooping out the snow with his shoe, lighted a fire. Following down the In the cover of the thick cedar the hot fire soon warmed him and with buck against a trunk he dozed, only to waken with a start as a hand touched his shoulder. He blinked Into the faces of David and Michel. Fooled us again! groaned the disheartened Steele. "At daylight we take de trail and see heem soon. De dog wed tree' heem." Heaping up the fire the three men dozed until daylight, then took the trail of the benst and his pursuer through the snow. Somewhere ahead, Steele felt that the pursuit wns over. Somewhere, mites away, the benst had tired In the black hours and turned at bay to buttle In the snow with his relentless foe; or else In terror of the voice of the thunder which he could not shake from his heels, had treed, tp over ridges and Into creek bottoms traveled the Rnxloug men, stopping to listen for the voice of the dog. iiut the cold silence of sunrise gripped the forest. At last the tracks led Into a heavy stand of young spruce. The men separated, and cautiously made their way through the close growth. Suddenly the blood of Steele chilled as lie heard the voice of Michel. "By gar I Poor nP Pete! Forcing Ids way through the he found the Iroquois bending over a shape, stiff In death. The hide of the dog hung In strips from the slashes of terrible claws, while a turn throat marked the death snap of the fangs of the Win-dlg- him. Oh, startled enp-ling- s, blood-smeare- o. (TO SB CONTINUED Nest Novel the last meeting ut the British Ornithologists diih, Mr. A. L Butler exhibited a "nest" from Trinidad, which wns merely a hollow formed by the rotting out of the soft pith ut the sapling The lop of n hrnken-ofbreadth of the top of 'lie stump was to contain the only Just snlllclcnt single egg. and the egg. on the principle, fitted the cavity so neatly thnt It conM not he lifted out with the fingers. The tdrd incubates In a perfectly erect with Its head and neck stretched sillily up. wards, und Its tall pressed to the stile of the stump, of which Its upright I'lte figure seems to form n part species have adopted the huldt of sitting bolt nprlghr on similar stomps or not. whether Incnh.itln At J I Eveieit," she cried, "how jou me. I should have known you anywhere. I was Just thinking of you two boys. Sit right down here and tell me all about Ernest and about yourself, of course." "Iam Ernest," said he. For some rensnn Ida seemed rather relieved and laughed pleasantly. "Well," said she, "tell me about yourself then and about Everett, of course. You know Everett nnd I used to fancy we were In love with each other when we were children. My, but I am glad to see you. Ernest stayed In the old town three weeks; at the end of which time Ida told him: It wns only after you nnd Everett hnd been away a while, and I began to renllze that It was you thnt I was thinking about oftenest, thnt 1 woke up to the fact It wns the Ernest twin nnd not the Everett one that I wns reully In love with. When they wrote to Everett announcing their engagement he sent them a magnificent wedding present nnd Ids blessing and proposed to Agnes Carr the same night f ll po-dth- Indl-lute- 1 T?VERKTT and Ernest Mo s hy were twins, and most people could not tell them apart; but Ida Clarldge said there wns very little resemblance between them: It was surprising people could not see how superior Everett was to Ernest. Ida was eighteen. The Mowby twins hnd Just come to twenty-one sn age nt which any normally constituted boy knows more than he ever will again. And both Everett and Ernest knew that they were In love with Ida. As frequently happens In the case of twins their mental processes were connected by some mysterious link which resulted In a similarity as striking ns their physical resemblance. "n.v the Sacred Fire of Onondaga." said Everett one day; "I am going down to New York and make a fortune and come hnck and marry Ida Clarldge. There Is no chance for a fellow In this burgh." "And Ill go with you," said Ernest. So Everett had a very tender parting with Ida and Ernest hnd s very formal one for hnd she not chosen Everett lntend of himself and could one twin he disloyal to another? Everett nnd Ernest went to the hlg city and they succeeded In their schemes for Its spoliation. Also they grew to look more and more alike. Ida nnd Everett had promised to write pnch other often. But nt the end if the second year (lie exchange of missives hnd become the pulse of fitful nnd Intermittent love wns skipping beats In an alarming manner. The fart was that Everett hnd looked upon Agnes Carr nnd hnd seen tiat she wns fair. ANo he had looked up her fathers rating tn Bradstreets and hnd found It more than fair. And here came the first divergence In the mental processes of the twins. Or, maybe, the divergence bad nothing to do will, mental processes. As fnr ns Ida Clarldge wns concerned their egos were twins no longer. Finally Ernest probed Everett as to the true Everett frankly acknowlsituation. edged that his love for the fair Ida hnd evaporated, or flown sway, or something nn.vwsy he could not find It lying around anywhere. "And do you still correspond?" asked Ernest. "Oh. once In a while," replied Everett. "But I guess Ida Is as tired of the business ns I am and Is only prevented from telling me so by a fear of hurting my feelings. Id tell her myself thnt we had better drop It only a man cant do that very well, you know. A proposition of thnt kind has got to come from the lady." "Lets see we have been here four yenrs now, snld Ernest "I think I will tnke a trip up home next week. Theres none of our folks living there now, to be sure but I would rather like to see the old place again." And pursuant to this declaration up state went Ernest. The first thing he did upon his arrival In the old home town was to seek out Ida Clarldge. He found ,her sitting In a hammock, swung In the apple orchard, nt one side of the house and the apple trees were all In bloom. With the toe of one dainty little .shoe Just touching the ground she swung herself to and fromedItntlvely. The sunbeams came dancing down thrnngh the trees and tangled themselves In her hair; her pink nnd white complexion vied with the blossoms swaying above her; her dreamy blue eyes In short four years hnd transformed a rather gawdy girl Into a beautiful young woman. But to Ernest she had not changed a bit she had always been beautiful to The Whelp of the Wolf ' iW. N. V. Borvtoo.) lildren Cryjet By H. 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