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Show UINTAH msIN RECORD "i0 c' AHERN Alaska-bordaughter rat" who died with an unes-,e- d North mining claim, return school. Aboard ship, j, Indian Erie-- : ,nnoyed by Eric (the Red) by Sidney Lander, ad u rescued n tush r young mining engineer. Lander, working for the Trumbull company, which is fighting Coburns claim, is engaged to Trumbulls daughter. Lander breaks with Trumbull and moves to Sockeye Schlupp's shack. INSTALLMENT could see, a very ,.as not, I with its aling abode. It looked, roof and ng timbers, ,ts as a mausoleum. I as inviting I r did it add to my joy when kicking away the body disclose the flattened-ou- t dead coyote lying there, its grinning malevolently up from covered jawbones.' with a prompt , companion, the frozen brushed his of foot, p aSS to one side and swung open door. Doors in Alaska, I were very seldom snow-mattress- Sock-Ey- ISSJ3, heart, landy, bnatej st has d, d. shut my teeth tight so chin wouldnt all that musty-,thn- g room and an untidy wall bunk, a ad to trembling of my y me. For about deep-shadow- was two wooden chairs with spliced legs. I could see , and ly ethe smoke pipe bad fallen from stove and where ro-- s had been attacking a grub box rfectly armored with a Josephs of flattened-ou- t tobacco tins, .e it was a dish shelf with a rusty pans and a showing of chipped crockery. At the foot e bunk lay the dead body of a half burled in a scat-- g d of lint from a Along the wall directly above unk were tacked, to remind me ia was still a mans country, rows of equally irregular, interspersed with Each and every one icing houris. I observed, was in an ar-- : ig state of dishabille. ..t even more revolting was the that covered the floor. questioning glance st have detected some shadow of lessness on my face. Vou t stick it? he chal-- i ? VII handed about it all. When he sharpened a stick and on it speared a slice of bread, which he began toasting at the stove front, I found the aroma of that browning bread mixing with the aroma that came from the coffeepot. And I realized there were times when food was more important than philosophy. "Things is goin t come easier, as we ate toexplained Sock-Ey- e gether with the honest and unabashed appetite of the hungry, once youve took root here. And made friends with my neighbors, I added. You aint got no neighbors within a mile, countered Sock-Ey"And the valley folks nacherly aint goin t fall over themselves t welcome you, seein you was sent in here by them Juneau bureaucrats. Yep; youll have t stoke that ol firebox yourself. And rustle your own grub and wood and water. I spose youve got a shootin iron? I didnt see, I told him, bow a shooting iron could solve any of my problems. It kin ease your mind consider-blTheres no argued Sock-Eysatisfaction like knowin youve got n in reach. Kind o perks a e. e, e. six-gu- much-chewe- .. ir-l- ar I said. Theres way. iiv companion, as he turned and pt that room with a saturnine proclaimed that an old skinflint Sam Bryson should have two es of lead in his gizzard. But :e hes put you here, Im e you a hand t" git planted." .ad thought of Sock-Ey- e as a .dering old man. But as he v off his coat and got busy I zed I had altogether misjudged i his skill and his strength, is first act was to force open the ether lows. grunting with indignation, en, went It kin ease your mind at the place like a cyclone, tumbled the greasy table and considerble. out into the snow and scraped you up when youre alone. And I litter from the floor. Then he reckon I got an ol blunderbuss or two I kin be bringin over t you. worn-dow- n me alone with rs my a broom. He reappeared a rusted axhead, into which he i a rough handle of birch wood, n he started to shovel the ashes I told him to i- the stove-bo- x them, as theyd come in handy of blue-tinte- CHAPTER Vni ' the pole-stac- 3 should. after spitting into the stove front, reached for his i and crossed to the door. I'm over t the Village, fhandedly announced. Weve a boss store there. Ill see if I rustle a pair o blankets and in a mite o grub for you. ben he returned, I stood blinking be size of his sleigh load. Sit in out o the cold, he corned. I reckon I purty well what a cheechako needs. felt my throat tighten. Vou cant do this for me, I ? M' ended as piled things Sock-Ey- e be table end. ain't I Im fted. , it for you, Wppy. He rustled ?rub for me. "at he it for your many a mess didnt take the lump from I watched him in silence disinterred two candles from throat, ae store supplies and lighted them. pears to be cornin on," said. i reckon I may as well J an have chow with you. started to thank him, but he m Evenin' 5 short. "hen you git settled, he said, au jl have t have a gas lamp. u tote over a hunk of sour-- 6 ;or yur And, nhlle, IU leave you a slab o' neat thatll help tide over the k end." 1 bread-makin- ihe t '. table, using uth, while the a newspaper old-tim- er be-- s Stove cooked bacon and PUt cofree on to boil and chM two holes in the top of a m Wllb his hunting knife. He ,, Passingly adroit and quick- i red-ruste- I was afraid to thank him for what he bad done. It didnt seem to be the valley way. I merely stood in the doorway watching him as he trudged off in the snow and d was lost in the darkness. folds. scrubbing. time he had a fire going snowwater melting in our galva-- d tub Id unearthed a shriveled s of yellow soap and a lopsided b brush. While I scoured the table and chairs hot water and wood ashes he ,ged the bunk mattress out into snow, emptied it, pounded the oi the dust from it, and refilled th wild hay which he comman-t- d k from a at the s of the clearing. last everything smelled clean, seemed different, and the sing-o- t the old iron kettle on the a stove was almost homelike, my spirits declined to rise as case with chintz and convert it into a dressing table. I learned how to stuff duck feathers into a sugar bag with the lettering boiled off in lye water and call it a pillow, and how to make sheets out of factory cotton and dish towels out of flour sacks, and even a Dutch oven out of two boxes interlined with chopped oat straw. I relearned how to whittle shavings from a spruce stick and start a fire, and chop wood without standing in a tub to protect my feet, to say nothing of the discovery that birch logs split easiest when frozen. I knew how a baking-powdtin could be turned into a biscuit-cutte- r, bow bag burlap with a design crocheted on its ends made a passable door mat, how a broom handle fastened across' a room comer curtained off with calico converted the same into a clothes closet, and how lift, after all, was mostly what you made of it. d old Id never liked that stove of mine, standing as it did a monument of neglect at the center of my new family circle. So on a sufficiently mild afternoon when I could afford to let the fire go down I decided to sandpaper off some of the rust and replace it with a bright and shining coat of black lead. The old potato sack Id pinned around my waist didnt leave me looking any too regaL My hair came down and my hands took on a distinctly negroid tint. On my face, too, I must have smudged a good deal of the black lead that should have gone elsewhere. And just as I was wielding my polishing brush d on the last old stove leg a visitor walked into my humble abode and stood regarding me with a quietly bewildered eye. "Where will I find Carol Coburn? an unexpectedly well - modulated voice Inquired of me. ' I knew who it was, even before she told me. Im Carol Cobum, I told her, as quietly as I could. Wont you sit down? She blinked at me, for an incredulous moment or two. Im Barbara Trumbull," she announced. I know, I murmured as I poured water into my tin basin and engaged in a hasty struggle to remove some of the black lead. Cant I make you a cup of tea? No thank you, she said, with a second study of my partially cleansed face. She pulled up her sleeve and looked at a jeweled wrist watch. Im flying back to Anchorage in a few minutes. Im sorry, I said in the silence that ensued. You know Sidney Lander, she observed. She said it softly. 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Size 18 (34) requires, for No. 1, 3 material; 3 yards trimyards of ming; for No. 2 with collar, 251 yards and ht was assembled from scenes of 112 feature pictures, dozens of news reels, shorts and documentary films, dating from the present day back before The Birth of a Nation." Spectacles include practically every great moment in our history, from the battles of Bunker Hill and Lexington, of the Alamo and Gettysburg, to the beginning of World War 4 Those first days in my Matanuska wickyup always remained a clouded memory of discomfort shot through with Incongruous moods of exaltahad been right tion. But Sock-Ey- e One took root, in some way, and fiber by fiber time wove one back to the soil of one's birth. I learned more about the valley of the Muddied Waters for that in the language of the local Indians, was what the word "Matanuska meant It revealed itself as a deep-soile-d and lightly timbered valley of almost two hundred square miles, with a friendly huddle of mountain shoulders that cut off the Arctic winds and framed the lowlands In eternal white. Diagonally across the valley ran the Matanuska River, and up that river, in the open season, the salmon came in swarms. Here and there, along the lower benches, little, patches of land had been cleared, mostly as subsistence farms for hill trappers and disheartened and like old Sock-Ey- e Sam Bryson. On those farms they d potatoes and thirty-poun- d grew cabbages and oats and rye and hay as high as a horses back. For the growth from that black soil, once played on by its bath of twenty-hou- r sunshine, was prodigious. But the little homestead shacks, I found, were scattered and far apart, and life, apparently, was still precarious, with no fixed market for the settlers produce and no final reward for a short season of industry after a long season of hibernagold-seeker- s, two-poun- tion. Yet the valley was rich. It could, according to Sidney Lander, prove itself the grub bag of the North. Its soil was drouthless and inexhaustible. And under that soil it had coal in abundance. And through all Its outer hills it had game enough for an backlog on the fires of hunger. I came to Matanuska as a teacher, but it was the valley, I found, that was teaching me things Its first lesson seemed to be that frontier life was the mother of invention and the father of resourcefulness. For 1 learned how to attach a wire handle to a discarded gasoline can and turn it into a water pail, and hew to cover an empty packing ever-enduri- And? I prompted, feeling that all the frostiness wasnt to be on one side. And you know, of course, that were to be married next summer? she continued, making it half a question and half a challenge. Yes, he told me about that, I acknowledged. And again I heard the musical laugh edged with ice. You and Sidney, I understand, had a very adventurous trip together a tew weeks ago. "We got storm bound on the trail," I explained. But be survived it, quite unscathed. "Thats what I wanted to make sure of said the lady in the mink coat, ignoring the touch of acid in my voice. But her eyes narrowed a little. Then, with great deliberation, she drew off the luxurious gauntlet that covered her left band. It was a very white band. And on the third slender finger I could see the glitter of a diamond. "Thats his ring, she quietly but conclusively announced. Do you want to stop my marriage? It impressed me as rather primitive. Buf I was at least compelled to respect the ladys directness. What makes you think I could?" I asked. She, apparently, both suspected and resented my air of guilelessness. "My convictions in that quarter seem to be weakening, she said with a languid sort of asperity. Then why bother about the source of them? I countered, a little tired of being accepted as merely an Audrey of the backwoods. "Why are you fighting my faJohn Trumbuli'a daughter ther? And rather abruptly demanded. making Sidney break with the one man who could have him amount to something? It wont, of course, do any good." I met her gaze without flinching. "Are you saying that for your own sake, I asked, or for your fa- thers? Barbara Trumbull laughed a lit- tle. "My fathers big enough to light she announced. "Then what are you worrying about? I found the courage to inquire. (TO BE CONTINUED) for himself," yards trimming. Enclose 15 cents for each pattern. Size Pattern No Pattern No Size.......... Name Address No. 2. Some of the matching of scenes from different pictures is remarkable. 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