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Show r TIIE PAYSON CHRONICLE, PAYSON, UTAH Ri Intermountain News Sally Se: Briefly Told for Busy Readers Copyright by Pnn Pub. Co. by a' GEORGE MARSH FROM THE BEGIN.NINQ At hu fur post, Siuuet House, In the Canadian north, Jim Stuart, trader in charge, with kia headman, Omar, reecuee Aurora LeBlond, daughter of Stuart's rival in the fur buaieroe, from an overturned canoe in the laic a. She proves a charming companion, and Stuart Is naturally attracted. Jims superior, Andrew Christie, displeased at Stuarts trade showing, allows him, at bis request, one year to "make good." Paradis bribes an Indian tn ambush Jim and Omar. The attempt fails, and Jim takes the Indian to LeBlond. After hearing the story, LeBlond dischargee Paradle. Jim and Aurora acknowledge their mutual love, though Aurora la returning to Winnipeg, and Jim has planned a canoe trip to make a personal appeal to the Indians, who have persistently refused to trade their fure with him. He finds that Paradia baa enlisted their eupersti-Uo- e ts daacourage them from trading with Stuart. Paradle men ambush Jim and Omar again, but they are not harmed. Eeau, half-bree- d is partisan of Stuart, leaves on a Journey which they hope will result In the overthrow of Jingwak, Indian "madlclaa man In tha pay of Paradia Camping for the night, tha trader and Omar roll their blankets In tha shape of men sleeping beside the fire, and hide nearby. Indians attoonpt to knifa tha men euppoaedly in the blankets. Jim and hia friend attack and km them. CHAPTER VII 13 Continued hut his friendship. He guve him that the last sleep, when he touched hands. Does the trader from the Hou'-- of the Sunset believe Jinaw now speaks with a single tongue? Rising, Jim gave the old man his hand. "I do. We shall he friends. rifle above the drumming of the rapids, and a bullet whined past Esau's face. as the two canoes swiftly approached each other, the old OJibwa made tiis decMon. Life meant little to him, now. There was one chance in ten of his coming through; but he would make the great gamble for that one chance for Jim and the memory The trail to of Jim's dead father. of Jingwak led through the half-milwhite fury ahead. He stopped paddling, reached for his rifle, and tired at the bowman In the boat cutting across his course. Hit, the paddler slumped hack into the canoe. Close to the suck of the first drop, the sternmun seized his pole and fought to chpck the drifting canoe, as a second shot passed over e Esaus head. Rabbit growled Omar, as the Then, at the head of the portage, familiar thumping of the hind feet of the old man saw another canoe leava buck snowshoe waa repeated. ing the beach, as again an Indian fired at him from the shore. "Whatre you going to do! Hunt "Ah-ha!" Iip cried, his furrowed up old Jlnaw in the morning and accuse him of this? whispered JIrn as, face glowing with the exaltation of CHAPTER VIII with rifles across knees, they settled his mail purpose. "So you catch old down to their long watch for the posEsau? Wal, coineon! Catch heem! When Esau left Jim and Omar and sible appearance of others of the Esau sighted his rifle and fired at started down the Sturgeon river on the stermnan battling with his pole to Paradis band. free the canoe from the fierce suction For he tell Paradis all his mad mission In search of Jingwak, he traveled all the first night, watchhe know about us. I close hees mout. on the lip of the flume. ing the passing shores for the red emThere was no disputing the fact Splintered by the bullet, the bending that the old mans knowledge of their bers of a dying fire. For, once Para- pole snapped In the OJibwa's hands. dis was warned of the coining of the He lunged head first Into the racing eareh for Ksau would be a grave menace to their safety. Yet It was men from Sunset House, he would current, and, followed by his yawing unlikely that he would leave Ids wife lose no time In guarding the river canoe, was swept Into the rapids. road over which they must pass. So to die alone while he hunted for ParaShifting his load forward to make the old man rode the swift current Esau rose with the canoe dis. And to the white man who sat his setting pole. As his boat slid through the shadows, his eyes strainthrough the hours beside the Implacable half breed who had already ing for the glow of a campfire on the pronounced sentence of death on the foliage of the shore. Before dawn the roar of white-wate- r Ingrate, It was unthinkable that the drifted to his ears, and he landed. courageous old squaw should be deFor be would need the light to Inspect serted to a slow death. But In holding Omars hand, In giving her her the strange rapids and decide whether he could run them or would have to chance of recovery from the Infection, carry around. So Esau hid his canoe, Jim realized that he was gambling with his own life and that of his went deep Into the forest, boiled his friend forgetting what he owed the tea over a diminutive fire masked from the river by thick timber, ate, girl at the Lake of the Sand Beaches. and slept. And yet he could not bring himself to Later In the morning he walked do otherwise. downstream to the head of the rapids At dawn, the watchers on the shore, Across the river was the cleared space now confident that the would had come alone, started a search at the end of a portage trail. The white-wate- r was Impassable; the Infor their canoe, which they shortly found not far away, and drew up and dlans carried around It. But the vethid In the brush. Then, leaving their eran, who had passed his life on the wild rivers of western Kiwedln, did own canoe, for they did not wish to not return to his canoe and drop down be seen, they started through the timto the portage. Along the opposite ber for the tipi of Jlnaw. shore he followed the over which a small fire, by Squatted white-wate- r as It foamed and churned simmered a tea pall, they found the and thundered through a half-mil- e of old Indian frying a pan of fish. At Then chaos. he returned clamoring to Jim's the sound of their approach, to his canoe and started downstream surprise the OJlbwa hailed them with without turning his head. for the head of the portage, for not a "bo-Jeven the trained eyes of Esau Otchlg How Is the woman? asked Stuart Desperate, He Took Hl Rifle From who, In his youth, had run the Chutes In OJlbwa. Where It Lay at Hie Feet In the of Death on the Wlnlsk and the Long The deep lines of the old Indians Water, and Boldly Drifted Down Sault of the Mad river, had found a on the Waiting Canoe. face softened, as he rose and faced way through for his canoe. the hostile eyes of the white man The old Indian was crossing the toward the dip of the long chute, the Then a look of and the half-breea quarter-mil- e above the river o'd man waved his hand at the purbewilderment shaped Itself on his when, fo his consternation, tworapids, men suing canoe and the men on shore as hawk-lik- e features as be glanced curion the portage. Come and get his cry of defiance, appeared Sleep ously from one to the other. a lunge of his paddle Esau me! was drowned In the drum-bea- t With bas come to her, he said; At the of the rapids. swung the nose of the canoe to the opfirst light she said the pain had grown Was it Paradis on his No rifle shot's followed the doomed shore. posite little In her arm. The medicine of the way up river, or traveling OJibwas figure standing with setting pole In Is man white strong." stern of the birch-bark- , as It who would pay him slight attention? the Old Jlnaw stared quizzically at the He had paddled but a few strokes leaped forward. In awe the men of who of face black Omar, wrath In the Paradis watched the mad canoeman when he saw a canoe carried from the stepped forward and started to speak, forest and slid Into the water. Leapdeliberately steer his craft Into the when the raised hand of Jim checked maw of death. ing Into the boat, the two packers Ahlm. Down Into the maelstrom of broken started straight across the head of Heat some water, ordered Stuart the were trying to cut water plunged the canoe, guided by They rapids. I will wash out her hand. him off! It was Paradis I the spruce pole of the gallant old Tutting a pall of water on the fire, Esau drove his paddle, OJibwa In the stern. Following the Furiously His the Into tipi. Jlnaw led Jim black water channels past boulders across the current for the opentrance was greeted from the pile of angling mounded with foam, and knife-edgehis keen bruin as grapshore, skins by a low, Nlal nla! You have posite with the situation which conrocks thrusting through the spume, pled come! Your medicine U strong, for He could land and take checking with his pole when the way him. fronted the pain has grown small. to the bush ambush the two men In was blind, then on, grazing calamity Jim placed his hand on the wrinkled canoe If they dared follow him up. by a paddle's breadth ns he rode the the The fever had dropped. forehead. But there were others behind them on roaring reaches, went the dauntless old arm off the the bandage Then he took That meant losing canoe voyageur. Drenched with spray, his the and washed the Incision he had made and portage. Without these lie leaking canoe scarred with wounds defeat. outfit In the hand, while the squaw, mumfrom a hundred rocks, he fought his reach not could Jingwak. bling her gratitude, stoically refused a of head the until, suddenly, the river widened at the way carry, Then, to voice her pain. Sending Jlnaw for third man There was a Into an unbroken harrier of white-wate- r. appeared. asked her: Jim quietly more water, With a groan, Esau read his of smoke, a faint explosion of a Was It your son who stopped here puff the last sleep after I put medicine on OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO your hand? sunken old woman, the of The eyes with hours of agony, widened at the There Is no subterfuge question. here, thought Jim, as she whimpered: The English monetary unit, the weight of silver, corresponded to RoMy'son, here, the last sleep? No, he was originally a pound weight man solidus, and the penny, which reppound, has forgotten he comes no more. of silver, and resented the 240th part of a pound, corresponded to the RoThere was no one here. man libra (Latin pound weight), from corresponded to the Roman denarius. As Jlnaw entered with the warm Hence we have the at brev iatlons , s, which Is derived the designating water, Stuart said : We thought that this denomination. This pound was and d. In us you had sent two men to knife The Roman sy.cm of computation soon known as the Pound Tower beour sleep' and we came here to make cause the chief mint of the country was adopted by all European counyou pay. was established In the tower, and by tries after, they had accepted Roman I saw it In your eyes, said the it the In England It was adoptwas Christianity. regof coins weight English Indian, calmly meeting Jim's gaze, ulated. It contained 5,400 ed by Ethelbert of Kent at the beginand grains but I did not know why your hearts was divided Into 12 ounces of 20 penning of the Seventh century. bad turned bitter. The men of Paradis each. The Pound Troy sunyweights too was medicine found you, but your Civilization! perseded the Pound Tower in 1527. Strong? civilization of China goes much 5.700 grains. and contained The more no sleeping stalk They will The shilling, a division of the pound farther hack than that of Japan. As wrinmen; Jim closely studied the a matter of fact, Chinese civilization In the hut old of Jlnaw, mask kled was Introduced into Japan about the mild found only he there, Mixed Up First century A. D. In modern times, surprise. her however, Japan has outstripped China Eight year-oh- l Betty was It was. then, the moon on a wet first large party. She had having carebeen In many respects. Japan having adoptpaddle, as I thought. fully couched ns to the proper way to ed western standards of living to a "You saw their canoe? on the greet her guests and concerning her much greater degree. While Japan No, after you left, I saw far was response to their farewells. has shown a capacity equal to that moon lake a flarh. Then the Heaving a sigh of relief, Betty of any ether known people and. while . bid. to closed the door after the last guest their manners and customs and cer"We thought you had sent them and sighed: I never thought theyd tain Institutions were modified in an. find US. cient times hy Chinese cu'ture, they ms go home so fast thnt Id get my thank Sorrowfully the Indian shook and glnd to see you' so terrl-b- l have kept pace with European and the yous to little glT dead. Jlnaw has mixed up. American civilization. whits trader for hU good medicine, e h Ah-ha- bow-heav- rock-scarre- r fv d o d English Monetary Unit Adopted From Remans Far-Exter- n I . T INDIAN CELEBRATION. LOCUSTS. CATCH (WVU Service) i w7i,wYH,wrT hvppi1 1 rffFV MAP IS MADE. BOY SCOIT PLANS. A PAY LESS VACATION. doom written in the buried boulder which barred his path. He had made the tight, taken the long chance for Jim, and now It was over! But Esau Otchlg would go down fighting! Into the chaos of foaming boulders snubbed by the dropped the canoe, bend.ng pole. The bottom grounded on a roik, was lifted off by the pole; the boat was caught and swung Into another hy baffling cross currents ; but still the old man fought unconquered At In the face of certain disaster. last, the unleashed river caught the shattered canoe, like a straw, and dropped It on a huge boulder, over Pivoting which the water mounded. on the rock, the canoe rolled and started to fill. It was the end! With a desperate leap Ksau was in the water, his feet braced on the submerged rock. A heave, and he freed the rapidly filling boat, swung her with the current, and fell gasping on hi knees Inside, clutching his pole. Shortly he was clear of the shallows. Then on down, through the riot of plunging river, the bent figure In the stern steered his boat, the glitter of victory In his black eyes. lie had hung, for a space, on the lip of death. But he had won. Then his heart sank as he saw a canoe below him. Desperate, he took his rifle from where It lay at his feet In the water, and boldly drifted down on the waiting canoe. As he neared the craft, the faces of the occupants watched him with awe. Are you a Manitou, a spirit, that you pass gasped an OJibwa, ? alive through the Rapids of the Wln-digo- I am a Esau put down his gun. great shaman In the land where the sun goes to sleep. I fear no rapids. Here was an opportunity to impress the Indians of the Sturgeon country, old man swiftly and the made the most of It The spirits are your friends, for the Windigo allows no man to pass his rapids. Enh-enh- , Esau gravely nodded. yes, the spirits are my friends. The Indian exchanged frightened looks with the awed squaw who cowered In his canoe. Jingwak, the shaman, fears to pass these rapids in his canoe. Your medicine Is stronger than his. A look of contempt crystallized on the face of the old man. Jingwak Is a wabeno, who deceives the OJibwas to get their fur for the trader Paradis. The spirits do not know him. You go to the Lake of the Stur keen-witte- d geon? Yea. Tell the people there that you saw the shaman from the land of the setting sun, who comes to talk to them, pass unhurt from the Rapids I have traveled of the Windigo. many sleeps to find Jingwak, the false shaman who speaks with a double tongue to the OJibwas, and drive him With a sweep of from the country. his paddle, Eau left the spellbound hunter and his squaw, and continued down the river. Going ashore behind the first bend, he rested, then carried the canoe Into the thick bush, built a fire to dry his outfit, and with pitch and spruce roots started the necessary repairs. As he worked over the rock scarred craft, the wrinkled face of the old man lit with smiles of satisfaction. He had beaten Paradis and lived that no canoe through white-wate- r had passed, to start on Its way the story of his charmed life and miraculous powers, which would travel swiftly from tipi to tipi up and down the lake. For a time he would hide while his mysterious appearance swayed the talk around the supper fires. Tor he knew his people. Then he would strike. For three days Jim and Omar camped near Jinaw while the infection In the arm of the old squaw rapidly cleared under Stuart's care. Then when she could travel, the grateful Indian started down the great lake to endeavor to learn the fate of Esau. Two nights later, the canoe from Sunset House waited at the rendezvous the Rattlesnake had set In a deep cove near the foot of the lake. Restless from davs of doubt and forced inaction. In which the absent Esau might have so sorely needed their aid, Jim arid Omar sat beside their hidden canoe. Here ees Jinaw, announced Omar, as a black shadow slid In toward tha shore. "Esau Is here, on the lake," beunn the old man, who spoke no English I have talked to the hunters at many camps. A strange story has passed down the lake. Seven sleeps ago an Indian and his woman saw a canoe pass out of the Rapids of the In it was a great shaman who told them his name was Otchlg and he sought the sorcerer, Jingwak. lie ran those rapids j;m into Omar's startled triumphantly face. By gar! grunted the surprised How he do dnt? half breed. .o canoe has ever before the Rapids o: die Wind'go, p.edj Jlnaw. "The woman who saw 't savs the boat had wings, and never rode the water." y,n-dig- (TO Bit OO.NTLWEDJ Home Study may be ued to satisfy entrance requirements to the University; to do university work if one is temporarily prevented from going to college; by teachers who are looking toward life diplomas or professional advancement; by business and professional people who want to keep abreast with leaders in their field. There is no age limit. 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