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Show k hi" the payson chronicle, payson. UTA PrcpareJa t,mt lll'se mantelpiece, lmt Mistress kitchen the on Imttle 1 Fb2' Mtlaid-O- e, other a mending BY George PnMarsfo CHAPTER XII 16 Pub- - Ca- - CoarHaht br Under the bitter stars, for the snow Jingled had ceased, the two dog out of the pot clearing to the lake ire, A they left the shore and took the snowed over trail up the purple plain of Lake Expanse to the mouth of the Woman river, Jim glanced back at the huddle of dark buildings. From the second floor of the Inspector's house a window shone yellow through the dusk. It was the room of Mary grlc (WNU Christie. "She's sorry, poor girl I" he thought. Shes saying good by telling me she's aorry. Hies her big heart! He stopped and waved bis hand, wondering tf she could see him out there In the starl'ght; then, with his bitterness, turned and followed his trotting dogs. A week later Jim, Esau and Mlgwnn, with three loaded sleds, lift Sunset House hound for the IMpestone lakes, while Omar remained at the post to prepare for the Christmas trade. Might after night the hurt which tortured Jim's davs waked him with the poignancy of the dreams It brought. And, after supper, as he conjured up the face of Aurora In the fire which held his brooding eyes, often, from old habit, his hand Instinctively groped for the furry ruff, the pointed ears on the massive skull of Smoke lying beside him, to meet no touch of a moist nose, no lick of a warm tongue. He had lost them both the two creatures he loved. At the I.ake of the Great Stones old who had acted as his a gout, Jlnaw, "-i st a large camp of hunters for waff t TT ' loaded with trade goods .reTW'd'nart and Kean turned ;ZE.P of range of the northern lights, and therere none tonight, anyway! Its too thick P What could A fire at LeBlond s ! It mi an? Outside In the snow the three men gazed through the gloom of the thick night across the frozen lake where a you? I reached Bonne Chance by at dog team, yesterday, and here I am so you you, House Sunset writing may know on your return I wanted those big arms of yours around me again wanted to know you still loved me. I beg of you come to Bonne Chance when you get this, and tell me 1 havent lost you haven thronght In my heart through the snows to you Jim. 1 love love you, vain. you AUHOBE" Jim Stuart read and reread the let-- t r until the words grew Illegible to his blurred eyes, hike the thrust of a knife had come the slunk of her first letter, and now, numb with the dull agony of despair, a Joy more poignant than pain held him Inarticulate. He raised his hand to his hot forehead, as hi dired eyes turned to the woman who watched him. She come whi sled to see you, tell She cry w'en explained .Sarah, her you travel nord whl de dog I not let her een de house ontll ahe say she ep your woman. Hen she write dat lettair and tell me to gay noding ontll you read It." Jim's heart was heating with dellrl She had cast Mai Lauren oils Joy. aside laughed at the lure of the city, 1 fox. south with more hlakue had reached , "ear. And. lynx and marten than-Kunrn-- t House the previous jtas,Jhe according to Jlnaw, the hulk 01 Christmas trade was yet to come. Christie eyes'll stick out of bis head when he sees the fur we send to aald Expanse after Christmas." Jim Weve got to Esau. triumphantly, more than double the value of last now." year's trade on the sleds right affecmans shoulder old the lie patted tionately, And you are responsible for It." Esau' seamed face beamed In his Your fader, he feel happy, pleasure. now, to know flat Sunset House get de fur, ah hah 1" The man who carried a wound no material success could heal smiled at the quaint fancy of the loyal old Yes, father will be happy Ojlbwa. now. lie knew he left Jim In good hands. - Through the dusk of one starless of hus night, three trail weary teams Into turned and Ice lake the kiee left winthe clearing where the candle-li- t beckoned. dows of Sunset House of the dogs, the yelping Warned by Omar throw open the trade house door weland hurried to the sleds with ''bo1 Jos." coming You get de fur7 demanded Omar, peering at the sled wrappings. Jim. Heaps of It, Omar!" cried Jlnaw and old Eotalre are bringing the whole hunt of the country with them Christmas. We've got LeBlond licked to a standstill I" When the sleds were unloaded at fed, the trade house door and the dogs the hungry and tired factor of Sunset his House sought his supper. In a over Sarah found busy kitchen he pan of sizzling moose steaks. Jeeml' bo-JMeester Bo'-Jcried the red faced cook, brandishing welcomed a fork in one hnnd as she all 8tunrt with the other, "You home trade, de make beeg You safe? But you 1 head you tell Omar. so thin. Sarah, face de back breeng She feed you up. Then, with a questionblack eyes, ing look of her snapping toward the he asked, as she nodded You see nodlng een living room! wrorg " . the house, Omar at h.s btew. ped gudhappened ? he g Wbat fear a denly cold with V . commanded Lelwon k room, living 07l floor of the large gag bound dull glow hung above the horizon. Iiat ees fire for suie, muttered Omar. I ire! thought Jim. It might be the living quarters, the trade house, too! If so, shed have nothing but the Indian shacks for shelter He would got Hitih our dogs, Omar, I'm going over I" W'y you worree eef dat place hurn'' demanded the half breed. Jim thrust his face close to the almost invisible feature of his friend. Bemuse, he said, shes come back to me my girl! She's there! She may need help; understand? lor answer, a calloused hand fumbled In the dark, found Jims, and I get de dog!" closed In a hard grip. And dinar hurried away. Ten miles of lake trull broken only by the passage of the sled which had carried Aurure to Sunset House luy before Jim and dinar, as they started with the empty sled through the murk of the starless night. There were reaches, where the snow had drifted g as It had fallen, which drove the men ahead to break trail on their snow shoes, while the willing dogs floundered to their shoulders. du went the team toward the glow In the sky across the great lake, and, ns they traveled, Stuart wondered what awaited him at what It was was once Bonne Chinee, early; they couldn't have bien caught In their beds he assured himself. They reached a strait between two of the Islands through which the wind had swept as through a funnel, scouring the Ice of snow. Shortly the post clearing would open up before them and they would know what had happened. to, KoaT Overturned evidence of a struggle. chair Just chum, ma'um.-Huti- for Kssps Skin Yoni an ounoe and use Gt off until lion "M m directed Pm. an defect uehe?rtld,i peel tan and freckle diaepMi ipot. nd velvety. Your faee look miel. out the hidden year nmovo wrinkle uae one beaut Wax Stern Truth What tense Is Teat her beautiful"? Pupils Past. brine diaaolvtid i Ut one-ha- PU&oU bZ Dial witch hnm am Last but Not Least Customer So this U house? Real Estate Agent-Y- es, but Uncle Sam makes people pay, not leased. the money! wastes he bow J(mr , w bore ld ! ! room. behind Trail of dog team from stockade to lak'. He got her w'en (leyhouse! Parafight de fire at trade dees!" Paradis had come for his revenge! In Aurore! Aurore! groaned Jim where his agony. Then he straightened he knelt at the side of the Indian, and the face which met Omar's pitying eves was flint hard with a savage Well trail him, Omar, night and on their feet! day until his dogs die If you get him first, he's mine! Bring him to me alive! He's mine!" "I breeng heem. He weel die slow. I breeng heem. As the hurt Ojlbwa revived under the stimulant, the half crazed LeBlond long dog goad In the biting atr, as' appeared with Renault. called to the lead dog who had taj'1 "We've found bis trail on the lakel the place of the lost Smoke. Shoi headed for tho outlet! Jules and He's a rounded team point the racing are I !t starting now! No one would be an Island and there, a mile away, for this but Paradis'. mad enough fernoof red flames leaped from th said the tortured Paradis," Its Yes, trade-hous- e Louis LeB'oniJ; of ruined lake for two the crossing "Im Jim. with The trade house! cried Jim You cant herel Look teams. six ! dog His quarters are safe relief. hold his tracks In a night l'ke this, dar. those among She was there, he would looF maa. You're worn out. Get some rest, figures, and in minutes start at daylight and wait for me at tn her eyes hear her voice ,,;ed the Nipigon trail. If he hasn't turned exc the ran, Yelping as they Jim Stuart Read and Reread tha the to & south, there, he'll take the Albany, the dogs took the sled up from Letter Until the Words Grew Pipestone, or the Deer Lodge trail Running the clearing. ice Into men and we'll separate and get him. Illegible to HI Blurred Eye. north, W awed Indian of shawled group too Renault nodded. "Dat ees right Wheres LeBlondr Y, cried: to come to him. Her heart was Jim W innl-pet'ing to do." wild to be caged down there In his roving eyes circled the clearing to "lie'll have hours the start of us, to the forests, he sought. she belonged for the familiar figure Jim rose to his feet and squaw pointed to foul LeBlond. A the land of the "long snows. hand on the shoulder of the his rested with on disappoint darkened of flour face turnip His men carrying hags meat as he looked at his watch. It was lines from a heap of salvaged pro other. "But If he's ahead of me, I'll tired his him. If he goes to the Wlnlsk barto gallop too late too late visions to the stockade gate leading get ren grounds! of frozen lake. 1 he miles ten . across house. dogs to I.elilonds Tomorrow LeBlond gripped Jim's hand as he post would be asleep. Following, Stuart overtook the pac who to the am murmured his gratitude. girl house the reached morning he would go as ers they to Then Flore found her voice and, slab porcr had flouted the smooth MacLaureu dedropped their loads on the and fur kneeling beside her, the two drawntrader, her to come back he called. LeBlond!" faced men got her story. When the mand his daughter of LeBlond take At the name, one of the packer? ; for she to cries of fire, outside, drew LeBlond that came It If blacken a force face her by turned, and from from his supper table, Aurore had loved him, loved him. She had said with char, the reddened eyes of Lt watched from a window while she she was his his woman. In the face Blond glared at Jim, be her. Into her heavy moccasins and take They'd he'd slipped here?" LeBlond want of "What dyuh noise married by the missionary at Fort "We saw the light In the sky, re- m 'Will' .yWiL I".i luinr-r-rgv- him again. came t( !n the kitchen, a rush of mocFaiimeu I and unruffled, Hope. Shed never escape plied Jim, SunFor he was a made man, now. offer you my quarters if you needeift fpetj an(3 as Fiore turned to recog-thestartle would headquarters I'm glad that you dont. set House Ynize Paradis, a blow on the head shut at Winnipeg with Its trade. Now, he from the Ojlbwa all knowledge of had more than a heart and empty what followed Aurore! Le-J- s fire to get me out of And the smudged face of hands to give her. Aurore! herl e hlsx Blond tightened with passion as (iien gagged and tied her j,ousei mad Jim A the famished and half red lidded eyes glittered. and carried her to the sled behind the ate hts supper, his eye was enught by "Where Is she?" stockade, groaned the trader. But the dark stuff circling the hovering "In the house You cant see f'er''(,jie fought him she fought him! Look Sarah's thick neck. Then the black brows of LeBlond jg room! What's that you've got around your slowly contracted. He raised a mlt- .Qne nioment, before we start," Jim demanded. dazed neck? he ( tened hand to his face, as If gazed pitilessly Into LeBlond's features of the The copper-huesomething he could not re- grme(j and tortured face. I want for ees srelk You sent him, Ojlbwa lit with pride. "Pat call and looked blankly at Tim. tQ cjear up something. ajlgan she breeng Sarah." On Youre all In, LeBlond. Im sorry ag you 0greC(ji to Nipigon?" dorer your Let A stocking? "What? ..yes, and he never reported there; this happened this loss to you.UU No, what dyuh meant , t neck?" a minute, and In a wide for divided see deserted us." her me ie face flat Sarah's Surah straightened with dignity as d As though he had not heard, I.eyou didn't send him to the : You grin. "You look!" Uv she countered with disdain turned and staggered Into the eon? Curious, Jim walked Into the one tlnk I wear eet on my foot dat ver ' The blood showed In LeBlond's on the table lay house. lng room. There ms as seelk? nice he he called, cheeks as his haggard eyes Aurore Casually Aurore! miudged of hta own envelopes. His pent emotion found release In and the two com- ;littered. he rest 1 Renault, man, head the On envelope tt up. picked of uncontrolled laughter, while Sarah He choked back You accuse me Indians weiif back to their work, hta own name In the handwriting held her ground with sober pany floor. at tlie went I gave you on. Jim stoutly and and Omar Is anger leaving Aurore I.eBlond. Then he appeased her with: at the face. Jim, a3 the voice iy word. I keep my word, Stuart! thought stared Jim Queer!" come mystified, Dazed, "You'll be good to her now she's hand. of I.eBlond shouting his daughter's B deserted us! paper he held In his shaking back to Jim?" name reached them. "Where can she Im glad to hear It I met him at blarit Sarah her until beamed fire The Ojlbwa her be? She must have been at the Strgeon lake In September, The Ojlbwa stood In the room, of eyes were slits In her broad face. t (TO BE CONTINUED face and left. black eyes on the twitching Wen she go, she hug Sarah. She unopened at the the matt, who stared ig5asaBS2S25a5B552SaS2Sa5Z5Bsi2SaSga52Sg52SBSBSB5B5a525g5a geeve her wan beeg kiss on dls place." letter. Anfl Sarah pointed proudly to an exhere? this gvt did How panse of dusky cheek. The Indian shook her head, "That's like her ail heart and Imlook and see, you know den. Sarah would die for her now," pulse. ter leaving two hogsheads of takJim studied the envelope, That butter was used generously in wagon, thought Stuart, as he rose and. Alexandria, arrived her could It mean? What trick were they trade-house- . it tobacco household to the the George Washington She was at ing his cap, went with thro sldea of sole leather and playing ou him now? was started had Omar opening in Washingla In disclosed 1759 Already back handher four of Vl,er leather, two kegs of Winnipeg and yet here own envelopes, the fur packs brought from the north, ton' diary. Irocuring enough butter one of which Tor Colonel Fairwriting on one of hts their fingers ran men butter, and the two was a problem for Washington despite H bushels of salt. Hoard's without address or stamp. and the shimmering pelts, classifythe fact that several hundred cattle fax He turned angrily on the soman through an winmaking and Dairyman. their the primeness this? ing roamed hts pastures. During who waited. - Who brought estimate of thetr value down on thp ter of 1700 he was short ot this necWhat s the Why don't you tell me? Fo! nd Scenic Beauty railroad. They were admiring large and table The eawplatsant smile of the Ojlbwa black fox which for sire, thhknes essary article for cooking a wealth and great vat Possei-slrhe use. On January 7 of this year 8t,ufi wMch of scec beauty, Poland appeals and sheen of Its fur was the prize of Baked : amf"was riety rites her throat Alstrongly to he lover of nature. lito her woolen blouse, drove Jim to the Ittripwillnorth. a thousand In WinniAccompanied Mrs. Bassett to allVS Rre the romantic and bring exandria and engaged a keg of butter the envelope. I never ,m1 the valleys and commented Jim. pen of Omar," rugged out peg, telling him by. good of Mr. Kirkpatrick, being quite Tatra mountains, which be was bidding the of a better one." saw lakes he from learned that article." And the next day Mm what he had already Ah hah! Dat ees good wan Poland rimes with Ozei hoslovakla Then he read: "Got a little butter from Mr. sides of the says: drew Esau the Winnipeg paper. of entrance and which, on both Tha hurried I was -Dalton." On Sunday, January JO, he now studded with tourtn cenJim darling, Ive come back! counter. are at men the of the the otheyes to you. not only retelved more butter, but hurt tried to close my heart were ters possesvflft ofevery modern comfort Do sky look ver' queer 'cross de Listen to this: virgin foil's. The er Hut It was no use, you already supplies. eet watch "I tn the mlds announced. t Ink! he Is a Huntsman's paiafl.se, with there had all of It You Just wouhln countrv for unpiece. so long almost" evet? variety of game, tnctnd be driven out. Oh, I've been Where?" Jim demanded; "south, note. They Poet Should Lead wild boy and hear. happy since leaving thathateful eBlnmt's?" 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Eew and cmplete edition 1 1 Jy V We are sending you a picture of our daughter, Alice Ann writes Mrs. Joel Buttgereit, 132 Arch nn Ah-ha- h , vonrL1,Mm- - 2 house!" be "I've searched the She a imt here , In his desperation. her when th y took They she s gone hound Flore, here' of the blow The brutal swiftness of thought left Jim dazed, Incapable what "Aurore! Aurore!" he groaned, Then to yon? done have they was no time to brain cleared. There act. think must He iose! in the house? You're sure she's not not herel Shes not here! She's father. shattered cried the and stock"Omar circle the house tell your LeBlond, 'tracks! for ade til's woman bring mud We people! Get some to, and get her story. whii-kvQuhk!" Jim' slashed the rawhide thongs OJHwa. re- binding the unconscious whisky moved the gug, and forcing a weak pulse down her throat, got Into the from her wrist as Omar burst hur-rjln- gray-face- h, stuff some MereolizedWa Mate. ame Qnd atdreis plainly |