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Show I' 5 I The British Kings Mounted Jfi I 9 Poice Take Part in an Igloo vlL llsBt I Melodrama oi Love, Murder f I R and Revenge, and There En- Lrf ' I Sergt. Douglas found OuangAvr.Ic and the wife'of Angalwoakyousk after a hunt of 800 miles. The outlaw emerged from his igloo and greeted his captor pleasantly' j By EEECE H. HAGUE. 85 j (Lc Pat, Manitoba Canada.') Uliisfroit d by Charles Sarka. tt FUSTICE mourns on the Arctic Circle Tho law QlJ of the white man has lost its majesty among Hv the snows. Tbe fame and terror of the South has diminished among the bergs and drifts of the H ice pack. This is a misfortune which has fol- lowed upon a magnificent enterprise that failed, B an enterprise which was to have demonstrated, in the lands on Hudson Day, the sternness and K certainty with which the Great White King pun- " ishes those Eskimos who violate his edicts. There was to have been a murder trial in the Hj- Far North; a solemn troupe of Judge, lawyers Km and bailiffs come from Ottawa to the shores of H9 the Arctic Bay; in a northern shack a formal H3 court proceeding conducted with Britannic ccr- BM emonies; a native killer condemned in the pres- Hgfl ence of his assembled tribesmen; an iruprssive hanging, such as would not be forgotten as long El as the sun l bines at midnight. This conception Rt9 has been formulated by a process of mingled B8 logic and inspiration as tbe close of an episode fl that is at tbe same time a prodigious adventure and a hyperborean love story. Ha long the rhores of Lake Skekoligyouk. which lies to the west and north of Hudson Bay, are Bg9 tbe lands of the Padlemuits who fish, hunt seals E3 and live in igloos, and arc peaceful and honor- Hl able Eskimos. Among tbe Padlemuits there HeFja dwelled not long ago the youth Ouangwak. a strong, squat fellow, swart of face and lank of Hl hair, and, as it proves, of evil disposition. The Exal time came for Ouangwak to select a bride An- other tribesman. Angalwoakyousk, bad ;. wife Hew wide bodied and flat faced, but a comely wench, in the eyes of the North. Now Ouangwak f'il in love with the wife of Angalwoakyousk. Such a complexity might have been a difficult one In any climate; among the Eskimos it was no matter of light romance. In a more temper ate laud Ouangwak would have made his court to the wife of Angalwoakyousk, and might havo induced her formally to break marriage with the inconvenient bU3band but divorce Is an undiscovered un-discovered institution among the Eskimos. Or ho might have persuaded her to elope with htm, sans any legal rites, and they would have voyaged voy-aged in illicit honeymoon to tbe Italian Riviera, or the next big town to theirs but an Eskimo husband would follow and have his justice in blood. So Ouangwak brooded, finding bis career in love hemmed in by hard restrictions. Ho could find no solution, save one. On a morning be too his rifle and went to tbe igloo of Angalwoakyousk The husband lay asleep. Ouangwak aimed carefully and shot him dead. In a neighboring igloo slumbered Angal-weakyousk's Angal-weakyousk's brother, an able-bodied fellow who would be bound to vengeance. Ouangwak stole to his side and killed him also Then he confronted con-fronted the alarmed tribesmen, and. shaking hi3 rifle, demanded whether any one had a complaint com-plaint to make. There was silence. Ouangwak loaded Angalwoakyouck's wife on a dog sled, stowed a simply of food beside her, and fled to the barren lands. This was a deed that might have occurred at tho equator. It was in such a way that King Agamemnon fell slaughtered, and the royal father of Hamlet With all these illustrious precedents, prec-edents, though, hard troubles promised for Ouangwak. He would wander an outcast, and tbe Eskimos would finally destroy him, not by any stroke of violent justice, but by the simple expedient of destroying bis food caches. The 'Woman he had stolen would perish with hira. But here the hand of the white man interfered with the law of the North. At Chesterfield Inlet, an arm of Hudson Bay, 200 miles from Lae Skekoligyouk. was a post of the Canadian Royal Mounted Police in charge of Sergt Douglas, a veteran of tho Northern ser vice, a familiar of the tribal dialects, and a formidable for-midable hero amonc; the Eskimos. In December of 1913 the news came to him of Ouangwak's crime, and, since it was his task to arrest evildoers, evil-doers, he hitched up his dog sled and set out iu chase of tho bad man. After a hunt over S00 miles he came upon Ouangwak and the wife of Angalwoakyousk. At the approach of tho Sergeant's Ser-geant's sled, the outlaw emerged from his igloo and be smiled. When commanded to accompany accom-pany Douglas south he did not understand why, but the white men had peculiar way's, and ho acquiesced pleasantly. The Sergeant, Ouangwak and Angalwoak-yousk's Angalwoak-yousk's wife sledded through wind and snow to Chesterfield Inlet There the woman grew ill. Douglas, continuing southward, left her behind. She had been entirely passive in Ouangwak's deed. He had killed her husband and taken her, therefore she belonged to him. Captor and prisoner pris-oner made r. long and adventurous dash to a point ou the railroad line and caught tho train running even fortnight between Le Pas and Mile 214. In May, 1920. they finally arrived at Lc Pas, where Ouangwak was placed in the local jail. What should bo done, with him? He seemed not a bad fellow. He smiled continually, con-tinually, showing his gleaming white teeth. He was pleased with his prison quarters. They were palatial beside the igloos of the Arctic. He smoked innumerable cigarettes and cigars, and when they tocA him to a moving picture show he gurgled with delight. They gave him a washbowl wash-bowl of water and a towel. He drank the water and wrapped the towel around bis neck. After a few days In Le Pas, Ouangwak was removed re-moved to the prison in the large town of Dauphin, and finally down to Ottawa and Montreal. Tho prison cells Le occupied became more comfortable, comfort-able, the buddings he saw became larger, and there were automobiles, trolley cars and other lncredfbles. Ouangwak fancied himself con ducted on a repal tour through a country of undreamed un-dreamed wonders, and seemingly never arrived at any compi ehpnslon of the real meaning of his journeying1'. Meanwhile there was much debate about his fate. It had been intended at first to try and condemn him at Dauphin; witnesses, though, would be difficult to transport. Then it was decided de-cided to send him back to Chesterfield Inlet, together to-gether with a Judge's party, and try him there. It was in this project that a great vision lay. The Eskimos needed a spectacular objectiflca tion of the terror of the white man's law. Ouangwak Ouang-wak would furnish this. He, could be judged and hanged in a grandiose ceremony that would powerfully pow-erfully inculcate virtue over the frozen waste of the North So Sergt Douglas took the still smiling smil-ing Ouangwak back to Chesterfield Inlet. The Eskimo was set to work looking after the police barracks, while Douglas awaited the arrival of the Judge's party. The neighboring Eskimos were amazed When Sergt. Douglas had gone southward with the murderer th-y bad fancied that some unknown but particularly terrible death would quickly be meted out to Ouangwak. But now he had returned re-turned among them, smiling and tellins them how tbe white men had given him a wondrous and pleasant excursion One of the mot important men in the region of rhcFterfiild Inlet is the missionary priest. Father Tourqueiil. who is regarded by the Eskimos Es-kimos as a great sage and magician. He explained ex-plained to them endlessly that Ouangwak's famous travels had been but the prelude to death with public ceremonies. The natives replied re-plied stubbornly that they could not understand why tbe miscreant had been allowed to live, let alone allowed to return among them. But their deep interest in Ouangwak made it evident that "his trial and death would work B great effect on tho hyperborean public mind. There would be a great gathering of fur-draped men when the case was called in the big log shack at Chesterfield Inlet. There would be choruses of znints and exclamations at the wigs fl and robes of the eourt, at the majestic and tend- it ble questions and pronouncements of the attor- 1 neys and Judges. And then there would be a j. rand occasion when the presumably still smil- H Sng Ouangwak would be led to the gallows. These things, however, were not to happen One morninc: in January, 1921 before the Judge's party had arrived Sergt Douglas woke up to find jJH his prisoner vanished, and with him a dog team H and ;i ntmntity of police equipment. He had seemed jH unfailingly pleased with his captivity, and it was not to be suspected that the smiling fellow would try to run away. Had some brother Eskimo contrived to convey the painful understanding t him of what awaited him? Or had he been dis-to dis-to him of what awaited bim? Or bad he been dis-pleased dis-pleased at having had to work around the police barracks when he had grown accustomed to the restful quiet of prison cells? Whatever tbe an-swer, an-swer, attempts to capture him failed It was the fo'lowing May before the news of Ouangwak's escape reached Le Pas. brought by a traveller. He said that there was much con : ternation among tho Eskimos over the mur-derer's mur-derer's flipht. They would probably hunt down and kill the outlaw Meanwhile they bad grown scornful of the justice of the Great White King Of what sense was tbe interference of the white men in Far Northern affairs? They had not been -H able to kill even a lone murderer Why not drive them away? tH These reports broucrht serious misgivings Tf lH there were an Eskimo insurrection in the Chester-field Chester-field Tnlet district it would begin with the mas- fl sacre of tbe few white men living fn the region. IH Such a possibility made a formidable climax to IH tbe career in misdoing of Ouangwak. a strange KH result of an Eskimo love story. IH Recently the report has come that tbe dog IH that Ouangwak bad stolen when he fled had been lil found wandering in the barren lands, and the r'iLl further rumor that the outlaw bad been caught by a party of tribesmen and speared through the I heart. Ili So the Eskimos had executed their own ven- I geance. Meanwhile Father Tourquetil is trying f H to restore their respect for the white man'f f H iustlce. Lj H |