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Show SdwiR tfalmer-' r BEGIN IIKRF. TODAY. A mile from tho shore of Lake Huron Hur-on was tho mysterious and ghostly Resurrection Rock, symbol of some great vrrorig done In the! pa3t, which now became connected with a supernatural super-natural force In tho mind of ETHfc-L CAIiKW. That mornlnp she came to the home of her grand- father, old j LUCAS CULLEN, SENIOR, who had won millions in violent struggles for timber lands In northern Michigan, She aflked for money to carry u the engineering- projects undertaken by her father before ho had been Wiled Wil-ed In France. BARNEY LOUTRELLE then entered her life. The young army officer had received messages from her fathor during a aoancc. Ho must ko to the Resurrection Rock. He felt that th trip would solv.- tlx; mystery of his obscure parentage and of his rearing by Indians. The news of his presence throws Lucas Cullen Into a fit of rage and lie tries to bribe Ethel to t. II what she. knows of Lputrelle 0 ON WW l 1 in. STORY. CHAPTER V It was fast becoming dark, as tho swift, midwinti-r os.nlnp i l.,rd down With the nlht cum. win. I and in.. .ii tho wind returned tho cold Tl,. ,:a mi. outline of the Rock withdrew t dimmer dim-mer and dimmer .,l.t;in , until Ethel at her window could see it no more. Suddenly a bright dot glowed Ur..uL,-li the darkness a light uoon Reeur-rectlon Reeur-rectlon Rock, a light mellow with distance Illumining a window. BJthel thought It went out as suddenly as It nppoared; then it glowed again urn! oiiee uion- weni iiarK. aim watched steadily for some time longer; but no light appeared again. She heard a soft tap, tap, tap at her door; and she went over and opened it to find tiie collies, Lad and Lass, who had been out with Kincheloe Kin-cheloe When she arrived Tho dogs, wot from the snow melting in their long hair, turned Ethel's thought to -Miss Piatt's husband. Ho had always affected the manners man-ners of a gallant and always before had made it a particular point t he on hand to greet Ethel when she arrived ar-rived at St I'lorentln. She had b D too excited to attribute any sipnlti-cance sipnlti-cance to his absence this time; lnt now the fact stirred disquiet. As he had taken the dogs with him, he probably had been on the lake, for the dogs would not have been able to run except on the Ice where the wind had cleared the snow. Now what had kopt Miss Piatt's lazy, comfort-toying husband oui so iaie mis evening in in- a irn and cold? Every one was at supper when Asa Rcdblrd returned with a telegram tele-gram which like all Cullen business telegrams was In code. Lucas at once left the table and, with Miss Piatt, went into his office to decipher the briof communication communica-tion from his son. When ho returned re-turned to ihi- table, it was bo plain that he had M iting tu v.s thai his wife could not repress her question. "Something has happened in Chicago. Chi-cago. Lucas?" "Nothing" he denied, and he gulped half a cup of tea. hoi Ethel watolnd Kindheloe as Miss Plati returned to her seat. He was trying to o.iteh his wife's glance; but Miss Piatt avoided looking look-ing at him. ' Asa saw several foxes about." she said casually to Ethel; "I suppose sup-pose they're after our chickens." I.iiena wns tnl.-lnc- nnntl,,.r ,m. nf tea. and Ethel was watching his hand reach for the sugar bowl, miss It and reach again. He was drinking when suddenly he dro-.. his cup and Jerked up and away from the table; Klnoheloe and Ethel herBelf started also as the report of a riflo rung, sharp and clear, outside the houso. The gun fir-v! again. MISS Piatt and Ethel's grand mother moth-er alike had revealed no nlarm. "Asa said he would get bis gun," Miss Piatt volunteered quietly, "and come back for the foxes " "Of course," her husband Bald, dropping back Into his seal Lucas remained at the. tablo r.o!y a moment before he proceeded to the front room where, in rec nt years, family prayer was said each evening afcer supper. While BtheJ knelt, listening to her grandfather's voice go on and on, an amazing panic possessed her. She WO feeling tliat tho long, deliberate de-liberate reading and now tho endless supplication was for a purpose other than devotion, and that ourpose was to keep her kneollng in that stuffy room with her face to tho back of a chair, Suddenly she arose and slipped Into the hall where she found her coat and cap and skis. She dww breath, when she opened the oiii. r door, as though she had been Stifling; and she went out upon tho snow In the direction of the lake. She heard her grandfather's voice Shouting after her. but she did not heed it, and ho did not pursue her It WAS ifter eight o'clock and vory COldj with a constant wind blowing off the Ice. Tho Rock lay lost In Obscurity She gazed frequently for the reappearance of the light which xle had wi.n the hour earlier. Its absence filled her with dread. She turned back to St. Florentln and soon heard a shout which she recognized to be Sam Green Sky's voice. When she replied Sam has-tened has-tened up, reporting friendUy: "' 'Id man send mo after you, aw-ml aw-ml mad; old man tell you to come rlghl home and stay there." Ethel found her grandfather to be iwtul mad" indeed; he met her at Hi" door and ordered her to go to h.-r room and to b. d and stay there. What did she mean by going out in the dark to see a stranger whom she had met on the train? She was his granddaughter and at his own house, nnd ho would be obeyed eieven o ciocic when the house-Ihold. house-Ihold. except Kincheloe. had gone to bed. Ethel rebuilt the fire In her stove and sat In a chair by her window win-dow From the room on the other side hi the Wall at her left she could hear Hounds which told her that her grandfather was still restless, she heard him open his door and go out into the hull and come to her door and stand there. He wa.s listening, Bhi knew; but ha probably supposed hi r to be Ul bed and asleep. At r.ny rale, lie moved away and went downstairs down-stairs Jn her stocking feet ehe moved noiselessly across to her door which ihe opened carefully. She crept halfway half-way down the stairs. Something clicked; she recognized that her grandfather was loading a repeating rJ le; and a few iuom-nt later his ui. .1 figure came dimly into view when he halted before ft window. She could see that he was holding his rifle ready but lo-vend, and her iiusKici wi-ui iaui an tnrougu ii-r. if he raised ids rlfl 9 to fir?. 3h: would ru;:i down -jpon bin.. But he did not; he only mov-d from one window to another, looking out; and then he came toward tiie stairs She regained her room without alarming him. and he went back to his room. Close to midnight, sh? male out a man's figure movim; under the tr..s. dogs ftoundered baslde him Lad and Lass undoubtedly So she know the man must Oe Kincheloe, returning. He carried the gun which he had taken to aid Asa in killing the rox; j and as he noared tho house, Ethel heard her grandfather go down-kah down-kah They went together to the "office" and looked themselves In. For a minute Ethel stoo 1 in the cold hall, hold by numbing dread, just as sh' started to descend the scalrs, she heard the office door open and Suddi :ii She Arose .ml Slipped into the Hall. j her grandfather say distinctly. "All right; all right!" They had lit the offije lamp, and the beam of light from the door ihowi .1 Ethel her grandfather stand- lng while Kincheloe went past him toward the kitchan where he turned j on the water. Her grandfather slowly turned about, and the light from the offlco nhono upon his face. Inclined down-' down-' ard a little strained and with muscles mus-cles at the jaw drawn tight. She had only a glimpse before he cropped ! Into the room and turned oiu the light; but, having seen, she gripped ; hard at the stair rail for ai: instant i to steady herse'f before she crept hack Co her room and shut herself ;n to think. ; Kincheloe am" her grandfather were planning some deed some v.rorg m. ret act of vtolunco In no other, vay coul 1 nhc account for wh;.r rh.i? had w. aesaed In that glimpse oi her gra.i.lfntlK i's face Ur. die tl -I'ss. trium.ii. fear. She lie at d a whir.e n( i.r door and the p it d a. dog's pa y nt the panel n I o,.e. 'ng the doo she let in Lad and sirred ids hj.; Something matted the white hair under his nook something which seemed to have frozen and dried there. When she realized this was blood, she set her fingers to feeling for a from whieh it might have l lowed and wlo-n she could find no wound she cTung to Lnd. demanding of him: ' 0 was bhi fox, rid' y0u caught the fox! Lad, tell nu tell me. you caught the fox!" But her own terrors denied her-her her-her own terrors snatched at her heart and ov. rwhelmed her struggles I fl" calm thought. The dried, brown I mat in the dog'a hair was not about his jaws where it must have been had he caught and killed the fox, it wa.s under his nock where it would have come if Lad had sniffed over some one who lay bleeding That deed. secret Hnd violent, which Kincheloe and her grandfather had considered was It already done? What sort of deed? "Ah, J'y etals mousquetalre!" The voice. Barney Loutrell's voice bi emed to float to hor from far away over the snow; and he seemed to see him, when she hhut her oyos ly-bag ly-bag stretched out. with Lad sniffing I oi er him ' Tie jr've done it they've t - r she repeated again anJ again to her-' self, without yet daring to allow any closer defining of "It." But whatever it waa, "It" was done She watted until dawn was spreading spread-ing over tho eastern aky nfore ehc went downstairs, carrying her shoe?; ihe put them on and found hor skis. The dogs roused and danced about her; shf took them out with her and made for the lake. The light had strengthened suf fi-1 ciently to show her the gavint out-' linen of Resurrection Rock, whit and lifeless abo e the lake ice. When she glanc-d back toward St I Florentln, she saw that some one was; following her from her grand father's j house, a man who must be Kincheloe Kinche-loe Suddenly Ethel changed her plan and swung from the direct line toi the shore and cut into the woods to! the little clearing where Asa Red-bird Red-bird lived "I want you to come right away out to the Rock, Asa," .she said. "I'm going there, come after nie quick; as you can. You understand?" She turned away and started di-! rectly for the Rock Kincheloe was i ahead of her now and hurrying, without apparent regard for her and1 without looking bnr-k. (To Bo Continued.) |