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Show PIUTE COUNTY NEWS, JUNCTION, UTAH THi WOMAN WIFE-SHI- P " CHAPTER XI Continued 15 Ills outburst broke the spell. With Hamas crowded In sides. I leaped toward the t- - point I had selected when the circle Crist formed, and bowled over two men and was running toward my cabin where I had left my musket. With the squeal of a cornered rat the murderer attempted to follow me; and he must hare used his knife to some n profit, for I heard a death howl. was yelling for his Choctaws to chase me, but the bulk of them were back at the exit and the others were tardy In taking up the pursuit. As for the Ilumas, they paused to tie Six Fingers' hands behind his hack. By the time they were pounding ufter me I had secured my musket and was at the patch of vines behind the girl's cabin. While the entire mass of Infuriated savages were sweeping down on my cabin I risked calling the girls name. The silence and the failure of Labrador to make an appearance satisfied me they were well on their way to the river. I cautiously worked In behind the vines and found the hole, carcely large enough for my hulk to pass through. Thrusting my feet through I was clear except my, shoulders when the wild mob passed the cabin and surrounded the one I had occupied. The women had snatched burning brands from the. fires, and these Illuminated the scene. Through the mesh of vines I snw Six Fingers being dragged between two warriors; and us the savages came to a linlt I heard him scream : Good lack! This will be death! Flrate and murderer that he was I could not help the wlah that he might find a quick death, rather than to roast slowly on the bed of torture. Utterly had as ha was he was horn an Englishman., and If It had not been for narrowing the girl's chances of escape I should have been tempted to hoot-hibecause once he had been an English lad. The chief's grandson, bolder than the others, rnn forward with ax and torch and thrust tils head Inside the cabin. Turning back he shouted that I was gone. Almost the sume moment Pamoan ran Into the cabin In front of me and yelled to the red men that Labrador and the woman were gone. When he appeared In the torch light he was Insane1 with rage, and catching a glimpse of Six Fingers writhing figure he screeched like a panther and fell upon him us If Intending to tear him to pieces with his bHre hands. I can tell their plans! screamed Fix Fingers .In English ns Damonns fingers began ripping ids face. Tell' them! Tell them! Or I'll ' pick you Joint lYom joint! howled Pamoan, bonding over the craven, his outstretched hands hooked like claws. Save me ! 'Save me !" gasped Six Fingers. "Take me with you. Ill lead , you to them! Speak ! yelled Pamoan. hunching hla shoulder and wriggling his long fingers before the murderers bleed- i . ,ipg faop. They planned for Labrador and the woman to get away while we was .eating V panted Six Fingers. They , planned But now It was purely a question of tfie girls safety and not of this snake's suffering ; and I fired an ounce ball .through his wicked skull, and slipped through the hole and away into the black forest. tusane-howls-t- he from-t- il . By Hugh Pendexter I whispered, It li all trying to hurry her on. We will go to the village. If Damoan did not see me enter the river he will learn from Coprrlfht br Hush Poadoitoe ltll-ltlthe fort that none of us have passed." WNU Brrlc So we walked toward the village, and, the rehearsal being finished, the about to head again he moat Natchez came after ua. But such was have told the girl, for she reappeared their courtesy that they would not pass us; and those who desired to and stretched out both hands to me. We were within three miles of White reach the village quickly swung far Apple, the principal town of the Nat- to one side as If taking an entirely chez, which In turn was within three different course. Labrador was frowning heavily and miles of Fort Rosulle. Let us but get Author of make-believe,- Inside the village and I would have fear of either the French at the fort, or of Damonn and the Choctaws pursuing me. The Natchez were on the eve of war with the French. They were a very haughty people; there would he no subtle evasion of their laws to please Bienville even If the red warriors post did not stand between them. The three of us would have full measure of protection from the Great Sun and Ills brother and war chief, Tattooed Serpent. So my heart was light when I drew up alongside Labradors pirogue and was greeted by his amiable grin and a tremulous handclasp from the girl. They noticed the ubsence of Six Fingers, and both began asking questions. He was shot nnd killed while esif caping from the village, I said, no BAYER ASPIRIN AUTO CARAVAN Will BE FETED PROVED SAFE Take without Fear as Told CHAMBER OF COMMERCE EVOLV. ING ENTERTAINMENT FOR WESTERN STATES in Bayer Package Leadership In The Organization of the Caravan In California Will be Taken by the Automobile Association of Nevada Salt Lake City. Plans for the entertainment in Salt Lake of the Victory Highway Caravan, which is scheduled to reach the city in June, In Choctaw said : are progressing, although complete deFriend ; there was no tails have not yet been worked out nor any medicine man among those to by the chamber of commerce commitbe sacrificed. The dead must be a tee In charge of arrangements, George Unless you see the Bayer Cross" woman. The three old women were J. Martin is chairman of this commitin her kinswomen. The two men were package or on tablets you are not tee. the genuine Bayer Aspirin her servants. If It was La Glorleuse getting from to advices received According safe there would be many more servants. proved by millions and prescribed San Francisco, invitations to all of by physicians over twenty-fivyears for lie named a woman of noble rank, the commercial and civic organizacalled "The Proud by the French beColds Headache tions, firms and individuals who have cause of her aristocratic bearing, her Neuritis Lumbago contributed to the fund, which made contempt for commoners, and her Toothache Rheumatism possible the construction of the Wend-oveof any Frenchman unlfcss he Neuralgia Pain, Pain cutoff and the Improvement of possessed rank. It was known that to in the Nevada, Victory highway Each unbroken Bayer package conTattooed Serpent wa- - enamored of participate in the motor caravan, tains proven directions. Handy boxes both nobles hut her, being marriage which will travel from San Francisco of twelve tablets cost few cents. Drugbetween them was Impossible. No; the to Salt Lake ear.Vy in June were issued gists also sell bottles of 24 and 100. funeral procession was scarcely worby Frederick H. Meyer, president of thy ot a woman who enjoyed the favor the Highway Smokeless ' Soft Coal of Olabnlkehlche, head war chief, as association. is being tried out to Invention An well as a brother of the Great Sun. At the same time it was announced make soft coal burn without Is emitting I said. La not "It Glorleuse, that organization of the caravan which any considerable of smoke. It. quantity Labrudor sighed. will celebrate the Improvement of the By first thoroughly wetting the coal, He must prove himself worthy of darnel Ah, that grande Why Victory Highway and the completion even of the cheapest grade, and then couldn't It be her!" mating with a noble, a sister of the of the Truckee River highway project burning It under a forced draught, It "That Is queer talk, I rebuked. Proud One. had been placed In the hands of Cal- is said much of the smoke is elimiHow has the Proud One ever harmed I promptly assured ifornia State Automobile association. "Undoubtedly, nated. The coal thus burned is said him, frantic to get outside and have you ? in the organization of to be more efficient as the smoke rep"It Is I who harmed her as she a talk with Labrador and agree upon theLeadership caravan in California will be tak- resents a waste of carbon. More air She some plan for Immediate flight thinks. I married her sister. en the automobile association at helps combusion. by I managed to close the Interview never forgave her sister for marrying of W. A. Goodwin of the Invitation without pome and beneath her. Never forgave for sacrificing ceremony Lovelocks, Nevada, president of the liteness and hastened to find my looking so high Overland Trail club, who originated ALLENS FOOT-EAS- E friends. I of When to came the a collection We entered the village, edge will which caravan idea of the the For Tired Foot It Cant Bo Boot of square huts made of timbers plas- the village my roving gase halted on of the new motor mark the opening At night when your feet a scene. on dramatic sat a Labrador tered with mud, moss and sand, with are tired, sore and swollen era for Utah, Nevada and Calithe roofs of reeds and grass, woven so log tearing at his long hair while La tourist (from much walking or fornia. Glorleuse f and mademoiselle faced weather-prooas to be dancing, sprinkle two S. Forderer, director of the George each In powders both French. other, declaiming were much different Natchez The In the gently State Automobile association, who acI heard La Glorleuse jeering; sore from any Indian tribe I ever encounand inrub the behalf on invitation Goodwins cepted "He was unworthy to marry a Natflamed parts and tered, or heard of. The practice of hu- chez relief is like magic. woman; yet you take him for a of the association, named C. C. Cotman sacrifices on the death of the Shake AHen of the associations husband." manager trell, civof Into your shoes in elect smacked ancient Eastern to undertake the Is not my husband I He bureau, cried highways the morning and ilizations; and the worship f the sun mademoiselle. "Mon DIeu What a active work of organizing the caravan walk in comlort. It reminded one of the stores brought takes the trictlon detailed and terrible do arrangements. creature are! making you Why back from Central and siuth Amerfrom the shoe. Sold everywhere. For FREE In inviting the donors of money to talk to me? I would be alone. e Walking Doll, Sample and a ica. And yet their larfcuage was you in Have you no corn to pound; no man's the $75,000 fund, which was raised address, ALLEN'S le Roy, N. T. linked up with the dlahjcts of the and central California for work to do? northern Choctaws, Chlckasaws anil Creeks. You will soon be alone so far as improvement of the Victory highway, so I accosted au "ancient warrior this French runaway Is to be countto take part in the caravan. Meyer called to distinguish him fom young ed, hissed1 the Proud One, throwing said that it would give them an opiJon't ignore the danger Birni warflors and "apprentice warriors, of aching eyes. red lids, bloc to see first hand just what up her head and stalking away. portunity hot syshUJ. Mitchell and referring to skill rather than to Lyo Salve removes irritaI with their tion, been accomplished forward. Labrador had stepped reduces inflammation, age hnd asked If I coulfi secure an groaned. aoothes pain. money. Delegations from the various A RTTCXEL HALL audience with the Grent Sfin. He told You know who the dead woman 17 Waver ly PI., New York county boards of supervisors and the me nie Great Sun was absent InspectIs?" I asked him In Choctaw. section commerce in this E&i chambers of JLKJllLJ ing the temple and sacred fire In a The furious one has told me. Mon of the state have also been invited to He I believed neighboring village. Dieu She says they wait for me to take part in the celebration. STOMACH TROUBLES could see Tattooed Serpent, however. paint my hair and be strangled by leave. Greens August Flower quickly I told Labrador to take the girl to four men at each end of the rope!" Reform School Problem Faced is a stomachic corrective, has been wait while and of the the edge village "Speak In Franch, and be careful, Ogden. Judges of the juvenile used for 00 years and has given reI paid our respects to my old acI warned, observing that mademoiselle courts of the First to Fifth judicial lief to thousands suffering with indiquaintance, the war chief. She was was about to break bounds, her taste gestion, dyspepsia, constipation, etc. of the state have been districts At all druggists. 30c and 90c. glad to do this; nor did Labrador re- for battle whetted by her talk with If to a meeting Wednesday, April you cannot get it, write gret escaping an audience with the the Natchez woman. In French I recommiscourt with Juvenile the G. 14, G. GREEN, INC., Woodbury, N. J. great chief, whose mistress sister he marked : There Is to be a funeral tomorrow. sion, the board of trustees and Superhad married and deserted. E. J. Milne of the Utah In Imitation I went to the cabin next to the I think we better start away before intendent school. The meeting Industrial State us Let then. aside Mr. Lisle My dear, I have a splitand talk It go temple and Informed an aged man, will be held at the school beginning at ting headache. Can that I over. the Serpents you manage to We our shifted position to the 12:30 oclock In the afternoon. The get rid of these people? wished to see the chief. He disaphas which conference of the purpose Mrs. Lisle I cant very well show peared through the low doorway and shade of some trees. The Natchez been called by superintendent Milne them the door. very soon returned and motioned for were watching us furtively. They had witnessed the scene between the two is to consider some means whereby me to enter. Certainly not; but you can show of justice may be satisfied yourself at the piano! As the door furnished the only light, women, and they were curious, of the ends among juvenile delinquents without nnd as the room was thirty feet course. They also knew that Labrareturn was likely to lend new In- commitment to the industrial school Afore Difficult square, I could not make out the In- dors In such large numbers. The problem left my eyes. terest to the funeral. I felt no conterior until the Binks Did you ever try to climb a Then I saw the Serpent and La cern for my personal safety; nor did will be considered from both an econ- greased pole? Glorleuse, The Proud." As I entered the matter of the girls escape press omical and social standpoint. SuperinJinks No, but to stick to. tendent Milne points out that if the good resolutions. Ive tried she swept by me with barely a flicker for my Immediate attention. LabraEnCincinnati dors predicament, however, demanded number of inmates at the institution of recognition In her cold face. quirer. action. comto additional continues increase came forward and cordially-greete- prompt In Choctaw I told him: panies of boys must be formed, and me, finding me a stool while They do not intend that you snail the girls department also must be he seated himself on the edge of his increased. This, he shows, cannot be He clapped his hands, and a escape. bed. Before he could reply the girl pasdone under the biennial budget of the servant brought a pipe, which the chief lighted for me to smoke cere- sionately broke in with : "If I am to school. At present there are 11C be treated as a child I will withdraw. boys and thirty-thremoniously. After lie had done likegirls at the inI was taught it was not courteous to stitution. said he wise, ' Bfli wasted to "The Proud One Is grieving for the converse in an unknown tongue before a skeleton, ready to friend." a dead woman. She was the Iroud One's cash in. Tanlae Indians to Have Game Farm Taking a sudden resolve, I told her: built me up. quickly sister. Moscow, Idaho. Information has You speak with much sense. You A year ago diphtheof the Had the wild come from reservathe Indian Lapwai ria ran me down. Choctaw's filled the cabin I could not are not a child. I will not keep It Tanlae again cams tion, south of here, that State Game have been taken more by surprise. from you. The ancient custom of the Warden R. E. Thomas announces his to the rescue. Im demands Natchez that when a noble Outside was La Then came dismay. strong and vigorous department will establish a game farm dies the surviving husband or wife now. Miss Clare on counin Nez the Perce reservation, shall die during the funeral ceremony. 1303 So. Jepsen, Our friend was the husband of the ty. A. M. Rose, superintendent ol ISth St. s Burlingof the construction woman who is to be buried tomorrow. highway bureau, ton, Iowa English Nye The dead woman was the sister of will start erecting necessary buildings After a spell of Grippe or flu, I.a Glorieuse, the woman you had soon. Chinese pheasants will be propwhen your system is all run down on farm. the The de with. words game agated So tickled were the officials at and your legs are so weak they can Ciel! What a horrible people! I partment, on the reservation, and the Washington with this letter that they hardly hold up your body, start published It far and wide. To Xyes felt It In the air. That procession of. farm will be established on this land right in taking Tanlae. for the enterprisce in being Mon Dieu Money It's wonderful how soon you huge delight an English paper edi- painted men and women really do improve! Tanlae sails torially commented In shocked amaze- Poor Monsieur Labrador! Behold the ' furnished by the Nez Perce countj ment on the ways of American postHide yoursportsmen, and the state department right in and puts the system in Fly forest, monsieur. will operate the farm. Sportsmen in fighting trim. It cleans the blood, masters. self! Now! Yoila tout!" recital izes the digestive organs, And she stamped a small moccasin this section of the state hope to in gives you an appetite for solid food and crease for number the of him to and imperiously gestured pheasants and makes you feel like a new Wouldnt Bear Out Theory run. develop better hunting. person. a head-oMademoiselle forgets it would ne collision Theoretically, Nothing will turn the trick quite between two freely moving bodies of hard for our friend to hide from the San Francisco Celebrates Rebuilding as fast ns Tanlae, made after the the same weight and type would re- savages except In the night. We must famous Tanlae formula from roots, San Francisco, Calif. San Francis sult In an equal shock to both, re- plan cunningly and not be impatient, barks and herbs. Buy a bottle toco observed the twentieth anniversary gardless of their speeds. The forces I told her. There Is plenty of time. of the most memorable event in the day and get started back to full of Impact act equally on both bodies, Perhaps seme time during the day. If and vigor. Take Tanlae strength and In the case of two automobiles not, then during the night. There Is city's history, the earthquake and fire Vegetable Pills for constipation. of April IS. 1906. Celebration of the would tend to throw all occupants no danger for you, or me. even, and rejoicing over the city tha! forward in their respective cars with I was thinking only of him." she from the smoulder spring, phenix-like- , equal violence. However, in an actual dully replied. ing ruins, began last night in the civi collision between autos involving (TO BE CONTINUED.) auditorium when thousands of soutl speeds as high as 50 miles per hour, follows the first comforting touch of of Market street boys and girls gath so many unevaluated factors would Use But Few Words to ered live over in enter that it is probable that results again songs Britisli experts have found through dances and speeches, the heroic refu would seldom, if eer. be ea t'y as investigation that about half the dailj gee days" that followed the disaster. expected from the Ideal theoretical conversation of the average person In ca I wolves the use of but 43 words. word-beare- r, Does not affect the Heart absent-mindedl- e r ! f. AIAEN'SFOOT-EAS- loot-bat- E h, Foot-Ea- I Foot-Eas- FOOT-EAS- EYES HU About to Head Upstream Again He Must Have Told the Girl, for She Reappeared and Stretched Out Her Hands As He Swung His Pirogue to Me. s 1 n ! 1 Delicious Humor of h ' " lt he had obeyed orders he could have escaped with me. The girls face was sober at hearing . such violent news, and yet I fancied there was relief In her bearing. We dragged the canoes under some bushes, and, being In familiar country, took the shortest cut to White Apple sometimes called White Earth. When we had all but come to the village we heard a peculiar howl, which startled Lnbrador and me because we knew what It meant, and which frightened the girl because she , i. could Imagine It to mean almost any.CHAPTER XII thing unwholesome. I motioned for Labrador to make a detour, but beThe Proud Ones Sitter Dies. fore we knew It we were through the I' led the chase that night toward bushes nnd In an opening close to the ... $he east; and so long ns I traveled In that direction took pains occasional- village, and the girl was staring with wide eyes at the strange scene. Some ly to betray iny position. This procedure gave the girl and Labrador of the Natchez were Irehearsing for a funeral ceremony. whispered as more time to escape, for I knew much to her. nnd she became quiet and wuld.hend every endeavor to overtake 'me. Toward morning I curlonsly watched the peculiar proswung hack In n vide circle, planning ceedings. There wore five victims, three womto $txlke , the Mississippi near the en and two men, and forty execuTunica at the village upper end of the , ' ''FbHii.ce of the Gross. There I was tioners, the grim office being eagerly sure to find a canoe in which to push sought because It ennobled. All the executioners hud their hands minted on after my friends. That night I skirted the Tunicn vll-- red and had red feathers thrust Ia& and stole some corn from an out- - through the long braids of hair hangdown the left side of the head. lying village and was fortunate enough ing five victims had their hair mintThe to find a. small canoe containing a tish no net made of linden bark fiber and some ed red. The girl saw no significance "lines equipped vi;h hooks and fish- in the red hands, the red hair, the bone. I made excellent progress that night, nor did I o!mtw anything to indicate my foes had discovered my r return to 'the river. It was Hot until I reached the cliffs and "as reconnitering the ...,,.f Natchez On the seventy-fiftanniversary of mouth of Little rier that I made two a tablet, a memorial Bill birth, Nyes discoveries one brought Important great Joy, the other impelled me to window and a granite monument were at Fletcher, near Asheville, ,'.e '.paddle, with desperate haste info the unveiled tributary. Ahead of me. some dis- showing his quaint humor and lovable tance up Little river, was a pirogue personality have not bqen forgotten. containing two persons. One of the At one time he served as postmasqouplejlooked like a boy and was not ter at Laramie, Wyo., an appointment ,, splng f paddle. In the next moment which incidentally brought forth his I liad glimpsed a long drogue turning famous letter addressed to President bend of the1 Mg river below me. It Arthur and containing his resignation. In the letter he directed the Presiheld at least a dozen Indians nnd their six-fopaddles were flashing dent where to find everything, explainrapidly. I did not believe I had been ing that the postal cards lie had read 1 was disappearing Into the were carefully pigeonholed apart from eeeir tributary when this strange craft the unread ones. He continued: If Deacon Hayford does not pay up his showed Its nose around the bend. The canoe ahead now discovered me box rent you might as well put his let'n& th slim figure vanished by drop-p- . ters In the general delivery, and when ping flat. and the other abandoned the Bob Head gets drunk and insists on a a musket I waved letter from one of his wives every (. paddle. t pick, up cap and Labrador turned about day In the week, you can salute him r"" Ante fidgeti "paddling to meet me. 1 through the box delivery window with L, violently, gestured for him to go back, an old Queen Anne tomahawk that , end in pautsmjme announced the peril you will find near the Etruscan water behind me. A fie swung his pirogue pail. usl her. Kings of the Missouri" "Pay Gravel" "A Virginia Scout," etc. v ' rope and red ax, but the gestures of the man with the weapon frightened Glorleuse, who had been demeaned when her slater bad married a title-lea- s Frenchman; and ontstde was simple Joe Labrador and the dainty French glrL What a clash of eyes there would be should red meet white, and the red behold her dead sister's careless spouse daring to return to White Apple in company with a whits woman. It Is many moons since the White the Serpent reIndian was here, marked, eyeing me sharply. Olabalkeblche, I should have waited until I could bring gifts for the Great Sun and his brother, but Choctaw dogs have chased me up the river, and I come here to be among friends. The Choctaws hunt ao far as this?" he cried, his hand closing on n big war-ax- , a gift from the French. The man known as Damoan the Fox leads them, I replied. "He may come now. The whole Choctaw nation cannot harm you here. My white brother Is safe. There Is a white woman with me, neither English nor French, but kin to the English. I am taking her to the English towDs far In the east, beyond the country of the Cherokees." It Is well, he said "She will be safe here. Now came the hardest portion of my task. I said: "And there Is a white man with me, a Frenchman, but my brother. He Is Labrador. The Serpents form elongated although he did not move from the bed, and his head swung back and forth nervously. Your friend took a Natchez woman as hla wife," he softly Informed me. "That woman is dead." "He will be heavy of heart to learn ! sum-none- word-beare- r, sun-glar- e d e : war-whoo- p , Fooled ! 1 n ! ! Sick bodies made strong |