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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH The Flams peeled logs, with more windows in it than a cautious man would have had, and with a huge chimney of clay and stone at the end. It was a home of beauty and comfort and luxury, as those things were measured on the frontier, and the best that Henri Bulain could build. Catherines love for this home was next to her love for Henri and her boy. Close about the cabin was her own domain her flowers, her gardens of shrubs, her bird houses built of chestnut bark, her box IT Abraha James Oliver fi Curwood Irwin Mystd Btf Dculffd&g iwwKaugjii Powv viCft.lftC. CHAPTER I With his English wife son. Catherine, and twelve-year-ol- d "Jeems," Henri Bulain, French settlei In Canada in 174!). cultivates a fertili farm, adjacent to the Tonteur seign-eurie- . As the story opens the Bulain family is on its way home from a visit to the Tonteurs. Catherine's wandering brother, Hepsibah. meets them. long-barrele- d well-tille- d CHAPTER U Hepsibah, as is hit custom, has brought presents for hit To Jeetns ht sister and her family gives a splendid piece of crimson Isvel-to vet. laughingly telling the boy it be a present from Jeems to Toinett Tonteur, small daughter of the sei gneur Hepsibah also gives Jeems Ina pistol, bidding h'tn perfect himself for the people of the marksmanship, frontier are constantly in fear of raid, by Indian war parties, allies of th English. CHAPTER I. Continued. Of this same thing Jeems ESabiSh thinking as he walked ahead of his fhther and mother. His mind, at pres ent, was busy with the stress of fight Ing. Mentally, and physically la a way, he was experiencing the thrill of sanguinary battle. Half a dozen times since beginning the long climb over Tonteurs hill he had choked and beaten Paul Tnche. and in every moment of these mental triumphs Marie Antoinette looked on with wonder and horror as he pitilessly assailed and vanquished her handsome young cousin from the big city of Quebec. Even in the heat of these vivid imaginings. .Teems was sick at heart, and it was ttie shadow of this sickness which Odd caught when he looked up into his masters eyes. From the day Jeems had first seen Marie Antoinette, when she was seven and he was nine, he had dreamed of her. and had anticipated through weeks and months the Journeys which his father permitted him to make with him to Tonteur manor. On these rare occasions he had gazed with childish adoration at the little princess of the seigneurie and had made her presents of flowers and feathers and nuts and maple sugar, and queer treasures which he brought from the forests. These tokens of i.is homage had never served to build a bridge across the abyss which lay between them. He had stood this hurt and still kept Marie Antoinette in his thoughts, for there was no otner child to help fill her place. But since last autumn, when Madume Tonteurs sister and her son Paul had come to the seigneurie, his dreams had grown more clouded until, on this Thursday afternoon. they were replaced hy grim and merciless visions of a future vengeance on the young man who laughed at him and humiliated him. and who, without any grace whatever that he could see, basked warmly In the smiles and graciousness of Marie Antoinettes favor He was glad when his mother and father paused to rest on the edge of a great rock near the trail, for this interval gave him opportunity to go nu alone, and when he was alone he could tear and thrash Toinette's cousin in a much more admirable way than when the others were tramping close at his heels. Suddenly Odd stopped so that his gaunt body made a barrier against Jeems knees. They stood at the edge open among the of a chestnut trees. It was a hundred playground yards across this of the wild, and on the far side of it, concealed In the hushes, Jeems kne.v there was game of some kind. He dropped to the earth and drew himself behind the decaying mass of a monster log that bad fallen a hundred years before. Odd crouched at his side with his muzzle level with the - top of the log. Thus a minute passed, and after that another, and more on top of them, yet Odd gave no sign of discouragement, nor did Jeems. lie watched the far side of the clearing on a line its straight as a die with the pointing of Odds nose. Another minute of this rustling stillness, and a magnificent turkey cock strutted majestically out into the sun. He weighed twenty pounds if an ounce, thought Jeems, a proud and immaculate bird, defying all the world in the empty open.. In this moment Jeems thought ami in of Paul Taclie, for the Quebec boy was like this turkey cock, always flaunting his clothes and himself with the importance . -- flower-strew- n sun-fille- d dis-por- word at last. Jeems was tugging at the hand of ids roving vagabond of an uncle, who was his greatest hero in all the world, and dragged him back to get his gun. As they went, the happiness in Catherines face was clouded for an instant Best keep good eyes on our Jeems for a time, Henri, she warned. Hepsibah, you know very well, is a singuand thoughtless larly improvident man, overfilled with foolish tricks and contrivances most alluring to boyish minds, and of which, because of Jeems, I am a bit afraid. But Henri only chuckled, for the thought was in his mind that it was a fattening of ones good fortune to be one-lia- lf blood-curdlin- t'' YOUR ! trees, hedges among the thlnned-ou- t with pretty paths edged with whitewashed stones winding in and out among them. Running up to the borders of these gardens were Henris work fields, beginning first, because of Catherines artistic eye, with the gentler growths of husbandry carefully groomed and Slowly Jeems withdrew the plotted soil for herbs and vegetables; gun from the top of the log and beyond lay the broader fields for and tautened the string of his bow. heavier grains and foods, ten acres of He waited until the big bird stood less land in all, ending up than eighty yards away. An inch at a the hard maple wood out of against on and his knees, time he rose higher which, in the preceding month of April, Henri had taken his years supply of fifty gallons of maple sirup and taught tricks by a man like Hepsibah four times as many pounds of sugar. These precious possessions the four Adams. Then Catherine saw that a film of saw as they came down the green smoke was rising from the top of the of them would slope, and not Catherine have exchanged for all of big stone chimney. Hepsibah has already started a Madame Tonteurs riches. she said. fire, Catherine was smiling at her huswas It the aliveness of this fireplace band, and in Henris eyes was an anwhich had drawn the expression of swering light of happiness, when out of the peace and beauty which lay surprise and pleasure from Catherine that and the aroma of cooking things about their home rose a piercing and which greeted them. Since Catherines cry a cry which seemed to stop every sound that was in the earliest memories, her brother had boasted of his excellence as a cook, air, a cry of monstrous depth and vastand most assuredly he had been busy ness, and with that cry a wild figure since his unexpected arrival. Half a came toward them from Its hiding dozen chains were dropped from their place. In the greening shrubbery of bolts in r of the the thick oak Catherines gardqn. seven feet above the fire, and fireplace With a lurch of his shoulder, Henri from the pothooks at the end of these sent the bag of com to the ground, chains were suspended as many pots while ahead of him Jeems swung his and kettles, and boiling and long gun into the crook of his arm giving forth asteaming cheerful sound of dancand Odd stiffened and let out a sullen which the bublids ing pewter against growl. The scraggy and mysterious bling water was playing an animated figure advanced up the slope, and and But to Henri, melody. pleasing Jeems had looked to his flint and primwho always loved the sound of these ing and stood with a ready thumb on busy pots with their lively cheer and hammer of his weapon when from the And Odds Body Grew Stiffer With promise of supper, a still more delecther husband and her boy Cathbehind Movement. able thing was the great roast of veniHis erine gave first a startled gasp, then son which Hepsibah had hung before a little scream, and sped past her proOdds body' grew stiffer with his movethe fire. tectors to meet the advancing stranger A choking sound came from ment. tlife dogs throat as the long bow was with open arms. Doesnt Know When Well Off bent. The twang of the string was Its Hepsibah ! she cried. Its Queer man Place him where he like the ring of a steel tuning fork, Hepsibah has no installment payments, no taxes, and across the open sped a grayish no loss on stocks, and still he s.aws the flash. There followed a mellow sound, CHAPTER II bars to get out. Buffalo Evening a great commotion, a leaping of gorNews. geous color higli into the air. Paul The stirring words had scarcely 4 down the and cock, ,was Tache, turkey fallen from his mother's lips when Thrill Is Lacking dying. .Teems laid his gun on the ground and A moment later, Jeems and Odd ran after her, hut with all his haste Nothing connected with the care of stood looking down on the turkey cock, site was in her brother's arms before a motor car gives one the same spiritand gladness ienpt once more into th he could overtake her. while his father, ual satisfaction as spinning a buggy boys face and eyes for here was not carrying the turkey cock but without wheel after swabbing on the axle only a splendid dinner for tomorow, the corn, came hurriedly out of his grease. Detroit News. hut also, in ids imagination, the first amazement and down to meet them. 1 ; blow struck against his enemy. Basketballs Beginning If ever a man bore an affinity to an The wild hot pride of youth and oak, with its cheer and strength and Basketball hnd its inception in 1891 achievement possessed the lad as his ru"ged growth, that man was Hepsibah at the Y. M. C. A. in Springfield, father and mother came toward hirn. Adams, the Indian trader. He was Mass., in response to a demand for Here was triumph, and the boys eyes not as tail as Henri by half a head, an indoor game to take the place of lighted up when he saw his mothers nor did he have his leanness. His football and baseball. interest in what he had done, and shoulders were wide and his body the unfeigned amazement in his fathick, and his face was as round as Spinal, Not Tracheal thers face as he dropped his milled an apple and almost as red, with Presumably that cold immunization corn to the ground and looked down marks and mars of stress and battle will take care of cdlds in the head. cock the with upon magnificent turkey set upon it, but in such a way that its But cold in the feet will continue to the feathered arrow transfixing it. vivacity and the good humor of Its be cured b.v backbone treatments. Catherine regarded her boy unobtwinkling eyes were enhanced rather Ann Arbor Daily News. served by the two whose hunting inthan spoiled by the vicissitudes of stinct drew their eyes to the fallen fortune. Finis Her own eyes were shining, game. When the excitement of first greet1 the What longest sentence on and after a moment Henri saw what were over, Catherine stood back for life. Lon- record? she was seeing and thinking and placed ings Imprisonment from her Jolly rogue of a brother and ion one of his big hands tenderly ou his viewed him with a of eyes bright sons slim shoulder. Yes, Jeems was with affection, but pair 1 which glowed at like his mother except for his blond No More Weep the same time with an appraising and hair and gray eyes, and in these two so are blinded with which her Some speculative questioning people lips things he ' resembled his mothers over opportunities at once put into words. from tears weeping brother, that worthless, wandering, alHepsibah, I am so happy to see that have passed they cannot see ways fighting and forever lovable you that it makes my heart Florida choke, and those that are coming. vagabond, Hepsibah 'Adams. Henris yet I observe that you have not kept heart was happier at his wifes proud 1 your promise to stop fighting, for one contemplation of her son, and he of your ears is nicked and nose your exIn burst forth praise of the lads is crooked and there is a mark over Expert says a golfers individuality ploit. which was not there when shows most in bis putting. Or in his eye your What a shot! he cried, bending I say you two years ago ! remarks as he continues putting. Arlow to examine the bird and the arweather-staineface kansas Gazette. Hepsibahs row. Straight through from wing to broke into a smile. 1 wing as clean as a bullet and right I cant say as much for your nose, Love About All I to the of the feathers shaft up Id Catherine, for it each grows a love prettier person and you are swear you did not have that strength Really year, he said. But if a Dutchmans so caught up and away from self that in your arm, lad Yet the arrow was Mm should happen to come against it, in a sense you are that person. Womsped from back there at the edge of as one hit mine in a little joust in Al- ans Home Companion. the open, you say? I scarce believe town, why, Ill say there would 1 it ! It is a shot for Captain Pipe and bany bend a in be it, or no nose at all. White Eagle and Big Cat, and not for Uncle Eben And as for the ear with a nick In it, , you said Uncle Eben, A crapshooter, can you expect from a Frenchman-ewhat These three were the Caughnawaga feel like a gunman dat to is likely your Indian friends who had taught Jeems xcepting own his done wages put to shoot, and it was Captaih Pipe who husband here when he gets a chance on de spot. Washington Star. to use his teeth instead of the hands had made his bow of choice sea1 which God gave him to fight with? soned ash. of the Hour Need in The slit face is the a crease only They went on as the sun was setting an an Oneidas knife when he "What country this left by behind the wilderness, and the golden with camels lifts? is. misled himself Havent you with the thought that pools of light grew dimmer about Benin. Blaetter. had a the of best I which got Lustlge bargain, them and shadows grew heavier and I never do get, or Im a sinner! But more velvetry dark among the trees. t is that all? Do you keep no better Man Brain Cells Through the woods, though the trail account of me than that? I am a bit was narrow, Catherine walked with Man is born with a full compleashamed of for you ment of brain you, Catherine, her hand in Henris, and for half an cells. No cells are added missed the Important thing!", hour they spoke no word except in have birth. At after that time only sparse What is that? and short fibrils extend from the brain whispers, and at last the four saw declared My stomach, Hepsibah, cells. These fibrils become their home. increasinghis ample paunch with both It lay in a sheltered dip which was holding increase in and bely long, number, knotted hands. It is sunk and come more intricate' in like a diminutive child of the larger intertheir shrunken, as you may clearly observe. communication valleg. a low and cheerful cabin of as growth progresses. . THE STORY gled from lack of food! And if I do not eat very soon The rest was smothered in Catherines arms and laughter. old Heppy Hungry al Dear ways hungry, and you never will be any other way. So we shall have supper almost as soon as smoke can be made to come out of the chimney. I am so happy you have come! And I, added Henri, getting in a g lug-ba- ! ! . Tit-Bit- s. 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