Show lf s ig M t pa arg bals 0 T abraham by james oliver curwood cus wood 05 by doubleday ooran doran co ine inc service set vice iki ik i tm im HM i I 44 is t MJ THE STORY CHAPTER I 1 avith hid anglish wife catherine urine hid and twelve year i on uld old son bon jeems jaems harl eulain french hattlee in 11 C canada n nada in ili 16 cultivates a cortili farni farm adjacent to the Ton concur cur curie beurle As the story opens tile the bukalt buiral family lg is on its wry way humo hume fram a to the Tont euis eurs catherines catharines wandarene wan darlne brother meets them 0 CHAPTER 11 ll fleps abah ns s Is hir hh custom has bioti slit presents pre pi owenta for or lit clr ulster and tier her fi 10 to lo holems lit in gives a splendid piece of erlin crimson soll vel vet laughingly ly telling the tha boy it Is to lie be a present foal f fi oal 0 icenia to Tol toinettie nettie Tont eur small laughter of the tha set kneur hepsibah also gives jeams a vol pistol stol bidding will lim perfect himself 11 in lisman b lp tor for tle the people ut the frontier are cu constantly i sta n aly it in i benr 0 oc f raid raia m by indian war parties allies ot of the 13 anglish CHAPTER in tears fears foi the tha safety of me lie Du dulaine lains lit in their p position tosi tion but lapuglia at thi the I 1 idea den 0 of dangar deenis prevents pre dents jents the velvet to toinette Tol netto nette ller her cousin paul tache a few years older than jeems contrives tonti ives to throw the parcel away deerns r resents tile action find attacks attach daul b but lie t the latter wa lils the smallen CHAPTER IV next dy duy jimenis boeni real lug hig he wn vas vironie viro nii in betot I 1 lol toinette nette goes goch to her home hoine to to offer hl hi a apol 0 I 1 0 oslea g as lie it lieada ears madame lonter r refer a lif er to him as a little I 1 14 Hit st b but u 1 s his apologia 0 s ani an tips hum m avin nv ving in nr of if what lit hi had overheard th takes hir hip barta V me ine luni euta go fco to que lice bec where Tol tobnette nette Is 1 0 to o ite ile edue lui ved t after four years yeara lauring beem I 1 practically rec liea ni ini Dud llie tuti tot tours louia return war between britain am alic prance france flain ps s abid vi li lierich erih h nettler hasten to join dieskau DlesK nu french coni com mander I 1 learl and jeers to lorn niala n it home absent 0 one n a d div ay on it i trip jeems sees from a distance hit hame in fl flornes arnes CHAPTER vi V he finds hla taihei at aih mother dead und and tile the house wid and bar ola blazing zing A hatchet of 1 si malac left oil the scene s bilm th loter Is the work of liolia wk lt in ili dlana english allies the t aund 0 gui fire has hai come to him loin the tha tori ton tour leur seigne urle and at dawn felini tor for tobnette Tol nette lie he hastens there them ton tour leur all and hla hia servants are bend A sli sit wounds believing him a enemy Tol toinetta tiette from a ii in tile the mill has hrad on n him 11 to the mill where the wirl de bounces him as nn all allot tries to kill 1111 bilm fainting before shi fan an carry out her design CHAPTER ClIAl Tait VI cot st rol notte continued continue a to jeems with alit work ork tit of lil l friends after bury buining ing T in ili a shallow tallow 41 grave ceonin re t arub to hl murdered parente alie he girl follows him the rhe of henri 1 lulala unil and baill elline drad dead on vinces her sho she libut beet s wrong in her suspicions of nf the lain family jekins buries ills parenti and with To gowette Toine tle goes ti LD an aban boned boned with in ili ding thy hicy watal tha ilia mohawk war var party vans loans CHAPTER CHAP TEIl vil iol netty beha jeeni how she escaped the slaughter lie hei mother Is in ili quebec jennis la Is ion coil vinced fleps ibah Is dead ile he piling I 1 take the tha erl to friends on oil alie lie wa wai jekins fights willi and kills a renegade rone eade who had been with the mo to hawl ji n wk raiders lal deiB the huici and tire art a shot shat before jeisus idels him all fearing the indians Ind iaia will homr and re turn the fugitives seek LL hidiner placie they are discovered by LL band or of sen eca indians VIII chief of tit alx party spares llie lile rug luio s and to allow them to ilia his band on their journey to chenuz 1 10 thelt their t J lestI nation if toinette Tol nette c can an endure th march the file bravery a appeals tt to him and in the indian asclon lit adopts hot hd ag ais tits his CHAPTER 1 IX at jedro abild abid art are formally tor wally admitted into the semeon tribe jeems as the son of the cloud arged warrior ar lor alq an lol toinetta nette as silver heels adopt f daughter of the groat chief deenis rea realizes realises re that lie he and tillett Tol nett are captives captive i ioree foreve in the forest fastness ot at estape at ai X famine threatens ns ant all ih ahe 0 indians indiana form lino into groups each ach tt t range lanse a sect saillon se illon lon in search of aaste nance jenira and Tol toinetta tobnette nette are sep nep orated but meet again in the pring A wandering priest unites thein ne wl cornea comes that and his war parta have met dib asier jaems la is aunt to li Nane namestio stio 19 miles distant with 11 Ve remnant of I 1 hi i 11 ars on r alom ind a liand ind ar arrive ivo tze the prisoner pilson cr la is a I 1 adams ile he la t to it lf be burbled ut kit tn take CHAPTER CHAFTER XI continued f is alid pot not atla k there was ni nc light H lit to reveal ills fact na lie he went to the edge of nl tile llie rivet and sriv saw that a canoe wits gone lie he grunted his wonder when the tall man joined him film the canev lind ml awen within airty W tit nt them and they imd hald lot livard a bound words or of self abase fal froin all ali pe do allia ile and ShI TP like two children and tin devery avery nian nw aal quinan boulan in kin would talithi them because of the WISP with the escape had been heen made thit the missing canoe could not ra air distant the fu fugitives giffes one one of them blind could not possibly sue SUC berti in alight trie ine would see 11 the to white man given to the stake bud and now that sliver silver fleets hit had proved herself a serpent in fit the tribe avid and a or to vaoga slie she would probably tile lle with him film ali ah de ball bah made queer sounds in ill ills chest its as they ran to all and the expectant people with him tie ile was not as calm as when they arrived it was shin ala his who announced tile deception of the stranger whom they had accepted na as the true spirit of sol yan makwam Milk elanga was coldly and terribly still ills fits face ahn miffed before their eyes the rho furrows in it grow deeper and tt it became as hard as stone in n tit the fields then words came weighted with if the derf slon of death rising until they swelled in a passion that wits was like a fire consuming everything in its path ile ie declared that tits his honor and the honor of his people lay in his hands tie he pulled on and ali ah de run ball to go with him film to recapture the fugitives fugia A for tills this was a duty imposed on hint farst arst of all before tile the night was much older tile the tire stake should have its triumph ile he had forgo forgotten atell tile the blind man fora for a man without eyes eye s w was I 1 s alrea already fly bend bend lie ile would give to thy the clamps the white girt girl who had betrayed them the ill fires burned down until they were eyes in the night flours passed and tile the listened in the stillness ness its as if oppressed by fear at last they aliey heard bieard the chanting of a voice corning nearer its as fast as a canoe could travel it was the death song with which tiaona had grieved for tits ills daughter avid anil the savages wore were moved by it as leaves are moved by a wind the suspense wits was broken for in the song of grief was niso also a note of triumph which brought the message that alanga ilanga had beela successful in abts par pursuit sult fresh fuel was piled on the tires fires and the flames leapt ligh when tin and his companions came from the river they brought no prisoner with them yet a fierce light shone I 1 I 1 11 1111 4 lp it E zi ilk az z tiaona became more than ever a fiend in via the flesh as ho he danced about the stake lit in their count countenances penances as they entered the lie illumination and beginning tits his death song again tiaona suat snatched elied a burning brand and flung it into the mid it of the pitchy material about the stake in a moment a winding sheet of flame licked its way up the pole and around tills this tiaona danced finishing tits his song to the crackling of tile pitch lie described d ho how w they had bad overtaken the fleeing ones at the edge of if the lie great rocks beyond which the wa water ter thundered in a maelstrom the blind mail eliad fought with a hii hatchet lip lie had stolen from alt de balls bahs tepee until allot another it er blade was sunk in his hl brain to quiet him ile he was a devil in liia his blindness and tiaona lioan pointed ted to ShIn shindig dim who held back ills his buckskin shirt to show a long and bleeding gush gash the will white teman ann wilts ans dead and ills his body weighted filed by tile the darkness of ills hi soul soil was waa gone forever in the deer waters beyond the rocks I 1 hut but the unclean inn lean one who had tricked them tile the girl whose evil spirit had voine ome to bring dishonor upon them and to desecrate the soul of sol yan muk wim they had taken alive Tia Til ogas logas face grew livid ills soul had gone so black when they cail caught ht hor her that he could see only death for lie he heard ills his daught daughters ePs voice crying to film for or v vengeance e geallie ge allee so he had killed the ti treacherous one lie ile had killed her tit at the command of silver heels whose spirit was singing to him ile he had killed the white girl with tits his own hands and had lung flung her body to disappear with that of tile the blind man suddenly th tiaona at ga drew from its hiding in place net nest ills his breast a thin thing which brought a gasp to the lips of those about him all recognized it its as beautiful braid of f hair streaming froni from the bleeding scalp tit the savage held above tits ats head tiaona became more than ever a lend alend in tile he flesh as hed he danced aneed alow ah out the stake flecks of moo blood d front tramthi thi 04 red scalp struck nia his face atthe height of his nin madness driess lie be flung it into the he heart artof of the pitch witchwood wood fire soi yon yan ali ekwun was avenged and the demand of tits lils people answered CHAPTER XII at noon of the second day of his journey jeems came to the vill ivae of whose chief was or yellow boar bear lie ile had traveled tho venty milts in thirty hours and was determined to return as quickly for lie was troubled deeply by the thought hint tobnette Tol nette wits was alone at a time when the sentiment of the indians wits was turning against them why he and not a tribal runner had been sent to yellow near bear puzzled him film and tho the fact that lie bore it a message of small importance increased his uneasiness ile he had scarcely reached when his weapons a knife and hatchet were taken from him and lie ho was brought to matozel Ma Ala this individual who was killed at lake george the following year and who was it a boy in appearance though the french held him among the bravest fighters of the six nations informed jeems that lip he I 1 was a prisoner lie ile said had find I 1 defaulted in a payment of porn that was due and teems jeems was to cover p part 1 rt of the obligation Ila matozel tersely explained the agreement between the me chiefs if deerns attempted to escape and was caught by his warriors ho he would be killed if by any chance he succeeded in pelting getting hick back to chenuz then lie he would answer to tiaona with his life A lead dead line was drawn ellel encircling the tepee in which he was to live and he found himself under a surveillance little less strict than that accorded to a prisoner whose fate wits was to be torture or death the fourth afternoon he perceived perc eiveri elved an excited gathering of women and children some dis distance front from him but paid no attention to it depressed by fears which had become unbearable arable tic he was determined to gain his freedom before another dawn increasing c lowliness cloudiness during tho afternoon and a promise of storm with the beginning of evening g added tri to ills his hopes for success thunder and rain 1 ame with darkness and he reigned feigned sleep at an early hour it wits almost mit midnight inight when lie he sat up lip and listened to the I 1 downpour lie ile wai to also to his feet certain that no seneca would be lying ling in the deluge when lie he heard the sodden rustle of the skin flap fl ip to the tepee its as it wits was drawn back and some one entered in a moment a small voice ahls wed hn hia name minme ad hands mm film as lie fie hold held out ills his arms lie ile felt a childs drenched form then came choking words halt half smothered in the heat of the storm 1 I am wood pigeon I 1 ran away from three days ago I 1 have come to tell you silver heels Is dead lightning flashes which 1111 ch accompanied the storm that night revealed a solli solitary nry figure hurrying through the wilderness toward a figure which sped until it wits was winded and then continued at a slower pace with a persistence no beat ot of rain or mast blast of wind could halt the traveler was jeems jec ms wood pigeon had repeated the message Tol toinette nette entrusted to her a few minutes preceding her light flight with ile bah bab adams and no blackness was so thick that it ili hid from him the tortured faces of tits his wife and ills his blind uncle CL ns cis they dpn gen benrice rice even vengeance seemed futile and inadequate hope did not rise in tits hta breast lie ile had hoped when lie he knew his mother was dead lit he had hoped ns as lie ho sought for life among the ruins of manor lie had never quite given up hope that his uncle was wa alive kut but now it was impossible for him to find that saving grace within his big mental reach As he went on ho he was slowly dispossessed of the power to hate bate though every sinew in his body was bent with implacable resolution in its mission of death tie ile would kill lie ile would L kill 1111 Sh Indas there would be only justice and no gratification of the flesh or the spirit in his act A greater and more encompassing thing than the impulse which had sent him from Mato Alato zees zoes village began tp t choke him with a force that was sickening it was ills his loneness aloneness tho the vastness of the world the sudden going of the one who had remained to make it habitable for him without Tol toinette nette there wits was no reason for Us its existence no reason why it if should continue to give him tile the warmth of life Tol toinette nette was dead it was a fate predestined from the beginning something he had always feared vaguely nothing counted now to till biltl alanga and would not a rift in tile the hopelessness which lily ahead of him lie advanced with a speed which w would uld have exhausted him at any ther other time As the hours passed an e explanation for this haste gathered in ills his lie be was going home that ali at in all of its significance wits was the cabin in which tobnette Tol nette find ia eftia aind arrey brove smi ang ng that had not gone with her body and yet wits was a part of lifer which he would find as lie he had loft left it when he be came to the end of tile the trail unless tiaona had bad destroyed that too lie ile reached the place gleamed with pools of water suspicious dogs appeared to identify him but the people were asleep ile he found his cabin with the door closed as it would have been it toinette 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