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GEORGE MARSH
AUTHOR- OF
" TOILERS OF THE TRAIL *
"THE WHELPS OF THE WOLF*!
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CHAPTER XII—Continued
—19—
"What would he be doing at Wail-
lsg River?" But Steele already half
guessed.
"lie cum once een de summer—he
cum wid 'noder man to tak' her to
Ogoke."
"What? You mean to say that La-
ame was crazy enough to try to
take her by force? Nonsense, Michel!
St. Onge would have had the police
at Ogoke within a month."
i "Eet was crazee .t'ing to try—but
he tfy eet."
"St Onge never told me this," said
the provoked American. "It explains
her fear when she saw me that day."
"She nevaire know Beeg Antoine
try to get her, but she have fear."
"So*you have always taken care of
her since the visit of Big Antoine?
T$ll me about it"
"Eet was las' June, after dat Indian
carry letter from Laflamme. He tell
me Laflamme was goin' to -get
ma'm'selle, sometam. So de nex' tam
she go to play at de rapide, Michel
ees dere. After long tam I hear
somet'ing move een de bush. I wait
a®' see dis Beeg Antoine—he watch
her but she don' know; she play de
feedle. I don' wan' to scare her so
I walk on de portage wid de beeg
whistle so dey hear me an' get out.
I follow dem tru' de bush an' een
little tam on de riviere 'bove de pos',
see Beeg Antoine talk to 'noder fel-
ler."
Michel stopped, relit his pipe, and
smiled tantalizingly at the. Interested
Steele.
"For heaven's sake, go on! What
did you do? Why didn't you drill both
of them?"
Michel blew a cloud of smoke be-
fore he said:
9 "You see dis Beeg Antoine at
Ogoke?"
"Yes."
"Wal, he move hees head when I
shoot. Eet was bad shot."
It was you who gave him that
"Ah-hah!"
"What happened to the other man?"
"He did not move," said the Iro-
quois, grimly.
"You hit him?"
"Beeg Antoine go back to Ogoke
alone."
"And they never came again?"
"No, but we had fear."
% There was a hard glint In the eyes
of Steele as he turned to David.
• "David," he said, "I owe you an
apology. When we had that snake in
our hands we should have finished
the job. It would have been held
self-defense by any decent jury."
David lifted his wide shoulders.
"We feenish dat job sometam, boss."
*******
As Steele had foreseen, the run-
ning down of a beast patrolling a
country of the size of the Wailing
River valley was clearly a matter of
chance. *
It was decided that Steele and
David, with the bloodhound, which
they were anxious to test on the
snow at once, should work over to the
Medicine hills and Phantom lakes
district with the purpose of quieting
the Indians, if possible, and holding
them In the country, as well as of
waiting the possible reappearance of
the night waller. Michel, with Little
Jacques, a French-Cree, sent from Al-
bany to work at the post after the
loss of the fur canoe, and the solo In-
dian to volunteer for such dread duty,
were to patrol the Portage Lake coun-
try as far. as the traplines on the Lit-
tle Current and the Drowning. Both
parties were to report back at Wail-
ing River in two weeks. In the mean-
time, a jack pine at the junction of
the Stooping with the main stream
was chosen as the message center to
which a man from each party was to
return in a week for news of the oth-
er, and whither St Onge would send
any information from the post down
river. In this manner they could
cover a great area of the lower Wall-
ing.
The plan of campaign settled with
the hearty approval of St. Onge, the
traps were divided between the sleds,
loaded with supplies for two weeks.
If the beast imitating that terror of
the northern trapper, the wolverine,
continued robbing the trap-lines, some
night relentless jaws would yawn un-
der the snow for his unwary feet—
jaws, which, if once shut, would hold
their victim in grip of steel until the
freezing death brought swift relief.
Before he started, Steele returned
to the house. At breakfast Denise had
0 been gracious, affable, but impersonal,
and Steele felt that the mood of the
previous evening still possessed her.
So. justly hurt, he made no attempt to
plead his case or correct the impres-
sion she had patently, suffered herself
to nourish—the belief that he had
lightly gone from her revelation of
the secret places of her heart, that
day on the beach, to a low intrigue at
Ogoke; under the pretense of seeking
information, had met Hose Laflamme
secretly, only to escape surprise and
detection by the alertness of his
watch-dog, David. Thus the situation
shaped Itself in the mind of the smart-
ing Steele; and, as it Is ever with the
unjustly suspected, he had, with a
brave show of indifference, hardened
his sore heart to the suffering girl
whose turden was already sufficiently
great.
But her welfare demanded his early
departure from the post and the man
whose thoughts she tilled, left her that
morning without an attempt at de-
fense or explanation.
"We were going up the river at
once, mademoiselle. I want you to
know—in case anything happens—and
trouble, that I have done what I
could."
The sober eyes of the girl grew
wistful. She started as If to speak,
then turned her head, while he
watched the blood surge to her throat,
her face, then fade. Never had she
seemed more lovely—more exquisite.
A mad desire urged him to take her
In his arms—to make her see how
deeply her self-inflicted hurt wronged
his love for her; to tell her that it
was all so futile—so useless, this sus-
picion of hers, which walled them off
from each other. Then she said;
"You have been so good to us—are
doing so much. We can never repay
you. I wish you all success, monsieur,
and a safe return."
That was all. Sick at heart he
turned away to the waiting dog-teams,
which, followed by the blanketed
bloodhound, jingled out of the clearing
and down to the river ice on their
"If the Old Boy Is Loose Now, He'll
Appearand Sing Again Somewhere."
strange quest. And, until the bend
shut them from sight, a knot of post
Indians in awed wonder watched the
sleds speeding south. For that men
should thus calmly set out In search
of a horrible death was a matter be-
yond their ken.
One morning, a week later, Steele
was frying moose steak in his camp
in the spruce, on the Little Medicine
river. Three days before, David had
started with the dogs for the rendez-
vous at the mouth of the Stooping
river where (from Portage lake) word
would be left^pn a piece of birch bark
by the partner of Michel. In the Med-
icine hills the friends had found most
of the Indians back on their trap-lines,
but uneasy and fearful of the early
return of the Windigo, and the condi-
tions along the Phantom chain of
lakes were similar.
As Steele sat by his fire eating his
breakfast of moose, bannock and tea,
the nose of Windigo, the hound, lying
at his side, lifted to sniff the air.
Then a low rumble swelled his black
throat. /
"What's the matter, old boy? Smell
something?" And Steele patted the
dog's wrinkled forehead.
The wind blowing upstream again
brought the message, and springing to
his feet, the bloodhound ran toward
the river, sucking in the biting air
through quivering nostrils, then raised
his head in a deep-throated bay.
Curious, Steele left his breakfast to
follow the dog to the river ice, where
already his heavy voice boomed out
upon the silence of the frozen forest.
For a space he gazed downstream
at a dark object moving up the white
trail, then exclaimed:
"That's David! And he's pushing
the dogs for all there's in them. News!
He's heard from Michel."
Running to the tent, Steele hastily
got his bags ready for a swift return
downriver, then returned to the ice.
In a matter of minutes, David, with
face circled by the frost from his hot
breath, drove his light sled up to
Steele, the noses of his dogs white
with rime.
"Get de stuff on de sled, queek!"
cried the excited Ojibway. "Here ees
de word from Michel!" And he thrust
into Steele's hands a roll of birch bark
on which, in the syllabic writing of
the woods Tndian, was burned the
message from Michel* in Ojibway, left
at the jack pine by Little Jacques.
"Come to Portage lak', fas'," read
David over Steele's shoulder. "Plen-
tee work for de dog! Michel."
In his delight, Steele slapped the
heavy caribou-skin capote of his friend.
"The Windigo's loose over in the val-
ley!" he cried. "When can we get
there, if the snow holds off?"
"We camp at Portage lak' een t'ree
sleep—mebbe two. De dogs ees tired.
I leeve Wallin' Riviere onlee one sleep
back," replied the Ojibway, making
the bags fast with the sled lashings.
Through the day the team hurried
past the silent spruce-clad hills of the
valley of the Little Medicine. Through
the day the men cast anxious looks at
the black cloud-banks hovering in the
north, for no snow had fallen In a
week and It was overdue. To his de-
light, Steele had already learned that
the dog could easily hold to a fresh
trail over the ice or hard snow, packed
by the wind. But a fall of new snow
on a trail was another matter, and
the Windigo might not stay In the
country.
That night they camped on the
Walling, and In the morning pushed
on up the Stooping river trail to Port-
age lake, following the sled tra&ks of
Little Jacques. Still the snow held
off, but Portage lake and Michel were
fifty miles away.
In the early afternoon of the sec-
ond day from the Wailing, when the
narrowing of the river and the break
In the hills ahead indicated their near-
ness to their goal, the snow they
feared began to fall. Shortly Little
Jacques' sled trail grew fainter and
fainter on the wind-packed snow, and
vanished. And by the time the team
turned Into Portage lake and sought
a camping place in the thick scrub
back from the shore, men and dogs
were sheeted In white.
"Well, we've lost again!" said
Steele, bitter with disappointment.
"We know bettair w'en we see
Michel." replied the philosophic In-
dian.
Soon, as the early November night
shut down, like a blanket, on the
white lake, the birch logs blazed high
before the shed-tent and the tea pall
and the kettle of moose stew were
simmering over red coals.
"If the old boy Is loose now, hell
appear and sing again somewhere.
There's some consolation in that"
dropped Steele, as he filled his pipe.
"We strike hees trail yet, you nev-
aire—" David broke short off, to rise
and peer suddenly Into the wall of
murk hemming in the fire in the
scrub, then walked swiftly into the
blackness beyond the circle of light
from the fire.
"What is it, David?" called the man
it the fire. But there was no re-
sponse from the other who had faded
Into the night.
The excited dogs broke Into a
ohorus of howls to the accompaniment
of the bass of the hound. There was
something out there in the snow-cur-
tained gloom. Steele rose to his feet.
Then a voice called: "Bo'-jo! Da-
veed!" And he knew that Michel had
found them.
"Hello, Michel!" he cried, shaking
the hand of the Iroquois, who pre-
ceded David to the camp-fire. "We
did our best to beat the snow here,
but It was no use. Now tell us about
It!"
Seated with his friends by the
fiatmlng birch logs, the headman told
his story.
When he and Jacques reached the
Little Current, he had found all but a
few of the most timid hunters on
their trap-lines. There had been ru-
mors afloat in the valley of the howl-
ing of the beast at Big Feather, but
the Portage lake hunters had refused
to listen to an Indian who claimed
that he had heard the Windigo, in
September, on the ridge across from
Walling River post.
"Dat Pierre, he try do good job."
."It was Pierre? was it?"
"Yes, he try hard to 6care dem on
de Little Curren', too."
But to the surprise of Michel, he
returned to Portage lake to find a
camp of hunters he had left but two
days before, wild with fear and pre-
paring to leave the country. For, in
his absence, the Windigo had filled
the night with horror from a neigh-
boring ridge. Michel had lost no time
in finding the trail and following it
down to 9 creek where he lost it on
the ice, and although he followed the
stream for miles, failed again to pick
it up. Then he sent Little Jacques
with the message which David found
at the rendezvous.
"Well, he's in this country and we'll
keep after him," said Steele, when the
headman had finished his story.
There was nothing to do but patrol
the country, following the trappers'
camps, in the hope that some night
luck would strike them, and they
should wake from their warm robes
to hear the voice.
As Steele rolled himself in his
blankets under the shed-tent by the
fire he wondered if the girl at Wailing
River, who had so lightly weighed him
and found him wanting, had paused to
consider whether the choice of a win-
ter of toil with the dogs, on the snow
of the Hudson's Bay watershed, rath-
er than the alternative of the soft life
of the city, bore any indication of the
singleness of his heart.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
THE SCHULENBpRG STICKER, SCHULENBPRG, TEXAS
ONE MOTOR CAR FOR EVERY 5.8 PERSONS
China* has an area of 4,225,000
square miles and a population of 450,
000.000.
Government Clerks Ride to Work In Washington, and They Ride in Their
Own Machines. This Picture Shows the Rear of the Navy Building.
(Prepared by the United States Department
of Agriculture.)
More than 20,000,000 motor vehicles
were In use on the highways of the
United States in 1925, according to
the bureau of public roads of the
United States Department of Agricul-
ture. The total registration reported
was 19,954,347, but there were in ad-
dition 96,929 state and federal gov-
ernment-owned vehicles not included
in this figure.
The increase in registrations dur-
ing the year amounted to 2,360,670
or 13.4 per cent. Florida reports an
Increase of 46.8 per cent, while Utah,
Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, North
Dakota and Texas all report Increases
of more than 20 per cent. Truck regis-
tration increased 14.5 per cent for
the entire country.
New York Leads.
New York leads in total registra-
tions with 1,625,583, followed by Cal-
ifornia, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Illi-
nois in the order named, all with
registrations of over a million.
There is now one motor vehicle for
each 5.8 persons In the United States.
California has only 2.9 persons for
each motor vehicle, while Iowa has
3.6, Nevada 3.7, Kansas 4.0 and
Oregon 4.0. At the other end of the
list is Alabama with 12.0 persons per
vehicle, but ranking among the high-
est In Increase during the year.
The total revenue from registration
fees, permits, etc., amounted to $260,-
619,621, of which $177,706,587, was
made available for state highways,
$19,124,014 for state road bonds and
$48,396,471 for local roads.
The total motor vehicle registra-
tion by states, not Including official
state and federal cars and eliminating
so far as possible re-registrations and
nonresident registrations, was as fol-
lows:
Alabama
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
Florida
Georgia
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
Washington
"West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming
District of Columbia ..
194,G80
68,029
183,589
1,440,541
240,097
250,669
40,140
286,388
248,093
81,506
1,263,177
725,410
659,202
457,033
261,647
207,000
140,499
234,247
646,153
989,010
569,694
177,262
604,166
94,656
338,719
21,169
81,498
580,554
49,111
1,625,583
340,287
144,972
1,346,400
424,345
216,553
1,330,433
101,756
168,496
168,028
244,626
975,083
90,500
69,576
282,650
328,442
217,589
594,388
47,711
103,092
Total 19,954,347
Earl Cooper.
LARGE FACTOR IN
SPEEDWAYRACINB
Drivers Strive for Split-Sec-
ond Difference in Run-
ning Time.
By EARL COOPER, Noted Race Driver.
The most variable factor In speed-
way racing today Is the driver. The
performance o f
which the cars
themselves are ca-
pable can be de-
termined before
each race almost
in terms of exact
science.
T o lllu strate
how scientifically
exact the profes-
sion of speedway
racing has be-
come, it might be
pointed out that
drivers are striv-
ing continually for such a small differ-
ence in time as a tenth of a second per
lap on the 1^-mile ovals. They realize
that their ability or inability to
achieve this may mean the difference
between winning or losing a race.
Engines Are Identical.
The engines, in fact the entire race
cars of today, are practically identical.
To achieve this split-second difference
in speed, therefore, it is necessary that
the race driver give vital considera-
tion to factors which would be con-
sidered negligible even in most experi-
mental work. Every detail pertaining
to the car must be exactly correct, as
near as human ability can make it, If
the car is to perform to the standard
of which it is capable.
It is a fact that a difference of a
small fraction of a second in lap time
may be traced to a slight difference
in the spark plugs, or even in one
spark plug.
That they may secure the maximum
performance from their cars, practical-
ly every driver Insists on a new set of
plugs for each race, even though they
may have been driven, in some cases,
not to exceed 100 or 150 miles. They
realize that thej terrific strains im-
posed on spark plugs under racing con-
ditions are so great that they must
have undergone some deterioration,
even In the short distance they have
been run. In fact, they consider that
500 miles on the speedway is equiv-
alent to from' 5,000 to 10,000 miles in
a passenger car.
Spark Plugs Deteriorate.
Instances have been many where,
after a set of plugs has been through
one severe race, the car, in its trials
for the following race, actually was
incapable of performing within a tenth
of a second per lap of what it previ-
ously did. Sometimes this loss of
speed has been even greater.
This being the c&se, it is evident
that there is deterioration to spark
plugs in ordinary passenger car sorv-
lce. If racing plags are changed at
least every 500 miles, the spark plugs
In passenger cars certainly should not
be run more than 10,000 miles without
changing them for new ones. That
applies to every spark plug I have
ever used, whether In racing or for
ordinary passenger car driving.
Propeller Shafts Very
Difficult to Handle
Propeller shafts are difficult to re-
move and replace when reassembling
the car after a rear-end repair job.
Most repair men do this work by
hand, although It Is a back and arm-
breaking proposition. A common
screw-jack with rachet handle can
be made to assist greatly not only In
this but in other repairs.
The jack is bolted to a wooden base
to which casters are-fitted so that It
PROPEu.tR Shaft
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- - 1 SELT-,.
SCREW
fl 11 FIAT
— JACK —
WOODE.N
BASE.-
CASTEgS
RIVET
Jack for Propeller-Shaft Repairs.
may be rolled around. A special
! yoke, made to hold the shaft, fits In
place of the usual jack top, as shown
In the illustration. By having the
yoke a loose fit on the screw top It Is
free to turn in ail directions.
To operate, the jack is placed be-
neath the shaft tube and is elevated
until the yoke takes the weight of the
unit. The set screw is then tightened
and the outfit is ready to be pulled
out. This also keeps the spllned end
of the shaft out of the dirt.—Popular
Science Monthly.
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Accidents Caused %
t by Jay Walkers |
<• Pedestrians are responsible $
Y for a great many automobile ac- 4j
«£ cidents. Some of theni need 4
£ guardians to escort them across 2
? the streets. Too many jaywalk-
ers ramble about without re-
f stralnt, crossing thoroughfares
a where it Is mo&t convenient for
* them to do so, getting In the
4. way "of motorists who have the
|| right of way and generally clog-
* ging up traffic. Very often
T motorists have to suddenly pull
* into curbs to avoid striking jay-
|| walkers endangering their own
* lives and property, only to be
a greeted with unkind words by
V the thoughtless pedestrians. v
% It is more important for the If
pedestrian to be careful than 4
X for the motorist, for it is usual- 2
* ly the pedestrian who is iujured |
•> in an automobile accident. Of 4
£ the men, women and children
& killed by automobiles during 4
* 1925 two-thirds or three-quar- 1
* ters were pedestrians. • >
J Death is so permanent! II
<«
MIDSUMMER AFTERNOON FROCKS;
PARIS SENDS EVENING
Midsummer is just ahead of us
now, bringing the closing chap-
ter of the season's style story. Re-
viewing what has gone before, it Is
plain that the mode took femininity
as Its inspiration and gave free rein
to fancy. All sorts of furbelows are
approved and afternoon gowns have
gone through so many variations that
there Is only one experiment left for
them to try. This is a development in
the direction of simplicity. It is a
welcome departure for midsummer but
Is only comparative simplicity at that
—what with scarves, ties, capes, bows,
plaits and other accessories of new
gowns.
All's well that ends well, and here
has released a flock of lovely event
gowns for summer. They are as
colorful and beautiful as a swarm of
gorgeous butterflies and there are al-
most no two alike, which is as ft
should be. But the world is full of a
number of things calculated to help
out any amiable fairy god-mother who
undertakes to provide variety In eve-
ning gowns for her proteges this sea-
son. There is the diversity of ap-
proved styles for one thing and of ma-
terials, for another. Besides, the fancy
of designers may go as far as it likes
in matters of decoration.
In these sheer, new evening frocks,
rippling skirts, uneven hemlines, go-
dets, apron and other draperies.
are two late arrivals among handsome fringes and petal trimmings are all
m
SIMPLICITY IS THEIR KEYNOTE
afternoon gowns that show what a
happy ending summer brings to the
story of the mode. They are simple,
cool and very dignified versions of
correct style. Black and white printed
silk makes the charming model at the
left, with wide jabot and cuffs ofi
white georgette. A flat bow tie with
very long ends Is one unexpected
finishing touch at the neck and the
plain standing collar has a band of
georgette at the top.
Plain crepe In two colors Is used
for the matronly model at the right,
which accents the growing favor
shown to a higher waistline and the
bloused bodice. Small, flat buttons,
covered with crepe like the dress, are
used for decoration and they are
featured and the beaded models con-
tinue to be popular. The uneven
hemline is accomplished in many
ways, the latest being the dip at the
back, where the skirt Is sometimes as
much as twelve Inches longer than it
is In front. As for the silhouette, It
Is varied all the way from the slender,
straight lines of bead-embroidered
gowns to the very bouffant skirt of
the period frock, which is usually de-
veloped In taffeta silk. Laces, includ-
ing dyed and metallic varieties, and
many flowers are important items
among things used for adornments.
In the two models from Paris,
shown in the sketch, green and gold
combinations are presented. Hue
simply designed gown at the left,
TWO LOVELY EVENING GOWNS
placed on the belt, above the plaits in
the skirt and at the joining of dark
and light crepe in the ties. Both gowns
have long sleeves and emphasize a
blouse waistline at the back and the
approved skirt length. Either of them
can be developed in whatever colors
are most becoming, but there is noth-
ing more chic than the black and
white printed silks for midsummer.
Navy blue and tan, or navy and Amer-
ican Beauty are modish color combi-
nations, but there are many others
that will suggest themselves for the
crepe gown.
The fairy god-mother of the mode—
who resides In and about Paris—
made of light-green crepe and gold
lace, reveals its up-to-dateness in its
scalloped skirt with backward dip and
slightly bloused bodice. An equally
successful model, at the right, Is of
green chiffon with embroidery of. gold
paillettes and a soft girdle of the chif-
fon. Green Is one of the most popular
colors for evening, but has many
lovely rivals, as pink, geranium red,
flame, hyacinth blue and mauve.
White Is well represented In thia
colorful company and black grows in
favor as summer advances.
JULIA BOTTOMLEY.
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