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CHAPTEl VIII.
The Incredible Thing.
Broad daylight, the top of a morning
as rare as ever broko upon the
north country: Alan Law opening bewildered
eyes to realize the substance
of a dream come true.
True it proved itself, at least, In
part He lav between blankets upon a
couch of balsam fans, in a corner of
somebody's camp?a log structure,
weather proof, rudely but adequately
furnished. His clothing, rough-dried
but neatly mended, lay upon a chair
at his side.
He rose and dressed in haste, at
once exulting in his sense of complete
rest and renewed well-being, a prey
to hints of an extraordinary appetite,
and provoked by signs that seemed to
bear out the weirdest flights of his delirious
fancies.
There were apparently Indlsputnblo
evidences of a woman's recent presence
in the camp: blankets neatly
folded upon a second bed of aromatio
balsam In the farther corner; an effect
of orderliness not common with
guides; a pair of dainty buckskin
'gauntlets depending from a nail In the
wall; and?he stood staring wltlessly
at it for more than a minute?In an
old preserve Jar on the table, a single
rose, warm and red, dew upon Its
petals!
There was sIbo Are In the cook
stove, with a plentiful display of
things to cook: but despite his hunger
Alan didn't stop for tliat, but rushed
to the door and threw ft open and himself
out Into the sunshine, only to
pause, dashed, chagrined, mystified.
There was no othefr living thing In
sight but a loon that sported far up
the river and saluted him with a
shriek of mocking laughter.
The place was a clqjt In the hills,
a table of level land Sbme few acres
in area, bounded on one hand, beneath
the cliff from which he had
dropped, by a rushing river fat with
recent rnins; on the other by n second
cliff of equnl height. Upstream the
.water curved round the shoulder of a
powering hill, downstream the cliffs
^4,-losed upon it until It roared through
? a narrow gorge.
Near the camp, upon a strip of
^ striving beach that bordered the river
where It widened Into a deep, dark
pool, two canoes were drawn up, bottoms
to the sun. Dense thickets of
pines, oakH, and balsams hedged In
the clearing.
He was, It sceined, to be left severely
to himself, that day; when he had I
cooked and made way with an pnoc
mous breakfast, Alan found nothing
better to do tUl time for luncheon
than to explore this pocket domain.
He feasted famously again at riocn;
whtled away several hours vainly whipping
the pools with rod and tackle
found In the camp, for trout that he
really didn't hope would rise beneath
that blazing sun; and toward three
o'clock lounged back to his aromatic
couch for a nap.
The westering sun had thrown a
deep, cool shadow across the cove
when he was awakened by importunate
hands and a voice of magic.
Rose Trine was kneeling beside him,
. clutching bis shoulders, calling on him
by name?distracted by an Inexplicable
anxiety.
He wasted no timo discriminating
between dream and reality, but gathered
both into his arms. And for a
moment she rested there unresisting,
sobbing quietly.
"What Is it7 What Is it, dearest?"
he questioned, kissing her tears away.
"To find you all right. ... I
was so afraid!" Bhe cried brokenly.
"Of what? Wasn't I all right when
you left me here this morning?"
She disengaged with an effort, rose,
and looked down strangely at him.
"I did not leave you here this morning,
Alan. I wasn't here?"
That brought him to his own feet
In a jiffy. "You were not!" he stammered.
"Then who??"
"Judith," she stated with conviction.
"Impossible! You don't understand."
The girl shook her head. "Yet I
know: Judith was here until this
morning. I tell you 1 know?I saw
her only a few hours ago. She paseed
us In a canoe with ono of her guides,
while we watched In hiding on the
banks. Not that alone, but another of
her gu.des told mine she was here
with you. She had sent him to South
Portage for quinine. He stopped
there to get drunk?and that's how
my guide managed to worm the information
from him."
Alan passed a hand across his eyes.
"I don't understand," he said dully.
"It doesn't seem possible she
could?"
A shot Interrupted him, the report
of a rifle from a considerable distance
upstream, echoed and re-echoed by the
cliff*. Aud at this, clutching frantically
at his arm, the girl drew him
through the door and down toward the
river.
"Oh, come, come!" she cried wildly.
"There's no time!"
, "But, why? What waa that?"
i "Judith 1* returning. I left my
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Precipitating Both Into That Savage i
Welter.
ifllldi' lll> 111r? trail tn bIlmiuI no
you know what It means If wo don't
manage to escape before she gets
here?"
"Itut how?"
"According to tho guide the river's
the only way other than the trail."
"The current 1b too etrong. They
could follow?pot ub at leisure from
the banks."
"Hut downstream?the current with
us?"
"Those rapids?"
"We must shoot them!"
"Can it be done?"
"It must be!"
Two more shots put a. period to
his doubts and drove it home, lie
offered no further objection, but
turned at once to launch one of the
canoes.
Ab soon as it wn? in the water, ltoso
took her pluce in tho bow, paddle in
liand, and Alan was about to step In
astern when a fourth shot sounded
and a bullet kicked up turf within a
dozen feet. A glance discovered two
figures debouching into the clearing.
He dropped into place and, planting
paddle in shallows, sent tho canoe
well out with u vigorous thrust.
Two strokes took it to the middle
of the pool where immediately the
current caught the little craft in its
urgent grasp and sped it smoothly
through more narrow and higher
banks. A moment more and tho
mouth of the gorge was yawning <or
them.
With the clean balance of an experienced
l anoeman. Alan rose to his
feet for an instantaneous reconnoissanee
botli forward and astern. Ho
looked back tlrst, and groaned in bis
iieart to see the sharp prow of the
second canoe glide out from the
binks. He looked ahead and groaned
aloud. The rapids were a wilderness
of shouting waters, white and green,
worse than anything he had anticipated
or ever droanvd of.
But there was now no escaping that
ordeal. The fetnoe was already spinning
between walls where the water
rati deep and fast with a glassy surface.
The next instant it was in the jaws;
and the man settled down to work
with grirn determination, pitting courage
and strength and experience
against the ravening waters that tore
at the canoe on every hand, whose
mad clamor beat back and forth between
the walls of the gorge like vast
bellowlngs of infernal mirth.
He fought like one possessed.
There was never an instant's grace
for judgment or execution; the one
must be synchronous with the other,
both Instantaneous, or else?destruction.
The canoe wove this way and that
like an insane shuttle threading some
satanic loom. Now it hesitated, nuzzling
a gigantic boulder over which
the water wove a pale green and
glistening hood, now in the space of
a heartbeat It shot forward twice Its
length through a soa of creaming
waves, now plunged wildly toward 1
what promised Instant annihilation '
and cheated that only by the timely
plunge of a paddle, guided by luolc or
Instinct or both.
The one ray of hope in Alan's mind,
when he surveyed before committing
himself and the woman be loved to
that hideous gauntlet, sprang from
the fact that, however rough, the
rapids w ere ehort. Now, when he had
been in their grasp a minute, he
seemed to have been there hours.
If in laboriugs were tremendous, unbelievable,
inspired. In the end they
were all but successful. The goal of'
safety was within thirty seconds'
more of quick, hard work, when Alan's
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broadside to a boulder, turned turtle
and precipitated both beadlons int?i in
that savage welter. ni
THK 1jAN( WKTKK NKW*
As the next few minutes passed he
was lighting like a mad thing against
overwhelming odds. Then, of a sudden,
he found himself rejected, spewed
forth from the cataract and swimming
mechanically iu the smooth water of
a wide pool beyond the lowermoBt
eddy, the canoe floating bottom up
near by, and Rose supporting herself
with one baud on it.
Her eyes met his, clear with tne
sanity of her adorable courage.
He floundered to her side, panted instructions
to transfer her hand to his
elioulder, and struck out for the
nearer shore.
Both found footing at the name
time and waded out, to collapse, exhausted,
against the bank.
Then, with a sickening qualm, Alan
remembered the pursuit. He rose and
looked up the rapid just in time to
view the last swift quarter of the
canoe's descent: Judith in the bow,
motionless, a rifle across her knees, in
the stern an Indian guide kneeling
and lighting the waters with scarcely
perceptible effort. in contrast with
Alan's supreme^fruggles.
Like a liv'hg thing the canoe
(SeeinufHo gather itself together. 10
to leap with ull its strength;
it hurdled the eddy in a bound, took
the still water with a mighty splash,
and shot downstream at diminished
speed, the Indian luriouslj backing
water.
As though that had been the one
moment she had lived for, Judith
lifted her rifle and brought it to bear
?upon her sister.
With a cry of horror. Alan flung
himself before ltose, a living shield,
anticipating nothing but immediate
death. This was not accorded him.
For a breathless instant the woman in
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They Found a Footing.
the canoe stare' along the sights,
then lowered her weapon and, turning,
spoke indistinguishably to the
guide, who instantly began to ply a
brisk paddle.
The canoe sped on, vanished swiftly
round a bend.
After a long time, Alan voiced his
unmitigated amazement:
"Why?in the name of heaven I
Why??"
The girl said dully: "Don't you
know?" And when he shook his head.
"Her guide told mine you had saved
her lite on the dam at Spirit Lake.
Now do you see?"
His countenance was blank with
wonder: "Gratitude?"
Rose smiled wearily/ "Not gratitude
alone, but something more terrible.
..." She rose and held
out her hand. "Not that I can blame
her. . . . Hut come; if we strike
through here we will. 1 think, pick up
a trail that will hring us to Black
-ieaver settlement by dark."
(Continued in Next Issue.)
Farm Facta.
By Peter Radford, Lecturer National
Farmers' Union.
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is diversification.
Agriculture haB gone through two
thousand years of evolution and is
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Over-production is the stumbling
block, and systematic marketing the
stepping-stone of agriculture.
It is the duty of every farmer to
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every equipment to lighten her labors.
To eliminate waste and inefficiency
in marketing the farmer
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The problem of marketing Is the
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Atlanta (aeorgian.
Ter thousand chaplains rabbis,
Protestant clergymen. Catholic 11
priests and priests of the Russian
Creek church are on their knees at
this moment, all praying lor "vie- si
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All are earnest and sincere, bel
Moving that Clod should help them, |r
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A few years before his death Mark j '*
Twain wrote an article entitled "The jt
War Prayer." It describes how a
regiment gathers in ?a church before ~
it departs for war and prays for vietory.
As . the prayer concludes, a w
white-robed stranger enters the 11
church and says:
"I have been sent by the Almighty
to tell you that lie will grant your a
petition if you desire it after I have 1
explained to you its full import. You P
are asking for more than you seem "
to be aware of. You have prayed e
aloud for victory, over your foes, but Sl
listen to the unspoken part of your
prayer and ask yourself if this is r'
what you desire.'' S(
Then the stranger speaks aloud s
these implication of their words: (1
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diers of the foe to bloody shreds with ?
our shells: help us to cover their a
smiling fields with the pale forms of Cl
their patriot dead; help us to lay ?
waste their humble homes with a h
hurricane of tire: help us to wring
the hearts of their unoffending widows
with unavailing grief. Blast ?
their hopes, blight their lives, water K
i their way with their tears." P
If those that pray realized what
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Amejrirnn Plan to Silence All thins ]j
If Christamits Day. ii
( I .(ill don Dispatch to New York Sun. I
The Daily Mail has received a dis- a
patch from its correspondent in New j,
York saying that leading clericals s?
and educators there have under dis- (,
cussion a movement to have the war- Sl
ring powers agree to an armistice on c
Christmas Day. Bishop David II. c]
C.r?'er. Cardinal Farley, ltr.bbi 11. P.
Mendes of the Jewish Synagogue in \
New York r.nd President Nicholas p
Murray Butler of Columbia Univer- a(
sity are mentioned as iterestei.
The correspondent of The London ^
Dally Mall in New York said yes- l(i
terday: m
"This movement is in its fancy, .
but it has already enlisted the sym- .
pathies of such distinguished lead- ^
ers of their creeds as Cardinal Farley.
Bishop David H. CIreer of the ()
Kpiscopal Diocese of New York and p(
Itabbi H. Perles Mendes of the Jewish
Synagogue. The movement also t?
is understood to hare the sympathy ^
and support of such enninent eduea- ci
tors as sPresldent Nicholas Murray te,
Butler of Columbia University. _
"The larger movement looking to
a permanent cessation of hositilities
is at the present subordinated apparently
to the movement, for an
armistice on Chrlstmrs Day. Bishop
(Jreer said that while no definite
action has as yet been taken on the
proposal, which had originated with
Itabbi Mcndes, it was proper to say
that the suggestion for a Christmas
armistice had already received the
enthusiastic support of prominent
members of the Catholic and Epis
?ui?'i > iiuicucb hiiu ui ine jewisn
synagogues. Disliop Giver said that
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