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i GEORGE MARSH t- I5T ' AMTHOR. Of " TOILERS OF THE TRAIL " M THE WHELPS OF THE WOLF^ COPY RIGHT by THE PENN PUBllSHtNO CO. ¥ ; m SYNOPSIS CHAPTER I.—With DaVld, half-br«*d e lide, Brent Steele, of the American useum of Natural History. Is travel- inv in northern Canada. By a stream “• bears Denlao, daughter of CoL Hilaire St. Onge, factor at Walling River, play the violin superbly. He Introduces himself and accepts an In- I vltation to make the post his home lurin' # his stay. Prom St. Onge he e *rm jf the mysterious creature of «vll, the “Wlndlgo,” and the disap pearance of a canoe and Its crew, with the Reason's take of furs. CHAPTER II.—Steele hears the “Win- dlgo. David and Michel, St Onge's head-man, ^eave for the scene of the canoe s disappearance. St. Onge tells Steele that l^iscelles. the company's manager at Fort Albany, seeks his ruin In order to compel Denlse*to mar ry him to savd her father. CHAPTER III.—Hearing her violin playing, Steele realises that Denise Is sacrificing a brilliant musical career to comfort her father. David and Michel return, but are uncommunicative. CHAPTER IV.—Tete-Boule, Indian la St. Onge’s employ, is caught listening to Steeles talk with David and Michel, and roughly handled. Steele learns that Louis Laflamme, factor at Ogoke, has made application to her father for the hand of Denise. PHAPTER V.—Pierre. Indian from ~>ke, visits the Walling Ktver post, inslbly for gun shells. David and :hel are suspicious of him. CHAPTER VL—Lascelles visits Wall- River. He Jeers at stories of the Wlndlgo.” To his consternation. De- nlae tells Steele she Is Lascelles’ fiancee. CHAPTER VII—Steele. David and Michel leave to vialt an OJIbway camp, ®n tha trail of the ’’Wlndlgo,’’ and an rout# to peplgon. CHAPTER Y'Al—Talk with tha OJlb- ways confirms tha ausplclon that Pierre • “PI. * nd Tete-Boule hie accom- ti.lce. The ’'Wlndlgo” la heard and hunted, but eecepee Michel returns to '> ailing Klver with messages. Steele, In an effort to bold the terrified Indi ana. lakes the trail of the "Wind 1*0," Without result. CHAPTER IX—Steele and David •tart for Neplgoa. At Ogoke Laflammo welcomea the travelers, seemingly Ixirnlng with surprise of the "Wla- dtgo'' and the loss of St Onge e far caaoe. Steele meets Rosa, Laflammo a nilstreaa who U Introduced by La- fiamme aa his slstar. CHAPTER X.—Rose cornea to Steele ri hie cabin to urge him to take her **■7 from Laflamme The latter ap- r ears and Is overpowered and bound * David, who would have killed him hut for Steel#. The two men escape, leaving Rose David tells Steele La flamme caused the death of Davld’a brother, and the half-breed has ewora to have his life. Lafiamme'a men am - hush them, but the voyagers escape by running the Frying Pan raplda. a feat deemed Impossible. CHAPTER XI.—From Neplgon Steele goes east, returning with n bloodhound with which he hopea to trail the ’ Wln dlgo.” David and Steele go n*- u WaUtn* Rtvar. Where they hed been given up aa lost, drowned In the Fry ing Pen Steele la myatlfled by Denise's cotd reception. CHAPTER XII.—Steele finds himself utterly nt a lose to account for Denise's changed attitude, and with a heavy heart he. with David. Michel, and the bloodhound, leave to hunt the ’ Wln dlgo.’* CHAPTER XIII.—6t. Onge Is decoyed from Walling River by n forged letter In his absence Lallamme comes to the post to urge Denlae to listen to hie suit. She repulses him. Krentled, after taunting her with loving Steele, whom be declares would have run away with Rose, he smashes the girls beloved violin and escapes. CHAPTER XIV—The hunters hear the "Wlndlgo’' and looae the blood hound on Us track The creature kills the dog and gets away. Next day they hear acreatna from a trap, and find Pierre. Laflamme a hanchman. gro tesquely disguised, dead In tha snow. « — " » mystery of the "Wlndlgo" la fed. Laflamme had used it to frighten | Indians Into deserting 8t. Onge trading with him at Ogoka. CHAPTER XV.—Steele and hla two friends secure the pronflse of the In dians. who. now that they know tha dreaded ’'Wlndlgo” was an Invention of Laflamme, are eager for vengeance, to help them rid the country of the trader, and plans ara made. CHAPTER XVI—At Walling River Denise pines and fades. Her father learns she has received a communica tion from Rose Laflamme, placing Steele in a bad light, and she believes It. She insists that having given her word, ahe will carry out her promlae to marry Lascelles. Tete-Boule at tempts to shoot Michel from ambush, and la killed by the latter (CONTINUED FROM LAST WEEK) Id two days Michel and David re tained with hunters from the head, of the lake keen for a look at the body of the masquerader who had left a trail of terror throughout the valley of the Walling. And when they saw the thing which had been sent by* Laflamme to drive them from their trap-lines to new and strange hunting country in the upper valley where their trade would go to Ogoke, there was 9 clamor f0r vengeance. Later when dog "teams, from 'the Little Cur rent to the Medicine Mils, had an swered the call of runners from Port age lake, Michael marshaled the Ojlb- ways at the trap on the ridge and ad dressed- them dramatically In their na tive tongue. *We have sent for you to look with your own eyes Upon this robber of the trap-lines and deflier of the night; this dog whom Laflamme, the trader at Ogoke, sent to All the hearts tf ■mmt women and children with fear, limt his great post on Lake Ogoke Vpiroold welcome you nt the spring trade, but Rack Baptiste, and An* tetne and the others, would soon he among your tipis offering the water that burns and fills your fire, te your women and men. Tea weald trade the palls which yea totted tar tfcreqgh fee moons of the long snows for (His stinging water which steals yonr senses.' And when he had your fur, he would give you a little flour and tea, and some shells for your guns and send you away. But,” and the voice of Michel rose In hoarse crescendo, “your women and children would weep through the freezing moons for the trade goods andpthe flour which La flamme cheatea you out of with his magic water. This Is why he sent Pierre, here, to drive you out of the country of your fathera” “AUila! tlwe! It Is so! He speaks the truth!” shouted the inflamed circle of swart-faced hunters. “You ask wfcy this white man,” continued Michel, “comes to this coun try In the freezing moon and brings the dog with the great voice to hnnt this Wlndlgo,” and the Iroquois kicked the frozen shape at his feet, “when he lives far in the South and will not suffer from what Laflamme does to the OJIbways. This is his amn^r: “In the moon of the gathering of the wild rice, he, with David, here, journeying from Walling River to Neplgon House, stopped at the post of Laflamme. There was trouble and because they were friends of M’sleu St. Onge and knew of the water of Are which the Fathers at Ottawa have forbidden the traders to give the OJlbwaya, Laflamme sent his man to murder them at the'falls of the Jarkflsh. Bat these men you see here, who have trapped the Wlndlgo of Laflamme. laugh at tha white-water. They travel In a magic canoe, and be cause their sheila were atolen by La flamme. all except one. and their gun« empty, they could not fight, but with that shell shot one of the dogs of tha trader. Then they ran the great •trong-water which the ratio* 0 f no Indian has ever passed.” An undertone of surprise and ad miration followed tha words of tha speaker, for there were some In the audience who knew the Frying Pan an the Jarkflsh. •*rhla la why they ask for ten of your best young men to join them In avenging the death of your kinsman. They and L Michel, whom you know, have sworn an oath that this La- (lamina shall not a*a tha snows fada nor tha lea mt at Ogoka In tha moon of tha braaklug of tha auowshtM**. Wa huva givau our word, each to each, that not again shall he steal the palls of tha OJIbways with hla magic water. If you ara men you will send us ten of your young hunters with their dogs, that they may trap these wolves in their den and (be skies above Ogoka may redden with tn* flames of the post where tha Indian is ebaatad and turned out to starve." "Atala! Knh-enh! Yes. yes. w* will do It!” shouted the aroused hunt ers, at tha conclusion of the appeal for aid. Then the American* addressed the Indians, while tha mun from 'Neplgon put hla words Into their native tongue. “You have beard tha words of tha head-man from Walling River. He la my friend and he speaks for me. My home la far in tha country to tha aouth, but I shall not return until this trader, Laflamme, who cheats the OJlbwaya with hla whisky, Is driven from Ogoke. He may have sent oth ers to howl In the night and terrify your women. We must hunt them down. At Walling River Uvea an honest trader who gives yon full value for your pelts in flour and trade- goods. He is the friend of the Ojlb- way. Send us your ablest young men, who can shoot straight and do not fear the men of Laflamme, that we may rid the country of this wolverine, that you may trade without fear at the post at the rapids of the Walling.” Back to their winter campe went the Indians with the tale of La- 4, KODAKERS! Send year films to us for develop ing and printing. One day service. Writ# for prices. LoDar’s Studio 1421 Mala Street COLUMBIA SOUTH CAROLINA . We sell Kaatmau films 66 6 la a Prescription tar Colds, Grippe, Fla; Den gue; BiEous Fever and x-' Malaria. II COi Ik* G*ra* X The Three Friends Waited for Little Jacques and Made Their Plan* flamme’a Wlndlgo, Pierre, while the three friends waited for Little Jacques, and made their plans. In three days the Cree arrived, driving a plodding six-dog team loaded with provisions. He handed Steele two letters. The American thrilled as he saw on one hla name written in a feminine hand,, but he opened the other first aud read aloud to his friends. As St. Onge narrated how Tete- Boule, Laflaftune’s spy, had lured him away from the post with the forged message from Michel, David raised his mittened fists in helpless rage. “By gar, an’ I had haem een dees hands— een dees hands!” he cried, glaring at Steele. Aa he read of the fury of laflamme, culminating In the wreck of the vio lin, Steele's hands shook with his wrath—then pity for her swept him. “Poor, poor girl!" he murmured. “She has lost everything—she la indeed alone." '*W#nr be aald to tha others, “the debt grow* larger, ray friends. Re member the violin, David, when your time cornea!" Th?n Steele opened tha letter from I>*nlae, which ran: “My dear Monsieur Steele: “Our hearts ara filled with happi- naas at your surresa. After the toll •od tha danger, you have won, and I thank you for your goodnaaa to me and to my father—you, a utranger, who might have |>anaed on. and for gotten. It was a house of despair that you found, and you brought hope. Already you may have guessed, moo ■leur. that wa have feared all along that tha Wlndlgo was (ha creature of Laflamme But there was no proof. “You ara going to Ogoke, Monsieur Steele, on a deaperwte venture. It may be that we shall never meet again. For this reason you will un- darmtand when I mm? that you are a very gallant gentleman—that wa—L ■hall never forget. Bon chance! "Iienlae St. Onge." Steele again read the letter, reek ing what wa» not there. At last he folded It and turned away to hide hla disappointment from his curious frirnds. No, he mused. It is only too true. She has, aa the says, forgotten nothing. • • * *. a • a Shortly, each day was marked by the arrival of galloping dog teams from the east, south and west, driven hy lean, wild-looking OJlbwaya, keen for* the adventure—picked men, chosen by their people for their endurance on the winter trails, their proved nervr, and their ‘‘bush craft.” When the last team had come In, Jacquea waa sent down river with a letter and orders to meet the party later on the Upper Walling, with a sled-load of supplies. Steele then outlined hla plan to the Indians. Dividing Into four parties they were to proceed up the Walling valley by different route* tn avoid betraying their purpose If seen by any of La- flamm&a people. It was probable that the traded had sent more than one man to spread terror of the Wln dlgo through the country, although there was small chance that he had at Ogoke another Indian with the marvelous Imitative faculty of Pierre. Therefore on their way to the lake, the hunters were to visit the trap ping camps to learn of t|»e possible activity of other night howlers In the region, whom they were to hunt down. Soon, when their man failed to re turn, the people of Laflamme^ would taste their own medicine. Fear of the unknown fate which had overtaken Pierre and the rest would slqyly chill their blood. And when their search parties did not come back, their hearts would soften as the ice rots under the April sun, and the Indian fad half-breed followers of tho trad er would steal away In the night as men shim the smallpox. Then It would be an easy matter to rush the post, take Laflamme, Big Antoine and Baptiste, and send them to the rail road for trial. * Including the Indians which Dirld and Steele saw tn October, they es timated that Laflamme bad twelve or fifteen men at the post. As the sne- of tbs whole venture depended \ no Indian, sent with sup- ^Mss to the Wtndlao down rtvar, ne ef a search party canid be to escape and bring tha to Taiamms That weald rsmevt Urhteh had tar Its shjsct, of earning tha tat* of their Much asi hls two swart Ueotmanta would have welcomed open wnr with Laflamme, they agreed that the stage of Ogoke must be ooe of secrecy and craft Once the Indians. deserted. It would be possible gradually to pick up any hunting parties by closing In and sending men to watch the trails near the post, qStil Laflamme was driven In self-defense to leave, or they took him. With the poet deserted, the OJIbways of the upper valley would bring their fur to Walling River for the Christmas trade, and St. Onge’s future was assured. " ” For two days the Impatient men waited for a dog-team from the post, eighteen miles up the lake, to pass the outlet, ’{‘hen Michel and David, taking Wagosh aj^d two of the hunt ers, started through (he forest to lo cate a camp near Ogoke, from which all’ trails tgjcen by hunting parties to the back country could be watched, for Laflamme would need much meat to feed his people. Days passed with no news from Michel. Steele was disturbed, but he had three men out hunting meat and could not leave the outlet. Then, one afternoon at Husk, David came In be hind his dogs. Ahead of the team, breaking trail in the new snow, walked a sinister-faced half-breed and an Indian, shoulders and elbows thrust stiffly back, and Steele saw that their upper arms were bound together with rawhide. “Where did you pick these up?” asked Steele. “Dey hunt een de beeg spruce bush near de pos’.” Then Steele learned, while l>avld ate his supper, that with the aid of their skinning knives as threats, the latter and Michel had finally forced the half-breed to talk. The failure of Pierre, who had been away a month, to return to the post was worrying Laflamme. Two men, one following the other, had been sent downriver to learn what had become of the two Wlndlgo. The first scoot now waa long overdue. Already aome of the Indians had left In the night with their families. The others were ready to stampede. Something was tha matter In the lower valley of tha Walling. Aa Michel desired to see hla chief at oore. Steele left In tha morning with two men. In the thick timber of a little valley five miles bark of the poet, Ktaeia found the camp of Mkhei. A wall- traveled trail to tha country hunted by the poet people ran wtthla a mile, and was constantly watrhsd Here they bad picked up tha prison- era brought back by David, and. as’ the post depended for meat on the moon* of the region beyond, her* the crafty Mlchal knew he would vat the •rarrhers sent hy I^flanune to find the mlaatng men. And when, is time, the aeorrh party Is tarn disap peared into the mysterious maw of the wilderness, the Iroquois wss sat tsfled that a nameless dread would enter the hearts of the people of Ogoke. Already alx men had gone out from the post, never t« return, and a hen they had got this aearrh party, he told Steele, he doubted If an In dian would dare remain. CHAPTER XVI For two days the watchers of the trail waited In their amhuah. but no hunters or search party left the poet. Then, one morning, at daylight, from the tldek scrub of the shore south of Ogoke. two men looked long through binocular* at the chlmneya of the snow-blanketed cablus, and smiled Into each othsr’s wind burned face# when they saw that from more than half there roae' no smoke of cooking fires. Of the group of tipis of bush Indians which had dotted the clearing in October, but two now remained. It was the turn of the old OJIbway and two young Indiana to stand guard on the trail to the game country. Michel and Steel were too far to the south to overtake Laflamme’s men. so they struck straight back to camp, confident of the outcome—for old Wa- gosh guarded the trail. • That morning, aa the stare faded snd dawn broke blue and bitter over the eastern ridges, an old man with hate In hla heart prayed for the com ing of one for whom he had waited long. With hoods pulled over frost- blackened faces from which rose the steaming columns of their breath, Wa- gosh and his two companions shuffled back and forth on their snowshoes, beating their shoulders with mittened hands, for the stinging cold pierced their caribou capotes. “It may not be that he will come today,” said the old Indian in his native tongue, “hut If s French man, short, with legs that curve like s bow, comes with others, they pass and we follow, until they separate to hunt. Then you will take the others, while I follow him alone—for he Is mine. Wago'sh, the fox, will know what to do." The Indians nodded. They hafl beard his story- But this morning the watchers of the trail had oot long to wait As the tifting sun filtered through the forest; subbing the blue shadows with lances of light, Wagosh suddenly •topped the' whispered coovsrsattaa with; "Btean! shlah!” Crouched In s thicket of young fir. their gus stripped of tMc i sew his aim tremble. Then, shivering like * man chilled toy the bone, the old Indian turned a face fierce with paselon, and whispered: “Let them pass. He has comer \ * Swinging rapidly up the trail moved the stocky figure of Blech Baptiste followed by an Indian whose eyea shifted furtively to light. and left as he walked. When the two had passed from sight, three shapes, leav ing the trail, followed like shadows, on muffled shoes. Two •miles beyond, where the fresh tracks of a moose crossed the path In the snow, and the hunters from Ogoke separated, Wa gosh left his friends, to pick up the webbed Imprints of the larger shoes of his man. Then two still hunts started through the soundless --forest—the stalk of moose; and of man. Over the neW snow, as swift and as noise less as a wolf after ptarmigan, the hunter of Black Baptiste dosed in. Evidently in doubt of the direction of the movement of the air, the’ French man stopped to test it with his bare hand. Then he went on, until the sudden lengthening of the stride In the snow indicated that the moose had scented danger and started to travel. With a curse the hunter lifted both shoulders In s gesture of defeat The shifting air had betrayed him. He turned from the trail he had fol lowed and struck out in s new direc tion. Shortly, as he stopped and knelt on a knee to tighten the thongs of a shoe, a voice straightened him to his feet with a Jerk,jiervoualy fing ering the trigger ^of his gun. His shifting eyes searched the Inscrutable spruce that- walled him In. Trapped, helpless, he flinched from the export ed flash of the hidden rifle. “Drop the gun!" The fingers of the Frenchman re laxed. The gun slipped to the snow at his feet. “Marche!” The command mapped on the froaty air like a whiplash. Slowly the henchman of Laflamme obeyed the order of hla eonceoljed ene my. Then a crouching figure, with half-raised rifle, stole from a clump of young growth and followed. A hundred feet from the gun. Bap tiste. shaking with fear and raga. “What do you waatf he OJIbway. Th* blade ayes etf with uxnltatUm. Th# teas tbs hood was pttfitap. At looked Into tbs foes *f fils i «. “Ton Women rtverr Ho bit tbs as s drill bit as steel. Tbs swart features of Blech Bap tist# went yellow at ths words. Ho remembered tho father of tho girl at hla cabin. ■ - Stiff with fear, hla staring eyes watched the black mnsslo of tho mov ing death Moody sighted on his heart. Then, as bis nerve# snapped snd ho looped In desperation toward ths crouched figure, there wss e loud ex plosion. With a groan tha OJibwajr crumpled to the mow. The dased Frenchman, stopped short In his rush, rocked on his feet— then stumbled forward, grasping hts knife. As he bulled himself, with e downward slash, on the hasp In tho snow, ho mot an upward thrust which burled tho Made of Wagosh to hla body. 1 Then on the white floor of the for est, a man blinded by flame and pow der, and one mortally hurt struck snd slashed until strength left their arms and they lay together, hunter and. hunted, motionless, on ths crimsoned snow. There Steels snd Michel found them. “Knife fight T cried tho Iroquois. “What happen to Wagoeh guar _ Ho picked up tho cheap trade-gun with Its buret breech. “Ab-hoh 1 Ho got snow een de mnsslo on’ aha bust w'en he shoot.” “Too bad, poor old mas! Ho hove shot Baptiste St the he wanted t* eettlo H who he waa, I suppose." "Tee, be mak* dls fetisr gun—dJn he atop beam for to taiy," mid Michel, examining ths trail of Baptiste. “W’en Wagosh shoot aa' do gun Lust, de Frenchman beam wid de knife." Mlchal gently turned fnmen body of the old Indian. log tho taco, powdor-hurasd snd tarn* beyond recognition. "By gar! Ho fight heos eyes!" 'Brave old Wagosh T and tamed away, atek at hod liked the Maple-heartt “1 tell you dat set was all Old Wagosh watch ds trail" "Tea. the trail waa safe with Wa gosh Now ho eua root la did what he rams to do” "I wish Happy Hootin' And tho two roemmod to thoir and aaot a Mod to bring In tho to ho cached It cook ) The Dased Frenchman Stopped Sheri In Hla Rush. MONEY TO LOAN Loan* made Mine day application received. s No Red Tape HARLEY * BLATT. Attorneya-at-Law Barnwell# S. C. (CONTINUED NUT Sand Us Year Job Work* ♦♦♦♦ssssssssssssss»»ssssss TYPEWRITES RIBBONS. — Tho People-Sentinel has just racotaod n supply of ribbons for standard mak as of typowritora. ♦♦♦♦♦♦SSSSSSSSSSSSBBffSSfM -COTTOH Higher Prieoo Should Prevail Later in ths Seassn.- Ship Cotton to tta to be Held. Advances Made on Consign ments. Savannah Handles Mors that 1,000,000 Bales a Year, GETS HIGHEST PBICB8. Savannah Cotton FactSffSgo C*. SavsHak, Ga., . NOTICE! * 1 •* * ' . ’ > Against Hunting, Fishing and Trapping Any person or persons entering upon the lands hereinafter referred to, situate in Barnwell, Richland and Red Oak Townships, for tho purpose of hunting, fishing or trapping, will be prosecuted to the foil extent of tho law: L. W. Tilley —200 Mrs. Jane R. Patterson 1,000 Sue Ford — 180 J. M. Woathersbee 572 Mrs. Flossie Smith ^— 1,000 Billie Jenkins 60 Allen Eubanks 180 Jessie Middleton 800 Joe McCreary — 200 J. W. Newton _246 Harriett Hutson 175 Estate of H. A. Patterson — 2,000 . J. M. Easterling — 860 Joseph E. Dicks 800 W. H. Duncan 406 R. C. Holman 400 P. H. Creech :— 45 A. A. Rleheed^w 2,000 Mrs. Kate M. Patterson 2,500 Lemon Bros. 150 Mrs. Annie P. Easterling 688 8., B. Moseley - 80 Duncannon Pisco —— 1,850 Mrs. Lena Darias i 90 G. ARTHUR EVANS, & C. New. 22,1911. w* l>