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THE DOOM TRAIL
B y Arthur D. H ow den Smith
Author o f PORTO BELLO GOLD, Etc.
WifTJ Servie»
f ® h r Hrenteeo’e.)
CHAPTER XIV— Continued
—27—
"Yo-hay," muttered the warriors In
guttural aaaeut. “We will keep our
hearts strong. O Ta wan ne-ara."
Their faces were more serious than
before, but they exhibited no signs of
fear.
We moved much more cautiously
now that we were near our Journey's
end, with three scouts always In front,
one on either flank of the path we trod.
Hut we suw no signs of other men, al
though many times we came upon bear
tracks. Toward evening we struck the
waters of the tumbling little river
through which Ta wun-ne-ars and I
hud waded that night after Marjory
had released ua.
Scouts returned to report not a foot
print In the snow. We ate a little
parched corn mixed with maple sugar
and some Jerked meat we carried In
our haversacks.
About midnight we all moved for
ward, Ta-wan ne ar* leading the line.
The oaks and elms, maples and wil
lows, which had composed the ele
ments of the forest, now gave place to
tall funereal firs, whose massive Jade-
green foliage remained untouched by
the Icy breath of winter. Grotesque
shadows darted vaguely over the white
ground as the trees swayed and
groaned. In the distance an owl hoot
ed solemnly. The Otter touched my
Shoulder.
"Did you hear the owl?" he mur
mured.
"Yes," 1 whispered back.
"It Is cold for an owl to leave his
tree hole.”
I lie threw back his head, and I
jjflrted at the fidelity of the repeti
A shadow fell athwart us as we lay
and a mocking voice replied for me:
"By all means, most excellent Iro
quois. I trust you will nurse our val
uable captive back to full strength
and health."
I struggled to a sitting position, for
I liked not to He at De Veulle’« feet,
however much I might be at his
mercy.
"So you walked Into the spider's
web,” he continued, standing betwixt
me and the firelight which ruddied hts
sinful face. “A woman's plea—and
you threw caution to the winds I You
fool I”
“The letter was a bait?” I exclaimed
Incredulously.
"For you—yes. I say again—you
fool 1 Baptiste took the letter to Mur
ray, and Murray read tt to me. It
could not have been contrived more
skillfully to suit our plans.”
“Twas ridiculous, no doubt, but I was
easier In my heart for assurance that
Marjory had not known her appeal
tion.
"Too-whoo n o ! Too-hoo!’’
We listened, but there was no an
swer. Insteud, after brief Interval,
the howl of a wolf resounded.
A few yards farther on the owl
hooted again. The line halted, and the
warrior In front of him whispered thut
Tu-wan-ne-nrs wished to speak with
We. 1 passed by him and severnl
others uud came to where the chief
Stood, peering, or, trying to peer, Into
the night.
“There was something strange nhout
the owl, brother." he said. "The war
riors told me that the Otter answered
it, yet It did not reply. And then the
wolf—”
A yell as of fiends from hell shat
tered the mantle of silence. Flumes
spurted through the firs, and In the
gleam of the discharges und of torches
thrown Into our midst I had a fleeting
glimpse of hideous masked figures
bounding between the tree trunks.
"Keep your hearts strong, brothers
of the Dong House,” shouted Ta-wan-
ne-ars. “They are only Cuhnuaga
dogs. Stand to It."
Hu fired ns he spoke. I Imitated
him. Our men shot off a scattering
volley. Then the False Faces were
amongst us, coining from all sides,
springing out of the ground, dropping
from the very branches overhead and
wielding their ga-Je-waa, or war clubs,
With dreadful effect.
C H A PTER XV
G*-ha-no's Sacrifice
There was no time to reload. We
fought with ax and knife as best we
could. Tu wnn-ne nrs and I, with half
a dosen of our warriors, crowded buck
to back. The rest of our party were
cut off In twos and threes.
Resistance was holed ess.
The
swarms of False Faces seemed to care
nothing for death If only they could
bring dowu an Iroquois.
I wus knocked senseless by a blow
Which I partially wurded with my tom
ahawk. When I came to I wns lying
In the snow In front of a huge tire. My
arms were bound and my head ached
Bo tbdently tbnt 1 M t rich
“Is my brother In pulu?" asked the
voice of Ta-wun-ne-ars.
I rolled over to And him lying be
side me, the Mood from three or four
trivial ruts freezing on his head und
•boulders.
"Yea," I groaned, "but 'tls naught."
“There was treachery," he said.
"They knew we were coming, and they
lost many men so that they might
take us alive."
“All our warriors—" I faltered.
He turned his hend to the left; and,
following hts gase, I saw that I wus
on the right of a line of recumbent tig
Urea, which my dlsxtncss would not
permit me to count.
"No not all, I think,” Ta-wan-ne-ars
answered after a moment. "Five are
slain uud fourteen others lie here But
I do not see the Otter."
“The Otter suspected somethtng
wninii," 1 said. " Twua he who an
swered the owl's call."
"It may be he eecaped," replied Ta
wan ne-ara "I must warn our broth
ers to say naught of him. If the
Keeper» do not suspect, they may be
lleve they have all of us safe In their
net."
He whispered his warning to the
man beside hint, and It was passed
down the line.
“Your head Is much swollen, broth
er." he said, rolling over again so us
to face me. "f* t Ta wan ne ars make
shift to bathe It with snow.”
wns used ns a lure. It enabled me to
maintain a stoicism of demeanor 1 did
not feel.
"Well, 'twas kind of you to make
such haste," he went on, sneering
down at me. “You will be In time for
the wedding after all. Oh, never f e a r ;
you shall be permitted to live that
long. We have plenty of meat In this
bag to supply diversion for our sav
ages In the meantime."
He switched suddenly Into the Sen
eca vernacular.
"Are you all here,wIroquols dogs?”
he demanded curtly.
"AU are here, French mongrel,” re
turned Ta-wan-ne-ars pleasantly.
De Veulle kicked him.
"Keep that for the torture stake,”
he advised. "We have five corpses
and fourteen warriors and yourself.
That Is all?"
"All," reiterated Ta-wan-ne-ars.
De Veulle pnssed along the line,
cross-questioning each prisoner to an
accompaniment of kicks and threats.
All told the same story. De Veulli
seemed satisfied. He returned to my
side, und summoned a host of masked
figures from the surrounding shudows.
They Jerked us to our feet, stamped
out the tire and escorted us over the
trampled, bloody snow where we had
fought, through the gloomy aisles of
the Evil Wood and Into the Irregular
streets ot I-a Vlerge du Bols.
Two men stood by the gate of the
stockade to greet us. One wns Mur
ray, the other was Bnptlste Meurler.
The unsavory face of the courrter
de bols grinned appreciation of my as
tonishment.
•Teste. monsieur 1" he exclaimed.
"It seems you are a slow traveler. I
feared I might be behind you, but I
arrived twenty-four hours tn advance.
I have to thank you for the beaver
pelts. They were a sufficient bribe for
my Immediate release."
"That will do, Baptiste," Interjected
Murray. "Heard you ever, Ta-wan-
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ne-ars, of scouts who wore bears’ pads
for moccasins?”
Mr. Murphy wns taking his first
For the first and only time during
our acquaintance Ta-wan-ne-ars was flight In an airplane. The pilot was
taking him over San Francisco and
surprised Into a look of chagrin.
"We thought It wag late for bears when they were about 3,000 feet up
the plane went Into a nose dive.
to be out,” he admitted.
“I’ll bet 60 per cent of the people
Murray chuckled with amusement
"Quite so, quite so! And so you down there thought we were falling,”
visit us once more. Master Ormerod. the pilot remarked.
“Sure,” answered Mr. Murphy, "and
I confess ’tls an unexpected pleasure
which we shall strive to make the I know danged well 60 per cent of
the people up here thought so, too,"—
most of."
"81r,” I said earnestly, "tt makes Success.
little difference to me what Is my fate,
but I conjure you by whatever preten
D ID N ’T DRESS SWELL
sions to gentility you possess to give
over your plan of selling your daugh
ter."
“The words you choose for your ap
peal do not commend It to me,” he
returned. "Nor do I perceive what
business of yours It may be to ques
tion my daughter’s marrluge.”
Now, what put It In my head I know
not, unless It was the fact that in her
letter to me Marjory had spoken of
him as "Mr. Murray"; but I leaped to
the Instant conclusion that she was
not his daughter. Sure, no man could
have disposed of his own daughter so
cold-bloodedly 1
“She Is not your daughter In the
Mary—Does he dress well?
first place," I retorted boldly. "And
Alice—Dress swell? I should say
In the second pluce, she has expressed not I His wife does all the swell
to me her abhorrence of her marriage, dressing In that house.
as you know."
“Zooks," he remarked mildly after
Landing a Passenger
an Interval of silence, “ 'tie strong lan
R u th rode In m y n e w c yc le c a r
guage that you use. You are a head
In th e t e a t In b a c k o f m e;
strong young man. Master Ormerod.
I to o k a bu m p a t fif t y - f iv e .
A
n d rode on r u th le s s ly .
Cun It be that you have some personal
Interest In the matter?”
What’s in a Name?
Again gome Instinct prompted me.
"I have,” I asserted. “Your daugh
"My niece Is quit? theatrical," re
ter prefers me to the man you would marked old Mrs. Blunderby. "Next
lord upon her. And as a suitor, ac week she Is taking part In a Shake
cording to your estimates of the speare play at college."
world's opinion, I nm far more eligi
“Which of his plays Is It?” her caller
ble than this Frenchman."
asked.
“You are scarcely wise to say so to
“Edith mentioned the name of It,
his face, and I beg leave to differ with but I'm not sure whether It's 'If You
you. I find the Chevuller de Veulle a Like It Thut Way’ or ’Nothing Much
very eligible young man, of rank In the Doing.’ ”
world, of achievement, of distinct
promise for the future.”
Mental Control
"If you can call u man eligible who
"The
next
thing, I Ruppose,” growled
was not even eligible for continued
residence at the most profligate court Mr. Grump, who thought h' i liberties
were being tampered with, "they’ll be
In Europe, I agree with you.”
“Tut, tut,” remonstrated Murray. controlling a man's thoughts by gov
“Your words are not those of a gentle ernment edict.”
"They’re doing that now Indirectly,”
man, sir. We will abandon the sub
ject. Where do you propose to Incar answered his companion. “I spend
most of ray time thinking about how
cerate the prisoners, chevalier?"
“I would not risk them a second I'm going to pay my taxes.”
time In the keeping of the savages,”
A New Brand
said De Veulle. "Let us try your
strong room. There you and I can
Customer—Give me a gossiping
have an eye to their security."
sheep's head.
“T hat Is w-ell conceived. Is there
Butcher—What kind Is that?
any news of l’ere Hyaclnthe ?”
Customer—Just take out the brains
"I have stationed a man at the river and leave tn the tongue.
crossing to bring word the Instant he
arrives."
Riddle
"I applaud your thoughtfulness.
"Barbers must be bigger than bak
This continued delay In the ceremony ers."
Is annoying. Master Ormerod, your
“Why?"
sufferings are upon your own head.”
"They’re strapping fellows, all of
I looked eagerly for Marjory’s face
them.”
as we marched across the yard Inside
the stockade and through the heavy
M IG H T GET STUCK
timber doors of the house. But she
wus not visible. Our guards exam
ined our bonds carefully, fastened our
legs and then left us.
We remained there three days, with
out Intercourse with anyone except
our Indian Jailers, who brought us
messes of food twice dally.
On the fourth day we were eating
our meager fare of boiled com when
the door was flung open violently and
the gaunt figure of Black Kobe en-
tered unannounced. Behind him, ob
viously unwillingly, walked Murray.
"Which ts the Englishman Orme
rod?” demanded the priest In French
“Here 1 am, father,” I nnswered,
standing up as well as I could.
"She has sharp cars.”
"Mistress Murray tells me that you
“Avoid whispering In them then—
have won her affections?" he asked , you might get stuck.”
coldly.
My heart leaped with sudden Joy.
One Male Job They Shy At
"That Is true, father," I said.
'M o n * w o n d e rs t h a t
“And you love her?"
T o n 'll find a re m is s in ’
"As much as a man may, father.”
A re w o m e n w h o
W
i l l g la d ly lis te n .
He turned upon Murray with a ges
turn of derision.
(T O B E C O N T IN U E D .)
CHILDREN CRY
FOR “ CASTORIA”
C u rre
W it
Cheer Up
Aunt Susanah—Such a d ress! why.
the Idea 1 I'd be mortified to death
In a dress like th a t!
l’hyllts—Yes. I expect you would,
but don’t feel badly about It, Aunt
Susanah. A person’s figure can't be
helped.
When th« Acadlans were driven It hnd Inin wns the Imprint of a
from thelf homes In what Is now three-legged pot, doubtless having
Nova Scotia In 17W, by the British contained valuables left by the Aca
Saving It
and Colonial troops from New Eng dlans nearly a century before.—
land, their expulsion came so sud- j Montreal Family Herald.
Oliver—Why don’t you brush all
denly that they made baste to bury
that stuff off your coat sleeve?
N a t u r e 'i P e rfe c tio n
their valuables, hoping that at some
Ted—No. I'm going to keep that
With all our knowledge we cannot school girl complexion 1
time they might return for them.
Some of them did return but oth keep clean a piece of glass, if ever
er«, It would appear, were not so so precious. such as the lens of a mi
The Queen
fortunate, for at various time», pots croscope. without scratching It In the
"Why do they always give a show
and chests containing money and clenntng. The window and lens of the er to a girl who is going to be mar
other valuables have been uncovered. human body, the eye. Is kept auto ried?”
There ts a story well known In the matically clean for the time of one’s
"Merely a quaint old custom to
region about a family living on the life by means of a wonderful slightly symbolise the beginning of a reign.”—
disinfectant
fluid,
the
tears,
and
the
north shore of Cumberland basin In
Exchange.
IfCH. One evening members of the ' w-lnklng of our eyelid», and the water
family »aw a boat anchored about a j sent down the nose.
Small-Talker
mile from land and speculated as to
O ysters L ik e Yeast
"Would yoq call Mr«. Chatters a
Its mission.
Next morning It had
Oyster« enjoy feeding on yea»t and good talker?"
gone and a little later It was dis
“No.
Good talkers get their
covered that a block of stone that make rapid growth on this food, says
tongue« and their brains to collsbo
served as a doorstep In front of the a recent report of the British win
rate.”
house had been moved. Beneath where [ tstry cf fisheries.
Mother 1 Fletcher's Castorla has
been in use for over 80 years to re
•Thaw froren combs on poultry by lieve babies and children of Constipa
tion. Flatulency, Wind Colic and D iar
applying snow or Ice water,” say poul
trymen at the New Y’ork State College rhea ; allaying Feverishness arising
of Agriculture at Ithaca. “Carbolated therefrom, and, by regulating the
grease, which may be purchased at Stomach and Bowels, aids the assimi
mo6t drug stores, will do the trick. A lation of Food; giving n atural sleep
New Jersey agricultural bulletin sug without opiates.
The genuine bears signature of
gests the following ointm ent: Five
parts o'f refined petroleum, three parts
of glycerin, and one part of turpen
tine by volume. This should be ap
plied gently and rubbed in fairly well.
Itemove the black dead tissue from
badly frozen combs, so that they will
oroae,
PETLA N 'D , S a lem , Ore.
heal more quickly.
“At this time of year many flocks
An Honest Pug
suffer from frozen combs. Tills trou
Terry—He’s a good boxer but he’s
ble Is particularly bad with roosters
of the single-comb White Leghorn he’s too honest.
Jim—How’s that?
breed because their combs are so big.
Terry—He won't take a sock on the
If a rooster’s comb Is badly frozen, It
seriously affects his vigor and Im Jaw without returning It.
pairs his usefulness in the flock.”
R o m a n E y e B a ls a m . a p p lie d a t n ig h t u p on
Poultrymen at the state college say re tirin
g , w ill fresh en an d s t r e n g th e n eye*
that the best farmers In the state put by m o rn in g . 172 P e a rl S t., N . T. A dv.
their roosters In the breeding pens
Nearly all husbands and wives think
early In the winter and watch them
carefully during the coldest weather they are martyrs.
so as to minimize the danger of freez
Useless laws diminish the authority
ing. The college recommends curtains
In front of the roost on very cold of necessary ones.
nights In narrow houses. This Is not
recommended In houses that ure wider
than 15 feet. Another suggestion Is
the use of wooden floats with 1-lnch
holes In them to be pluced In the
dridklng vessels. This reduces the
danger of freezing, as it keeps the
Colds break in 34 hours for the millions
birds from dipping their wattles In the
who use Hill's. Fever and headaches go.
water when they drink.
La Grippe yields In ) days. Thu is the quick,
the scientific way to end these dangers and
In exceptional cases, It may be well
discomfurts. Don't trust le&acr helps, don't
to grease the combs and w attles of
wait. Get hock to normal at once.
especially valuable birds during cold
weather. The pens should be kept
Be Sure
well ventilated at all times.
Colds
Will stop tomorrow
cascara Q uinine
Sprouted Oats for Hens
Is Most Excellent Plan
Get Bed Bat
There 1s nothing In the world that
will make the old hens feel as much
like spring Is here as a box of sprout
ed oats every day, experienced poul
trymen say. Sprouting oats Is not
necessarily expensive or a lot of both
er. Equipment may be homemade. A
tub or keg will do to soak the oats
In. Five or six boxes about 4 Inches
deep will do for the trays. A room
which ranges from 50 to 80 degrees
In temperature all the time Is satis
factory. Soak the oats 12 hours In
the tub or keg. Drain them and put
them In a box where they should be
kept moist until the sprouts are about
% Inch long. Feed them at that time,
which is usually about five days after
they are put to soak. Five or six
boxes will make tt possible to sta rt a
box each day and weed one regularly.
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palatable, succulent feed Is too often
the limiting fnctor In winter poultry
rations. Sprouted oats are one of the
finest forms of succulence. The Ne
braska Agricultural college poultry-
men offer the following suggestions:
Good heavy oats with strong germi
nating power produce best results.
Soak the oats for about 24 hours.
Drain off excess moisture. Turn Into
lard tub or randy pall which hus holes
In bottom to allow excess moisture
to drain off. Add moisture later If
necessary. Keep tn fairly even mod
erate temperature. Feed when the
sprouts are one-half to one Inch long
(“greening" Is unnecessary).
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