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Chapter IX
WO, 1
to Lac Bain, late In Septem
ber, came MacDonald the map-maker
For the
ing agent,
un pole
tack
ten days Gregson, investigat
in that
ind to
and twice
Marie's 1
he slept and kill
paid little
sues the
time it
creep upon him while
him. The F
attention to now, a fact which
would have made her happy if it
He was enrap
beauty
+ t
ui DOSE,
had come into
actor himself
her
not been for Gregson
tured with wild,
of the Cree girl, and McTaggart,
out He
the sinuous
witl
jealousy, encouraged him Was
tired of Marie,
McTaggart
wanted
He
to get
(iregson could possibly
him it would be
witl
He explained why
the det
bring
Quiesne
ness of
parti
I Were
ones were hilt
his chief runner
curtains fi he windows, and
ated phonograph |
gone on to Lac Ia
doubts, he |
11d have
He had
the days as they
no and
passed,
Down on the Gray Loon Pierrot and
Nepeese were busy at many things
times Pierrot's of |
Lac Bain forgot
went out of the Willow's |
It was the Red Moon,
with the anticipation
of the winter hunt,
carefully dipped a hundred |
boiling caribou-fat mixed
while Pierrot ade |
|KO
fears
were
mind entirely
and it thrilled
and excitement
Nepeese
traps in
with
fresh
his
than a
always
But at there
do, for Pierrot, like all his
brotherhood, did not begin
until the
the
rewebhed
beaver grease,
deadfalls ready for
When
day from
with him.
setting on
trails he
the
was gone more
cabin, she was |
the cabin was much to |
Northern
to prepare |
keen tang of autumn was In
yf here
with
to
winter storms;
were snowshoes to be
new babiche, there |
was wool in readiness for
the the cabin had to |
be banked, a new harness made, skin.
ning knives sharpened and winter
moccasins to be manufactured: a hun-
dre! ald one affairs to be attended to.
He repaired the meat rack at the
I ack of the eabin, where, from the
beginning of cold weather until the
end, vould hang the haunches of deer,
¢ rihou the family
was scarce, the
be cut
and moose
i .vder and, wlen fish
Ggogs’ rations
In the bustle of all this Nepeese was
compelled to give attention to
Baree than during the preceding
weeks, “hey did not play so much;
they no longer swan, for with the
mornings there was deep frost on the
ground, and the water was turning
icy cold: they no longer wandered
deep In the forest after flowers and
berries. For hours at a time Baree
would now lie at the Willow's feet,
watching her slender fingers as they
weaved swiftly in and out with her
suowshog babiche; end now and then
or
loss
a ee i eos -
Nepeese would pause to lean over and
him for a moment in her
soft Cree, sometimes In English or her
father's French
It was the Willow's
Baree had learned to understand, and
sometimes
volee
poise of her body, the changing
which
into
shadow or sun
He knew it
ie smiled; he shook him
brought
light her face what
when sl
ind often
innthetie
aughed: her
him, a
Jumped about her in
she
of
word from her was worse
hlow, Twice had
K him, and had
and faced him with bared
angry snarl, the
up Hl
rejoleing, when
happiness was a part
stern
Pierrot
Strud twice Baree
is and an
his b
Had
Pie
It
ick standing
one of the other
rrot would have
have b
he
‘
Baie
would
man must
was alwavs
Willow's hand, a word from
settied
slowly
is throat
nervous
that Nepeese
vhine softly
ng for some
Pierrot
utable
It
with
way
was night, a
and
¢ earth was whit.
frost, when they
hunt-call of the wolv
that had come
that for which Baree had been waiting.
In instant Baree had sensed it
grew taut as of
as he stood up in the
the direction from
the mystery and thrill
They could hear him
softly ; and Plerrot, bending
that caught the of
properly, could
rions igt ied moon
ars, under which ti
with a filin of
ecard the fi
} rst
I
0s
jerrot knew at last
an
muscles pieces
stretched rope
facing
floated
whining
80 he light
the night
see
“It is Mee-Koo!"
per to Neheese,
That it, the
hat was running
not the
he sald In a whis-
call of
swift
the
in
of
was
Baree's
veins alone call his spe.
tions unnumbered. It was the voice of
So Pierrot had whispered,
In the golden night
his people.
and he was right.
had
who
gambled it
must
who most, and
lose or win.
laree he slowly
by in the shadows,
In a few moments more he was gone.
as
away, step step,
wa
that straight,
and back her head, eyes
that glowed in rivalry with the stars,
“Baree !™
stood
with
then she
flung
{It was
she called, “Baree! Ja
ree! ree!”
* the edge of
slow,
He must have heen nes
the she had
waiting or two
But he
an arrow,
drawn a
before he
had
and he
Nepoeese V
forest, for
breath was
back at
straight
up face
hands head
“You are right,
“He to the
come He
With hand still
pointed with the other
her side come,
whined
Hs
into her ut her
to his
sald
will
mon pere” she
wolves, but he
will go
eave me
on Ba
back. will
never
for long.” one
ree s head, sie i
ff th
he forest
nered
into the pitiike blackness «
“Go
“But
Cheanu
With
cabin the door
Baree!
you back.
must come
10
Pierrot
inp
Mires
and was
his
hi 164 Stra
| Red Moon,
gathere
He sent
and space,
1 his
In
ne
fe
hood
8 OCH 0
a eptat
feared
pale
fluence of Neneess were
that
of the «
the w f-Bilood
sweet blood
i
it. But
ney
Went
and three Haree
to it
f an
swinging
was
i gave
At
CE BEAN,
answer
the end o hour he heard the
Pler
stood
southward,
would easily
sir quarry had f
or. Or In a lake, and
were on fresh trall By this time
rter of a mile of
rest from the
separat Baree
wolf, but the
an old
nd precision
the
compassing
lone wolf was a
with the directness
long
and
of
direction of
his trall
was leading for a point half or three
quarters of a mile In advance of the
{| pack.
This was a trick of the brotherhood
which Baree had yet to learn: and the
result of his ignorance, and lack of
skill, was that twice within the next
half-hour found himself near the
pack being able Join It
Then came a long and silence
The pack bad pulled its Kill,
and In their feasting made no
| sound.
The
dered
wolf,
experience, he
the hunt
that
swerved in
ors, «0 he
he
without to
final
down
they
of the
or
on
Baree wan
until the
moon was well the wane, He was
a long way from the cabin, and his
trall had been an uncertain and twist
ing one, but he was no longer pos
| sessed with the discomforting
tion of being lost. The last
| three months had been
strongly in him the sense of orienta
that “sixth sense” which guides
the pigeon unerringly on its way and
| takes a bear straight as a bird might
| ny to its last year's denning place.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
night
at least
rest
alone,
sensn
two or
| tion,
There Is nothing on earth that so
grinds one as to he met with dis-
courtesy and rudeness in dally life, 1
have watched for fifty years and 1
have found that the nasty little cancer
that euts the deepest and hurts the
worst In married life is lack of
courtesy, Just common, everyday
politeness in the way you address
each other and In the attention you
pay each other, In the way you eat
your food, in the way you conduct
yourself in the privacy of your bed:
chamber,
Be gracions! More men and women
have lost themselves to each other by
being rough and careless and sicken-
ing each other concerning the little
niceties of life, when merely to keep
up things in the way they began would
have saved the whole situation,
to name the biggest rock on which
matrimony stands, I would put
fingers on the thing that starts dis
content and unhappiness, as lack
courtesy between men
which very shortly culminates In dis
gust and disrespect.—-Gene Stratton
Porter In a posthumous article in Me.
Call's Magazine,
Comparative Perils
An Atchison man: “I was In a real
tornado once. But the thing
scares me to death is alimony,”
Atchison Globe,
adjustable
An closed-end
sides of almost any hexagonal nut,
fra J} Bes
Cy
By A. ATWATER KENT
over the
en joy me
pense for
equipment,
Histone
i eividd
farm,
with equal
But in addition
entertainment
nersdr
where
in they
received
Are
satisfac
ple asure
.
tion
programs and
fy ts
interest allke
dio Is being
eral Information, of
city and country, ra used
more and more to carry to the farmer
#pecial informat
ance to him In
marketing of his crops, the breeding
and care of his live stock and the pre.
vention of loss and from
pests and emergency
conditions
It 1s’ this service that ralses radio,
for the farmer, out of the class
mere instrumentality for pleasure and
recreation alone, and makes of it a
utility as helpfal In the business of
farming as the stock ticker
telephone are to the broker
man in the city.
The greater emphasis on radio as a
practical dollars-and-cents investment
for the farmer from
radlo manufacturers or broadcasters
or from any group primarily inter
ested in the radio industry. It comes,
instead, from the United States De-
partment of Agriculture, whose prime
interest Is In the progress and pros:
perity of the American farmer,
The department began an exper!
mental radio market news service in
December, 1020. A Iaboratory trans.
lon of direct assist
the production and
damage
storms, other
of a
the
bus!
and
or
Ness
does not come
standards was used to broadcast, on a
graph from Washington, a radio mar
ketgram and turn it over to the news.
papers In thelr wn ‘owns, or give
coples to banks store” to be
posted n bullel nn boards,
Je or
Th: modern thecry of volernoes im.
that the raesc volrs of moi‘én
leva which feed (h fire peaks are
small and superficial Instesd o* «¢ n-
carth's sup;
interior fires, the two volcanoes
Hawall probably posses, not far Lolow
the earth's surface, some kind of local
pocket of fluld and highly heated lava.
Similar pocltets exist, it Is belleved,
beneath the other active volcanoes,
SSETIELING RADIO SETT
zr rE HITLS
’
To
A
in their
husiness govern
ment experts f convincing
of that a radio receiving set is now
initely recognized as a part of the
agricultural plant of the up-to-date
farmer, Typical this view, as ex
pressed bh) arm experts, Is one
ar] 8. Miles, county
m county, Indiana
“Farmers in this county,” Mr. Miles
reported, “now think of radio in terms
an igvestment that will return a
profit through more intelligent selling
stock The most encouraging
thing today to see farmers lo-
cated 15 or 20 miles from a railroad.
equipped with a radio truck
4
these
¢
al
of live
in
and a
to
market, and when prices are right
they can put thelr stock on the mar
ket within two or three hours. Before
the day of farm radio they had to
take chances on what the market
would be when they reached the
yards ™
the
Gardner C, Norcross, county agent
the farmer equipped with radio. “Ra-
dio,” he says, “has proved one of the
most effective methods of teaching bet.
ciably Ihereasin: farm pre ite”
As a result of the thorough endorse
aunty agents of the | cnefits
by radio and the ar
| directiy ' © the farm
ers themselves, four new arin fea.
on the
Papo.
wing anl Ek a,
wediter, an an;
as \
cunoe: of sapun;: Mour{ Erebus, in
the Antarctic continent, and all of the
7
in conti
of J
7 ble Tulk
to story fant t
ing! was the first
the
to
ment “That excellent, and by all’
prs ot pT
VIG
3 ie
gardening
addition to these
the
in
broadcast
» }
by government
14
aQairec t f
enefit of farmers, 1
ultural information of
that irns dividends in
conts being radio
through more than a score of state ag-
ricultural colleges. Many of these col
i now using
legos
their college extension
that agri
rot dollars
is distributed by
are radio in broad-
casting COUrses,
n
n
One fine thing about this is that boys
financially attend
college are, through radio, enabled to
enroll their ex-
aminations and receive college credit
therefor Radio owes a great deal to
and girls unable to
for these courses, take
{ , ta
merly head of the Kansas State Agri-
ultural at Manhattan, Kan.
who was the ploneer In the broadcast
Ing of college extension courses. As a
result of the extensive use by this in.
stitution of radio as an ald to agri-
culture, under Mr. Jardine's direction.
Kansas claims a larger percentage of
farms radio equipped than any other
large agricultural state,
Of necessity, the dollars-and-cents
side of radio on the farm is often the
deciding factor as to whether or not a
farmer can afford to equip his home
with a radio. But, despite any direct
firencial * sturn, It is to be doubted,
iter all, w he’ ner the money profit that
the furmer receives through his radio,
college
value to him,
pL. scinnse apr oved, China drink,
calied by the C ineans ‘Icha, by other
“Tay,” alias Tee, is sold at
the Sultansss Head Coffee House, In
Sweotin’s Rents, by the Royal Px
change, Lorduva.” “In 1580 (he adds)
meade for vale, and It is reasonable te
very popular when this was done™
Oysters are pow be
incubators,
ng hatched In