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Chapter XII—Continued
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He mumbled that fact over and over
again, stupidly, thickly, as though his
brain could grasp nothing beyond It
She was dead. And Plerrot was dead.
And he, In a few minutes, had accom-
plished it all.
He turned back toward the cabin—
not by the trall over which he had
pursued Nepeese, but straight through
the thick bush. Great flakes of snow
had begun to fall. He looked at the
sky, where banks of dark clouds were
rolling up from the south and east
The sun went out, there would
be a storm-—a heavy snowstorm. The
hig flakes falling on his naked hands
and face set his mind to work. It was
lucky for him, this storm. It
cover everything-—the fresh
even the grave he would dig for Pler-
rot.
It does not take such a man as the
Factor long recover from a
concussion. By the time he came
sight of the cabin his mind was again
at work on physical things—on
necessities of the situation, The
palling thing, after all, was not that
both Plerrot and Nepeese were dead,
but that his dream was shattered.
was not that Nepeese was dead,
that he had lost her. This was
vital disappointment. The other thing
—his erime—It was easy to cover.
It was not sentiment that made
dig Plerrot's grave close to the
under tall
ent at
but
Soon
to
him
prin
mother's the
not
cess
It was
dig the grave at all,
buried Plerrot
poured Pilerrot's
where it would be
touched a match
the edge of the fores
was a mass of flames
falling thickly. The
grave was a white mound, and the
tralls were filling. For the physical
things he had done there was no fear
in McTaggart's heart as he
turned toward Lac Bain
one would ever look
Plerrot du Quesne
betray him
But
would never
spruce
him
caution. He
Then he
of kerosene
effective and
He stood in
until the cabin
The snow was
freshly made
sentin made
decently.
stock
most
to it
t
jush
back
!
a mi
one to racle
happened
free
the pale,
face of the Willow as
him In that
when, even
rather
$:
soul
self Always he would see
triumphant
stood facing
glory as she
than
“Ah!
her
choosing
had
not
him,
Is
death
to himsel
cried
wonderful
As Bush McTaggart
Baree, so Baree had
Factor from Lac Bain,
gart had run along of
chasm, Baree had squatted himself
the foot-beaten plot
had
forgotten
forgotten
the
the edge
of snow where
fened and his forefeet braced
looked down, He had seen her
the leap Many times that
he had followed her In her
as
jut this was a tremendous dis-
had never dived
that.
Pe » il.
tance,
place
She
Ike
rocks, appearing and disappearing In
the whirling foam like
monsters at play; the
ter filled him with dread:
the heads
his
between the rock walls, And she had
gone down there!
He had a great desire to follow her,
Jn after her. She was surely down
there, though he could not
her. Probably she was playing among
the rocks and hiding herself in the
white froth and wondering why he
didn’t come, jut he |
even
hesitated
tated with his head and neck over the
abyss, and his forefeet giving
little in the snow. With an
dragged himself back and whined
barked-—the short, sharp signal
which he always called her. There
was no answer. Again and again
barked, and always there was nothing
but the roar of the water that came
back to him.
The snow was falling now, and Me.
Taggart had returned to the cabin.
After a little Baree followed In the
trail he had made along the edge of
the chasm, and wherever McTaggart
had stopped to peer over, Baree
paused also, For a space his hatred
of the man was burned up In his de.
sire to Join the Willow, and he con-
tinued along the gorge until, a quar-
ter of a mile beyond where the Fac.
tor had last looked Into it, he came
to the narrow trall down which he and
Nepeese had many times adventured
In quest of rock-violets, The twisting
path that led down the face of the
cliff was filled with snow now, but
Baree cleared his way through it un-
til at last he stood at the edge of the
unfrozen torrent, Nepeese was not
here, He whined, and barked again,
but this time there was In his signal
to her an uneasy repression, a whim.
pering note which told that he did not
expect a reply. For five minutes after
that he sat on his haunches In the
snow, stolid as a rock. What It was
that came down out of the dark mys
tery and tumult of the chasm to him,
what spirit-whispers of nature that
told hiin the truth, it is beyond the
power of reason to explain. But he
listened, and he looked; and his mus
He
he
cles twitched as the truth grew in
him; and at last he raised his head
slowly until his black muzzle pointed
to the white storm in the sky, and out
of his throat there went forth the
quavering, long-drawn howl of the
husky who mourns outside the tepee
of a master who Is newly dead,
On the trail, heading for Lac
Bush McTaggart heard that cry
shivered.
It was the smell of smoke, thicken
ing In the alr until It stung his nos-
trils, that drew Baree at last away
from the chasm and back to the cabin
There was not much left when he
came to the clearing, Where the
cabin had been was a red-hot, smolder-
ing long time he
walting and still
longer felt the ef
that had stunned
were
ns strange and
against that
in the eabin
lain,
and
For a sat
it, still
He no
the bullet
his senses
now,
MASS,
of
but
their
of
struggle
near-death
unreal as
darkness
had twisted
Daree That
Willow sitting
her little mirror In the
to him and laughing in her
while in yast
And now
an hour the world
ago the was he
cabin
talking
he
lay con
there
'
the smolder
hat
He did not go nearer to
of the cabin, slinking
made his way about the clr
mass
le of
dog This took
For a full
sniffing at
the
un
der the
]
» he paused the
made mound under its
mantie Wi he
he slunk still lower, and his ears were
of snow went on
flat against his head
The dog-corral was open and empty
McTaggart had seen to that. Again
Baree squatted back on his haunches
and forth the death-howl This
time It for Plerrot. In it
ferent note from that
sent
was
of the
was a dl
She Was Not at the Tepee.
from
certain.
had sent forth
was positive,
how! he
chasm: It
thing that was so almost human that
McTaggart had shivered on the
But Baree knew what lay In
freshly dug snow-covered grave. A
scant three feet of earth could
There
death—definite and unequivocal,
for Nepeese he was still hoping
seeking.
Until
Was
But
and
noon he did not go far from
but only once did he actu
ally approach and sniff about the black
Again and
again he circled the edge of the clear-
ing, keeping just within the bush and
timber, sniffing the alr and listening
Twice he went back to the chasm.
Late in the afternoon there came to
him a stidden Impulse that carried him
swiftly through the forest. He did not
run openly now; caution, suspicion
and fear had roused In him afresh the
instincts of the wolf. With his ears
flattened against the side of his head,
his tall drooping until the tip of It
dragged the snow and his back sag-
glug In the curious, evasive galt of
the wolf, he scarcely made himself dis-
tinguishable from the shadows of the
spruce and balsams.
There was no faltering in the trail
Baree made ; It was straight as a rope
might have been drawn through the
forest, and it brought him, early in the
dusk, to the open spot where Nepeese
had fled with him that day she had
pushed McTaggart over the edge of
the precipice Into the pool. In the
place of the balsam shelter of that
day there was now a water-tight birch.
bark tepee which Plerrot had helped
the Willow to make during the sum-
mer. Baree went straight to It and
thrust In his head with a low and
expectant whine,
There was no answer. It was dark
and cold in the tepee. He could make
out Indistinctly the two blankets that
were always In It, the row of big tin
boxes In which Nepeese kept their
edie iC RS
stores, and the stove which Plerrot
had Improvised out of scraps of iron
and heavy tin. But Nepeese was not
there. And there was no sign of ber
outside. The snow was unbroken ex-
cept by his own trail. It was dark
when he returned to the burned cabin,
All that night he hung about the de-
serted dog-corral, and all through the
night the snow fell steadily, so that
by dawn he sank into It to his shoul-
ders when he out Into the
clearing
With day the sky had cleared
sun came up, and the
most too dazzling for
warmed Baree's blood with new hope
and expectation His brain
more than vy
the would
! He hear
She would appear suddenly
forest, He
from her.
or all of them,
stopped
every
moved
The
world nl-
the It
was
eves
struggled
eagerly ssterday to
Surely Villow
! returning
QOo0n would
of the
some signal
out would receive
of these
happen,
tracks at
from
He was trav.
One
things, must
in his
sniffed
sharply
sound, and the air
censelessly
His body deep tralls In the
tracks led fr
and they were ag numerons
wolf-pack
the chasm
and dowr
afternoon
a mile up
On the
second big Impulse came
1 neither was
ras the struggle
way bet
at its
ween,
best with
not be seen by
ear. Nepeese was
because there no cabin
nt
trace
Was
not the tepee He ¢
in was
not with Plerrot under the hig spruce,
of her the chasm She
Therefore, unreasoning but sure, he
to follow the old
i
began trap-line Into
west,
* - - . . * *
No
y
man has ever looked clearly Into
as It is Is
Yesterday
he knew ith { ¥ rege
How
d the
and
the dead was Plerrot
he knew this, and why he accente
fact
teries
inevitable, is one of the n
at ti
ns ye
es seems to give
the direct challenge to those who ©
iT
cede nothing more than he
He knew
without
instinet
tot
that Plerrot
dend exactly knowing
But th
he would never see Plerrot
would
would
death was of one gz he
}
he
again: never hear his volce
never hear again the
ahead, and so the
i
trail on trap-
ler.
rot was gone forever. But Baree had
not yet associated death with Nepeose,
He belleved that Nepeese was alive,
and be was now just as sure that he
would overtake her on the trap-line
he
Since yesterday morning's breakfast
out eating: to his hunger
meant to hunt, and his mind was too
filled with quest for
that, He would have gone hungry all
that day, but in the third mile from
the eabin he came to a trap In which
there was a big rabbit,
rabbit was still and he
and ate his Until dark
did not miss a In of
appease
his of Nepeese
snowshoe
nlive,
fill.
trap
he one
fisher-cat: out on the white surface
of a lake he sniffed at a snowy mound
under which lay the body of a red fox
killed by one of Plerrot's polson baits,
Both the lynx and the fisher-cat were
alive, and the steel chains of théir
traps clanked sharply as they pre.
was uninterested. He hurried on, his
uneasiness growing as the day dark.
low,
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
Odd Slavery Conditions
There is much corroborative testi
mony and numerous references to the
facts that there were at the outbreak
of the Civil war a very large number
of free negroes and that these ne-
groes In many cases owned property
and slaves. These latter, however,
were usually members of thelr fami
lles whom they had redeemed and
whom they held as slaves technieally
on account of the laws of many states
which prohibited the manumitted
slaves from remaining in the state or
territory. In many cases the slave
holder, while himself originally a
slave, had received his freedom bee
fore certain laws went Into effect
which were not retroactive,
In 1013 California ralsed 7,500,000
bushels of potatoes,
CENTRE HALL. PA.
Paris’ Two Types
of Evening Dress
Glittering Sequins or Unem-
bellished Silk; No
Middle Class.
It 1s a matter of history that every
| new Paris season launches
{| tleular type of dress or some indi-
{ vidual style which will predominate
over the many that have been offered
| by the grandes maisons couture,
| No seer, astutd,
predict what particular fancy or foible
Is to sweep the world of fashion, and
it 1s only by close observation that a
new vogue can be detected before {it
has become popularized. This season,
observes u fashion writer In the New
York Herald-Tribune, is witnessing a
movement toward a vogue unique in
the annals of the mode du solr. Paris
has become a house divided.
Recent smart events have
that there are two distinct types
evening dress which are equally
merous of thelr kind,
smart, First, there are the
chiffon gowns in a variety
quisite colorings and,
site, Is the sparkling
some par-
de
however can ever
shown
of
nu
equally
plain
of ex-
y oppo-
robe du solr em-
se
and,
entirel
broidered with diamante, beads
that
A Parisienne who has adopted one
type early In the will seldom
quins and all glitters,
#enRON
Cri
Vivian Winston, in “Monte Carlo"
Evening Ensemble of Gold Cloth.
rithar
ine the bias
the brilliance «
precious ston
This season
plain chiffon though Patou and
with
tut the
Molynet close second
thelr man) models
woman
Ivy substitutes Chanel
appear In a brillls
1
1
touch of blige
wha «
chiffons,
nt deep grass green
in it. They
worn in lacquer and dark currant-red,
in all the shades of autumn
and a pale champagne belge that
These
with a
leaves,
and in
scarcely colored
quolse blue and a large range of pinks,
from flesh to deep geranium, are all
used for charming frocks, be-
eides black and white, the former he.
ing a favorite with very
as it shows up the youthful complex.
ion to such advantage.
these
young girls,
New Perfume Container
A novelty for the woman who likes
i to carry a few drops of her favorite
perfume is to be had In the new con-
tainers of the atomizer variety. They
are very small, fitting Into the palm
of the hand, and come In bottle
shapes, square and oblong, but are
| flask like In flatness. These little bot.
tiles are entirely enameled and have
| colorful designs of Dresden flowers.
They are used by pressing the top on
| the spot where the perfume is de-
sired,
Frocks of Rajah
Among the Iatest models to be
{ brought out are those fashioned of
| shantung or rajah silks. They are on
| nn equality In popularity with Chl.
nese damask and come in such a wide
| range of colors that they are adapted
| both to street frocks and to the col.
tountry wear,
A Three -in-One Garment
A new undergarment which com.
bines a step-in chemise and brassiere
Ia made of glove silk trimmed with
fine ecru lace. It Is cleverly cut and
fashioned to give the necessary sup
{port and provides a perfect founda-
| ton for the frocks of summer,
Chic Two-Piece Frock
of Black Carmen Crepe
| Foam
The stunning two.piece frock of
carmen crepe, worr by Marie Provost
In “His Jazx Bride,” consists of Rus
{| slan blouse trimmed with silver and
| Jade green braided over a centrally
draped blouse.
Long Strings of Pearls
Among Latest Novelties
long
tring
£ stri
DES
{ white
They
neck or
Hammered
gold is combi
{ or with lapis earrings and
work is copled
fruit ar t
and floral designs so much
bracelets The
fron
used in
For
nre several
Itail
+h
:
work of this kind.
o with
: in
1
Blow]
Short Jacket Ensemble
Is Practical and Smart
Practicality a s riness are com
nhned In the new si cket ensem-
:
he frock heneath the short
is sleeveless or short-sleeved so
’
bri te
hric
afternoon ige or
is of
ing a
self-fabric Jacket is
ready for
he jacket
the blouse
tea time
he blouse may
ching
abric
mat
mis +,
the
It
.
with
While
upper portion of
is generally V-necked, short.
¢
of ti mate-
a Lhe
or trimmed
irgeously colored sleeves, ete
for sports wear the
the frock
| sleeved made
| rial
and
as the jacket,
same
| Trimmings of Gold and
Silver Kid on Felt Hats
Much gold and silver kid trimmings
feit hats fo
| quite Important
on rm narrow borders
A black
| straw beret, for instance, was fixed In
| front to a strap of sliver kid.
Other trimmings,
and
or
insertions
and these are
are made
which is very
Inserted into
There are also hats
| newer
| with
often
felt
more numerous,
grosgrain ribbon,
plisse even when
or straw,
bon, and In a very pretty model the
the back.
at present. This applies to both ma-
of course, the Iatter was far the more
popular for those who ean afford
them. Point de venise lace collars
and cuffs are making their appear.
ance on most of
pend on smartness of cut for distine.
for the prettiest undies,
London Leather Coats
| of travel and sports coats made of
| leather In shades of red, green or
blue. Small felt hats of the same
shade complete the costume and the
color Is repeated In smart acces
sories,
Shades of Chintz
A different version of the chints
shade is not plaited but Is made of
pleces cut to make a perfectly smooth
straight shade bound with colored
linen tape.
1928, Wontern Newspaper Union.)
Three things to delight In
ty, frankness and well dolug
Three things to avold--idieness,
loquacity and flippant jesting
Three things to cultivate-—gr
tante, good manners and good
mor,
beau~
od
hu-~
SEASONABLE DISHES
A tasty salad Is al
and now with fresh nn things in
i one
Try slicl
green onlons very
thin, adding half
of a green pepper,
more or (ems a8
one likes the fla-
vor, cover with sour
bit of salt and cayenne A
of mayonnaise may be added to sea-
son
lettuce,
tuce with
cream, adding a
spoonful
more highly if desired
Cottage cheese 3
a spoonf
currants, sweetened
other well-liked
the fruit is no
that }
1a8 been crushed
anned without cookin
Combination Salad.
cabbage
cold water
leaves of
to. crisp.
lettuce i
on the follow
mixed with
one finely cubed
green
or
heap
well
fy
fine one
add
le will
banana
the
ed and chopped
bit of pineap;
not combination,
Strawberry Whip.—MIix
of crushed strawberries with
fine ;
cabbage: a
spoil the
one cupful
one-third
Beat
14
{i one-third
of a | of powdered sugar.
the
rhites of three soos
whites of three egg
of a cupful
of fn tea sO
sherbet
sponge cake
Beans With Sausage.—Par-
3 ur before serving
ink sausages over the top and
JEEe
Creole Soup. Chop
and one
and
bard
utter
Rhu
serve ho
Baked With Figs
files with ©
gestions,
be
On damp
supply the bolling pots and
plenty of
ar
days sure to
pans with
water
+}
ihe
sponge
alr like a
ab-
nois-
be
soap: then place
may removed
with peroxide and
in the sun. So
cations will be necessary
well using
staing are easily removed with
lemon fuice and salt bright
sunshine. Ralts of lemon moistened
with water Is very effective and is sl-
to use, Any re.
mover should be carefully rinsed out
after applying.
When baking a cake set the alarm
clock so that no matter how busy the
attention will be called the
kitchen.
Leftover oatmeal may, by the addl-
of water and reheating,
again as fresh oatmeal.
Put a layer of Qunely chopped black
walnuts over the top of a custard ple.
Any chopped nuts or coconut will be
good.
Old stocking legs make fine over.
sleeves to slip on when working In
the kitchen: they save the good dress
sleeves. Cut at the seams and sewed
make very good dust
cloths and dust mops.
Candles for use on the table will
burn clearer and longer if placed on
lee for a day before using. A ring of
salt put around the lamp wick will
give a soft steady flame and will burn
all night,
Cracks and splits in furniture may
be filled with melted beeswax, then
varnished, so that they will hardly
show,
Black mustard seed, If sowed in the
garden, will make the best of salad
late into the fall Nice for
ann]
Imes several appli-
le sure to
rinse after
Rust
peroxide,
in the
ways ready stain
to
serve
Dampen the brush of the earpet
sweeper--it wi'lt do much better work
in picking up threads and lint,
Rolled coat collars may be cleaned
with cornmeal wet with gasoline: rub
in well and brush out. Velvet will
look like new thus cleaned.
Pineapple Julce Is a good cure for
indigestion. Pineapple, one ean shred.
ded, three bananas ahd one orange
sliced very thin makes a filling for a
large cake.