Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 99, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 September 1923 — Page 8
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El OF LTRIRUTION EDISON MARSHALL <DlittcE,brown 6 COMPAKy,
BEGIN HERE TODAY Ned Cornet is sent by his father, Godfrey Comet, on a voyajre to northern Canada and Alaska to exchange 2.000 silk and velvet gowns with the Indians for fine furs. The profits are to be split 75-25. the 1 tun's share to Ned. Comet is accompanied on the voyage by his fiancee. Lenore Hardenworth. and the latter’s mother. Bess Gilbert is hired to go as seamstress. Mrs. Hardenworth objects to eating at the same table with Bess. At Vancouver, the night following their departure from Seattle, they loaded on certain heavy stores. Captain Knutzen, in charge of the craft, is ably assisted by McNab. Bes3 makes up her mind to avoid the three aristocrats as much as possible. They in turn ignore the girl. NOW GO ON WITH THE STOFY mHERE was such a little group of them, only eight in all. The ship was a mere dot in the expanse of blue.” Around them endlessly lay the sea, swept by unknown winds, cursed by the winter’s cold, like death itself in its infinity and its haunting fear. The life they had left behind was already shadowed and dim; the farewell shouts, the laughter, the gaiety, the teeming crowds that moved and were never still were all like something imagined, unspeak ably far off. Only the sea and the sky were left, and the craft struggling wearily, ever farther into the empty North. Lenore found herself oppressed by an unreasoning fear. Realities were getting home to her, and she was aft aid of them. It would have been not to come, yet she couldn't have told why. The launch was whiily comfortable; she was already accustomed to the cramped quarter.!. The men of the crew were courteous, Ned the same devoted lover as always. The thing was more an instinct with her: such pleasure as the trip offered could not compensate for an obscure uneasiness, a vague, but ominous shadow over her mood and heart that was never lifted. Perhaps a wiser and secret self within the girl, a subconsciousness which was wise with the knowledge of the ages before ever hev being emerged from the germ Pi jsm was even now warning her to tun hack. It knew her limitations; al o it knew the dreadful, savage re .dm she had dared to penetrate. T v e North would have no mercy for b- - if she were found unworthy.
LENORE FOUND HERSELF OP PRESSED BY AN UNREASONING FEAR. Perhaps in her heart she realized that she represented all that was the antithesis of this far northern do main. She was the child of luxury and ease; the tone ahd spirit of these wintry seas were travail and desolation, oie was the product of a generation chat knew life only as a structure men’s civilization had built; out here was life itself, raw and naked, stripped and bare. She was lawless, undisciplined, knowing no code but her own desires: all these seas and the gray fog-laden shores they swept were in the iron grip of law that went down to the roots of time. She had never looked beyond the surface of things; the heart that pulsed in the breast of this wintry realm lay so deep that only the most wise and old devotees to nature’s secrets, could ever hear it beat. She had the unmistakable feeling that, in an unguarded moment, she had blundered Into the camp of an enemy. Ever she discerned a malevolence in the murmur of the wing, a veritable threat in the soft voices of the nightThe nights, her Innate sense of artistry told her, were unspeakably beautiful. She had never seen such stars before. They were so large, so white and yet so unutterably aloof. Sometimes the moon rose in a splash of silver, and its loveliness on the
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far seas was a thing that words couldn't reach. Yet Lenore did not like things she could not put in words. For all their beauty those magic nights dismayed and disquieted her. They, too, were of the realises, and for all her past attitude of sophistication, she found that realism was the one thing she could not and dared not accept. Such realities as these, the wide-stretching seas and the infinity of the stars, were rapidly stripping her of her dearest delusions; and with them, the very strongholds of her being. Heretofore she had placed her faith in superficialities, finding strength for her spirit-and bolstering up her self respect with such things as pride ol social position, a certain social attitude of recklessnes that she thought became her, and most of all by refusing to believe that life contained any depth that she had not plumbed, any terrors that she dared not brave, any situation that she could not meet and master. But here these things mattered not at all. Neither ancestry nor social position could save her should the winter cold, hinted at already in the bitter frost of the dawns, swoop down and find her unprotected. Her own personal charm would not fight for her should she fall overboard into the icy waters. Here was a region where recklessness could very easily mean death; and where life itself was suddenly revealed utterly beyond her ken. But there was no turning back. Every hour the Charoti bore her farther from her home. Mrs. Hardenworth, whose habits of thought were more firmly established, was only made irritable and petulant by the new surroundings. Never good company except under the stimulation of some social gathering, she was rapidly becoming something of a problem to Ned and Lenore. She was irritable with the crew, on the coi*%tant verge of insult to Bess, forecasting disaster for the entire expedition. Unlike Bess, she had never been disciplined to meet hardship and danger; her only resource was guile and her only courage was recklesness; so now she tried to overcome her inner fears with a more reckless attiture toward life, it was no longer necessary for Ned and Lenore to seek the shelter of the pilot house for their third whisky-and-She was only too glad to take it with them. More than once the (’inner hour found her glassy-eyed and almost hysterical, only a border removed from actual drunkenness. Never possessing any true moral strength or real good breeding, a certain abandon began to appear In her speech. And they had not yet rounded the Alaskan Peninsular into Bering Sea. To Ned, the long north and westward jofirney had been even more a revelation. He also knew the fear, the disillusionment, a swift sense of weakness when before he had been perfectly sure in his own strength: but there was also a more complex reaction—one that he could not analyze or put into words. Hq couldn’t r all it happiness. It wasn't that, un less the mood that foflows the hearing of wonderfuil music is also happiness. Perhaps that was the best comparison: the passion he felt was something like the response made to great music. There had been times at the opera, w’hen ail conditions were exactly favorable, that he had felt the same, and once fhen he had heard Fritz Kreisler p}ay Handel’s “Largo.” It was a strange reaching and groping, rather than happiness It was a stir and thrill that touched the most secret chords of his being He felt it most at night when the great, white northern stars wheeled through the heavens. It was good to see them undulled by smoke; they' touched some side of him that had never been stirred Into life before. At such times the sea wa. lost in mystery.
The truth was that Ned, by the will of the Red Gods, was perceiving something of the real spirit of the North. A sensitive man to start with, he caught something of its mystery and wondqr of -which, as yet, Lenore had no And the result was to bring him to the verge of a tsr-l-eaching discovery: that of hts own weakness. He had never admitted weakness before. He had always been so sure f himself, so complacent, so selfufficient. But curiously these things were dying within him. He found himself doubting, for the first time, the success of this northern adventure. Could he cope with the realities that were beginning to press upon him? Would not this northern wilderness show him up as the weak ling he was? For the first time in his life Ned Comet knew what realism was. He supposed, in his city life, that he had been a realist: instead he had only been a sophist and a mocker in an environment that was never real from dawn to darkness. He had read books that he had acclaimed among his young friends as masterpieces of realism—usually works whose theme and purpose seemed to be a baldfaced portrayal of sex—but now he saw that their very premise was one of falsehood. Here were the true realities unconquerable seas and starry skies and winds from off the waste places. Unlike Lenore, Ned’s regrets were not that he had ever launched forth upon the venture. Rather he found himself regretting that he was not better fitted to contend with it. Perhaps, after all, his father had been right and he had been wrong. For the first time in his life Ned felt the need of greater strength, of stronger sinews. What if his father had told the truth, and that strict trials awaited him here. It was no longer easy to disbelieve him. Almost any disaster could fall upon him here, in these wastes of sunlit water, in the very shadow of polar ice. The sun itself had lost its warmtVi. It slanted down upon them from far to the South, and it seemed to be beguiling them, with its golden beauty on the waters. Into some deadly trap that had been set for them still farther nor£h. It left Ned some way apprehensive and dismayed. He wished he hadn’t been so sure of himsaif, that he had taken greater pair* in his wasted years, to harden
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nd train himself. Perhaps he was to be weighed in the balance, and It was increasingly hard to believe that he would not be found wanting. In such a moodi he recalled his father's words regarding that dread realm of test and trial that lay somewhere beyond the world: “some bitter, dreadful training camp for these that leave this world unfitted to go on to a higher, better world.” He had scorned the thought jit but now he could hardly get it out of his mind. It suggested some sort of an analogy with his present condition. These empty seas were playing tricks on his imagination: he could conceive that the Journey of which his father had spoken might not be so greatly different than this. There would be the same desolation, the same nearness of the stars, the emptiness and mystery, the same sense of gathering, impending trial and stress. (Continued in Our Next Issue) MODERN YOUTH DEFENDED Guidance by Parents Is Needed During "Dangerous Age.” "No one seems to be satisfied with the jjoung people of today,” assertted George Buck, principal of Shortridge high school, in an address before the •Mercator Club at the Spink-Arms Tuesday. He - ' said that the same attitude towards young people has been prevalent throughout all generations. "What every boy and girl needs is first class parents who will guide their watchfully through the dangerous age," Buck said.
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With the opening of the school term Gary has three new schools, approximately a dozen additional teachers and a registration of 14,000 pupils. Former Mayor C. O. Mitchell, Portland, paid a fine of $14.10 for speeding. Homer Bocock, Marion, attended Sunday school at the Christy Street U. B. Church without being absent or tardy for eight years, 410 consecutive Sunday. Edward- ts. Snyder, Huntington, has been appointed to the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis by ex-Senator Harry’ S. New. L. H. Andrews, Ft. Waynfe, is new president of the 113th Engineers’ Veteran’s Association Which recently closed its annual convention at Ft. Wayne. Monon celebrated the completion of anew $48,000 water works system and plant and anew town hall with a three-day festival, during which 15,000 visitors were entertained. With the adoption of a zone law, the days of haphazard city planning at Princeton are over. About 9,000 children attended the annual Shrine Kiddle party at Evansville. An organization to fight chicken thieves,is planned by Ralph Rouden-
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