Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 103, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 September 1923 — Page 8
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BEGIN HKKK TOU.W Ned Cnnc-t zoi s on a voyspe to uurtliera Canada and Alaska to exchange ailk and velvet groans with the Indian traprers tor fine furs. .Ned is accompanied by his fiancee. Lenore Hardenworth. and the latter's mother. Begs Gilbert, seamstress, and the captain s assistant. McNab. are worried because Captain Knutzen is imbibing too freely of liquor. Together they steal into Ned s cabin and confiscate his remainnig stock. When Ned finds the liquor gone he blames Bess for the theft and she confesses. The craft runs into a heavy gale and is shipwrecked Two life-boats are lowered and in one is Captain Knutien, Ned, Lenore and Bess. After many hours the captain sights land. Bess bears up bravely, but Lenore seems almost unable to bear the hardships. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY |— T ' ITH the waves and the wind be[YY/ hind them. Knutsen saw the [ ’ ’ I gray line that was the island slowly strengthen. The time came at last, when his weaker arms were shot through with burning pain, that Ned could also make it out. It was still weary miles away. And there was still the dreadful probability—three chances out of four—that it was uninhabited by human beings. Soon the island began to take shape, revealing itself as of medium size in comparison with many of the islands of Bering Sea. yet seemingly large enough to support a kingdom. The canoe pushed farther into the harbor. But at that instant Bess, who had sat so quiet that her companions had thought her asleep, uttered a low cry. For all its subdued tone, its living note of hope and amazement caused both men to turn to her. Her white face was lifted, her blue eyes shining, and she was pointing to the fringe of limber at the end of the trail in the snow. “What is it?’’ she asked in a low tone. “Isn’t it a man?”
A SHOT CRACKED OVER THE SEA. Her keen eyes had beheld what Knutsen's had missed —a dark form half in shadow against the edge of the *rub timber. For all that it was less than a quarter ot a mile distant, both men had to strain to njake it out. The explanation lay partly in the depths of the surrounding shadows; partly in the fact that the form was absolutely with out motion. Knutsen drove his oars with added force into the water. The. boat leaped forward: in a moment more they touched the bank. Their deliverer, a great blond man ? eemingly of Northeastern Europe, v. as already at the water’s edge watch ing them with a strange and inexplicable glitter in gray, sardonic eyes. He was a mighty, bearded man, clothed n furs; already he was bent, his hands on the bow of the boat. Already Ned was climbing out upon the shore. Partly to remove the silly dismay ihat had overwhelmed him. partly because It was the first thought :hat would come to the mind of a wayfarer of the sea. Knutsen turned with a question. “What island is die?” he asked. The stranger turned with a grim, meaning smile. “Hell,” he answered simply. % Both Ned and Knutsen stood erect to stare at him. The wind made curious whispers down through the long silt of the river valley. “Hell?” Knutsen echoed. “Is dat its name— *’ “It’s the name I gave it. You’ll think it's that before you get away.” The stranger’s voice was deep and full, so far-carrying, so masterful, that it might have been the articulation of the raw elements among which he lived, rather ( than the utterance of human vocal chords. His accent was plainly not that of an American. He had not been bom to the English tongue; very plainly be had learned it, thoroughly and laboriously. He was dressed from head to foot
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in furs anti skins i>: ;li • itu.-t ran: land beautiful kiniN. His jacxet and trousers setrned • o bt o. lynx s-. ; i was unnii-siakably sliver io\. The blond hair grew in a great mat about his lips and jaws. His nose war straight, his eyebrows heavy, ali his features remarkably even and well-proportioned. But none of these lesser features could be noticed because ol the compelling attraction of hi;: gray, vivid eyes. "Pardon me for not making myself known sooner,” he began in his deep sardonic voice “My name is Doomsdorf —trapper, and seemingly owner of this island. At least I’m the only living man on it. except yourselves.” j ills speech, though careless and queerly accented, had no mark of ignorance I or iil-breeding. “I told you the island's name —believe me. it fits it perfectly. —Welcome to it—” Ned straightened, white-faced. “Mr. Doomsdorf, these girls are chilled through—one of them is near a collapse from exposure. Will you save that till later and help me get them a fire?” For all the creeping terror that was possessing his veins, Ned made a brave effort to hold his voice steady. The man looked down at him, his lip curling. “Pardon my negligence,” he replied easily. “Os course she isn’t used to the cold yet—but that will come in time.” He bowed slightly to the shivering girl on the shore. “If you follow my tracks up in the wood, you’ll find my shack—and there's a fire in the stove.” Ned bent, seized an armful of blankets from the boat, gjien stepped to Lenore’s side. “The captain will help you. Miss Gilbert.” he said to Bess. Then he and the golden-haired girl he loved started together through the six-inch snowfall toward the woods. Bess, stricken and appalled, but yet not knowing which way to turn, took the trail behind them. But Knutsen still waited on the shore, beside the boat. Doomsdorf, incredible to Ned and Bess, was wholly plausible to him. He feared him to the depths of his heart, yet in some measure, at least, these three were in his charge, and if worst came to worst, he must stand between them and this island devil with his own life. He had stayed on the shore after the others had gone so that he might find out the truth. He was not long in learning. Through some innate, vague, almost inexplicable desire to shelter his three charges and to spare them the truth, he wanted to wait until all three of them had disappeared in the wood: but even this was denied him. Eenore and Ned. it is true, had already vanished into the patch of forest: but Bess seemed to be walking slowly.
waiting for him. Doomsdorf was bent. now. unloading the stores and remaining blankets from the canoe; but suddenly, with one motion, he showed Knutsen where he stood. With one great lurch of his shoulders he turned over the empty boat and shoved it off into the sea. The first wave, catching it, drove it out of reach. “You won't need that again,” he said. With a half uttered, sobbing gasp that no man had heard from his lips before. Knutsen sprang to rescue it. Tn an instant lie had seized it. and standing hip-deep in the icy water, he turned to face the blond man on the shore. The latter roared once with savage mirth, a sound that carried far abroad tbe snowy desolation: then he sobered, watching with glittering eyes. “Let it go.” he ordered simply. His right arm lifted slowly as If in inadvertence. and rested almost, limp across his breast. His blond beard hid the contemptuous curl of his lips. Knutsen’s hand moved toward his hip. In the days of the gun fights, in the old North, it had never moved more swiftly. In this second of need he had remembered his pistol. But he remembered it too late. And his grea* hand, though fast, was infinitely slow The great arm that lay across Doomsdorf's breast suddenly flashed out and up. The blue steel of a revolver barrel streaked in ’.he air. and a shot cracked over the sea. Knutsen was already loosed from the bonds that held him. Deliverance had come quickly. His face, black before with wrath, grew blank: and for a long instant he groped impotently. open hands reaching. But the lead had gone straight home: and there was no need of a second shot. The late captain of the Charon swayed, then pitched forward into the gray waters. * Bess had follower! the trail through the snow clerfr to the dark edge of the woods when the sound of voices behind her causer! her to turn. Neither Doomsdorf nor Knutsen had spoken loudly. Indeed their tones had been more subdued than usual, as is often the way when men speak in moments of absolute test. Ress had not made out the words: only the deep silence and the movements (if the wind from the sea enabled her to hear the voives at all. Thus it was curious that she whirled, face blanching. In knowledge of the impending crisis. Thereafter the daqma in the shore seemed to her as soimething that could not possibly be true. Except for the fact that Doomsdorf stood alone on the shore, it might have been all the factless incident of a tragic dream. Slowly she stiffened, rallying her faculties, fighting off the apathy of terror. Presently her whole consciousness seemed to sharpen. In an instant of clear thought she guessed, broadly, the truth of that tragedy beside the sea: that Knutsen }>id died in a desperate attempt to break free from an unspeakable trap into which he and his charges had fallen. It meant she must work quick. She must not lose a single chance. The odds were desperately long already: she must not increase them. In an instant more Doomsdorf would he glancing about to see if his crime were observed. If she could conceal the fact that she had witnessed It. he would not be so much on guard in we moment of crisis that was to coni Her body and soul seemed to rally to mighty effort
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John Beckman, appointed sheriff of Franklin County to succeed William Van Camp, who was killed by auto bandits Aug. 18, lias resigned and Jacob Joliff has been appointed. G. A. Mills of Mooresville, a senior at the University of Illinois, has been appointed assistant controller to Lloyd Morey, controller of that school. Enrollment at Purdue is expected to be normal this year. Many students have already applied for work and the demand is greater than the number of available jobs. The new Methodist Protestant camp ground at Marion will be formally dedicated Oct. 14. Work on anew timber. Stooping down, she made one leap into its shelter. She was none too soon; already Doomsdorf had looked back to see if the coast were clear. Everything depended on Ned henceforth. She couldn’t work alone. With his aid, perhaps, they could destroy this evil power under which they had fallen before it could prepare to meet them. Doomsdorf’s cabin—a long, log structure on the bank of a dark little stream—was only a hundred feet distant in the wood. Now that she was out of sight of the shore, she broke into a frenzied run.
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tabernacle and dormitories will atari soon. Edward J. Gainer of Muncie was re-elected president of the National Association of Letter Carriers at the convention at Providence, R. I. He has served since 1015. Bud Kabey, Greensburg, accidentally dropped a half dollar into the gasoline tank of his car. He lighted a match to hunt for it, but forgot to look for the money when the car burst into flames. Because of business duties. Howard M. Turner, jeweler of Bloomington was unable to attend the .State fair for the first time in twenty-five years. Miss Ester O'Keefe, Plymouth, Demoeratic candidate for Congress from the Thirteenth Indiana at the last November election, is new assistant editor of the official magazine of the Fraternal Order of Eagles. Marie Price, Ft. Wayne, the common law life of John Whitfield, who killed Patrolman William Dennis, Cleveland policeman, has been engaged at SIOO a week and expenses to appear on the stage. Attempting to drive through a funeral procession caused the arrest of Walter Hartfleld of South Bend. J> With the Monroe County tobacco
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ers predict that, the crop will be by far the best paying product of the county. With the new rate in force seven days, forty-three patrons at Frankfort hi. ve ordered their telephone service discontinued. Terre Haute's second annual pageant of progress will be held next spring, instead of this October, as was originally planned. The fifty-fourth annual Vermilion County Sunday school convention Is to be held at Dana Sept. 14 in the Methodist Church there. SKULL 33 BY 21 INCHES NEW YORK, Sept. 10. —A letter has j just been received by the American j Museum of National History from i Roy Chapman Andrews, who is con- j ducting the third Asiatic expedition under the auspices of the Museum and Asia magazine, in which he states that he has just dispatched to the Museum as a result of the first month’s j work two tons of specimens, including a pei-fect skull of the gigantic creodent. The skull is thirty-three inches long and about twenty-one inches across the arches. The creodent is the largest known animal, or primitive carnivore, and is related to the mesonyex of America. It is estimated that the creodent was larger by about 50 per |
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OUT OUR WAY—By WILLIAMS
FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS—By BLOSSER
MONDAY, SEPT. 10, 1923
By CAP HIGGINS
‘ALIMONY’ CLUB IS PLAYGROUND SHE NEW YORK, Sept. 10.—The old “Alimony Club"—in other words, the Lud* low St. Jail —will soon be only a twu dlton. They are planning to tear it down to make way for a playground. They called it the “Alimony Club* because, being a civil jail, it housed so many ex-husbands who refused to pay up. Before 1919. a man could be “sent up” only once for such an oflense. It was like vaccination. After he had served his tei-m, the ex-wife -was out of luck. In 1919, however, the law was so changed that whenever iie got benind he could be hauled off to jail. Thai; made it cheaper to keep on going to the office and writing out checks. Three thousand “alumni" remember the horseshoe over the office entrance, the winding staircase which led to the cells or bunks of the Alimony Club proper, and the dining tables with the checker boards paint- i cd on so thej- couldn't come off. 1 It was a common boast that the I inmates showed the hiarlms' pereent-J of colieg°-bred men of any jail ini the country. Since 1919. the turnl keys say. there have been just a* many “alimoners,” but the quallr A has declined terribly. But it seems it’s too expensive jail to run. so down It must with all its memories.