Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 104, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 September 1923 — Page 8

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BEGIN HERE TODAY Ned Cornet takes his fiancee. Lenore. and the latter's mother on a voyage to northern Canada and Alaska. He has two thousand silk and velvet gowns to exchange with the Indian trappers for fine furs. The craft is destroyed in a gale and the passengers are forced into the lifeboats. In one boat is Captain Knutzen. Ned. Lenore and Bess, a seamstress. Land is sighted by the Captain and a man meets them at the #dge of the shore. When they land the man tells them his name is Doomsdorf and that he has named the island "Hell.” Ned helps Lenore to Doomsdorf's cabin and Bess is left with Captain Knutzen. Doomsdorf sets the lifeboat adrift and. when Knutzen tries to save it. Doomsdorf shoots the captain dead. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY | p HE fought back the instinct to scream out her story from the . doorway. At the bidding of an instinct so sure and true that it partook of a quality of infallibility, she checked her wild pace before she crossed the threshold. Everything depended on Ned and the cool, strong quality of Ned’s nerves. She caught her breath in a curious deep gasp, then stepped into the room. Then that gasp became very nearly a sob. The way of deliverance was not clear. A wrinkled native woman, an Aleut or an Eskimo, who was evidently Doomsdorf's wife, looked up at her with dark inscrutable eyes from the opposite side of the room. The whole picture went home to Bess in a glance. Lenore was huddled in a chair before the stove, yielding herself to the blessed warmth, already shaking off the semi-apathy induced by the night’s chill. But as yet there was no hope in her. She was shivering, helpless, impotent. Ned bent over her, his arms about her. now and then giving her sips from a sup of hot liquid that he held in his hand. His care, his tender solicitude, struck Bess with a sense of unutterable irony. Evidently he had no suspicion of the real truth.

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THE SQUAW SPRANG TO INYKRCBPT THE BLOW, HURLING HE GIRL BACK. He looked up as Bess entered. Partbecause (fie light was dinrf partly “cause he w'as absorbed ip the work caring Lenore to the exclusion - ’ all other thought, he failed to see drawn look of horror on Bess’ ce. “I'll need a little help here, liss Gilbert,” he said. “I want to ,et this girl to bed. The night . cemed to go harder with her than '■.ith the rest of us. and rest is the “st thing for her.” Bess almost sobbed aioud. At that instant she knew she must work alone. She must give no sign cf her own desperation before this stolid squaw. And yet she almost screamed with horror when she realized that any second she might hear Doomsdorf’s step on the threshold. She glanced about till she located the Russian’s rifie. hung' on the wall almost in front of the squaw’s chair. “Did you hear a shot?” she asked. With all the powers of her spirit, she kept her voice commonplace, casual. “Yes,” Ned answered. "It wasn’t anything—was it?” His tone became cold. “Will 'you please give me a little help with Miss Hardenworth?” “Tt was a bear —Mr. Doomsdorf shot at it with his pistol,” she went on in the same casual way. She thought it incredible that they would r.ot take alarm from the wild beating of her heart. She turned easily to the squaw. “He wants me to bring his rifle so he can shoot at it again.” she said. “That’s it—on the wall?”

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She stepped toward the weapon. ‘‘Sure —take him gun.” the squaw answered her. . Now the Indian was getting up and presently was lifting down the weapon. But she did not put it at once intc Bess’ hands. She pushed back the lever, revealing the empty breech. Then Bess saw a slow drawing of her lips—a cruel upturning that was seemingly as near as she could come to a smile. “Sure —take him gun,” she said. “Got any shells?" Bess shook her head. Her heart paused in her breast. “Maybe him got shells. He took ’em all out when he saw your canoe come, in.” ■ XV If, like her husband, the brown squaw was a devotee of cruelty, she must” - ' have received great satisfaction from the sight of that slender, girlish figure standing in the gloom of the cabin. The fact that there were no shells in the rifle —otherwise a desperate agent of escape—seemed nothing less than the death of hope. She heard Doomsdorf’s heavy step at the door. The man came in. for an instant standing framed in the doorway, the | light of morning behind him. We turned contempttously to Ned. “What’s the matter?” he asked. Startled and indignant at the tone. Ned instinctively straightened. “I didn't say anything was the matter. Where’s Knutsen?” “Knutsen—has gone * on. Hell didn’t suit him. He went against its mandates the first thing. I hope it doesn't happen again—I would hate to lose any more of you. I've other plans in mind.” Appalled, unbelieving, yet obeying a racial instinct that goes back to the roots of time. Ned dropped the girl from his arms and leaped to his feet. His eyes blazed with a magnificant burst of a fury, and a mighty oath was at - his lips. “You—” he began. /■ Yet no second word came. Doohisdorf’s great body lunged across the room with the ferocity and might of a charging- bear. His arm went out like a javelin, great fingers extended, and clutched with the effect of a mighty mechanical trap the younger man’s throat. He caught him as he might catch a vicious dog he intended to kill, snatching him off his feet. Ned’s arm lashed out impotently, and forcing through with his own body, Doomsdorf thrust him into the comer. For a moment he battered him back and forth, hammering his head against the wall, then let him fall "to a huddled heap on the floor. Lenore’s voice raised in a piercing scream of terror: but a fiercer instinct took hold of Bess. The impulse that moved her was simply that to fight to death, now as well as later. A heavy hammer, evidently a tool recently in use by Doomsdorf, lay on the window sill, and she sprang for it with the strength of desperation. But her hand had hardly touched It before she herself was hurled back against the log wall behind her. The squaw had not sat supine in this stress. With the switfness and dexterity of an animal, she had sprung to intercept the deadly blow, j hurling the girl back by her hand upon the latter’s shoulder. Except for the huddled heap in the blood-spattered corner of the cabin, it was as if it had never happened. The squaw was again stolid, moving slowly back to her chair; Doomsdorf breathed quietly and evenly. The two girls stood staring in speechless horror. “I hope there won’t be any more of that,” Doomsdorf said quietly. “The sooner we get these little matters straightened out. the better for all concerned. It isn’t pleasant to be hammered to pieces, is it?” He took one step toward Ned, and Lenore started to scream again. But he inflicted no further punishment. He reached a strong hand, seized Ned's shoulder, and snatched him to his feet.

Racked by pain but fully conscious Ned looked into the glittering eyes. It was no longer possible to disbelieve in this hairy giant before him. Doomsdorf walked to the door and threw it wide. “There’s snow’ and cold out there.” His voice was deeply sober. “Death too—sure as you're standing here. A weaklfhg like you can’t live in that, out there. None of your kind can stand it—they'd die like so many sheep. And as a result you have to bow down and serve the man that can!” Ned had no answer. The greatest fear of his life was clamping down upon him. * “That’s the law’ up here—that the weak have to serve the strong.l’ve heat the north at its own game, and it serves me, just as you’re going to serve me now’. You can go out there if you Jike —if you prefer to die. There’s no boat to carry you off.” He paused, smiling grimily: then with an explosive motion, pulled back the lid of the stove and threw in another log. “Sit down, why don’t you?” he invited. "I don’t insist on my servants standing up always in my presence. You’ll have to sit down sometime, you know.” Lenore, wholly despondent, sank back into her seat. To show that he was still her protector, Ned stood behind her, his hands resting on the back of her chair. Bess stffle to a little rough seat between them and the squaw. A single great chair W’as left vacant, almost in the middle of the circle. Doomsdorf glanced once about the room as if guarding against any possibility of surprise attack by his prisoners, then sat down easily himself. "Excuse me for not making you known to my woman,” he began. "In fact, I haven’t even learned your own names. She is, translating frcm the vernacular, ‘Owl-That-Never-Sleeps.' You won’t be expected to expected to call her that, however—although la-egret ub a general thing, the picturesque native names so oflCn undergo such laceration on the

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