Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 105, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 September 1923 — Page 8

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BEGIN HERE TODAY Ned Comet, his fiancee. Lenore. and Bess, a seamstress, are survivors of a shipwreck. They land oa an island inhabited only by a man named Doomsdorf and his Indian wife. Doojfisdorf tells them he has named the island •‘Hell.” and warns Ned and the girls that he is master of the island and that they must be his willing slaves,/' Ned defies Doomsdorf and the two fight. Ned. however, ir no match for the big man's strength and is badly beaten. Second in command is the squaw and she proves herself a faithful watchdog for her master Bess is the stronger of the two girls. She makes up ner mind to be %’ady for any opportunity of escape. Lenore seems helpless to cope with the situation. NOW GO OX WITH THK STORY ii p.' UT I really must get down to r\ essentials. It’s so long since I’ve talked to the outside world that I can't help being garrulous. To begin with —I came here some years ago. not entirely by my own choice. Os course, not even the devil comes to such a hell as this from his own choice. There’s always pressure, from above.” He paused again, hardly aware of the horrified gaze with which his hearers regarded him. A startling change had come over him when he spoke again. His eyes looked red as a weasel’s in the shadowed room; the tones of his voice were more subdued, yet throbbing with passion. "I gray walls, long ago, in Siberia,” he went on slowly and granely. “I was not much more than a boy, a student at a great university—and then there were gray walls, It> a gray, snow-swept land, and gray cells with barred doors, and men standing ever on watch with loaded rifles, and thousands of hpjiian cattle In prison garb. It was siieost straight west of here, far beyond Bering Sea; and sometimes inspectors would come, stylish people lie yourselves, except that they Were bearded men of Petrograd, and look at us through the bars as at animals in the zoo, but they never interfered with the way things were run! I was an enemy of society, Aey said—so I became an enem yof in reality. Right then I \ hate for society and a desire to burn out the heart of such weak things as yo*.""

“GLAD TO SEE YOU’RE BUCKING UP,” HE COMMENTED. He turned to them snarling line a beast. “One day the chance came to '•scape. While more cowardly men would have hesitated, I pushed through and out. On the way I learned a little lesson —that none of the larger creatures of the wild die as easily as men. I found out that there is nothing more to killing a man that is in your way than killing a caribou I want to eat. I didn’t feel any worse about it afterward. “I had to come across here. I couldn’t forever escape the hue and cry that was raised. Ultimately I landed on this island —with Sindy and a few steel traps. “In this climate we can trap almost the whole year around. We can start putting them 'out in a few days more —keep them out clear till June. Every year a ship—the Intrepid, that you’ve likely heard of —touches here to buy my furs—just one trip a year—and it leaves here supplies of all kinds in exchange. But don’t take hope from that. Hope is one thing you want to get out of your systems. The captain of the Intrepid and the Japanese crew are the only human beings that know I live here, except yourself—that know there’s a human occupant on his is- ' land. On their yearly visit I’ll see to

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it that none of them get a sight of you. “Once I was used to working all day from dawn to dark, with an armed master on guard over me. It is I’t going to be that way from now on. I'm going to he the armed master. The next few days you're going to spend building yourselves a shack and cutting winter fuel. Then each of you will have a trap line —a good stiff one, too. Every day you’ll go out and follow your line of traps—baiting, skinning and fleshing, drying the skins when you get to the cabins. You'll know what it really is to he cold, then; you’ll know what work means, too. With you three I expect to triple my usual season's catch, building up three times as fast the fortune I need. “All my life I’ve looked forward to a chance to give society the same kind of treatment it gave me—and when that fortune is large enough to work with there will be anew dynasty arise in Russia. “When I said to abandon hope I meant it. You have no boat, and I’ll give you no chance to make one. The distance Is too great across the ice ever to make it through: besides, you won't be given a chance to try. “Even ii your doting fathers should send out a search party, they will overlook this little island. It was just a freak of the currents that you landed here —I don’t see why you weren’t blown to Tzar Island, immediately east of here. When they find you aren’t there, and pick up any other lifeboats from your ship that in all probability landed there, they’ll be glad enough to turn around and go back. Especially if they see your lifeboat floating bottom upward In the water’!’ He paused, scanning their pale, drawn faces. He turned to Ned first, but the latter was too Immersed in his own despair ever to return his stare. Lenore didn’t raise her golden head to meet his eyes. But before his gaze ever got to her, Bess was on her feet. “Don’t be too sure of yourself,” she cautioned • quickly. He looked with sudden amazement into her kindling eyes. “Men like you have gone In the face of society before. You’re not so far up here that the arm of the law can't reach you.” The blond man smiled into her earnest face. “Go on, my dear," he urged. “It’s got ?<#*. once, and it’ll get you again. And I warn you that if you put one indignity on us, do one thing you’ve said —you’ll" pay for It In the end—just as you'll pay for that fiendish crime that you committed today.” As her eyes met his. straight and unfaltering, the expression of contemptuous amazement died in his face. Presently his interest seemed to quicken. It was as if he had seen her for the first time, searching eyes resting first on hers, then on her lips, dropping down over her athletic form, and again into her eyes. He seemed lost in sinister speculations.

XVI Doomsdorf had seemingly achieved his purpose, and his prisoners lay crushed In his hands. A fear infinitely worse than that of toll or hardship fcnd evidently killed the fighting., spirit in Bess: Lenore had been broken by Doomsdorf’s first words. And now all the structure of Ned's life had seemingly toppled about him. , For In this moment of ilfispeakable remorse he found he could blame no one but himself for the disaster. Every year men traversed these desolate waters to buy furs from the Indians; he had been in a staunch boat, and with a little care, a little foresight, the journey could have been made In perfect safety. It was a man’s venture, surely: but he could have carried through if he had met it like a man instead of a weakling. In spite of his own despair, his own bitter hopelessness, he must do what he could to keep hope alive In Lenore and Bess. It was tfie only chance he had to pay, even in the most pitiful, slight degree for what he had doen to them. He must always try to make their lot easier, doing their work when he could, maintaining an attitude of cheer, living the lie of hope when hope seemed dead in his breast. / -And that is why, when Doomsdorf looked at him again, he found him in some way straightened, his eyes more steadfast, his lips in a |irmer, stronger line. "Glad to see you’re bucking up,” he commented lightly. Ned turned soberly. ”1 am bucking up,” he answered. “I see now that you’ve gone into something you can’t get away with*''Miss Gilbert was right: in the end you’ll find yourself laid out by the heels.” “You think so, eh?” Doomsdorf yawned and stretched his arms. “Just try something—that’s all. And since you’re feeling so good. I don’t see why you shouldn’t get to work. You can still put In a fairly good morning. And you”—he turned, with catlike swiftness that marked so many of his movements, toward Bess—“what's your name?” Bess, in his misery, looked at him with dread. “Bess Gilbert,” she answered quietly. “Bess it will be. Lenore, I think you call the other—and Ned. Good thing to know your first names, since we’ve got an uncertain number of years before us. Well, I suggest that all three of you go out and see what you can do about wood. You’ll have to cut some and split it. I’ve been lazy about laying in a winter store.” Much to his amazement, Ned stood erect, pulled down his cap over his brown curls,, and coat. "I’ll see what we can do," he answered straightforwardly. “I have, though, one thing to ask.” >- “What is it—” "That you let the two girls take It easy today—and get warmed through. If you sent them out now, weakened as they are, it might very easily mean pneumonia and death. It s to your interest to keep them alive.” “It’s to m.v interest, surely—but don't rely on that to the extent of showing too much independence. The human * body can stand a lot before it gives up the ghoet. The human

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know, because I've seen. I don't mind running a little risk with human life to get my way, and I know several things, short of actual killing, that go toward enforcing obedience and quelling mutiny.” Ignore, staring wildly at him, caught her breath in a sob. “You don’t mean—” Doomsdorf did not look at her. He still smiled down at Ned. “You've never felt a knout, have you, on the naked back?” he asked sweetly. "I found out what they were like in Siberia, and with the -hope of showing someone else, I took one out—ln my boot. half-killed many a man—but I only know one man that it’s completely killed. He was a guard—and I found out just how many blows it takes.” The man yawned again. "But your request is granted—so far as Lenore Is concerned. You can leave her here for me to entertain. Bess has spirit enough to work.” (Continued in Our Next Issue) IRON BARS ARE BROKEN Clothier Fears Revisit of Robbers as l Entrance Is Prepared Iron bars covering the rear window of the I. E. Solomon clothing store at 434 W. Washington St., were broken Tuesday night. Solomon told the police that the store was entered once before and at that time the bars were broken on one night and the store entered on the next. Police

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The public schools at Union City have an enrollment of 604 pupils, fifty short of the number last year. David M. Boyle, Lafayette, has been appointed district deputy of the grand exalted ruler of the B. P. O. Elks In the Central Indiana district to succeed G. R. Fleming of Noblesville. \ Fifty prizes, including twenty first prizes, were the to'al awards received by Mrs. E. E. Bennett of Warren at the State fair. Mrs. Bennett had eighty-six entries in the culinary department. Louis F. Heimlich, Lafayette, was recently elected president of the Indiana branch of the American Lutheran League. Miss Elaine Warrick, Rushville, was one of three girls in the home economics department conducted by Purdue University at the State Fair selected to attend the fair next year as a guest. Fire of unknown origin burned a barn on the farip of the Pike brothers, near Alert, and caused an approximate damage of $5,000. A field day for poultry raisers of Bartholomew County Is to be held at the U. R. Fishel poultry farm at Hope this week. E(f Neville, Edinburg, was fined sl4

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