Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 106, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 September 1923 — Page 8

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BEGIN' HERE TODAY Ned Cornet and his flaneee. Lenore. are •urvivors of a shipwreck. With Bess, a am-tress, they land on an island inhabited by Doomsdorf and his Indian wife. Captain Knutzen, another survivor. is shot and killed by Doomsdorf Ned tries to fieht the master of the island, but is no match for the big man and is badly beaten. Doomsdorf lectures his prisoners and warns them that he was once imprisoned in Russia and that now he means to use his slaves as he himself was on-'e treated. Bess defies the brute, but Lenore seoms unable to cope with the strangeness of her position. Bess resolves to be prepared in case opportunity of escape Is afforded them. The scuaw is always watchful. Escape seems hopeless. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY | w j I ED, deeply appalled and un IIN I s P ea kably revolted, looked to 1- I Lenore for directions. Her head was on her arms, and she shook it in Lter misery. “I can't go out there now,” she said. “I’ll just die If I do—l’m so cold still, so weakened. I wish I had died out there in the storm.” Ned turned once more to Doomsdorf. “She's , telling the truth —I think she simply can’t stand to go," he urged gravely. “But though she’s absolutely in your power, there are some things even a beast can't do. You just the same as gave me your word—” “There are things a beast can't do, but I’m not a beast. There’s nothing I can’t do that I want to do. I make no promises—just the same, for this time, I don’t think you need be afraid. I don’t take everything that comes along in the way of a woman. I want a woman of thews!” XVII There was a number of axes in the lfttle workroom that comprised one end of the long cabin, and Doomsdorf flung three of them over his shoulder. "Right up through here,” he urged, pointing to the little hillside behind the cabin. Doomsdorf halted them before one of the halfgrown s; —uce. “Heres one,” he commented. "Just beyond is another. You can each take one—cut them down with your axes and then hack them Into two-foot lengths for the stove. Better split each length into three pieces—the larger ones, anyway. If you have time, you can carry it down to the cabin.” He took the handle of the largest ax in his right hand; with his left he extended the other two imple ments, blades up, to Ned and Bess, “I suppose you know we've had no experience—” Ned began.

HE HALF CARRIED. HALF DRAGGED THEM INTO THE CABIN. “It doesn't matter. Just be careful the trees don’t fall on you. They sometimes do. you know, on amateur woodsmen. The rest is plaiD brute strength and awkwardness.'’ He banded them each, from his pocket, n piece of dried substance that looked like bark. ’’Here’s a piece of jerked caribou each —It ought to keep life i.r your bodies. And the sooner you vet yoilr wood cut and split, the sooner you see any more.” Then he turned and left them to their toil. Thus began a bitter hour for Ned. He found the mere work of biting thrpugh the thick trunk with his axe cost him breath and strained his patience to the limit. It wasn’t as easy as it looked. He did not strike true; the blade made irregular white gashes in the bark; his blows seemed to lack pewer. The great, ragged wound deepened slowly.

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Finally it was half through the trunk, and yet the tree stood seemingly as sturdy as ever. Reckless from fatigue, he chopped on more fiercely than ever. And suddenly, with the grinding noise of breaking wood, the tree started to fall. And at that instant Ned was face to face with the exigency of leaping for his life. The- tree did not fall in the direction planned. An instant before, weary and aching and out of breath, Ned would have believed himself Incapable of swift and powerful motion. As that young spruce shattered down toward him, like the club of a giant aimed to strike out his life, a supernatural power seemed to snatch him to one side. Without realization of the effort, the needed > muscles contracted with startling force, and he sprang like a distance jumper to safety. But he didn’t jump too soon or too far. The branches cf the tree lashed at him as it descended, hurling him headlong in the snow. And thereafter there were three things tr. cause him thought. One of them was the attitude of Bess—the girl to whom, in weeks past, he had shown hardly decent courtesy; the same girl whom, in childish fury he had cursed the bitter, eventful night just gone. Above the roar of the falling tree he heard her quick, half-strangled gasp of horror. The sound seemed to have the qualities that made toward a perfect afterimage; because In the silence that followed, as he lay in the soft snow, and the crash of the fallen tree echoed Into nothingness. It still lingered, every tone perfect and clear. In his mind's ear. There was no denying Its tone of ineffable dismay. Evidently Bess was of a forgiving disposition; In spite of his offense of the past night she had evidently no desire to see him crushed into jelly under that giant’s blow. Bess was staring wide-eyed into his face, and he smiled quietly in reassurance. “Not hurt at all,” he told her. Quickly he climbed to his feet. “See that you don't do the same thing that I did.” He walked with her to her fallen ax. then inspected the deep cut she had already made in her tree. “You’re doing the same thing I did. sure enough,” he observed. "The tree will fall your way and crush you. Let me think.” A moment later he took his ax and put in a few more strokes in the same place. It was the danger point, he thought; a deeper cut might fell the tree prematurely. Presently he crossed to the opposite side, signaled Bess out of danger, and began to hack the tree again, making a cut somewhat above that started on the other side of the trunk. He chopped sturdily; and in a moment the tree started to fall, safely and in an opposite direction.

He uttered some small sound of triumph; but it was a real tragedy to have the tree fal; against a near-by tre and lodge. Again he had failed to exercise proper foresight. There was nothing to do but climb into the adjoining tree with his ax and laboriously cut the lodged tree away. In the meantime Bess went to work on the first tree felled, trimming it of its limbs so to cut it into lengths. Ned joined her at the work, but long the first tree was cut into fuel, both were at the edge of utter exhaustion. Doomsdorf had seemed almost incredible to Ned at first. It was as if he couldn’t possibly be true; a figment of nightmare that would vanish as soon as he wakened. But he was real enough now.. Nothing was left to him but the knowledge how real he was. He must not rest, he must not pause til! the work was done. The fact that Bess had fallen fainting, in the snow did not effect him; he must swing his ax and hew the wood. Day was dying. Grayness was creeping in from the sea. |lt was like the essence of the sea itself, all gray, gray like his dreams, gray like the ashes of his hopes. He must finish the two trees before the darkness came down and kept him from seeing w r here to sink the blade. The ax swung automatically in his arms; even sense of effort was gone from him. The only reality that lived in him now. in that misty twilight, was the knowledge that he must get through. It was too dark to see, now, how much of the work remained. The night was cheating him, after all. He struck once more at the tough lengths that lay at his feet —a piece at which he had already struck uncounted blows. He gave all his waning strength to the effort.

The length split open, but the ax slipped out of his bleeding hands, falling somewhere in the shadows beyond. He must crawl after it; he didn't know how many more lengths there were to split. Jt was strange that he couldn’t* keep his feet. And how deep and still was the night that dropped over him! How long he groped for the axe handle in the snow he never knew. But he lay still at last. Twilight deepened about him, and the wind wept like a ghost risen from the sea. The very flame, of his life was burning down to embers. Thus it came about that Doomsdorf missed the sound of his axe against the wood. Swinging a lantern. a titanic figure among the snowiaden trees, he tramped down to investigate. Bess, semi-conscious again, wakened witen the lantern light danced into her eyes. But it took him some little time to see Ned’s dark form in the snow. The reason was, it was lying behind a mighty pile of split fuel. The light showed that only green branches, too small to be of value, remained of the two spruce. And Doomsdorf 'runted, a Tendering oath, deep in his throat. They had been faithful slaves. Putting his mighty arm around them, each in turn, he half carried, half dragged them into the warmth of the cabin. Ned was spared the misery and despair that overswept Doomsdorf’s cabin the first night of his imprisonment. His master dropped him on the floor by the stove, and there he

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Yet he was not always deeply in sensible. Sometimes he would waken with a knowledge of wracking pain in and- sometimes coki woulacreep over him. Once he came to himself with the realization that someone was administering to him Soft, gentle hands were removing his wet, outer garments, rolling him gently over in order to get at them, slipping off his w.et shoes and stockings. A great tenderness swept over him. and he smiled wanly in the lantern light. "Lenore?” the man whispered feebly. But there was no spoken answer out of the shadow at the edge of the lantern light. Perhaps there was the faint sound, like a gasp, almost as If a terrible truth that was tor an Instant forgotten had been recalled. (Continued in Out Necrt Issue) CONGRESSMAN MADDEN SHOWS IMPROVEMENT Physicians Declare Illinois Solon Must Take Long Vacation ftv United Press WASHINGTON, Sept. 13.—Continued improvement was noted today in the codition of Representative Martin Madden, Illinois, chairman of the house appropriations committee, who is suffering from a heart attack. Madden has been notified by his doctors, however, he must take a long rest and he probably ne”er can re-

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Golf players of Lawreneeville, Rob- ( inson, Washington, Princeton, Bicknell, Mt. Carmel and Carlisle held an all-day tourney at the Vincennes Country Club Wednesday. The Rev. Thomas J. Wilson of Orleans will become pastor of the First Christian Church of Shelbyville. > Dr. Noble F. Mitchell, past exalted ruler of*the New Albany lodge oi Elks has been appointed district deputy exalted ruler of the B. P. O Elks for the southern Indiana district. A total of 375 cases, the largest docket in the court’s history, is to be disposed of with tne opening of the September term of the Vermilion County Circuit Court. George Bales, a farmer, living near Clinton, was seriously injured when he was attacked by an infuriated frightened calf. Evansville is now converting a 100acre tract of land, purchased for SIOO,OOO, into an eighteen-hole golf course. The links will open next spring. Physicians and surgeons of Lagrange, Steuben, DeKalb and Noble Counties, members of the Northeastern Indiana Academy of Medicine, will hold a meeting and banquet at Kendallville, Thursday.

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