Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 109, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 September 1923 — Page 8
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BEOIX HERE TODAY Ned Cornet, his fiancee, Lenore, and Bess, a seamstress, are survivors of a shipwreck. They take refuse on an island inhabited by a man named Doomsdorf and his—lndian wife. Tile master of the island tells Ned and the girls they must be his slaves. Lenore is too weak to do any work, so the burden falls entirely on the shoulders of Bess and Ned. The prisoners build a cabin and Doomsdorf gives them an old stove. As soon as the cabin is completed Ned and Bess are informed that they are to learn to be trappers. Lenore is allowed to remain with the squaw and help her with the housework. Bess and Ned are given separate routes. The squaw starts Bess on her way and Doomsdorf instructs Ned. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY SHE dam itself didn't appear to be a natural formation of rock. It Rooked more' like driftwood, but it was inconceivable that mere drift could be piled in this ordered way. “It must be a beaver dam.'' he said. “You’re right for once,” Doomsdorf agreed. “A big beaver weighs about fifty pounds—and he’s about the handiest toy to trap there is. You’ll wonder what the purpose of these dams is. As far as I can make out, simply to keep the water at one level. Y'ou know' these little streams rise and fall like the tides. They’ve learned. In a few hundred thousand years of their development, that it doesn’t pay to build a nice house and then hßve the creek come up and wash it away and drown them out.”
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DOOMSDORF STRUCK HIM OFF. Doomsdorf explained that a trap set on the house itself so alarmed the animals that the entire colony was likely to desert the dam. Instead, the trap was set just below the surface of the water at a landing —a place where the beaver went in and out of the water in the course of their daily work. Doomsdorf still marched in his easy, swinging gait; and ever it was a harder fight to keep 'pace. Yet Ned dared not lag behind. His master's temper was ever uncertain in these long, tired hours of afternoon. Tired out, weakened, aching In ev ery muscle and not far from the absolute limit of exhaustion, Ned*staggered to the cabin door at last. He had put out all the traps he had brought from the home cabin; thence his course lay along a blazed trail that skirted the edge of the narrow timber belt, over the ridge to the Forks cabin. Doomsdorf entered then in the half-light stood regarding the younger man who had fDllowed him In. Ned tried to stand erect. He must not yield to the almost irresitible impulse to throw himself down on the floor and rest. He dared not risk Doomsdorf's anger; how did he know what Instruments of torture the latter’s Satanic ingenuity might contrive
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in this lonely cabin! Nor was his mood to be trusted tonight. His gray eyes shone with suppressed excitement; and, likely enough, he would be glad of an excuse for some diversion to pass the hours pleasantly. It was very lonely and strange out here, in the open, in the full sweep of the wind over the barren lands. But Ned wasn’t aware of Doomsdorf’s plans. The great blonde man stretched his arms, yawning, buttoned his coat tighter about hint and turned to go. “I’ll see you in about five days,” he remarked laconically. Ned wakened abruptly from his reverie. “You mean—you aren’t going to show me anything more?” “I’ve shown you how to set your traps, for every kind of an animal.” Doomsdorf said. “You ought to be able to do the rest. By the time you come around, we’ll likely have freezing weather —that means you’ll have to thaw out your animals before you skin them. “Here and here and here" —h,e paused, to put in Ned's hands a clasp hunting knife, razor-sharp, a small pocket hone to whet his tools, and a light ax that had been hanging back of the stove —“are some things you’ll need. The time will come when you'll need showshoes, too. There's a pair on the rafters. Now I'm going to spend'the night—in more agreeable company.” For a moment the two men stood regarding each other in absolute silence. Then Doomsdorfs keen ears, eager for such sounds, caught the whisper of Ned’s troubled breathing. Presently a leering smile flashed through the blonde beard. “Y'ou mean—you and Lenore will be alone?” Ned asked. “You saw the squaw start out with Bess?” was the triumphant answer. “But why should you care? It was Lenore's own wish to stay. She’d take me and comfort any time, sooner than endure the cold with you. Os such stuff, my boy. are women made.” Ned’s face, lifeless and white as a stone, was no longer loose with terror. A desperate fury had brought him -to the verge of madness. “That’s a foul lie!” he shouted, reckless of Doomsdorf s retaliation. “She didn't dreafn that you would do that —” Doomsdorf struck him off, hurling him against the wall; but It was not with the idea of inflicting punishment. Ned could not speak, but Doomsdorf looked at him with the fire of a zealot in his eyes.
“I don’t want anything that's that easy,” he said with infinite contempt. “Sometimes the game is harder. I take back something I inferred a moment ago—that all women would do the same. The best of them, the most of them, still will go through Hell for an idea; and that's the kind whose spirit is worth while to break. Do you know any one w’ho right now, likely enough is trudging along through this hellish snow with forty pounds of traps over her back? Ned shudered, hurling off his doubt, belleveing yet in the fidelity ot his star. “I don’t know, and I don't care,” he answered. “That's what Bess Gilbert is doing, and you know.' it. There, young man, is a woman worthy of my steel!” He turned and strode out the door. Ned was left to his thoughts and the still, small voices of the waste places. Alone with the wilderness night whose word was the master word of life, and with the wind that sobbed unhappy secrets as it sw'ept his cabin roof. Thus began a week of trial for Ned. For the first time in his life he was thrown wholly upon his own resources, standing or falling by his own worth. Should he' fall insensible n the snow there were none to seek him and bring him into shelter. If he should go astray and miss the cabins there was no one to set him on the right path again. He was meeting the wilderness alone, and face to face. He crossed the divide to the Forks cabin, followed the springs to ThirtyMile cabin, descended to the set, and along the shore to the home cabin, just as he had been told to do. He put out his traps as he w'ent in what seemed to him the most likely places, using every wile Doomsdorf had taught him to increase his chances for a catch. In spite of the fact that he w'ent alone, the second day was ever so much easier than the first; and he came into the home cabin only painfully tired, but not absolutely exhausted, on the fifth.
All through the five days he had strengthened himself with the thought that Lenore awaited him at the journey’s end; and she had never seemed so lovely to him as when, returning in the gray twilight', the saw her standing framed in the lighted dqor way of the home cabin. Doubtless it was his own eagerness that made her seem so slow in c/fming into his arms; and his own great fire that caused her to seem to lack warmth. He had been boyishly anticipatory-, foolishly exultant. Yet it was all sweet enough The girl fluttered a single instant in his arms, and he felt repaid for everything. "Let me go,” she whispered tensely, when his arms tried to hold her. "Don’t let Doomsdorf see. He might kill you ” But It came about that she didn’t finish the warning. Presently she felt his arms turn to steel. She felt herself thrust back until her eyes looked straight into his. She had never seen Ned in this mood before. Indeed, she couldn't ever remember experiencing the sensation that swept her now; secretly appalled at him, burnt with his fire, wavering beneath his will. She didn’t know he had arms like that. His face, when she tried to meet it, was like gray iron, the eyes cold as stones* “What has Doomsdorf to do with it?” he demanded. “Has' he any claim on you?” “Os course not.” she hastened to reply. “He’s treated me as well as could be expected. But you know—he makes claims on us all.” The fact could not be denied. Ne3 turned from her, nestling to the flrq for warmth. The happiness he had expected in
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’his lon-awaited night had failed to naterialize. He ate his great meal, sat awhile in sporadic conversation with the girl # in the snug cabin; then went wearily to his blankets. Often, in the little hour after sup f.er about the stove, he wakened from his revery to find that he had been thinking about Bess. She had come in from her line the previous day and had gone out again; and he had not dreamed that her absence could leave such a gap In their liitle circle. He had hardly regarded her at all, yet he found himself missing her. She W|is always so high-spirited, encouraging him with her own high heart. \ But his blankets gave him slum her, and he rose in the early hours, breakfasted, and started out on his lonely trap line. He was not a little excited as to the results of the mo filings tramp. Every skin he took was his, to protect his own body from the bitter, impending cold. The few traps had not been sprung. Outwitting the wild creatures was seemingly not the easy thing he had anticipated. For a moment he couldn’t locate the beaver trap. Then he saw that the wire, fastened securely to the bank, had become mysteriously taut. Mot daring to hope he began to tug it in. At the end of the wire he found his trap, and In the trap was a large beaver, drowned and in prime condition. ' (Continued in Our Next Issue
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