Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 110, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 September 1923 — Page 8

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BEGIN HERE TODAY Ned Comet is ensaeed to marry Lenore Hardenworth. They are shipwrecked and with Bess Gilbert they take refuge on an island occupied by a brute named Doomsdorf and his Indian wife. Ned and the girls are made prisoners by the master of the island and he tells them they are to be his slaves. Lenore is too weak to work, so Bess and Ned takfc up the burden Doomsdorf announces that he means to make his prisoners do his winter trapping. They are permitted to build themselves a cabin and Doomsdorf gives them an old 9tove. After the cabin is finished Lenore ia permitted to remain and help the squaw with the housework, but Bess and Ned are started on different routes to trap for their master. NOW GO ON WITH THK STORY I—, jHE beaver was of course not I I I frozen; and the skin stripped L—- 1 off easily under the little, sawing- strokes of his skinning knife. He was rather surprised at its size. It came off nearly round, and it would stretch fully thirty-two inches in diameter. Washing it carefully, he put it over his back and started on. Other traps yielded pelts in his long day’s march. Tired out, barely able to stand erect, yet wholly content with his day’s catch, Ned made the cabin in the twilight, built his fire, and cooked his meager supper. After supper he skinned out such little animals as he had not taken time to skin on the trail, fleshed and stretched his pelts, then hung them up to dry. He was almost too tired to remove his wet garments when the work was done. He hardly remembered drawing the blankets over him. But In spite of the hardship, the wrack of cold, the fatigue that crept upon him like a dreadful sickness, Ned had many moments of comparative ✓pleasure. One of these moments, seemingly yielding him much more delight than the occasion warranted, occurred at the end of the second day of actual trapping. This day's march had taken him to the Forks cabin; and there, as twilight drew about him, he was amazed to hear the nearing sound of footsteps in the snow. Someone was coming laboriously toward him, with the slow, dragging tread of deep fatigue.

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THEY HAD A QUIET HOUR OP TALK. It was Bess, of course. At this point their lines coincided. It was hen third stop, and since she had left the home cabin a day ahead of him, she was perfectly on schedule. He could hardly explain the delight that flashed through him at the sight of her. In this loneliness and i silence mere human companionship was Messing enough. His appearance in the doorway was not a surprise to Bess. She had counted the days end she knew his schedule would bring him here. But now she was too near dead with fatigue to give him more than a smile. With scarcely a word he lifted her to the cot, covered her with a blanket, and in spite of her protests, went speedily about the work of cooking her supper. They had a quiet hour of talk before he drew the blankets about her shoulders and left her to drift away in sleep. He was unexplainably exHAD TO AVOID GREASY FOOD Boatman Suffered From Indigestion, But by Taking BlackDraught, Says He Got So He “Could Eat Anything.” Stephensport, Ky.—" For some time I suffered with indigestion, or dyspepsia,” says Mr. Henry Gross, of this place. "I coujdn’t eat the least thing greasy—if I did, I would spit it up. I suffered a great deal.” Since his work requires him to be on an Ohio river steamboat much of his time, Mr. Gross says that he ‘‘had to eat at different places, and I suffered because I had to be so particular to get something that wouldn’t hurt me. I had a hurting in my stomach, and a slick, bitter taste in my mouth. Someone said I needed a liver medicine. I began with BlackDraught and it has given perfect satisfaction. I took a pinch after meals and it regulated me. I got so I could eat about anything and enjoy it. Black-Draught is all right.” A pinch of Black-Draught, taken for a few days at a time, after meals, washed down with a swallow of water, has, in thousands of cases, relieved simple Indigestion. Asa result of the action of the medicinal roots and herbs of which It is composed. BlackDraught gently stimulates the flow of the digestive juices, and helps to relieve, or prevent constipation, in an easy, natural manner. Try it 25c.

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ultant; light-hearted for s,ll this dread waste that surrounded him. The little hut of logs was home, tonight. The cold could not come in; the wind would clamor at the roof in vain. He did her work for her tonight. He skinned the smaller animals she had brought in, then fleshed and stretched all the pelts'she had taken. After preparing his own skins, he Ynade a hard bed for himself on th* floor of the hut. It was with real regret that they took different ways in the dawn. Ned’s last office was to prepare kindling for her use on her next visit to the cabin four days hence —hardly realizing that he was learning a lit,tle trick of the woodsman’s trade that would stand him m good stead in many a dreadful twilight to come. The trails of these two trappers often crossed, In the weeks to come. They kept close track of each other’s schedules, and they soon worked out a system whereby they could meet at the Forks cabin at almost every circuit. . No longer did Ned go about his work in the flimsy clothes of the city. Out of the pelts he had dried Bess helped to make him garments and moccasins as warm and serviceable as her own, supplied through an unexpected burst of generosity on Doomsdorf’s part soon after their arrival on the island. They brought their hardest problems to the Forks cabin and solved them together. Hay after day the snow sifted down, ever laying a deeper covering over the island, bending down the limbs of the strong trees, obscuring all things under this cold infinity of white. The traps had to be laboriously dug out and reset again and again. ■When the skies cleared, an undreamed degree of cold took possession of the land. The fingers froze in the instant that the fur gloves were removed, and the hottest fires could hardly warm the cabins. And on these clear, bitter nights the Northern Lights were the ineffable glory of the sky. Their bodies built up to endure even such hardship as this. The fact that the snow at last packed was a factor, too; they ere able to skim ever the white crust at a pace even faster than the best time they had made in early fall. The result was that at last the companionship between Bess and Ned, forgotten in the dread horror of the early winter months, was revived. Jtgain they had pleasant hours about the stove at the Forks cabin, sometimes working at pelts, sometimes even enjoying the unheard-of-luxury of a few minutes idleness. Very naturally, and scarcely aware of the fact themselves, they had come

to be the best of companions. Ned’s hours with Lenore, however, gave hira less satisfaction than they had at first. She somehow failed to understand what he had been through. Slowly, by the school of hardship, and conquest over hardship, Ned Cornet was winning anew self-mas-tery, anew self-confidence to take the place of the self •r.ceit that had brought him to disaster. But the first real moment of wakening was also one of peril—on the trapping trail one clear afternoon toward the bitter clorfe of January. He had been quietly following that portion of the trap line that followed the timber belt between the TwelveMile cabin and Forks cabin, and the blazed trail had led him into the depths of a heavy thicket of young spruce. He had never felt more secure. The only hint of danger that the Red Gods afforded him did not half penetrate his consciousness and did not In the least call him from his pleasant fancies. It was only a glimpse of green where the snow had been shaken from a compact little group of sapling spruce just beside one of his sets. Likely the wind had caught the little trees just right; perhaps some unfortunate little furbearer, a marten perhaps, or a llesher, had sprung hack and forth among the little trees in an effort to free himself from the trap. He walked up quietly, located the tree to which the trap chain was attached, bent and started to draw the trap from the small, dense thicket whence some creature had dragged It. He was only casually interested in what manner of poor, frozen creature would be revealed between the steel jaws. The beauty of the day had wholly taken his mind from his work. One moment, and the' forest was asleep about him; the little trees looked sadly burdened with their loads of snow. The next, and the man was hurled to the ground by a savage, snarling thing that leaped from the covert like snow demon it was; and white, gleaming fangs were flashing toward his throat. Except for the impediment of the trap on the creature’s foot, there would have been but one blow to that battle in the snow. White fangs would have gone home where they were aimed, and all of Ned Cornet’s problems would have been simply and promptly solved. This was not some little fur-bearer, helpless in the trap. It was no less a creature than that great terror of the snow, a fug-grown Arctic wolf, almost as white as the drifts he hunted through. Only the spruce trees knew how this fierce and cunning hunter came to snare his foot in the jaws of a marten trap. Nor could any sensible explanation be made why the great wolf did not break the chain with one lunge of his powerful body, instead of slinking into the coverts and waiting developments. The ways of the wild creatures quite often -fail of any kind of an explanation; and it is a bold woodsman who will say what any particular creature will do under any particular condition. When he saw Ned’s body within leaping range, he knew the desperate impulse to tight. The chain of the trap broke like a spring as he leaped. The steel leasn that is often used to restrain a savage dog would have broken no less quickly. There was no visible recoil; what little resistance there was seemingly did not in the least retard the blow. It did, however, affect -its accuracy. That fact alone saved Ned from instant death. But as tlie wolf lunged toward him to complete his work—after the manner of some of the beasts of prey when they fail to kill at the first leap—an inner man o\nught seemed to waken

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in Ned's prone body. A great force came to life within him. He lunged upward and met the wolf in the teeth. A great surge of strength, seeminly without physical limitation, poured through him. In one great bound he overcame the deadl yhandicap of his own prone position, springing up with terrible, reaching, snatching hands and clasping arms. Some way, he did not know how, he hurled that hundred pounds of living steel from his body before the white fangs could go home. But there was not an instant’s pause. Desperate with fury, the wolf sprang in again—a long, white streak almost too fast for the eye to follow. But he did not find Ned at a disadvantage now. The man had ■wrenched to one side to hurl the creature away, but he had already caught his balance end had braced to meet the second onslaught. (Continued in Our Next Issue.) NO STABLE FOR -MULE’ Police Find Basket of Liquor in Vacant Lot Without Attendants. Twelve half-pints of ‘‘white mule," and no owner! Police were called to Madison and Southern Aves. by Claude Comer, 1501 Hoyt Ave., and Charles Yeager, 1509 Hoyt Ave., who said they received a call that whisky was to be found in a vacant lot nearby. A basket jcontainlng the liquor was located justi as an automobile drove up. When/the driver saw the police he “put gas” and escaped.

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THE OLD HOME TOWN—By STANLEY

Sheriff H>.ys of Jackson County has issued order’s to landowners that they will be subject to prosecution with the finding of stills on their farms. Loss estimated at $50,000 and not covered by insurance was Incurred when a blaze of unknown origin destroyed part of the Furgeson Lumber Company’s plant at Clinton. A chapter of Boy Scouts of Arnerice, sponsored by the Rotary Club of Decatur and headed by Roland Shimp has been formed at Decatur. More than SSOO was raised by a tag day for the benefit of the Neighborhood House at Kokomo, a mission social center. Two loaves of bread and anew lamp burner were stolen from an automobile belonging to Floyd Mock, Bluffton. The annual fall festival and home coming Is to be held at Jameston Sept. 28-29. Prizes will be offered for farm exhibits. Mrs. Rosa Wagoner Doty, wife of Luke Doty, Brazil, committed suicide at the city jail late Saturday after an unsuccessful attempt to kill her husband. The Frankfort city council has adopted anew traffic ordinance.

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