Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 115, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 September 1923 — Page 8

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BEGIN HERE TODAYS Ked Cornet. Lenore Hardenworth and Bess Gilbert are shipwrecked. ToCether they take refuge on an island. Lenore and Ned are engaged to be married. The island on which the three find themselves is inhabited by a brute named Doomsdorf and his Indian wife. Doomsdorf promptly takes Ned and the girls prisoners and tells them he means to U9e them as his slaves. The prisoners are told to build a cabin for themselves and. when it is completed, the naster of the island says he wants i Ned and Bess to do all his winter trapIkng Lenore is allowed to remain with the squaw. Different trapping routes are given to Bess and Ned. Together they plan to escape from the island ami send Lenore to call Doomsdorf to their cabin. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY OsTj HE man regarded her with I quickening interest, yet with—J out the slightest trace of suspicion. He got up at once. Lenore stared at him as if in a nightmare. She had hoped in her deepest heart that he would refuse to come, that the great test of her soul could be avoided, but already he was starting out the door. She had done her part; she could wait here, if she liked, tiill the thing was settled. In a few seconds more she would know her fate. Yet she couldn't stay here and wait. To Doomsdorf’s surprise she followed him through the door, into the glare of the northern lights. She did not know what impulse moved her; she was only aware of the growing cold of terror. Not only Ned and Bess would pay the price if the plan failed. She must pay, too. The thought haunted her, every step, every wild beat of her heart.

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VED BROKE TRAIL, SHE MUSHED A FEW FEET BEHIND. Doomsdorf was walking swiftly; ilready he was halfway from the door. The desperate fight for freedom was i(most at hand. But what was freedom compared to that fear and darkness that is death? There were no depths of ignominy beyond her now. She cried out shrilly and incoherently, then stumbling through the snow, caught Doomsdorf's arm. “No. no.” she cried, fawning with Hps and hands. "Don’t go in there —they’re going to try to kill you. I didn't have anything to do with it —I swear I didn’t —and don’t make me suffer when I’ve saved you—” He shook her roughly, until the torrent of her woods had ceased, and she was silenced beneath his lurid gaze. “You say—they’ve got a trap laid for me?” he demanded. Her hands clasped before him. “Yes, but I say I'm not guilty—” He pushed her contemptuously from him, and she fell in the snow. Then, with a half-animal snarl that revealed all too plainly his murderosu rage, he drew his pistol from his holster and started on.

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XXIX Watching through the crack in the door Ned saw the girl's act; and her treason was immediately evident to him. Whatever darkness engrossed him at the sight of the ignoble girl, begging for her little life even at the cost of her lover’s, showed not at all in his white, set face. Whatever unspeakable despair Game upon him at this ruin of his ideals, this description of all his hopes, it was evidenced neither in his actions nor in the clear, cool quality of his thoughts. No other crisis had ever found him better disciplined. His mind seemed to circumscribe the whole, dread situation in an instant. He turned, met Bess’ straightforward gaze, saw her half-smile of complete understanding. ,As she leaped toward him, he snatched up their two hooded outer coats, and his arm half-encircling her, he guided her through the door. Whether or not she realized what had occurred he did not know, but there was no time to tell her now. Nor were explanations necessary: trusting him to the last she would follow where he led. “We'll have to run for it,” he whispered simply. “Fast as you can.” Ned had taken in the situation, made his decision, seized the parkas, and guided Bess through the door all in one breath; the drama of Lenore’s tragic dishonor was still in progress in the glare of the Northern Lights. Doomsdorf, standing back to them, did not see the two slip out the door, snatch up their snowshoes and fly. Otherwise, his pistol would have been quick to halt them. Almost at once they were concealed, except for their strange flickering shadows in the snow, behind the first fringe of stunted spruce. Ned led her straight toward the ice-bound sea. He realized at once that their least shadow of hope lay in fast flight that might take them to some inhabited is'and before Doomsdorf could overtake them; never in giving him a chase across his own tundras. They halted a single instant in the shelter of the thickets, slipped on their snowshoes. then mushed as fast as they could go onto the beach. In scarcely a moment they were venturing out on the ice-bound wastes. Doomsdorf encountered their tracks as he reached the cabin door, and guessing their Intent, raced for the higher ground just above the cabin. But when he caught sight of the fugitives, they were already out of effective pistol range. He fired impotently until the hammer clicked down against an empty breach, and then, still senseless with fury, darted down to the cabin for his rifle.

But he halted before he reaohed the door. After all, there was no particular hurry. He knew how many miles of ice—some of it almost impassable—lay between his island ar.d Tzar Island, far to the east. It was not the journey for a man and woman, traveling without supplies. There was no need of sending his singing lead after them. Cold and hunger, if he gave them play, would stop them soon enough. He had, however, other plans. He turned through the cabin door, spoke to the sullen squaw, then began to make preparations for a journey. He tcok a cold-proof wolf-hide robe, wrapped it in a great sack of pernmican, and made it into a convenient pack for his back. Then he reloaded his pistol, took the rifle down ■'from the wall, and started forth dowp the trail that Ned and Bess had made. Tired though Bess was from the day’s toil, she moved freshly and easily at first. Ned broke trail, she mushed a few feet behind. She had no sensation of cold; hardened to steel, her muscles moved like the sliding parts of a wonderful machine. The ice was wonderfully smooth as yet, almost like the first, thin, bay ice frozen to the depth of safety. But already the killing pace had begun to tell. She couldn’t keep it up forever without food and rest. And the brute behind her was tireless, remorseless as death itself. The Northern Lights died at last in the sky, and the two hastened on in the wan light of a little moon that was already falling toward the west. And now she was made aware that the night was bitter cold. It was getting to her, in spite of her furs. But as yet she gave no sign of distress to Ned. Out of her love for him a new strength was bom —that sublime and unnamable strength of women that Js nearest to divinity of anything upon this lowly earth —and she knew that it would hold her up beyond the last limits of physical exhaustion. She would not give way to unconsciousness, thus causing Ned to stop and wait beside her till she died. None of these things would she do. Her spirit soared with the wings of her resolve. Instead, her plan was simply to hasten on—to keep up the pace—until she toppled forward lifeless on the ioe. She would master herself until death mastered her. Then Ned, halting but an Instant to learn the truth, could speed on alone. Thus he would have no cause to wait for her. On and on through the night they sped, over that wonderfully smooth ice. never daring to halt; strange, *vondering figures in the moonlit snow. But Bess was not to carry her brave intent through to the end. She had not counted on Ned’s power of observation. He suddenly halted, turned and looked into her face. It was wan and dim in the pale light: and yet something about its deepening lines quickened his interest. She saw him start; and with a single syllable of an oath, reached his hand under her hood to the track of the artery at her throat. He needed to listen but an instant to the fevered pulse to know the truth. “We're going too fast,” he told her shortly. “No —no:" Her tone was desperate, and his eyes narrowed with suspicion. Wrenching back her selfcontrol she .tried to speak casually. “I can keep up easily,” she told him. “I don't feel It yet—l’ll tell you when I do. We can’t ever make It If we

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Into you, Bess. You can’t fool me. I know I feel It, good and plenty, and you’re just running yourself to death. Doomsdorf himself can’t do any more than kill us—” “But he can—” “We’re going to hit an easier pace. Believe me, he’s not running his heart out. He's planning on endurance, rather than speed. I was a fool not to think about you until It began to get me.” It was true that the killing pace had been using up the vital nervous forces of both their bodies. Ned was suffering scarcely not at all as yet, but he had caught the first danger signals. Bess was already approaching the dapger point of fatigue. When Ned started on again he took a quick but fairly easy walking pace. They mushed on in silence, not even glancing back to keep track of Doomsdorf. And it came about, in the last hours of the night, that the rest both of them so direly needed was forced upon them by the powers of nature. The moon set: and generally smooth though the ice was, they could not go on by starlight. There was nothing to do but rest till dawn. "Lie down on the ice." N£d advised, "and don't worry about waking up." H;s voice moved her and thrilled her in the darkness. “I’ll set myself to wake up at the first ray: that’s one thing I can always do.” She let her tired body slip down on the snow, reying on her warm fur garments to protect her from it. Ned quickly

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