Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 116, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 September 1923 — Page 8
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IfFHE iSLk Qir retribution J J EDISON MARSHALL R.W. SATTERTieLD <£> LITTLE, BROWN 8 COMPANy, ISIS
BEGIN HERE TODAY Ned Cornet, his fiancee, Lenore Hardenworth. and Bess Gilbert, a seamstress, are shipwrecked and they take refuse on an island occupied solely by a man named Doomsdorf and his Indian wile. Doomsdorf takes Ned and the strls prisoners and introduces them to slavery. Lenore pains leniency from her master through flattery, but Bess and Ned defy the brute and are made to work until they fail unconscious, Ned and Bess, with very little help from Lenore, build a cabin and, when it Is completed, the master of the island sends Ned and Bess on different trapping routes. Lenore remains with the squaw. When Lenore is told of plans for an escape from the island she treacherously tells Doomsdorf. Bess and Ned start to walk out on the ice. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY mNSTINCTIVELY Ned’s arms went about her, pressing her close and tremulous with this ghost of happiness, the high-born strength of woman’s love surged through her again, more compelling than ever before. Once more er purpose flamed, wan and dim at first, then slowly brightening until its ineffable beauty filled her eyes with tears. Once more she saw a course of action whereby Ned might have a fighting chance for life. Her first plan, denied her because of Ned’s refusal to lead faster than she could follow, had embodied her own unhappy death from the simple burning up of her forces from over-exertion; but this that occurred to her now was merciful. It might easily preclude a fate that was ten times worse than death. Yet she was only glad that she had thought of it. She suddenly lifted her face, trying to pierce the pressing gloom and behold Ned’s. "I want you to promise me something, Ned.” she told him quietly. He answered her clearly from full wakefulness. ‘‘What Is it?”
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GUARDING THEM WITH HIS RIFLE. HE POINTED THEM THEIR WAY. “I want you to promise—that if you see there’s no hope for me—that you'll go on—without me. Suppose Doomsdorf almost overtook us—and you saw that he could seize me —but you could escape—l want you to promise me that you won’t wait.” “To run off and desert you—” “Listen, Ned. Use your good sense. Say I was in a place where I couldn’t get away, and you could. Suppose we became separated somehow on the ice, and he should be overtaking me, but you’d have a good chance to go to safety. Oh, you would go on, wouldn’t you?” Her tone was one of infinite pleading. "Would there be any use of Stour returning—and getting killed yourself—when you c ouldn’t possibly save me? Don’t you see the thing to do would be to keep on—with the hope of coming out last —and then getting up an expedition to rescue me? Promise me ou won’t destroy what little hope we have by doing such a foolish thing as that —” Wondering, mystified by her earnestness. half inclined to believe that she was at the verge of delirium from cold and exertion, his arms tightened about her and he gave her his promise so that she might rest. “Os course I’ll do the wise Jlfing,” he told her. “The only thing!”
BLACK-DRAUGHT SINCE BOYHOOD Louisiana Man Attributes His Fortunate Escape From c Serious Epidemic to the Use of Black-Draught. Holden, La., —“When I was just a boy at home,” says Mr. F. D. Robertson, of this place, "my father and mother used Black-Draught, and I found then what a good medicine it was for the liver and for indigestion. I have used it on from then to now, finding it was good for headache, indigestion, bloating after meals, and colds. "A couple of years ago, every one, almost, around me was having the 'flu.' I took a cold and was feeling bad. I thought then I would take Black-Draught. I took a good big dose every night and I can't begin to tell just how much good it did me. I was able to stay up and wait on others, and I beleive my good fortune was due to the use of Black-Draught. I wouldn’t be without it in my home, for it is the best medicine I have ever used.” By keeping your liver and stomach in good order, you stand in little danger of catching the serious ills that occasionally become epidemics, spreading through town and country. Black-Draught is composed, of medicinal roots and herbs, finely powdered and carefully mixed in the right proportions to act naturally on the stomach and liver. It has been found to improve digestion, and, to relieve constipation in a prompt, safe way.—
Her strong little arms responded to the embrace and slowly joyously she drew his face toward hers. “Then kiss me, Ned,” Bhe told him, soberly yet happily, as a child might beg a kiss at bedtime. Her love for him welled in her heart. "I want you to kiss me good night.” Slowly, with all the tenderness of his noble manhood, he pressed his lips to hers. "Good night, Bess,” he told her simply. Fbr an instant, night and cold were forgotten. “Good night, little girl.” Their lips met again, hut now they did not fall away so that he could speak. Them was no need for words. His arm about her held his lips to his, and thus they lay, forgetting the wastes of ice about them for the moment secure from the cruel forces that had hounded them so long. The wind swept by unheard. The fine snow drifted before it, as if it meant to cover them and never yield them up again. The dimmer stars faaed and vanished into the recessees of the sky. The cold's scourge was impotent now. The hour was like some dream of childhood; calm, wondrous, ineffably sweet. The ghost of happiness seemed no longer just a shadow. For the moment Bess' fancy believed it real. Sleep drifted over Ned. Still with her Ups on his, Bess listened till his flow, quiet breathing told her that he was no longer conscious. She waited an instant more, her arms trembling as she pressed him close is she could. “I love you. Ned,” she whispered. "Whatever Id all for love of you.” Then, very softly so as not to waken him. she -slipped out of his embrace and got to her feet. She started away straight north—at right angles to the direction that they had gone be : fore. XXX Ned’s instincts had been trained Uke the rest of him .and they watched over him while he slept. They aroused h'im from sleep as soon as It was light | enough to pick his way over the rough I ice that lay in front, yet as if in reali- ! zation of his physical need of rest, not ;an instant sooner. He sprang up to | find the dawn, gray over the ice-bound I sea. But the miracle of the morning, even the possibility that Doomsdorf had made time while he slept and was now almost upon him did not hold his thought an instant. His mind could not reach beyond the tragic fact that he was alone. Bess was gone, vanished like a spirit that had never been in the gray dawn. Her last words swept through his memory. They gave him the key: his deductions followed swift and sure by the process of remorseless logic. In a single moment he knew the dreadful truth; Bess had not gone on in the expectation of Ned overtaking her; thus saving a few moments of his precious time. She had not gone east at all. She knew the stars as well as he did: she would have never, except by some secret purpose, turned north instead of east. He saw the truth all too plain. She had chosen the direction that would give Doomsdorf the longest chase and take him farthest from Ned’s trail. He couldn't follow them both. The morning light would show him that his two fugitives had separated, and she had reasoned soundly in thinking that their enemy would pursue her, rather than Ned. His lust for her was too commanding for him to take any other course. While he pursued her, Ned would have every chance to hurry on eastward to the safety of Tzar Island. Never for a moment did he even consider going on and leaving her to her fate. He could not aid her, and yet In one moment more ho had launched forth on her trail, faster than he had mushed before. He had no inward battle, no sense of sacrifice. There was not even a temptation to take the way of safety. In these last months he had been lifted far beyond the reach of any such feeble voice as that.
He sped as fast as he could along the dim trail she had made. The dawn, icy-breathed, soon outdistanced him, permitting him to see Bess’ fleeing form before he had scarcely begun to overtake her. She was just a dark shadow at first against the stretching fields of white; but he nc-ver lost sight of her after that. With the brightening dawn he saw her ever more distinctly. And in the middle distance, west - of both of them, he saw the huge, dark form of Doomsdorf bearing down upon her. She had guessed light as to Doomsdorf. Catching sight of her, he had left their double trail to overtake her. Hoping and believing that Ned had taken his chance of safety and was fleeing eastward, she was leading his enemy ever farther and farther north, away from him. He was a strong man, this Cornet who had fought the North, but the bitter, scalding tears shot into his eyes at the sight of that strange, hopeless drama on the Ice. But not one of them was in self-pity. They were all for the slight figure of the girl, trying to save him, running so hopelessly from the brute who was even now upon her. A moment later he saw her slip on the ice, and in dread silence, Doomsdorf’s arms went about her. Neither of them had apparently observed Ned. They only became aware of him as •his great shout, half in rage, half in defiance, reached them across the ice. Even at the distance that separated them the startled movement of Doomsdorf’ head revealed his untterable amazement. Doubtless he thought that Ned was miles to the East by now. The amazement gave -way to boundless triumph as Ned walked calmly toward him. Then while he held the girl prone on the ice with his great knee, Doomsdorf’s rifle made blue lightning in the air. Ned’s responses was to throw his arms immediately into the air in token of complete surrender. He was thinking coolly, his faculties in perfect control: and he knew he must not attempt resistance now. Only death lay that way: at that range Doomsdorf cotold shatter him lifeless to the ice with one shot from the heavy rifle. It wasn't enough just
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of Doomsdorf’s power. Such a course would not aid Bess. And to Bess he owed his duty—to aid Bess in every way he could, was his last dream. At first he had hud to play the cruel game for the sake of Lenore. That obligation was past now; but it had never, at Its greatest, moved him with one-half the ardor as this he bore to Bess. He must not go this route to freedom, or any other, until Bess could go with him. He must not leave her in Doomsdorfs power. Doomsdorf watched him approach In silence. The triumphant gloating that Ned expected did not come to pass; evidently their brute master was in too Bavage a mood even for this. “Wait where you are,” he ordered simply, “or I’ll blow your head off. I’ll be ready for you in a minute.” He bent, and with one motion jerked Bess to her feet. Then in silence, still guarding them with his rifle, he pointed them their way—back to his cabin on the island. It was a long and bitter march across that desolate ice. Except for a share of his pemmican that Doomsdorf distributed, for expedience rather than through any imptUse of mercy, Bess could have hardly listed. (Continued in Our Next Issue) Its An Economy It Is economy to buy a carving knife, bread knife and small vegetable klUfe of good steel that will /ake and held a good edge. Glass Baking Dish Glass leaking dishes aye easy to keep cleaik and the food may be .brought to the table in them.
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