Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 117, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 September 1923 — Page 8
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* BEGIN' HERE TODAY Bess Gilbert, Cornet and the latter's fiancee. Lenore Hardenworth, Are shipwrecked. They take refuse on /an island where they find a man named Doomsdorf. who promptly makes the three his prisoners. He tells them that the only other inhabitant of the island is his Indian wife. The prisoners are allowed to build a cabin for themselves. Lenore is not inclined to labor, so she flatters Doomsdorf and he allows her to remain with the squaw while he drives Bess and Ned until they fall unconscious. Bess and Ned are given different trapping routes. Together they plan an escape from the island and, through Lenore's treachery. Doomsdorf hears of their arrangements. He follows them out on the ice and forces them back toward his cabin. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY SHEY walked almost in silence, Ned in front, then Bess, their captor bringing up’the rear; a strange death march over those frozen seas. The file trudged on. Ned led the way unguided. The hours passed. The dim shadow of the shore crags strengthened. And another twilight was laying its first shadows on the snow as they stepped upon the snowybeach. It was at this point that Bess suddenly experienced an inexplicable quickening of her pulse, an untraced but breathless excitement that was wholly' apart from the fact that she was nearing the cabin of her destiny. The air Itself seemed curiously hushed, electric, as if a great storm were gathering; the moment was poignant with a breathless suspense. She could not have told why-
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DOOMSDORF HAD STEPPED SQUARELY' INTO THE GREAT BEAR TRAP. A moment later Ned turned to her, ostensibly to help her up the steep slope of the beach. She saw with amazement that his face*'was stark white and that his eyes glowed like live coals. Yet no message was convey'ed to Doomsdorf. tramping behind. It was only her own closeness to him. her love that brought her soul to his. that told her of some farreaching and terrific crisis that was at hand at last. “Walk exactly in my steps!” he whispered under his breath. It was only the faintest wisp of sound, no louder than his own breathing: yet Bess caught every word. She did not have to be told that there was infinite urgency behind the command. Her nerves seemed to leap and twitch; yet outwardly there was no visible sign that a message had been passed between them. Now Ned was leading up toward, the shore crags, into a little pass between the rocks thjit was the natural egress from the beach on to the hills behind. He walked easily', one step after another in regular cadence: only his glowing eyes could have told that this instant had, by light or circumstances beyond Bess’ ken, become the most crucial in his life. And It
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was a strange and ironic thing that the knowledge he relied on now r , the facility that might turn defeat into victory; was not some finesse gained in Ills years of civilized living, no cultural growth from some great university far to the south, but merely one of the basic tricks of a humble trade. Doomsdorf had told him, once, that a good trapper must learn to mark his sets. Any square yard of territory must be so identified, in the mind’s eyes, that the trapper can return, days later, walk straight to it and know its every detail. Ned Cornet had learned his trade. He was a trapper: and he knew this snowy pass as an artist knows his canvas. He stepped boldly through. Bess walked just behind, stepping exactly in his tracks. Her heart raced. It was not merely because the full truth was hidden from her that she walked straight and unafraid. 1 She would always follow bravely where Ned led. Now both of them had passed through the little, narrow gap between lofty, snowswept crags. Doomsdorf trudged just | behind. i Then something sharp and ealamiI tous as a lightning bolt seemed to | strike the pass. There was a loud ring and clang of metal, the sharp crack of a snowshoe frame broken to kindling, and then, obliterating both, a wild bellow of human agony like that of a mighty grizzly wounded to the death. Ned and Bess had passed in safety, but Doomsdorf had stepped squarely into the great bear trap that Ned had set the evening before. The cruel jaws snapped with a clang or iron and the crunch of flesh. The shock, more than any human frame could endure, hurled Doomsdorf to his knees; yet so mighty was his physical stamina that he was able to retain his grip on* his rifle. And the instant that he went down Ned turned, leaping with savage fury to strike out his hated life before he could rise again. He was upon him before Doomsdorf could raise his rifle. As he sprang he drew his knife from its sheath, and cut a white path through the gathering dusk. And now their arms went about each other in a final struggle for mastery. Caught though he was in the trap, Doomsdorf was not beaten yet. He met that attack with incredible power. His great hairy hand caught Ned’s arm as it descended, and though he could not hold it, he forced him to drop the blade. With the other he reached for his enemy’s throat. This was the final conflict; yet of such might were these contestants, so terrible the fury of their onslaughts, that both knew at once that the fight was one of seconds. These two mighty men gave all they had. The fingers clutched and closed at Ned’s throat. The right hand of the latter, from which the blade had fallen, tugged at the pistol butt at Doomsdorf’s holster. Bess leaped in, like a she-wolf in defense of her cubs, but one great sweep of Doomsdorfs arm hurled her unconscious in the snow. There were to be no outside forces influencing this battle. The trap at Doomsdorfs foot was Ned’s only advantage; and he had decoyed his enemy into it by his own cunning. It was man to man at last, a cruel war settled for good and all. It could endvjre but an instant more. Already those iron fingers were crushing out Ned’s life. So closely matched were the two foes, so terrible their strength, that their bodies scarcely I moved at all; each held the other in an iron embrace, Ned tugging with his left hand at the fingers that clutched his throat, Doomsdorf trying to prevent his foe from drawing the pistol that he wore at his belt and turning it against him. It was the last war; and now it had become merely a question of which would break first. They lay together in the snow, utterly silent, motionless, for all human eyes could see. their faces white with agony, every muscle exerting its full, terrific pressure. Ever Doomsdorfs fingers closed more tightly at Ned’s throat; ever Ned’s right hand drew slowly at the pistol at Doomsdorfs belt. Neither the gun nor the strangling fingers would he needed in a moment more. The strain itself would soon shatter and destroy their mortal I hearts. The night seemed to be fall- : ing before Ned’s eyes; his familiar, | snowy world was dark with the nearing shadow of death. But the pistol was free of the holster now, and he was trying to turn it in his hand. It took all the strength of his remaining consciousness to exert a last, vital ounce of pressure. Then there was a curious low sound, muffled and dull as sound heard in a dream. And drearrs passed over him, like waves over water, as he relaxed at last, breathing in great sobs, in the reddened drifts. Bess, emerging into consciousness, crawled slowly toward him. He felt the blessing of her nearing presence even in his half-sleep. But Doomsdorf, their late master, lay curiously inert, his foot still held by the cruel Jaws of Iron. A great beast-of-prey had fallen In the trap; and the killergun had sped a bullet, ranging up- | ward and shattering his wild heart. * * * All this was just a page in Hell Island’s history. She had had one dynasty a thousand thousand years before ever Doomsdorf made his first track on her spotless snows; and all | that had been done and endured was not more than a ripple in the tides that beat ujon her shores. With a new spring she came into her own again. Spring brought the Intrepid, sputtering through the new passages between the floes; and the old island kings returned to rule before ever the masts of the little craft had faded 1 and vanished in the haze. The Intrepid had taken cargo other j than the usual bales of furs. The : sounds of human voices were no more 1 to be heard in the silences, and the | wolf was no longer startled, fear and j wonder at his heart, by the sight of a tall living form on the game trails. The traps were moss-covered and lost, and the wind might rage the night through at the cabin window, and
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The savage powers of the wild held undisputed sway not again, to bet set at naught by these selfknowing mortals with a law unto themselves. Henceforth all law was that of the wild, never to be questioned or disobeyed. Even the squaw had gone on the Intrepid to join her people in a distant tribe. But there is no need to follow her, or the three that had taken ship with her. On the headlong journey south to spread the word of their rescue, of their halting at the first port to send word anti to learn that the occupants of the second lifeboat had been rescued from Tzar Island months before, of Godfrey Cornet’s glory at the sight of his son’s face and the knowledge of the choice he had made, of the light and shadow of their life trails in the cities of men, there is nothing that need be further scrutinized. To Hell Island they were forgotten. The windy snow fields knew them no more. Yet for all they were bitterly cruel, the wilds had been kind, too. They had shown the gold from the dross. They had revealed to Ned the way of happiness—and it ICd him straight into Bess’ arms. There jie could rest at the end of his day’s toil, there he found not only love and life, but the sustenance of his spirit, the soul of strength by which he might stand emet and face the light. Thus they had found a safe harbor where the Arctic W'ind might never chill them; a hearth where such terror as dwelt in the dark outside could
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Ground vWll be broken for the first building on the Methodist Protestant camp ground near Marion, Oct. 4. The Rev. E. T. Howe, Indianapolis, president of the Indiana conference, will officiate. Legionnaires of Hartford City are formulating plans for the erection of a replica of the typical Y. M. C. A. hut of war-time Prance. Materials will cost about SI,OOO. That his wife broke tomato cans with a hammer, destroyed other household goods, refused to cook and threatened to knock his head off are the charges on which David Erwin, Columbus, bases his suit asking a divorce. The Fox Hunters’ Association of Southern Indiana will meet at Odon Oct. 15-20. Big nres will be lighted at the camp every night, around which the veterans of the chase will spin their yarns. A second crop of raspberries this year on the same briars has been reported by Emmett Shank, Huntington. The berries were said to be of fine flavor and good size. Roumanians of Indiana Harbor have presented to the East Chicago public library a book containing fifty-six engravings of the old Byzantine art
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by a member of the Roumanian royal court. A thief stole sl9 from a purse belonging to Bernadine Littiken, Columbus. One week later the money was returned by special delivery mail. Rotariana of Itushvjjle, Greensburg
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