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Mission to the Dakotas in “fountains of blood.” But Aaron young would-be missionary to the Indians on the Minnesota , is more concerned about his courtship of “Princess” Silene Lanark, daughter of the rich and unscrupulous fur trader, Caesar Lanark, than about the possibility of the forthcoming , uprising. Meanwhile, a strange young mystic, David Queenslace, has once more appeared out of the wilderness. Now go on with

story. We - CHAPTER NINETEEN i THAT NIGHT créép through a log cabin, Aaron lay rigid. He knéw that there might be something more than bluffing to Black Wolf's threats, and

he’ could hear the snap of burning timbers, the screams of dying|stories.

women. The uneasiness was still over him next morning when he was prosaically chopping wood and Selene appeared, glossy in furs, he WIA, PARE FOI] ——————————— oe ho Ys at him sieatny, open-eyed. Only,

“Agron! I'm a homeless beg-/he Was dead. . gar! I mean it! My father has| ti thon eo = passion for God horribly against

his chest, against his neck. It

“we Suck. 4 scene, & occurred to Mim that he must

had even! and yo iad gone last bed! ug said Dot shock Belene with sight of I would go back East. T'm afraid this mockery and he bors the 1 stamped my foot. Oh, is it very body into the log stable.

t our foot?| Aaron was trembling with pa ie ggg he re-|Shocks of cold electricity, ahauk- ' {ing, helpless, till the blessed

minded me he was only married to my mother by Indian custom-— maybe not even by that now, be4 ” | Salite sh ip 20d Jett him. {before they can see it?” “Then he almost hit me. He| BY then he knew he reminded me he really is a Caesar 5¢ lene. here, and he sald by God he'll] Over the coffin, that early twisend me back to my mother's light, the women walled, their people—I'm to go live in a tepee, DAIF loose, their hands clutching where I belong, and haul wood— | the bare bight Sine Yog=s me that don't speak 10 words of °F one, oa Ane on Be: Sioux! And then he smiled, so Na = Speezer—

A f chilly—all his teeth—and he pre-| a. Sethe Was the only one of tended to get awful polite, and he helpless, identifying herself with sald there was one other thing; , is menacing death. Davy has a rich father, and Papa They buried Davy in a pit said if I could manage to MAITY| 04 out of stone-hard earth, | Davy, 1 might get forgiven. [next to Mercie's little headboard, And then he walked out and| yi; was already leaning a

" went to bed, and this morning 11s with the painted letters al-| he's still In his room and, Aaron. | eaqy a little blurred by the gales.

iwarmth of life came back and he ‘was gasping to Jake, “Can you help me make a coffin, quick,

meant

as he listened to the winter cracklings that do|

carrying what was left of David's|a few of the cautious gophers he Yet loved Black Wolf and

{of Indians returned from thelay, and his face was gone. He| jhunt and set up their tents had received a shotgun blast- full Furs were joyfully carried into/in the face, and th2 Ojibway had {Lanark’'s warehouse and the taken time to scalp him complete, Indians had new shotguns and down even to his cars. |rifies. Their children came to Her Door was crouched in a {the Mission school, and Selene, P20 Desde him, Jaling [proud to be a schoolmistress and| —=C “AAAS NO day $ 250 he no longer a schoolgirl, helped Pua the bo ne, v ep Huldah and the BSpeezers drill ‘ ay. 8 a strange thing: the Ojibway attacked no {them in English spelling and ini hut Black Wolf's; they rushed arithmetic and sewing and Bible jn and killed him and scalped him and burned the tent and his This winter of 1848-40 had book he wrote and ran away and been remarkabily cold, but spring did not try to get other scalps.” blew up early and grateful. | a March struggled in with early] ‘AS HE hastened back to the

{crows and red-winged blackbirds Mission, Aaron hated all Indians| He ran, stumbling, desperate,/and hints of green grass. Even and was terrified of them while

peeped out of their burrows. That Was dismayed that his revolt had crabbéd weather-croaker, . Jake, been ended by an outlaw murder, insisted that winter would return, It was after 10, very late for but the rest of them frolicked in! the Mission, but Leon Simonet apthe gentle warmth, and Aaron peared at Jake's cabin with a walked unabashed, hand-in-hand note for Selene. | with Selene : This was the note: | They all felt released, they alll Do you think you have been loved one another and the Faith, Wise not to answer my billet assez and then the news came, by a doux? Nor come to see me? I refrightening, flying Leon Simonet, Sent boorishness, and I usually that on the evening before ado something about it. You need| dozen shotgun blasts had been #® more rigid training than your| fired from the darkness at the delightful dalliance at the Mispalisade of Castle Lanark. sion. C. L.” 1 ’ ow» She spoke without hysteria: | IT “WAS Aaron who heard| “My father is going to do Black Wolf’s speech.” The Wolf dreadful things with me. He's iIn-! was standing out, as the Indian Sane with pride. I think he did custom was, among the tepees in have Black Wolf killed. I think). the darkness, and he made ora- I'll be kidnaped.” a) tion that all the Indian nations Not if I...”

must unite and get back their old ‘Kidnaped and taken off to some Western Dakota tribe.” “He won't!” I “He might, if we don't run.| Fast! I'm terrified of him!” He kissed her. He muttered,| “Get your stuff together. Make! sure Huldah is asleep and don't] wake her-—she’d be full of good|

free hunting Aaron understood enough of it| to be frightened. He went to Harge to report, and heard that Jake had seen, way out on the prairie, Caesar Lanark talking to

half a dozen Indians who looked |

I'm scared to death, and I'd rather They shivered about the grave not like Bioux but like their en-|

be a squaw with a drunken man|in the defenseless prairie, in a

than marry Davy-—he's just a slow, ceaseless falling of snow.

emies, the Ojibway-—the Chip- | advice. | wake you at dawn. Don't be - *

pews. ;

I'll steal the grub and|

sick, desperate child. I'm scared!”

Next day Black Wolf came to|

scared, Selene, my dear! And I'll )

Aaron quickmarched to Chatean Lanark and into the living roam. . Caesar Lanark was being

Harge, snarling, “I just heard!” He was clearly quite insane.

David. Lanark looked at Aaron and yelped, “What the devil do youd want?’ “Mr. Lanark, you're a complete ly. ”

whole bunch of you!”

Wolf, but now and then, amid a jolly conversation about Hell, oné . {of the men would grunt, “I Then Lanark really was furious. suppose he could get some of the T see our friend Leon Simonet Teton and Yankton to join his is hanging around that inside Wahpeton. Tough raiders, too."

nrg TOG, Caesar Lanark was “You killed my friend with your sion Isaac Weeps-by-Night dotted “PA AIRY conversational With & sient magic! a be revenged -on the up .on his on Nigh otied. the Missfqn, even Hulddn,

They pretended to laugh at the yp in"dark. They have shot Black |St. Paul or Ft. Snelling; -Selene

There was firing from the vil- ha oy |lage, the evening after, and the 2V® & Bun:

{men stood on guard at the Mis2 lio forever all his friends at

[tack hy Ojibway! They sneaked| They must move fast. Once at

| Wolf. They have killed him. He{Would be safe. He'd see to that {8s dead—our prophet is dead, and|. . . somehow! we are finished!” (To Be Continued) {| Aaron and Isaac ventured to Juuiesesitnn {the Indian village. On a pile of | 07 Arrangement mith Random. House, blankets among the tipis, lighted Fc, Ciprrisht, 1940. New York Post

door,” Aaron sald: “Looks like a fight, doesn’t it! I haven't had a good one for a year. But that

was a good one. It was with Ccar- — i ———————————— ———— ——-——" -— -—-——-—"—— —-y penters’ mallets.” J ; ! x gis iif mace rd 1 i ou a vir ; ; 3 AC Yeo. i Ivins ! rn Here's bow! for the hungry ones—big, ! large chap, but very compact, well i é em al é juicy hamburgers on home-baked buns— i Soprdinated. 1 think we shall : and piping-hot Hills Bros. Coffee. This Baye to give up the delightful] I ; » | vulgarism of a fight.” i fine coffee has a flavor that's deliciously | or 2h right. And now I want anl| - | husky gers all its own. It's a blend of the world’s ! take envy Sloyes & oa things. 11 : choicest coffees, and “Controlled RoastAke hat clothes and never let I ing,” an exclusive Hills Bros. process, I me see her or yau again!” nd . ; : . Insanely, Lanark was dragging ! 3 + “roasts the blend a little at a time—con | gga Selen®’s room, throwing out: 1 5 __tinuously—to insure an even roast for 1 of -the-door, all the. dresses she "0 | “every coffee bean. You get the same gus 2a Proudly who ie Ia New 5= “5 Ad tempting flavor in every pound. Hills | neatly, so excitedly, for her | Bros. Coffee is vacuum-packed for ut- u journey to her father, and now BER reshn they were wrinkled, t or n, most § a Hs scattered over the snow. | I = 1

. =» 3 SELENE CRIED quietly as she | SS tried to. stroke the wrinkles out § of ‘the silk garment lying on her knee. Aaron remembered that it was the tan basque she had worn! for her party dinner at Castle Lanark. “I loved it so, when I got it In New York!" she wimpered. | Not very sympathetically, Hul- £8 dah grunted, “Most of us never| had any fineries to get ruined! We were too poor.” | Yet it was Huldah who sug-| [ENE gested to her future happy con-| JE sort Bquire Harge, that they make a place in the Mission for Beiene till spring. Huldah shared her room with! Selene, and Aaron now had both of these desirable young women rustling at night as they undressed 15 feet away from him. All that was patriarchal in him| rose, and he feit that he would be willing to do chores and hold yarn for both of them forever, He sald privily to Huldah, “I tell you she has real grit—washing overalls, peeling potatoes bringing in wood, after the stylish way she's been raised.” ~ . . pF BLACK WOLF made his {nevi-| [asia table slippery entrance, and be-| f fore the assembled staff knew! Aa he was in the room, he was challenging them, “What have you done with Davy?” Aaron was anxicus, ‘Isn't he a’ Lanark’'s?” - “No. I've scouted the place. Simonet says he ran away from there after something Lanark Fy eafd, (I'm going to kill that Lanark!) He never came to my cave. Find him!” Aaron and Jake examined the groves” along the lake the site of the Indian village They found Sas no “trace. Selene cried,

| ‘a

“That boy, out ——_

on “the prairie, freezing trying ul to get to Traverse des Sioux a freezi to death! Unless my

father killed him. He might have.” She had a note from her father, delivered by a blank-faced Simonet: “I was rude and intolerant with you, Daughter. If you care to for-. give me, it will be a mature act on your part. As I live among ‘slaves and must be ready to! crush revolts, I have become! somewhat hasty, I regret it, | “Come home!" $he showed the letter to Aaron shivering, while he kept an arm sedire about her. “I tell you I'm scared of him! Must I go?” “You must not! We'll get the Squire's backing." She stayed.

. ” » - THERE BEGAN then for, Aaron a life of such quiet ‘reasonableness as. he had never. . known. It lasted for three days, | which is a good deal in one humian | existence, and then God laughed. Aaron was out in the marsh along the Isantl River, searching for. a stubborn and cynical stray coy. ‘Fintering the marsh was a creek. swift enough to keep an - open pool in the coldest weather, . and he went cautiously; at 20 below zero, it was not safe to go home wet. He stopped short. An the pool was some-| ke a black scarf. Then he vy ‘Queerislace looking up!

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