The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1932-02-18, Page 7THE EXETER TIMES-AD VO CATE THURSDAY, FWRT4W M IdfcM
“The Silver Hawk ??
BY WIL-LIAM BYRON MOWERY
SYNOPSIS
James Dorn, aerial map maker, as
signed to a territory in the north
ern Canadian Rockies lives alone
In liis camp on Titan Island.
’ Kansas Eby, his friend for the
past six years was stationed at
Eagle Nest, two hundred miles
east, Kansas came over one
night to a dance that the Indians
‘ were having on the station
„ platform. When the midnight
train pulled in lie seen a girl
come out and glance hurriedly
, around and then disappear into
the darkness.
* hurriedly but
. trace
■ Dorn
Pere
rived
Kansas followed
failed to find any
He told his friend
and the same night
of her.
about it
Bergelot, a trusty metis ar-
with the girl.
The girl, Aurore McNain, asks
Dorn to go to a lonely lake in
search of her father and she wish
es to accompany him where she
remains in hiding and Dorn car-
. Ties supplies to her hy aeroplane. |
Carter-Snowdon arrives, and with
- the help of some 'breeds is trying
to locate her. Lukef the trusty
old Indian, who knows her secret
hiding place is captured and Dorn-
is trying to free him from Carter-
Snowdon,
’ Luke is rescued and finds that
■ the half-breeds are closing in
• Aurore’s hiding-place.
on
CHAPTER XXI
two
the
and
A Tabic Set for Two
As days passed and those
planes never molested him in
slightest, Dorn became more
in-ore uneasy. Since he was the rock
in the path of his enemies’ finding
Aurore, he believed they were gath
ering thunderbolts against him and
that he would know it when they
made any decisive move. But the
_ quiet was strange and ominous; he ■^preferred a’ fight to this gnawing
^uncertainty of what day the storm
twould break.
Cid Luke was a dismal ■ prophet
those days, and hard to get along
with.
and lie should go down
night to Eaux Mortes
dynamite and blow their
to the Dead. Waters.
grunt and snarl in his unintelligible
Beaver, and finally, break out: “I
used, believe you wise man; you
think much, say little. But now I
believe you hyas fool like all other
white men. Way you fight, much
chance is you lose young skaw-siclie.
Some day big chief finds her, carry
her away. Why not take her in
roaring flying-devil and fly siah-siah
south into Boston-land?” (The
States) “She make you good squaw.
She young and strong and mountain-
born like you. She "be mother of
. strong boy, of girl like herself.”
Dorn could not explain to Luke
that in the white man’s code there
were inhibitions against killing an
enemy save as a last resort, and
against taking a girl for the mere
primitive reason of wanting her.
Then one afternoon, when he re
turned home, old Luke was again
waiting for him with news—dore
ominous than the news of the battle
plane. Luke reported that Yoroslaf
and two other of the ’breeds were
no longer at the Dead Waters camp
or anywhere about Titan Pass.
.Startled, Dorn thought; “They’ve
pitched off somewhere, on some pur
pose. Soft-Shoe has side-stepped
me; he’s got some new scheme in
progress against Aurore.” He went
into action. “Luke, we must find out
where Yoroslaf is, what , he’s doing.
We use on enemies same medicine
•they used -on use; catch one of them
It was his opinion that Dorn
there some
with hiyu
enemies in-
He would
point gun, walk up, say,. What dam
hell you do here, olenian son-of-she-
' dog?’ i say hunt medicine roots;
■ say old squaw sick, bones go creak*
1 creak, belly hurt, can’t eat, Bimeby
he sees neck of bottle, He say, 'Two
1 damns and a Jiell, friend, what that?
■ I make look like try hide bottle, He
grab, take
1 glook-glool:
- tion water
by i begin
he .talk like whiskey-jack.”
Then Luke reported how Yoroslaf
and Csharlo and Npreisse had. been
set off barely forty miles south of
Aurore’s lake.
was,
old
the
they
morrow .
Dorn shuddered at the thought of
that 'Fort Liard murderer coming
upon Aurore on her island, For all
the fight he had put up, here Aur
ore’s enemies had closed in upon
her till they were only a few miles
away. He thought again of a hunt
ing eagle circling in evernarrowing
spirals; of its inevitale swoop and
strike.
■Planning a counter-stroke, he gaz
ed thoughtfully at old Luke. With
knife or belt-axe Luke could kill any
’breed at Titan Pass in open battle,
In ambush, with rifle and automa
tic, he was a match for any three
or four of the lot. He was old and
frinkled and leathery as if he had
been hanged for a month; but he
had lived cleanly.. In the bush he
was a flitting shadow, a pair of
glittering eyes, a steady hand and
trigger-finger, a shrewd old brain
of deadly cunning. ,,
Dorn said tersely: “Luke, you re
member mountain meadow up above
that lake, where focnsli-bears 'come
to pasture? You remember trail
lead across that mesa? 'Breeds have
to follow trail, cross mesa. No other
south pass to lake. I wawa correct,
hull?” And when old Luke nodded:
“Now suppose I take you in roaring
air-devil up to her lake. S’pose you
climb up to mesa, build ambush,
guard trail. S’pose Yoroslaf ahd
two 'breeds come hyaaking along.
What happen, huh?”
)OJd Luke make three clicking
sounds with his mony jaws, -and his
eyes glinted as though lie was sight
ing down a rifle barrel.
“Good ” Dorn said grimly. ‘Then
go make up pack. We get in air
quick!”
Paddling out to tho silver Hawk,
he changed the oil in it, pumped the
tanks full of gas, ran back to his
tent, climbed into flying clothes, and
gave old Luke a»great'coat.
Out at the plane the Indian sto
ically clambered into the rear seat
and submitted to pack-shute, harness
without grunt or quiver; but Dorn
knew that Luke would rather “fight
a grizzly with a pine bough” than go
aloft in that roaring air-devil.
Taking off, Dorn -circled for alti
tude til he was looking down on the
snowy poll of old -Titan iM'ajor; then
straightening out, he lined away
north, full-throttle, to beat Yoroslaf
to the Lake of the Dawn.
One hundred miles from his g-Cal
he swung west in a great semi-circle
to avoid passing over the ’breeds
and giving them a dead-certain di
rection clue. Dorn remembered that
first night when he had taken Aur
ore north and hew difficult
been to find her lake then,
was not difficult now; her refuge
had become his orientation '
and he could have flown to it with
out compass, by starlight.
Coming in out of the northwest,
he looked out and down and far
ahead and saw the moon-glistening
away,
-glook.
loosen
to aslt
tilt up, bottle go
Binieliy conversa-
liis tongue, Bime-
questions. Bimeby
Two days ago, that
“Much chance is,” old Luke
Luke concluded, remembering
difficult mountain trail, “that
not reached lake yet. But to-
that all his prearranged programme
to hold himself aloof was impossible,
absurd, now when Aurora’s
was warm in his again.
Aurore was frightened and
ering; and her fright recalled
He had foreseen this question
hers; lie had reasoned that if he de
nied
would
shield
truth,
lamity’s happened
merely found out something
ought to know about, and I’ve
a few suggestions to make
understand then why I didn’t want
to come during flie
nothing at all to .
trembling, Aurore!”
His casual voice
ceived Aurore. No
ed now, it suddenly
how she was dressed,
and said, “If you’ll excuse me, Jim
... a few minutes,” and ran into
her room,
Dorn closed the door against the
chilli night breeze, and liis glance
then went around the cabin. He
marvelled: “Aurore can work wond
ers with four log walls, a roof and
a fireplace!” For a‘11 its bareness,
the room had a cozy air of a wo
man’s touch; he compared it with
his own bleak, austere tent. The
cabin was scented with odours of
several wildflowers. Aurore had
made birchrind vases lined with
moss' and fringed with maidenhair
fern, and had filled them with blos
soms—with avalanche lilies and
dwarf roses, with gorgeous clusters
of purple heather and snow anemon
es which she could have gathered
only across on the mainland high
above tree line.
Tired and hungry, and with a
day’s cartograpliing ahead of him,
Dorn stirred the embers in the stove
and stuck in fresh wook to cook the
breakfast and put on a pan of water
for coffee. Busy with this while
Aurore was dressing, he thought
out just what to tell her. with those
’breeds stopped, her danger lay in
one of the enemy airplanes discover
ing her. The cabin was snugly hid
den. He himself that first morning
had searched the island with power
ful glasses and had failed to spot it.
But chimney-smoke or her white
canoe on the lake or Aurore herself
hand
qiuv-
iiim,
of
any trouble whatsoever she
know he was lying in order to
her from some harrowing
He answered her: "No
Aurore.
ca-
I'ye
you
sot
you’ll
day. But it’s
. . why, you’re
completely de-
longer frighten-
occurred to her
She flushed
upon the jutting boulder would be
easily seen from the air. He hud
to guard against her exposing her
self, and yet he must keep herefrom
suspecting the truth.
With bacon and trout frying and
the coffee simmering, he turned to
the table to set it. It was then he
noticed that the table was already
prepared. That was innocent, quite
like a practical little soul; but what
caught and held Dorn’s eyes, what
struck him hard—her table was laid
for two.
Dorn’s
He could
were the
two knives and works, and even two
chairs drawn up in readiness. A
thought 'struck him: “She’s expect
ing someone, she didn’t know I was
to come this morning. Someone is
coining here to her,” He remember
ed those words ho had spoken to
Aurora that first morning when he
brought her to this wilderness lake:
“You came here to meet somebody;
he evidently hasn’t arrived yet”;
and as he stood there staring down
at the table set for two, it seemed
to Dorn that that pld jealous sus
picion was proved now; and some
thing cold and hard and dagger
sharp pierced him and turned in the
wound. 0
Aurore came out of her room, fix
ing the big bow tie at her throat and
pinning a vivid scarlet orchid on her
breast.
her
Ing
she
and<<
of avalanche lilies, he
the business which had
to come here, and he
to Aurora;
it had
but it
point,
and jnake him talk! You go up On waters of Aurore’s lake and the sil-
crhAr- 1AAlr_Ai<T * nrhan briait 1 »glacier.
twelve
engine,
in the
could
miles;
of the
mountain, spot look-out’breed, keep , ver of the ]1U„G eye cn him. Bimeby come owl dusk his iortyS heW of
I come up along you. We liog-tie, thousand feet he cut -off his
’•breed; make believe we going to'- - • - -
burn him alive!”
Old Luke went. Bitt at sundown,
when Dorn had finished some minor
repairs on tlio Silver Hawk and. was
just ready to start for the mountain
slope, Luke chine skirling
Across from the mainland.
“What happened?” Dorn
Sharply. “Why you come back?”
Reaching into a hidden fold of his
medicine robe, Luke brought out a
leather bottle and handed it to Dorn
It was nearly empty* Dorn smelled
of it. Rotgut lioutclrinl—-a particu
lar vile drink of characteristic odour.
The Jumping-Salmon Tlilinkets and
Bella Coolas over on the 'coast made
it from sour molasses, and frozen
potatoes, and distilled it through
coils of the snaky algte washed
ashore; and then,, as though it were
not atrocious enough already, they
tinctured it heavily with plug tobac
co. Compared with it, the ordinary
Tink-eye and forty-rod and day-and
-a-half of the “permit” smugglers
were mellow,- bottled sunshine,
Luke had taken things into
own hands; make look like I
toots. Bimeby -'breed sees me,
bach
asked
his
hunt
lie
for the night was very still
mountains pud the ’breeds
hear that powerful roar ten
and coasting over the peaks
horseshoe range and on down at a
long, fifteeii-mile diagonal, Dorn
skimmed silently over Aurore’s is
land and lit in the far southeast cor
ner of the lake, where the old Car
rier trail led up to coat Mes.
In the canvas canoe he took Luke
ashore with pack and rifles; and
then taxied back across the lake.
As he started up the path, a light
Suddenly flickered in the cabin and
then burned steadily, and Dorn saw
Aurora's figure shadowed against
a window. She had heard liis plane.
When ho knocked at the door,
Aurore flung it open and stood in
front of him, dad in nightgown, a
billowy hair streaming down her
shoulders,
iS-he cried at sight of him, “Jim,
what's happened—-you coming nt
night—-so suddenly?”
Dorn stepped across the threshold
took Aurore’s hand, and denied
impulsive
his arms,
dismayed,
and
the
into
was
longing to take her
He was shocked, ho
by the realization
oreatn was like a
net be mistaken;
two tin plates, two
gasp,
there
cups,
I-Ie did not look around at
or speak, She saw him stand-
there stock-still and silent, and
came up, puzzled and alarmed,
! faced him. She cried;
'Jim! There is something the
matter!”
Dorn said, “Yes,? He
the table and his words
ily. “That extra place
somebody. Who?”
Aurore glanced once
pointed, and then back to him, be
wildered for a moment. She gasped;
“Oo-oh,” as though she had been
struck. Dorn saw the anger that
swept through her—a sudden, flam
ing, anger that scorched him, and
passed in an instant; and then Aur
ore turned away from him and burst
'into tears.
It came to Dorn that be nright
have made some terrible mistake,
and that he had wounded Aurore
cruelly. Hesitantly he went up to
her, but lie could not touch her;
and he could only grope for an ex
planation of her anger and tears,
until Aurore sobbed out the explan
ation defending herself by throwing
away all pride.
“Jim, that extra place . . . ever
since your last visit . , . I’ve kept
it ... I watched for your airplane
. . . I wanted you to . . . that
place was for—for you!”
Later, when they were sitting to
gether at that table set for two,
pointed at
came jerk-
is set for
where he
Dorn realized that it had net been
his abject apology which caused
Aurore to forgive him, but bis
stumbling confession of how he had
felt when he saw that, extra place
and thought some other man was to
come here. For after that confes
sion Autore did not reproach him at
all.
Meeting her brown eyes new across
the bouquet
remembered
forced- him
spun his lie
“Thirty miles, south of here there’s
three or four metis prospecting
around, looking for good
for next winter,
to get this far
shouldn’t take
That’s why I came at niglit-
wouldn’t see me whip over the mesa
and set down on this lake. They
mustn’t get a glimpse of you. Moc
casin telegraph—the news would he-
out to the railroad in no time.”
He added, swirling the sugar in
his coffee-cup: “I think you ought
to take a few simple precautions.
Don’t do any cooking in the day
time. At night shield your window's
with paper. You mustn’t go over
to the mainland any more------”
All unaware of the avalanche
hanging over her, Aurore objected
to being a prisoner on her island.
“But, Jim, I haven’t climbed moun
tains for so long, and there's several
wonderful neves over there, and the
gloomiest canyons——”
Dorn came down hard, “I said you
mustn’t go over there, Aurore.,
That’s my plain request.”
It
flat
fore been dominating with Aurore,
and
imperious,brown eyes now. He had
a sudden, irrelevant thought; “I’d
hate to ever quarrel with her!”
But Aurore’s rebellion lasted only
a moment; perhaps she felt the steel
in Dorn, or rememberd all he had
done for her.
She said presently, with a simpli
city that made him sorry for liis
abruptness, “Then, Jim, I won’t go
to those woods any more.
They were silent f-or a little while.
They're
north,
chances.
fur paths
not likely
but you
Aurore.
•so they
was not a request but an order
and final. Dorn had never be-
he saw a flash of fire in those
Once when their eyes met, Dora
knew Aurore was thinking alb-oat
the evening when they sat at the
fireplace and listened to the rain;
that was the cause of her restraint,
of her aloofness so manifestly fore*
ed that even he could see through
it He knew he ought to leave Aur
ore, now that he had brought
Luke and had warned her. But he
had a presentiment that this break
fast with her and this visit would
be his last; visits are too dangerous,
his every move would be watched;
and he had a vague feeling that be
fore he left that day she was going
to ask him, for her own sake and!
his own, not to eorpe -again.
Aurore startled him,. “Jim, your
partner, Mr. Eby was here.”
“What! Kansas? when? How did'
he know?—-I never told him about
you, Aurore!”
He thought that Bergelot hail
confused instructions and had deliv
ered the map and letter, Aurore set
him right. “It was last week, Jim,
He said he was trailing you down
from Lost River and saw you dip
low into this valley and then saw
me on the boulder.”
Dorn asked quickly, “You made
him understand, Aurore, that he
shouldn’t drop the first hint about
you being here?”
“Yes, he understands.” Aurore
debated with herself whether or not
to tell Dorn that she and Kansas
had sat all night on the boulder,
talking, She decided not to, for
then she would have to explain
what they had talked about, and
could not bring herself to reopen
that with Dorn; and besides, Kan
sas had agreed with her that if he
could be kept -from knowing the
truth, it would be best for Jim
Dorn. '
.So Aurore made appeal’ that Kan
sas had merely dropped down and
talked a little while and then flown
away, with no great interest in her
affair at all.
(Continued next week) *
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