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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1932-03-31, Page 2THURSDAY, MARCH 81* £0312?THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE III III III Ill “The Silver Hawk BY WILLIAM BYRON MOWFRY when I give you a few!’* “But what do you intend to da? Aurora’ll never go away with yon, because she’s his wife. You don’t —dare shove him out of the road; that'd look like you could have find her——” Darn said, mean it‘s a checkmate for us all. That’s what it is/’ He added, in a solemn pronouncement thought out what is to he done, She’s wife, she's soul, unless she wants him to 4M0W THE MASONS QJfg Exrlrr UdHtm-Mtwratt Establish^ £87/3 and £887 III llllllllllllllll SYNODSIS Janes Dorn, aerial map maker, as­ signed to a territory in the north’- era Canadian Rockies lives alone in his camp on Titan island, Kansas Eby, his friend for the past six years was stationed at Eagle east, night were platform train pulled in he seen a girl come out and glance hurriedly around and then disappear into the darkness. hurriedly but failed to find any trace Dora Pere rived The girl, Aurora 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 Dora car­ ries supplies to her ‘by aeroplane. Carter-Snowdon arrives, and with the help of some ’breeds is trying to locate her. On. account of the danger and mystery surrounding her he has ' promised not to see her any more. That day Carter-Snowdon located Aurora and demanded that she leave'with him for Quesnal Lodge. Nest, two hundred miles Kansas came over one to a dap.ee that the Indians having on the station When the midnight Kansas followed He told his friend I of her about it and the same night Bergelot, a trusty metis ar- with the girl. Illllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll her. A year ago. This spring he married Aurora?’ A silence fell then. Moments af­ ter his crushing statement, Kansas looked up again; and watching his partner’s drawn face lie knew that although Dorn had accepted this fact of Aurora's being Carter-Snow­ don’s wife, still he was fighting -dog­ gedly against the fmplicatons of it. Dorn said slowly: “It’s true; she told you; it must be true. You’ve-— you’ve ranvinced me, Kansas, of her marriage, put you haven’t explained it. It was never her own act. You barely know her; if you knew her as I do, you’d say it wasn’t her own act. Her mother------” “Hadn’t anything to do with this; her mother didn’t force or even in­ fluence her in th. compelled to say. that. I asked,” “Then she had some cause/’ Kansas knew he ■ that Aurore might have from some motive near akin to self- “Jim, she ■money and , Those are Don’t try to motives good catch; ■s," Kansas ’felt “Aurora told me some reason- was trying to say married 1 CHAPTER XXVIII Kansas repeated; “Aurora—she’s {married Jim?’ He dared not look M Dorn. For a half a minute he had been hearing across the lake a Sibilant rushing hiss that gradually ’swelled into cannon thunder; and now with unseeing eyes lie watched a stupendous avalanche careen down the mile-long couloir, demolishing and burying a drague of noble pine, did not consciously see it the crackling thunder or ground trembling beneath Desperately he forced out to tell -She— — she’s (jarter-Siiowdon’s But he or Hi ear feel the his feet, tlie words: “Jim, I’ve got you. Jim, you got to know. Aurora Wife.” CHAPTER XXIX The Dark Hour merely stared hard at Kan- a little space. Then he jarringly. He said: a crazy mistake He re- isn’t the Dorn sas for laughed “You’ve made • tlierelr You’re guessing!” “But I told you the truth.” “It’s a damnable lie!” don’s------” “But I tell you she’s Carter-Snow- “Don’t say that again!" “But she told me; Aurore told me-.” “What! She told you? Aurore told you that?” The first small an­ guish of doubt stabbed Dorn like the prick of cold steel in the heart. He had simply spurned the- words;. he had laughed at them as infamous but he did not laugh now. pea ted harshly; “It’s a lie, it so, it can’t be so!” “Jim, you can’t be-at down truth with words.” Dorn fumbled for reasons which would bolster up his denial. There were reasons . , . he tried to think he was a little dazed. He said: “It would have been in all the paper-®; I hunted through dozens of them, it wasn’t mentioned------" Kansas attempted to check him: ■“But it wasn’t announced, it wasn’t given to the public; Aurore and Carter-Snowdon, they kept it----- Dorn brushed aside this interrup­ tion; .he had laid hold of an irrefut­ able reason now; he lizteu it confi­ dently to smash the lie: “Carter’s Snowdon’s married! Don’t you remember—that batch of papers-—we were at Aleppo? You read it yourself! <She was some Eastern girl, not Aurore------” He stopped, for he saw that this smashing argument did not stagger Kansas at all. Kansas banged a fist oh the table; and what he said annihilated Dorn’s last defence. “Jim, you’ve got to listen. You’re right in part*—an Eastern girl—- three summers ago—married her to make political capital. He was try­ ing to crawl into politics then. But that was three summers ago. Since then her dad went down and out- some customs scandal. And Carter- Snowdon shoved her aside. Divorced Q Dr. Wood'* Norway Pin* Syrup murder—murder so her, And he can’t unsmilingly; “You sacrifice. He refuted: married him for his power and social rank, her words, not make out any than that, she took him— Dorn interrupted, “You said they didn’t —a secret affair.” hopefully, marriage at all; it was just a nom­ inal arrangement------” Kansas said brutally: “Jim, here. Aurore is his wife. She ried him because he was a catch. He mine, worthier was a >> unhearipg: announce it His eyes lit up “Then it wasn’t a real look1 niar- gooa And that marriage was real. She explained to me why it was in­ formal, wasn’t announced; she said something about this political cam­ paign on his hands; I think she said he couldn’t .spare time then for all the social obligations and a long honeymoon. Just for the brief cere­ mony and a short honeymoon to themselves. Now do you under­ stand?” Dorn turned away from him at that, and Kansas knew better than to attempt any sympathy. This was “the worst of it” for ' Dorn—tills present hour; and. ho man could help him through it. It was the blackest ’hour of his life; it was the valley of shadows which he must go down into "before he could ever have peace of soul again. Kansas went out of the tent and leaned against, a,.tree, anfLJit cigar­ ettes. He thought: “I wonder what' Jim will do now. I wonder if he’ll still try to fight, to keep her from that big brute------” From what Aurore had freely told I him and wliat he had pumped from Burton, he quite well understood why Carter-Snowdon was.so desper­ ately searching for his wife. IHs first marriage and subsequent di­ vorce had left a bad odour already. In the Kootenay riding where he was standing for election now, the Anglican element with its stern ideas about moral rectitude was particularly strong; and in the pro­ vince generally there was a certain sturdy moral consciousness which demanded personal purity of its leaders. If the reform faction ana hostile papers ever heard’ a whisper of this seperation, they would re­ vive the old scandal and crop up this new one; and whether Carter-Snow­ don was right or Wrong in his trouble with his second wife, it was just the sort ol’ thing, coining on election eve, to turn the scales of that bitter fight and crushingly de­ feat liim. Kansas laid the keen guess: “He wants to capture Aurore, take her maybe to one of his mountain lodges, and keep this hushed up till after the election at least.” . -With an outsider’s clear vision Kansas could understand Carter- Snowdon, and he could understand the delicate and honorable motives which had actuated Dorn through­ out; but Carter-Snowdon’s wife, Aurore, he could not fathom. What was a man to believe about her? She had married for money and so­ cial rank—certainly Ho very ideal­ istic reasons; but that fact squarely Clashed with her .idealism toward Jim Dorn. How could a man re­ concile such an act with her send­ ing Dorn away, with the sincerity* and high principles which she had Was Worried Over Her Children's Coughs Mrs. C. W. Harper, Silver Water, Ont., writes:—-“I wm Verje much Women oVer the nasty colds and coughs my two children had. I had tried several remedies to no effect. One day my husband was in a drug store and overheard a lady and the druggist discussing remedies, and she seemed Very thankful to Dr. Wood's Norway Finn S' Withal and general atores; put up only by The T, Afilburn Co’ Ltd., Toronto, Ont. Syrup for relieving her children, bo he came home im a bottle, and in two days the children were welt” Dried 35c, a bottle; large family size 65c., kt all drug betrayed during that all-night talk on the jutting boulder? It occurr-. ed to Kansas that perhaps the birth of love in Aurora, of a deep and fundamental passion, liad changed her profoundly and had brought out nobility. That would explain much, but not all; it would certainly not explain her- flight, for she had broken with Carter-Snowdon before she even knew there was such a man as Jim Dorn, Kansas knew that Dorn’ still de­ fended her and had faitli in her. Not all the ugly facts of her mar­ riage had been able to swerve him. Kansas could hear him saying, with dogged, stubborn faith; “You con­ vinced me of her marriage, but you haven’t explained it,” Kansas thought: “She may be a girl of sud­ den caprices. Jim with the proverbial whatever the truth got to look out for see him through this, other.” Iii & little wliile lie in the tent, and went found Dorn getting liis things to­ gether to leave Titan Pass, and selfpcs&essed, Dorn was packing his steamer trunk contained all his belongings, sas was amazed at the man’s Dorn said in a steady voice; got to go over to the station before we fly east, While I’m gone, if you'll be getting this stuff ready— He looked up as he spoke. He had come through his hour with head up, with his purpose unshaken, but Kansas wag cut to the quick by his haggard face. Dorn appeared ten years older than lie had been a few minutes ago. How any man could keep his voice steady and gentle with that torture on his features . . Kansas burst out; “Dorn, listen to me. Let’s go up and get Aurore. I’ll fly you down across the Border where she’ll be safe. I’ll stick on the job here and can stake you till you’re squared around on some new work.” Dorn winced at Kansas’s resur­ recting a hope which he hacl buried deep in this last hour. He said patiently; “Aurore wouldn’t go. I wouldn’t ask her to.” “But I think—if you like each other—I think that’s a senseless at­ titude.” “Do you? Then any moral scruple is senseless, and we ought to adopt the ’ethics’ of this Joe Yoroslaf.- Then a man’s philosophy should be to take what he wants and not feel bound to any restraint. You don’t mean what you say; you live by scruples yourself. If you didn’t , you’d stay clear of this fight. But you and I've been partners, and you feel obligations; and just now you offered to do something which might land you in the,pen for sev­ eral years. That’s ‘senseless,’ out of you!” Kansas argued; “Since you men­ tion moral right, don’t you think you’ve got a better moral right to Aurore than he has? He’s nothing but a legal Tight, what are those scruples? I reasons—definite reasons—why you won’t do what I said.” Dorn felt the utter inipossibilty of making clear, to one who did noi know Aurore, those idealistic mo­ tives which had actuated her in ask­ ing him never to see her again and in telling him that story there at the Lost River vedette. In tlie light of Kansas’s revelations he himself understood those motives now. Aur­ ora would never come to him be­ cause she had been wife to another man; because the ideal was shatter­ ed and forever impossible. From the thoughts that scourged him knew what this realization mean to Aurore herself. Recoiling from discussing this, even with Kansas, he came down to conven­ tional reasons. “Aurore can’t get a divorce. From what she told you, she hasn’t any grounds. And Carter-Snowdon.”— Dorn was remembering the inion’s jealous rage—“he’ll never release het.” ‘‘Site can get a divorce in one of the mills down there without any grounds.” “Auore never would, You don't understand; she wouldn't get a di­ vorce if she could; she intends to accept the consequences of her mar- lTage. All along-—I didn’t know it till just now—-but that's- what Aur­ ora’s been telling me. she’ll never try to escape one wrong act by com­mitting another. And she won’t do anything to injure Carter-Snow- don. Her Vefy first thought, when I took her north, was to send him a telegram pledging her silence/’ Dorn stumbled a moment, then lie added evenly, cold-bloodedly: “she may have other reasons. For all you or I know, she may bear him a child.” Kansas started. “I woudn’t have —have said that, Jim!” “You wanted reasons; don’t flinch I have She’s hishis wife, Kansas, and i'll never touch her. But mistress of her own body and and neither shall he touch her CHAPTER XXX Vengeance is Ours’ few seconds after Dorn left the Kansas noticed,, his revolver ; forgotten on the table; and had enemies may be blind blindness. But about her, I've Jim. I’ve got to one way or heard a stir back in and Very quietly which Kan- steel. “I’ve got Just want Dorn must A : tent, lying remembering that Do: over at the .station, lie picked up the weapon and hurried down the path, At the landing lie caught up with Dorn and gave him th© revolver- and said: “I’m carrying one. Might be just as well for us to stay together around here. Your ‘friends’ were over there last night.” And when Dorn made no- protest, he shoved the canoe off, and crouched in the stern dipping a paddle-. Dorn asked: “You saw them?” . Kansas seized the chance to keep Dorn’t mind from. Aurore. One of ’em is Harry Quillan. to fly in the Oregon but he was given the time a ship started to step out and let her gravity. No guts, in a pinch, the other beezo is a tough customer. He must be piloting that pursuit plane. If I’m not mistaken, he’s ‘Ace’ MJcGregory,- Jim. I only saw McGregory’s picture, but he had a saddle in his nose where the stick caught -him once in a crack-up, and the minute I saw this gent I remem­ bered the picture. You know about him. iSort of lodish fellow; knocked down his half dozen ' Frit- zes in the War, but too hard-boiled for a commercial -company to use.” They ground the canoe and start­ ed up through the cedars; and Kan­ sas kept talking, -drawing Dorn’s thoughts front that wilderness lake: “That gunner, I didn’t know him, but he looked like a mate, all right, t-o McGregory. I expect they were the best pair ■ Carter-Snowdon’s money could hire. I’d hate to run away from a fight, but I’d hate like hell to monkey with that the air.’’ ,They came to the edge cedars, and stopped there ent to look ahead. At the station a crowd was- gathering for the morning westbound Transcontinent­ al, A cluster of metis men, with a touch- of the bld fur voyageur still lingering in their jaunty clothes and gaudy ceintures flechees. A sly group of metise girls, black-haired, black-eyed, in their Sunday best of bright calico dresses and fascinators Klooch.mans with baskets of berries, and lake trout, and curios. Ginger­ bread Indians, silent and apart, But none of the enemies. Across the clearing at Bergelot’s cabin a tourist was knocking a,t the door, angrily trying to awaken the old station-master and procure a ticket before train time. It strucKi Dorn as queer; old Bergelot always was stirring at earliest daybreak. He suddenly demanded: “What were those men doing over here last night?” “Just loafing around, far as I could see.” “What time was that?” “About eleven.” .-“Notice any stir this morning? You' can hear 'their -planes go up, from my camp.” ‘Yes, I heard—I meant to ask you what it might mean------” “What?” * “Both ships went north." “Both ships? North! When.” ‘About an hour and a half, hour and three quarters ago. Just at daybreak. They went in a hurry . . . throttles wide open , . , At Bergelot’s cabin Dorn brushed the angry tourits aside, knocked once at the door, then broke the bolt with a powerful lunge. One glance around, and he leaped across to the doorway of the second room. His oath of horror brought Kan­ sas up beside him. Old Bergelot was lying there mo­ tionless, face-down-ward on the floor. His grizzled hair was mat­ ted with blood, and a crimson pool had trickled down and darkened the lay in a grotesque heap iron stove, with half an stove , wood “Yes. Used Prevention, air. Every wobble, he’d demonstrate But team in of tlie a nioan- scattered followed from tile Slabs. He beside the armful of about him. 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