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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1932-04-07, Page 2THURSDAY, AVB.II/ 7,. 11)33 THE EXETER TIMEg-ADVOCATE SYNOPSIS J#jpes Dorn, aerial map maker, as-' signed to a territory in the north­ ern Canadian Reekie^ lives alone in his 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 he seen a girl come out and glance hurriedly around and then disappear into . the darkness. Kansas followed ’ hurriedly but failed to find any trace of her. He told his friend Dorn about it and the same night , Pere Bergelot, a trusty metis ar- •’ rived with the girl. 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 Dorn 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 Aurore and demanded that she leave with him for Quesual Lodge. them for this crim©; they've seen to that; they're covered up their guilt, The vengeance is ours Kan­ sas.” They raced down through, the red cedars, leaped into the canoe, and skimmed across toward the waiting plane. Between strokes that bent his paddle blade, Kansas was snarling as though in echo to Dorn’s thoughts: "Somebody’s going to die this morning.” They reached the Silver Hawk, turned it, hurried through their breathless preparations. While Dorn took the heavy camera and instru­ ments ashore and brought back a drum of gas, Kansas moved the- ma­ chine - gun brackets to the rear seat, mounted the Lewis, fed in a web of cartridges; and to make sure the weapon was in working order sprayed a leaden hail against a rock out in the lake, Dorn flung the gas drum away, sent the canoe spinning with a kick and jumped into the pilot’s1 seat. He said grimly, buckling on his pack-cliute: "I’m taking the stick. You can handle the Lewis better than I, Ready?” CHAPTER XXX "Dad! Dad Bergelot! This is Dorn—This is Jeem lad..........” >But then he laid his hand on the cold wax-like features, and his own face went pale. He felt for a heart­ beat. Kansas reached 'a mirror from above the washstand, and Dorn held it to the open lips. No film appear­ ed on the glass. Across the body Dorn and Kansas looked at one another in realization that old Pere Bergelot was dead. In a few seconds, after he had mastered the shock, Kansas wetted his lips and said: "Jim—he—that stove wood—he must’ve stumbled and fallen against a sharp corner of the stove.” With a glance at the tourist^Dorn said: "Yes, that’s what he did, Kan­ sas. An -accident. That’s how he was killed.” He ordered the third man: "Go up to the chalet. Tell the Swiss guide that’ old Bergelot . . . tell him to come and keep things as they are here till the coroner. . . ” When the man had gone—glad to get out cf that darkened room into the sunlight, Dorn snarled: "Acci­ dent! He was murdered. This wood that candle burned to nothing—• easy to arrange. It was the work of this detective, with maybe a couple ’breeds to help him. They came some time last night------” "But why—but what?” Dcrn strode over to tne bunk and felt in the wall niche there where Bergelot had kept his valued pos­ sessions. His little canvas sack of money was there, a few trinkets, a packet of letters from his aged sis­ ter; but the letter Dorn had entrust­ ed to him—-the letter to Kansas and the map disclosing Aurore’s hiding place—were gone. Dorn whirled and came back; and without looking at his partner, he knelt again for a moment and press­ ed the gnarled old hand for a last time, and his stern voice broke. "It’s all right Dad. You couldn't help it. They were too many for you You did all you could for her. You paid the price for being friend to her and to me.” He rose to his feet and turned ahd spoke to Kansas. "They got the map and letter—” "What map, letter? What does that mean?” "Means they know exactly where she is. Means those two planes went north to get her.” For a space of silence the two men looked at one another. The thought was leaping in Dorn’s mind "I’ll fly north alone. Kansas must not be involved in a death fight.” The words were on his lips, but he checked them. The mere suggestion of it. . . .Kansas would strike him in the face. "Then let’s be getting into the air.” he said. "We know what’s cut out for us.” He- pointed at the body at his feet. "They mustn't escape paying for this. Andi'it’s up to us to make them pay. The law can’t touch A hundred yards out, he turned the Silver Hawk up lake, gave it the gun and leaped into the air. Instead of circling as he usually did, Dorn climbed straight for the shoulder of old Titan Major—an angle terrifically steep. Kansas held his breath as the sheer rock-face swam nearer, towering ovex- them. But Dorn knew the tremendous power of his plane; at the last mo­ ment, when it looked as though the machine would crash head-on against the dolomite escarpment, he tilted it more steeply, cleared' the hog-back by a scant twenty yards, and levelled the plane off before it could falter and go into a fatal spin. Far away in the blue-hazy dis­ tance in front of him a snowy moun­ tain, his first landmark, lifted itself in lordly majesty above its neigh­ bors. With a vision aching in his brain—a vision of what was hap­ pening one hundred and fifty miles on beyond that, mountain, of Aurore terror-stricken, captured, in the po­ wer of that brute. - her husband— Dorn straightened the plane out. With its mighty engine roaring above the scream of the struts and the howl of riven air, it shat away into the north. CHAPTER XXXI Battle - IVith Dorn it was a nightmare to sit there motionless and inactive at the controls, unable to press, an­ other jot of speed out of his- hurtl­ ing plane, and to realize, helplessly that those enemy ships had more than a two-hour lead and could never be overtaken. He thought, with black despair: "They’ve drop­ ped down upon Aurore’s lake by now, and -we’re two hundred miles away! They’ll climb out, tney’ll be gone.” He knew they would never return to Eaux Mortes; tliey would be crazy to risk a machine-gun duel needlessly. Once they had Aurore, they would simply fly out into that illimitable wilderness of ranges and be lost. There was one hope, and that rested with Aurore. If she had not. been trapped in the cabin, if she could hide on her island and' stave off capture for one precious hour, then the Silver Hawk might reach binocular-range and see those shin­ ing specks escaping, and could close in upon them, and then Aurore’s possession would come down to the arbitrament of machine guns. The morning was beautifully clear, the sun mellow and golden, with not the faintest wisp of cirrus anywhere in the sky From moun­ tain torrent and lake and deep can­ yon stream the gray water-smoke curled up like incense; but insteaa of collecting in pools in the valleys it vanished as it rose. A quiet like a Sabbath, benediction seemed to rest upon the virgin wilderness un­ der keel; and Dorn in a fleeting thought remembered that to-day was Sunday—-exactly three weeks since Aurore had come to him and he had flown her north to her refuge on ahead. All the details of that night trip —how he had unchivalrously watch­ SUFFERED FOR YEARS FROM CONSTIPATION Mrs. C. Rafuse, 28 Vernon St., Halifax, N.S., writes:-—-"! had suffered for yearn from constipation* For several days at a time nay bowels g, Would not move and only when assisted r by laxatives, and after a while each kind of laxative I would take seemed to lose its effect until, finally, a friend advised mo to use , Milburn’s Laxa-Liver Pills, and since using same have had no trouble and I am greatly pleased with the results I have had from these pills/* Price at Util drug and Kcneritf etorcB, nr mailed direct on receipt of price by The T. Milburn Co*, Ltd., Toronto, Ont. ^MILBURNS^I r Laxa-Liver . • PlLLS-^ ed Aurore in that ebony panel, how at first she had been very still and frightened, how she had studied him. wondering if in the days to no he might turn wolf—came flooding back and haunt Dorn. He remem­ bered, and now lie could understand, little incidents which had pmsgled him then. In particular lie remem­ ber that just before dawn, when he was sailing high over a star glisten­ ing mountain lake, Aurore had lean­ ed out with some small object in her gloved hand and had flung it with a passionate gesture down in­ to the abysmal depths of those cold waters; and Dorn reflected: “That was Aurore’s wedding ring. (She had' done with him then.” Her marriage to Henry Carter- Snowdon see&ned a thing incredible, a thing unnatural, like a graceful gyrralcon mating with a gorged and heavy-winged cormorant. Dorn of­ ten recalled, w+tli contempt and phy­ sical repugnace, the ponderous flabby man whom he had knocked senseless with a couple of fist blows. Glaringly contrasted—he had car­ ried in his heart a picture of Aur­ ore, standing on the jutting boulder that morning he returned with her outfit .I-Ie remembered her as she stood on his plane-pontoon in the Bighorn’s Looking-Glass, slender and quick with life, lovely in the beating sunlight. He remembered lifting Aurore to peer into humming bird’s nest; his tramp with her thro’ her little wildwood; her golden voice and the fire-glow in her hair and her winsome mannerisms and all her adorable girlishness. Those hours had been sunlit, but the memory of a heaven lost, and Dorn’s hell was the knowledge that Aurore had been wife to. another man—to Henry Carter-Snowdon. That marriage was something which passed, Dorn’s understanding and confused and bewildered him beyond the anguish of it. By her own words to Kansas, Aurore had not been led or forced into it; had had no high, forgivable motive; had entered into it of her* own choice. Even without her confession, Dorn knew that a girl of her bravery and independence never would be coerc­ ed into any infamous bargain. He knew it was a deliberate act of her own free will, and blindly he grop­ ed: "Why then did Aurore run away from him! What made hei’ break away after their honeymoon!” I-Ier wild flight was a mystery more un­ fathomable than her marridge it­ self. She told Kansas that she married for money, power, social position. That was her motive; Dorn knew it was true, aside from, her cenressing it, for he thought: "There is the reason she would would never tell me; there is why she said that day ‘Your judgment would cut like a sword.’ ” She had expected him to say to her: "You gave yourself to this man, your husband, for sordid motives, and then you broke faith with him.” He knew that Kansas in his secret thoughts did actually condemn Aur­ ore harshly for her marriage. But Dorn could not condemn Aurore. Now when the truth was known in all its ugliness and the time to judge had come, it was Dorn, before whose judgment Aurore had trembled, who defended her staunchly. He could not believe evil of her. He had been witness to her honesty in not allowing her flight to injure her husband, and to her gladness when she searched those newspapers and found nothing about the separation. Dorn could not forget Ahrore’s in­ nocent comradelines'S and her un­ yielding idealism in all her relations with himself. And the fact remain­ ed, the colossal fact, that not six hours ago Aurore, in. the face- of a passionate love, had begged, him never to visit 'her again, and. had re­ fused to take a course—flight with him and divorce from her husband —'Which most people would have considered' as an easy and a roman­ tic way out of her terrible trouble. Dorn, who had lived through those hours with Aurore, could not think evil of her. He felt that he knew the conscience and the soul of Aur­ ore McNain. While still eighty, miles from the Lake of the Dawn, DOTH handed the powerful binoculars back to his partner; and Kansas bent out of his seat, shielding his eye® from the slip-stream, and began sweeping the blue-hdzy distances stretching- north. His range was limited; it had to be so; for Dorn was grazing the peak- lines, keeping his plane to the low­ est possible altitude, where Its speed was greatest. He had little hope» of Kansas's picking up the enemy craft for half an hour yet—-if eVer he picked them up. He believed they were both at Aurore’s lake, or else had escaped and were sticking together, with the pursuit plane acting as- convoy and protection to the heavier ship. But fifty miles from the goal Dorn sud* denly felt his partner's fingers clutching his shoulders and throt­ tled down for a second, he heard Kansas shouting his ear: "Dorn, a plane, dead ahead of us, away to hell and gone, just barely ;see it ” In the hectic flush of hear' exhaus­ tion Dorn's blood ran hot and his hand tightened upon the stick. The cry of enemy sighted was a trumpet call, a call to battle, a guarantee of a fight ahead. i He zoomed the Silver Hawk up- ; ward, climbed to fifteen ‘thousand feet, swung about in his seat and spoke lip language to Kansas, "Keep it in sight! Don’t give it a chance to slip us! Watch it every second!” A few minutes later Kansas was shouting again: "Dorn, you can see it plain now, ’ it’s that Fokker. Don’t appear to be travelling. Seems like its circling.” I Dorn looked where Kansas point­ ed; and through the propeller- disc he himself with naked eyes spotted that glistening speck. It was circling, as Kansas: had said; sweeping like a sentinel back and forth across the sky squarely athwart their path. Dorn estimated its position as about forty miles south of Aurore’s lake, or a,pproxim- mately where those ’breeds had been dropped off. Its tactics puzzled Dorn. What was it purpose in patrolling back and forth so far away from her lake! For a moment he thought that the enemy pilots- had not been able to read his chart, and had stopped short of the goal. But then in a flash of understanding D.orn saw through the whole strategy. He thought: "They suspected wo might come flinging up across the ranges on their trail, and they’ve guarded against that. The biplane, with .Carter-Snowdon and Quillan and that alley-wolf—they’ve gone on north, they’re capturing Aurore. This fighting plane with ‘Ace’ Gre­ gory and the twin Vickers to back him up—they’re patrolling down here to block the path, To protect the biplane to. shoot Kansas and me out of the air!” That enemy pilot amt machine gunner showed no. such cowardice as Carter-Snowden and Soft-Shoe had betrayed down on Dorn’s' island one day two weeks ago. They could have veered aside easily enough and so avoided a fight. But they had been put there to block that path, to wash the Silver I-Iawk out of the sky, and they stood up to the battle like men. Stopping in their airy patrol, they came sailing ’boldly out over a big mountan valley to meet their enemy. Far away below, Dorn aP&ng’ht a splotch of dirty white con­ spicuous on the shore of a lake; and he knew it was the tent, the orienta­ tion camp, of the ’breeds who had been planted there to discover Aur­ ore’s refuge. Kansas clutched his shoulder again and shouted: "Jim, you going to fight hiiin then! Our plane swifter. You can pass him up.” i Dorn harboured the suggestion for a moment. He was no.t afraid of "Ace” Gregory;, he knew Kansas, too, was ready to fight and had made the suggestion in the fear that the biplane might even then be es­ caping. But Dorn reasoned swift­ ly: "It’s not! It’s still at the lake, or this ship would have drawn away to protect it. If it’s us to go down, we’ll go down now; if they go down, they won’t be around to threaten us when we go after that biplane.” He shouted curtly. “We’ll fight!” Both he and Kansas stripped off helmets and goggles. With his left hand on the spade grip of the Lewis and his right hand ready on the trigger, Kansas braced himself firm­ ly in his seat, so that the giddy dives and star.p stabs and quick, wrench­ ing zooms of the coming manoeuvres would not unsteady him. His- eyes were narrowed to sliits and his jaw stuck out; lie grilled wolfishly at his flying mate, and Dorn read the shout on his lips: ■ "That dry shooting we used) to practise at each other—we’ll damn­ ed soon put it to the test, Jim.” Dorn snubbed the speed ’of his plane. The enemy pilot did like­ wise. Circling warily three quar­ ters of a mile apart, the two ma­ chines- climbed to eighteen thousand feet for manoeuvring altitude. In- Dorn’s judgment he and Kan­ sas were dead-evenly matched with the two enemies. His plane had greater speed- and zooming power, but that advantage was entirely off­ set by the fact that the twin Vickers- had twice the firing volume of the Lewis. In a fleeting, close-up op­ portunity lasting ten seconds at most, that double firing power was tremendously i m p o r t a nt. As they levelled off eighteen thousand feet high and a thousand yards apart, the twin. Vickers* ran a short burst, possibly to< tune up the gunner’s eye and hand for the real work ahead* One chance bullet pierced a hole through the bay just behind Kansas. All the others miss­ ed. Dorn paid no attention. With the glasses lie was busy studying the mounting of that twin Vickers. The flexibility of the jgun. determined tlte "blind spot” of the plane, and that bind spot was. the thing he had to manoeuvre for. (To be Continued) Lost Ugly Fat Her Husband says she Looks Five Years Younger! There is a certain Weight at which every woman looks her loveliest—-not skinny underweight nor pendulous overweight, but normal weight, he find artists, doctors, theatrical pro­ ducers (and husbands 1) all agreed upon this point. Read what this woman of 29 says about it;—- “ Having heard from a friend of mine that she had Jost considerable weight since taking Krusehen Salts, I started using them in July last, when I weighed 177 lbs. 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