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Arctic Island
Home of Tragedy
Wrangel Settlers Have Experi.
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Acklin, boss of tho Double A ranch,
and Bodine, new owner of the old Web-
ster place, rob the BASques of Paradise
Valley of their water supply. Acklin
secretly builds a dam and takes the
water supply from Bodine, Jose, leader
of the Basques, is shot and killed from
ambush. Mercedes, daughter of Jose,
accuses Acklin of the. murder. Kildare,
on.: of Acklin's men, in love with Mer-
cedes, is hunting the murderer of • his
brother.
NOW GO ON WITII THE STORY
He had not long to wait. Five
minutes and the horsemen hove into
view. Bodine was in front. The im
pulse to drop him out of the saddle
was strong; but the thrill Blaze re-
ceived when he recognized the man
was as nothing compared to the start
he experienced when Buck's compan-
ion turned his face squarely at Kil-
dare.
The cowboy sank back into his
cover, his rifle dropping to his side. A
grim, sagacious smile hardened his
face; into his eyes came a flash of
satisfaction,
From his pocket he took the pic-
ture he had shown Melody. It was
Shorty's photograph. •
"Gee, Kid!" he breathed aloud, "I'm
going to keep my word with you."
CHAPTER XXV.
A CLEVER rim.
Wrangel Island Is the home of
tragedy, for death has sought out
those who dared to live on its shores,
according to the National Geographic
Society. The island is seventy miles
long by twenty-eight mileem at its
widest. It lies 100 miles off the north
Siberian coast and is 300 miles north
of 'the Arctic Circle.
Captain Thomas Long, an Amer-
ican, who first discoveeed in 1S67 the
true extent of the island, named it
. for Baron Wrangel, a Russian ex-
plorer. Forty years earlier the Berea
had heard native reports of the is-
land, but he had failed to find it.
Mankind left Wrangel Island to it-
self until January, 1914, when the
Karluk was crushed into kindling
wood by the ice. Captain Robert A.
Bartlett led the main body of sur-
vivors 100 nines Over the pack ice to
Wrangel. With one companion he
Ithen crossed to Siberia, bringing news
of the disaster. A rescue ship
reached Wrangel in September. Of
twenty-five on beard the Karluk four-
teen returned safely to civilization.
In 1921 four men, with an Eskimo
•seamstress, elected' to stay on Wran-
ed iver to where the boy was draining
his glass.
"Say, I hope you ain't, taalcin' up
at a time like this," he began. "These
folks are depenclin' on you to do
somethin' foa them."
"I won't be asking any advice of
you."
"And I won't be givin' any, either."
Bodine was at his best. "I ain't for-
gettin' that you told me once you'd
take care of Acklin by yourself. Well,
nothin's happened yet. You folks kill
one of his cows, and he burns down
your warehouse. You hit back, and
he drives your sheep over the cliffs.
You'll grow fat on that kind of stuff,
won't you?"
• The murmur behind his was en-
couragement enough to make Buck go
on.
Bodine could f.eel the curiosity aris-
ing in the boy.
"But as 1 saia, I ain't givin' advice
where it ain't wanted. I'ni goin' home
now. When I get to the cottonwoods
by the bridge, I'l: wait five minutes.
If you want to hear what I've got to
say, you meet me there."
It wasn't necessary for Buek to
look at his watch. He had barely
arrived in the shade of the trees
when he saw Esteban come/ out and
get on his horse.
Liotard was hours getting down to
the valley with his story. Kildare had
left for the Bull's Head long before
the old man went by. It was a grim
twist of fate that sent thelheep-man
to Bodine's first with his taleof grief.
Buck's sense of humor was equal to
the occasion, however.
"Wait till the folks down below
hear about this," the big fellow roar-
ed in a fine show of anger. "Pll go
with you right now."
Thus the two of them burst upon
the quiet town in mid-afternoon Bad
news travels fast, ond their story was
gel Island. They found it 'to be the soon common property. Buck's vio-
home of many foxes and polar bears, lent indignation and old Liotard's re -
which theyshot' for meat. Sealand peated turning to him for confirma-
walrus frequented- the shores and, in, tion of his loss began • to have its
Summer, large numbers of birds, 'effect on the :Rasques. Even Esteban
geese, teras and snipe nested there. inet him without any open show of
Driftwood lined the beaches, so the hostility.
SLENDER—YOUThe UL sojourners did not lack for fuel. But A little thing in itself, but one from
Youthful adaptation of slender the supply ship dispatched to Wren- which Buck took a great deal of corn -
lines, skillfully designed with snugly gel in the second year failed to reach fort, was the fact that Kent had gone
fitted hipyoke caught at centre -front the island. Three of the meu started back to Winnemucca. By mating the
by means of effective shirring, is a for Siberia and never were heard of temper of the crowd b towit'lliisaea at
smart detail, Bows stiched at either again. One died of scurvy. Ada white heat. An hour from now Bo,
sleeve and at end of Vionnet neckline blackjack, the Eskimo, -as the only dine knew they would be cooling down.
add trimming note. See small draw- human being on Wrangel when the The abuse he had heaped on Acklin,
ings; how easy it is to make! It makes rescue ship arrived.• added to their own bitter hatred of
up beautifully in the season's new The Teddy Bear, that brought back the man, had brought the big fellow's
fabrics, as sheer tweed, crepe satin, Ada Blackjack, left Charles Wells plans to a climax. If he were to profit
silk crepe in modernistic pattern, and thirteen Eekimos. They lived ou by them, he had to risk tossing the
Wrangel until a Russian ship took dice now.
He was in Benavides' bar suermand-
ed by a small group that he held
charmed with his vitriolic eloquence.
To his listeners Buck seemed concern-
ed only with them; but One -eyed Man-
uel and he had never for -a iecond
relaxed their furtive watch of each
other. The, bartender moved away to
serve new customers near the door.
Bodine recognized Esteban among the
men who had just come in. He walk -
"Make it quick," the boy snapped
when he drew rein beside him.
"Well, then, let's forget this game
of bushwhackinh been doin' a little
scoutin' on my own around the dam.
You cali't get near it from the south.
Acklin'a men are there night and day.
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thusiastically. "It's more than we
need. I'll build a bomb that'll tear a
hole in that wall big enough to put
an elephant through. We'll sneak the
powder, and the other stuff we want,
up the way I said. We'll make a raft
—there's lot of cedars up there—
and put our little old mine on it. The
wind drives down that canon every
night. It don't vary five minutes. .All
we'll have to do is push her off and
she'll hit the dam. 1 timed a log one
night. I'll fix the fuse so, we'll be
sure, and just to be certain of it, we'll
cover the raft with oil. If it happens
to drift down quicker than I figure,
the fuse will set the damn thing afire
and blow up the works anyhow."
Esteban's eyes were the only an-
swer Buck needed. you and me.
"I'm ready now." Buck was not 1
taking any chances on time.
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Emigration From Britain
London Daily Express (Ind. Cone.);
i emigration since the war had to get through the ice pack. The
tinued at the pre-war rate, there would:
llf con -
Arctic night has descended upon the
colony. The question grows more hi -
be
Comparatively few men and women
sistent daily: What has happened to
out ofa job in Great Britain at this
moment. That Is an iucontestable the Wrangel Island colony?
'island itself has been a foot -
fact, and its Imperial significance is
es great as its domestic. With two ball of international politics. Vari-
o
European settlers for every single us individuals who have gone there
' have variously claimed Wrangel in
Briton flocking to Canada, we are aim;
the name of Canada, the United
States or Russia. It lies closest 'to
Russian territory, and the establish-
ment of the Russian colony was an
endeavor on thepart of the Soviet
to make good her claim."
them off it 1924 and confiscate'1 their
fur catch. Wells and two Eskimos
died in Siberia.
"Wrangel remained untenanted un-
til 1926, when Russia establishedtae
large and well-equipped colony a hich
is now a source of worry," a recent
bulletin of the society says. "Of the
six Russians left there three are said
to be men and three women. One of
the latter is a nurse, another a
teacher. They were the first white
women who tried to live on Wrangel.
Sixty Eskimo families also were left.
"What is their fate? Nobody knows.
The silence of the Arctic has swal-
lowed the colony. Two years have
passed. A Russian rescue ship failed
ply adding to our own congestion at
tome without playing our part in fill-
ing the Empire with British stock.
I have no doubt that within ten
years paternity clinics will be found
as necessary as maternity clinics.—F.
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"Don't you mind," Blaze consoled
him. "It's a long, hot ride, and Uncle'
Peter Will just about be busy with
the haying, so don't you cry, little
chief. The water in the Kings is so
low you e ,uldni. do any fishin' no-
hcw."
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of the ether!
Ships in the clouds, afloat as on a
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Voices through nines of distance'
einging, captured,
Brought to our homes to
gladden
compromised. "I'll be at your place
by noon. Why not go straight north
through the buttes? We can make it
by way of the hills in two hours. What
do you say?"
"It's a terrible chance. Morrow will
have his riders in the buttes."
"I'll draw thea away." There was
a note of sureness in the boy's voice
as he went on. "I'll send a dozen men.- discover
Some bit of truth through eons
unguessed,
Something to make the lives to come
the richer,
Ere they themselves shall shut their
• eye and rest.
it quicn,' the boy Snapped
when he thew rein beside Bodine es
the road soon after.
meanings
Hid in the clump of moss—the iron
ore!
How they have found in energy the
secrets
God smiled to know a billion years
before.
"Counting their lives not dear, so they
up that trail across- the peak torn' .
They'll make so much -noise Morrow
will have his men camping there to,
morrow evening. We'll go throughein
back of them,"
CHAPTER XXVI
BASILIO'S DISCOVERY
, It was not quite ten o'clock the fol-
lowing morning when Kildare walked
My Man to the top of the rise from
which he had taken his first look at
Paradise Valley. He was on his way
to the Bull's•Heed from Winnemucca.
He had taken his long deferred day -off
to attend to ?what he had told Morrow
was personal business. The rounda-
bout route by which he was returning
was due to a promise given the fore-
man.
Blaze had kept to himself his knowl-
edge of Bodine's part in the war of
reprisals tha. was being waged. He
had no. intention of letting the Double
A frighten Shorty out of the country.
He had waited too long for that; and
when the time was propitious he plan- THE
ned to settlethe issue between them
strictly by himself. But as he swept
his eyes over the desolation that mark-
ed the once prosperous Buena Vista,
he knew that he could not pass by
without attempting to see the girl
who had haunted him from the time
he had first en& her.
Blaze had heard nothing of Este -
more. They've moved their cattle
back into the hills. Five men guard
the dam easier than twenty could ride
that old line. You know how the
country narrows up there."
Esteban nodded his head. Bodine
had told him nothing he did not.know
himself. He continued to sit motion-
less as Buck went on.
"Lookin' round, I found a way to
get by these Double A waddles. Get
into the Kings first; follow the creek
north, say five miles beyond where
that little branch cuts in from the
west. You'll see old Bengoa's ranch,
but keep east of that, by'ra by you'll
come to a little park of birches. You
can't miss the trail east. It he* to
the north in a little while. Disaster
Peak will be right in front of you.
When you get there, pick up a creek;
any one; they're all flowin' to the
:martin. Coal Creek is the nearest.
it iiain't over five miles from there
down to the head of the water Ack-
,lin's backed up. His lake's near full
already."
"And if we get there, then what?"
"There won't be any if about it.
We'll get there. And when we do,
we'll blow his dam out so pretty he'll
be the rest of his life squaring the
damage suits."
Blowing up the dam had occurred
to the boy, too; but he had found
how impossible it was to get near
the wall, Bodine's plan was still a
closed book to the yoong Basque.
"How are you going to get down
to the wall from there?" he asked.
"You won't be any better off than
tiying it from this end."
"Oh, yes,
we will! We won't even
try to getnear the wall "Say—"
Bodine's voice dropped to a whisper.
"If show you how, will you go
through with this? 1 tell you eve
can't lose."
."How do I knew but you'll leave
me holding the bag?" Esteban de-
manded.
"How do you know?" the big fellow
repeated. "Why I aim to be eight
there with you when this thing's pull-
ed off. We'll only Want one more
man* Romeeo'll do."
"Well, you can take me on faith,
or forget it." The boy was still cau-
tious. "I won't pass my wttel until I
know what I'm promising."
"rn go you on that." Bodine was
not standing on ceremony, "You get
the dyrianeite. Acklin would spot. nee :
afterward if I bought it. Yon hain't
got any en hand, have you?",
"Six cases or so, My father was
getting ready to use it this ion,"
.t *bon answered after searching his
companion's face.
",Ah, still the Lord God -walks with
noiseless footfall,
Visits the workshops of these
pAient men—
Smiles on the test tubes, the revealing
lenses,
And 'It is good,' lee murmurs once
again."
—Bertha Gerneaux Woods, in the
The Congregationalist.
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women or families, to assist with
farm work, should write Rev. Alex.
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March 15.
ban; but unless the boy had changed
greatly, he could imagine the pitch
to which he must be aroused if he
had been deceived into believing that
Acklin had fired. their wool and killed
Liotard's sheep. As he sent My Man
toward the hacienda, he resolved to
try to tell the boy the truth, or at
least part o it.
The sound of a crying child caught
his ears as he :rode by the open door
of the barn. He stropped and called
and Basilio came out, rubbing his faee
with his sleeve.
"What's the matte'', little chief?" he
called solicitously.
"Esteban has gone to Uncle Pet-
er's," the little tot sobbed, "and he
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