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Thus began a bitter hour for Ned.
BEeIN HERE TODAY.
Ned Cornet and his fiancee, Lenore,
are survivors of a shipwreck. With
Bess, a seams tress, they land on an
island inhabited by Doomsdorf and his
Indian wife. Captain Knutzen, an-'
other survivor, is shot and killed by
Doomsdorf:
,. Ned tries to tight the master of the
island but is no match for the big man
and is badly beaten. Doomsdorf lee -
tures h:s risoncrs and warns thein
that 'et. was once imprisoned in Russia
and that now he means
He found the mere work of biting
through the thick tinsels with his axe
cost hint breath and strained his pa-
tience to the limit. It wasn't as easy
as it looked. He slid not strike true;
the blade made irregular white gashes
in the bark his blows seemed to lack
power. The great, ragged wound
deepened slowly.
Finally it was h•ilf through the
trunk, and yet the tree stood seeming-
ly as sturdy as ever. Reckless from
There was nothing to do but climb
into the adjoining tree with his aye
and laboriously cut the lodged tree
away, In the meantime Bess went to
work on the first tree felled, trimming
it of it limbs so to cut it into lengths,
Ned joined her at the work, hut
long before the asst tree was cut into
fuel both were at the edge of utter
exhaustion,
DQO1a1Sdart had seemed almost in-
credible to Ned at first. It was as if
he couldn't possibly be true; a figment
of nightmare that would vanish es
soon as he awakened. But lie was real
enough n.w. Nothin„ was left to hien
but the knowledge how real he was.
He must not rest, be' must not pause
till the work was done. The fact'that
Bess bad fallen, fainting, in the snow,
did not affect him; he must swing his
axe and hew the wood. Day was dy-
ing Grayness was creeping in from
the sea. It was like the essence of the
sea itself,
call ligray, gray
ayos like
of leis
ia
dreams, gray
hopes.. Re must finish the two trees
'before the darkness came down • and
kept him from seeing where to sink
the blade.
The axe swung automatically in his
arms; even .sense of effort was gone
from him. The only reality that lived
in him now, in that misty twilight, was
the knowledge that he met get
through.
It was too dark to see, now, how
much of the work remained. The
night was cheating him, after all. He
struck once more at the tough -length
that 'as at iiia feet -a piece at which
he had already strue': uncounted
blows. He gave all :lis waning
strength to the effort.
The length split open but the axe
slipped out of his blee•ling hands,
falling somewhere in the shadow be-
yond. He must crawl after it; he
didn't know how many more lengths
there were to split. It was strange
that he couldn't keep his feet. And
how deep and still was the night that
dropped over him!
How long he groped for the axe
handle in the snow he never knew.
But he lay still at last. Twilight
deepened about him and the wind
wept litre a ghost risen from the sea.
The very flame of •his life was burn-
ing down to embers.
Thus it came about that Doomsdorf
missed the sound of his axe against
the woos. Swinging a lantern, a ti-
tanic figure among the .snow -laden
trees, he tramped down to investigate.
Bess, semi-conscious again, wakened
when the lantern light danced in her
eyes. But it took him some little time
t osee ed's dark form in the snow.
The reason was, it was lying be-
hind a mighty pile of split fuel. The
light showed that only gree 1 branches,
too small to be of value, remained of
the two spruce. And Doomsdorf grunt-
ed, a wondering oath, deep in his
throat.
They had been faithful slaves. Put-
ting his mighty arm around thein,
each in turn,
to use his on more fiercely
slaves as he himself was once treated. fatigue, he chopped
Bess defies the brute, but Lenore than ever. And suddenly, with the
seems enable to cope with the strange-1grinding noise of breaking wood, the
position. Bess resolves to tree started to fall,
And .-t that instant Ned was face
to face with the exigency of leaping
for his life. The tree did not fall in
the direction planned. An instant be-
fore, weary and aching and out of
breath, Ned would have believed him-
self incapable of swift and powerful
motion. As that young spruce shat-
tered down toward him, like the club
of a giant aimed to strike out his life,
a supernatural power seemed to snatch
him to one side. Without realization
of the effort, the needed muscles con-
tracted with startling force, and he
sprang like a distance umper to safety.
But he didn't jump too soon or too
far. The branches of the tree lashed
at him as it descended, hurling him
headlong in the snow. And thereafter
there were three things to cause him
thought.
One of them was the attitude of
Bess—the girl to whom, in weeks past,
nese
�� , opportunity of
be prepared in case
escape is afforded then. The squaw is
always watchful. Escape seems hope-
less.
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
CHAPTER XVI,—(Cont'd.)
Ned, deeply appalled and unspeak-
ably revolted, looked to Lenore for
directions. Her glorious head was'on
her arms, and she shook it in utter
misery. "I can't go out there now,"
she said. "I'll just die if I do—I'm so
cold still, so weakened. I wish I had
died out there in the storm."
Ned turned once more to Dooms-
dorf, "She's telling the truth—I
think she simply can't stand to go,"
he urged gravely. "But though she's
absolutely in your power, thee: axe
same things even a beast can't do.
Y ou just the same as gave ire your
word—"
"There are things a beast can't do,
but :'m not a beast. There's nothing'
I can't do that I want -to do. I make
no promises—just the same, for this
time, I don't think you need be afraid.
I don't take everything that comes
along in the way of a woman. I
want a woman of thews!"
CHAPTER XVII.
There were a. number of axes in the
little workroom that comprised one
end of the long cabin, and Doomsdorf
flung three of them over his shoulder.
"Right up through here," he urged,
pointing to the little hilside behind
the cabin. Doomsdorf halted them be-
fore one of the half-grown spruce.
"Here's a good one," he commented.
"Just beyond is another. You can
each take one—cut them down with
your axes and then hack them into
two -foot lengths far the stove. Better
split each length into three pieces—
the larger ones, anyway. If you have
time, you can carry it down to the
cabin."
He took the handle of the largest
axe in his right hand; with his left he
extended the other two implements,
blades up, to Ned and Bess. "I sup-
pose you know we've had no experi-
ence—" Ned began.
"It doesn't matter. Just be careful
the trees don't fall on you. They
sometimes do, you know, on amateur
woodsmen. The rest is plain brute
strength and awkwardness." He
banded them each, from his pocket, a
piece of dried substance that looked
like bark. "Here's a piece of jerked
caribou each -it ought to keep life in
your bodies, And the sooner you get
your wood cut and split, the sooner
you See any more."
Then he turned and left :them to
their toil.
orioil/e-fed babies
Ch18 read
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CbrI.tIe's
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Assorted d BisCults
is always• in order for the picnic or
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In the store or on the'phone, always asltfor
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Holding Up" the Motorist
There are certain qualities that run
in families, and the devising of clever
ideas for getting money for hospitals
seems to be one of them. For the
Hon. A. H. Holland -Hibbert has just
suggested a "Hold-up Day," on which
motorists would be asked to contrib-
ate to the expanse of accident cases
in hospital. And Mr. Holland -Hibbert
is the brother of Lord Knutsford,
chairman of the London Hospital, who
has raised more money for the work
of our hospital than any other man.
If the "Hold-up Day" idea is adopt-
ed,
o something 'to
country the will
if hospitals i of which many
solve difficulties
have been com-
plaining during recent years. They
have to take in accident cases as a
result of motor smashes, and in many
instances they receive no paymert.
This causes financial trouble—and
it also may mean that cases of local
people—perhaps subscribers to the
1—who live in the district have
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There Is no period of life at whicb
we ought to say that there are no
more glad surprises for ns in the;
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so hard as some would make it, and
its rewards come to those who haver
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a woman threw all of
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'CHAPTER XVIII.
Ned was spared the misery and de-
spair that overswept Doomsdorf's
cabin the first night of his imprison-
ment. His master dropped him on the
floor by the stove, and there he lay,
seemingly without life, the whole night
through.
Yet he was not always deeply in-
sensible. Sometimes he would waken
with a knowledge of wracking pain in
his muscles, and sometimes cold would
creep over him. Once he came to him-
self with the realization chat some one
was administering to him. Soft, gentle
hands were removing his wet, outer
garments, rolling him gently over in
order to get at them, slipping off his
wet shoes and stockings. A great
tenderness swept over him, and he
smiled wanly in the lantern light.
"Lenore " the man whispered
feebly.
But there was• no spoken answer out
of the shadow at the edge of the lan-
tern light. Perhaps there was the
faint sound, like a gasp, almost as if a
terrible truth that was for an instant I
forgotten had been recalled.
(To be continued.)
He half carried, half dragged them
into the cabin.
he had shown hardly decent courtesy:
the same girl whom in childish fury
he had cursed the bitter, eventful
night just gone. Above the roar of
the falling tree he heard her quick,
half -strangled gasp of 'horror.
The sound seemed to have the quali-
ties that made toward a perfect after-
image; because in the silence that fol-
lowed, as he lay in the soft snow, and
the crash of the fallen tree echoed into
nothingness, it still lingered, every
tone perfect and clera, in his mind's
ear. There was no denying its tone
of ineffable dismay. Evidently Bess
was of a forgiving disposition; in spite
of his offense of the past night she had
evidently no desire to see him crushed
into jelly under that giant's blow.
Bess was staring wideeyed into his
face; and he smiled quietly in eeassnr-
once "Not hurt at all," he told her.
hospita
to be turned away.
A generous response to a special
appeal to motorists might help to sol-
ve this difficutly by enabling badly
needed extensions to be put in hand.
Wisdom
Young men are as apt to think
themselves wise enough, as drunken
men are to think themselves sober
enough. They look upon Spirit to be
a much better thing than Experience;
whish they call Coldness. They are
but half mistaken; for though spirit
without Experience is dangerous, Ex-
perience
x
perience without Spirit is languid and
ineffective.—Chesterfield,
Quickly he climbed to his feet. See ( dow pane
runs it swiftly over the stiff keys,
that you don't do the same thing that And
I did." Why then :I see a narrow higb-bank-
Iie walked with leer to her fallen ed lane '
axe, then inspected the deep Cut she That leads me to a Cliff where I can
had already made in her tree. lie
"You're doing the sante thing 1 did, Between green springing corn and
sur enough," he observed. "The tree the grey sea,
will fall your way and crush you. Let. Where I can bear the merry lisping
me think." waves
A mordent later he took his axe and Teasing the lark in Careless rivalry,
put in a few snore strokes in the same And there, pressed close to earth,
place. It was the danger point, he It seems more beautiful
thought: a deeper out might fell the To be a singing lark or blade of corn,
tree prematurely. Presently he cross-, A happier thing it seems to be a tree I
ed to the opposite side, signaled Bess Than just a woman sitting by a wail
tree again, snaking a cut somewhat)
out of danger, and began to hack tiler Typing all day "Dear Sirs, 'Yours
—
faithfully,'
above thet started on the other sided Florence'Lacey in the London Oh,
of the trunk. He chopped sturdily, • server.
and in a moment the tree started to
The Happier Thing
For eight hot hours I face a
wall
And type "Dear Sirs, We cannot
agree. . „
Fca eight dull hours with rough
cordant sound
I type "Dear Sirs, We are Tours faith-
fully,"
But when, tong after noon,
The interfering sun
Pokes a thin finger through the win -
grimy
yet
dis-
Keep Minard's Liniment always handy
Climbers
You will never lead souls heaven-
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a—PEE BABIr i$OOKB Ito uttered 'some si,iall sound oft
write! The Borden Co., Litnited,lJcpt, trlUnlpil; but it duos a real tragedy to
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sw,—_- -- tree and lodge, Again he had failed
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ISSUE '-,o.
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Two Wings
Death and Love , are two wings
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