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BEGIN HERE TODAY
Bess Qrilbert, Ned Carnet and the lat-
. ter's fiancee, Lenore Harden worth. are
shipwrecked. They take refuge on an
island occupid by u Orutemamed Downs -
wort and his Indian wife 'rhe muster
• of the island taeks Ned and the two girls
Prisoners and informs them tluit he
means to make them slave for nim.
Bess and Ned, with but ver iltIe help
from Lenore, build a cabin and Dooms-
cabingis�finished Besse stove,
Neda ate sn ent
on different routes to do the winter's
trnppine• for their master,
Bess and Ned, with but very Ville help
the squaw with the housework. Ned
Ails Into a deep crevice and Bess rosettes
bine. The two make plans to escape
from the Island. .
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
CHAPTER XXVII.
When food and warmth had brought
complete recovery, Ned took up with
Bess the problem of deliverance from
the island. He found that for weeks
she had been thinking along the same
line, and like him, she has as yet fail-
ed to hit upon any plan that offered
the 'sett chance :or success. The sub-
ject held them late into the night• carne, 'her defence was solely the'pres-
They tool: different trails in the came ,of- Lenore the. squaw.
'dawn, following the long circle of their ...There .wasandparthe s warmth in
trap lines. All the way they ponder- her meeting with Ned. Doomsclorf's
eyes were still upon her, and she was
careful to keep any hint of the new
understanding out of her face and
eyes. Ned's weather-beaten counten-
ance was as expressionless as Sindy's
own.
The four of thein gathered about
the little, rough table, and again the
squaw served them, from the shadows.
It was a strange picture, there in the
lantern light -the imperturbable face
of the squaw, always half in shadow;.
the lurid .wild -beast eyes o,: Dooms-
dorf gleaming under his shaggy
brows; Lenore's beauty a thing to
shore was, from his listeners, but cele �ustrt .1l.
significant response at'trst to the evil
suggestion that he made with suers3roc Broadcasters
iniquitous fifes 'in his wild egos and
such a strange, suppressed tone in bis -
1'oiee• Bess' a cpressioe did not change, How the Australian Abori,
It had already revealed the uttermost
depths.'of bread. 'Ned ' still 'held him-
self, cold, now, as a serpent, waiting
for his chance. But the squaw paused
'a single instant in her work. For one
breath they failed 'to her the clatter
of her pans. But seemingly indiffer-
ent, she immediately went back tc her
toil.
Bess , shook- her hand in ,desperate
appeal- "Wait .till morning," she
pleaded. "I'm tired now-"
.Ned saw by , the ,gxltherin g fury of puzzled to know how it was that
their master's face that her, r'efus'al1 whepever they went, their arrival had
would only bring on the crisis, so he been anticipated by the natives. The
leaped swiftly into the breach. "Sure,r?'iddle remained unsolved until the
Bess, let's go to. look/at `them,"; he white man realized that the ab
ori -
said. "I'm anxious to 's a "em,'too-" i gives • had a wonderful system of
Doomsdorf whirled him,and his smoke signals, by which the doings of
r ed to
gaze was as a trial of fire to Necl.I the bush were broadcast for hundreds
Yet the latter did not flinch. 'For a of miles.
long second they regarded each other ' The study of these smoke signals
i im leeable hatred,and. then Dooms-, opens' up a story of entrancing inter-
n p l P
dorf's sudden start told that he bad! est, one which involves the beginning
been visited by inspiration. Hie leer -1 of the human race. The Australian
ing look of contempt was almost alabor genal le often desribed as one of
smile. "Sure, come along," he: said. the most uncivilized types of surviv-
"I've got something to say to you, tool ing Humanity, No doubt there is a
To spare Lenore's feelings -we'll go good deal of truth in this, for his is
to the other cabin." probably the only race which has sur -
Ned was not in the, least, deceived vivee, uncontaminated by contact
by -this reference to Lenore. Dooms- with others, from prehistoric times.
doff had further cause, other than It seems paradoxical that, although
regard. for Lenore's sensib,lities, fur the aboriginal's mentality is of a bar -
Surely the mighty strength vn,
had set the powerful spring and the
skill that covered up all traces of his
work could 'succeed at last in freeing
hint from slavery, ;.,
Bess had reached the she,`er first,
and she was particularly relieved to
see Ned's tall form swinging toward
her along the shore. Doomsdorf wag
in a particularly ominous mod. to-
night. The curious glitter in his mag-
netic eyes was more pronounced than
she had ever seen it -catlike in the
shadows, steely in the lantern light;
and his cruel savagery was ,just at
the surface, ready to be wakened:
Worst of all, the•gaze he bent toward-
her
owardher was especially eager tonight, hor-
rible to her as the cold touch of a rep-
tile.
Every time she glanced up she
found him regarding her, and he fol-
lowed her with his eyes when she
moved. Yet she dared riot seek shel-
ter in the new cabin, for the simple
reason that she was afraid Doomsdorf
would follow her there. Until Ned
ed on this same problem, conceiving a
plan only to reject it because of some
unsurnountable obstacle to its suc-
cess; dwelling upon the project every
hour and dreaming about it at night.
But Ned was far as ever from a con-
clusion when, three days later, he fol-
lowed the beach on the way to the
hone cabin.
He had watched with deadened in-
terest the drama of the wild things
about him these last days; but when
he was less than a mile from home
he had cause to remember it again.
To his great amazement he found at
the edge of the ice the fresh track of
one of the large island bears.
The sight of the great imprint was
a welcome one to Ned, not alone be-
cause the wakening forecasted, per-
haps, an early spring, but because he
was in immediate' need of bear fur.
His awn coat was worn; besides, he
was planning a suit of clod -proof gar-
ments for Lenore, to be used perhaps
in their final flight across the ice, And
he saw at once that condit'ons were
favorable for trapping the great
creature.
Scarcely a quarter of a mile ahead,
in a little pass that led through the
Shore crags down to the beach, Dooms-
dorf had left one of his most power-
ful beat traps. Ned had seen it many
times as he had clambered through on
a short cut to the cabin. Because it
lay in a natural runway for game-
one of the few spots where the shore
crags could be easily surmounted -it
Was at least possible that the huge
bear might fall into it, on his return
to his lair in the hills.
Ned hurried on, and in a few mo- hold the eyes; and Bess and horrified
ments had dug out the great trap from and fearful at wha • the next moment
its covering of snow. For a moment might bring. Hardly a word was ex -
he actually doubted his power to set it. changed from the meal's beginning to
It was of obsolete type, mighty- its end. Bess tried to talk, so as to
springed, and its jawse,were of a divert Doonisdorf's sinister thoughts,
width forbidden by all laws of trap-
ping in civilized lands, yet Ned did
not doubt its efficiency. Its mighty
irons had rusted; but not even a
bear's incalculable might could shat-
ter thein.
This was not to be a bait set, so
his success depended upon the skill
with which be concealed the trap.
First he carefully refilled the exca-
vation he had made in digging out
the trap; then he dui, a shallow hole
in the snow in the narrowest part of
the pass. Here he set the ttap, util-
izing all the power of his mighty
muscles, and spread a light covering
of snow above.
It was a delicate piece of work.
Ned had no wish for the cruel jaws
to snap shut as he was working above
thein. But his heart was in the ven-
ture, for all his hatred of the cruelty
,..
and
he covered it his
o,. the device;p
tracks with veteran's skill. Then he
quietly withdrew; -retracting his steps
and following the shore line toward
the home cabin,
Bines, Although Entirely
Uncivilized, Have Develop.
ed a Highly Technical and
Complicated Method of
Communication Through
the Use of a Remarkable
System of Smoke Signals
In the early . days of Australian ex-
ploration the pioneers were greatly
It
was a strange pictu:•e.
continuing their conversation in the
other cabin. What it was Ned did not
know, and he dared not think. And
he had a vague impression that while
he and Doomsdorf had' waged their
battle of eyes, Bess had mysteriously
moved from her, position. ` He had left
her just at Doomsdorf's right; when
he saw her again she was fully ten If it were merely a mercer of send -
feet distant, within a few feet of the jug up a column of smoke, the abor-
cupEoards where the squaw kept many iginai's idea of signalling would be
merely the obvious method of com-
municating
ommunicating his own whereabouts, or
the approach of an enemy to the
camp, But his system is much more
comprehensive. By its means he can
make known almost anything he de-
sires, for in reality, it is a crude form
of Morse code, and must have been in
common use thousands of years be-
fore the very rae to which Morse be-
longed was evolved.
Signals Repeated
barons order, he should yet have been
capable of evolving a thoroughly ef-
ficient system of conveying messages
over vast distances by means of
smoke signals, which are as clear in
their meaning to him as a telegraphic
message is to civilized man,
of the food supplies,•"and now was
busy With her parka of caribou skim
She led the way out into. the' clear,
icy night. I.t was one ofthose still,
clear late winter evenings, not `so cold
as it had been, when the frozen, snow -
swept world gave no image of reality
to the senses. The snow wastes and
the velvet depth., of the sky were lurid,
flashing with a thousand ever-chang-
ing hues from the giant kaleidoscope
of the Northern Lights. Moved and
held by this wonder that never grows
old to the northern man, Doomsdorf
halted them just without the 'cabin
door.
(To be continued.)
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ISSUE No. 29. -'29,
but the words would not come to her
lips• The man seemed eager to finish
the meal,
As soon as they had moved from
to table toward the little stove, and
the squaw had begun the work of
clearing away the dishes, Doomsdorf
halted at Bess' side. For a moment he
gazed down at ler, a great hand rest -
lug on her chair.
"You're a pretty little hell -eat," he
told her, in curiously muffled tones.
"What makes you such a fighter?"
She tried. to meet his eyes. "1 have.
to be, In this climate," she answered.
"Where would you get your furs -
He uttered one great hoarse syl-
lable, as if in the beginning of laugh-
ter. "That's not what I mean, and
you know it. You'd sooner walk ten
miles through the snow than give an.
inch, wouldn't you?" Iris hand reach-
ed, closing gently upon her arm, and
a shiver of repulsion passed over her.
"That's a fine little muscle -but you
don't want to work it off. Why don't
you show a little friendship?"
The girl looked with difficulty into
his great, drawn face, Ned stiffened,
wondering if the moment of crisis
were at hand at last. Lenore watched
appalled, but the native went on about
her tasks as if she hadn't heard.
"You can't expect -much friend-
ship -from a prisoner," Bess told hint
brokenly. Her face, so white in the
yellow lantern light, her trembling
lips, most of all the appeal for mercy
in her child's eyes -raised to this
beast compared with whom even the
North was merciful. -wakened surg-
ing, desperate anger in Ned. The
room turned red before his eyes, his
muscles quivered, and he was rapidly
reaching that pointwherein his self -
centre], on which life itself depended,
was jeopardized. Yet he must hold
himself with at iron hand. He must
wait to the last instant of need. Every-
thing depended on that, in avoiding
the crisis until ho had rade some
ineasule of preparation.
"Your little friend seems to be get-
ting nervous," he remarked easily to
Bess, "So not to disturb him fur-
ther, let's you and I go to the new
Cabin. I' taken some fine pelts late -
I
Cee Plroe s
y tiny leaf is
couse o k r
store
Tomah Erwin the gardens'
535
ment at that particular spot when the
first fleet was sighted and the great
Iamillaroy tribe sent up the first sig-
nal notifying other tribes of the event,
which, ir a few hours, could easily be
repeated to the Queensland border,
many thousands of miles north. This
•ivas quite close to where Sydney
stands to -day and wb.ere the first land-
ing of the white men was made. At
that time this district was thickly
When an important smoke signal
goes up, the limit of its significance,
or trews value, is not coufined within
the boundaries of the territory con-
trolled by the tribes sending it, but is
repeated by tribes who may have
been at constant war with the original
senders• Thus it travels on till it
reaches' districts hundreds of miles
A List that Expresses the Na- away where the senders are entirely
unknown.
tiorxal" View of Flleit4- ? The fact that these smoke signals
ship, were well understood by all -
An Eye To Business
Patrick had decided to sell his re
mainin ghorse as business was very
bad. He took the animal to market
and offered him to the first farmer he
met.
"Three pound! ' said the farmer, af-
ter one quick look at the docile quad-
ruped.
"What!" exclaimed the Irishman -
"Three pounds for a horse?"
covered with bush, while to -day it is "Well, it's only got one eye."
bricks and mortar, and the great "One eye, did ye say?" echoed the
I amillaroy tribe that greeted the first otliel'. "'Be off wad ye, man! Can't
fleet on that 'mnemorable occasion has ye see the intelligent craythur's gift -
since been completely annihilated. ing me the wink not to accept your
Cook Stove Made
is proof
that practically throughout the con
"'rhe Chinese have an exalted idea tinent, a common code prevailed.
of real friendship, and in spite of The coastal natives and those in -
their aupposed antipathy to foreign -1i habiting hilly country, where timber
ers, extend real friendship to people is ilentiful, make more frequent use
of other races," writes Mr. 0. Wu1 of this method of distributing infor-
fred Allan in the Methodist Magazitne. mation than do those of central Aus-
"Some of the common proverbs are tralia and the open plains. In no part
as follows:- of Australia are smoke signals more
'• 'A well-known friend is a treas-
ure.'
reas l used than in the ranges on the east-
ure. "'Friendship must rest on goodness ern coast of North Queensland. Away
rather than gain: 1 inland on the Diamantina, when the
".'Unless your friend is your' sea.' country around that river was a hap-
erior, you had ,better have Lone.' py hunting ground for the aboriginal, a common ground for righteous anger.
" `When friendship is zeal, Hien talk) the passing of a traveller through the ---
without reserve.' '
i "'-`rice would be signalled from one
tame Dint to another
offer?"
Be. cheerful; whatever may hap•
Rapid Trip pen, be nothing but cheerful, -Tree
House of the Seven Gables.
In the Lake. ;3t. John district,. of
Quebec, 350 miles north of St. Fell-.
cien, the manager of a new mine dis-
covered to his horror that he had a
fine camp but no cook stove to feed
his hungry, new, crew of miners, An
urgent telephone call was put through
to Montreal, and a sturdy camp cook.
stove was promptly packed and rush-
ed to the Canadian National train,
which left Montreal at 6.15 p,m. the
same night.
The train reached St. Pelletal' at
7.30 the next morning and the big 746 -
pound range, in its crate, was swiftly
transferred to a seaplane that lay
waiting for its cargo.
Two hours later, the seaplane • with
the much-expecTod range landed on a
lake, near the mine, 350 miles north
of St. Felieien. It was promptly un-
loaded from the plane, set up in the
cook -house, and the hungry mining
crew had their noonday meal cooked
on this range. Eighteen hours from
busy Montreal to the remotest part
of the Quebec Ilinterland!
This is perhaps one of the most in-
teresting deliveries in the history of
aviatirn and has caused a great deal
of comment throu:fiout the North
Country.
Minard's Liniment --The King of Pain.
Plain English
Sydney Bulletin: If the Singapore -
Base scheme survives the MacDonald
Government, the Dawes Ambassador-
ship and Britain's unemployment
crisis it will deserve to rank amongst
the immortals. It is in the unfortun-
ate position of providing the two La-
bour wings as well as the Liberals,
by whose help the Ramsay MacDon-
alds expect to hang on to office, with
"'Mutual confidence is the prop of I van g -
friencishipr•
' It is rattier uncanny to know that
"'The best kind of acquaintance is, one's every movement is being watch -
the acquaintance with each other's ed by unseen eyes, whose owners
hearts.' l await an opportunity to become openly
"Faithful friendship is referred to hostile.
in the following.- The aboriginal employs different
"'Without a good mirror, no lady methods of signalling for different oc-
ean know her true appearance; with- casions; the most common is to build
a fire of dry material, on which he
heaps green houghs, creating a dense
column of black smoke. If it is neces-
sary to continue the message when
'A faithless friend is one who that has subsided he repeats the
"stands on the dry shore," that is, operation.
makes no attempt to save one from Another method, and one which re -
drowning.' quired a good deal of skill, ancl, at the
"There are, of course, spurious same 'time, displays much ingenuity,
friendships. involves the selection of a hollow
"When you have, and 1 have i,e., standing tree with a hole at the base.
money) then we are friends: ' A fire is made in this hole, and when
"'With wine and good feeding you , it,.is *ell under way, green leaves are
Lei
will have plenty of friends; but MI thrown on it. The draught created by
trouble you will have none." I the fire sends the smoke up and.rac
"We sometimes say, 'Birds of a fee -i ing through the hollow trunk at a
ther flock together, but the Chinese, great height.
express it negatively -'Tigers ancll When it is necessary to break'the
deer do .not stroll together,' and 'The smoke column, a sheet of bark, or the
crow doesn't roost with the phoenix.' 1 skin of a kangaroo, is thrown momen-
".To prevent trouble, 'Good friends over the fire and as rapidly re -
"Thetheir accounts at once.' I moved, causing the smoke to issue
"The friendships of those who mays out of the top in puffs, much as it may
be separated by sea or land is boauti be seen coming out of the funnel of a
fully described lir the following, 'The railway engino, By these means, and
lotus root inay be broken bbu its�hy varying the length of the intervals
silken fibres remain united,' and those. between the puffs, while has a special
who have seen how the sticky filan- significance, intricate messages are
reel-�
ares refuse to fall apart will app sent...
the simile:' The color also of the smoke has its
meaning and the aboriginal is adept
in producing the particular shade .he
desires. The lighter tints are pro-
duced by burning dry leaves and 1
wood, while the heavy black column 1
is caused by the combustion of green,
resinous boughs.
rrimitive people, the I
Like most I people,
Australian aboriginal n=ali:ns his wo-
menfolk do the unpleasant lobs. Only
when lie goes out to battle does he
leave his wite behind. When hunting
she is the "beast" of burden of her
"lord" husband,. Also as for smoke!
signalling, it is she who collects the
material and does all the i eal work 1
ca in. I've ' "That's a hot suit you have ars, connected with it, Sometimes the
y.- wan you
out a true friend no gentleman can
know his own errors of conduct.'
"'Friends are at fault when a man
is allowed to wear his dress awry.
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