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CHAPTER XII—Continued
— 20 —
Old Francois had taken long in
reaching the fire fighters and deliver-
u Steve's note. His crippled foot
pothered him. and so it was late, in-
when he reached the men who
partfeii the fire line.
It was well after midnight before
two canoes begaD their dash up the
Good-Bye. the bow of the first,
LaFane, In
stepped ashore at the Mad Woman
pail. The battery of flashlights gave
luffldent light for them to read the
sign left there.
"Down . • . h°th of ’em,” said
LaFane, at the forking of the trail.
Anv other would have believed so,
too. The tracks of both men and the
girl they followed took the right-
hand fork and, with their faith so firm
In the one who had led them all sum¬
mer, It did not occur to them to search
for further Indications.
"It sure looks as If they went down
river.” LaFane repeated. ‘‘But we
mar be wrong. “You,”—to a strapping
young woodsman —“take the trail back
to the Good Bye and bring two canoes
with plenty grub over here to wait for
orders."
"Who’ll go with you?” Young Jim
asked. Ills voice was strained and his
lips twitched in suspense.
LaFane said promptly;
“Wartin and T. You and Mac scout
the lake. If you find anything that
looks hot, follow it. If there’s no
sign, come back here. We’ll get word
tp If we need help below.”
And so Young Jim Flynn entered
the lake from which LaFane had
dragged him a fortnight before, eyes
scanning the near shore and the
Islands beyond.
Soon rain began to fall In a fine,
persistent drizzle, restricting their
range of vision. They went slowly,
following the eastern shore line.
“What’s that yonder?” Young Jim
asked some time later, pointing with
his paddle.
“Looks like a canoe.” They headed
on It and as they drew near old Mac
said starkly: “ ’Y Q—d, 'tis a
canoe l"
They went swiftly after the craft.
“It’s i’oung Jim’s!” McNally said
sharply, not yet knowing the strange
tangle of names which had concealed
Identities from him and all the others
swept LaFane.
“Look!” cried the boy. “Isn’t that
> bullet hole?”
“One . . . two . . Why, three
.
of 'em
For a moment they stared at one
another, mutely questioning.
"He caught up with them!" the boy
said huskily. “He caught up and there
nas shooting and God knows
. . .
what else!”
“All we know is that they're up
ahead, son! We got no time to lose.
Us ® proddin’ around here any more.
A:ter murder, theft and, anyhow, more
shoutin’ and whatever happened to
F'tie, he’ll make tracks up country, if
r s able. He won’t be around here.
ir only chance Is to find where he
«'’fs the upper river.”
1!iei began to paddle desperately.
CHAPTER XIII
The first drop of rain falling on her
L 1 *** for <-’ed Kate Flynn to a decision.
rem °ve the pressure of her thumbs
’’, nm 'hist bandage might permit the
00( * tf) fi°w again; to leave this un-
consdous, weakened man exposed to
8 so,iking might take his last
Wee of away
ultimate survival.
owiy, ghe re ] axe( j tj, e pressure she
\ “ bold on the anriously
wound and
a hod the edges of that clotted
fresh flow appeared. The
was stopped for the Interval.
e hastened to the canoe and threw
of h as hore. A tent was there,
j alloon silk, packed In Its bag.
i ? fi;e
v ®hook out the shelter and
, ’’
' U T ov er the spot where Steve
l at
lJ^ a e ? lla Inore ^ the tent than up scattered before the drops. rain
Ti 0 ° Ver *
That t le woun< ^ Still held.
I,I,,' * as something to be thankful for
tv.,, Da a ‘ hough she had accomplished
> much she needed help,
* ran !nt0 tlle tilr| her. gathering
fuel ’ an< ^ hf>a ,ed 't In three piles
,1 I
? e heach, fifty paces apart,
lIlr j !" . matches
Dani- 5 halted her found In Franz’s
reP fires.
Up , smokes, three shots; these
tr°,u ,
e W00( lsman what the S O S
ii ” the mariner.
hc,i& e firt ' S ’ however, must burn con¬
ing .- ,f,
y must be fed, and with
( ' 0od- w ’h!ch would throw out
kase e but she
tf.Trj t ' as hurried back
. e
sa» ‘ can °e for a hand-ax she
t r. of Steve’s knees double and
strs men;' ! again
ln a spasmodic move-
She [,ra ve fi again when
bioort - she saw
’’’atchM 2 lg from t ' le woun< h She
the rain beat out her fires
and did not dare leave off the task of
holding that bandage tight. She just
sat there and pressed her hands down
on the bandage and watched the
mists come down from the hills and
blot out horizons. When the hard
driven canoe passed her Island, though
It was within easy rifle shot, she had
no indication of the nearness of
friends.
The hours dragged on. For an In¬
terminable Interval Kate Flynn sat
holding the bandage firmly against
Drake’s side and then, as the mists
gave way to a steady rain, he com¬
menced to mutter and to stir again.
“Does it hurt?” she asked. No an¬
swer. “Do you hear me? Does it
hurt much now?”
A mumble came’ from his lips, her
own name, spoken so clearly and
sharply that the girl started.
"Yes, I’m here! It’s Kate, here with
you!”
His eyes opened and stared at her
blankly.
“It’s all right,” she said. “The
bleeding has stopped. Please lie still
so It won’t start In again. Do you
understand that?”
His lids fluttered closed but he lay
still. Whether he had understood or
not she could not know. He had
locked his fingers about her small
wrist and would not let go. After a
time she tried to disengage his clasp
so she might start the fire going, but
“Look! This Man Is Terribly Hurt!”
he clung the tighter and murmured
thickly. It was not until nearly dusk
that she could unlock his fingers and
slip away without rousing him.
She dragged driftwood from the
beach and made a pile of it behind the
fire which served the double purpose
of throwing heat into the open front
of the tent and drying fuel for the
night hours. Then she resumed her
vigil beside the unconsious figure, de¬
termined to fight sleep with all the re¬
sources at her command.
So It was that Mary Wolf, paddling
her light canoe through the steady
rain, saw a point of warm light shin¬
ing through the darkness.
This might be Franz, come to look
for her despite Young Jim’s command
that he let her alone.
She went on, proceeding with ut¬
most caution. But she wanted to
know who was there. If It were
Franz, she would not be forced to keep
a watch for him afterward.
She thought she heard a sound, an
odd noise which she could not Identify,
and as she was about to pass a point
of the Island which would screen the
fire from her that sound recurred.
She arrested all movement. That was
strange. Another woman, crying here
in a camp. . . .
So the Indian girl came upon Kate
Flynn, kneeling at Steve’s side, beg¬
ging him to speak, to make some sign
that he was aware of her being there.
Her words covered the small sounds
of Mary's approach through the rushes
and it was not until the new arrival’s
shadow fell across Steve’s figure that
Kate started up, alarm and relief min¬
gled In her heart.
“Oh 1” she cried. “Oh, you’ve
come! . . . Look! This man is ter¬
ribly hurt! He was stabbed and has
bled most of his life out!”
Mary appeared to give no heed. She
stood bent over, hands crossed on her
breast, eyes fast on Drake's drawn
face.
“Where he hurt?” she asked and
Kate drew back the blankets to reveal
the ugly patch on Drake’s bared body.
“See? It doesn’t bleed any more.
I held It tight for hours until It
stopped. Oh, what else can be done?”
The Indian girl then did a strange
thing. She knelt quickly and took
one of Drake’s hands in both bers.
“Yo’ng Jim'." she called softly.
“Yo’ng Jim!” Her voice husked.
“Yo’ng Jim, you all right?”
She held her breath for answer but
none came, no indicating movement or
DADE COUNTY TIMES: AUGUST !), 19S4
change of expression, even. Bbe
turned a tragic face to the white girt
who swayed away from her with some¬
thing like shock as Franz’s lying words
came back to her. a squaw man, he
had said this man was, and here was
a young squaw, a stricken expression
In her eyes. . . . The thought that
this man, who had worked for her, per¬
haps was now dying for her and who,
only a few hours ago, had kissed her,
might be the lover of this dusky girl
wrenched and tugged at something
deep ln her heart.
“He say no-thing,” Mary whispered.
“He won't say nothing!” She bent
her body low, cheek close to Drake’s
face and Kate started to turn her
head away hut when she saw that the
movement was not In caress but in
query she checked the gesture of aver¬
sion. “He breathing," Mary said. ‘Tie
not hot. May be . , .”
She turned to the scattered packs
beyond the fire, dumping their con¬
tents to the ground, opening a grub
sack, exploring its contents.
“Yes,” she muttered and poured
coffee Into a kettle, running Into the
reeds for clean water.
Deftly, she raked coals from the
fire and put the kettle on to boiL
Then, without a word of explanation,
disappeared into the timber. In a few
moments she returned with a wad of
pitch on a curl of birch bark. This
she put to heat on a pan cover, went
to her own canoe and returned with a
bundle from which she extracted a
piece of white cloth, tore the cloth
Into ribbons and then, testing the con¬
sistency of the softening pitch with
great care, brought her materials into
the tent and drawing back the blan¬
kets set to work to bind the clotted
gauze firmly into place.
She smeared pitch on the flesh,
pressed an end of cloth into It, car¬
ried the cloth over the bandage and
pitched It down on the other side.
Over and over, first this way. then
that, she drew the adhering cloth frag¬
ments until the chance of breaking the
clot by movement was slight.
By then the coffee had boiled. She
fetched the kettle within and, a spoon¬
ful at a time, dropped the hot fluid
into Drake’s mouth, persisting until he
had swallowed several times.
“Coffee. No whisky,” she said
briefly and sat back on one hip. “He
not bleed now. Coffee make him
strong.”
“But he must have help. Some one
who knows all about injured people
must he brought here or he may die."
Mary nodded,
“And I can’t go!" Kate cried. “I
couldn’t get hack to headquarters. I
oouldn’t carry a canoe across that
trail. You can, can’t you? You go for
help."
“May-be. Not now. He Is not hot.
Maybe I go sometime. He needs me
now. He is roy friend."
“Friend?” A tightness came Into
Kate's tone as a wonder which was
almost alarm asserted itself when the
word caused her once again to think
of the possible relationship of these
two. s
“He your brother? I see you once.
You are Ol’ Jim’s girl. 1 know.
This,”—with a gesture—“Yo’ng Jim,
he is my friend."
She was silent a moment, struggling
against things, wanting to speak, not
knowing Just how.
“Me, I got no brother. I got no¬
body. Yo’ng Jim was good to me. He
made Franz let me come here. He
tol’ Franz to leave me be. Franz . . .
I Franz’s girl long time. I say to
Yo’ng Jim I be his girl. Wash, Cook.
He tell me no. He tell me go to
school. He Is my friend," she repeat¬
ed simply, as though it explained
everything, and in the words was an
Inflection, a quality which made Kate
Flyun know that Franz had lied.
A low moan came from Steve Just
then, which checked the many ques¬
tions Kate wanted to ask. After a
moment his brows furrowed and he ut¬
tered a weak, inarticulate word. Then,
as if the effort of that had wearied
him beyond measure, he let breath
slip from his lungs and turned his
head to one side.
Silently Mary moved away and re¬
plenished the fire. She heated the
coffee again and forced more of If
into Drake’s mouth.
Throughout this Interval Steve was
strangely aware of voices near him.
They came to bis consciousness, how¬
ever, as from a great distance, rush¬
ing nearer, retreating as rapidly, all
but fading out, then coming close
again. He fought against an over¬
powering weakness, a terrible lethargy.
He was in pain somewhere. Yet there
was something he bad to say . . .
something he must say . . . some¬
thing on which more than hts own life
depended. . . .
He could not remember what this
was. For a time, he was at peace.
Yes, more than at peace. He had a
feeling of wonderful happiness. He
was happier than he had ever been in
his life. Some one he had always
wanted to see was at hand; some
voice he had hungered and thirsted to
hear was in his ears. . . . Then
things, even happiness, faded out, and
after another Incalculable interval b®
was aware of fretting again.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
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The Isle of Man has its own unlqtw
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unless expressly so stated In the law.
The court of Tynwald, one of the
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chambers, the council and the hous®
of keys. The 24 members of the '
latter are elected by popular vote. In
which women share equal rights with
men. All measures must pass both
council and keys, and receive appro?*'
from the sovereign
Find PhosphorJfc
Test Worth While
Reveals Great Variation in
the Makeup of Soils to
Grow Legumes.
By C. M. Linsley. Soils Extension Specialist,
University of Illinois.—WNU Service.
Vast changes now being made in
cropping systems on farms will be less
risky If farmers test their soils for
available phosphorus, as well as for
limestone, before seeding legumes and
other crops.
Tests made on thousands of acres of
farm land throughout the state have
shown that soils vary tremendously in
their available phosphorus content, as
well as in acid ty. Consequently,
there Is a great variation in the abil¬
ity of soils to produce legumes, since
these crops have definite phosphorus
requirements as well as certain lime
needs.
It has been estimated that some
1,800,000 acres of Illinois land Is be¬
ing taken out of grain production and
that a large proportion of this acre¬
age is being seeded to legumes. The
only sound basis for making such ad¬
justments is to use the phosphorus
test along with the soil acidity test.
These two tests together will show:
(1) what legume Is best adapted to a
given piece of land; (2) what land
might be best suited to grow a certain
kind of legume, and (3) whether any
phosphorus or iimestone need be ap¬
plied for the successful growing of
legumes.
The test described was developed
four years ago by the experiment sta¬
tion of the agricultural college, and
It Is coming into new prominence now
because of the widespread shifts ln
production.
All that is required for making the
test is the phosphorus testing solution
and a tin rod, together with a set of
vials with corks and a rack to hold
them. A small sample of the soil is
shaken up in a via! of the solution,
and If the soil Is low in available phos-
plicriM the solution remains uncolored.
As fie phosphorus content of the soil
increases, the color of the solution
changes to blue of different shades,
depending upon the amount of phos¬
phorus present.
Sterilize Soils, Control
Weeds, Using Electricity
Sterilizing soils by use of electricity,
to render them disease and weed free,
in the opinion of engineers in the de¬
partment of agricultural engineering
at the Ohio State university, promises
to supplant older methods employed
by greenhouse men in sterilizing soils
for propagating benches, potwork, in
hotbeds and cold frames.
Dp to now, chemical and steam and
dry heat have been employed. Two
ways of using electricity have been
devised. One uses electrical heating
elements buried ln the soil. Soil itself,
in the other, is the conductor. The
electricity, passing through the soil,
heats the soil moisture to steam,
which does the steriiizing.
About one kilowatt-hour of electri¬
city Is required to sterilize a cubic
foot of soli. A sterilizer holding five
cubic feet of soil can be built at a
small cost for materials.
Selecting a Horse
With the demand for horses Increas¬
ing the following points which might
prove valuable to the buyer are of¬
fered. It Is not the condition of the
horse alone that should be considered.
True enough it Is well to he sure he
has no blemishes and that his build,
etc., indicate he is well fitted for work,
endurance and long life. But even
more Important than this is whether
or not he is fitted for the particular
type of work you will want him to do.
On the farm the different jobs for the
horse vary a great deal in nature, and
therefore the animal best fitted for all
is the one to be chosen. The large
horse weighing around a ton may be
very good for jobs where a great
amount of strength is required but the
extra weight might slow him up
enough so that he will not be efficient
for numerous other lighter tasks. The
medium-sized, well-proportioned horse,
provided he has a show of energy and
willingness, usually proves to be the
hest fitted for general farm work.—
Pathfinder Magazine.
Cutting Hay Crops
Alfalfa, clovers and other hay crops
should be cut at the usual stages of
maturity this year, even though the
drouth In many sections has stunted
the growth of the plants, says A. C.
Amy, field crops specialist, Univer¬
sity Farm, St. Paul. There Is nothing
to be gained by delaying the first cut¬
ting, as any additional growth can be
harvested ln later cuttings and the
quality of the first crop will be better
If harvested at the usual stage. Al¬
falfa should be cut when one-fourth
of the plants are In bloom; clover
when the first heads are turning
brown, and timothy right after blos¬
soming.
The Sugarcane Crop
The great hazard ln growing sugar¬
cane In this country Is an early frost
Harvesting a sugarcane crop is always |
a race against time, since present |
tarieties must have approximately j
nine months between the last spring |
frost and developed the first ln India frost Is of said winter. to A j
cross ma- |
ture in six months, which Is approxi¬
mately the goal of experiments here.
Juice of the Indian cross is reported to
he high In sugar and low in Impuri¬
ties
MEDICAL ADVICE
THAT T^RDERS ON
THE SARCASTIC
Our doctors are always telling ns
not to do things we must do and to
do tilings we cannot do; to eat this
when they know or should know that
we don’t like it and not to eat (fiat
when they should know with equal
certainty that the thing denied us is
our pet hobby in the way of food.
Now they come along, or nt least
the public health committee of the
Wisconsin State Medical society
comes along, and tell us to take a
midday nap and live longer. When
in all conscience they should know
that we have a hard enough time as
it is in partaking of a too-hasty
lunch and getting back to work while
the eye of the boss retains what we
accept ns Its look of friendliness.
Most of us are willing enough to take
this latest advice, but the economic-
set up won’t permit us the time to
carry it out.
The advising committee, too, tells
us how the instructions should lie car¬
ried out. That is, the details after
we have arranged the matter of time.
And, again, there is the same old
note of opposition to our natural de¬
sires. They say we should not nap
very long and even fell us if we are
Inclined to overdo this nap we can’t
find time to take we should have a
bunch of keys or some such object In
our hands as we doze off. fiat we
will drop tlie keys before sound sleep
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And if we can’t find time for the
naii, wo should take sufficient time
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around for a time after the coffee.
But what is the use? We have no
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out anyway when the doctor finds
out we like it.—St. Louis Globe Dem¬
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MRS. WILLIAMS GAINS RELIEF FROM
“RHEUMATIC” PAINS
Dr. W. E. Fitch Explains why
Natural Mineral Water Often
Helpful In Chronic Ailments
Mrs. H. Williams, ,¥> Princeton
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