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CHAPTER IX
Synopsis: Will MacLeod un
justly accused of murder fled
to White Rock with his sister.
Their Uncle Alexander Mac-
Leod, had Dick Byrnes deliver
a message to Nipegosis at
White Rock. On the way he
was seriously wounded by Kin
oceti. Bill and Marion found
Dick almost dead and took him
to their cottage. Learning that
the Mounty would soon be
there Bill left to hide in a cave.
The Mounty mistook the un
conscious Dick for Bill, and de
cided to stay and guard him.
Kinoceti and his friends saw
Bill headed for the cave, left
a guard and set out for White
Rock.
He saw, as O’Rourke had seen,
the evidence of dogs lately fed—
and gone He knew where, too.
He looked through the window
of the cabin and saw Marion
MacLeod, in a gingham dress
that, unlike the raiment the
squaw wore, set off her lithe
loveliness She was dusting the
room.
Kinoceti motioned back his
trio. They had brought meat with
them, and they sought shelter
and ate it. relapsing to somnol
ence. Kinoceti tried the fron’
door. It opened, and he went
into the inner room.
The girl started back at the
sight of him, and Kinoceti grin
ned, the lifted lip puckering to
the scar, so that his dog teeth
showed. He summoned his best
memories of school. This was to
be an occasion.
“Here there is nothing for you
to sell. Miss Marion,” he said,
and cursed silently at his use of
the • Miss." "Things are differ
ent here, at White Rock, where
your brother runs from the po
lice and leaves you all alone—
for me to take.”
The look in her eyes cowed him
for a moment, but the caribou
spurred him.
“You dog!” she said. “You low
bred cur! How dare you?”
He grinned again. "Dog! Low
bred cur! How dare I? I’ll show
you, you . . .”
It was then she screamed at
Kinoceti leaped for her, caught
her; feral, bestial, horrible; his
hot. liquor-laden breath on her
face as he snatched her up, held
her close, bore her across the
room, not knowing that O’Rourke
of the Mounted had broken his
own records, had beaten him—
Peace River Jack Kinoceti over
an arduous trail—even now
heard the girl’s cry for help.
As O’Rourke charged into the
room Kinoceti whirled, the girl
still in his arms, struggling, strik
ing at him, kicking, clawing un
til the blood streamed from his
face, ran over his mouth. He
licked his lips and laughed.
“You’ll pay for that, too,” he
told her, then saw the scarlet
tunic of the authority he feared
and hated. His face, anticipating
triumph, changed to the s&arl of,
a treed puma.
He did not know O’Rourke, but
saw’ the badge of rank on the
sergeant’s sleeve His own action
as informer had brought this
math. But the reward money was
not now in Kinoceti’s mind. It
had left it. One glimpse of Sgt.
O’Rourke and he knew what was
coming to him, and prepared to
meet it.
He flung Marion aside, and she
ran to the door that led into the
kitchen, panting. She had hated
O’Rourke. She still did, because
of Will; but now he was her
champion, and she thrilled to it.
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"This,” said O’Rourke, as he
saw the breed—not knowing who
nor what he was—crouch and
prepare to fight, “is not official.
It’s going to be purely a personal
matter—and a pleasant one.”
The girls saw his eyes light up
with a glow of sheer delight, the
glory of a natural fighting man
in a righteous cause. She clung
to the lintel of the door.
O’Rourke, watching Kinoceti,
j knowing his kind, stripped off his
scarlet tunic, set his bolstered
gun aside. His arms were still
engaged in the sleeves when ai
knife flashed. The breed had,
fiung it. O’Rourke ducked and [
the blade stuck quivering in the j
wall. The sergeant tossed his )
crimson coat aside and charged)
in low. Kinoceti, cursing the miss
of his steel, awaited him, confi- ‘
dent of his own strength and)
capacity, not reckoning that he i
had sapped it with “caribou” and '
ill-chosen food, not realizing that
O’Rourke was in far better con- I
dition, hard as vulcanized rub-i
ber of body, with sinews of steel.)
O'Rourke straightened him'
with a right and left, flung short
and hard from the hip as they
closed. The blows bloodied his j
nose and swelled the Indian's)
lip. He leaped like a panther,)
clinging, gouging, trying for
fouls, and found O’Rourke tying I
him up. battering his kidneys,
flinging him off.
The devil of a Mountie knew
the tricks, fair and foul. Kino
ceti came in again, took a swing
on the jaw and fell to his knees,
his hands about the sergeant’s
legs, feigning weakness, though
he was really hurt from the
smash, striving to trip O’Rourke,
to throw him. '
O'Rourke had forgotten the
girl, had thought she had left
the room. But she stood with
eyOs shining and parted lips,
watching the combat, with never |
a doubt of the outpome. She was
as savage, as primitive, for the -
time, as were the two slugging,,
hard-breathing men seeking to)
down each other.
Kinoceti’s attack upon her 1
had been terrifying in its sud-)
den, vicious on-slaught, in her I
feeling of helplessness as she i
tried to fight him off. Now she j
wanted to see him punished--)
and she was getting her wish. '
They were well matched for a
while as they fought, panting,
sliding leaping and side-step
ping, grunting as a blow got l
home with a thud.
O’Rourke had a fair amount of
science, largely discounted by
the fact that all rules were off.
Kinoceti would try to disable him
by teeth and slaw if necessary.
£lt had* already bitten the ser- |
geant’s shoulder and his head)
tested there in a clinch. That I
had cost the breed a "oau batter
ing as O'Rourke felt the smart
when he tore his flesh loose)
from Kinoceti’s clamping jaws.)
He was bleeding there now, the I
stain coming slowly through his
shirt.
Kinoceti’s dark face was mark
ed wibii bruises, nis lips were a
blob ana one eye was closing.
£>ul ne lought with the. ferocity
of a bayed wild beast. Even if
he got out of this—unless he
killed the sergeant, got rid of
the girl—he figured he would
be a hunted man. A breed who
attempted assault on a white girl
vias an outlaw whose shooting
never would be charged against
the man who did it.
The record of his crimes surg
ed above him like a wave. He
knew that even if O’Rourke knew
■ his accredited record it would
> not contain a tenth of them.
. And Kinoceti did not trust the
gesture of the flung of tunic, the
laid-aside holster, the assurance
that the encounter was personal.
The sergeant was boring in
and the breed’s wind was going.
His arms began to feel heavy, his
legs had lost their spring. He
made a rush in a burst of fury,
head down, slugging at O’Rourke,
trying to knee him, and got the
attack broken by ripping upper-
) cuts.
“Trying to rough it, are you?”
O’Rourke panted. “Two can play
| at that game, if you insist on it.”
There was piston power behind
I the Mpuntie’s stiff blows and
j Kinoceti was getting desperate.
He was half blind, his wind, bro
‘ ken by a debauch, was almost
i gone. He could not get his lungs
refilled because of O'Rourke’s re
' lentless battering; pain shot
through his side like a knife
I thrust.
If only he had not missed that
| knife fling. ' lf he could get the
gun out of its holster! He knew
he could never manage the latter
—the~flap was. buttoned; Sgt.
O’Rourke would be on him be
i fore he could open it. But—the
| knife . . .!
It was still in the woodwork.
Kinoceti surged in. sidestepping,
dodging, trying to reach the
weapon. He took a jolt on the
side of the head to leap for it
and missed as the girl cried out
a warning and O'Rourke, who
had never forgotten the knife
was there, hit him so hard over
the heart and in the stomach
that the blows sounded like the
beats of a drum. The breed dou
bled up, clung in a feeble clinch
Marion MacLeod perked the
blade loose and stooa by the door
again, holding the knife, her
eyes blazing.
“Good for you!” O’Rourke
threw at her. “It’s all over. Look
at this.”
He was in a cold fury at the
second attempt to use steel. He
tore loose the breed’s failing
clutch, measured him as he held
him up for a moment on his sag-
I ing legs. Then he sent home a
right and left, smacking to the
I point of either side the jaw.
I Kinoceti’s eyes glazed, his
| knees sagged and he fell like a
I length of heavy chain, lying on
his face, arms asprawl, one leg
drawn up.
O’Rourke stood over him a
) moment, breathing heavily, and
watchful. Blood dripped from the
knuckles of his right hand where
he had torn it against the breed’s
teeth and left two of the latter
broken - .
Then he stopped, dragged Kin
oceti’s limp body to the door into
| the passage. The girl followed,
her face adoring, mesmerized by
the sheer physcial glory of the
fight, none the less so since it
had been for her.'
She opened the outer door and
O’Rourke heaved the breed out
with a final effort, gripping him
by his feet and the cloth between
his shoulders, lifting him clear
of the ground, handling him like
a stevedore loading sacked wheat.
“That’s that,” he said as he
closed the door. “The snow’ll be
good for him. I don’t think he’ll
try it over again.”
He was not too certain of the
truth of his statement. This
breed would be resentful. The
beating would not lessen his de
sire to get even. He might stay
shy of O’Rourke, but the girl
was still in peril. It might have
been better not to have made it
a personal matter, to have made
an arrest instead. But to do that
) would have brought Marion Mac -
. Leod's name into it. Also Sgt.
| O’Rourke was out on a one-man
trail.
“You were wonderful,” Marion
| said. “I had been hating you,”
; she added frankly. “I’m ashamed
) of myself. When Kinoceti . . .”
The sergeant had a puffed lip,
but he achieved a whistle.
“Kinoceti?” he repeated. “Well
he got mote reward than he ex
pected. So, that was Kinoceti?”
The girl’s wits were sharp. She
caught his half-spoken meaning.
It was Kinoceti who had betray
ed her brother, who expected to
collect the SI,OOO for it.
“I wish you had killed him,”
she cried. “Kinoceti is the man
my brother really believes killed
Regnier. We came up here so
that Will would not be arrested,
sb that we would have a chance
to try to pin proof on Kinoceti.
The Indians always come here
in the spring. They talk some
times when they are drunk. And
there was Nipegosis.”
She checked herself, realizing
that she was talking almost con
fidentially with the man who
represented the law, who had
come to arrest her brother. He
was looking at her curiously.
I
(To Be Continued)
One reason why nobody knows
the truth about Russia is that
nobody wants to know the truth
about Russia.
THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS, SUMMERVILLE, GA.
State tfanqia
Statetneat of Cavteat (fateUtiM
JUNE 30, 1947
Cash in State Treasury jjj 134.70
Cash in hands of State Departments 3 150 500 41
Cash due from U. S. Government on Reimbursements
Total Cash Asset*
CURRENT $ 3,105,534.32
Accounts Payable
RESERVES sn
For Commitments Outstanding •* '
For Board of Regents Bond Funds for Construction • 00
For Sinking Fund to retire State Bond* and County Certificates 1,340,801.98
(See opposite page) 10 614 292 60
•For Highway Contracts to Mature• 0'614,292.60
For Matching Federal Road Funds accrued to June 30, 1947 ' 5709 52
For Land Title Guarantee Fund ' '
For Federal Funds on hand ' . 7
For Agency Funds on hand 6 921 341 87
For Teacher Retirement Trust Fund' ’ ' ’
. 10,z40.vv
For Unearned Income•
For Revolving Fund of Agencies payable 10th July ' ' as
For Maintaining Aid to Common Schools 9057 013 13
For Memorandum Operating Allotments
For Income Equalization Reserve .
$66,676,291.66
Total Reserves . - • - • $69,781,825.98
Total Account* Payable and Reserves -
Swifattu,
SURPLUS; (Cash over Accounts Payable and Reserves Applied on fixed debt, page 3)'
(*) Highway Department Contracts to Mature sl9
Total Contracts » . . .
Regular Federal Fund Portieipotio SMIMt
Ne> Stale Obligation to. Contract,to Menu,.5i0.15M3Q.33 > 457.86177 5i0.614.292.60
7/tatwtiKs “Defa State amt rfyeticieA,
OBLIGATIONS—State Authorized
Dec. 31, 1940 Dec. 31, 1942 Dec. 31, 1946 June 30, 1947
Highway Obligations to Mature $ 8,386,214.61 $10,733,955.34 $14,088,985.60 $10,614,292.60 (1)
General State Bonds of 1838 3,320,022.17 3,203,202.17 97,500.00 93,500.00 (2)
Highway Refunding Bonds of 1939 5,300,000.00 7,950,000.00 5,325,000.00 2,680,000.00 (3)
County Refunding Certif. of 1931 13,333,954.73 8,000,472 87 0 0
W& A Rental Discount of 1931 and 1938 4,860,000.00 3,780,000.00 1,636,000.00 1,367,000.00 (4)
Hospital Authority Bonds of 1939 2,390,000.00 2,294,000.00 0 0
Tattnall Prison Debt 1,051,088.270• 0
less Cash:
Accumulated Operating Deficit ..•••••••• (-)16,723,906.31
Accumulated Operating Surplus .»•••••••• 0 7,619,494.57 1,002,260.31 3,149,365.05
Highway Contract Reserve ..«••••••••• 0 0 14,088,985.60 10,614,292.60
Sinking Fund Reserve* 2,195,040.00 2,546,720.00 7,058,500.00 4,140,500.00
Total (•)$! 4,528,866.31 $10,166,214.57 $22,149,745.91 $19,904,157.65
Net Obligations—State of Georgia ...«•••••• $53,170,146.09 $25,795,415.81
Net General State Surplus $ 1,002,260.81 $ 5,149,365.05
(•Net cash deficit.)
OBLIGATIONS—Regents Authorized
Georgia School of Technology Dormitory
Revenue Bonds issued May 1, 1946 ...«••••• $ 3,750,000.00 $ 3,750,000.00 (jj
Total Regents authorized Obligating* . . • ■ • $ 3,750,000.00 $ 3,750,000.00
Less Cash:
Sinking Fund Reserves .00 .00
Net Obligations—Regents Authorized $ 3,750,000.00 $
Net Obligations—State and Agencies $53,170,146.09 $25,795,415.81 $ 2,747,739.69
Net General Surplus—State and Agencies ■ $ 1,399,365.05
»
(1) "Highway Obligations''—The amoun* of State Funds required to complete all contracts outttondlng and there is • cosh reservn
to liquidate this item which is payable as work progresses.
(2) All "General State Bonds" outstanding are past due, but Fave not been presented for redemption. Cash reserve of $93,500.00
is held in State Treasury to liquidate this obligation.
(3) Os the "Highway Refunding Bonds" outstanding $30,000.00 in bonds are past due but have not been presented for redemp-
tion, and $2,650,000.00 in bonds to mature March 15, 1948. Cash Sinking Fund is held in the State Treasury to liquidate this obli
gation in full.
(4) Os the "W & A Rental Discount" warrants outstanding $17,000.00 in warrants are past due but have not been presented for
redemption, the remaining $1,350,000.00 mature $45,000.00 on the first day of month beginning July 1, 1947, and for each
month thereafter through December 1, 1949. Cash Sinking Fund is held in the State Treasury to liquidate this obligation in full.
(5) "Obligations—Regents Authorized." Payable from dormitory rentals, maturing in part on each May 1, 1949 through 1978.
The Regents by exercising the powers of a corporate entity issued the Dormitory Revenue Bonds for the benefit of the Georgia
School of Technology. There is no specific act of the General Assembly authorizing the issuance of these bonds, nor was the action sub
ject to the approval of the Governor, Attorney General or the Budget Bureau of Georgia. See Auditor's notes in financial report
of Sept. 30, 1946, for opinion of Attorney General as to the legal status of this obligation. Ruling was that this item was not an
obligation of the State that it could not be retired from tax or appropriated funds, being an obligation of and payable only from
the earnings of the dormitory.
Comparison Current
Year Ended Year Ended Year Ended Year Ended Year Ending
June 30, 1942 June 30, 1943 June 30, 1944 June 30, 1945 June 30, 1946 June 30, 1947
Cash Receipts in State Treasury $58,183,496.83 $61,772.210.04 $63,193,87580 $81,021,50055 $98,663,50678
(See page 6 for
Current Operating A110tment5....541,017,766.25 $44,039,844.53 $46,421,667.47 $53,374,816.38 $78,971,693.63 $88,946,270.18
Debt Retirement Allotments 8,321,890.93 15784,968.34 10,514,432.61 5,110,000.00 4,223,791.01 525,000.00
, . ... . 00 00 4,348,000.00 4,549,332.79 (-)2,173,984.09 6,176,982.73
Memorandum Allotments for Increased Aid . . .
Total A110tment5549,339,657.18 $59,824,812.87 $61,284,150.08 $63,034,149.17 $81,021,500.55 $95,648,252.96
(See page 7 for detail)
Excess of Receipts Over Allotmentss 9,553,910.91 .00 $ 488,059196 $ 159,726.63 .00 $ 3,015,253.82
Excess of Allotments Over Receipts-00 $ 1,641,316.04 M
$58,893,568.09 $58,183,496.83 $61,772,210.04 563,193,875.80 $81,021,500 55 $98,663,50678
This statement of Georgia's financial condition Is published and paid for by tne Executive Department as a matter ot public informa,
tlon. It shows the balance sheet of our state as prepared by the State Auditor and released as his official report on July 12. 1947. This
publication does not include the portion of the report showing detail of receipt* and allotments to agencies A copy ot the full report I*
public information and available in the office es the State Auditor.
M E. THOMPSON, Acting Governor
OBLIGATIONS—State Authorized
les* Cash:
Thursday, July 31, 1947