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CHAPTER XVI,
For two days the watchers of the
trail waited In their ambosfa, but no
banters or search party left the poet.
Then, one morning, at daylight, from
the thick acrid) of the short sooth
of Ogoke, two men looked long through
binoculars at the chimneys of the
snow-blanketed cabins, and smiled
Into each other's wind-burned faces
when they saw that from more than
half there rose no stooke of cooking
fires. Of the group of tipis of bush
Indians which had dotted the dealing
In October, bat two now remained.
It was the turn of the old OJibway
and two young Indiana to stand guard
on the trail to the game country.
Michel and Steel were too far to the
south to overtake Laflatnuse's men, so
they struck straight back to camp,
confident of the outcome—for old Wa
goab guarded the trail.
That morning, as the stars faded
and dawn broke blue and bitter over
the eastern ridges, an old man with
hate in his heart prayed for the com
ing of one for whom be bad waited
long. With hoods pulled over frost
blackened faces from which rose the
steaming columns of their breath, Wa
gosh and his two companions shuffled
back and forth on* their anowahoes,
beating their shoulders with mtttened
hands, for the stinging cold pierced
their caribou capotes.
"It may not be that be will come
today," said the old Indian In
his native tongue, "but If a French
man, short, with legs that curve like
a bow, comes with others, they paaa
and we follow, until they separate to
hunt Then you wtU take the others,
while I follow him alone—for be la
mine. Wagosb. the fox, will know
what to do." -
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heard his story.
Bat this morning the watchers of
the trail bad not long to wait As
the lifting sun filtered through the
forest, stabbing the blue shadows with
lances of tight Wagosb suddenly
stopped the whispered conversation
with:
"Blsanl shish I" .
Crouched in a thicket of young fir,
their guns stripped of their skin cases,
the three stiffened, listening. Pres
ently to their straining ears drifted
the faint click of snowshoes. Push
ing aside some low branches the OJib
way peered down the trail In the di
rection of the sound. After a space
of breathless waiting, his companions
saw bis arm tremble. Then, shivering
like a man chilled to the bone, the
old Indian turned a face fierce with
passion, and whispered ;
"Let them pass. He has come!"
Swinging rapidly up the trail
moved the stocky figure of Black
Baptiste followed by an Indian whose
eyes shifted furtively to right and
left as he walked. When the two bad
passed from sight, three shapes, leav
ing the troll, followed tike shadows,
on muffled shoes. Two mites beyond,
where tbe fresh tracks of a moose
crossed tbe path in the snow, and the
banters from Ogoke separated, Wa
gosh left his friends, to pick np the
webbed imprints of the larger shoes
of his man.
Then two still bunts started
through the soundless forest—the
•talk of moose, and of man. Over
tbe new snow, as swift and as noise
less ss a wolf after ptarmigan, the
banter of Black Baptiste closed in.
Evidently In doubt of tbe direction of
the movement of the air, the French
man stopped to test it with bis bare
hand. Then be went on, until the
sudden lengthening of tbe stride In
the snow Indicated that tbe mooee
had scented danger and started to
travel.
With a cone tha banter lifted both
shoulders In a gesture of defeat The
shifting air had betrayed him. He
turned from the trail he bad fol
lowed and struck out in a new direc
tion. Shortly, as ha stopped and
knelt on a' knee to tighten tbe thongs
of e shoe, a voice straightened him
to his feet with a Jerk, nervously fing
ering tbe trigger at bis goo. His
shifting eyes searched the inscrutable
spruce that walled him to. Trapped,
helpless, he flinched from tbe expect
ed flash of the hidden rifle.
"Drop the gun!"
Tbe fingers of tbe Frenchman re
laxed. The gun slipped to the snow
at Us feet
"Marche!" The command snapped
•n the frosty sir like a whiplash.
Slowly the henchman of Lafiamme
ebeyed the order of hla concealed ene
my. Then a crouching figure, with
half-raised rifle, stole from a clump
ef young growth and followed.
A hundred feet fron the gun. Bap
ttote, shaking with four and rage,
his captor.
"What do you want!" be demanded to
OJibway.
Tbe Mack eyes of Wagoah biased
«ritrh «taUaftmtt.
tos hood waa pttttew. At laat he
"You
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the tether of toe ffhf at
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(CopjrHsht hr tS* Fna Pa Mithin* Ca.)
<w. N. O. Sana.)
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The dased Frenchman, stopped
short In his nub. rocked on his feet—
then stumbled forward, grasping bis
knife. As be hurled himself, with s
downward slash, ou the heap in the
snow, he met an upward throat
which buried the blade of W ago ah in
bis body.
Then on tbe white floor of tbe for
est, a man blinded by flame and pow
der, and one mortally hurt struck and
slashed until strength left their arms
and they lay together, hunter and
bunted, motionless, on the crimsoned
There Steele and Michel found
them.
"Knife fight!" cried the Iroquois.
"What happen to Wagosb gun ?" He
picked up tbe cheap trade-gun with
Its bnrst breech. "Ah-bah ! He get
mow een de muxsle an' she bust w en
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^o° ba<5 > P°° r old man ! He could
have shot Baptiste at the ambush, but
Ae wanted to settle It alone—tell hlm
who he was, I suppose."
"Yea, be mak' dis feller drop heea
gun—den he stop heem for to talk."
sald Michel, examining the trail of
Baptlste. "Wen Wagosb shoot an' de
gun tost, de Frenchman Jump on
heem wid de knife."
Michel gently turned over tbe
frosen body of the old Indian, expos
beyond recognition,
when It could be buried,
The Dozed Frenchman Stopped Short
tog the face, powder-burned and torn,
"By gar ! He fight heem wldout
hees eyes!
'Brave old Wagosb !" Steele looked,
and turned away, sick at heart He
had liked the simple-hearted OJibway.
"I tell yon dat eet was all right
Old Wagosb watch de trail.?
'Tea, the trail was safe with Wa
*° 8h - he Ca ° , re ** P€#ce - He
d!d wbat be came to do.
"I wish heem moch game een de
H A PP /t? nn ^ S^ UD '£i ® dd t d . iIlchel
And the two returned to their camp
and sent a sled to bring in the body
to be cached under logs until spring,
Bobbed of the Joy and solace of
b * r A n rto " a: to ° to
< ? > * ," t .,° n *_Ü rePin *
with h«- father, her bead r ** t, "« oa
the back of her chalr her eyes closed,
For a half hour the factor bad brood
ed over his future, oblivious of her
preeence. Then, suddenly aware of
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her silence, be glanced curiously at
the girl's averted face.
From tbe closed eyes teen traced
their way down her cheeks while the
sensitive mouth quivered with tbo
misery of her thoughts.
"Denise I Ton poor child !"
"Ton moat not mind foolish tears,"
she said. "I miss my violin so."
He shook his head at the subter-1
fuge, then voiced the course of hla
thoughts "If only they win at Ogoke
and rid the country of that scoundrel,
this will be a strong post. Be will
not dare to dose It—I will defy him
to. Steele has told them to Montreal."
"Tea, but wbat of me!"* she
groaned. "I have given him my prom
The face of 8t. Onge flushed with
passion. "The day yoa married that
man I would shoot him aad then my
self"
She went to the factor and sitting
on the arm of hla chair, stroked tala
bowed head. "No, no; not that, not
that, dear" she eootbed. "I am not
worth it."
He suddenly straightened, and
naked; "You will show me that lot
ter!"
"Tea, If you wish It" Denise took
an envelop« from her desk and hand
ed it to her father, who opened the
"MadetaoieeUe St. Oagef
-You may be interested to know
honored us with his presen ce
hie
way bran# to Napigoa la October, Aa
he was drowsed ha toe Jackfiath rap
ids, I am at liberty to soy that i found
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Rising, the factor faced the girt,
the hand holding the letter shaking
from his emotion.
"And y on believed this woman—
took her word against hla!"
"Why not T He admitted that La
Hamme surprised them." she answered
la a strained voice, avoiding her fa
"Wliat does It matter
ther's eyes,
now? I have glvc^my word." -—t;--
"Will you tell me thisr be de
manded. "Ton loved this man when
he left for home In September! 1
know, for you were happy."
Her black eyes met his bravely.
"When he left here I believed in a
beautiful thing—hut that, somehow,
has died."
"If It died." be answered, "why,
when you thought him dead, did you
cry night after night—1 heard you in
your room; 1 knew from your playing
—why was the shock—the Joy, so
great when be returned to fight for
She dM not anawer
-*j t>elleve you love him still. In
gpi te of wha * yon 8 ay. He bas loved I
you from the first ; I could see it He I
jj gacriflclng much for ua—proving
j,ia ( ove f 0r you every day, and yet
yoa «now this lie of a low woman to
poison your mind."
with a gesture of hopelessness, she .
tù teave t he room, avoiding bis
eyes.
«i do not know If they can save tbe
post," said St. Onge. "I may have to
leave the company—e ruined man
Bnt j tell you thl8j that the woman
who throws sway the love of Mon- |
sieor Steele will live to be haunted by j
regret «
She turned a white face at the door.
oar
as she said: "You forget that I have,
given Monsieur La see 11 es my promise."
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It was a "poudre day" at Ogoke.
In the gray dawn a tall figure had
left tbe scrub of the shore, mile« be
low and out of sight of the post, to
examine the trail on tbe lake Ice,
which led south to tbe Rouge and the
Jackflsh. Michel bad smiled with
satisfaction to find that a sled bad
passed since tbe fall of snow two
nights before. The mystery which
ringed the doomed post, as the forest
rings a clearing, was doing its work.
Unnerved by the fate of those win
had gone downriver and into the hunt*
ing country, never to return, the peo
ple were slipping away from Ogoke
to the night as from a spot plague
ridden. The day of Lafiamme was
nearing Us sunset. There could be
few left, now, to drink bis whisky. Hq
was finished. The moment for walk
ing to on the trader and Big Antoine
was at band.
A* he backtracked to the camp- the
bold features of, the Iroquois, in his
fur hood, lit with Joy as he gloated
| over the victory they had won—won
with tbe toll and sweat of two months'
ceaseless effort He smacked his lips
j at the thought of meeting Lafiamme—
the man who bad murdered in cold
| blood—planned the ruin of Walling
j ft would be a sweet moment, that,
when he looked Into tbe faces of the
pa l r of cutthroats, Lafiamme and Big
| Antoine.
j He swung along over his backtracks,
bis snowshoes raising the powdery
* snow llke «grossed In plans for
the future. As he entered some flm
ber, thick with young growth, a rifle
flll8hed on h,a flankI The man ,n th< '
trail took a step forward—swayed, a»
his gun slipped from his hsnds-then
j longed headlong to tbe snow and lay
motionless.
For a space. In the windless mom
mg. the forest was without sound
Then a chickadee called, and curious,
" ,,ed down t0 ln8pect the 81111 8h8 P < '
to tbe trail. Presently a mooae-blrd
croaked Again alienee shut in.
After an Interval there was a
movement in the thicket of young
spruce. Branches were parted, to (
River—who bad dared insuit Denise.
j make way for a swart face from
| stricken thing in the snow,
j cocked, the assassin cautiously left
his ambush. Standing over tbe still
body, face down, with a knee curious
which sinister eyes gloated on the
Gun thrust forward.
hammer
| l y bent under, be laughed to triumph,
his snowsboe at the back of the hood
ed head. But at the movement, the
lifted Toot In its «nowshoe was gripped
and held, while the head and shoul
dors of tbe man at hla feet lunged
into his legs, carrying him with
| cry of surprise backward to tbe snow.
as he kicked viciously with the toe of
Hampered by the shoes whlcti
trapped and anchored their feet, the
two fought; one. desperately for his
life; the other, for the settlement of
old score*—and this shot from tbe
spruce. Rot the strength and fury of
the raw-boned Iroquois soon wore
down the man beneath him who fran
tlcaliy strained and twisted to break
the pip on bis throat
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Mythical Grach Haro
in Greek mythology Adonis was a
beautiful young boy, beloved by Tenus
and Proserpine. They quarreled about
hts possession, but too dispute was
settled by Jupiter, who decreed that
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months with Venue In tbe upper world
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*° ume t0 *» ual * regenerative set.
using a greater number of tubes The
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set, employing regeneration and radio
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ratm waa necessary that two
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devise some more'powerful means of
propagating the waves, and, second,
a better detecting device than tbe
«Impie wire loop and spark gap that
he had used bad to be worked out.
Marconi solved both of thnsn nroh
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Make Sharper Tuning Set.
" Toroidal colls make this combina
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transformers is confined In the colls.
The toroid colls also prevent the pick
up of local stations by the coils them
selves and make a much sharper tun
ing set. The new All-American
shielded straight line frequency con
densers are recommended to prevent
crowding of tbe stations on the lower
waves
Only one stage of audio frequency
Is provided, and if this be constructed
with one of the laboratory model
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By QEORQE LEWIS
•f Tbe Creator Radio Corporation.
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Very early in Ms experiments. Mar
cool mode the discovery that if one
electrical terminal of the transmitting
or recel ring apparatus were connect
ed to Urn earth and tbe other end con
nested to a metal plate or wire ana
pended Ugh to the air, the range over
which transmission and reception
could be accomplished would be multi
plied many times. Marconi's earth
connection Is known today aa tbe
'■ground," and bis suspended wire or
piste la wbat we know aa on "aerial"
or "antenna "
in the tinv of detecting device h
Improved ap instrument first thought
of by Braoty, and known as the
"coherer," This instrument is a re
lay, enabling toe feeble vibrating elec
put carrant set op In the receiving
rire«» by the radio waves to release
carrant team a leca) battery.
Of those improvements
Bf
lyrlc transformers, reproduction of
music and speech will be as clear and
undtstorted as on a one tube set.
The regenerative feature is con
trolled by a small variable condenser
of approximately .00015 mfd. that per
mits the tubes to be brought gradual
ly up to the point of oscillation, or
"hot spot," where reception is best
The Parts Needed.
Few parts are needed, and the set
can be assembled with a T by 18 or
21-Inch panel and cabinet, without
Two controls, an Ideal
crowding.
system of tuning a radio set. are
used. To construct the receiver you
will need tbe following Hat of pa rts:
One toroid coupler, type Tl (H).
One toroid coll, type T2 (L2).
One universal coupler, type R 140
<1-3).
Two straight line frequency con
densers, type CS5 (Cl and 2).
One variable condenser, approxi
mately .00015 mfd. capacity (C8).
One audio transformer, type R12
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One large fixed condenser, OJJ to
1.0 mfd.
Three sockets.
One grid leak.
One .00025 mfd. grid con (Jen»er.
One 0 ohm rheostat
Binding posta, wire, screws, ate.
The UV109 or C2O0 type of tubes
may be used If the rheostat it 10 to 15
ohms. One rheostat controls the three
tubes and it Is not advantageous to
provide a separate rheostat for each
tube, The 45-volt "B" battery binding
poet is for tbe detector tube, which
should not be of the regular UV200
or CSOO type, unless tha voltage Is
lowered to 22^ volts
Marconi was able to conduct many suc
cessful .demonstrations of practical
wireless telegraphy to England. In
1808, permanent stations wem es tab
llshed for communication between
Alum bay and Bournemouth, England
a distance of 14H miles. A year later
communication waa maintained be
tween England and France.
Farmer* Great Users of
Radio, Report Disclose«
Radio for farm use could receive no
better recommendation than the sta
tistics found In the annual report oi
Secretary of Agriculture Jardine. H«
teile that a survey made by county
agents In 1928 Indicated that then
were about 140,000 radio sets on term
throughout the country. In 1924 ths
estimated number of seta Jumped to
866,000 sod In 1925 to 558,000.
Radio sets per county increased
from 61 to 1923 to 204 to 1925, an In
crease of.800 par cant Wbat mon
evidence could on# wish to prove that
farm folks appreciate tbe broadcast
tog service now available! Twenty
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: FOR THE NOTE BOOK
Put a fresh grid leak to the set
about once s year.
The best solder Is made of equal
parts of tin and lead.
Fading la much less troublesome
in daylight than at night.
Hydrometers are not used with
nickel-iron storage batteries.
The ground is one of the most im
portant portions of the radio circuit
Crystal detectors operate as long
as the detector is to good condition.
Excessive resin from solder can be
removed with alcohol and a soft doth.
Howling of a set may be due to
filament too high, over-regeneration,
improper wiring, or instruments
crowded.
A condenser connected to series
with an aerial win redoes the wave
length of tbe aerial. One connected
In parallel will raise the were length.
A loud speaker is sa délicats ss
the human ear.
Antenna Insulator* should be
cleaned every six months. *
Use a "C" battery to reduce the
"B" battery coosampttoo.
Static noises are worm In a ad J
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