The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1902-11-20

island, and the Injun were just nat
uraIly waiting for the girl 20 play her
own hand.
What hurt her most was the fact
that her child, which was born while
Cameron were East, was a man-child.
If there is any one thing a Kloochman
will lay down her life for it is to pre-
sent her lord and master with a man
child
Now. just see how those that amt
to blame always suffer for some one
else's deyiltry. Here was the white
woman just out from the East with
her trained mind all ready to enjoy the
beauties of the new life on the Sound,
and proud to tackle this building Of
home for her husband in a new coun-
try. She accepted Cameron and what
he said as gospel truth, and went about
her tasks picturing his former house
keeper as the oldest and most bent
leather-fa among the teepees. She
became very happy in her new life and
worked hard to make things pleasant
for Cameron, who worked at his ranch
in as hard as he worked at his chemin
All this time the Injun girl was bot
tin up steam.
''One day a white baby lay on a pill
low in the cabin. 1t seemed to the
white woman that no part of the world
could possibly he more beautiful than
this island of Puget sound, where she
and her husband and her baby boy
made up little world of their own.
Before the boy was a year old. Cam
eron went to Seattle with a raft of
80 At1a will
While he was gone the Kloochman saw
her chance to get a look into the little
kingdom that had been closed to her.
She took her own plump youngster and
went to Cameron's cabin, where Mrs.
Cameron and the little white boy were
alone. Neither woman had ever seen
the other, but the Injun mother smiled
and the white mother smiled and they
opened up a<baby show that was hot
number. 1t wasn't minute before the
| two were getting along fine, though
they didn't have two dozen words on
which to conduct the whole convention.
THE Kloochman seemed to be great
ly attracted by the little white Aid and
| finally she placed her own sun-burned
youngster beside the little lad on the
pillow and looked intently from one to
the other. Suddenly she put out her
hand and laid it on the white papoose's
head.
White Papoose-Hyas Skookum,"
| she said. That was the best talk in
| her lingo, and she meant 1t. Then she
laid her hand on her own babys head
and said: 'Siwash Papoose Half-White
Papoose. Tilacum."
Then the Kloochman began to cry.
| She picked up her youngster and went
out. In front of the cabin she turned
and poured volley Of Chinook at 1t,
| her face livid and her fists poundin' the
air. Mrs. Cameron quickly bolted. the
door, for things looked bit panicky,
but the Kloocuman went away with
out doing any harm.
when Cameron came home he was
obliged to invent some pretty good
statistics to prove the public safety.
He assured Mrs. Cameron that the In
| jun was only angry at the whites in
general and not at her in particular
He spun a pipe dream about how the
Injun girls were often bought by white
| settlers and then sent back to their viii
lagos, and how indignant he was about
| it. All this seemed very cruel to the
white woman, and she determined to
send some token to the Kloochman to
show her friendship. She made some
kind of ornament with her needle and
thread, al title necklace of beads for the
youngster and lace scarf for the
mother, and sent them to the village.
But there she cast broad upon the wa
ter which came back to her thousand
fold.
! TT was not long before the Klooch-
man came again, but she timed her Wis
| it when Cameron was away. She
watched him from the trees, and when
he would go she would appear before
the cabin to smile at he white woman
and look at the white baby In its bask-
ct. But with the winter rains she quit
comm. They didn't see her again till
one day when the cabin was thrown
open to the warm, drying sun of June.
The white mother had been down to
the beach to meet her husband When
thew reached the house the white kid
was gone.
"Of course there was stampede.
Cameron ran down another path to the
beach, and the white woman ran about
the cabin CALM the Kloochman's name
-'Angeline.' But there was no trace
of the child nor of the woman. Cam
eron took his rife and started off on
the trail which led to the Siwash vii
lage. He told his wife to watch the
cabin. But Cameron had been gone
only a minute when she heard a cry
out on the water, and, running to the
| edge of the hill, she saw the Klooch-
man in a canoe padding around the
point of the island toward the cabin.
And in the canoe, lying side by side,
were two little forms, one wrapped in
a papoose's blanket, the other wearing
the dress of the lost white boy The
white woman ran to the cabin, grabbed
gun and fired into the air. AT the
sound Of the shots she saw the Klooch-
man stop padding and take up the
white baby. The white mother under
stood the motion; If fired on, the
Kloochman would be hit only through
the child's body.
Cameron came running back, and
at the sight of the canoe, called to the
Kloochman. His wife begged him not
to fire, calling him to see how the Injun
held the child. Cameron cussed to beat
blazes, for the Kloochman had him in
hot corner. He ran down to his
canoe and padded toward her.
1.-THE white woman was standing or