Arizona republican., 1907-11-11
Where Northern Lights
 Come Down O.. Nights

I the padlocked door till it rattled stiff ly. Then spying the cross overhead he
 lifted up and gripped the wood. It came away ripping. and with walls of
 rage and horror at the sacrilege, they
 closed about him.
 Here, Cap, Bust her in, quick" He dragged Captain before the en-
 trance. thrusting the weapon upon him. then ran ferociously among the people, He snatched them to him. cuffing like
 bear and traHpling them into the snow Those who came into the reach
 of his knotty arms crumpled up and l twisted under his feet. He whirled into ! the group, roaring hoarsely, his angry.
 gree se- -blackened face hideous with
 rage. The aborigine is not q fighting
 machine: for him the side-step and counter have no being. They melted l ahead Of his blazing wrath, and he whisked them. fleeing, by their gar
 ments. so that they felt the stamp of
 his moccasined heels.
 Captain dragged the team within. and George following. blocked the shattered door.
 We're safe as long as we stay in
 the church. said he.
 Right of sanctuary. eh? Does it occur to you how we're going to get out?"
 Never mind, we'll get out somehow" said he. And that night. as Charlie Captain. late university man and en- gineer lay with eyes swathed in steam ing cloths. the whaler spoke operously and with the bitterness of great wrong.
 Tt happened when we rocked the bars of Forty Mile. before ever Chac-
 hako had crossed the Chilcoot. I went i over to the headwaters of the Panama. Into the big valley went and got lost in the Flats. Iris a wild country, rim med by high mountains. full of neigh
 borhoods and tundra with the river Windin' clean back to the source of the Copper I run out of grub. We always did them days. and built a raft to float down to the Yukon. A race with star vation. and a dead hat 1t near proved too, though I had a shade the best of 1t. I drifted out into the main river.
 ravin' mad. my 'Mukluks' eat off and my moose-hide gun cover inside of me
 "A girl spied me from the village, and twas her that brought me ashore in her birch bark and tended me in her wickiup till reason came and the blood ran through me again.
 T mind seein' a white man standin' around at times and hearin' him beg her to leave me to the old squaws.
 She didn't though. She give me bits
 Of moose meat and berries and dried
 salmon, and when I come to one day
 saw she was little and brown and
 pleadin' and her clothes all covered
 with beads. Her eyes was big and sad. ! Cap. and dimples pOked into her cheeks when she laughed.
 Twas then that Orloff takes a hand the white man. A priest he called ! himself; breed, Russian. Maybe he was. but a blacker hearted thief never wronged a child. He wanted the girl, Metla and so did l. When I asked her ! old man for her he said she was prom ' ised to the Russian. I laughed al him | and a chief hates to be mocked- You | know what sway the church has over these Indians. Well, Orloff Is a strong man He held 'em like a rock. Ht
 worked on 'em till one day the tribe
 men came to me in body and said i'Go
 "'Give me the girl and I will says I
 "Orloff sneered. She was mine fol
 a month before you came says he witf
 the fiend showin' back of his eyes Do ye want her now?'