Arizona republican., 1907-11-11

, flakes that graved the view. plotting even the neighboring huts, and when the early evening brought rising note in the storm the trouble lifted from his face.
 "A three-day blizzard he rejoiced. ! 'and the strongest team on the coast can't wallow through 1t under week. | These onshore gales is beauts." | For three days the wind tore from off the sea into the open blight at whose head lay Togiak. and it's vio- fence wrecked the armor of shore, Ice in the bay till 1t beat and roared against the spit, a threshing maelstorm of shattered bergs. The waters piled into the inlet, driven by the lash of | the storm, till thev overflowed the river ice behind the village submerging and breaking it into ragged. dangerous confusion.
 l On the third day, with Arctic vagary, the wind gasped reluctantly and scur- | ried over the range. In its wake the surging ocean churned loudly and the 1. back water behind the town. held by | the dam of freezing slush ice at the river mouth, was skinned by thin ice paper pierced here and there by the up-ended piles from beneath. This held the nights snow. so that mOrn- ing showed the village girt on three sides by a stream soft -carpeted and safe to the eye. but failing beneath the feet os a child.
 Your eyes are comin along mighty slow" worried George. I'm hopin' his reverence is up to his gills in drifts | a n1ttSt leave him slef trail for a souvenir"
 | How can we, with the place guard ed?"
 Hitch the dogs and run for it by night He'll burn us out when he comes. Fine targets we'd make on the snow by the light of a burning shack. If ye can see to shoot we'll go tonight Hello, What's that?"
 Outside came the howl of malamoets and the cry of men. Leaping to the window. George rubbed it free and stared into the sunshine.
 "Too late! Too late." he said. Here he comes, It's time I Killed him" He spoke gratingly, with the dull anger of years.
 On the bright surface of the opposite hillside a sled bearing a muffled figure appeared silhoutted against the glis- ten of the crust. Its team, maddened by the village scent. poured down the incline toward the river bank and the guide swung onto the runners behind while the voice of the people rose to their priest. In a whirl of soft snow they drove down onto the treachery of cAe ice. The screams of the natives frenzied the pack and they rioted out onto the bending sheet, while the long l sledge borne by its momentum shot forward till the splitting cry of the ice sounded over the lamentations. It slackened. sagged and disappeared in a surge of congealing waters. The wheel dogs were dragged into the opening and their mates ahead jerked backward onto them. In fighting tangle all settled into the swirl.
 Orloff leaped from the sinking sled. but hindered by his fur swaddling crashed through and lunged heavily in his struggles to mount the edge of the l film. As he floundered onto the cav ing surface it let him back and the waters covered him time and again. He pitched oddly about, and for the first time they saw his eyes were bound tightly with bandages, which he strove to loosen.
 My God, Res snow blind," cried George. and in a moment he appeared among the frantic mob ringing the shore.
 The guide broke his way toward hummuck of old ice forming an islet near by. and the priest half swan. half scrambled behind, till they crawled out iiDOn this solid footing Here the win try wind searched them and their drip ping clothes stiffened quickly. Orloff dragged the strips from his face. and as the sun glitter pierced his eyes he writhed as though scared by the naked touch of hot steel.
 He shouted affrightedly in his blind ness. but the mocking voice of Big George answered him and he covered at the malevolence in the words.