Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1914-07-04

notion of where you're wanted. He's
most likely to send you back there"
Mashkaugan remained silent,
though his eyes flashed in anger.
He was remembering night, four
years before, when he had managed
to escape from a place in which he
was detained for some questionable
practise among indians with forbid
den liquor.
He saw again the iron-barred,
narrow windows and the walls out
side where men were posted with
loaded guns.
With incredible patience and won
derful cunning he had made plans
and carried them out with sudden
tr, mendous energy, In the display OF
which he had half killed guar
He saw himself, most wildly, as
he swan, clad in teJl-tae clothing
in the middle of the great river on
which boatmen with flaming torches
were hunting for him.
Then, as he was strangling for
breath and beginning to drift down
helplessly, his head had bumped
against a log, and he had clutched it
and driven his nails into it, tearing
them to the quick-and a man had
pulled him out and laid him on the
raft, while his breath came with a
gurgling sound.
And the raft had gone on, towed
py a putting tug, and the man had
concealed HIM while boats boarded it
and other men searched.
At this very minute that man was
4 l. L.
Soon afterward they had parted,
and two years later, in far-otf
place, as he looked for employment
in a brigade, the two had recognized
each other.
CurraA hau scratched his head
when the man stood before him. The
uncertainty had lasted but mo-
ment, and Mashkaugan found him
self engaged.
"You keep your mouth shut and
I'll do the same," Curran had whis-
pered. He had just then obtained
the appointment at Tshemuak Post,
and they had travelled up there to-
gether. After short time the
hunchback discovered that he was
paying for his rescue, for every word
and beck and call had to be obeyed
under penalty of hint of that aw-
full prison.
Mashkaugan was glad enough to
comply. At this very moment he
knew that among the boxes they
were carrying were some in which
pure alcohol was hidden, which could
be sold at a hundredfold its value in
priceless skins.
On the down trip several of these,
of which the company would never
hear, had ben concealed in Curran's
pack.
"Lorimer is altogether too fnicky
20 suit me-" Curran said Hes
badly in the way sometimes, and is
liable to get both of us in trouble.
If the two of US could have the run
of that country we'd make a nice
little stake in time, and go back to a
white mans country to live like gen
tlemen."
81 can never go back to big
places" objected Mashkaugan SOM
"You think they'd be still glad to
see your ugly mug, do you? You
don't have to go back to those places.
There are plenty left where no ones
known. They supposed you'd been
drowned, anyway. A fellow can take
up bit of land somewhere and grow
things and live comfortably, if he'll
lie low and not give himself away"
In the middle of nights when they
could hardly sleep because OF the
winged pests; during periods of rest
on hard portages, when loads had to
be put down for time in order to
relieve back-breaking strains; on
rarer occasions in the evening when
they strolled away from the camp 10
catch a mess of fish to relieve the
sameness of the fare, they always
returned to their talk about Lori
mer, until Mashkaugan. credulous
and exceedingly superstitious man,
began to consider the assistant agent
as a bitter enemy lying in wait for
him.
The streams were getting deeper
now. The fiat barrens again became
dotted with clumps of trees, while
the rivers grew swifte- and the
banks more rocky.
Then came low hills again and
then higher ones, and forest trees
that grew thickly. They passed
through many lakes where, if the
WIFI was not dHedu, IL was plCaooiiI
t. paddle for long pells without
having to watch 6or hidden rocks.
In these lakes the trolling spoons
took great fish-forked-t;.i trout of
deep waters, great northern pike,
and golden-scaled pike-perch, whose
light, white flakes fried in pork-fat
made worthy addition to the meals.
Tiny broods of ducklings were be-
ginning to appear. Those nearly
grown up tapped away from the
boats in terror. The younger ones
dived among reeds and hid them
selves while their mothers flew off in
another direction, slowly ,helplessly.
as if sorely wounded, only to rise in
the air farther on, when certain that
they had turned pursuit away from
the brood.
Finally, thirtyone days after the
start, which was fair going consid-
ering the huge bulk of the loads, the
brigade stopped on the right bank Of
the Tshemuak. or Big Loon River.
The men hurried ashore, pulling
dunnage bags after them. They put
on bright neckerchiefs and scarfs,
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