The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1916-03-02

| be my wife,"
still holding his hand her body began
to incline away from bis and toward
the direction Of the cache. Nor would
he resist. 1t was as If he were drawn
by her heart itself that so nearly lay
| in the hollow Of his hand.
So firm was tha crust that they slid
| along rapidly on their skis.
lust here, in the trees. Is the cache
Labiskwee told Smoke
The next moment she caught his arm
with startle Of surprise The flames
of a small fire were dancing merrily,
and crouched by the fire was McCan.
Il was minded you'd run without
me-" McCan explained when they came
up. his small peering eyes glinmering
with cunning. so l kept an eye Oil
the girl, an when seen her cachin'
skis an grub | was on. I've brought
my own skis an webs an grub Will
we be startin' nowT'
Labiskwee looked swift consterna.
tfon at Smoke, us swiftly achieved q
judgment on the matter and spoke.
"MeCan. you are dogr' she hissed
and her eyes were savage with anger
Il know it is in your heart to raise the
camp if We don't take you. Very Well
We must take you. But you know my
father. am like my father. You will
do your share OF the work. You will
obey. And If you play one dirty trick
1t would be better for you If you had
never rum
Daylight found them In the belt of
foothills that lay between the rolling
country and the mountains McCan
suggested breakfast. but they held on.
Labiskwee explained to Smoke her
knowledge of the country and the way
she planned to baftie pursuit. There
were but two ways out. one west, the
other south. Snass would Immediately
dispatch parties of young men to guard
the two trails. But there was another
way south True. it did no more than
penetrate halfway into the high noun,
tains: then. twisting to the west and
crossing three divides. it joined the
regular trail When the young men
found no traces on the regular trail
they would turn back in the belief that
the escape had been made by the west
traverse. never dreaming that the run
aways had ventured the harder and
longer way around.
Gancing back at McCan, in the rear.
I.abiskwee spoke in an undertone to
Smoke "He is eating" she said. at
is not good" ...-.
Smoke looked. The man was secret
" munching caribou suet from the
poeketfui be carried
no eating between meals" he com
manded. There's no game in the
country ahead, and the grub will have
to be whacked in equal rations from
the start. The only way you can travel
with us is by playing fair"
BY | O'Clock the crust bad thawed
SO that the skis broke through. and
before O'Clock the web shoes We're
breaking through Camp was made
and the first meal eaten. Smoke took
stock of the food McCan's supply
was disappointment. So many silver
fox skins had he stuffed into the bot
tom of the meat bag that there was lit
tie space left for meat.
Enough food for a month, with care
ful outstanding and appetites that new
er hlunted their edge. was Smokes
and Labiskwee's Judgment. Smoke ap
portioned the weight ands bulk OF the
packs. yielding in the end to Labisk
wees insistence that she, too. should
carry a pack.
Next day the stream Swallowed out in
wide mountain valley, and they were
already breaking through the crust on
the fats when they gained the harder
surface of the slope Of the divide.
Ten minutes later. and We wouldn't