The evening world., 1916-02-18

mighty soon fix UP for the winter
and we'll hear from the Jasper again
before we get out uh this country;
yuh can put that down In your little
book"
Bucks prediction didn't sit very
heavily on my mind Just then. I was
willing to take chances of a future
encounter with the fiat faced rene
gade so long as he had no power at
present to deprive us of creature
comforts.
Howe rolled over with a yawn and
stared about him In utter amazement.
Evidently he had no memory of our
coming TO the Indian camp (Which, OF
course, when i came TO think of Il,
was natural enough. seeing that he d
been delirious all day and was only
semi-consclous when we pulled in at
night, and l leaned over and spoke to
him, hoping that he'd pushed the
mental obsession into the background
and come to his own. But he hadn't.
lie was the same-taciturn. and inte-
gral part Of the wlld--as the night
DICK and i came to his camp fire and
shared his food.
Whether he butted blindly into a
mist of uncertainty when he consid-
cred the past, or whether the person.
aiity that had saddled itself upon him
provided a past of its own--a past to
match his wilderness surroundings
cannot say. IL aught puzzled him, he
gave no sign. Capable, woodwise be-
yond our understanding, he was suf-
fcient unto himself
mo. ! don't feel so bad" he an
swered me. Indian camp. eh?"
Yes; we didn't make Resolution
quite" j returned. Would you like
a bite to eat?"
"Uh-huh," he gruntcd. Then sud
denly: did he get away?"
| nodded, rightly guessing that hs
meant tho Ape; his eyes flashed, but
he said nothing. He had said that
he didn't feel 30 bad; maybe he
wasn't In any great pain: but he was
wocfully wcak-so weak that when
he tried TO sit up no got no farther
than on one elbow. and fell back
again before either Buck or / could
reach him.
And while we bolstered him and
piled robes around him came n Jingle
OF sleigh-bells outside. and Buck. af-
ter Il nasty glance, announced with
satisfaction: Here comes the man
uh medicine"
Doc Morrison, bulky with flrs,
crowded through the oval hole that
embodies an Indians Idea of a door,
ana behind him came Marlborough
"A grim old Scot he was, but as big
or heart as he was scant of speech,
essentially a man OF action.
How de-do, how de- do gentlemen? I?
I'm both glad and sorry 10 see you
upon my soul! I'm afraid the North
hasn't used you very well. Frost
bitten, every last one of you. And
Mr., Howe-shocking, shocking"
Tho Doctors tongue waggled like a
leaf IN the wind while he was getting
out OF his coat. He bridled his volu-
bility however, when he began to ex-
amino Howe, which he insisted on
doing before Howe breakfasted. For
twenty minutes there was no sound In
the lodge but the snick OF scissors as
he clipped away clotted hair and black,
dead flesh from the ragged cuts.
When he'd finished. and Howes
head was enveloped In a turban OF
antiseptic soaked lint. the doctor
closed his instrument case and turned
10 our elderly Indian visitor. | never
learned tho lingo. 80 ! can't tell what
he said, but the old fellow folded his
blanket about him and left the lodge.
An Indian teepe isn't the best
place In the world for man In that
condition." Doc Morrison told us
brlskly, but he isn't in shape to he
moved at present, However, there's
an Indian Glrl here who Will do pass