The Lamar register., 1921-10-26

we're blown south, an we git into ice
an trouble. The Aleut dies, an I
lose my ship. But was close enough
10 get the reckonin' Of that island.
FINALLY land at Seattle. broke.
meet up with the man they call Hard
luck Simms. Also they called him
Hopest Smms those days. / like him.
an l finally tell him about my island.
put up the reckonin', an he supplies
the Karluk. grub, an crew.
"Simms luck is still ag'in' him. The
Karluk gifts into Ice. gifts nippcd an
carried north. 'way north, with wind
an current, frozen tight in Hoe. 1t
looks like we've got to winter there.
sflnd ye. I've given Honest Simms the
reckonin' of the island. We go out
un the ice after bear an we kill
Kadiak bear Me-Ill never stand for
the shootin' of another bear If | can
stop 1t.
I've bin havin' trouble with my
eyes right along. I'm on the foe not
eighty yards from Siinms. No. not
sixty! 1t was me killed the bear, an
we're goin' back to the schooner for
brute. All of sudden, like 1t always
nits you, snow-blindness gifts me, an l
shouts to Honest Slmms.
"Along comes Point Arrow blister.
That's II gale that breeds an bursts
of second out OF nowhere. II gath
ers up all the loose snow an lee crys-
tails an drives 'em in whirlwind.
You lose yore direction even when you
got eyes. I'm left In 1t by that bilge-
blooded skunk. blind on the rockin'.
breakin' foe. while he scuds back TO
the schooner with his men. That's
Honest Simmsl Jim Lunds left be-
mind but Honest Slmms has the posi-
tion of the island"
II didn't hear you call out you were
blind. Lund. The wind blew your
words away. l didn't know but what
you were as right as the rest OF us.
We found the schooner by sheer luck
before We perished. We looked for
you-but the foe was broken up. We
looked"
"Shut up!" beloved Lund You
sailed inside of twentyfour hours,
Honest Simms. The natives told me
80 later. when could understand talk
ag'in. Dye know what saved me7 The
beari stumbled over the carcass
when / was nigh spent. I ripped IL up
and clawed some OF the warm CUTS,
an climbed inside the bloody body an
stayed there till 1t got cold an
ciamped down over me. waitin' for
you to come an git me. Honest
Simmsi
THAT bear was bed and board to
me until the natives found It, an me
In 1t. more dead than alive. Never
mind the rest. get here the day be-
fore you start back for more gold.
AN I'm goin' with you. But first
I'm goin' to have full an fair ac-
countin'' o. what you got already. I've
got this young chap with me. an he'll
give me hand to'ard a square deal"
Lund propelled Rainey forward q
few steps and then loosened his grip.
The captain OF the Karluk appealed to
him directly.
"Mr. Lund Is unstrung." said the
captain. He Is under the delusion
that we deliberately deserted him and,
later. found the gold he speaks Of.
The first charge is nonsense. We did
all that was possible In the friphtsI
weather. We barely saved the ship.
"As for the gold. We touched on the
island, and we did some prospecting.
Il very little, before we were driven
uGslore. The dust In the poke Is all
we secured. We are going back for
more. quite naturally. l can prove all
this to you by the log"
Lund had been standing with his
great head thrust forward as II con.
centrating all his remaining senses In
an attempt to judge the captains talk.
The doctor sat with one leg crossed.
smoking cigarette, his expression
sardonic, sphinxlike. To Rainey, u
little bewildered at being dragged into
the affair, and annoyed ut 1t. Captain
Simms' words rang true enough. He
did not know what to say, whether to
speak at all. Lund supplied the gap.
IF that amt the truth. you lie well,
Simus," he said. But ! don't trust
ye You lie when you say you didn't
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