Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-03-03
SYNOPSIS.
coOyrish, sobbs Merrill Co.


3uAPTFE I.-Ioitering on the San
,cisr1 pater front. John Rainey,
tspape, reporter, Is accosted Dy q Pima
's v.tni in size, who asks Rainey
"a rim TO the sealing schooner kar-
~" Lind man tells Rainey he 10
IA inmate of Captain Stmms OF the
~. a1,i desires to make his visit
sisa lie asks Rainey to lead him
I'd and Rainey does so. In the
a they hud Captain simns tlas sna . ma. thn
nar alllng him Jim Lund. Lund
SIS ST rs OF abandoning him, blind
too -lIe. and denounces him for
h. ,l's his ingratitude. Simms
"a n, irge, but Lund refuses TO
1rG,G lie declares his intention or
.Smpany,-l the Karluk on It's expedi-
nor! Were 1t is going In quesi
rIl' r..! which Lund has discov-
per-. Smms' daughter. is aboard.
afr, I,r father. Garrison, VINO is
rsc.. 'rucs Ra'ney
. Slmms iu.k Is still ag'in' him. The
luk g.tS into Ice, gifts nipped an
he'd north way north, with wind
current, frozen tight In foe. It
q Ike we've got to winter there.
ID We I've given Honest Slmms the
konin' Of the island. We 60 out
the Ice after bear an we kill a
LAX bear. Me-I'll never stand for
shootln' OF another bear II can
L.
I've bin havin' trouble with my
right along. Tn on the foe not
Aty yards from Simms. No, not
vi 1t was me killed the bear, an
e goin' back to the schooner for O
I stayed behind to bleed the
10. All Of a sudden, like 1t always
you, snow-blindness gifts me. an I
uts to Honest Simms.
u Along comes q Point Arrow blister.
IT'S gale that breeds an bursts
second out Of nowhere. 1t gath.
up all the loose snow an ice crys-
an drives 'em In q whirlwind.
lose yore direction even when you
eyes. I'm left In 1t by that bilge-
bded skunk, blind on the rockin',
pkin' foe, while he scuds back to
schooner with his men. That's
best Slmms! Jim Lund's left be-
. but Honest Simms has the posi-
Of the Island"
didn't hear you call out you were
ID, Lund. The wind blew your
do away, l didn't know but what
were az right as the rest Of us.
found the schooner by sheer luck
pre- We perlshed. We looked for
but the foe was broken up. We
Bed"
Shut up!" beloved Lund. You
led inside Of twenty-four hours,
pest Simms. The natives told me
ster, when could understand talk
u. Dye know what saved me? The
ri l stumbled over the carcass
IN ! was nigh spent. I ripped It up
clawed some Of the warm CUTS,
climbed inside the bloody body an
PED there till 1t got cold an
mped down over me. Waitin' for
10 come an git me. Honest
kms!
Ihht bear was bed and board to
until the natives found 1t, an me
II more dead than alive. Never
q the rest. l get here the day be.
you start back for more gold.
an I'm goin' with you. But first
goin' to have a full an fair &C.
nun o what you got already. I've
tn's young chap with me, an he'll
me hand to'ard a square deal. I"
|uno propelled Rainey forward q
steps and then loosened his grip.
s captain OF the Karluk appealed to
directly "
@r' Luhd is unstrung," said the
'aih He Is under the delusion
we deliberately deserted him and,
FOUND the gold he speaks of.
nrst charge is nonsense. We did
.aat was possible in the frightful
.ner' We barely saved the ship.
90 loF the gold, we touched on the
w. sla we did some prospecting.
"! '''', before We were driVei
'o'e' 'ilr dust in tie poke is al
S''"''' We are going back ful
i''" naturally. / can prove alI
10 !'l by the log"
md
.unl hai been standing with his
q heoH thrust forward as If con
trailing all his remaining senses in
"',''Dfi 10 judge the captains talk
w. ''F sat with one leg crossed
A'nA " cigarette, his expression
IVuNe 9h!hxlike. To Ruiney, {
~eM''Gered at being dragged into
o"aF, ana annoyed at 1t, CAPTAIN
s words rang true enough. Ii,
LO' ALow what to say, whether t.
=. a. III, Lund supplied the gap.
= 'nat amt the truth, you lie well
He said. But don't trus
tol lie when you say you didn'
me call out was blind. Sixt,
va ua away, was, an the wind hadn'
'u You deserted me-left m,
w.. 'uCk'c in the bloody, freezln
SSs SSa OF bear. Left me like tn,
=. you are Why, you"
Ae r's'ns frenzy Of Lund's voic,
,SuIeAIy y, ",1,iy broken BY the clear not
't,. voice, One Of two doors II
80 ~-ehd Of the main cabin ha,
tAd she stood In the gar
,s'sllow-hairsd. with gray eye
ea a. they looked on the littl