San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-18

"You want to stay here with Sindy
and me, eh?" he commented at last.
well, Sindy might like some help.
I'm willing-but I'll leave it up to
your two friends. They'll have TO
work all the harder to make up for
ESPECIALLY Bess. i was going to
have you two girls work together.
He watched Ned's face with keen
est interest. The younger man
flushed in his earnestness, his ador-
ing gaze on Lenore.
"Fm only too glad to make it
easier for you" he said. his crooked,
boyish smile dim at his lips. THAT'S
the one thing that matters-to help
YOU all I can. In this case, though
ABess is the one to say"
Lenore perceptibiy stiffened as
Ned's gaze turned to Bess. 1t didn't
flatter her that her lover should even
take Bess into his consideration. She
had grown accustomed to receiving
his every duty.
But it came about that Lenore and
her little jealousies did not even find
place in Bess' thought. She re-
turned Ned's gaze, her eyes lustrOus
as if with tears, and she understood
wholly the prayer that was in his
heart.
"Of course. she may stay here"
she said. "We'll make out somehow"
Xxx.
Doomsdorf's trap lines lay in great
circles, coinciding at various points
in order to reduce the number of
cabins needed to work them, andaulti-
matcly swinging back to the home
cabin in the thicket beside the sea.
They were very simple to follow, he
xplained-Bess' line running up the
river to the mouth of great tribu-
tary that flowed from the south. the
camp being known as the Eagle
Creek cabin: thence up the tributary
to its forks, known as the Forks
cabin, up the left-hand forks to its
mother springs. the Spring cabin, and
then straight down the ridge to the
home cabin, four days journey in all.
Doomsdorf drew for her guidance
simple map that would remove all
danger of going astray.
Ned's route was slightly more com
plicated, yet nothing that the veriest
greenhorn could not follow. 1t took
him first to what Doomsdorf called
his Twelve-Mile cabin at the very
head of the little stream on which
the home cabin was built. thence fol-
lowing a well-blazed trail along an
extensive though narrow strip of tim
Der, a favorable country for marten.
to the top of the ridge, around the
glacier, and down OF the hut that
Bess occupied the third night out,
known as the Forks cabin; thence up
the right-hand fork to its mother
spring, the Thirty-Mile cabin; over
the ridge and down to the sea, the
Sea cabin, and thence, trapping. salt
water mink and otter, to the home
cabin, five days journey in all.
As il smiling upon their venture.
nature gave them a clear dawn in
which TO start forth. The squaw and
Bess started up from the river mouth
together, the former in the role OF
teacher; Ned and Doomsdorf followed
up the little, silvery creek that rip
pied past the home cabin. And for
the first time since his landing on
He'll Island Ned had chance really
to look about him. -. ~.
where there's timber, there's mar
ten." Doomsdorf explained. 'Marten.
L suppose you know, are the most
valuable furs we take, outside of sill
yer and blue fox-and one of the cas-
lest taken"
He took one of the traps from
Ned's shoulder and showed him hoy
to make the set. The bait was placed
n few feet above the trap, in this
case, on the trunk of the tree. so
that to reach it, the marten would al
most certainly spring the trap.
They tramped on, and Doomsdort
pointed out where a wolverine had
come down the glade and crossed the
creek. you'll curse at the very name
of wolverine before the seasons DONE
Doomsdorf told him. as Ned paused
to study the imprint. Hes the de-
mon of the snow so far as the trapper
is concerned. Nevertheless, you'll
want to take a skin for your own
use. It's the enc fur for the hood of
a parka-you can wear it over your
mouth in 80 below and it doesn't get
covered with ice from your breath.
! But you'll have to be.a smarter man
than 1 think you are to catch him.