Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-12-06
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After Hubert Stane, discharged
convict rescues Helen Yardely when
her canoe drifts toward a dangerous
waterfall, the two are forced to flee
on a raft from a forest fire. They
lind a deserted cabin and take pos
session. Stane means to return
Helen to the camp of her uncle, who
is a governor of the Hudson Bay
Company.
Trooper Anderton of the N. w.
M. p. visits the cabin. After he
leaves, an attack is made by Indians
on the cabin, and Miskodeed an
Indian girl, is killed while trying to
shield Stane. Helen is abducted.
Stane, seemingly dead, is revived by
Bernard, a trapper.
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"Oui! m'sieu! We Must her bury;
ma petite Miskodeed."
Il will help you, Jean. And then
you will help me-"
Mon! m'sieu. Help I do not
need. I weel myself do zee last
duty for ma pauvre Miskodeed. You.
m'sieu, shall say zee prayer, for l
hat not zee religion, but"
Call me when you are readyi"
interrupted StanN and turned away,
finding the situation intolerably
poignant.
He went to the hut, and busted
himself with the meal which the
trapper had been preparing, and
presently Jean Bernard called him.
The man had swathed the dead
girl in a blanket and had bent the
tops of a couple of small spruce,
growing close together, almost to
the ground, holding them in posE-
ton with a sled thong. To the trees
he had dashed the corpse, and he
was standing by with a knife in his
hand.
Zee ground" he said in a steady
voice, lees too frozen to dig. We
bury Miskodeed in zee air; an when
zee spring winds blow an the ground
grow soft again, I dig a grave. Now
eef m'sieu ees ready we will hat zee
words Of religion"
Stane. almost choked at the poig-
nant irony of the thing then shaped
his lips to the great words that
would have been strange If not I'M
meaning to the dead girl.
II am the resurrection and the
life. He that believeth in Me though
he were dead yet shall he live. -.
For the comfort of the man, who
7 stood by knife in hand. he reclted
every word that he could remember
and when he reached the words,
I'VE therefore commit her body 10
the grave" the keen knife severed
the moose-hide thong, and the trees,
released, bent back, carrying the
girls body to it's windy sepulchreI
amid a shower of snow that scatter
ed from the neighboring trees. Stant
pronounced the benediction, waited
a few minutes, then again he put
hand on the others shoulder.
"Benard we have done what WI
can for the dead; now we mus
think of the living"
"Oui m'sleu!"
"You must eat! 1 have prepared
a meal. And when you have eater
and the dogs are ready we mus
start on the trail Of Miss Yardely.
1--WE weel go to zee encampment
We weel max Chief George tell re
truth"
An hour afterwards they started
following the trail up the lake lei
nv the fugitives, a broadly marked
trail. which revealed that a sledgi
had been used, for there were tn
marks of the runners both comini
) and going. AS they started tn
trapper pointed this out. ~
In silence they Travelled up Tn
lake, and after a time reached IN
place where the moose-hide tepee
} lifted their shadowy forms agains
the background OF snow n trees
The camp was dark and silent as
place of the dead.
"Do you stay here with zee dogs
; m,sieu. whilst I go drag out Chic
George. Have zee rife ready; an
eef dere is trouble, be prompt a
, zee shootin'. Vous comprenez?'
Stane stood with the | ready
watching Benard's progress acros
the snow. He saw him reach tn
{ chiefs tepee, and throw open tn
moose-hide flap then disappear IN
side. He waited for what seemed
an intolerable time. and once hear'
! rustic from the nearest tepee. am
OWNED that in spite of the stiffness
of the camp, quick eyes were watch
ing the doings OF his companion an'