The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1933-03-10
IT'S too beautiful to be real, Jeem.

here for awhile with me, Aurore of the
sunset cheeks?" he teased.
| with skies like this and Jeem
Stuart to love me. could live at
Mitawangagama forever"
For reply he tilted back her
chin, buried in its fur hood, and kissed
her.
AS Smoke led the galloping team up
the lake shore to the post, the guns
OF group of Indians led by omar
and Esau and Jinaw, the Rattlesnake,
saluted again and again Up through
| the tipis of the hunters which dotted
the clearing jim drove his dogs to the
stockade gate. Swinging the laughing
girl to her feet. they hurried to the
| house where Sarah waited In the door
way.
mia! n'gol Meester Jeem, l glad
to see you'll" The wide face of the
excited Sarah knotted impotently in
her endeavOr to hide her tears.
Sarah" he laughed, patting her
| broad shoulders, "Ive brought back
Mrs. Jim to live with u.s."
With a laugh. Aurore Rugged the
embarrassed OJlbWa.
Sarah and l will always agree.
We both love Jeem Stuart"
They were in the lighted living room.
when jim choked, coughed, then burst
into laughter.
Sarah! What in the-Lookl Look
at Sarah's gibodiegwasonw
With the pride and assurance of the
wearer of a Paris gown, Sarah stood
in baggy Knockers on which she had
lavished so many painful hours, await
ing the approval Of the convulsed Au-
rore and Jim.
SARAH. they're beautifull" cried
Aurore. while the Ojibwa grinned in
delight.
Jim's thoughts went back to his first
meeting with Aurore. To the picture
of dark head beside a submerged
canoe which the seas buried as they
drove past, his memory joined the
dripping figure Of a shivering girl,
standing in Marthe's doorway, dis
missing the adventure as joke. Then
her cool Indifference to the scandalized
Ojibwasi He had read that they were
like that-these present-day girls. He
chuckled at the memory Of how she
rose from the table to display her
whipcords, to the CONSERVATION Of the
inquisitive Sarah. No false modesty
there! In fact, he admitted, modesty
did not appear to enter into the pic
ture. And how she had seized on that
word gibodiegwason! 1t certainly was
an insult to the well-cut knickers
which set off her shapely legs-thar
name!
But what q crime, he had thought,
! it was to cut hair like thati 1t must
have rippled to her waist. Then he
laughed aloud as he remembered the
disgust in the blue eyes of Mary Chris
| tie, daughter of the inspector at Lake
Expanse. when he once asked her
when she intended to bob her hair.
! No, Mary wouldn't cut her hair or
| shorten her skirts either. Lake EX-
panse fashions were somewhat behind
the times, and-as Mary was the only
white girl on the great lake-would re-
main so.
OF course. the astute LeBlond was
set on marrying his daughter off we'll
in Winnipeg. Strange, she'd escaped
so long-with those dangerous black
eyes and that magnetism. 1t was
magnetism: no doubt about that. The
man on the bunk in the trade-house
had sucked in deep breath at the
memory of his struggle to get the
half-drowned girl into the canoe
% t., &C. ,fro IN,
ing arms.
He remembered, too, with a deep
drawing in of the breath, the weight
of her in his arms as he took her from
the lake-the touch Of her hair on his
face.
And the day he returned from that
glorious stolen visit on the island, to
confront an anxious Sarah and Marthe.
swell, Sarah" he had said, as his
boat shot into the beach, you see
am back safely"
"You see herr" demanded Sarah.
"Yes."
"She wear dose gibodiegwason~
"No." Jim was amused at the in
| terest of his cook In the recent guest
VI SuuSeI I1OuSc. one wear
'em. She wore white Dress"
Sarah and Marthe exchanged quizzi.
| cal looks.
"And she had on white silk stock
ings and white Shoes" went on Jim,
| enjoying the curiosity of the two
women. "What d'you think of that for
Kiwedin?"
Seek ajigan" The chins of Sarah
and Marthe dropped in amazement.
Seek, lax dis?" demanded the for
mer, pointing to Aurore's crimson
| scarf which she always wore.
"Yes"
ION her foot? Mia! n'gow gasped
| the astonished and disappearing
| Sarah. "She put seek on her foot?"
1.-The women wear silk stockings in
the Cities" Jim explained, and fol-
lowed Esau and Omar to the trade
| house, while the bewildered Marthe
and Sarah wagged dark heads at the
| unbelievable news that women put so
| precious fabric as silk to such base
| uses.
He remembered, too. Aurore's play
full promise to provide Sarah with a
| pair of silk stockings.
''Do they shock you, mon amir" Au-
rore had asked. noting the amused
smile as his approving eyes swept her
graceful legs encased in silk stock
ings.
mo. they are most becoming. was
| thinking of Sarah's horror last night,
when / told her you wore silk stock
| ings. She almost choked with sur
| prise. Mai n'go!' she gasped. She
put seek on her footr"