Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-27

yield to them l must carry "a th- Lords
message"- II
Joe Adaykuk and Peter Quarseh told US
later that the sight Of Sam and Tom suddenly
lifeless had shocked them into sense of what
they had done. They would give themselves
up for punishment
IN the hilltop great whips of wind dashed
~ the deep dry snow and sent it up smoking.
The temperature was twenty below. In the
sky the Northern Lights wove and Intervene
vast streamers of every color Of the spectrum
Dogs in the settlement kept up an eerie howl
of hunger.
1t is not hard to imagine Mina's tragic
confusion. The eyes of those waiting with her
turning heavy, with coming sleep She had
promised them a vision that had not materi-
allied. II ii did not come very soon 1t would
be too late. Then she saw 1t was already
too late
For a while she waited II must have been
hard to kill her faith that all the human sac
rfice she had brought about was in vain. But
only a numbness came. 1t was not the merci-
full numbness that had sent the others to sleep.
She undoubtedly felt that she was not entitled
TO so easy an end II took inordnate strength
to do il. but she turned and plodded stumb-
ingly down the hill and fell TO her knees at the
entrance Of her home. There she was found,
When the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
landed their plane on the Belcher Islands the
Eskmos knew why they had come. Nina.
Joe and Peter were waiting. The investiga-
tion was short The three who confessed their
guilt seemed less concerned with whatever
punishment would be theirs than the unknown
terrors the skybird' held for them. when they.
were told to"enter it for the journey south
BY the time they reached Moose Factory,
however their fear Of flying through the air
was forgotten.
on Sundays they went TO the church
accompanied by a Cree Indian Chief. Life
had assumed stability for the two men, even a
promise of grace SO that they went to church
cheerfully Nina remained in daze. The
Bible which almost never left her hand
seemed TO be something to which she chung
for safety in world too confusing for her
THEN, one Sunday after attending services,
Joe and Peter were seen outside their tent
in anxious consultation. They said something
was wrong with Nina.
am told that one Of the constabulary
entered the tent He was convinced at a
glance that Nina had gone violently insane
1t took several men TO subdue her.
She had to be strapped on a stretcher and
next day saw her taken away on a train
for Toronto where she IS now in a hospital un-
der observation. My last glimpse Of her was
in the freight car still strapped on cot.
But her wild mood had passed and she was
quietly smoking cigarette an inconguous
picture after so terrific an ordeal.
Joe and Peter still at Moose Factory,
waiting for trial. When they asked:
How many sleeps back is our home g we
told them and they seemed sad
Then Joe said and ne spoke for Peter as
well:
I'VE don't know what we did that is wrong
A good man came and gave us a good Book.
You know that is so. We did what the Book
told us TO do. Why should we be punished ?"
Alex Hunter heard the question. He is a
native OF this district hsrd-bitten, bitter
outspoken man, He said:
The man who should be hung is the man
who gave ignorant EsfStnos a book over which
white men have quarreled for nearly two thsts-
sand years"
But Joe said, Il suppose white man know
what ia best"