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I The I Doom Trail ! i — By — Arthur D. Ilowden Smith j| Author of PORTO BELLO COLD, Etc ■ (§ bv Brenteno'e.) WNU Service ' u __ THE STORY CHAPTER 1. — Harry Ormerod, pro scribed traitor to King George as a Stuart partisan, returning from France to London, rescues Alderman Rober' Juggins from a hand of assassins. Jug frtna proves to be the grandson of a ormer steward of Ormerod s father, to whom Juggins feels himself Indebted Ormerod telle Ju Kins he has aban doned the Stua CHAPTER III—Disguised as Ju*r gine' servant, Ormerod takes pass j. to America He r a Scottish Kir) daughter of Murr.y, and ardert Jnr obi e De Veulle i *oi»gnix** him. en their enmity Th» Fr*r denounces Ormer«><! to the rill as traitor to the Stu:ir! c:i uBelievin him, she repulses r"*ero«rs proffer o friendship. He Ip f vvn into the as* by an unsten ass.J • »u CHAPTER IV.—ormerod. regaining the deck, has recognized his assallan' as Murray's servant. Tom. giant negr He accuses Murray of employing th* negro to assassinate him, but a truce is arranged At New York Ormerod saves an Indian from Insult. * The In dtan. who speaks English, le Ta-wan ne-ars. Seneca chief CHAPTER V.—Governor Burnet wel con es Ormerod as a friend of Juggins aud tells him Murray’s alms By what Is known as the "Doom Trail” Murray smuggles furs, which should come to New York, to the French in Canada With Ta-wan-ne-ars and a gigan':* Dutchman, Peter Corlaer, Ormerod agrees to go to Niagara. French out rost. and spy out the secrets of the >oom TralL He of course speaks French De Veulle has won Ga-ha-no. Ta-wan-ne-are' affianced wife, now the Frenchman’s mistress, and the red men seeks revenge Ta-wan-ne-are saves Ormerod s life in «n attack on him by Mut ray’ff henchmt n, Bolling CHAPTER VI.—Accusing Murray, without avail, of inciting Bolling, Or merod learns the girl’s name Is Mar jory With his two companions he be gins the journey. CHAPTER VII.—The three men wipe out a party of Oahnuagas trailing them, evidently sent by Murray. At the Seneca village *hey are welcomed by Do-ne-ho-ga-weh. head chief. Ta wan-ne-ars’ uncle. Leaving Corlaer, Ta-wan-ne-ars and Ormerod take their way to Niagara. CHAPTER VIII—At Niagara Or merod, in the guise of Jean Courbe volr. forest runner, learns the French plans from Joncalre. the commandant. De Veulle arrives, recognizes Ormerod and he and Ta-wan-ne-are are eelzed CHAPTER IX. — Conveyed to La Vierge du Bois, Murray's stronghold. Ormerod again meets the adventurer and Marjory The girl unavailingly seeks to save the Englishman and his friend from death by torture at the hands of the Cahnuagan, Murray’s fol lowers. Pere Hyacinths, French mis sionary, refuses to help them. Pre pared for the torture, Ta-wan-ne-ars and Ormerod, on orders from Gah-na go, are respited until the next day the Moon feast. CHAPTER X.—In the morning the torture is interrupted by Ga-ha-no*s dancing She leaves, but apparently returns wearing a bear’s mask It Is Marjory, who, acting on Ga-ha-no’s suggestions, succeeds in freeing the prisoners, who escape. At F«»rt Os wego they are welcomed by Corlaer “Kow!" I heard her say very l< —. Ta-wan-ne-ars seemed to i*i into the air, thongs flying belli: d him. I tagged and jumped and my own Iasi* logs parted—ami I loan 1 mv'.-•elf run ulng somewhat stiffly beside the Iro quois. A second figure drew up to my side: and I felt a knlfehiU pushed Into ui.v hand. “In ease,” said the familiar voice. “And here Is one for the Iroquois, too.” L stared down In bewilderment at the bear mask. ’Twas so unexpected, yet so obviously what I might have known she would do if the oppor tunity arose. That clean scorn, that brave honesty of purpose, I had marked in her, were earnest of her determination to dare all for what she believed to be right. A chorus of yelps like a wolf-pack In full cry split the night behind us. One of the False Faces sprang into our path, and Ta-wan-ne-ars closed with him. The Seneca’s knife plunged into his throat, and he collapsed with a strangled scream. As the pine trees shrouded us I looked back over my shoulder. The dancing place was covered with a mob of running figures who fell over each other in their drunken frenzy. “To the ieft,” sobbed the voice from the bear’s mask. We turned between the trunks of the pines, the mat of fallen needles springy underfoot. Behind us the fires of the dancing place were a faint radiance in the dusk. Branches crashed; bodies hurtled against each other; a bedlam of shrieks resounded to the skies. “Let me help you,'* I panted to our rescuer. “There will be no need,” she an swered, running stride for stride be side us^ “Do not be concerned for me. Many a mile I have run with the gillies over the Highland hills.” She stumbled as she spoke, and I set my hand under her elbow. Ta wan-ne-ars did the same on the other side, and so we ran for a space, three and three, our bruised and rusty joints gradually limbering with the effort. Presently we came to an opening amongst the pines, with a huge, flat ~ rock in the center and before the rock the ashes of a fire. My foot struck something round, and a human skull, blacktened and charred bounded ahead of us. 1 fell a shudder pass through the slender figure In the mask. “ 'Tis tile ultar of tlie False Faces,” she murmured. "None but the Ga-go-su will dare to follow us througli the wo< id.” Was that ybur thought?” 1 ques tioned. "No. I was helpless. ’Twas the .Mistress—she bade me call her Ga ha-no—thought of everything." Ta-wiiii-ne-ars stopped in his stride. “What of Ga-ha-no?" he demanded sternly. She glanced fearfully backward along ttie way we had come. "We may not stay,” she answered rapidly. “I will talk as we run. Oh, haste, haste, or all will he lost!" The Seneca resumed his steady gait, hut tlie moonlight filtering through the hrunches revealed the agony in his face, an agony which the ordeal at tin stake had not been able to produce. “Go-ha-no thought of all,” gasped our companion, her voice strangely mulled by the mask. "She canie to me this morning—whilst I was plead ing with them—told me how it It might he done—fetched me here—procured me the mask and costume—taught me the dance. 'Twas she secured the de lay—In your torture—made them send you food—bolstered your strength.” “Where Is she now?" asked Ta-wan ne-ars hardly. She looked sidewise at him—1 think in pity. “With the Chevalier de Veulle, she said reluctantly. Then with quick earnestness: “ 'Twas part of her plan. It might not—otherwise be done." He was silent, and we ran on for as much as a quarter-hour, coming then to the hank of a small stream, where a trull marked u ford. "Under those bushes," she said, pointing, “you will find your clothes and weapons. We hid them this eve ning.” I scurried Into the undergrowth and sturted to don the tattered garments which were fastened In a bundle to the barrel of my musket—the musket that Juggins had given to me. years and years ago, ll seenjed. In London, and which 1 had expected never to see again. But she halted me. "No. no, Mr. Ormerod!" she ex claimed. “There is not time. You must go on alone, the two of you. They will expect you to strike Into the I loom Trail. 'Tis the quickest way to the settlements. Ga-ha-no hade me tell you to go west Instead, muking for Oswego at the mouth of the Orion dugH.s river. So you may shake off the pursuit of the Keepers.” "Bui you?" 1 cried, standing up, bun hie and musket In hand. “ 'Tis my part to lead them Into the Ooom Trail.” Ta-wan-ne-ars joined with me in a violent protest. But she waved us aside. "There Is no other way. I will have learned much since my coming here. Master Ormerod, and amongst other things, to think the less harshly of you." "For that I am thankful," I replied, hut sure, you must let us tuke you Imck to Fort Orange. Governor Bur net will care for you.” "It cannot he," she insisted. "My place Is here. Wicked as they be. Iiese men here—and lie who Is called uj father is not tlie cleanest of them they work in a good cause. 'Tis for k* to stay by anil see they do what I rn-cted of them for it. Now he off. sir. The False Faces will he on ns any moment—and I tun not wishing to he caught by them, even though they would not venture to do me harm." A hurst of ferocious yelling came from the heart of the pine wood. "They have seen traces of us in the •pen space by the altar," Interrupted Ta-wan-ne-ars. He sw-ung musket and bundle to his shoulder, and faced the bear mask, a splended figure In bronze. "Sister Ne-e-ar-go-ye,” he said grave ly, “did Ga-ha-no give you any mes sage for Ta-wan-ne-ars?" She hesitated. 'She said that If you asked for her I was to tell you to forget Ga-ha-no. tliut she was unworthy of your mem ory. But you were to believe tliut what she did for you tonight was in reparation for her first great wrong." He bow-ed his head. “And oh, Ta-wan-ne-ars," she went on impulsively, "site pays a bitter price. Forgive her." , Ta-wan-ne-ars looked up. "Say this to Ga-ha-no," he answered. “Say Ta-wan-ne-ars thinks of her as a Lost Soul, tarrying for a while with Ata-ent-sic, and in the end he will come for her and bring her home again to his lodge. Say that Ta-wan-ne-ars never forgets." He raised his right arm in the ges ture of farewell, and stepped Into the current of the stream. “We part once more, Marjory,” 1 said, offering my hand. She took it. “For certain words I have spoken to you, I am sorry,” she said. “I know more now. You may be my enemy, but 1 believe you not to be a traitor.” “Thank you. And Is that all you have to say to me?" “That Is all," she replied softly, withdrawing her hand. “I will not leave you," I cried, and made to walk with iter along the trail. But she pushed me back. “Please go, Master Ormerod," she begged. "If I am not overtaken, this mask will protect me as far aa the chapel, witere my own clothes are awaiting me. They dare not enter there." 1 captured her hand again and car ried it to iny lips. “My name is Harry,” X answered. “And I have never forgotten the song in the cabin of the New Venture.” “Thank you, iiarry,” slip relumed with a trill of eltin laughter. "And 1 do assure you I know other songs." With that she was gone. Yet l hud a feeling I had never known before that site was still with me, and I stepped into the water with Joy in my heart. A score of phcps down the bunk I found Ta-wan-iie-ars, and we crouched under the pendant branches of a wil low to sec who. would happen, mus kets primed and ready. Tile yelling In the wood Increased In volume Ms tile False Fares followed the course we had taken by broken brum lies nisi footprints in tlm pine mold. A inisslmp i figure with the head of some faired beast squattered into the trail and gallop'd around nose to ground like a hound seeking e lost scent. In a moment the ugly head was lifted, and a howl of satis faction greeted tlie other monstrous shapes which Joined It. The whole pack gave tongue and vanished up the trail after Marjory. Ta-wan-De-ars waited to give the stragglers time to appear, then rose and led the way along the hed of the stream westward. We walked in the water for more i than a mile, when the stream turned to the north and we stepped out upon a rock and dressed. Afterward we caught the overhanging bough of « tree and swung ourselves onto dry ground ulmve the hunk, never leaving a trace of our course up to that time. From this point we traveled on through the forest, pursuing no settled path, but holding to the westward in the direction of Oswego on the shore of the Cadarakui lake. We did not stop until after midday. Ta-wan-ne-ars knocked over a wild turkey with tils tomahawk, kindled a tire of dry sth'ks and broiled the Juicy bird before the coals. He insisted that I should sleep tirst, promising to arouse me at the end of two hours tie reckoned time, 1 should explain, by the declension of the sun. Hut when he tinully did arouse me the sun was close to setting, and i saw by the sunken look of Ids eyes that he had not slept during his watch. •'Why did you not wake ine?" I asked angrily. ''Yu-wan-ne-ars had no wish for sleep,” lie returned. ‘Nous-use," I retort, d. "You cannot go indel'nitcly wit . nit rest." *T hnd my thoughts for company.” he said simply. “They are not happy thoughts, brother. They would not let me sleep Your search Is ended, broth er,” he added. • “What do you in. an?” "The soul you sought has been found. Il Is no longer sink." “Mayhap,” I agreed, "hut none the less 'tls out of reach and In great dan ger." “We shall save It," he encouraged me. “Ta-wan-ne-ars knows. We must wait. The time wid come." He refused again to sleep, and we ate the remainder of the turkey—our hunger was prodigious—and pushed on. traveling most of the night. Not once did we see a trace of the Keep ers, and when we halted Ta-wan-ne ars said that we were on the marches of the hunting grounds of the Mo hawks. In the late morning we killed a rah bit, broiled and ute It Mild tramped the virgin forest until long past sun set. The following afternoon we caught our tirst view of the inland sea from a height of land, and the next morning we sighted the stockade of Oswego, the fort which (iovernor Bur net had established on the shores of the lake in his effort to divert the far-western fur trade from the French posts, (Continued Next Week.) MEN’S CLUB WILL GIVE A PRE-LENTEN BALL The Men’s Club of the Church of St. Philip the Deacon will give a pre Lenten ball at Dreamland hall, Mon day night, February 28. Adams’ orchestra will furnish the music. It will be one of the social events of of the season. OMAHA MAN LANDS GOOD JOB Louis King, who has been manag ing the Lincoln Inn, a summer re sort at Lake Geneva, Wis., for five years, and returning to his home here during the winter,'is head waiter at the Chelsea hotel on the Lake Shore in Chicago, using 14 men. Mr. King took charge on January 1st. ■ I W- . Ml ■ m—r GARVEY STARTS THIRD YEAR OF IMPRISONMENT Atlanta, Ga.—M arcus Garvey, founder and president-general of the Universal Negro Improvement asso ciation, last week completed the sec ond year of his five year’s sentence in the federal penitentiary on a charge of using the mails to defraud. It is possible that the former leader of the Garvey movement may receive a pardon before his term has been completed. Numerous appeals have been made for a pardon. Garvey, however, faces deportation upon his release from prison. HARLEM HOSPITAL TO RECEIVE NEW INTERNES New York, N. Y. — Five colored doctors passed a recent competitive examination for interneship at Har lem hospital. They were Dr. Euclid P. Ghee, of Jersey City; Dr. James C. Whittaker, of Charleston, S. C; Dr. Richard laurence Harvey of New Rochelle; Dr. Robert Shaw Wilkerson, Jr., of Orangeburge, S. C.; and Dr. Albert F. Lynch of New ark. PRINCIPAL SUES PAPER IN HOUSTON FOR LIBEL Houston, Texas—William Leonard Davis, acting principal of Gregory school and prominent politician, has filed a libel suit against the Houston Informer, of which C. F. Richardson is editor. The case grew out of an editorial published in the paper re cently. Davis charges that the ar ticle, which was entitled “Pusillan imous Pussyfooting Principal,” was malicious, affecting his reputation. NAME 12 OUTSTANDING NEGROES IN AMERICA Coatesville, Pa.—Twelve of the most outstanding American Negroes were named in a ballot taken at the Adams school in connection with Ne gro Industry Week. Those named were Booker T. Washington, Roland Hayes, Frederick Douglass, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Henry O. Tanner, Blanch K. Bruce, Carter Woodson, George Carver, DeHart Hubbard and James Weldon Johnson. OLD FOLKS’ HOME Mr. George Hollinger, who recent ly became an inmate of the home is improving nicely. Sunday services were conducted by the Rev. Mr. Stell. Donations to the home include the following: Mrs. Hall, tomatoes, jelly, and two jars of fruit; Mrs. Taylor, two cans of tomatoes, four glasses of jelly, five jars of fruit; Mrs. Webster, one jar of tomatoes, one jar of fruit; Mrs. Strawther, one jar of tomatoes and one glass of jelly. NEGROES’ PETITION IS PRESENTED TO HOUSE Washington, D. C.—Mr. Tincher of Kansas, recently, presented the peti tion of the National Douglass-Lincoln Colored American Conference to the House of Representatives. The peti tion urged the passage of legislation to stop disfranchisement of colored persons, segregation of races in inter state traffic and lynching, and urged that members of congress chosen through disfranchisement not be seated. EIGHT-YEAR-OLD GIRL PUSHES MAN FROM THE PATH OF AN ONCOMING AUTO ;IS STRUCK Dallas, Texas—The heroic act of an eight-year-old colored girl saved a blind white man from death under the wheels of an automobile here last Friday. Frances Harper, the girl, was leading the blind man across the street as an act of kindness when a speeding automobile came rushing toward them. Little Frances had to think fast. She pushed the blind man from the path of the machine, but she could not get out of the way in time herself and was struck. The injured girl was picked up and rushed to a hospital, where she was found to be suffering a broken leg and severe body injuries. The automobile driver was charged with driving while intoxicated. It was said the automobile had been stolen. INTER RACIAL COMMISSION ENTERS ANTI-LYNCH PLEA I - Atlanta, Ga.—A resolution asking that the people of South Carolina support the valiant stand of Governor John G. Richards on the lynching of three colored Americans at Aikens last fall has been drafted by the Executive Committee of Inter-racial Co-operation. Another resoliition adopted by the body calls attention to the fact that in thirty lynchings on record for 1926, there were convic tions in only one case. E WATERS } BARNHART St. Philip’s Men’s Club Will Give a PRE LENTEN BALL FEB. 28th at Dreamland Hall Adams’ Orchestra aamm Classified FOR REN T—Light housekeeping rooms. Modern. Inquire even ings, Web. 4285. 2t-2-18-27. FOR RENT—Two rooms, neatly furnished, strictly modern. Pri vate kitchen and bath. The new James Apartments. Call at 2221 North Twenty-fifth street. Web. 3634. 4t-2-18-27. FOR RENT—Nice furnished rooms. Everything modem. 2516 Patrick Avenue. Web. 2180. 4t-2-18-27. FOR RENT—Furnished room in strictly modern home. One block from Dodge carline. Call during business hours, WE. 7126, even ings, WE. 2480. tf-12-10-28. FOR RENT—Front bedroom for rent in private family, with kitchen privileges. Couple preferred. Call Webster 6179.—2t. FOR RENT — Seven room house, modern except heat, to desirable tenants, white or colored. Rent reasonable. Phone Webster 1825. 4t. FOR RENT—Neatly furnished room. Modern home. With kitchen priv ilege. Call Web. 6498. —tf. FOR RENT—Neatly furnished room for employed girl. Call after 5 p. m. Web. 5690. FOR SALE—Seven room modern house, 2870 Corby street. A bar gain. Call Walnut 4958. FOR RENT—Two unfurnished rooms with heat. Webster 7089. FOR RENT—Room and kitchenette. Web. 5188. FOR RENT—Seven room house, all modem. Hot water, heat. Half block from carline. $25.00 per month. WE. 4810. tf.-12-10-26. Ed. F. Morearty, Attorney NOTICE TO NON-RESIDENT DEFENDANT To Marian Ward, non-resident de fendant: You are hereby notified that James A. Ward, your husband, the plain tiff, filed his petition in the District Court of Douglas County, Nebraska, on the ICth day of October, 1926, to obtain an absolute divorce from you on the grounds of cruelty and deser tion. You are required to answer said petition on or before the 21st day of February, 1927. JAMES A. WARD. 4fc—1-21-27. 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