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his pathetic old visage wrinkled with
growing anger at the thought that his
affliction was being made sport of. “No
one can help me,” the tears rolled down
his wrinkled cheeks. “Neuktuk’s an im-
poster ...a fraud... he is not ‘Jesus’ !”

A paroxysm of fury contorted the
crafty face of the Arctic “God”. “You
do not believe!” he hissed. “A dark cloud
has entered the igloo. You shall have your

wish,” he snarled, “and go to ‘Jesus’.
Again he signed to his executioners.

Shuffling across the icy floor, Katauchak
and Kedluk seized the unresisting Muniak
and dragged him from the igloo. No move
was made to stop the murder. Had not
“God” spoken through the lips of Neuk-
tuk, the miracle man? Above the moaning
roar of the blizzard rose a louder and
more piercing shriek—a forlorn cry of
human agony. Crawling back into the
frozen temple the executioners casually
wiped the blood from their snow-knives
on a ragged deerskin and joined the crowd
around the meat-pots.

As the feasting continued with no
thought to the morrow, since the divine
powers of Neuktuk would provide; as
seal and polar bear meat rapidly shrunk
under the voracious onslaught of the wor-
shippers, Neuktuk sensed a gradual wan-
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something about it. He decided to per-
form another miracle.

“Bring me Lemik, killer of wivuk, the
walrus,” he ordered his tawny disciples.
“Tell him I have it in my power to make
him read and write.”

An enormous hunter in wolverine-
trimmed sealskin ahtegi and polar bear-

The wife of Lemik, the Hunter, who had
a miraculous escape from the stone maul
of the hypoborean “Saviour”.

skin pants was escorted into the igloo and
gazed at the miracle worker from beneath
shaggy brows. The greatest hunter in the
land, Neuktuk would acquire great and
enduring prestige if he could work the
proposed miracle on this powerful giant—
for all knew that Lemik could neither
read nor write.

“Ho! great hunter of walrus,” Neuktuk
was careful to flatter the one man of whom
he stood in secret fear. “I’m going to
make you so that you can read and learn
the secret of the white man, a secret that

will forever bring happiness to your ig-
loo. Take this,” he handed him the greasy
Bible, “and,” he commanded, “read!”

Hunter Fatts Into Trap

Momentarily nonplussed, the shaggy
giant gazed stupidly at the Bible thrust
into his enormous paw. Haltingly at first,
but with growing confidence, he com-
menced to jabber a hodge-podge of un-
intelligible gibberish. In frozen immo-
bility the Stone Age savages watched the
unfolding “miracle”, convinced that the
gibberish was the language of the spirit
world.

Neuktuk’s slant eyes mirrored the
ecstacy of supreme accomplishment.
“Write!” He handed the bewitched giant
a scrap of paper and a pencil. “Write
down the words so that this miracle will
live!”

Proud of his sudden fame, [Lemik
squatted deeper on the bearskin, bit his
tongue in a superhuman effort at concen-
tration and gave birth to spidery marks
on the paper. The sooty walls vibrated
to the triumphant howls of the savages as
they witnessed this new proof of Neuk-
tuk’s occult powers.

But the crafty mind of the fur-clad
“God” was tortured by a sudden surge of

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