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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1931-12-10, Page 3THE EXETER TIMES-APYOCATE pillllllllllllillllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllM |“The Silver Hawk”] ■g BY WILLIAM BYRON MOWERY J fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiihiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii^ SYNOPSIS James porn, aerial map maker, as-* signed to a territory in the north­ ern Canadian Rockies lives alone in his camp on Titan Island, Kansas Eby, his friend for the past six years was stationed at Eagle Nest, two hundred miles east. Kansas came over one night to a dance that the Indians • "were having on the station platform. When the midnight train pulled in he seen a girl i come out and glance hurriedly around and then disappear into the darkness. Kansas followed hurriedly but failed to find any •/trace of her. He told his friend Dorn about it and the same night * Fere Bergelot, a trusty metis ar­ rived with the girl, The girl, Aurore McNain, asks Dorn to go to a lonely lake in search of hex’ father and she wish­ es to accompany him, .When they arrive at the cabin ■ there is no sign of habitation. The girl, Aurore McNain, asks Porn to take her to a lonely lake in search of her father. When they arrive there is no sign of habitation but she tells porn she Is going to live there alone. b ■ CHAPTER. X Dorn felt a shock go through liim. Where “they” on,Bthe trail al­ ready? “You were talking to old Luke Few-of-Words; he sees and knows everything; did he mention any ru­ mours of a strange girl getting off Jhere last night?” “Tout de rien! Only ypu, M’sieu .jJeem, and I, know about her.” That was some reassurance. Had any ’breed or Indian seen Aurore, the report would have had reper­ cussions at this sleepy, jump-down jand Bergelot would have heard the echoes of it. The stranger was pro­ bably one of many detectives. With­ out shadow of doubt the search was ©n for her at all the mountain sta­ tions. ■“Money, power, a relentless pur­ pose ...” Dorn had thought Aur- •pre exaggerated, but he saw now lier words were stark truth. The enemy she had fled from .meant business. ‘From Hazelton to Med­ icine Lodge, exactly as she said, they were turning every stone. By splen­ did luck she had escaped clean, and an airplane had whirled her north for two hundred miles in the wil­ derness. 'She was safe—just so ..long as no one found out his .con- .jaection with her. “Her clothes weren’t over in my lent. What did you do with them?’ “iTihey are inside in* my cabane.” Dorn walked around and went in­ to the cabin. There were Aurore’s clothes on a peg,, clumsily covered ©ver with a mackinaw, where any sharp-eyed operative. could have •spotted them at a glance. ' With his back- to the window Porn took them down and laid them ■across his arm. What he intended to do seemed like a desecration; for besides their rich beauty, Aurore bad been clad in them when she .came to him. But with no hesita­ tion he Steppe;! over to the stove and pftt them into., it, one by one— slippers, capo, the belted suit, her ■silken hose and filmy undergar­ ments——hoping he would thus des­ troy the last evidence of her having been at Titan Pass. ’ Old Bereglot followed him in. .Dorn was nervous, and.aware of it, and aware that Bergelot was searching his face and expecting re- jproach and wondering what had •interposed to nullify that expected ’anger. " “Did she tell you—about herself, *jeem lad?” *• “A little. I know s'ho is (being .bunted; that she is going to hide j&Jiero at the lake. But no more.” ' Looking, sharply at Bergelot, ho ,asaw that tlie old man was gathering .Cburago to say something—some- * thing he was loath to reveal but was forced to. *_ “WhaPs troubling you, Dad?” he asked kindly. The rusty old voice ivas apologe­ tic, “It is good of you, deem lad, Yio take the sorrows of other folk on yourself. You must not fall ;npon calamity. It. yas I who ’brought Mam’selle Aurore over to ••you/so it is'I Who must speak a fpluiu warning now. If I meddle in 5au affair personal to you, I ask' jparclon beforehand.” * ’•Warning—you mean her enemies’? Dorn glanced through the open Xloor and saw the stranger talking to the fat Indian down by the sta­ tion. “For myself, 1’11 walk care- Jully. (See that you do'. Her clothes iters hi plain sight——” . “I do not mean that danger. 1 ■siman ...” He stumbled and for ■a moment it seemed ho would not go on, but then ho spoke again and there was a sort of goaded courage in. his voice. “Last night in your tent I saw the marvel in your eyes when you looked at Mam’selle Aiur- ore. And she is not alone, pretty but, whatever men may think of her and what she has done, she is a girj pure of heart. 'So you will discover. Your acquaintance deep­ ening—there will be no disillusion­ ment. You already prize her friendship----- Dorn felt the blood in his face. He knew now what old Bergelot was stammering to say; and though it was true, lie denied it, “I merely took her up there, fix­ ed things around for her, came back . If “You excused my lie because I brought her over to you!” Bergelot pointed out, and Dorn had no ans­ wer to that. “I should have spoken up last night, Jeem lad, while we waited in the dark for her to dress. But a warning would have seemed ridicu-. olus then.Now . . . Jeem lad, you have changed, You came up the path whistling. You smiled at Luke and me. It is* not your usual way to light cigarettes sans cesse and toss them out the window.” “All of u.s”—Dorn meant his bro­ therhood of avaitors—“we’re nerv­ ous after a flight. I just came in from one.” Bergelot took up the word. “You­ ’ve made many flights, yes, But last night, that was different from any before. Or from any you will ever make again. When you car­ ried Aurore McNain away with you, then you began the Qreat Flight.” Dorn did not deny it further. He was aware of something momentous to come." What of it?” he demand­ ed, a little pale. “And I must turn you back,” old Bergelot went on. “Except for you and me, Aurore is alone in the world. And moi—old husk—-I do not reckon in this-trouble ahead. She is alone in the world except for you. This trouble is coming down to battle. It is you who will fight those wolves. You will be visiting her there at that lonely cabin, In that there is dynamite. You do never deceive, yourself, Jeem lad. You know I am speaking truth—” Dorn cut him short, summing up in a swift word all those stammer­ ings. “You mean I might come to love her. Would that be calamity?’ “Yes. An evil hour.” “What- Evil! Why? You- tell me why!” In. that silence old Bergelot seem­ ed gathering courage for a blunt, tremendous sentence. He poured the words out like a bucket of rocks ! “Because, Jeem lad, you can never under heaven marry her.” CHAPTER XI The Silent Pack Afterward, on his flight east to Eagle Nest that evening, Dorn grap­ pled for two lone hours with the mystery behind old Bergelot’s “You can never ...” It had angered him, a momentous statement like that, thrown out with no subsequent word of explanation. He had pumped and cross-examin­ ed. But the old man, his warning delivered, had drawn into his shell like a moss-backed tortoise,- and his stony silence was impregnable as the Rock of Gibraltar. To every question he had stub­ bornly replied: “It’s not my story to tell, but hers. She has promised you.” Dorn’s first thought had been that Aurore was married." That was an easy explanation to the warning. But he had probed beneath the sur­ face. Old Bergelot spoke of her aS Mam’selle McNain, and with no hes­ itation about the Mam’selle part of of it, 4 Once, as a trap, Dorn had called her Mrs. McNain. The name sounded odd in his own ears, and he knew from Bergelot’s reaction that is sounded still more odd to the old man. With that explanation hardly pos­ sible, he turned to other guesses and examined them in cold-blooded logic. “You can never”—what did “can” mean? Was it a legal or a moral “can”? A previous marriage w.as the only legal barrier, and it scarcely justified the “never.” Since marriage was ruled out, the “can never” must have been meant in a moral sense, Thqt opened up several possibili­ ties. Different religions? Hardly. Tho fact that Aurore was rich and might belong to the highest rank of society? Perhaps? The social fences v/ere indeed high on the west coast in those cities which boasted themselves more English than the English; but a little husli-lopor Plto Aurore, if she met and loved a man outside the pale, would take so su­ perficial a barrier at one jump. Had slio done something which ho could could' never morally countenance and which would make her a hunted exile from human society? Re­ membering her words, “I know what you’d say and feel and think,’ this last guess seemed to Dorn the most plausible of all. But he did not believe it He could not believe any evil of Aurore McNain; all pre­ judice and emotion aside, he knew she was a sensible and wholesome •girl, comradely, unspoiled by her wealth, and, as Bergelot phrased it, a girl pure of heart. He remembered the telegram she had asked him to send; and hoping it -would give him some insight into her trouble, he pulled it out and read. The message was addressed to a man in Calgary, whom Dorn vaguely recalled as owner of a string of smajl-town newspapers. It com­ manded: Get in touch with H. OS. Tell him I am safe, alone, and wish t'o remain so. If this be­ comes known, it will be be­ cause he insists upon finding me. Aurore Dorn reasoned: “That man in Cal­ gary kpows her. This H. OS. is the chief among her enemies. They want to find her. It must be a matter of , terrible importance to them. But why? And what did she flee from?” So he was left without even • a substantial guess as to what lay be­ hind that blunt “can never.” The notion came to him that the w'ords were an exaggeration of some in­ consequential difficulty, and that Bergelot had made mountain out of molehill. The thought was a solace and Dorn harboured it, and gradual­ ly he came to believe that the warn­ ing was not based on irremovable fact; and he tried to consign it to the limbo of dead worries. At Eagle Nest late that evening lie spiralled down upon the aviation camp of his fellow birdmen and had the Silver Hawk towed ashore where three mechanics with full equipment could overhaul it while he was in Edmonton. Ordinarily he did all his own ad­ justments and inspection, bringing his plane across to base camp only for sizeable repairs. He was not above getting his hands dirty, and besides, grease-monkeys had a way of being careless at times. A£ter; giving them orders covering what he wanted done, he went up to the tent and had supper with the three cartographers. Kansas was gone—fishing back in the mountains. Dorn was glad he was away. Kansas would have asked him questions: Had he seen or heard anything more of the girl who got off the Transcontinental? Dorn did not want to lie to a part­ ner. In six years of mutual adven­ turing, mutual peril, mutual plans for their future, he had never con­ cealed any serious ’trouble . from Kansas. He believed, too, that a storm, might break upon him in the days ahead, and he knew how Kan­ sas would come roaring across the mountains to 'back him up. In the face of that loyalty a -lie would be shameful. Ent Kansas, being hero in daily company of other men, might drop an unguarded, word which would bring down the avalanche. And to Dorn that wildnemoss lake and ca­ bin and Aurore McNain seemed his own sacred secret—and intimacy no man should share with another. In the tent he noticed a pile of newspapers. He himself took none, and was out of touch with current happenings. The latest papers, an Edmonton publication, was only a couple of days old. Perhaps here . . Methodically, while waiting for the train, Dorn started down through the pile. From every page he expected the picture of Aurore to leap up at him, with some scream­ ing headlines of what she had done. Outside tho front sheets which ran to the hot political campaign and the society columns which ran to middle-aged hostesses wearing pearl necklaces, he did find several pic­ tures of women and write-ups about them. Once ho paused at the ac­ count of a daring banditry over at Prince Rupert—-the direction she had come from—(but the hard-faced female pictured alongside bore not tli6 r©motest reseiiilbl ance to Aur­ ore, and Dorn leafed on, feeling ashamed fur even stopping. He combed through a month of papers, and found nothing. On the train to Edmonton, as it thundered under snow sheds and coiled through the beautiful foot­ hills down upon tho monotonous wheat plains, ho read .over the list Aurore had given him, and smiled at its oddity. "It’s like her,” he thought. It led off with an assort­ ment of grub items such as any wise sourdough would have chosen; then a bathing suit size- 34; then an out­ fit of woods clothing, fishing tackle, folding canoe, two white fluffy IL B. blankets, toilet articles, a dish­ pan and a box of chocolate candy. When he walked out of the W* mon,ton station at ten o’clock the next morning porn ran into unex­ pected good luck—an old acquaint- ance, a bow-legged, chunky, bull­ dog chap padding up and down the curb yelling “ca-hab!” and trying to attract a fare towards his ram- shaokle, privately owned bus.. This Jerry Funk was salt of the earth, in his rapscallion days he had drank beer tremendously0 and played stud poker atrociously and raised hell in divers minor ways, but since acquiring a wife and baby and bungalow across the river in Strathcona, he had sobered down' and cut out the alley-pranks and plied his bus industriously, “I need a car all day, Jerry,” Dorn explained, after he shook hands with the chap. “Buying a lot Of things, making fast tracks, catch­ ing a train back this evening.” Till midafternoon Jerry rattled him from store to store. The ton­ neau filled with bundles and Dorn’s money dwindled to a thin Canadian nickel, Letting Jerry go home then, with instructions to come to a cer­ tain hotel for him at ten-thirty, Dorn 'phoned in the telegram and then sought a big jewellery store. The proprietor, summoned by the watch-case clerk, turned Aurore’s barrette over and over in his hand, “Yess, id iss so-so waluable,” he said cautiously, “if dot big stone iss a di’munt. I should vant to test id He went back to a roar room. Dorn drummed on the watch-case impatient, ill at ease. It was twen- ey-minutes before Skull-cap came out again. Dorn was surprised when the je­ weller counted him out a thousand dollars without haggling or asking references, He pocketed tlie money which would be funds for Aurore when she left her wildnerness sanc­ tuary and walked out of the shop. From a doorway a man in a gray suit, with gray cap pulled low on his forehead, watched him till he was half a block away, then fell in behind him and paced him. After securing B-metre paper and a couple of other minor things which he needed in cartographing, Dorn went to a small, quiet ■ hotel, took a room, bathed and shaved, ate supper, and then waited in his room till time Jerry should come. A nameless uneasiness had grown upon him, The jeweller’s long de­ lay in examining the -barrette, his readiness to buy a valuable article without a single reference, aroused Dorn’s suspicions the more he thought back over the incident. Aurore was so utterly dependent upon him! .He was the only person in the world who knew where she had fled. Without a canoe she was a prisoner on that island; she had . practically no camping equipment, and food for.'Only a few days. Wise little bush-loper, she could ta-ke care of herself for a time, but she could never foot-slog out of those moun­ tains. She was dependent upon him not only for company and pro­ tection, (but for the necessities of life itself. “They” were hunting L'or her, as she had said. Along the Canadian National’ they had flung out a score of detectives who were hunting grimly and silently. Dorn thought “Any man I meet might be an en­ emy. I may not know whether they’ve struck my trail or not. I may not know if they’re closing in or not.” He thought of those form­ er times in the lonely mountains when a w-olf pack had shadowed him filtering silently and unseen through dark balsam thickets. (To be Continued) ZURICH Mrs. Charles I-Iey, of Pigeon, Mich., is visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Gallman and other’ friends. Mr. and Mrs. Eldon Schnell, of Detroit, visited at the home of the former’s mother Mrs. J. .Schnell, of town, recently, Mrs. Harry Yungblut, Misses Inez and Margaret Sclxilbe and Mr. Ivan Yungblut spent the week-end in De­ troit and New Haven, Mich. Mr. and Mrs. Norman Gascho, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Gascho were Sun­ day visitors at Tavistock. Mr. Louis Prang and daughter, Mrs, Ivan Kalbfleisch were recent visitors with friends at Detroit and Decatur, Mich. Mr. and Mrs, Clausly, of Preston were Monday visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Thiel. Mrs. Lydia pfile and daughter Pearl were visitors in Blytli one day recently. Mrs. Elizabeth Weber, of Roches­ ter, N. Y>, visited at the heme ot Mr. and Mrs. Chas, Weber and other friends for a week. Mr. D, Geromette and family have moved into their now home on the Blue Water Highway known as the Brisson farm. Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Proctor wore were week-end visitors at Mr, John Morgan’s at Goderich, Mr. and Mrs. Clausly, of Preston, Wore Monday visitors at tho home of Mr, and Mrs. Win, Thiel, •Mr; and Mrs, Wm. F. Brann, of Forost, wore Sunday visitors with relatives in town. We have a good stock of Dining Room, Bedroom and Breaklast Sets, Odd Chairs and Ferneries. Give Furniture this Christmas and make it a lasting gift. - GOODS DELIVERED ANY DISTANCE — ■ E. R. HOPPER Furniture Dealer Funeral Director ANNUAL MEETING OF MAIN ST. SUNDAY SCHOOL EXECUTIVE At a well attended meeting of Sunday School workers on the even­ ing of Tuesday, December 1st, very satisfactory reports were received from all departments of the work for the past year. ' Arrangements were made to hold a Christmas Tree and Entertain­ ment on Wednesday evening Decem­ ber 23rd. Election of officers and teachers for the coming year was as follows; Supt., B. W. F. Beavers; Assistant Super., Mr. 0. Turkey; Treasurer, S. J, Elliott; Secretary, Hillary Hor­ ton-; Assistant Secretary, Maurice Quance; Librarian, Harold Skinner; Assistant Librarian, Wm. Balkwill; pianist Miss Helen Dignan; Assist­ ant pianist, Miss Violet Gambrill; Missionary Supt., Mrs. Layton; Tem­ perance Supt., J. FI. Johnston; Cradle Roll Supt., Mrs. Mooney; Primary -Supt. Mrs, W. G. Medd. Teachers, Beginners, Miss M. Pearce, Miss Sims and Mrs. M. Quance; Pri­ mary, Mrs. Medd, Mrs. Moorhouse, and Mrs. Howey; Assistants, Mis. Doerr, Miss H. Dignan, Miss Violet Gambrill and Miss M. Follick. Jun­ ior girls. No. 2, Mrs. C. Aldsworth; No. 1, Miss FI. Sims; boys, Miss E. Howard. Intermediate, 1,. boy’s, ■Mr. A. Campbell assistant, Mr. H. Jennings; 2, boys, Mr. W. Pearce assistant Mr. A. Ryckman; 3, Mr. J. Caldwell, assistant Mr, Gre.'b; 4, (boys, Mr. C. Aldsworth assistant, Mr. Tuckey; 5, girls, Miss R. Wild- •fong assistant, Miss D. Ryckman. iSenior, 1, boys, Frank Wildfong as­ sistant, M. Howey; 2, girls, Mrs. J. Sims assistant, Miss Hogarth. Or­ ganized classes, young people, girls, Miss J. Murray; boys, Mr. W. G. Medd. Adult classes, mixed class, Mr. G. S. Howard; Ladies, class, Mrs. F. Wickwire; men’s class, Mr.' George Mawson. Exeter will be represented at the Boys’ Parliament to bo held in Ham­ ilton between Christmas and New Years by Wm. Balkwill Jr., of the Main Street United Sunday (School. REPORT S. S. 11, STEPHEN The following is the report for November of S. S. No. 11, Black­ bush. Pupils whose names are marked with an asterisk were ab­ sent for one or more examination. 'Sr. IV—Elda Devine 80; Hugh Morenz*. Jr. IV—Eugene Dietrich 64; Ver­ na Disjardine 63; *Th.elma Vincent 60; Trellis Disjardine 55; *Bruce Gardiner 4 6; *Veva Adams 32. Sr. Ill—Merle Dietrich 78; Roy Morenz 5 4. Jr. Ill—Louis Dietrich 64; Ervin Fischer 53; *Ira Vincent, ■Sr. II—-Rita Dietrich 73; Eileen Disjardine 61; Henry Ziler (59; *L. Devine 47; *Elva Adams 30; *Earl Gardiner 30. Jr. II—Earl Dietrich 71; Ray Fischer 63; Viola Vincent 53; *S. Vincent 44. 1st—Evelyn French 67; Tresia Ziler 66; *Aldene Preeter ’45; Ver­ na Vincent 29. Primer—Harold ^Fischer 87; Wil­ mer Disjardine 79; ’"Chester Disjar­ dine 47; Peter Ziler 26; *Leonard Dietrich 24 . Number on roll 32; average at­ tendance 28. I L. M. 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