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/THE WiaGHAM aDVANCE’TIMES Thursday, March J Sth, 1937
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•SYNOPSIS: Klien, Mackay, on her
Way from school at Winnipeg, to join
liter father at Fort Edson, misses the
boat by which she was to travel.
Hearing that another boat is to start
north in the morning, Ellen goes to
the owner, John Benham, and begs
him to give her a passage. To her
surprise he flatly refuses.
Angry and puzzled, Ellen tells Fat
McClatchney. a kindly old storekeep
er of her difficulty, and Pat with the
help of one of Benham’s crew, suc
ceeds in getting Ellen on board as
a stowaway,
When the vessel is well under way
Ellen emerges from her hiding place
lad faces John Benham, who now
cannot help ’ taking her with him.
During the voyage Ellen begins to
he strongly attracted by John. But
when she reaches Fort Edson she
hinds her father broken, ill 'and dis
graced, and learns that his troubles
are due to one man—John Benham.
Instantly Ellen resolves that she
will fight for her father. She will re
instate him with, the Hudson Bay
Company, his employers, and will
show up John Benham for what he
areally is.
From Bernard Deteroux, an em
ployee of the company, who profess
es friendship for her father, Ellen
hears that Benham supplies whiskey
to the Lndians. She sets out on a
long and tedious journey to obtain
proof of this, returns thinking she has
jgot it, and gives information to the
authorities.
Trooper Whitlow, of the Mounted
Police, asks her to go with him to
find Benham and confront him with
her proof of his villainy. It develops
that Benham is innocent and the li
quor is being supplied by Deteroux.
A desperate battle between Benham
.and Deteroux is taking place in an
Indian camp when Whitlow and Ellen
arrive.
now/’ was Whitlow's jubilant cry.
Swiftly alive to his advantage, Ben
ham tore at his opponent, a merci
less, implacable machine. Setting
himself, he ripped sledge-hammer
blows into Deteroux’s sagging
Slowly, ponderously, the big
seemed to crumple. His eyes
rolling and glassy, his mouth
and his lips peeled back in a grimace
of fading consciousness.
Like an executioner before the
block, Benham cut Deteroux down.
Bit by bit he beat him
Deteroux’s body was
crouch and his nerveless
helplessly at his sides,
There was something almost mag
nificent in the manner that Deteroux
called upon his great strength and
vitality to stave off defeat. Out on
his feet he refused to fall, his mus
cles subconsciously holding his body
from utter
Abruptly
tack. His
fell to his
gesture he
a look to right or left pushed through
the crowd and was gone. And in
that moment of magnanimity John
Benham was also unconsciously mag
nificent.
By all rules of conflict he was en
titled to go with his triumph until
human resistance could no longer ex
ist, and Deteroux should lie supine
at his feet. But he, too, could ap-
chin,
man
were
open
lower until
bent in a
arms swung
collapse.
Benham stopped his at-
bloody, tight-locked fists
sides, With a shrugging
turned away, and without
Timidly Ellen approached the pair.
The old squaw looked at her in frank
hostility. Then she turned again to
her ministrations, crooning with pag
an gentleness. Finally Benham look
ed up. His eyes wei‘e terribly blood
shot and swollen. Ellen gasped with
pity, and her hands fluttered to her
throat, It was Benham who spoke,
"Yes?” he queried, his voice slight
ly thick. He was still panting from
his exertions.
Many words trembled on Ellen’s
lips, strange, hot, thrilling words —
but somehow she
them.
Yearning swayed
crouch '-at his side,
tered head in her arms and spread
the balm of love on every bruise and
cut. But there was a certain hardness
in Benh,am’s expression which
her off.
Now he laughed, harshly,
may have him,” he muttered,
paid to me, the dog.”
“I may have him?” stammered El
len. "I don't know what you mean."
"You should,” was Benham’s curt
reply. "When the fight was coming
my way you cried for me to stop. I
did, and it gave him a chance to get
the upper hand for a time.” He point
ed to his eyes. “He did his best to
blind me—and nearly succeeded. But
I beat him—with these," and he lifted
two hard fists. "It was a satisfaction
long over-due, but it was worth the
could not utter
her, yearning to
to take his bat
fended
"You
"He’s
* * *
Her gaze was drawn again to the
terrible drama before her. Uncon
sciously she started forward. Whit
low’s hand locked on her arm and
dragged her back. “Wait!” he rasp
ed. “Wait!”
.Benham hands, locked about De
teroux’s wrists until the backs of
them were bloodless and ridged like
.steel, seemed to be dragging some
of that awful pressure from his tor
tured eyes. He seemed to be gath
ering himself for super-human effort.
Abruptly one knee drove upwards
into Deteroux’s body. A gasp broke
'from the bigger man.
slightly, and. Benham
free.
Benham’s eyes were
most shut. For a split
men seemed- to pause
themselves. Then Deteroux charged
again, snarling like a wolf to the kill.
With one lithe, twisting movement
Benham bent sharply at the waist
and hurled himself forward, his right
arm shooting out, a hard driven, mus
cle-ridge piston.
Just below che arch of Deteroux’s
lower ribs the blow landed, and the
"thock” of it was awesome. A hoarse,
^blubbering cry of pain erupted from
Deteroux, his knees wobbled, and his
head dropped forward. He retched
■violently, and blood-stained saliva
seeped through his lips.
"He’s got him—the boy’s got him
sional Directorychest and shoulders gleaming wetly.
“Coipe> mother,” he said to the old
squaw. And the two of them walked
away.
When Ellen Mackay finally went
back to the scene of the fight she
was again weary and apathetic. Her
facei was pale, and her eyes were
lack-lustre and subdued, She moved
slowly*
Deteroux was sitting with his back
to a tree. His hands were clasped
between his knees, and Ellen could
see the gleam of polished metal en
circling hi$ wrists,
He flashed ‘a quick glance at her,
and then his gaze went to the ground
again. His face was sullen and defi
ant. Old Moosac was crouched pear
hjm, his beady eyes inscrutable.
Ellen looked around for Whitlow,
and discovered the trooper in animat
ed conversation with several sullen,
frightened Indians. His pencil and
notebook were at work again.
Whitlow spied her, put his note
book away, and came hurrying up.
His face was glowing with satisfac
tion, "My lucky day," he announced
triumphantly. "I’ve got Deteroux
where I want him now, and no mis
take. Where is Benham?”
"In one of the tepees, I imagine,'
she answered dispiritedly,
can we leave for Edson?"
"In an hour or two. I
get Benham’s evidence also
my case against Deteroux
able." '
Whitlow went away on his search,
and Ellen moved down to the canoe
and crouched in it, her back to the
camp, her brooding eyes1 sweeping
across the shimmering waters of the
lake. !
iA great bitterness gnawed at her
—a tremendous disappointment. She
was not angry at John Benham. She
knew no shame over the fact that he
had virtually dismissed her.
She had gone to him in all hones
ty, intending to apologize fully for
the wrong she had done him, and he,
in equal honesty, had repulsed her.
The blame was hers. She knew it,
and admitted it fully.
In some ways triumph also was
hers. Her father’s future and repu
tation were assured. The facts were
clear jn that respect. She had the
satisfaction of knowing that her ef
forts had indirectly moved to this cul
mination.
That those same efforts had- mov
ed to render her the possessor of un
requited love, merely proved the ir
ony of life. And there lay the great
hurt.
Ellen went back in memory to her
first meeting with Benham. How ar
rogant and sure of herself she had
been in approaching the free-trader
with her request to be taken along
on the trip north. And how hurt and
humiliated she felt .when Benham
curtly refused. It was hurt pride as
much as anything that had caused her
to seek old Pat McClatchney’s help
in stowing away on the Benham
boats. Ellen, for whose favor men
had vied with one another in jump
ing to her bidding, now had to plead
for the favor of this man and was
compelled to force herself upon his
care when the favor was refused.
Slie remembered her tremulous
fear when they'’had passed the cas
cades and she had brazenly revealed
herself, certain in the knowledge that
Benham could not return her,to Ath
abasca Landing without serious delay
and loss to himself.
Benham had been very kind and a
gentleman when he discovered how
she had thwarted him through the
help of Pat McClatchney and Pierre
Buschard. He had said no words of
blame and had not scolded or raged
at her as many others would have
done. She had offered to pay for her
transportation and he had apruptly
refused. She remembered now that
certain glint of triumph that shone
in his eyes as he told her, “My pay
ment is assured. I’ll exact my pound
of flesh.”
Ellen had not understood then but
she did now. Benham’s pound of
flesh had been paid by the flare of
anger and the deep humiliation of her
father when the old factor learned of
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the deep regard she held for him. It
was love . . . love almost at first
sight, she now realized.
Benham had-leaped ashore to se~«
cure birch boughs and fashion a small
enclosure on the boat to give her
Shelter and privacy. She had been
touched by his consideration and
thoughtfulness then, and again when
they stopped for the night and she
had carelessly gone for a walk in the
wild, uncharted wood and Benham,
fearful for her safety, had waited for
her return in spite of the fatigue from
the heavy day’s work.
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ACTOR MISSING FROM SHIP AT SEA
swollen, al-
second both
and gather
He cringed
tore himself
gently sponging his battered face and ' words.”
body with the icy lake water. | He stood erect now, his splendid
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preciate sheer, dogged courage, even
in a man like Deteroux, who had not
hesitated to take unfair advantage.
In that refusal to batter further a
helpless man John Benham left be
hind him a white glow of sportsman
ship which seemed to dissipate the
blood-red. haze of conflict.
Ellen, saw Whitlow step forward,
grip Deteroux by the arm and force
him to the ground. The milling crowd
of Indians closed about them, and El
len found herself alone.
Drawn by what seemed a resistless
force, she moved in the direction
John Benham had gone. She peered
into tepees as she went, but nowhere
did she see him. Unconsciously she
hurried her pace. And then, below
the camp at the edge of the lake, she
found him.
He was crouched low, and beside
him was the same ancient squaw,
waiting. Yes—I’m through with
And he’s yours."
Ellen’s thoughts were chaotic.
What madness was this? True, she
had cried out when Benham was win
ning, but she had not meant it to
save Deteroux from punishment. It
was just the eternal woman in her
voicing an overwhelming repugnance
to the utter brutality of it all. And
—and Benham thought she had cried
out to save Deteroux.
Again Benham looked at her. "Was
there anything else?” he asked curt
ly. “Despite your scorn and pride
you have not hesitated to accept fav
ours from a — a half-breed. Remem
ber that all your life, will you? That
even a half-breed can be generous.”
"You—you don’t know what you’re
saying,” Ellen sobbed.
“I ought to.” He laughed grimly.
“I’m giving you back your own
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