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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1940-01-11, Page 2PAGE 2 THE CLINTON NWS•RECORf THURS., JAN. 11, 1940 y$OLVE THIS MYSTERY OF THE SPACIOUS ROMANTIC WEST liv LLEY +► F KEITH 'MARLOW ....... COLIN ANSON CHEZ' FRASER . ... PAUL MARRABLE , . , .... GRACE ARDEN • Principal Characters: ., Of the Canadian Mounted Police, recently joined from Britain. Marlow's cousin, who had gone out to Canada some years earlier than i Keith: , Friend of Keith, he later joins the Mounted Police,' .. An unsavoury, character, suspected of trafficking in drugs and drink With the Canadian Indiana. Lives with her father in a remote past of the mountains. . Keith Marlow's fellow trooper. DUNCAN MacLAINE .; ,; .. CHAPTER III powdery stuff. But Deaner did not, plunged through a black remonstrate and noon found them on water cold as death. lower ground whore the snow was not :It was• a job to move the stove so heavy. The midday meal was eat- en under shelter of a bluff and, as the dogs were tired, Keith gave them OUT INTO THE SNOW 'which Nvas nearly red hot, but Keith .did it, and found a buckskin bag 'which held neatly five sounds' weight of coarse gold. Keith made no sign •of .his astonishment that Dranner should have told him where it was, a full hours rest. Even so Keith suc- ceeded he reaching the spot where he had intended to camp, a grove of thick spruce where therewas shelter from but at the same time he did not like the wind and plenty of firewood. it. It •seefned to him that Dranner t Again he chained his prisoner and must be very sure of escapingand left Koltag to guard him while he of taking the gold with Trim. Again made camp. He did everything hien- Keith resolved that he would not give self. He would not trust Dranner the murderer the feast ghost of a to do anything. The man sat snnok caltance. , I ! y it Ing, watching the other work with A pale sun was rising in an icy,the same sardonic look in his deep. shy as the two left the cabin. Keith' set eyes. Keith would have given a made Dranner walk ahead and break good deal to be able to lead. 'his trail; it was hard work for at times thoughts. the mean was thigh deep h the day Next morning the sky was overcast and the' cloud's hung low. As the sun rose a wind came with it, a keen The Clinton News -Record steady breeze from North-West. with which is Incorporated "Snow!" muttered Keith and he was right. They had hardly finished the breakfast before it began. Keith had not yet spent a winter in the North, so had .not the weather sense of more experienced men. He wondered if it would be wiser to remain in camp rather than' risk travelling in what might be a blizzard. But the thought THE NEW ERA TERMS OP SUBSCRIPTION 4$160 d t Can - hole n hole into CHAPTER IV' WOMAN TO THE RESCUE As he fell Keith managed to grasp the edge of the ice en the fat side of the hole. His mittens slipped on the ice but the forced himself forward and got This elbows vim the rim of the hole. The ice held and he began to struggle upwards. Then, as he raised his eyes, he saw Dranner standing, waiting._•for him Through the loam of the drifting snow the murderer's grey -green eyes stared clown at him, full of pitiless purpose. So this was the end. Dranner would force him back into the water and, to Keith, who swallowed. the coffee with gratitude. The boiling liquid sent a glow through his frozen body and cleared his head, "13e careful Gil," hwarned. Gr , � "My prisoner is loose, and he is: danger- ous!" "He have gun?" Gil qu'estioned.' "He has any rifle, but I don't know whether he hasp cartridges. He was trying to drown me 'When your lady carne 'to my help." Gil frowned, "Name of a dog, but he is a bad One. I will be .careful, Monsieur," He went of£. It was now snowing so heavily that it was impossible to see twenty yards in any direction.. Keith wondered what Dranner was doing. ' ,He felt pretty 'sure that he had no cartridges for the one box of 4rifle cartridges was in the:blanket roll strapped to the sledge and the only loose ones were in the pocket of his own tunic. Without cartridges Dranner was like a toothless wolf. Yet the man was soisavage, so des- perate that Keith was uneasy. to expose her to' such danger. Gil'THE BEST SELLER IN broke in upon Keith's i eflections. "Supper ready. I tisk' your clothes GERMANY dey dry enough to put'on, Den Mamzelle come." Keith, only too anxious to get sight of the wbpega who had saved shim, quickly got back into his uniform. Everything was dry except his foot- wear, but Gil fished out a pair of mekluks which were warm and'com- fortable. Then. Gil went across to: the. tent, and called to his lady. Keith, Tose to meet her, but the words of thanks died on his lips• and i he stood dumbly stering' at the most beautiful girl he haci ever seen,' (CONTINUED NEXT ISSUE) The more so because of this woman.' So far Keith had hardly had a glimpse of her face, -shrouded as it was by the heavy hood of her parka. He did not' know what she looked like, whether 'she was young or old, but froth -the lithe strength of her, as she.had held him he judged that she was young. What a woman was, doing here at this time of year in' this utterly wild country, with no one! • but a breed as companion, he could not imagine. ' He leaned over and felt his clothes. hihimself, escape with the dogs. Even' They were drying fast and soon he Keith refused to give up, It would be able to put them. on again.s seemed to him that, if Dranner came , Meantime he dried his revolver care-. near enough it would be 1 fully and reloaded it. Gil came back g possible to and with him Koltag. catch hien by the legs and pull him'I in, too. If he could do ea Keith felt "He say he come," said the breed that he would not die in vain. with a smile. "He like you, I tink." He. dragged himself upwards. He "He's a `good friend," Keith an - had lost all feelin in his le s but mend. "And Pia glad to have Item per year . (n a vance o a- g g• adieu addresses; $2.00 to the U.S. or other foreign countties. No paper "discontinued until all arrears are ;paid unless at the option of the pub- lisher. The date to which every sub- :acription is paid is denoted on the label. ADVERTISING RATES - Transient advertising 12c per count line for "first insertion. 8c. for each. subse- .quent insertion. Heading courts 2 lines. Small advertisements not to exceed one inch, such as "Wanted", "`Lost, "Strayed", etc., inserted once 'for 35c., each subsequent insertion 15c. Rates for display advertising •snade known on application. 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The lakes were feel by springs rising inatheir beds and these spring's made thin Places in the ice. Since the ice was covered with snow, it was difficult to tell whether it was or was not safe. Early in the afternoon they were cros- sing a lake when the ice cracked sharply beneath them. The noise was so loud as a pistol shot. Dranner, who was leading, swung to the right and sprinted. It was only this that saved them from disaster, Keith stop- ped his prisoner, I"Dranner, I'm taking off those cuffs If you went in with them on, you the muscles of his back and arms I If Dranner comes anywhere near Kola stillresponded to 'his fierce effort. Ile tag will warn us. I wish I irsew got his body over the edge. The ice where the fellow has gone. I'll have cracked and groaned, yet held. Dran- to be after him as soon as my clothes are dry." "You hab supper and sleep: first," Gil said firmly. "I no tink"Dranner he go *ry far in dis storm. You stay still. I fix supper;" her did not move. Now Keith saw that he had the rifle in his hands. It was not loaded, so he meant . to use it as a club. In the thickening gloom Keith saw the man's thin lips twisted in a grin of anticipation. Hope died within him for it was plain that he could not reach Dranner in time to avoid the crashing butt of the rifle. Already his wet clothes were armoured with ice and his legs so helpless he feared he could not rise to his feet. Above the hiss of the wind -driven snow came a new sound. That of feet running across the ice, "Hold on!" carie a. high, clear voice. "I will help you." With a bitter oath Dranner whirled and went, off at full speed. Some- thing came flashing into Keith's circle of vision. A human figure which threw itself flat on the ice, then flung forward a rope, the loose end of which came straight into Keith's hands, "13e careful " Keith cried, "the ice is rotten. Keep back." "I know, Hold on to the rope. Have you a good grip?" "Yes, but-.--" "AU right. I'm running no risk." His rescuer was up again, tying the coulcl not help yourself. But remem- ber that I'll be watching. I shan't take a chance in the world." Once more Keith saw that maddening half smile on the murderer's face. And once more the ratan did not speak, did net utter a word of thanks, "Do you understand?" Keith asked sitarpi- ly. Dranner merely nodded. A SUDDEN CRACK • lather end of the rope to the sledge. "Vola! Hi ya! Mush!" came the quick command. The rope tightened and Keith beard the dogs' claws scratching on the ice as they lunged forward. A moment later he lay !gasping and shivering on sound ice. "Get up!" the voice ordered. And now for the first time Keith realized that his rescuer was a woman. He tried to scramble to his feet, but could Ionly get to his 'knees. The cold had Again they =shed on. The snow 'him now and he was rapidly losing fell relentlessly and they moved like all feeling, ghosts through the everlasting harsh, His rescuer caught him under the hissing swirl. Heads bowed, they arms and lifted him and he stood, plodded on, the merciless, coldbiting swaying dazed. through their furs. Fatigue was. be -I "Run!" she bade him. "Straight ginning to dull his senses and Keith ahead. The shore's only a hundred decided that it Was time to stop, camp yards away. Run -while you can." and call it a day. The trouble was Keith staggered forwards. His legs that the could see .no place fit .for a were like dead sticks. They did not camp, The stretches of land which seem to belong to him. Even his brain lay between these endless lakes were was numbed by the intensity of the flat and covered with low brush. It cold. The woman had him by: the arm. was absolutely necessary to find shel- Without her help he could never have ter and wood, ;kept his feet, She dragged him on - They t;eachecl the far shore of the wards and the dogs, led by Koltag, lake on which they had so narrow an followed. escape and Keith was grateful to By the time they reached the shore know that land, not water, was be- Keith's blood. was cireulating again neath his feet. Yet bene again was and the agony of it was beyond nothing but brush through which the words. The woman heard 'him grit dogs toiled slowly. • his teeth. She understood. The land dipped again, and here "My camp is quite close," she told was another lake or rather the grin him. "You can see the glow of my of one. It was narrow, no more than fire. I told Gil to keep, it up. I three or four hundred yards in width. 'heard the ice break and knew what Keith paused a moment and studied had happened." the opposite shore. He could see it The red glow gave Keith fresh only dimly, tite snow fog wasso thick strength. Two minutes later be found but he could see enough to be sure himself close to a great pile of blaz- that it was high and heavily wooded. ing logs while, behind him, a tarp Here at last was the sp.ot .for which rigged on posts Rept off the bitter he had been searching. wind and reflected the heat. • "Mush!" he cried and the dogs, "Strip him, Gil," said the woman, sensing that their long toil was, near- "And give him coffee." ly over, tightened the traces and WORDS OF THANK§ DIED , made on down the slight slope of the Before Keith could even thank her lake. Here the snow was not so deep lie had entered a tent, opposite which for the wind had swept' it away. Pres- was a second fire, and Keith found ently the runners rang on bare ice himself in the hands of a slim, dark- and arkand the pace quickened. Dranner was faced bree3. Capable hands, for they still in the lead only a few feet in stripped him of his frozen clothes advance of Koltag. They were with- with amazing speed and wrapped him' in less than a hundred yards of the in a thick blanket. far bank when it happened. A report "You not sit too close," Gil ad- likethat of a cannon shot rang out vised. "Now I giveyou coffee, den and Keith felt the ,ice moving, drop- 1 see to dem dogs." piing beneath his feet. He poured .coffee into a metal "Mush!" he yelled to the dogs and mug, sweetened it with half a dozen saw. them spring forward. But he dumps of sugar and handed the mug SHE MCKILLOP MUTUAL Fire a Insurance Company ,Head Office, Seaforth, Ont. Officers: 'President, Thomas Moylan, Sea- Borth; Vice President, William Knox, ,Londesboro; Secretary -Treasurer, M. -A. Reid, Seaforth. Directors, Alex, :Broadfoot, Seaforth; James Sholdiee, Walton; James Connolly, Goderich; W. R. Arehibald, Seaforth; Chris. Leonhardt, Dublin; Alex. McEwing, Bath; Frank McGregor, Clinton.. List of Agents: E. A. Yeo, R.R. 1, :Goderich, Phone 603r31, Clinton; lames Watt, Blyth; John E. Pepper, :Brucefield, 11. R. No. 1; R. F. McKer- reher, Dublin, R. R. No. 1; Chas. F. ;Hewitt, Kincardine; R. G. Jarmuth, ,!Bornholm, R. R. No. 1. Any money to be paid may paid to the Royal Bank, Clinton; Bank of Commerce, Seaforth; or at Calvin +Cbtt's Grocery, Goderich. Parties deairiag to effect insur- ance or transact 'other business will :be promptly attended to on applica- ton to any ,of the above officers ad- thassed to their, respective post offi- ces. Losses inspected by rho director 'who lives nearest the scene. 1 ANAP ' Keith realized that he was savagely hungry -also that he was extremely fortunate to be alive. He knew, too, that Gil was right. It was now pitch dark and travelling would be impos- sible before daylight. If Dranner had matches -and Keith believed he had -the man would build a fire and camp until morning. But he had no food and that world drive 'him des- perate. It was on the carols that he might be lurking close at hand, waiting a chance for an attack. The presence of the woman troubled Keith. He felt that it was not right masrmair TELEPHONE OPERATOR RETIRES AT.GODERICBass After 30 years continuous service as operator for the Bell Telephone Company in Goderich, Miss Jessie McDonald has retired on pension Down through the years Miss Mc- Donald has :seen many changes', from a small switchboard of battery . or `turn the crank"' telephones to a mod- ern exchange with over 800 subscrib- ers, whose instruments are operated by central energy. "She has been a• most obliging courteous and efficient operator," was the tributepaid by Manager Hodge. A complimentary banquet hes been planned for Miss McDonald but it has been postponed until Wednesday of this week owing to the conditions of the highways. It is a very peculiar as well as a very enlightening fact to know that the Bible . and not Hitler's famous book, "Mein Kampf," is the best sell- er of all books in Germany. Peculiar because if it has not been absolutely compulsory, the strongest efforts have been made in tbat coin- try to place Hitler's book in the hands of every man, woman, aad child. And it is -enlightening to know that the sale of "Mein Kampf' has never yet topped all other books. And that honor* has been reserved for the Bible, of which two hundred thousand copies more were sold last year than copies of "Mein Kampf." This result is even more Neither and enlightening because of the fact that the latter book is "regtiired reading," and in spite of the fact that the sale of Bibles has been highly restrleted by law in Germany for several years. OTTAWA BURNS MILLIONS YEARLY Millions of dollars in real, nego- tiable "folding" money goes up in smoke at Ottawa every year in fires that are deliberately Lighted, but it is all very legal and necessary. Those crisp, clean bills you drew freest the bank have a normal life expectancy of only nine months. Then, limp and dirty, torn and patched, they are turned back to the Bank of Can- ada and sent to the furnace. Considering the fact that the note circulation of the Bank of Canada is about $230,000,000 some idea may be obtained of the great flood of paper money that finds its way to oblivion each year. In former years the worn out. money was collected, bleached in a altomical solution which removed all dyes and colors and the paper sold for regrinding and manufacture into' new paper. But the price for this by-product fell so low that it did not pay for bleaching and handling,; and now the used money goes to tire' furnace. BIRD THAT SAVED OFFICER'S LIFE BURIED WITH MILITARY HONORS A. pigeon that saved the life of Major J. J. O. Venter, general staff officer, of the Voortrekkerhoogte,and Transvaal 'command, has been buried with military honors. When he was a young lieutenantI in the South African air force, Get- ter flew over the Bushveld in the Northern Transvaal. He was to re- lease three carrier pigeons so as to test their homing ability. After releasing two of them, Ven - tea,• realized that he was lost. His compass was out of commission, and for as far as he could see the country was covered with small dry bushes without any definite landmark by which he might be able to fix his whereabouts. "Being young and inexperienced at the time, I became panicky," he said. "Then I remembered that I had one pigeon left. "Would he know his way home? It was my only chance. I let him go, and he began', ily in what I 'had thought was the wrong direction. But after hesitating for a few seconds I decided to follow him. We flew on and on, and just when I bad begun to lose all faith in my guide I saw the Pienaae's Riiler, From there on, I knew my way. "After that experience I looked after the bird as a mother would ant only child. He had as much food as' he liked -in fact, he was so spoilt that he became useless as a carrier pigeon." "YOUR HOME STATION" C K N X 1200 Icon. H IN GHAMr 260 ' Metres WIIIBXLY' PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS FRIDAY, JANUARY 12th; 8.30 a.m. Breakfast Club 11.30 a.m. 'Peter MacGregor" 12.45 p.m. The Bell Boys 7.00 p.m. The Jesters SATURDAY, JANUARY 13th: 9.30 a.m. Kiddies' Party 12.45 p.m. Hill-Bdll!es j 7.00 p.m. Wes McKnight '7.45 pan. Barn Dance SUNDAY, JANUARY 14th: 11.00 a.m. Winghann United Church` 1.15 p.m. Scott Patterson t 2.00 pan. Triple -V Bible Glass:* 7.00 p.m. Presbyterian Church .• MONDAY, JANUARY 15bh: 11,15 a,m. "Marie. Antoinette" 12.45 p,m, The Bell Boys 7.00 p•,ni. The .Ambassadors 9.00 p.m. Durham-Winghant hockey TUESDAY, JANUARY 16th: 8.30 a.m. Breakfast Club 11.30 a.m. "Peter MacGregor" 7.00 p.m. The Neviatones 7.45 p.m. Musical Comedy Memories WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17th: 11.15 a,m. "Marie Antoinette" 12.45 p.m. The Bell Boys 7.00 p.m, The Jesters THURSDAY, JANUARY 18th: 10.00 a.m. Harry 3. Boyle 7.00 pan. The Ink Spots 8.30 Grenadier Guards Band Freight C1ekk P(:ll.��il�®��°o NOW for the first time, it is pos- sibe to buy the boobs, that will qualify for position as Freight Clerk. You can also become a Traffic Stenographer, thru our simplified ate shorthand books, in combina- tion with our freight books. War creating a demand for these positions, Write to -day. Cassan Systems 76 Evelyn Crest, Toronto TIME TABLE 'Trains will arrive at and depart from Clinton as follows: Buffalo and Goderich Div. iGoing 'East, depart 6.43 a.m. Going East, depart 8.(40 p.m 'Going : West, depart 11.45 a.m. (Going' West, depart 9.50 p.ln. 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