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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1940-03-14, Page 2-PAGE 2 r THE CLINTON NIMS-RECORD OL'VE THIS MYSTERY OF THE SPACIOUS ROMANTIC WEST ,i �-_`11 BY *It Principal Characters: !KEITH MARLOW',..,.:......... Of the Canadian Mounted Police, recently' joined: from Britain. .COLIN ANSON Marlow's cousin, who had gone' out to Canada some years earlier than Keith. .CHET FRASER ... , .. Viieud of Keith, he later joins the Mounted Police.' PAUL MARRABLE :GRACE ARDEN DUNCAN MacLAINE • An unsavoury character, suspected of trafficking in drugs and with the Canadian Indians. • Lives with her father in a remote part of the mountains. ...Keith' Marlow's fellow trooper. drink CHAPTER XX '?UZU DRAWS A IVIAP, Keith, 'Chet, and Duncan and odd little Tuzu sat in the living room of the Sundance Barracks, holding a .council of war. Outside a spring blizzard raged, the wind roared over, the roof, shrieking in the chimney .and plastering the windows with finely -powdered snow. 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Going East, depart 6.43 a.m. Going East, depart Fi.00 Mm Going West, depart 11.46 a.m. /Going West, depart 9.60 p.m. London, Huron & Bruce 'Going North, ar 11.21, lve. 11.47 a.m. Going South ar. 2.50, leave 3.08 p.m red, gave a cosy warmth. The long, low room ivas snug and conrfartable. Keith was restless. "Confound this weather!" he mumbled. "I want to get along. I want to reach Marrable before he can get a new 'plane." Duncan took his pipe from his .mouth. "I'm thinking it will take a long time for Marrable to get anithei And Tuzu here tells me that ye canna travel up this Lost River till the ice is oot " Tuzu nodded violently. "Zat ees ze truth," he declared. "Ze river. she run so fast she no freeze all over, and ze banks so high eat only ze squirrel can walk on zem. Ze spring she come, zen we go up in: ze cano'e." "Ye go up in the canoe, but do ye ken when ye are going to?" Duncan asked. "Ken" was a new word for Tuzu, but he got the Corporal's mean- ing. "Zat ees where zeLost River comes, time getting 'here"Keith said quick step for pounds of caked sttiff clung to theta. At midday pools of wale glistened on the dung surface of the snow, but there were still frosts which hardened the spongy blanket for a few hours in the early morning• Keith and Chet busied themselves with preparations for their trip: Thi time the Whole journey would be don by water. They would do down the Tyson, the river on which Sundance stood, to its junction with the Slane, then up this to the mouth of Lost River. They knew their way that far; afterwards Tusu would be the guide. Since the distance was considerable and thy, were going into unknown country they took, food for six weeks as well as. a goodly supply of =- Munition. Keith went into M'Grath's'store one morning to get` some shot -gun , cart. ridges and saw a small, slim • man standing at the counter. Although his face was' turned away there was something%familiar about hini. The man ttuned and Keith strode forward with outstretched hand, "You, Gil! What brings you here?" he same I tink, dat brings you, Monsieur lVIarfow," Gil answered with a smile. "I buy de stores," Mineable or his gang..He decided. against the question for,' though he knew Gil to be reliable, it was es- sential that no word should get out concereing his mission. ' He put out his hand. • "Goodbye, Gil. And remember that, s if I can do anything foe you or o mademoiselle, you have only to ask" "T not fagot. Goodbye Corporal" Next inorning Gil was gone bat no One ' had seen, him heave• You must have had the deuce of a Tamar livor' "I travel bynight," said th "Has ;he anything to-do with Wing's voyageur. "Den de snow is hard," gang?" Keith questioned. Tuzu shook' "And how is Miss'den his head vigorously, I Arden? Is she . 1 'Isere?" "Nozzing—nozzing at all, Ze Tam-; "She no here," Gil told him, "but er, he good man; Wing, he bad man."! she vain well when I leave.' Keith "How far is it from this place you longed to ask where Gil had left his r call The Bowl up to the Valley." I mistress; but questione of that sort "It ices long way. I not know how are not good form in the North. Be - far. I not been zere." I sides he remembered how Grace her - 1 Chet had a bright idea. He got a sell had eluded ]tis queries. sheet of paper and a pencil and askedi "Will she be in Sundance this Tuzu if he could snake any sort of summer?" he inquired. map of the Lost River country. Tuzu "1 cannot tell," Gil answered. "She, could neither read nor write, but he 110 say when Gley come cut." Keith soon proved that he had the Indian'i 'hesitated. ability to draw. His map was rough,' "Will yoo remember me to her very but it showed that The Bowl, as he kindly, Gil. And tell her that I have called it, lay to the East of the river never forgotten how she pulled me and was connected with it by a small but of the ice" Gil evidently ap- tributary which broke through a deep predated Keith's restraint. Ile show - i canyon, and evidently a very narrow ed his very white teeth in a pleased one. Duncan got out the Ordnance smile. I Map and compared it with Tuzu's' "I tell her, Monsieur Marlow. And ' sketches. ' now I ask you something. Did you "He's 00 so far wrong; he remark-; get dat Dranner?" ed. "here's Lost River, but the top 1 "I got him. He was hanged three course is just a dotted line. They months ago," have na surveyed it yet. And here "Dat is good. I tell dat too t to the right are what they call the Nlamsallc. She say she sore you ge Organ Mountains." 1 him.,, "Any record of prospectors going Keith felt a little thrill of pleasure up there?" Keith asked. i It was something to know that Grace "Aye, Bob Trimble told ale he tried i Arden had thought well of him fo it. But he dithna get far. The place:re ver a his life had he so desire fair daunted him." Keith got up, the good opinion of ally woman. On. -mit to a window and looked out, the spur of the moment he spoke tut all he could see was a white mist again. f whirling snowflakes' I "Gil, I ant not asking you where "Ye win na help Yourself by worry- Mademoiselle and her father are liv- ig," Duncan remarked. Anel ye ing for it was plain. to 100 that she aril do well to remember that if, slid not wish me to know. But will e canna travel yourself y se f it's the' you remind her of her IAromise that gale. tot all the rest."1 she would tell me when she was corn - NEWS OF GRACE ARDEN big to Sundance." -Gil gave Keith a sudden, sharp loolc, then his face re - The blizzard blew out during the laxed. He nodded. ght and next day the temperature "I tell her," he said briefly. "I tell id risen nearly to freezing "point. It her, too, you now Corporal." 11 quite warm. Theft more show fell,' "You can tell her I'll be something teat white flakes that clan);. 11'ithinj better before Pin much older -either mother week the thaw was on. The that or dead," Keith added grimly. •if Is caked instead of packing, Find: "You go get anozer killer?" Gil e snow crest became so rotten that asked. Keith nodded was a job to walk the length of "Leaving almost at Duce," he said. inflame's one short street. Snow- He hesitated, He was half inclined acs gathered weight with evcly to ask Gil i£ he knew anything of CHAPTER XXI UP, THE LOST RIVER . Front their camping• place on a flat-topped ledge of rock above Lost River. Chet -surveyed the sierround t mg• Seen "I don't lueow what you think of it, Keith," he -said Slowly, "but I call it a horrible place." This was their first camp .on Lost River, All clay the three had toiled desperately, fighting the fierce cur- rent of snow water that swirled down the narrow gorge. At times they had met rapids so fierce that there was nothing for it but to unload the canoe, portage the heavy cargo over broken ledges ander the towering cliffs, then tail the canoe up, two towing, the third sitting he the light craft and e fending her off the boulders with a Paddle. In eight hours' desperate toil they travelled no more than ten miles. The rock ledge on which they had camped for the night was about ten ten feet above the surface of the river whish, swollen by melted snow, raeed down a gorge na more than fifty feet wide Its roar filled the whole canyon with a steady thunder which every now and then changed slightly he tone as a wave a yard or more high came rushing down fronsabove. Behind them a precipice rose sheer for several hutidred feet but, opposite, the cliff was note so high and broke away in a steep slope streaked with snowdrifts, which rose endlessly to the pale evening sky. The wind coating off this snow slope struck bitter cold and the party had' no wood to build a fire. They had to make their coffee and fry their baton on a small oil stove. "Is it all like this?" Chet asked of Tuzu. Tuzu nodded. "I sink five some too soon," he remarked. "We go to Ze Bowl," he answered. "And what Will that be?" Duncan inquired. "Ea is ze hole in 80 lulls .Beep lak acre. Zat where ze 'plane site ride on ze water." "Aye, but how do ye get there?" "Tr•oo ze passage in ze rocks." Duncan frowned. "11 clinna sound good to me. Will there no be a guard there?" "Zere in guard but we fees hint." Tuzu Hassett his Rapti a'eross Ili o. "Too early in the season—is that t what you mean?" Keith asked. Again the little man nodded. "Ze snow water, she runt too much" he said. Keith shrugged. r 'Let's feed and get into our blank - 1 cls. Looks like we've another big - day tomorrow." Food .and sleep put 111010 all in a more cheerful mood and they were afloat early next morning•, All were expert water men, which was just as well for that clay was, if anything, worse than the first. At times it was almost impossible to force the light craft against the mill -race force of the tlutndering• torrent. IThe chief danger was from the 1 huge lumps of melting Snell, which now and then toppled from the cliff I 1 tops, Even if these did not fall un comfortably close to the canoe they t throw up waves which threatened to swamp her. As on the previous day they cucountered rapids where they 1 Amid_ to portage. The womb of this was that there was so little foothold. At times they had to climb thirty or' s forty feet above the river level, no th oat with a gesture of horrid sig-' rt nificaece. b "Ye eanne go cutting men's throats' o gin we are working for the police," 1 Duncan told him, "But • ye can rap in him over the heat{." He turned to iv Keith. y "It's lucky ye 'have someone to s guide ye, Keith. It's mighty bad 1 country. Nae dont Mineable found. the I lake from the air, but I take it that Tuzu )fere went up by water." I ni "Zat right," said Tuzu. "I go by 111 ze river. We 'ave to portage many; fe times, and it takes a week to reach g ze Big Slit." - i ai "The passage to The Bowl, you do mean?" Chet put in. th "Zat ccs right," the little man att-I it swcred. Keith began to ask questions. S "What about this Valley of No 511 'THURS., T ARCH 14, 1940 joke when each was carrying a pack almost equal to his own weight.: Without Tuzu, Keith and Chet could never 'leave managed at all. He knew the river and was able to tell tluem where a portage was necessary and on which side they must land to make it. Small as he was, he slid his share manfully and never 0o1n- plained. Keith grew quite fond of the odd looking man. Five, days went by and on the fifth evening they found a camping place where a few' stunted spruce gave wood. They were able to build a fir and dry their soaking' clothes. Not one had a dry stitch on him when they landed toe there had been a heavy iain�storm that afternoon. "To -:morrow we get to ze Big Slit," Tuzu announced. Keith stiffened. "The deuce we dol What time are we likely to get there?" "I1 take half ze day," Keith turned to Chet. " "We shall have to lie up some- where. We can't tackle'the guard until after dark." Tuzu nodd-ed violently, I' know ze good place to bide ze canoe. • I show you." Keith clapped Mote a JUST LIKE fel," Keith answered, "but with Tuzu to guide us I'm reckoning on a sur- prise party" He stood up as he spoke and looked around. "Chert, it looks as if one could climb tip this e rock slide to the top of the cliff. In that case one might cat across to the Slit and have a look see. I'll try the climb and, if it's all eight, Pll signal . you to join ane." • The climb turned out more easy than Keith had supposed and ire about ten minutes Keith reached the top and poked his head over. He was on ' i the edge of a grassy slope, but some distance ahead was 'a long' ridge or . rib of rock too high for him to sew ' over the top. He turned and spoke to Chet. I"Wait a bit, I'll be back in a few minutes." Bent double, ,he reached the ridge and was crawling up it when a deep toned roar broke the silence of the mountains. "Another snow slide," Keith said to himself, but this was no slide. To Ms horror he saw a huge wave which looked to be ten feet high racing down the river. It was coming as fast as a horse could gallop. He turned and ran yet as he ran knew he was too late to give the warning which might save the lives of Chet and Tuzu. (CONTINUED NEXT WEEK) him on the back. DEATH COMES BY WATER "We couldn't get along without /you, Tuzu. If we smash up this gang I'll see that you are looked after for the rest of your -life." "1 .like work for you," Tuzu said simply, "You and Monsieur Wilson are ze first men who are kind to Inc." He turned t), look after the fire; Keith and Chet exchanged glances, but did not speak. They were more touched than they cared to admit. Tuzu was right. Just before twelve next day they arrived at a bend in the river. On the East side the. cliff was broken by a great landslide which, when it first fell years ago, must have blocked the whole stream. The water, pounding behind the rock dant, had broken it away, but a great pile of rocks remained and, behind then, a small stretch of calm water with a narrow space under the cliff, where it was possible to land, Here they tied up the canoe and went ashore to eat their dinner. The weather had turned mild and sunny, but the peaks on both sides of the river shone dazzling -white. This country was so high that the last of the snow would not melt until mitt -summer. While they ate Tuzu explained that the Slit was about half a utile above. From there he said it was net more than five miles to the Bowl where the dope gang had breis headquarters. "And where are the guards," Keith asked. 'Tuzu told him that they had a shack a little way up the Slit. They did not shote themselves on the main river or interfere with anyona going up or down. "That's common sense," said Chet. `Marrable's idea is to keep his hicly hole secret. Gee, but he could hardly nave. found a better one," "That's a fact," Keith agreed. "Su ong as he has a 'plane he can dis- tt'iitute his alcohol all over the coua- ry. What I am wondering is whether I has a second 'plane" "I'm more interested to know how early men he has," Chet said. "We went exactly an army and it won't help Harman and Bishop if eve get cnnnered." "We shall have to be a bit care- .,.,r,,,..-...... dam, r-:.k„�.-.,Int...,.,.r. .ri..._Mn..,..-, �.®.a..,� MAKE FRIENDS WITH THE BIRDS By John Hartley THE FLICKER This bird is called a Flicker be- cause of its dashing flight which may be followed by means of its riot of colour. It is called High Hole because it makes a round hole two inches in diameter about 16 feet up in a tree and then digs down to matte a home. It is called Yellow Hammer because it hammers with its bill on an cave trough, roof or other metal surface. It Inas several other names. This is the only wood -pecker • that eats grubs, ants and worms fro -in the. ground. To Make a L'lieker House Go to a wood yard and get 4 slabs each 1 foot long Set the 4 up to look like the trunk of a tree and nail them together. Take the unnnd tin top of a glass jar 2 incites in. diameter. Piece this about 2 inches down from the top of one of the slabs and draw a. 2 -inch ring with a 1 lead pencil. Bore small holes with a brace and bit around on this circle and take the piece out. Smooth the edge. Cut t board to fit the opening al: the bottom, place it in and nail I through the slabs to hold it in place • for• a floor. Cut the upper end to form a slant for the roof leaving the ! opeuiug on the high side. Nail a board on top for the roof which should project a little. Place the house about 12 feet from the groand of the stout branch of a tree and wire it to the trunk of the tree near your garden. Put tate house up about April lst . 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