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obert Ames Benne
SYNOPSIS
Allen Garth is ,preparing to make.
a trip to a mine which he has discov-
ered in the Canadian Northwest when
an aeroplane appears at the little re-
fueling station and an elderly man,
a young man and a young woman
alight.
The two men who are looking for
mining prospects, become much in-
terested in some specimens of ore
shown them by Garth. They are all
ranter haughty, especially the girl,
and treat Garth like a servant, but
he shows his independence and does-
n't allow himself to be ordered about.
They decide to take Garth in their
aeroplane to inspect his mine and if
it turns out to be worth working to
take a lease for a year and give him
sixty percent. of the output. They
become so interested that they try
to get away in their plane leaving
him behind so they can put in their
claim for the mine. They are thwar-
ted in this and their plane is swept
down the falls and destroyed. Garth
then agrees to lead them out if they
will do just as he says and when they
get to the river Huxby shoots Garth
from ambush, also wounding Hamill.
But though wounded Garth is not kil-
led and Lilith, realizing this and fear-
ing. that if Huxby finds it out he will
finish the job, drives him off, declar-
ing she will kill him if he approaches
them. Huxby goes, taking the canoe
and Garth's gun. He procures a
plane, some miners' equipment and
the help of some old miners and flies
back to the mine. Garth, on recov-
ering from his wound, signals a ship She flung out her hands. "Oh, if
and they are taken out to civilization. only I could go along to help! I'm
Garth informs the authorities of Hux- so afraid he'llfind you. All those
by'theft of the mine and his at-
guns—he and his men —you, empty -
tempted
pted murder of himself and a
Goderich Fisherman Given
Life -Saving Award
A recognition' long overdue, has
:been awarded to Bert MacDonald . of
Goderieh by the. Royal Life -Saving So-
ciety. The award, which was a parch-
ment, has been; given to Bert for his
courage and the cool judgment he u -
'ed in rescuing Fred Hardy, 226 Bruns-
wick street, Stratford; from the ehil-
,ly waters of Lake Huron on October
10th of last year,
Mr. Hardy • was fishing on the
breakwater with two other men when
.a gale began to blow. Bert warned
the men and told them thatthey had
better come in but his warning was
unheeded. A little later the waves
were washing over the breakwater
and Bert 'went out to bring the fish-
ermen in. He had just arrived on
the scene when Hardy was washed
from the sea-wall. His heavy clothing
hampered him and he would in all
probability have been drowned but
for the prompt action of the rescuer
who extended a pole and pulled the
drowning man to the safety of the
lboat. Some weeks later, H. T. Ed-
wards, Children's Aid Society Super-
iintendent in Goderich, had application
forms filled out by the rescued man
and a witness and sent them in to
the Royal Society in order that Mr.
MacDonald might receive recognition
for his action.
This Bert MacDonald is considered
something more than a man in Gode-
rich. He is a fixture, something very
indispensible.
A MISUNDERSTANDING
When the preacher called for wo-
men to stand up and promise to go
home and mother their husbands only
'one little woman arose, and when he
told her to go honor at once and
mother her husband,' she said, "Moth -
ser .him? I thought you said Smother
'him!"
nights had become long and black.
Garth wakened a full two hours be-
fore dawn. He had gone to -sleep,
mindful of a hazard to his plans.
There had been more wind with
storm than he had expected. If it
had broken up the ice on the lake, the.
cabin plane must either have gone
to the bottom or else have driven
close in upon the east shore,
Lilith opened her eyes as Garth fin-
ished his hasty meal of lamp -seared
meat and fat. Re explained abort the
plane. Her hands clutched together
tilI they whitened.
"You --you'll be careful?"
"Never fear. I'll come back to look
out for you." He stripped off his
buckskins to put on the caribou leg-
gings and parka over the inner suit
of rabbit -fur. "The storm has blown
out. C1ea'r sky, and about ten below
zero. Keep treating your ankle, and
work on your suit."
"But—how long?—"
He handed• her the knife, but took
the belt -ax. "If I'm not back soon, it
will not be till late afternoon or after
dark. They may turn out early, like
myself, to have a look at their plane.
In that case, I'll have to hide-out all
day."
"You'll freeze!"
That won a smile from him. "This
is an Eskimo rig. I've sat in one for
hours beside a seal hole, at forty be-
low zero. Finish your own suit, and
crawl out to enjoy the frost. Only,
be careful of that ankle. When out-
side, keep close to the igloo, and duck
inside if you see anyone else than
t' S• t Dillon,detailed t o handed!".
Mountie,
le, r g. is o g
out and get Huxby, Garth going as Garth met the almost frantic outs
guide. Lilith determines to go along
and nothing can stop her. They land
at the edge of the wood where the
other plane was wrecked and Dillon
and Garth go up to the camp. As
soon as Dillon shows himself and de-
mands the surrender of Huxby he is
deliberately shot. In the shots follow-
ing Garth's gun is shot from his hand
but he escapes and manages to take
the body of Dillon to the plane. He
and Lilith then go to a place near a
glacier where Garth has a cache of
food, make camp and plan to "get"
these desperate sten single-handed.
burst with a look of cool irony. "Do
you take me for a cheehahco? Mark
this—that scoundrel Huxby is the
man who's in danger."
With the assurance, Garth crept
out through the tunnel, shoving his
snowshoes ahead of him. Snow had
continued to fall after the wind had
died down. That meant easy track-
ing. In the dim starlight, he had to
guess at the covering of his trail to
the stream channel.
During the night, the last dwind-
ling flow had choked the channel with
anchor ice, had flooded over the snow,
and frozen solid. Garth took off his
snowshoes and crept across the glare
NOW GO ON WITH TALC STORY• ice without leaving any marks.
She stared, astonished. "What! On the other bank, he plowed a
You—trapped here in the valley, with heavy trail up into the ice tunnel,
no means of defense; and he bound and brought from the storage cave
to hunt you out—murder you!" tone of the retraining legs of caribou.
"Don't let that worry you, Miss 'He left the meat atop the moraine,
Hamill. By this time he and his men and started down the tundra as fast
are back at their camp. If he comes as he could travel by starlight.
Dawn was graying over the east
mountain wall of the valley when he
neared the lake. He crossed over the
up here, after the storm, he'll not dis-
cover us."
."But—but you can't get away!"
Garth's smile hardened. "Neither frozen ford and went to peer at the
can they. Now tend to your ankle. three -seater plane in the growing
I'm going for meat." frozen twilight. It stood much higher
Ile dressed and crawled out into than he had left it.
the storm. When at last he came back I A close view showed that the engin-
in, he had brought nearly half of the eer and his men had managed to raise
caribou meat from the ice cave and the craft above water by cribbing
stacked it around the igloo. He had logs under the shattered pontoons.
also set up blocks of snow -crust to The top logs of the crib brought the
bottom of the floats level with the
thickening skim ice. Long poles, had
been set to brace the wings, against
the wind gusts.
Garth swung aboard,' As he ex-
pected, all the food had been taken a-
way. So also had been the breaker
points from the magneto. .Huxby no
shape a drift of new snow in a cer-
tain way.
Lilith was bent over her snow -
packed ankle, slow -welling tears rol-
ling down her flushed cheeks, He
spoke with restrained concern: "Sor-
ry' it hurts- so bad. Hoped the cold
would ease it."
"Don't!" she snapped. "Don't you doubt had figured that the canoe
dare pity me! 'It doesn't hurt stow- builder might repair the 'floats with
not at all. It's—it's because I'm so rawhide, and run away with the three -
utterly useless!" • seater. To baik the engineer, in turn
"Well, PM not so .sure of that. Garth helped himself to the breaker
We're in for a cold, spell. There'll be cam.
plenty of needlework. Those caribou He jumped back on the bank, and
skins weren't tanned for rugs." mushed eastwards along the shore in
He unrolled the thawed wolverine the dim grayness. At first, thickets
of alders and willows cut off alt view
pelt and showed big of the lake. He did not trouble to
With his knife hea started of catgut. to shape
caribou shins for parkas and trousers.jseek an opening until he had covered
LiIith's eyes brightened. She soften- a half mile There he came to a
ed a length of catgut in the melted remembered stretch of partly open
lamp -fat, andasked for a needle. +bank.
All the remainder of that day of Though the gray dawn had grown. a
death and storm, both of them plied little less faint, he peered for several
awl and buckskin needle and catgut moments without sighting the cabin
thread. Neither was an Eskimo ; plane. It seemed as if its pontoons
seamstress. But their stitches, l must have been sawed through by
though coarse, were strong. By night-lthe sharp -edged sheet ice, so that the
fall they, finished the first caribou- aircraft had foundered in deep water.
skin suit—waistlong sock -leggings,:' But then he made out vaguely a
and parka with hood front, fringed; white shape against the white of the
with wolverine fur. snow-covered ice. A short dash
After another meal of broiled meat,' brought him close to the grounded
Garth went out and climbed the lot -I plane,' It lay in shallow water, sur-
eral moraine to gather a quantity of •rounded by freezing slush. The biiz-
caribou moss from between the snout- !zard bad hit the lake hard enough to
drifts on the wind-swept tundra, break up the sheet ice and crack it
When he returned, Lilith lay asleep I into pieces too small to grind through
on one of the uncut shins. She had the sides of the pontoons.
sunk dews, completely tired out.
I The plane had been driven across
Garth covered her over, blocked the Iinto this earner of the lake, along
roof hole with a chunk of soft snow, !with the sludge. The shoreward -
and spread his own skin mat on the swung tail was only a biscuit togs out
other side of the lamp from the giri.1from the solid bank. Garth hastened
He lay down on it and snuffed out to fetch small trunks and pieces of
the light, rotted logs from the down timber, un-
der the nearest trees. By tossing out
CHAPTER XX chunks of log on the snow-covered
sludge and bog, :he was able to make
The Bedeviling a slender footbridge with pair's of
With the: ending of summer the trunks.
The, last extension proved touch and
go, Cross pieces and stringers drove
under his weight, into, the sludge-fil-
led water and the mud beneath. But
he had made a dash of it. His hands:
clutched hold of the rudder before he
could stink.
He climbed upon the tail, ran for-
ward to the cabin, and swung inboard.
The frozen body of Constable ,Dillon
lay on the floor where he had placed,
it. He buckled this cartridge belt with
its holstered pistol about his own
waist, took the keys and handcuffs
from Dillon's ,pocket,` and climbed out
to scramble forward into the cockpit.
The side of the cockpit had been
pierced by several bullets. But when
ifuxby fired at the drifting plane, in
his attempt to kill the supposedly
hidden fugitives, he had aimed with
great care to avoid damage to the in-
struments and controls and the motor.
After removing the breaker points
from'the magneto, Garth ran back to
the tail of the plane. Here came the
greatest of his risks. The bridge poles
had riser. to the surface again, but the
outermost cross logs remained em-
bedded in the mud under the water.
He let himself down sideways. As
his moccasins touched the slender
trunks, he let go of the rudder and
leaped. Though the ends of the poles
shot downwards, his swift dash car-
ried him up their sharp slant to the
next pair of trunks.
The rest of the improvised bridge
was fairly firm, A single misstep
anywhere along it would have landed
him in deep bog; but he had done far
too much canoeing and rough -ground
running to lack balance or sure-foot-
edness.
Safe back on solid ground, he at
once stepped into his snowshoes and
headed straight away from the shore
into a dense growth of spruce. There
he circled to the right towards the
glacier gulch, keeping well back from
the lake.
Midway to the stream channel he
stopped where, through separate vis-
tas, he could see both planes. The
gray dawn had brightened enough to
make them visible at a distance. He
sat down on a log to wait. In the Es-
kimo suit, the cold was negligible.
A look at the constable's pistol
showed it to be fully loaded. He took
off the belt and buckled it on again
up under the loose fullness of his
parka. Holstered between the cari-
bou skin and his rabbit -fur under -
suit, the oil in the pistol mechanism
would become warm. Cold oil is apt
to jam a gun.
After making sure of the pistol,
he had nothing to do except give his
face an occasional rub to prevent
frostbite, He sat restfully relaxed,
as patient as an Eskimo hunter be-
side a seal hole. Very slowly the gray
dawn brightened. It at last began
to mellow into gold,
From across the lake came the
crack of rifles—three shots in quick
succession. Garth told himself that
Huxby or his men were hunting
noose. He surmised why. The en-
gineer planned to cover the shatter-
ed ends of the three -seater plane's
floats with rawhide.
The sun glared over the lagged
barrier mountains into the frost -grip-
ped valley. Quite a while later,
Garth saw one of his four enemies
come out of the trees near the lake
shore, on the far side of the frozen
glacier stream. The man carried a
big folded hide on his left shoulder.
He held his rifle ready for a quick
shot, and as he advanced, he peered
around at the brush and trees.
A shout turned the man's steps up
towards the ford. Other shouts came
from the slope above. Garth smiled,
It was as he had foreseen. In com-
ing to repair the floats of the three -
seater plane, Huxby and .his men
had formed a line from the lake shore
to timberline and searched the spruce
woods.
But the hunters had found no trace
of their quarry all the way to the
bank of the frozen glacier stream.
There, however, the snowshoe tracks
coming down from the tundramade
plain sign even for chechahcos. Hux-
by cane running along the trail, fol-
lowed by the man with the moose-
hide,
Near the plane the engineer stop-
ped for the miner to overtake him.
They approached the stranded air-
craft warily, with rifles raised, rea-
dy to shoot. When nothing happened,
Hubxy 'signed for his companion to
drop the hide and climb aboard. As
the man obeyed, another of the min-
ers came running down the trail.
Huxby was looking at the tracks
that led on along the lake shore. The
man on the plane peered into the
three cockpits. Huxby sighted the
cabin plane across the corner of, the
lake. lie shouted and painted to it,
but waited for the second miner to
come up before starting on along the
trail. The fourth .matt of the party
appeared up the stream bank.
• (Continued next week).
DOINGS IN THE SCOUT
WORLD
Scott's "Discovery" Given Boy Scouts
Canadian Sea Scouts visiting Lon-
don may shortly be able to "sign on"
for their stay aboard Captain Scott's
famous Antarctic research ship the
"Discovery." Announcement of the
turning over of this famous vessel to
the Boy Soucts Association by the
Legislative Council of the Falkland
Islands was made by Imperial Scout
Headquarters. According to the an-
nouncement the "Discovery" will be
used for a number of definite pun -
THS !MEL OF.FIEWER
PERHAPS the artist has
exaggerated a little -but
his point is clear and true.
There is far, far less ash
with coke than with other
hard fuels. This simple
fact means that you save not only money by
using Hamco Coke but much back -breaking
labour in shifting ashes. (Not to mention the
fact that coke is much lighter on the shovel.)
And your wife saves on
her house-cleaning tasks
because coke is free from
dust, soot and grime.
Add to these advantages,
— the greatest blessing of all
—quicker heat in the morning and a steady,
easy -to -control warmth all day — and your
choice should be obvious. Try Hamco Coke
next time. Your dealer is waiting to serve you!
HAMILTON aY.PRODUCTCOKE OVENS, LIMITED, HAMILTON, CANADA
COKE'S LOWER PRICE IS
BUT ONE OF iTS ASSETS
Coke first came into promi-
nence in Ontario when supplies
of other hard fuels ran short.
Some people therefore who have
never used coke look upon it as
a "substitute" for other hard
fuels.
This is far from the fact. The
discovery of coke, centuries ago,
was a great step forward in fuel
development. Coke ovens were
built, last century, right at the
mines so that coal could be
transformed into coke to satisfy
the demand.
Gradually, householders
Iearned of the unique properties
of coke in domestic furnaces.
Irrespective of price they found
it heated their homes more thor-
oughly with less trouble, fewer
ashes and no soot or smoke.
To these advantages is added
the lower cost. In the opinion
of a vast army of house-
holders By -Product Coke is
the most economical of all solid
smokeless fuels. Remember,
there is no finer coke on the
market than Hamco, made in
Canada.
HAMCO COKE sold in Clinton by=
J. B. MUSTARD COAL CO.
VICTOR FALCONER
W. J. MILLER & SON . A. D. McCARTNEY
poses: A Iiving memorial to Captain
Scott, Sir Douglas Mawson and other
polar explorers. As a Headquarters
for the Sea Scout Branch of the Boy
Scouts Association. As a Training
Centre for Sea Scouts. As a Training
centre f o r poor and unemployed
Scouts. As a rendezvous for Deep
Sea Scouts. As a Hostel for Over-
sea Scouts who may from time to
time be passing through London, and
in particular for those who are sons
or descendants of British settlers ov-
erseas. Funds to finance the project
were presented the Scout Association
shortly before her death by the late
Lady Houston.
Boys "Trained" For The Death House
"Do you realize that future occu-
pants of the death house at Sing Sing
are today being trained for that des-
tiny?—that today boys, through miss
taken training and unfavourable en-
vironment, are heading straight foe
the electric chair'?" This was the
tragic query added to a recent ap-
peal by Warden Lawes of Sing Sing
prison for more Scout Leaders, to
make available to more American
boys the interest arousing activities
of the Scouting programme.
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