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The Clinton News Record, 1937-02-18, Page 21'AGE 2 THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD FEBRUARY 18TI: 1937. The Clinton , News -Record With which is Incorporated THE NEW ERA: TERMS OJF SUBSCRIPTION 161.50 per rear in advance, to Cana- dian addresses, x$2.00 to the U.S. or 'Aber -foreign countries. No paper discontinued until all arrears are paid unless at the option of the publish- er. Tho date to which every 'sub- ecriytion is paid •.is denoted on the Label. ADVERTISING RATES — Tran - :dent advertising 12e per count line for first insertion. 8c for ea..h sub- eequent insertion. Heading counts 2 lines. Small advertisements not to ,exceed one inch, - such as "Wanted," "Lost," "Strayed," etc., inserted once dor 33c, each subsequent insertion 15e. Rates for display advertising made known on application, Communications intended for pub- lication must, as a guarantee of good 'faith, be accompanied by the name of the writer. !G. E. HALL Proprietor. IL T. RANCE • Notary Public, Conveyancer `financial. Reay Estate and Fire In- surance Agent. Representing 14 Fire Insuran% Companies. Division Court Office, Clinton `!Frank Fingland, B.A., LL.B. Barrister, Solicitor, Notary Public ,Successor to W. Brydone, K.C. Sloan Block — Clinfnn, Ont. D. H. McINNES CHIROPRACTOR Electro Therapist, Massage c�ffiee: Huron Street. (Few Doors west of Royal Bank) !Hours—Wed. and Sat. and by appointment. FOOT CORRECTION 'y manipulation Sun -Ray Treatmeat Phone 207 GEORGE ELLIOTT 'Licensed Auctioneer for the County of Huron Correspondence promptly answered Immediate arrangements can be made for Sales Date at The News -Record, 'Bibiton, or by calling phone 203. Charges Moderate and Satisfaction Guaranteed, 'THE McKILLOP MUTUAL Fire Insurance Company Head Office, Seafortb, Ont. Officers: President, Alex. Broadfoot, Sea - 'forth; 'Vice -President, John E. Pep - ,per, Brucefield; Secretary -Treasurer, M. A. Reid, Seaforth. Directors: Alex. Broadfoot, Brucefield; James Sholdice, Walton; William Knox, Londesboro; George Leonhardt, Dub - 'lin; John E. Pepper, Brucefield; James Connolly, Goderich; Thomas Moylan, Seaforth; W. R. Archibald, Seaforth; Alex. McEwing, Blyth. List of Agents: W. J. Yeo, Clin- gon, R, R. No. 3; James Watt, Blyth; !John E. Pepper, Brucefield, 11, R. 'No. 1; R. F. McKercher, Dublin, R. R. No. 1; Chas. F. Hewitt, Kincardine; !R. G. Jarmuth, Bornholm, R. R. No. 1. Any money to be paid may be paid 'to the Royal Bank, Clinton; Bank of Commerce, Seaforth,' or at Calvin ,Cutt'a Grocery, Goderich. Parties desiring to effect insur- mance or transact dther business will 'be promptly attended to on applica- lon to any of the above officers 214 - .dressed to their respective past olfi- -ees. Losses inspected by the•direeter 'who lives nearest the scene. 1 ANADIANATIONAi ' ILWAYS TIME TABLE ',Trains will arrive at and depart from Clinton as follows: Buffalo and Goderich Div. "Going East, depart 7.03 a.m. Going East, depart 3.06 p.m. .Going West, depart 12,02 p.m. • Going West, depart 10.08 p.m. London, Huron & Bruce Going North, ar. 11.34, lve 12.02 p,m. Going South 3.08 p.m. The Coronation- Yes of Course With his father chairman of the public school board and his mother president of the Central Horne and School: Club, eight-year-old • John !Graham is quite interested in school affairs. He also is interested in ev- •ents beyond the seas, as his mother found out. The lad was enquiring about the •procedure at Tuesday's meeting of the Club and his mother explained 'that the installation of the new presi- dent, in the place of the one they had hast year, would take place. John looked puzzled for a moment -and then he said, with a knowing smile: "Oh, you mean the corona- ,tion."—Goderich Signal,," FAITH It is 'enough "That in this life we climb Steep hills 'erect, nor heed the end— If we but know That out of the darkness, strife and 1 CAIIGIIT I TIIE "ILD By Robert Ames Bennet CONCLUDING EPISODE. The engineer pitched face -down on Why, for starter, Miss Cook, the hard -crusted' snow. Before he we'll let them stew in theirown juice for a •few clays. That will tend to soften their bonds of mutual aid. No bedding and a diet Of saltless meat will help those three. placer jacks to consider .the desirability of that five thousand dollar reward I offered for their boss." "Alan Garth, you're marvelous!" "Not at ,all. It just happens I know this game, and I told you before that Huxby is only a commonplace wolf. If he were a wolverine, I'd have to look sharp. As it is; we'll stay no here snug and cosy, and enjoy their tea and sugar while you're learning to use your snowshoes," After his can 'of sugared tea,. Garth took part of the sewing and went out to watch while he stitched. He saw no sign of the four. But towards dusk, smoke over towards the south- east corner, of the lake showed that they had made a new camp near the cabin plane. By noon the next day Lilith's Eski- mo suit was finished. Her 'ankle, though weak, was no longer sore or swollen. • Garth bandaged it firmly with 'a strip of skin, and had her be- gin practicing on her webs. Not being hurried or excited, she soon caught the knack of the snow- shoe stride. I3y the fourth day, Garth had her making stiff climbs Will pass away, and light Come once again. It is enough To trust, whoa mists uists cree p down. And, drift across, obscuring way -side paths, • If but each clay We with His over soul be knit, And from His Fire of Love— Our flame be lit. —Edith A. Vassie. could spring up again, ,Garth jumped upon his back. The blow knocked him breathless. It was then an easy matter to click Constable Dillon's handcuffs on the wrists of the mur- derer, "Stop that cursing, or I'll gag you," Garth said. "There's a lady present. —A!I right, Miss Ramill. Joinus." Huxby fell silent, to gape like the miners at the skin -clad form that came forward out of the black sha- dows into the firelight. The girl still carried.. the constable's pistol raised ready to shoot. Huxby saw enough of her face in its border of wolverine fur to make certain Garth had not been bantering him. "Lilith! You?" "Yes, it's 'me, you cowardly sneak killer! I came after you with Alan, and he haslet me catch you." The murderer twisted around with his back to her and the f ire. His head sagged forward. With a sudden return of alertness, Lilith turned her gaze away from his shadowed profile to watch the three lined -up winers. Garth did not smile at the girl's needless caution. She bad earned the right to think herself an invaluable helper. He allowed her to stand guard while he gathered up the three rifles and unloaded them. "Right -o, Miss RamilI," he said. "Sit down. It's all over now but the with him up the glacier. As her talking." ankle became strong and her feet hardened she developed into a fairly fast snowshoe runner. Their last climb took them upa- round the bend in the great cleft. Be- fore they turned back, Garth had the girl fire the pistol. She neither shut her alining eye nor flinched as she pulled the trigger. Each time the bullet struck within a foot of the nearby mark that Garth set up. "Not half bad," he approved. "I'11 let you go down with me tomorrow morning." ••You will, Alan? You think I can help fight them!" "No," he replied, "But I believe you're game enough to put up a good bluff," Though the temperature had be- come milder, it remained below freez- ing point. As on the other occas- ion, Garth started downgulch two hours before dawn. This time Lilith trailed with him. Huxby had moved his camp to the lake shore opposite the stranded cabin plane. A big fire of birch logs threw its welcome heat into the front of the three -sided leanto. The engin- eer and two of his miners lay asleep, huddled in nests of spruce sprays and dry moss. The fourth man sat on a log beside the fire, his .rifle between his knees. He yawned drowsily. Four nights had passed since the blowing up of the placer camp. Yet nothing had hap- pened, There had been no sign of the elusive dynamiter. Nothing had come near the new camp except prowling wolves and other beasts at- tracted by the smell of the grizzily- bear meat. The first slight tinge of dawn had begun to gray the east. But among the trees the night was still black. A sudden: flicker of light in the dark- ness behind the leanto• brought the sleep watcher's head up with, a jerk. Beside the skin -clad man with the lighted match, he saw a second man squinting at him -along the barrel of a pistol. Garth put his fingers to his lips for silence, and held a fuse -wrapped stick of dynamite close to the snatch.' The miner let go of his rifle and straightened up on his feet, his hands high above his head. The match flickered out. Garth dropped the dynamite and darted for- ward. He was none too quick. The slight thud of the fallen rifle had wakened Huxby. As 'Garth paused behind the corner of the leanto, the engineer peered out, with his pistol thrust forward. As .Garth jumped he struek with the butt of his belt -ax. It cracked down on Huxby's wrist. The engin- eer's pistol dropped. With a curse, Huxby grasped at the weapon;, but Garth 'was quicker. As he caught it up, Huxby clutched at his throat. Garth felled him with a 'tap of the ax butt on the temple. Wakened by the sudden flurry, the two miners in the leanto were grasp- ing at the pair of • rifles on which Huxby 'had lain. Garth whirled the pistol to cover them. "Hands up, and get out beside .your Mate," he ordered. "We want only the murderer.; But we'll shoot you down like dogs if you interfere." One of the pair jerked up his hands. The other man hesitated. The miner outside called warningly: "The jigs up, Laney. The other feller has got the chop on us too." Laney lifted his hands and started out after his bed -mate. Huxby was staggering up, still dazed from the The total area devoted to the prin- ceipal field crops in Canada in 1936 was 57,662,550 acres, an increase of fd46,090 acres, over 1935, but 870,900 She lowered the pistol, but drew back where she could watch Huxby as well as the miners. Garth looked soberly at the men. "If you know Kipling, you'll bear !n mind that the female of the species is more deadly than the male. T dare say, though, you can safely venture to lower your hands and sit down with Imo At the welcome permission, the three dropped their arms. Two of them at once squatted on a log. Lan- ey lingered for a surly question, be- fore following suit: "You are cribbing up the cabin plane, aren't you?" Garth asked. "Hell, yes; an' we already mend- ed the three-seater's floats. On'y you }know damn well you fixed both en- gines." "Better smooth down your tone,"' Garth advised. "I rather fancy you'd not enjoy wintering in here, at fifty to seventy below zero." The man first to surrender mutter- ed plaintively: "It might be better'n a Canticle penitentiary." Garth met this with a straight of- fer: "All we came for was to arrest Huxby. Help with the cabin plane, and there will be no mention of any shooting other than his murder of the constable. What wages did he prom - me you?" "Double the usual. Tole us he had to get in his assessment work before the freeze-up." "The claim belongs to me," Garth replied. "I wilt pay you the double wages."' Laney put in a grumble: "No more'n wages? How about that five thousand reward you posted on the busted plane wing?" "What have you done to earn any share of it?" Garth inquired. "I gave you men all this time to take him" That silenced the grumbler, , The third man admitted the truth: "He doubled your reward offer. Promised us ten thousand if we did for you and the other feller. We didn't know it was a girl. But I ain't no killer, an' anyhow, I figger he lied about that ten thousand. I'll be glad to .get them wages from you." "Me too—count me in on the deal," agreed the first inan. "Ugh," growled Laney. "You out- played the damn fourflusher. It's a deal. You're boss. We're working for you." Garth walked back into the black- ness of the spruce trees. :He return- ed with the floursack paekbag, his own and Lilith's buckskin suits, and a hindquarter of fat caribou meat. At his invitation,' the men eagerly went at the frozen meat with an ax, and put the big teapot, full of snow, on the fire,' Lilith and Garth had ,eaten before coming down from: the igloo. They sat back on a snowdrift, and watched while the others devoured the tender broiled meat and gulped down cups of hot tea. The flesh of the old she - •bear had been as tough as leather and her fat very rank. Huxby continued to sit in inorose silence, with his back to the fire. The feasters paid no heed to him. After a .tune Lilith began to stir uneasily. At last she had to Oct. She handed her pistol to Garth, and went to put a piece of meat on a spit. When it was broiled, she took it and a cup of tea to Huxby. He stared up at her as if dum- founded, then shook his head sullenly. She put down the cup and plate be- side him, and returned to Garth. At his look of cool inquiry, her eyes blow that had felled him. Wild with flashed with defiance. desperate rage, he struck out fur- "I don't care! It's not ;right to iously, Garth side-stepped and thrust starve anyone." 1-1,0rsliesl in 2 nnncnmtnitt 1 tnnn• _ 1' "You're a woman." The murderer took up his cup of hot tea in his manacled hands and drank. He began to eat the meat: When daylight came, Garth order- ed everyone out to the cabin plane. The hard -frozen slush ice gave solid footing over the bog, It also gave a solid foundation out at the, plane upon which were based the engineer's lift- ing operations. The ice had been.. chopped from around the floats, and a crib built under the inner end of one wing and then the other, the cribs had been heightened until the floats were level with the top of the ice. A glance inside the cabin. showed Garth the body of Constable Dillon lying where he had left it. Laney ex- plained, with a jerk of a niittened thumb at Huxby: "He fust says we'd,chuck the stiff under the ,ice. Then he says, no, to wait an' heave it out when we was flying over the muskegs." "We'll wait still longer," Garth said. "That brave constable is going to receive an honorable burial. Now get to work with those sapling levers. Another pair of logs on the cribs will raise the floats high enough to roller her clear," As the three miners took up the heavy pry poles, he went farther out on the ' lake and chopped a hole through the ice with his belt -ax. Though not as thick as he had hoped, it satisfied him when he noted the long streak of glare ice parallel with the shore. He went back to help the inert heave and my until the bottoms of the pon- toons were wellabove the ice level. Straight, smooth lengths of birch trunks were placed across under the floats. The airplane was let down on the round logs. Pushing then rolled the plane from above the holes, out upon the unbroken ice. Lilith' had stood off a little to one side, watching the work with wonder- ing admiration. Garth showed . the men how to skew the rollers for turn- ing the plane. IIe went to shove side- wards on the tail. The plane started to curve around. A shriek front Lilith whirled Garth face about. Huxby was rushing at him, withan ax Iifted high in his manacled hands. Lilith flew at the attacker as if frenzied. She sought to block his charge. He gave her his shoulder with the skill of a foot- ball player. It caught her on the chin and sent her spinning. But the slight check allowed Garth time for a peal in under the ax before the blade could• whirl down on his head. His left fist appeared to punch deep into the pit of Huxby's stomach. His right drove up under the chin of the gasping engineer. The uppercut lifted the killer off his feet and drop- ped him on his face, clean knocked out. With no more than a glance at his fallen attacker, Garth sprang to help Lilith's dazed effort to sit up. "WeII played," he said. "Not hurt, are you?" "N-no-I—you — he didn't!" she cried, and burst into tears. Garth gave her a pat on the head, and turned away, embarrassed. "No wonder you're overcome. It's been too much for a girl. We'll hop out of hereat once." He lashed the unconscious killer's wrists to his belt, tied his ankles to- gether, and climbed into the cockpit of the plane. After replacing the breaker points, he had the men take turns spinning the propeller. He then tried the self-starter. The en- gine roared. Pulled by the whirling propeller, .the plane slid forward off the log rollers. After cutting the gun, Garth or- dered two of the men to heave Huxby into the cabin. The third man he sent for the rifles. "I want the one' with which he shot Constable Dillon. But you may as well bring the oth- ers—also a lot of that bear fat." He himself went to pick up the still -weeping girl and help her to the second seat in the cock -pit. He made sure of the supply of gasoline, and climbed down again to see .that the men gave the bottom of the floats a thorough greasing with the bear fat. After that, when all were aboard, and the rifles in 'Lilith's keeping, he started the engine, The plane at first proved slowly. The floats drag- ged on the rough surface of the fro- zen slush. But when they glided out on the stretch of glare ice, the -fric- tion became less than that of a wat- er take -off. Within a half mile the speed had so increased that an easy pull on the joystick sent the plane skimming up off the glassy surface. Garth banked in a long curve to the left, listening to the roar of the warmed motor. Every cylinder was hitting sweet. He made a wide spiral over the valley for elevation, and drove out eastwards 'above a saddle in the jag- ged mountain barrier. When clear of the valley, he did not keep straight on across to the Mackenzie. He turn- ed more to the south. CHAPTER XXII Squaw Lilith The cross-country flight brought the plane to the Mackenzie at the great bend below the Liard. But Garth did not come down at Fort Simpson. He flew on up the vast river to Great Slave Lake, and east across the lake to Fort Resolution. Sometime before sunset,;he set the cabin plane, down at the landing of the Airways base by the mouth of the But Japan? Why, I never dreamt a Slave River, After handing Lilith a- shore, heleft her standing while he went to speakto the Airways super ihtendent Thr t: couvteona 'seutlenwan our fuel Those who have changed to the modern, all -Canadian fuel Hamco Coke -are finding each day a new comfort, more even heat in every room, and less back -breaking labour. And, best of all, when they check their bills at the . end of the first month (or at the end of the season) they will find that their expenditures for fuel have been materially reduced. Try Hamco Coke now ! Notice how clean it is, how light on the shovel, and how quickly it responds to the drafts on cold mornings. Notice, too, how few ashes are left to carry out each week. 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"What difference does it make to you?" he asked. "You'll soon be in Edmonton—and civilization." She stepped suddenly close to him, her hands held out in appeal. "No! I —Alan, take me back with you!" "Back there? Don't tell me you like that squaw life. Those days in the valley and the trip out must have been a hell of torments to you—dirt, rags, mosquito dope, flies, starvation. And now ice, snow, bitter cold." Anything—anything just to be with you, Alan—dear!" He put his arms about her. He kis- sed her red lips and scarlet cheeks and tightly c Iosed eyelids. "My girl," he said, "you are going with me wherever I go. Get on your (continued on page 3) A dvertisements are a guide to value * Experts can roughly estimate the value of a produt by looking at it. More accurately, by handling and examining it. 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