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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance Times, 1928-10-25, Page 6Wellington Mutual Fire Insurance Co. Established 1840 Head Office, Guelph, Ont, Risks taken on all Glasse of insur- tante at reasonable rates.` ABNER COSRNS, Agent, Wingham J. W. DODD Office in Chisholm Block FIRE, LIFE, ACCIDENT AND nE,ALfl INSURANCE — AND REAL ESTATE 4, 0, Box 36o Phone ala efINGHAM, — ONTARIO J. W. BUSHFIELD Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc. Money to Loan Office --Meyer Block, Wingham Successor to Dudley Holmes R. VANSTONE BARRISTER, SOLICITOR, ETC. Money to Loan at Lowest Rates Wingham, - Ontario J. A. MORTON BARRISTER, ETC. Wingham, Ontario DR. G. H. ROSS Graduate Royal College of Dental Surgeons Graduate University of Toronto Faculty of Dentistry Office wP,: H, E, Isard's Store. t 3ORNE, M. D. r• *i and Surgeon Medica- t,;•esentative D. S. C. It Phone 54 Wingham Successor to Dr: W, R, Hambly DR. ROBT. C. REDMOND M.R.C.S. (ENG.) L.R.C.P. (Lond.) PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON DR. R. L. STEWART Graduate of University of Toronto, Faculty of Medicine; Licentiate of the Ontario College of. Physicians and Surgeons, Office in Chisholm Block Josephine Street. Phone 29. DR. G. W. HOWSON DENTIST Office over John Galbraith's Store. F. A. PARKER OSTEOPATH All Diseases Treated Office adjoining residence next to Anglican Church on Centre Street. Sundays by appointment. Osteopathy Electricity Phone 272, Hours -9 a.m. to 8 p,m. WINOHAM ADVANCE -TIMES .en iroonei George Marsh .•tis copYRtoirr be The PENN PUBLISHING CO, SERVICE SYNOPSIS a lope, he followed it down through the timber, As he neared the river CHAPTER 1.—Garth Guthrie, Ca- the voices of Garth and Etienne drift adian war veteran, having to live in ed faintly from the ice. The dog the open on account of weakened was puzzled, From his rigid war lungs, is factor of a Hudson's Bay training, he had learned silence when post at Elkwan. He came back from business was afoot. And this seemed the conflict with a permanently scar- business. By the hour he had watched red face, which he realizes cost him shell holes—from trenches—head pa- the love of his fiancee, Edith Fal- trolled forests, as at present,in abso- coner. Sir Charles Guthrie, his bro- lute silence. In some occult way the ther, is a millionaire war profiteer. Steen witted dog seemed that again, CHAPTER IL—With Etienne Say- there in the white north far from anne, hafbreed, his firm friend, Garth Flemish battle fields, he was at his meets Doctor Quarrier, geologist, and old trade, guarding with quivering his sister Joan. Their schooner has nostrils, eyes and ears tense, the drifted ashore. Quarrier complains he safety of the man out there on the has been robbed by a man known as ice. "Laughing McDonald" or to the Inti- On he went, weaving in and out of fans as "McDonald Hal Ha!" because the thick scrub, relentless as a wolf. of a scar which gives him a perpet- Suddenly the airedale stiffened, 'lair ual grin. McDonald is Garth's com- I rising like brush bristles along his petitor for the fur trade. At Elkwan i spine. Near the shore in the thicket an Indian girl, Ninda, tuberculosis ahead was something dark, motionless. victim, whom Garth has befriended, is dying. Quarrier hints that Ninda is Garth's mistress, which is hotly re- sented. Joan, trained war nurse, cares for Ninda, but the girl dies. CHAPTER III.—Garth tells Joan part of the reasons forhis presence at Elkwan. He takes the Quarriers to Albany, from whence they can pro- ceed to Montreal. Charles Guthrie writes reproaching his brother for not coming home. Charles' wife assures. him Ethel still loves him, but Garth in his heart knows better. His scar- red face has separated them. CHAPTER IV—Three of McDon- ald's party visit Elkwan seeking to buy gun shells. From them Garth learns of evil talk among the Indians concerning him and Ninda, and real- izes Quarrier will spread his version of the affair. Chapter V.—With Etienne's help Garth wins the friendship of Saul Souci, "medicine man" and treaty chief of the Crees, and gets his pro- mise to persuade the Crees to take their furs to Elkwan instead of to Mc- Donald. Garth is ambushed by Joe Mokoman, Ninda's reputed father, whom the factor had driven from Elkwan. "Shot" Garth's airedale corn - A. R. & F. E. DUVAL Licensed Drugless Practitioners, Chiropractic and Electro Therapy. raduates of Canadian Chiropractic College, Toronto, and National Col- lege Chicago. Office opposite Hamilton's Jewelry Store Main St, zipl:,iRS: 2-5, 7•-8.3o p.m., and by The war dog froze, stiff as the spruce above him, one paw suspended in air. A vague scent reached his working nostrils. Then, like a lynx through the dusk, the airedale drifted up the'trailf Out on the river ice the voice of Garth called, "Here, Shot!" But the head of the dog did not turn. His small, terrier eyes never left the shape on the snow. He knew that the lean; brown barrel thrust before the dark body was a rifle—a maker of fire and death. Three—four steps nearer, then gath- ering beneath him the steel springs which were the muscles of his legs, the airedale leaped. As Shot's fangs ripped into the shoulder of the Indi- an's capote, the rifle exploded. A bul- let ricocheted from the frozen sled cover and whined away over the riv- er. Two men dropped behind the sled, as the team stopped. Reaching up, Etienne wrenched his cased rifle from its lashings and fired twice be- low a shred of blue smoke hanging in the spruce, where an enraged dog silently grapled with an unknown en- emy. But his fire was not returned, There, under the trees, an Indian fran- tically fought to turn his rifle on the panion on many battlefields in France, maddened brute who had ripped parka appointment saves him, and the Indian is taken, a to ribbons and hurled him backward 4est „f town sani tight calla 4e- prisoner, to Elkwan, to the snow. Parrying the snap of ,,,,gonded to. At boat,oaas W',saladesndat Chapter VI.—Garth sends Mokoman punishing fangs with a blow of his Phones. Office Soo; Resilience 601-13. to McDonald with a message of de- gun butt, the Indian gained his feet, to fiance, and the war is on. meet another lunge before he aimed CHAPTER VII -Garth hails with his gun. Again the dog leaped, car - joy the freezing of the strait, which rying the man with him. Fangs will enable Souci's followers to bring slashed at bared throat—a choked their furs to Elkwan without difficul- cry the airdahe's jaws shut on dark ty. Etienne craftily spreads reports flesh—ripped—and the would-be as - that McDonald and his schooner are sassin lay on ,the snow with a torn bewitched, and evil will befall all who throat. trade with him, There Garth and Etienne found them, the airedale lying beside his kill. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY Etienne bent to stare, with an oath, --- - into the features, knotted in their But one condition he had im- death grimace, of—Joe Mokoman. posed on the half-breed—that there `Ambush us, cls?" snarled the half should be no bloodshed. They had breed. "You dr, fine job, Joe Moko- come to Akimiski to save the trade, titan." And Ise spurned the body with of the future, as well as the present, the bow of his snowshoe, and, under no circumstances was the "So he meant to get that fur if he GEORGE A. SIDDAL head man to abuse or threaten either had to bury us in the snow?" said Saul or his sons. He, Guthrie, would Garth, turning from the ugly picture have something to say concerning the to his dog, still whining with the heat long arm of the company in its future of battle. "Good old Shottiell" And dealings with the man who had de- the man hugged the hairy shoulders serted to the enemy; but the com of his friend. "You tracked him down mand was—no fighting. for Garth, didn't you, old comrade of "W'at you do with dat Mokoman?" miner had demanded Etienne with a grim- "He dam good dog, Shot, eh?" cried ace, Etienne, slapping the shaggy back, "If he shows up at the pow -wow, He know more dao some men; he and interferes, I'll leave him to you." know Joe, he hunt us," AUCTIONEER "I tak' good care of Neem," grunted "He. thought Joe was a German REAL , ESTATE SOLD the other. sharpshooter, didn't you, Shot?" And Athorou h knowledge of Farm At the fork they 1( ft the main river seated on 'the snow, Garth rocked to g Stock trail to follow the branch , leading and fro, rubbing the ears of his dog, Phone 231, Wingham. -north. soothing his excitement in the low "Dey all go to Sr,tici'r, party, notes of a language none but the J. ALVIN FOX Registered Drugless Practitioner CHIROPRACTIC AND DRUGLESS PRACTICE ELETRO-THERAPY Hours: 2-5, 7-8., or by appointment. Phone epi. D. D. McINNES 4 CHIROPRACTOR ELECTRICITY Adjustments given for diseases of all kinds; we specialize in dealing with children. Lady attendant. Night calls responded to. Office on Scott St., Wingham, Ont. Phone Iso have to fight for sure!' "I'm not afraid of McDonald," laughed Garth, "but I don't want the Indians drawn into the fight, We're here for fur, not trouble, and I'll have to answer to my superiors for what happens. That's why I want you to be careful when we meet Souci. hro fighting—understand?" Savanne nodded. "De hunter know Etienne Savanna," said the half-breed with finality, "Dey weal not start troubl' wid heem." "All right! Now let's make tracks for the. Canoe and that medicine lodge of Soitci's." With their snowshoes, they heaped a mound of snow over the body of the skulker in the spruce, to be found by the lynx and foxes, and started. At noon the team turned dawn into the valley of the Canoe. In the windbreak of the spruce on the shore of the frozen river, the men from ''Elkwan found the tipis of the hunters. From north and east and south had come the fox trappers with their families for the great medicine making of Souci, the shaman, The -Wigwams hummed with gossip of the crossing, of .the strait by the tall fac- tor of Elknvan to. fight for the trade with McDonald Ha! Ha! From val- ley to valley Mokoman had travelled, urging the hunters .to go to the schooner. Black Breault, too, and Skene had visited many of the camps, but as yet the wily hunters had «old little fur, hoping by their seeming re- luctance to 'obtain higher prices, Also, in the last few days rumors, vague, terrifying, had been adrift. A hunter from the Ptarmigan claimed he had been down to the hills above Seal cove and seen fire dancing on the masts of the boat at night; that black magic was being made by the man with the face of a mad wolverine. Another swore that his cousin, trapping on the Calling river, had been to the schoon- er and heard devil music from a box. -- BROKER — Money to lend on first and. second mortgages on farm and other real es- tate state properties at d reasonable •rate of interest, also : on first Chattel mort- gages on stock and on personal notes. .Mew farms on hand for sale or to rent on easy terms, . - Phone 73. • Lucknow, Ont. THOMAS FELLS but the arm of the company was long its hand heavy, and Etienne Savanna, its servant, feared as a fighter the length of the coast. So the prospect of trouble gave Etienne little concern, but the loss.of twenty thousand it dol- lars in fur, which the Creeshad Ni.li them, would be little short of a ealtm-. his i tent, is S to h sty, On his return active mind groped for the best meth od of, that night, hanging the shaman with his own rope. • "Well, what. did you hear?" asked Garth. "Did you see Saul?" "No, he keep ver' quiet: ' De Cree have mooch fur, and manee of de men would ge to McDonal', but de squaw have fear of de devil, A feller by de name of Savanna, he tell ,de squaw down on de Ptarmigan some bad story also up on de Rabbit, an' eat utak' dem squaw ver' nervous." Etienne smiled at the success of his efforts. "That certainly was a good bit of strategy, Etienne, but you say the men are now wabbling in favor of the schooner?" • "Ah-hah, I t'ink dat Souci, wid bees spirit, weal beat us tonight." "We've got to think of something to do—we can't let him' get away with all the fox in this camp, man!" urged Garth, handing his friend a heaping plate of beans and bacon. As Etienne ate, his swarthy face was grave with the problem confront- ing him. What could be. done? . He even considered secreting himself in the medicine tent downstream, bind- ing and gagging the old man as he entered, and playing shaman himself. But the danger of discovery by the outraged Crees would be too great. Failure would make matters even worse. The medicine rite was ,to take place under the moon, which was late, so deep in council of war lingered white man and half-breed, until the silver disk rode above the white tundra al- ready lit by low -swinging stars. Then Etienne returned from a short recon- naissance to report the hunters and squaws already moving to the rendez- vous downstream where a fire glowed in the spruce. Small and cylindrical in shape, its tanned caribou -hide walls painted in red and black with the shapes of animals, the sun, and gri- macing faces of the spirit friends of the conjurer, the medicine lodge stood a short distance from the fire. Gath- ered in the warmth of the blazing logs, shawled women and hooded hunters, heads together,conversed in lewtones. • Higher, over the tundra above the valley, the moon swung through the star -incrusted heavens. It was a night for magic, an as his curious eyes shifted from the awed Crees to the medicine tent, Guthrie despaired of the efforts of Etienne, in such a setting to nullify the necromancy o He Returned to Garth, Busy Cooking Supper. per. "Old Saul, he keep away; he not see Etienne Savanne." But, gratify- ing as was the news he had picked up1 among the gossiping hunters, Savanna I knew his Indians, and feared what the night would bring forth. For the old wizard was a past master in the art of playing on the superstitions of the Crees, and with his incantations and mumbo -jumbo would doubtless persuade them into starting at once for Seal cove. An old 'squaw had already planted panic among the women witha story that bewitched hunters would leave McDonald's ship to desert their wives and children. All ,this and more, the industrious Etienne gathered from the gossiping Crees from the Elkwan while Garth made camp and fed and chained the dogs. His seeds, planted with such care in the camps of the Ptarmigan and Rabbit, had indeed sprouted, were in fact already bearing fruit, The Crees were ill at ease --suspicious of these strangers who had cone to the island with their smiles and trade goods, and in the conjury of old Saul, that night, they hoped and waited for the advice and assurance that it would be safe as well as wise for them to carry their fox pelts to the. schooner at Seal cove. As for the old shaman, Etienne learned that he, was camped down- stream, beside his medicine lodge,' alone, preparing himself for commun- ion with his 'confreres, the spirits' which, that night beneath the stars, he would summon with his magic to speak to the Crees, and remove from their hearts the doubts and the fears which harassed them. "Ah-hahl" mused Etienne' as he returned to earth, busy cooking stip- But Etien1e had no intention of giving Souci a free hand. Secretly, be. fore the ceremony, and openly, when Soi.tci from the tent delivered thead- monitions of the spirits, he would brand the old maneas the hireling of 1VleDonald, friend of devils. If the outraged -Saul dared to start trouble, PL ' W.J. BOY CET ABX - >- ING Shone sS 'Tight Phone 88 I As the tender -footed huskies drew the. sled at a walk or, slow trot, Shot reveled in the game sign of the scrub along chore. On a foray into the tim- ber, +is', trail of the snowshoe -rabbit i1 is !led first lured him, was crossed 1,y thato a more enticing fox. Keen with the lust fir the hunt, Shot fol- lowed the trail back through the scrub and out into the open barren on the ;Boulders of the valley. There, far FURNITURE front the river, rte stopped. ] efore Hint: the webbed iinprint.vf snowshoes riot the fox tracks > he followed. The dog sniffed curiously, but it was 'a vague,; unfamiliar scent that the fresh "Eel we stay on Van' after Mc- lthis might be dangerous with the trail carried. , Slowly at first' then at Donal' hear 'beet Itiafi it ,dead, we,Crees in a high saltie of excitement, laughed Etienne. "Pour, five team wriggling airedale understood. pass here dis ,.horning," "Wal,, we buree dis skunk een de snow and let m'sieu' fox deeg heem out." "That's all we can do. He , mush have heard from the travelling Indians. we were bound for the Canoe and de- cided to stop us, Do you suppose that McDonald knows we are here and sicked him on us?" Etienne shock his *head, "He bin up die end de islan', so de hunter say." "I'm sorry this hajspened,"" said Garth. "There's no telling what kind of a tale they'll make of it. I wish a 'sled. wotild'show my to we could show Our evidence," DRS. A. J. &.A. W. IRWIN DENTISTS %faace, Macaodale Cir Wilagl A. J. WALIOER Phones: Office 106, Resid. 224 a i I7EA>i. ER G. ail l r y'tn ERAL DX1tECTOR Motor Equipment W iTr1GrI Axilf ONTA1410 Ni„u,d1tl11Y1111111,111x111'1,111-,Id111111'11,11111111,A11�11HIY. Thursday, Qetober 26tfi, 1928'". fold Saul. Moon and stars and the,: aurora joined with the purple shads owe. to lend invincible enchantment to the arts of the sorcerer. These simple children of the snows, bewit- ched by the mystery and magic of the night, would fall willing victims to the voice of the spirits, The muttered exclamation of Eti- enne at side aroused. him. "Dere he go.,; Faintly, to the measured tapping of a caribous -hide drum, from the tent. lifted low wailing. Seizing the arms of their men, the women at the fire stiffened. Swart faces 'went gray. Gradually. the wailing drifted into a sing -song, which, accompanied by the shell rattle, rytitinically swelled and died, Suddenly the song ceased. Growls and snarls, whines and mew- ing—the bickering of beasts—filled site forest. Shrieks of a matingwolver- ine followed the caterwauling of a lynx, A wolf howled, lonely for his kind, From a September ,ridge drift- ed the moaning call of a cow moose. In a swamp a bittern chugged, a whooping crane .• startled with his trombone -like blast, Froln the gloom drifted the hoot of the snowy owl. Down wind, in full cry, swept wavier and Canadas, blue geese and brant. Through a repertory of the voices of the night and the sunlit 'forest wan- dered. the ventriloquist in a :marvel- ous imitation of nature. Guthrie turned in surprise to Eti- enne. "He's a wonder!" "Wait!" was the laconic reply; Then,. amid groans and eerie tries, shrieks, as of souls in torment, 'the wimper of children, sobs of women in anguish, men tortured, the voice of the shaman addressed the spirits he had conjured from the world of de- mons. His kinsmen, the Crees, were in great doubt and perplexity, and had begged him to call upon his familiar spirits, who saw into the future as one looks from a hill; to whom the devils seeking to destroy the Cree were as children—harmless. "The hunters," continued the shaman, "pos- sessed much fur—" Etienne's hand 'gripped Garth's arm as he interpreted • the speech of • Saul. "Now he mek' de spirit tell dem 'to go to McDonal'. -"Fur of much value which they have toiled for on the cold barrens where the wind 'always blows," the sepulchral voice went on. "It is the time to go to. the traders for the New Year's feast. But the hearts of the hunters are troubled. • At the schoon- er of the trader who waits at Seal cove, the Crees have been told evil spirits and devils wait to bewitch them. And the women have begged their men to take their furs across the ice to Elkwan." With a puzzled look Etienne stared into Garth's eyes. "W'at he db now? I don' under-.. stand," whispered the half-breed,: Garth waited; hardly breathing, through the silence which followed; Then, on the hushed night boomed a voice, hollow, sepulchral, "Oh, Soucil Great Shaman of the Creed It is well you. call us^:to warn your people. There has come to the island a sorcerer from a far country- to destroy the hunters of Akimiski—" "By gar!" And the fingers of 'Eti- enne shut like a bear trap on the arm of the man beside him, "We are, de beeg •fool!" he muttered, ihterpreting th reply of the spirit to the unsens ing Garth, "This conjurer," went on the voice from the tipi, as the listening Indians gasped with surprise and fear, "was bitten in the face by, the devil.lvlatchi; Manitou, himself. He is the friend of demons and woe to the Crees who bring their fur to -him, for their wives will see them no more." "Ahtiah! Ahuahl" From the women at the fire rose a low wail as they clung in panic to the cowed hunters, "Go not to Seal cove, but across the ice, for there the Crees may trade and feast in safety." The voice died, Presently -another• answered in the same vein, and yet another, while the astonished and ashamed Etienne and Guthrie,' who had so lightly accepted thetreachery of old Saul as a proved fact, electri- fied by the swift turn of fortune, lis-• tened with admiration, and. gratitude. With the artistry of a master, Saul' had 'played upon the known weak- nesses of his people, relying on the• mysteries of, the medicine lodge rath- er than on his personal 'influence- winning the squaws by the judicious, planting of rumors, as had Etienne, and stampeding the -nen with a single stroke at the medicine rites, for no Indian who heard that unearthly voice. from 'the tipi would now dare to trade. with McDonald. "The old son -of -a -gun," chuckled' Garth. "He went to that ship to throw them off the scent .and. keep ahem away from this end of the island. He gets a life job with the company for, this night's work:' ' In an overawed, whispering group; the hunters and their squaws r'eturned.• to their tipis, where deep into the night was discussed the marvel of'the spirit voices, which the great magi- cian of the , Elkwan had invoked ,for the safety and guidance of his people. In the privacy of their tent the two men, still dazed by the unhoped-for success of their mission to the, island; gossiped by, the• fire. "Forty-six silvers and eighteen black, besides a lot of cross and patch, you say?" Garth repeated, elated with the trade that would come that Christ- mas 'to Elkwan. (To lie continued); t,.ta; iiitu,•'��JS i9i�.r Have You Any of These Things To Sell? 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