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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance Times, 1928-11-22, Page 6W INGNAM ADVANCES TIMES, Wellington M34.uai Fire lnsm axnce . Co. Established 1840 Head Office, Guelph, Out, Risks taken on all classe of insur•- tptnee at reasonable rates. BNER :COSENS, Agent, Wingham J. W. DODD Office in Chisholm Block FIRE, LIFE, ACCIDENT AND 3EALT.I-1 INSURANCE AND REAL ESTATE • 0. Box 360'.. phone xo IINGHAM, ONTARIO J. W. BUSHFIELD Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc. Money to Loan Office—Meyer Block, Wingham Successor to Dudley Holmes Men aroofte� Geore Mars cel' , COPYRtG;T 8q The PENN PUBLIsHiNG CO. SYNOPSIS R. VANSTONE CHAPTER 1.—Garth Guthrie, Ca- BARRISTER, SOLICITOR, ETC. adianwar veteran, having to live in Money to Loan at Lowest Rates the open on account of weakened Wingham, - Ontario lungs, is factor of a Hudson's Bay post at"Elkwan. He came back from the conflict with a permanently scar- red face, which he realizes cost him the love of his fiancee, Edith Fal- coner. Sir Charles Guthrie, his bro- ther, is a millionaire war profiteer. CHAPTER IL—With Etienne Say- anne, hafbreed, his firm friend, Garth meets Doctor Quarrier, geologist, and his sister Joan, Their schooner .has drifted ashore. Quarrier complains he has been robbed by a man known as "Laughing McDonald" or to the Ind- 3ORNa` D. ians as "McDonald Ha! Ha!" because of a scar which gives him a perpet- ual grin. McDonald is Garth's com- petitor for the fur trade. At Elkwan an Indian girl, Ninda, tuberculosis victim, whom Garth has befriended, is dying. Quarrierhints 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 for his 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 aid's party visit Elkwan seeking t 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 even H. E. Isard's Store. i' n and Surgeon Medica- ,-cpnesentative D. SW. Cham Phone 54 . Successor to Dr. W. R. Hambly DR. ROBT. C. REDMOND 31.R.C.S. (ENG.) L.R.C.P. (Lond.) PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON DR. R. L. STEWARI' 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. A. "R & F. E. DUVAL Licensed Drugless Practitioners, Chiropractic and Electro Therapy. graduates of Canadian Chiropractic College, Toronto, and National Col- lege Chicago. Office opposite Hamilton's Jewelry Store, Main St. and by SOURS: 2-5, 7-8.30 p.m., appointment. 41st of town and night cells re - ...loaded to. All business anuideistial. Phones. Office co;SResidence 601-13. 0 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 com- panion on many battlefields in France, saves him, and the Indian is taken, a prisoner, to Elkwan. Chapter VI.—Garth sends Mokoman to McDonald with a message of that he should remember me. He knew me but five days." Garth's mouth curled. "His master knew you no longer." And the factor of Elkwan revelled in the slow color that touched her^temples—the swift flickering of heavy -laden lids. "His master had reason to remem- ber the guests who insulted him in his own house," "One of bis guests," countered Gu- thrie, "was an angel of mercy. We seldom forget •the visitation of angels, do we?" "And the other—an ungrateful scan- dal -monger." "I told you last night he was a blessing in disguise." She looked squarely in his eyes as she said: "But I did not believe you, Mr. Exile." With a gesture of helplessness, he insisted, "But how am I to prove it to an unbeliever?" Her eyes. clouded. "Let's walk a- long the shore," she parried, and led the way, Shot circling her, begging for a frolic. "You're trying again for the spring trade from the island?" she asked. "Oh, with Souci there, and the echo of his spirit voices in their ears, we shall hold the hunters who crossed the strait." "Then Elkwan -will have a wonder- ful year?" "Yes, the best in its history." "Because of its new factor." "Because of Etienne Savanne and Saul Souci." "No," vehemently, "because you went inland and found Souci, and had the nerve to cross the channel through the ice in a York boat, then took a long chance over the new ice to reach the island in time; Mr. Cameron knows." • He glanced sharply at the clean profile, crowned by a plume of wind - tossed hair. "You're a doughty cham- pion." "No, I'm only a fair critic." "May I never have a fairer—nor one more 'unfair.'" "Unfair? What do you mean, Mr. Exile?" She had given him his opening. "I mean, Joan Quarrier, that you have shut your heart to the truth," he plunged in impetuously. "'I mean that you are coupling me with ghosts dead memories; that you will not see —understand—" In his eagerness to clarify her vision of him—erase the memory of .Ethel with whom in spite of his denials, he still seemed hope- lessly involved, Garth floundered — came to a halt through sheer excess of emotion, "Catt't we continue the good friends we are, Mr. Exile? We need friend- ship—understanding, up here on this lonely coast. Can't we—like two good comrades—hold to what we have?" Dazed, helpless in the face of her obsession—her evident conviction that her brother had been the cause of his ultimate break with Ethel Falconer, Guthrie walked on in silence. "Can't we hold to our friendship," she repeated, facing him, and slipping off her mitten, extended her hand. He took it. At the raw pain in his eyes Joan Qtiarrier's lips opened in an involuntary catch of the breath. Her. eyes widened in a look of wonder, as if startled by what she. saw. "You know you always will have my friendship," he said thickly. "I'm Coming down the coast in February— to see my—friend. May I?" "Your friend will be very glad to see you." At the door of the mission, she met his reluctant good -by with a smile so personal—so like a caress that the hand he gave her shook like a leaf in the wind. "My friend," he repeated under his breath as he followed Shot back to Etienne and the waiting dog team, "my friend- my world." :Hoar 'by hour, over the coast ire, the light sled reeled off the n'iiles. So good was fhc "going, so keen the five great •liu,skies 'for 'the trail, that the mean left fheir .robes only to stretch their legs. 'The 'forty miles to the 23igi116Vy river: slid 'past by early aftct'rtoone and "the hungry men'turn-' ed in 'to tite river mouth ' to build a fire'frotw'fr`ftwttiod and boil, their: ket- J. Ai.'VIi FOX CHAPTER and the war is on. CHAPTER VII—Garth hails wit] Registered Drugless Practitioner ;joy the freezing of the strait, whic CHIROPRACTIC AND will enable Souci's followers to brin DRUGLESS PRACTICE their furs to Elkwan without difficul �r gLETRO-THERAPY ty. Etienne craftily spreads report Bouts' z-5, 7-8, or by that McDonald and his schooner ar Appointment RhoPhone ibewitched, and evil will befall all `yh ade with hill', D H. McINNES i{rEI4A.PTER VtlleeeWaitirig in am bush to §li6tlt Uaftli, Joe Mokoman is attacked and killed by Shot. At a "pow -wow" held by his orders Souci convinces the Indians that McDonald is the friend of demons and to be a- voided.' The chief counsels them to take their furs to Elkwan, thus assur- the factor of trade which will es - CHIROPRACTOR e s`` 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 150 GEORGE A. SIDDAL -- BROKER -- Money to lend on first and second mortgages on farm and' other real' es- tate properties at a reasonable rate of interest, also on first Chattel mort- gages on stock and on personal. notes. Afew farms on hand for sale or to rent 'on easy terms. Phone 73'. • Lucknow, Ont, THOMAS FELLS AUCTIONEER REAL ESTATE SOLD Athorough knowledge of Farm Stock Phone 23r,Winghane ing tablish a record for the post. Chapter IX.—Garth learns through a letter from his brother that Quer- Her has made the worst of Ninda's presence at Elkwan, and the story is generally believed, though Ethel writ- es him she is willing to forgive. In contempt be turns from both com-. municatiotts to a letter from Joan, whom he now knows he loves. She is 1 - tells him, to his astonishment, she working in a school for homeless chi drett. CHAPTER N--eThe fur's brought t Garth are easily worth $28,000, a wot derful season's trade. At Albany 1 learns McDonald is thought to be man wanted' in Nova Scotia For tl 0 1- te a 1C W. J. BOYCE murder of his wife's lover. To his in PLUMBI1' 11<3D HEATING mense surprise he finds Joan a our Night Phone 88 at the mission school at Albany. I -I Alone 58 love for the girl deepens, I— se is "I'd give a good deal to know how they took the news over there of the loss of the northern fur, Etienne," said Guthrie, busy with his plate of beans and bacon. "Hello! There's a team coming in over the ice. Won- der who it is." For a time Etienne studied the black object through the binoculars, but when the kettle and the fry -pan had been stowed and the sled cover relashed, two rifles in their skin cases rode by the sides of the passengers. A mile from the noon camp at the river the sled, evidently headed for the mouth of the Kapiskau, drew in- shore. "A hunter from de Kapiskau, We weel now hear how dey swear on de schooner dis Christmas." The dog -team slowed to a walk and shortly were within speaking distance. "Kequay!?? called Savanne. "W'ere you go?" Leaving his panting. dogs, who straightway lay down on the ice, the DRS. A. J. & A. W., IRWON NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY DENTISTS mice NLacdo Vii.-sglwi n CHAPTER NI She was waiting in the clearing when Shop toped up, sniffed, 'looked at her curiously, then pawed 'her 'joy fully with fore feet. "Shot, you know me?" ` Mid she' rubbed the ears of the wiggling airs-' dale. "He has a good ttierneity +for his' friends," said Garth, as'i:h'e"dog lcap ed; in the show around: fie pleast d girl, "I think, it quite wOnderlixl, thpu'h,' isiM1111111.1,111,1,111„111111..1111,....... A. J. WALKER Phones: Office 106, Resid, 224. FURNITURE DEALER and FUNERAL DIRECTOR Motor Equipment WINGHAlt ONTARIO IMIIlYAr"u➢MIY,a1RiY,aiflY.,bh,Y4'iYie.Y,1V,eNiii,i�e1161fYuiYY�'IIN� The Indian Had Seen but One Body. Thursday, November 22.r433, 1928 It was hard on the . hunter, if his `Garth for a whispered council of war. story was straight, but bearding a1]e schooner ees not far. We stop waiting McDonald in hislair was not !an' tie up de husky. Deaf you an' shot Igo one way an' I tak' dees feller wid de gun eon bees back an' we circle roun' do boat." to be lightly hazarded. "I think the man is honest, Etienne. He naturally hated to go again to the ship. But what could have happened —flu—smallpox? Savanne shook his head, Only re- cently the bay had been swept by in- fluenza, brought in by a .whaler, im- partially striking down Eskimos, In- dians, and dogs, but he was still sus- picious of a counterstroke by the schooner people, sore from their de- feat, and ,confidently expected a con- fession from the dog driver ahead be- fore the dusk caught them. Guthrie, on the contrary, believed that some' epidemic, or possibly scurvy, had stri- cken the 'crew, and wondered if the great McDonald, in the pride of his strength, had found a grave in the Akimiski ice. The Indian had seen but one body and fled, so he said; but the schooner had been silent as a tomb. Queer that all had died, so soon. As he left, he had called repeatedly from' the deck, without answer, except once, faintly, he had heard spmething — like the voice of a spirit. When the Cree had reluctantly ca- ched his load of flour and they start - ,ed to cross tlee twenty: miles of ice, he begged them not to 'force him into that grave of white men. The ship was haunted by demons, an Indian from the north 'had said. They had brought the sickness—were displeased with McDonald Ha! Hal—and would surely bewitch him if he again went to that ship of the dead. But Etienne insisted that the seeming fear of the Cree was only a ruse to. lead them into the trap while he hung back and thus avoided a shot in the back for his treachery. stranger hurried to the sled from Elk - wan. As he approached, it was evi- dent to the two men that the Cree was laboring under strong excitement. His sled was heavily loaded and his hard breathing indicated that he had run much crossing the strait. Staggering up, lie gasped: 'Me boat—ovair dere! All gone! McDonal' Ha! Ha! dead all dead?" "What?" cried Garth, "the schoon- er's crew—dead?" "You come from dere—you see dem?" demanded the astute Etienne. A sin- ewy hand shot out, 'and gripping the Cree's shoulder, shook, him violently. "You see dem? Hoy many?" re- peated the half-breed, searching the Indian's face in an attempt to probe the truth of his statement. "I see one dead man. No answer when, I yell," insisted the other, and seemingly at the memory of the ship of the dead,' his small eyes filled with dread "What happened? Was this man shot?" demanded Garth, exchanging glances with Savanne. "He die of sickness—I took an' run It was ver' bad down dere een dat boats," said the Indian with a shud- der. "W'ere the dogs there?" i. "I see no dog." '' ' "W'ere you froth?" snarled Savanne, thrusting a face fierce with suspicion into the Cree's. "From de Kapiskau. I go to de boat to trade some fox," "You get dat flour from de boat— steal it!" • hazarded 'Etienne, guessing at the nature of the bulky load on the Indian's sled. The Cree nodded. "Dey not use it now," The swart face, of the head man at Elkwan hardened into creased Ieather as he turned to Garth, and whispered: "I don laic dis ting. He sees one man. Mebbe deoders ambush us. What we do?" "I'm going over to find out. It's my duty. Boucher will wait for days.; They may not all.be dead. I'm going." "Suppose eet les a •:trick? suppose de ones not dead wait for .der re- vanche, w'en. we come?" "We'll stalk 'em and see." Dropping his mittens and deliber- ately reaching finder his capote, Et- ienne drew his skinning knife, Cool- ly running a thumb over the edge, lie, thrust his face into that of .the dis-' turbed Indian while his slit-like eyes - snapped as he bit off the words: "You. lie! McDonal' Ha! He! sen' you to Kapiskau. You spik de trut', or I—" and seizing the' Indian by his hood, he made a quick pass at his throat, Overawed by the fierceness of the strangers, the undersized Cree swayed. oh his feet, repeating in 'hie seeming terror: "I spik de tent'. You go to de boat—yeti •see1" "We go to'ile,boat•-Yaii',you go wid' us," stiarled Eietrne. At the words, the Indian':a face event gray, "De spirit—I 'am scare to go:' 'back," 'lie tprotegted; `stoat 'flare 'inexor- able Etienne ordered 'Trim 'to 'turn dogs and ilds,+l u?lte way !back. "All right! if either sees or hears anything, two long whistles. Will they bear our dogs if they yelp?". "No, eet ees too far," Shot, trained to silence, would be invaluable in a fight, but the huskies yelping would betray them, so they were lashed to the sleds. "Eef we don' see nodin', I mak' dis feller holler to de ship, Den we wait I tell him he is de first een de boat, wid de gun een hees ribs. He ver' scare-somet'ing bad here," warned Etienne. "He's afraid of the devils," suggest- ed Garth, encasing his rifle, and re- gretting that his army automatic hung neglected in its holster on the rack at Elkwan. This stalk of the ship had, much of the color of a trench raid—a fight in the dark, if Etienne was right. -and he missed the feel of his pistol on his belt, the drag on the shoulder strap of a bag of Mills bombs. Halfway across, the dusk from Aki- miski moved out to meet the trav- elers, soon too look upon, in the berths of the schooner, death in all horror of Plague -stricken men; or to meet a treachery,: as Guthrie believed, too vile for the uses of a fighting man like Laughing McDonald. But the canny half-breed would not be con- vinced, and the knife, shifted to his capote sash, and the uncased rifle bar- rel thrusting from his robe, were sin- ister witnesses to his distrust of the Cree. The barrens of the island purpled, then fused with the dusk. Stars glit- tered above the moving teams. At last in the starlight, the black masses of the hills flanking Seal cove loomed ahead. The Indian stopped his dogs. "Eet ees ovaire dere." He pointed to the invisible shore . Ordering the disarmed Cree to re- main with his dogs, Etienne called ').'Twenty 'chiles 'directly aeras 'ille, strait," 'the ,'gray iinisk i i lulls 1pited to ifdrin t'eove+ the ice behind his silent dog. Circling, the stern, he found behind a mound: Etienne and the shaking Cree. (Continued next week.) .,.. FRED DAVEY Village Clerk, Issuer of Marriage Licenses The law now requires the license• be taken oat three days before thee ceremony. As they separated, Etienne gripped Garth's hand. "I meet you at de boat. Keep behin' de ice w'en I mak' heern holler, eef dey shoot," The idea of stalking dead men was grotesque, but as Garth and Shot made their way slowly toward the shore, for the stars were dim, the pos- sibility that Etienne's suspicions were not unfounded grew in the mind of Guthrie. Suppose the Indian had seen a dead man. There might have been a. fight aboard while the rest were temporarily ashore after fur. True McDonald might be dead, but with the leader gone, Breault, desperate, sick possibly, perhaps insane, might have evolved this scheme to lure some of the Kapiskau people across the ice. For the Indian was bound for Kapiskau when they met him. That the ruse was McDonald's Gu- thrie put aside, but strange things had 'happened before among a ship's com- pany wintering in the ice, and who could guess what had fallen out on The Ghost? When, in the faint light of the stars he made out the ice-heathed poles of the schooner, Garth patted his excited dog. "Stand to, Shot!" The airedale stiffened, sniffing the wind, then side by side, man and dog cautiously made their approach. From behind a pressure ridge, a hundred yards from the frozen -in craft drifted with snow to her low rails, Guthrie stopped. There, under the dim stars, silent, sinister, lay the ship. ' Was it the sepulcher of luckless dead, or— Two whistles from the direction of the ship started Guthrie swiftly over B. i:. NEALE B. A. Neale, popular manager. of 'the Chateau Frontenac, whose appointment as manager of the new Royal York Hotel in Toronto., is . announced to be effective No- vember ovember 1st. The managing of the. Royal York is considered the most- ambitious hotel position on the, continent. Mr. Neale has steadily risen in Canadian Pacific service, since 1911, when he transferred too the hotel department from the General Superintendent's office its. Montreal Here an_ Z'_ere (1 0) The Canadian Pacific has decided on a new ferry service between. ,Steventon, on the mainland, and: Sydney, on Vancouver Island, ac- cording to Captain C. D. Nereutsos,.. manager of the B. C. Coast Steam- ship teamship Service. The new service will begin early next summer, being in— spired by the increased demand for short water hauls.. Tourists to Victoria, the capital of British Columbia, this year num- bered 370,000, according to the Vic- toria Publicity Bureau. Tourist travel from Canadian points and from the west coast of the United States to Vancouver Island and Vic- toria, via the C. P. R. and the coastal steamship service, show an increase over last year. 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