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The Wingham Advance Times, 1928-12-06, Page 6vm r:. W INGH.A.M ADVANCE -TIMES Thursday, December 6th, 1926. 'eilington Mutual Fire Insurance Co, Established t840 Head Office, Guelph, Ont. Risks taken on all Glasse of laser - once at reasonable rates. AB TER COSENS, Agent, Wingham J. W. DODD Office in Chisholm Block FIRE, LIFE, ACCIDENT -rila4AlatTH. INSURANCE AND 'REAL ESTATE 't.' 0. Box 360. Roue 240 !NGNAM, 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 post at Elkwan, He came back from COPY1RIG iT by The PENN PuBLUSt1ING CO. SYNOPSIS CHAPTER 1.—Garth Guthrie, Ca- adian war veteran, having to live in the open on account of weakened lungs, is factor of a Hudson's Bay J. A. MORTON BARRISTER, ETC. Wingham, Ontario DR. O. I-1. ROSS Graduate Royal College of Dental Surgeons Graduate University of Toronto Faculty of Dentistry drifted ashore. Quarrier complains he office we; H. E..Isard's Store' has been robbed by a man known as ,t 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 II.—With Etienne Say- anne, hafbreed, his firm friend, Garth meets Doctor Quarrier, geologist, and his sister Joan. Their schooner has I.. W. COLBORNE, M. D. Physcian and Surgeon Medica. ...-r.,resentative D. S. C, P. 'lsone 54 Wingham Successor to Dr. W. R. Harnbly Laughing McDonald" or to the Ind- ians as "McDonald Hal Hal" because of a scar which gives him a perpet- NOW GO. Off WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XII Garth found Joan Quarrier at the Mission school. Entering the build- ing, he stood for a space in a door- way and watched her read to a group of Cree orphans. As she looked up, aware of his presence, he said: "It is not February, but I have returned." "Something is the matter?" she .aid, apprehensively. "What has happened at Elkwan? "Etienne shot himself. `But you, why are you here? Why did you come?" "For you." "For me—.to go to Elkwan?" Dazed at the idea, her hand sought her fore - nal grin. McDonald is Garth's corn- head, while ,the clattering children crowded curiously around them. "He wants you. There may be in- fection—and you know wounds—have everything in your kit, bandages, stimulants, antiseptics." "Let me put on my coat and we'll talk outside," she said. So they went to the clearing. "I know well what I'm asking," he said. "It ,means a day on the sled— discomfort, for you. But he is uiy friend, and it may mean his life— your coming." Her troubled eyes turned to his, "I want to go—the trip is nothing. It's going, alone, with. you—it means leaving the mission, I suppose." "Of course, Swan will make a fuss. 'To him it Will look immoral—your going tsto save a man's life," he said, savagely, "but for you—an army nur- se, with a life at stake," he pleaded, "is there any choice?" She smiled wistfully as she gazed over the frozen river, "I've got to go. It's in my blood— to help them—the wounded." His heart leaped at the words."To help the strong—to help me—is •.hat in your blood, too, Joan Quarrier?" he asked passionately. She shivered and avoided his eyes, as a wave of color swept 'up to .lar dark hair, "The strong need no help," petitor for the fur trade. At Elkwan an Indian , girl, Ninda, tuberculosis DR. ROBT. C. REDMOND, victim, whom Garth has befriended, is ti . • i -R.C.S. (ENG.) L.R.C.P. (Loud.) dying• (ranter hintsthat Ninda e- Garth's mistress, which is hotlyy re - PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON sented. Joan, trained war nurse, cares for Ninda the DR. R. L. S'TEWART Graduate of University of Toronto, Faculty of Medicine; Licentiate of the Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons. 4, Office in Chisholm Block Josephine Street. Phone 29. DR. O. W. HOWSON DENTIST 'Office over John Galbraith's Store. E. 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 arid Electro Therapy. asraduates of` Canadian. Chiropractic College, Toronto, and National Col- lege Chicago. Office opposite Hamilton's Jewelry Store, Main St. 1 QURS: 2-5, 7-8.30 p.m., and by appointment.' grat of town , night eatlla rre- Aponded;to. Al: ii'z" ie si fir+<&ifiden 7> !, Phones. Office 3oo;,Resience 601-13. J. ALVIN FOX Registered Drugless Practitioner CHIROPRACTIC AND DRUGLESS PRACTICE ELECTRO -THERAPY Hours: 2-5, 7-8., or by appointment. Phone 191. D. H. McINNES CHIROPRACTOR ELECTRICITY Adjustments given for diseases of all kinds; we specialize in dealingwith children. Lady attendant. Night calls responded to. ' Office on Scott St., Wingham, Ont. Phone iso GEORGE A. SIDDAL n aut grr les. CHAPTER III.—Garth tells Joan part of the reasons for his presence at Elkwan. He takes the Quarrieirs 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 Elk -wan 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, Nmnda's reputed father, whom the factor had driven from Elkwan. "Shot" Garth's airedale com- panion on many battlefields in France, she parried. saves him, and the Indian is taken, a Again in control. of himself, the prisoner, to Elkwan. elated Guthrie smothered his own Chapter W.—Garth sends 1lfokoman emotion in this thought for the strick- en friend at Elkwan, for whom he to McDonald with a message of de- fiance, and the war is on. had lied to the man he respected and ' CHAPTER VII—Garth hails with What she would say to him when she the girl he loved. And he w ondr:rcd joy the freezing of the strait, which will enable Souci's followers to bring their furs to Elkwan without difficul- ty. Etienne craftily spreads reports that McDonald and his schooner are bewitched, and evil will befall all who trade with him. CHAPTER VIII: Waiting in am- bush to shoot Garth, 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- ing the factor of trade which will es- tablish a record for the post. — BROKER Chapter Tx.—Garth learns through a' letter from his brother that Quar- rier has made the worst of Ninda's presence at Elkwan, and the Story is i generally believed, though Ethel writ- ites him she is willing to forgive. In contempt he . turns from both com- munications to a letter from Joan, whom he now knows he loves. She tells him, toles astonishment, she is. working in a school for horneless chil- i dren, CHAP'l'1 Yt X—The furs brought to ! Garth are easily' worth $28,000, a Won - Money' to lend on first and second mortgages on farm and other real es- tate properties at a reasonable rate of • Interest, also on first Chattel mort- gages on stock and on personal notes. Afew farms on hand for ,sale or to tent on easy terms. • Phone 73. Lucknow, Ont.. THOMAS FELLS AUCTIONEER REAL ESTATE SOLD .thorough knowledge of Farm Stock ]'hone 231, Wimigiiam. ';lerftrl season's trade. At Albany he �� � 1learns McDonald is thought to be a man wanted in Nova Scotia for the ?LUMBI'^i''r AilM HEATING murder of his wife's lover. To his im- `:hone 58 Night Phone 8$ mcnse surprise he finds Joan a nurse at the mission, school at Albany. His DRS. A. J. & A. W. IRWIN love fur the girl deepens. DENTISTS e Macdon ?itInsk, W:iitegham flit C,,u,ittl Mtti"tl fl l gIIWEE*1111lM►IWY A. J. WALKER Phones:. Office 106, IZ.esid. 224 FURNITURE DEALER and FUNERAL DIRECTOR Motor Eei,'tiiprnetit WII+TGEAIVM — ONTARIO llnl,li"iblrlli,ir,liti"7ltrrr,ilrrHtianot.tit,iitltErIWNMlV, Chapter XT. -On the way back to. !Ullman Garth learns from an. Indian ! that McDonald and all on the schoon ei are dead. Hastening to the Vessel, he findsr 1rCc1)crnalcli. •HtCit, only. man alive, the rest having,he believes, site - combed to influenza --is Craig Gal- braith his pal in France, ante, unci the man believed to be wanted in Halifax for murder, He sends Etienne with Gal- braith, unconscious, to Eilkwan,while. he rcturirs Id Albany to get Joanto go with him to nurse Galbraith. learned of the deception. That she would have come as readily, had he told the truth, he had no doubt, but the secret of Galbraith's presence at Elkwan was a trust, sacred, invio- late. He told had Cameron that the crew of the Ghost had died to a man. At Albany, Laughing McDonald was a dead man. On the way up the coast Joan Quarrier should learn the truth. "Oh, ye of little faith! Guthrie sadly shook his head. "What must I do to convince you?" The girl made no answer. Looking up, Garth saw, bundled in fur cap and coat, much too large for him, a short figure blocking their path, "You are going on this mad j'r,tr• ney:" The shrill voice of Swan le: - mantled, "Do you hold your repot,.- tion ser cheaply?'" "You have heard?" "Yes! Mrs. Cameron has told me what this man has conic for." "You're too late, Swan, she has promised to go," said Garth quietly. ignoring Guthrie, the little man grav- ely warned: "You realize, Miss Quarrier, if you go, you cannot return to the nossi nm ?'i "Yes," Mr. Swan, Before I became a mission teacher, and my moral wel- fare the object of your solicitude. 1 lived for three years with wounded. men. A 'man's life is at slake. It is worth more than my reputation.“ To Garth .she.said abruptly.: "Come for 'rue when you are ready. I'll go. and pack my "Bravo. Healer. of Wounds! That, was, spoken like a soldier," and',walk- hip; walk - h t mill, sparely at the mortified mission- wry, dazed at the flouting of.'his au- thority, who stepped into the soft Snow to avoid the threatened colli- sion, the elated Guthrie hurried to the trade'.hou.se. "She'll go, she'll got" he announced to the waiting factor. "Goodl You'll take goad cure, of her, I know, I wish you 'the best of luck, my boy. She's a rare ore —is Joan." "Swart told her she couldn't return to the mission.''' "A -ah!"' contemptucru:,ly grunted the other, "We'll send over and get her belongings, s She'll spend, the rest ofthe Winter with its. But she'smuch toe valuable to the Swans for therm to stick to their high horse, =They'll be oyer trying to • wheedl,; her into coming back." J`l',ut I hope she won't,". ".We'll see to that. Why, t.hey;Idid nut know how to feed a husky pup, and in charge 'o (twenty children! Think of it! Jean turned - to,.. and taught 'em something, scientific, .cru know. Oh, they'll be back after her." Guthrie grinned broadly as he said; "So will I."t "Well, I hope you get her." Behind the slab counter , Garth curled up on a bundle of blankets for a few hours' sleep, until his dogs were fit to take the ninety -mile run north to Elkwan and the sick man who, ef- ficially had died on the Ghost. At noon he drove his refreshed team to the mission where Joan, standing beside her duffle bags, waited in the snow. With the light load of two passen- gers, the big runner sled—its wooden shoes shod with ice, ;Which slips over a hard surface with less friction than steel and can be renewed at will, would be sport for the five power ful dogs. Driving, as he would, to bring skill and medicine to the succor of the guest at Elkwan, Garth hoped to reach the Post before dawn, but much depended on the 'light, A thick night would slow the dogs to a walk while crossing the mouths of the big rivers, where tide cracks opened and closed over night and the trail led through hummocks and ridges, bad going by' day—at night, heart -breaking to driv- er and dogs. "You're not sorry—haven't regret- ted promising to come?" he asked, as he wrapped lier in robes and stowed her bags. She shook her head. "Not in the least, Mr. Exile. I'rn reconciled now to the loss of the last shred of my reputation. It was a wild scene—in the ;house. They even prayed,for me when they realized threats were fu- tile." "Prayed for you—you, bound on an errand of mercy? In the name of all the saints, they'd let an innocent man die for want of proper care, because of my reputation? I iyust be a mon- ster to them." i She laughed. "Yes, I can truthfully say that after what my brother told theni, they think you are a terrible person:" "Do you?" he countered, leaning over the sled. "Well—" her dark eyes flashed up. into his, "not exactly terrible, rather —what shall I say?—stubborn." "Marche, Castor!" And the huskies, with. Shot ahead, galloped to the trade -house. There the Camerons were waiting for the girl, who had, also, burned her brid- ges Shortly, down the cliff trail and over the river -ice raced the team, car- rying hope for Craig Galbraith, deep in delirium, at Elkwan, ninety white miles away. As they left the river and turned up the coast, Guthrie's anxious eye;: circled the gray horizon for indica- tions of what would follow the h tze- smnothered sunset over the Keewatin muskeg. For days, now, the wt t 1_e.r had softened to above zero tempera- ture, a characteristic of fames Bay winters, which are milder than those of the forest country to the sonilm, and he prayed for a bright night, as his thoughts were busy with the trag- edy of Craig Galbraith and his own part in the climax of the pitiful his tory. The decision he had made b• -side l:he bunk in the Ghost, once he 1 ad struck on a feasible plan of procedure, was inevitable to the man Who owed his life to the heroism of the stricken Galbraith. But the situation which Guthrie faced as he watched the high barrens of Akinmiski catch and hold the veiled light of 'the dying sun, might easily result not only iii dis- missal from the company but in ar- rest by the 'authorities. His clear duty to his employers had. ,demanded that he report to Cameron the preset)... cc of Laughing 'McDonald at Elkwan.. The information that a lludsnn's hay factor had concealed a man suspected of murder would raise a hornet's nest in Ottawa. All this Garth Guthrie had seen with clear vision the nigh before, when lie shared his plan With Etienne, but as his eyes rested for an instant on the tragic face of the friend who, that day in front of Amniens, bad not counted the cost, there *as in his face the look of a man who would re- pay to the last farthing. Ottawa, Imre company he had served so well, were nothing. There- lay Craig Galbraith, sick, hunted by the law lie had defied, deserted—Laughing McDonald, whom lie' had fought for the trade—his friend, and he would See it through. Craig should: have his chance, slight as it looked. With 'tire,; woaiia;'im of the great heart and the skilled hands, hp was hurrying over the sea -ice as fast as tire l ngavas could travel, Hoid on, Galbraith, V, C,! as you held at ttrany a disputed Parapet arid. shell-. holer They had talked little through the The Moment had' come. "I have a confession to snake to you, Juan Quarrier," lie began. "I have lied to you—brought you from a. warm I shelter up this coast tonight on false pretenses," "False pretenses! What du you first miles, the thoughts of the man mean?" She was curious but not dis- centered on his problem.' With the turbecl. skill of long training, she had gone "I have been the cause of your into the details of Etienne's wound, . breaking with the Swamis—given the and Garth had had no heart so' early Missionary people the ell;ince to raise iii their journey for a confession of their saintly eyebrows iii horror> -for his duplicity, But When, off the mouthwhat?" of the Big Willow, he announced that, .,"Why; my dear Matt!" she protest - it was time to rest the dogs and eat ed, "I' understand all that, Their the supper prepared by Mrs. Cain- prattle can't hurt tile, can it? I don't eron, he felt that, over the hot tea, understand. Where is the lie?" Joan Quarrier should be told tile facts. He sucked in a deep breath and With the aid of-cedarlcindlings car- leaned toward her, as he said. "ai- ded on the sled, he soon, had =a fire• enne was not shot. Your'e ort your under the 'teakettle. way to help me save a friend, 'a "Do you realize how you have ig- :friend who crawled with me' on his noted your passenger, Mr. Exile? This hack through gas and shell fire. They is my first ride behind the dogs and I broke his arm and got him in the wanted to talk about them." !chest, but he came through. Can you The huskies, except Shot, who was guess who it is?" inspecting the willow thicket, were Her dark brows contracted as she sprawing in their harness sniffing met the pleading look of the man hungrily at the odor of bacon. Nowstanding by the fire.. Slowly she that he was alone with Joan, was to shook her head. "You said Etienne be alone with tier' through the long was hurt, Now you say it was -some miles to Elkwan, Guthriefelt strange- one else—I don't see—" ly diffident. Until he had laid the "Laughing' McDonald." truth before her, told her of the love "Laughing McDonald?" she cried. he'bore,this broken thing, once feared "You said you found him dead on the as Laughing McDonald, waitingin schooner?" such sore need of her. administrations, "He was alive, but very sick—`flu,' and received. her absolution for his pneumonia, I'm not sure-- Etienne deception, lie would feel ill at ease and an Indian took him to Elkwan with the woman 'who faced tile world while I came to, ask you to go—to with the starktruth in her eyes. help—" "Let me see," she went on, "I know , "He was this friend who saved Castor amid Pollux, but that cream -col- your life—in France?" : she asked, cued one?" widle-eyed with. surprise. "Oh, that's Dido," he laughed, "and "Yes, Capt. Craig Galbraith, He the white -gray one.is Aeneas. • took the name ;of McDonald—" "Aeneas? And does he 'run away "When he disappeared after the from her like his namesake?" murder?" she broke in. "Run away? Hardly. She's the "That is unworhty of Joan Quar- fastest dog in the team. What's more tier," he demanded gently, lie .doesn't try. He's more constant "But his description tallies with that than Virgil's hero." • of the man wanted in Halifax. You "What's the name of that surly one, forget that I've seen him," .who growls so much?" Guthrie warmed to the defense of "Oh, that's Achilles,: of course, the his friend. "Suppose he is the man? sulker. But he's not so much of a Is it strange' that a man branded for hero. He's deathly afraid of Castor. life with that grimace," he pleaded, "a i and Shot fought him to a standstill, man, 'proud, sensitive, coming home once." with the Victoria Cross—twice won— "My, I'm hungry! How good the should go mad when the wife he cher tea tastes! But aren't the dogs to ished, as I know he did, turns, in have sonic fish' after their work?" horror of his scars, to a lover? Tell "No, they were fed this morning. me, is it strange?" If I feed them now, it would make "It was murder," she objected half them lazy; we wouldn't reach. Elkwan heartedly. before noon, and I'm worried—I'm 'No, notif the man was tsruck in afraid we're going; to be too Iate as the heat of 'passion—as Galbraith it is." e could strike. It ivas retribution." She looked tip ,puzzled at his tone "After' all, he was a gallant sol- "Why, you said he wasn't bleeding Bier," she mused aloud, "and be :saved. badly—no artery involved. It's only nur;jife." a matter of keeping the wound clean," Ignoring the inference. Garth pressed his point, for lie saw to his 'joy that his story had touched her. i "Think what his bitterness ---his agony 1—must have been, doomed forever to' I,wear that mask, when the woman I who should have been proud to'bear his name failed him. Iniagtrie his lonliness—leis despair, when, in his 'need, 'she turned to another."' I There was tt Mist in Joan Quarrier's I eyes as 'she'.said: "You must have loved him greatly to defend him so well." "He threw away his hope of reach- ing the lines, when he followed Shot to any shell -hole and started back with a gassed man; .is it strange' that I'm r fighting for his life, oh, Healer of \rounds?" 1 For an instant, as he waited for her answer, she met the fierce plead- ing of his eye's, tl.ien looked into the thickening night as she said gently:: "You have won. I'll give all l have to save him—for he was a gallant soldier—and has suffered." Joan Quarrier did. not see the pride; ,the gratitude, and the love that shone down on her from Guthrie's eyes. For an hour after the stop at the Big Willow for the hot tea the wea- ther had been gradually thickening. As the dogs follom, ed the coast, Guth - lie's restless eyes watched the murk slowly blot out the stars. It meant feeling their way past the river mouths and across the delta of the Attawa- piskat, a sharp watch on the compass to avoid entering the river itself. Clearly caution didtated turning into the Kapiskau and spending th'e night at the post. But the chance of the man at Elkwan might hang on the hours saved by pu.,hing on tlrrough. the"sable blanket which shrouded the coast. He turned to the girl muffled in robes on the sled behind him, "It's not going to be cold, but a cold night with the stars would be. better than this." (To Be Continued.) Greer's Shoe Store presents Ne* Fabric Zippers and Gaytees in colors to match your costume. [four1llmme:B ac'!a i{IZotS'arisfied w e� P ► ' PO LLTR3 ifirth'forPRATTS POULTRY BOOK -FREE Pratt Food Company ofCauada,Ltmired 32..5Corf,n,4r,.7irottuL H1. 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