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The Wingham Advance Times, 1928-12-13, Page 6J:L �{ngIApMMnNMW>kgM'k WINGHAM ADVANCE -TIMES Wingham, December 13th, 1928 Wellington Mutual Fire Insurance Co. Established X840 Head Office, Guelph, Ont. Risks taken on all elasse tof incur - lance at reasonable rates, ABNER COSENS, Agent, Wingham J. W. DODD Office in Chisholm. Block FIRE, LIFE, ACCIDENT AND '.`dEALTH RISURANCE AND REAL !STATE ' 0, Dox 36o . Phone 240 r�INGHF' M, — ONTARIO J. W. BUSHFIELD Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc. Money to Loan Office—Meyer Block, Wingham Successor to Dudley Holmes R. VANSTONE ARRISTER, SOLICITOR, ETC - Money to, Loan at Lowest Rates Wingham, Ontario J. A. MORTON BARRISTER, ETC. , Wingham, Ontario. DR. G. H. ROSS Graduate Eoyal College of Dental Sturgeons Graduate. University of Toronto Faculty ,of Dentistry Office nv:?. I, fw. Isar ,'s tore. W. COLBORNEM. D. Physcian and Surgeon COPYRIGHT be The PENt3 PUBLISHING CO. SYNOPSIS CHAPTER :.—Garth Guthrie, Ca- adian war veteran, having to live in the open on account of weakened 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- igo as "McDonald Hal Hal" because el a eat. which gives hint :'t perpet- ual grin, e( j)pnald is Garth's' Coin - NOW t D :ON WITH THE STORY "How can you tell where we're eing.? 1 cau't see a thing." "I'm letting •Castor pick the trail= -- just checking him with the compass. It has a luminous dial." "But be :can't see any more than we can." "A good lead dog has an extra sense—an instinct for a trail.Castor has it; that's why lee's our lead dog. He has brains, too." "Where's Shot?" "Oh, he's following the shore. If he misses us, he'll circle and get our scent." "Won't he bark?" "No, he was taught not to --at night. But i 'rust make a decision," "A decision?" '.We're near the mouth ;tf the Ka- eeplicable reason .had attacked Castor. Meeeilessly swinging the heavy butt of the whip, calling lilac dogs by name, he blindly fought tiifree the offend- ing Shot .from the knife-like fangs, of Caseo:r and Pollux. A heaving mass of: snapping jaws, the huskies, mad with excitement, :tripped, hampered by their tracts, were slashing wildly in the dark s:t their enemy and each other. .At latest,; taking a slaslf which ripped the eleeve of his,parka'as he reached in, (&aeth' got Shot's .collar with oi,c hand and lifting the •struggling' dog while he. clubbed the others back, dragged him from the milling team, A.ttenrpting to follow, Castor fell stunned by a blow on the skull, and Guthrie was free from the infuriated team, unable, enmeshed in their traces, to drag the sled in pursuit of the airedale who fought in Guthrie's arms to return to the battle, "Oh, what has happened?" called Joan •Quarrier's frightened voice. "It was too awful: What started them?" "It's all right. I've got Shot and he's not cut much, He'll cool off in a minute. For some reason he piled in- to Castor," "Attacked Castor?" Guthrie led his dog to the tail of the sled where be made him fast. "Yes, he must have bowled Castor over on the run. Of course that started the team, But it's so dark I doubt if any of them are hurt much. They couldn't see to strike—and their traces saved Shot. He's got two on , the shoulder but they re not deep." The girl was off the sled and sooth- ng the airedali trembling with the heat of the fight. Medicat=xl?;c4@stat Ye D. S. G. It. petnor for the fit' ieede, M Elkwen mska�u, ht's going to be slew tvorTc To have led her to this-- a hideou death with the dogs drawn under b the drag of the sled, And Etien had warned him of the tide cracks i the river Mouths, He had intende making a- wide swing. around ` th Kapiskau, but in his search for th beach, had ''entered' the. "river.' • Bu Shot, staunch old warrior that he wa had through some uncanny instinc sensed their danger and taken th only method of stopping the Man Putting her trust in Garth Guthrie Shot had saved he•. He turned bac. to the team, thrilled with pride in th dog who' worried at his leash.' Th love of the man for his dog had beer cemented by yet one more bond, She had Saved her for Garth Guthrie) "What did you find?" she asked as he reached.the sled. • "I learned that we'll have to 'back track straight east," he said calmly. "Why aren't we heading for the shore?' ' "Yes, but 'we've got to get out o this river. When I strike the sea -ice Tin going to circle, hit the coast, and give you some rest," "But We ought to keep on," "Not in this blackness. It's as thick as Flemish, rain in March. • I've got to lead the team," he did not . add, "to watch for Water ahead." Unleashing Shot, whom. he hogged as he mumbeld for .a space into a hairy ear, Guthrie sent the airedale out as en advance patrol, He had found water once, he would find it again if they stumbled upon another tide crack. Leading Castor on a leash,, he started straight east for the sea -ice. For• an hour they walked, Shot ening ahead while Guthrie, bent'for- �vard, eyes on the ice and • his coin - ase dial, captiously followed, Fcgr- s She shook her bead in protest. "Yon y; call me a soldier, and treat me as a ne woman," n "You are a ta'oilan to me—too d precious to. take outon anight like. e this and drive into a tide crack,"'he ca replied; w'atcliing the lighting of the t fire play ou her brooding eyes, s, For answer she" called, "Come here, t, Shot— tome. I want to kiss you." e The airedale rose,stretched; i, yawned, and wagged his way to her, "There," •I'll never; forget what you e e cracking of the fire at dawn. "Good morning, Healer of Wounds.. The tea is almost ready; the bacon, done; the bread cut. Will you wash your face and hands in the snow, and partake of the bounties set.before you on these beautiful plates, of tin?" Through sleepy eyes the girl smiled ep at the men who had. labored for her comfort, "You. are very` good to I Your passenger, Mr. Exile, I shall recommend this line to all who con- template a night 'voyage up this, coast;,, "We ought to make Elkwan, by- noon, y noon, • I wonder what we'll find, be: said pouring the het' tea. "Whatever we find, Maj, Garth, Guthrie, you have squared your debt:. No man could have done more for his. friend," • "But I'almost lost you-" "That would have been the fortune, of war." "Aire, the irony+ wf fate, wiili Eti cone and pool Galbraith waiting up there at Elkwan for two who never came," :,,q i1, Phone 54 Wingham an Irtdiatc girl, Ninda, tuberculosis can you stand this till daylight?" I "f ill hti'xlghte;f $ul tnv dogs now. r Successor tD ` W. R. Hambl victim) . arth has•",Whet r. Y 1 r wlioin is befriended, is N at has that to dc� tee ilie j i bey dnn't tare for this whip-hdfidle,,, R. ROE'(. C. kIDMOND ILR,C.S. (ENG.) L.R.C.P. (Loud.) PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON' DLL L STEWAR'T `"litacliiltte of University of Toronto, Vacuity of Medicine; Licentiate of the Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons. Office in Chisholm Block Josephine Street. Phone 29.. in his heart knows better. His scar- making Elkwan hours sooner, doesn't is ' r" "T could hear the blows, she said: p dyin: 'barrier paskau hints that Ninda Gartfi's mistress, which is hotly re- "If your 'It hurt but I suppose it was the 'f seated. Joan, trained war nurse, .cares on, tx't rcaa . „ o y` Nelda, v gar nes, , ,,�"'They'd have killed Shot, if they I la H�3.g1it cr note o falmost appeal in his t�: `t ITS:= a'rtl tells .YrRa l - once got ,tint down, T had to get hint a ;l�•� vc iCe. out of it quill iy,t' Gttthritt 0 1i:tiletl, '1 and calming his Ex:ited. dogs, soon' a had them on tiieii' feet with straight- 'g eu'ed traces. Castor, Garth's favorite, A who had* taken the bulk of the blows, found the hand of his master with his tongue as he 'rubbed against Guthrie's leg. Garth rumpled the erect ears of the trembling Ungava. "Poor old boy! It wasn't your fault, was it, •if Shot event crazy? Don't blame you a bit, old man. I had to do it, but its forgotten, isn't it? Yes, good old Castor!" with a pat of the massive skull, Garth went to 'soothe the still excited Pollux, and.the rest. But all the while his brain was busy with the stran};•e action of the airedale, They were close to the beach, Shot had found-killedsome- thing, and refused. to share _ it with the approaching team. But why did he leave it? With Shot lashed to the tail of the sled, and the heat of the combat cooled in the blood of 'the huskies through the soothing tones of the master's voice and the touch of his He had been too careful to have hand, Guthrie again called to his lead drifted out toward Akimiski, yet he Ido had travelled a mile straight into the "Marche', Castor!" shore without hitting it. 'The only As the sled started, the airedale possible solution was the wide mouth broke into furious barking. Puzzled, of the Kapiskau—and he had wished to avoid getting into the river—had hoped to pass well outside. Swinging the team into the northwest, he de- cided to travel by compass for another Ion his hind legs and pawed the man's mile. That would bring him into thea chest in dumb atteriapt to communi river mouth. It would also— He I date tite reason for his protest. looked toward the invisible figure on : "What is it, old boy? What's over the sled -the girl who had •unresery Idly placed herself in his hands—who had entered on this voyage of mercy, thoughtless of self. The hands inside his mittens shut, convulsively, as a warning Etienne had once given him flashed across his memory. •And he had brought leer—the thing most precious in the. world to Garth Guth - re, `aired—too tired to go.or; wa " el of not yet havliig cleared the river mouth, he led his dogs for another' forN' d but the1 d' 1 Stop at the post. She Dari.of tns he reasofor .iiS 63tai$ence, "Too tired," she protested, "an ar- at Eiicwan, He 'taker elide Quart=ers my nurse tired when there's a 1 aat- eci Albany, from t i %.ee they, can pro- ient to take care of?" need to Monti' ,tk. Charles Guthrie "I know, but it's a bit dangerous, writes reprouthing his brother for not too," he said doubtfully. "Of course coming home. Charles' wife assures —I'd like to keep on—for his sake." him Ethel still loves him, but Garth "Well, we'll keep on. It means 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. OURS: 2-5, 7-8.30 p.m., and by appointment. 'Mt of town Euad 3igba calla re- t eeetmded to. All tnesigasa ete2fidet tial. Phones. Office Soo; Residence 6o1-13. red face has separated them. it? And that counts. I can sleep on CHAPTER IV—Three of McDon- this sled. I'm almost asleep now." ald's party visit Elkwan seeking to "Thank you, Soldier!" he said, and buy gun shells. From them Garth stopped the team while he consulted learns of evil talk among the Indians his compass. "If I could only see concerning him and Ninda, and real- that shore—the boulders." izes Quarrier will spread his version Guthrie left the sled, and fastening of the affair. a long rawhide thong to Castor's col - Chapter V.—With Etienne's help lar, cried, "Haw, Castor! 'We're going Garth wins the friendship of Saul ashore to see if we can stumble into Souci, "medicine man" and treaty those boulders," But leading his team and at inter- val t I ' f 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 Mokotnan, Nirida's reputed father, whom the factor had driven from Elkwan, "Shot" Garth's airedale conn. panion on many battlefields :in France, saves him, and the Indian is taken, a prisoner, to Elkwan. Chapter VI: Garth sends Mokoman o McDonald with a message of de- fiance, and the'war is on. CHAPTER VII—Garth hails with o. the e freezing of the strait, which will enable Souci's followers to bring their furs to Elkwan without difficul- t'. Etienne craftily spreads reports hat McDonald and his schooner are ewitched, and evil will befall all who rade with Bina. CHAPTER VIII.—Waiting in am- ush to shoot Garth, Joe Mokoman is ttacked and killed by Shot. At a pow -wow" held by his orders Souci °evinces the Indians that McDonald s the friend of demons and to be a- aidcd. The chief counsels them to Ake their furs to Elkwan, thus assur- mg the factor of trade which will es- ablish a record for the post. Chapter I:i,—Garth learns through letter from his brother that Qttar- rier has made the worst of Ninda's presence at Elkwan, anti the story .is generally believed, though Ethel writ- es him she is willing to forgive. 'In contempt' he turns from both cont- anunicatirns to a letter from. loan, whom he now knows he loves, She tells him, to his astonishment, she is working in a school for homeless chit= ren, CHAPTER. "1'h furs brought to mirth are easily worth $28,000, a won- erful seascm's trade, At Albany he aims McDonald is thought to be a tan wanted in .Nova Scotia for the murder• of his wife's lover, To his in tense surprise he finds Joan a nut se the inissiern sellout' at Albany. IT.is ave for the girl deepens. Chapter XT—Ori the way back to lkwan Garth learns from an Indian at McDonald and all on the schoon- er. clrooai:- e are dead, Hastening to the vessel, he finds' YI ,r t, i�fT1 t; trnaltl �--the onlyman at alive, the rest having,he believes, suc- cumbed to in:fltrenea—is Craig Gal - braille his pal in France, and 'the man: believed to be wanted in Halifax for murder. 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IRWIN 1, DENTISTS -Vice Macdonrttl tk, Winghar. I th Y/I,YYIIYII1. ]pl]IIYYI II UI YY 1111 A. J. WALKER 'Phones: Office 106, l esid, 224 FURNITURE DEALER and FUNERAL DIRECTOR Motor a Egttipment WINGI�IAM -w ONTARIO immott1YlY,i,i,nUIMAMIH,IiIiYiAYYYYIItoo.;;04,w imtwo mg s s upping to examane t le ace •roan his knees, to Guthrie's surprise the dogs travelled many hundred yards without reaching the drift and the shell ice of the shore. Was he deep in the mouth of the Kapiskau? And off shore? our, then circled, into the a„Q114'. rest hd found tI ni Ills dogs, tut willows rid ai'ci64 cilli with his cedar kindling di a lire going to boil the kettle& s soon as it lightened enough to follow the coast, they would start a fresh for Elkwan. After the Kapis- kau, the ten -mile delta of the Attawa- piskat .:was not to be thought of. As Joan Quarrier sat by the coin - forting heat in the willow thicket, Guthrie told her the story which he had kept from her while he groped through the water traps of the river mouth. She sat with parted lips; her seri- ous ,eyes suspiciously bright, as Garth explained why Shot had hurled him- self on the team. "And you never told me what you found when you left us?" "Why scare you, it was bad enough as it was." Guthrie turned back. "What's the matter, Shot?" The clog ,was clearly excited about something. With' a whimper he rose on that shore you don't want its to see?" "Tell me, Shot," called the girl, and the dog left Guthrie to go to her but was stopped by his leash. "It's more tltari queer," sair 'Guthrie, "it's uncanny. Well, I've got to find that shore anti make a fresh start.` Now, Shot, be quiet, will you?" rie—into this, Why had he not camp- Again the driver called, "Marche, ell on the Big Willow? Castor!" For minutes Garth walked ahead The dogs leaned into their collars of his team, praying for signs in 11iI and the sled started, but from it's ice—a gray blur at his feet—of the!tail rose the howls of the protesting` Shot. "Good Lord, I've gat to look into � this! I'll be back shortly." And stopping his team, Garth walked' in- to the nmik, He had advanced but a. short dis- tance, doubled over the ice, feeling his` way with his moccasins, when lie stopped, as a chill, like the touch of a cold wind, cut (through him. "Tide citack!"alie gasped, 'Within a step of the gray ,blur of ice on which rte stood, a black streak, fading into the enveloping gloom, barred his way. "We're 'in the river mouth , , among the tide I cracks—Etienne warned mel Shot -old Shot, God bless hint—he ichcw! Shot's actions were clear enough now.; Coming upon the open water toward which the sled was hurrying, the airedale had returned on the bound, barktnb a w ar sing ashe carne. Then, as• the dogs caane to a trot, Shot bad catapulted into Castor, start- ing a fight and—stopping the sled, Stunted, strack, wiith remorse, Gttthi•ie crouched on: the lip of the gash in the - rivet ice, itrto which dogs, sled—all of them would have blindly plunged but for Shot's mad attack on the team,. proximity of the shore. Then—des- perate, he stood on the tail of the sled anti urged his dogs into a trot. as he checked them from circling with the lureinotrs dial he held in his mit- ten. For a space Castor gingerly led the team into the black wall when through the murk sounded a brittle bark. r\roused; the yelping huskies quick- ened their pace. "Shot's found the shore -he smells something," cried Guthrie to the girl in front of ,lila,, "Queer, he barked though;," Again the rough voice of the ore- dale broke thedugh the pit -like black- ee ss. Castor. enswcred, With a jerk the huskies started. into a fast trot, They had not travelled a hundred Yards,' when . directly in front of the invisible team, sounded Shot's raw chatlen There .here k was an :intoner Of hard bodies, Castor's snarl of rage, t'ollux'c roar, followed by the "bed- lam of huskies fighting. Into the melee of enraged dogs entangled in their traces slid the Sled. With the handle of his heavy dog -goad cictbbecl, thebewildered Guthrie ran to the res- cue of'the airedelej who for conte in - c did tonight,: You deserve the V. 'C. With a grunt, Shot .thrust- his nose. toward her hood, "Look out, he's trying to return the kiss," warned the than who envied his clog, Her white teeth flashed in amuse- '4'1;0 muse- 1 'amu.' vtna5Y] 'r 'a 1I a ` - "But I Almost Lost Fort." ment. "You may, Shotty, on the cheek, for you're a brave and gallant t i gentleman." "And the other br"ave and gallant gentlemen—are they to be ignored? Aren't Castor and Pollux, and—their brave and gallant master, to share in your' salute, oh, mon general?" "This general decorates but one hero tonight and that is Shot," she replied archly. "His devotion has been proved." "And mine?" She would not meet his eyes. "Oh, my friend," she parried, "we have work before us—a bitter fight for the life of a brave man. Why think of ourselves?" • In the lee of the sled, tipped on its side, its canvas cover stretched above her like a shed tent to reflect the heat of the fire, Joan Quarrier slept, warm in her robes until waked b tile CHAPTER XFII r� -dtt At noon, that clay, a lone, figure stood in the snow on the clearing at Elkwan and searched the river -ice: below the post. With a dubious shake of the head, Etienne returned! to Old Anne and his wife, waiting int Guthrie's quarters. "Ver.', black night; hard to folls'v de shore. `Something happen to Wefeu" Guthrie, Mebbe de woman not come wid heem," "She come," insisted Old Anne."She cone w'en lie ask, She come" eel "Dat McDoual', he ver' seek than. She breeng, de med-ceene eef she ,x.ome. Igo (tai' 1taye look at de $i,?fl" 99 1. Again 'irtie nne stood on Itlies cliff` abovethewhite Elkwan =di watehedl !for the moving spot on the tee, which, would mark the approaching team.. Disappointed, he was about to ret.urnr Ito the women in the house when his• i keen' eyes suddenly lit with excite- ; meat. Far on the white shell of the - river 'seemed to move ,a black spot. For a space the half-breed' studied the. ;.barely distinguishable object. Then. lie trotted to the quarters.. •"Dey come!" lie cried to tlie'wwaiting Iwomen. "ley turn de beeg When the huskies that had traveled! forty miles since• daylight drew in to the cliff trail at a slow walk, Guthrie hurried to the waiting Etienne with the demand': "You got him here? He's alive ?" The half-breed nodded, then with a wide grin turned to the girl on the sled. "'Alto! You are welcome to Elkwan, ma'ni'selle!" as he assisted. her out of the robes. (To Be Continued.) Ol We Have a Complete Range of High=(duality ®A Personal .. GREETING CARDS leff err 430,4) kr 40.74) ry New Designs Let; �n k Ott WItT.. f!t�'�Otkal ge,lee1 Correct Styles Pqftl ( r,4 Personal Gretting Cards solve the Christmas, Gift problem. Order. \'OUl' cards now, when the selection is complete and the Christmas rush has not hewn. Prices range from $1.00Per Dozen Up including printing of name and address on each card. TIDE ADVANCE =T WIN6HAM,'ONTARIO- i' l".