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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance Times, 1928-12-20, Page 6WINGHANI ADVANCE -TIMES ; Thursday, December nth,. 1J28) Wellington Mutual Fire insurance Co. Established 'Sdo Head Office, Guelph, Ont.. Risks taken on all classe of insur- *iace at reasonable rates. rBNER COSENS, Agent, Wingham J. W. DODD Office in Chisholm Block FIRE, LIFE, ACCIDENT AND • EALTFI. INSURANCE - 4ND REAL BSSTATE ", O. Box 360 Phone 240 rrVNGBA1Vf, - ONTARIO J. W, BUSHFIELD Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc. Money to Loan Office—Meyer Block, Wingham Successor to Dudley Holmes R. VANSTONE en aro ne Geo/PO � Marsh COPYRIGHT hq The PENN PUBLt. -ltNG CO. SYNOPSIS CHAPTER 1.—Garth Guthrie, 'Ca - adian war veteran, having to live in BARRISTER, SOLICITOR, ETC. the open on account of weakened Money to Loan at Lowest Rates lungs, is factor of a Hudson's Bay Wingham, - Ontario post at Elkwan. He came back from. the conflict with a permanently scar J. A. MORTON red face, which he realizes cost him BARRISTER, ETC. the love of his fiancee, Edith Fal- coner, Sir Charles Guthrie, his bro- Wingham, Ontario ther, is a millionaire war profiteer. CHAPTER I1,—With Etienne Say - DR. G. H. ROSS anne, hafbreed, his firm friend, Garth Graduate Royal College of Dental meets. Doctor Quarrier, geologist, and Surgeons his sister Joan. Their schooner has Graduate University of Toronto drifted ashore. Quarrier complains he Faculty of Dentistry has been robbed by a .rrian known as Office ave. H. E. Isard's Store. "Laughing McDonald" or to the Incl ians as "McDonald Ha! Ha!" because H. W. COLBORNE, M. D. of a scar which gives him a perpet- ual grin, McDonald is Garth's corn - Medica•. �-..•. eesentative D, S. C, 'R. petitor for the fur trade. At Elkwan Y Phone 54 Wingham an Indian girl, Ninda, tuberculosis Successor to Dr. W. R. Hambly victim, whom Garth has befriended, is • • - - — dying. Quarrier hints that Ninda is DR. ROBT. C. REDMOND Garth's mistress, which is hotly re S ENG. L.R.C.P.(Load.) sented. Joan, trained war nurse, cares M.R.0 ' (ENG.)for Ninda, but the girl dies, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON CHAPTER III.—Garth tells Joan ART !part of the reasons for his presence DR. R. L. STEW !part Elkwan. He takes the Quarriers Graduate of University of Toronto, to Albany, from whence they can pro - Faculty of roFaculty-of Medicine; Licentiate of the coed to Montreal, Charles Guthrie Ontario College of Physicians and writes reproaching his brother for not Surgeons. coming home. Charles' wife assures Office in Chisholm Block Josephine Street. Phone 29. him Ethel still loves him, but Garth in his heart knows better. His scar - DR. G. W. HOWSON DENTIST Office over John 'Galbraith's Store. F. A. PARKER OSTEOPATH All. Diseases Treated Chapter V,—With Etienne's help Office adjoining residence next to Anglican Church on Centre Street. Garth wins the friendship of Saul Souci, "medicine man" and treaty chief of the Crees, and gets his pro - anise 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 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. 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 Elkwan. "Shot" Garth's airedale coin - College, Toronto, and National Col pardon on many battlefields in France, lege Chicago. Office opposite Hamilton's Jewelry saves him, and the Indian is taken, a Store, Main St. prisoner, to Elkwan. ',LOURS: 2—;5, 7-8.30 p.m., and by Chapter VI -Garth sends Mokoman appo<niment' to McDonald with a message -;ket of town i Salta of de- r<e- ; ,„yponded to. All iets5 artatidential. fiance, and the war is on. Phones. Office 3oo; Residence 601-13. CHAPTER VII—Garth hails with joy the freezing of the strait, which J. ALVIN FOX will enable Souci's followers to bring Registered Drugless Practitioner !their furs to Elkwan without difficul- CHIROPRACTIC AND ty. Etienne craftily spreads reports DRUGLESS PRACTICE !that McDonald and his schooner are Fro > ELECTRO -THERAPY bewitched, and evil will befall all who !trade with him. Hours: 2-5, 7-8., or by appointment. Phone z9r.1 CHAPTER VIII.—Waiting in am- bush to shoot Garth, Joe Mokoman is ^'•,, D. H. NIcINNES ;attacked and killed by Shot, At a CHIROPRACTOR '"pow -wow" held by his orders Sone' ``convinces the Indians that McDonald ELECTRICITY Os the friend of demons and to be a- "" Adjustments' given fordiseases of ill kinds; we specialize in dealing with voided. The chief counsels them to 'Children. Lady attendant, Night calls i take their furs to Elkwan, thus assur- responded to, ing the factor of trade which will es - Office on Scott Sr, Wingham, Ont. i'tablish a record for the post. 1 hone iSo Chapter IX.—Garth learns through a letter from his brother that Quar- GEORGE A. SIDDAL vier has made the worst of Ninda's — BROKER :presence at Elkwan, and the story is d generally believed, though Ethel writ "Money to lend on first and, secon mortgages on'farm and other real es- es him she is willing to forgive. In I late properties at a reasonable rate of contempt he turns from both cout- interest, also on first Chattel mart-Innuticalions to a letter from Joan, gages on stockand on personal notes, ti,ltnm he note knciws lie loves: She Afew farms on hand for sale or to s ie 1 1'iit tel , DIM tohis astc ii.hmeirt she is 1 tent on easy terms. �� hone 73. l.ucknozv, Ont. I working in a school for homeless'chil- 'then. THOMAS FELLS AUCTIONEER REAL ESTATE' SOLD Athorough knowledge of Farm Stock Fhoite 231, Winghain DRS. CHAPTER, X—The furs brought to Garth are easily worth $28,000, a won- ' ',deriul season's track. .\t Albany li.c 'leaves: McDonald is thought to be a titan wanted in Nova Scotia for the murder of his wife's loaner: To hr, itty mense sur prise he finds Joan a nurse sss 'at the mission school at Albany.: His Aw J. & A. . IR %I lore for: the girl decflens, .DENTISTS Chal,tet' Nt.--On the way back to +lfacdos r „ listiagham Fll,wan , Garth learns from 'am Indian that McDonald and all on the schoon- ei' are dead: Hastening to the vessel, lie finds "McDonald" ---the only man alive, the rest having,hc believes, suc- cumbed to 'influenza --is Craig Gal- braith, his pal in France, and the mail believed to be wanted in Halifax for murder. •Etre ,$cotls :Etienne with Gal. A. JW WALKER Phones: Office 106, Resid, 224. FURNITURE DEALER and FUNERAL DIRECTOR G OR Motor Equiprrt'tht braith, ttncoeseious, to Eilkwan, while WINGkfAM ONTARIO I hr, retunrs to Albany to get Joan to Mhnteiiimelietseieelievieseeeereceialeseecaaesa go witii hilts to nurse Galbraith. W. N. U. SERVICE C.HAPTER NI1.—Tell0ng Joan .Eti- enne has been tart and heeds hen help, .Garth easily persuades Joan to return with him to Elkwan. On the way he confesses the troth, and when he tells her he owes his life to Gal- braith, who had saved it, in France, the girl is very willing to help him pay his debt. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY "I'm mighty glad to see you Eti- enne. How are Marie and the chicks, and dear Old Anne?" "Oh, ver' fine t'anks. You have hard aide last night?" Joan and Garth exchanged smiles. ..we surely did," replied Guthrie. "We camped at the Kapiskau." "At de Kapiskau?" Guthrie's thoughts were of the man at his quarters and he did not ex- plain. With Joan and Savanne he hurried across the clearing. "Well?" he questioned, as the army nurse finished taking the pulse and temperature of the man whose rough breathing filled the room. , Without answering she placed her ear to the broad chest of the man muttering in delirium. After a space she turned to the waiting Guthrie with puzzled eyes. "I don't quite understand. Pulse almost normal, tmeper•ature only 101, respiration not high, and yet he's de- veloped pneumonia in one lung. I can easily hear the rales!" "You mean he has beaten the flu?" "I thing so; he's so strong. ,But pneumonia—" "It hits the big men hardest," he said gloomily. Joan gave the patient a hypodermic of strychnia and left the room to make some gruel. "Craig Galbraith—Laughing Mc- Donald" mused Guthrie aloud. 'You gave all you had for Canada, and now Canada hunts you because a woman without eyes could see only your scars." On her return with the nourish- ment, Joan found Guthrie still gazing with somber eyes at his friend. With her well-equiPPed medicine kit, and her wide experience with in- fluenza and pneumonia cases in the army, Joan Quarrier gave immediate battle foe the life dependent on her care. But the problem confronting Guthrie' was more complex. What was to become of Galbraith if he lived? Cameron would waste no time in taking possession of the schooner • and its valuable cargo, which he would hold for the dispo- sition of the' authorities at Ottawa. But the schooner and cargo belonged to the estates of the dead viten, Mc- donald was officially dead. He, a hunted man, could not claim it. Who, besides his .wife, were his • heirs? Garth did not know. Then Cameron had said the police were coining shortly to the bay in search of the man who called himself McDonald. Failing to find McDon- ald's body, which Garth said he had seen nit the boat, they would natur- ally come to Elkwan to talk to the man who brought 'the news to Al- bany, If Craig lived, he would be weeks in bed, recovering his strength. Where could they hide a man need- ing ,constant care if a police cl g - team appeared on the ire below the post? Etienne could be hustled into bed and bandaged to corroborate the story told to Cameron, but Galbraith ---what of him? Accessory though 'it made hint to the crime of his friend: the gray eyes of Guthrie hardened at the thought of -',Galbraith,' V. C., Galbraith the trench -raider, ' tvhosc name was- known the length of the British front, being hounded down in r hi +a.ire ixtrentity. Garth laughed as he pictured the police attempting to take I.,aughing a\'fcDonalcl on his schooner in the fullness. of his strength—McDonald T-Ia! flat and the bearded mate who linipecl,' with 1,ewis guns and the snipers' they had .slept with for four ears, And Joan -i -he had made Iter nn act ressory as well; asked her to nurse a matt' she knew', now, was wanted for Murder, 'How was he to squar•e his conscience with that? To pay his debt to Galbraith he.not only had asked her to throw her reputation .to the winds, but <WY the law—Joan Quarrier, who bail ,stepped into, his life to become his, world, It stripped civ!a'n to this: If the police fund Galbraith at Elkwan Garth Quthrle was. done. Cameron. might fix it witir the company, but the authorities would be merciless, Then the smug' Charles could revel in his ""1.told you sos," and.Ethel—he had not thought of Ethel, Whose Christ- mas letters. he had not answered, since he found Joan Quarrier on the Al- bany. bany. cleating—she could tlr.ark heav- en far 'her lucky escape. "But the Police won't find hint at Elkwan!" Guthrie .,rasped through his teeth, and went to the trade -house to make his plans with Etienne. "Did you 'have any trouble getting. him up here?" Guthrie asked , "No, he holler' some, but he was lashed in good. Then Guthrie explained the part Etienne was to play when the police appeared. They would want to inter:- view nter-view him, and Must find him in bed, a sick man. Accordingly, he must have the bandages, which Miss Quar- rier would prepare at once, ready to put on. The children would have to be coached and kept out of the way. "Have you ever been badly hurt, Etienne?" The half-breed smiled and opening his shirts, drew them back, baring a long scar across the muscular chest. "At Henley house, at de New Year dance, I get dis, man.ee year ago. I was ver' seek man: I know. W'en poleece dey conte, I be ver' seek man once more." Guthrie laughed outright at the gravity of his head man. "Trust you, Etienne, to act your part anywhere! Now if we could only keep them, away from my quar- ters, but I've got to feed them there. That's where the danger 'lies. He may make a noise. He'll have to have an opiate to keep him quiet. If they hear him, it's all up with us." Savanne took the pipe from his mouthand leaned toward his chief, the muscles in his swart face knotted with the intensity of his feeling. For a space the two men hardly breathed as the narrowed eyes of the half- breed bored into Guthrie's quizzical gaze. Then Etienne said slowly:"You are good frien' to me an' my familee. I feex dose poleece—if you—say so." Slowly, as he read the stark sincer- ity of the offer in the other's face— sensed that his friend of the dusky skin was bringing to the altar of their friendship the supreme gift, the hazard of his life, Guthrie's eyes softened with the affection which two years of river and coast and trail reached out a long arm and took the sinewy arm of the other. "I won't forget'' -lily friend." 'The swart face of the half-breed lit with pride at the words, then turning away, lie threw over his shoulder: "I get de bandage from M'a'msel.le Quar- rier an' show Marie how to mak' good nurse." it '5 'I' * ,I: "His temperature's risen to 103. I can hear it in the other lung now." Joan Quarrier entered the living room, from which Old Anne had taken the supper dishes. "Double pneumonia!" Guthrie mat- tered. "Not a chance, after the flu, is there? Poor old Craig! We've done what we could." She raised her eyes to the man who slouched, head in hands, elbow's on knees. "Friendship is a very real thing to you" He looked up. "Yes, so real that without a -thought of the cost to you, I brought you into this-" "That was rather a fine compliment to me, Mr. Exile; that you should feel sure of me—know that I would conte." "I thought only of him—of what I owed him." For an interval he was silent, then continued with a look that brought the blood to her face:"You? —I knew you would come—when you understood: But it was unfair— wr; , "Whyongwrong?" site demurred, "Etietine or this man, what did. `'it matter? You needed me to help you and 1 came." "But I've doneworsestill. If the police find him here, you'll be sub- ject to the law—an- accessory, I did not think. 1 Was, mad, but I want to get you out of this before it's too late. I'll take you to Albany tumor - tow:" As Joan Quarrier stared at the, speaker, her surprise slowly shifted to anger. The dark eyes lit with a look • new to the man who watched. "You mean that? You lbirik- I'd desert him, dying,: your friend?" He shrugged hopelessly in the face of her determination. "You're in a false position. I had no right- „ ' "Stop ht" she commanded, raising lit:!' hand in 'finality, "Now, if they come, ]ratyou ler. c � w`11 i Fora space lie could not answer, swept by a wave of pride in the staunchness of the girl of whorl, he had asked so much, "I've got to feed them here. Can you 'keep him under an opiate?" he's tinder one noiv If he ' grows delirious, as some do, he'll h^i». lure himself—try to get up. We`ll have to keep him lashed to the. bed," "I'll get them over to the trade - house as soon as they eat. They may not stay here more than a night, but when they fail to find his body at the schooner, they'll want to see ,ine." "I gave .Etienne his bandages and shoWed Marie how to adjust them, "What a wonderful'conspirator you are, Healer 'of 'Wounds! How can I ever repay you?" He sat from habit with the unmarred left' side of his face quartering on the -girl. Sud- denly she straightened, startling him with the terseness of her look. "Why do you sit that way?" she demanded angrily, "What -What do you mean?" he' asked confused by her tone. "You treat me as if T were, oh, like the one he came back to." She pointed toward the adjacent sick- 31:o ick room, Vaguely her meaning dawned on Mini. Scars- to her—were an accol ado. Those straight eyes: of hers never turned in horror froin a wound, "Forgive me," he said, and his eyes clouded with mist, "I knew the day I met you—that you saw beyond—the scars:" For an instant her face was radiant with a look that stirred the man with the mad desire to go to her—take her in his arms—wring from this woman who doubted him -his love, the act - mission that she too cared. But no, not here, his ward and his guest, help- less to avoid him. His chivalry check- ed his impulse. She knew he loved her; she should have fair play at Elk- wan. Muttered words from the sick man drew them to his bedside. The great ft -ante, banded by ,strips of cloth to confine him in his delirium, rendered the= bed he lay oil insignificant. His heavy russet hair, smoothed by the nurse from his wide forehead, framed the deep blue eyes which stared,- un- seeing at the ceiling of the room. Be- low leered the torn mouth, ghastly in its distortion. "We Were happy—before," they heard hiitp mutter, "I know—I know it was hard. But couldn't you bear it—for the sake of -the old days? Handsome Galbraith—it was—once, Then. that shell! `Good -by, Handsome Galbraith!—But you—I loved—need- ed. Your eyes! God! the look in. them—when you saw me!" The eyes of Joan Quarrier and Guthrie met, Two tears, ignored, slowly wet her cheeks. The face of the man was twisted with pity. "What hell he must have lived through!" "And she—why are such creatures put into the' world?" said the girl, huskily. "When his need of het was greatest—she unmasked her little soul." Involuntarily Garth Guthrie start- ed. How unerringly 'she had charac- terized Ethel, Had she guessed, he wondered. "I can guess what followed," Garth replied. "I know him. Heart=broken —he often' spoke of her. -be 'went to drink, to forget;' 'Tien it ltapPenede. "Dirt after all, etre they sure he's the man? "The circumstantial evidence puts it beyond 'question—the description, his being, here iii the north." While Joan caught a , few hout's' sleep in the room of Guthrie which he had : again given her; the factor sat "Dog Team, on the Riviere! beside the unconscious man, whose tortured lungs labored for breath. Before she lay downthe girl stood quizzically before the photographs which still stood in their places on his dresser. "You're very lovely," she murmur- ed. "It's not strange that he can't forget you. He still remembers or you'd not be here—still remembers, although he wants to think lie has forgotten." CHAPTER XIV In the early afternoon Etienne swung back the trade -house door with a crash. "Dog -team on the riviere,!" "All right," replied Guthrie. , "Tell Miss Quarrier on your way. Now you get into those bandages and into bed, and don't have the children around if' they come to talk to you." "I am yen' seek man," laughed the half-breed and went out. So the police had come? He Hadn't expected tltettt for days, but they, must have reached Albany from. Moose the day, lie left. They eern tainly hadn't lingered at the schooner' with Cameron's meal' mystified at, failing to Lind the body of McDonald,• they probably Wanted to talk, first. to the men who had discovered the: tragedy, 'then return to Seal cove.. They would 'pass at least one night. at Elkwan to talk it over. There was no 'alternative to having khem. eat at. his quarters. '.t'her'e lay the danger:. He would. rush them through, supper' and to the trade -house where• they, would sleep, as, of course, Joan. Quar- rier had his spare bed, Etienne;s ne-. cident they would have heard of.f'ronar Cameron, and Etienne and Marie were more than equal to entertaining 'them. with the picture of a mai suffering front.a painful wound. Therub would. come at meal time. Would. the opi- ate keep , McDonald quiet—and' his breathing—would they hear it? If: only lie could have beers.niov.ed for. a day, but where? The trade -house, factor's quarters, and Etienne's we're• the sole heated 'buildings at the post.. Going to his quarters, he called Joan and Old Anne. "Anne,'' you can't speak English— don't answer any questions.. ,Under- stand?" The broad face of the cook, stretched in a smile as she v inked.. "Nanta," she answered in Cree. (To be Continued) Chocolates in attractive packages, 60c to $3.50, at McKibbon's Drug Store. 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