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'CHXPTER 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
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 I1. -With Etienne Sav-
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-
ians as "McDonald Ha! Ha!" because
of a scar which gives hire 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, Quarrier hints that Ninda is
Garth's inistress, 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 !tome. 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
i 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 de-
fiance, and the war is on.
CHAPTER VII—Garth hails with
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 hint,
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, tants assur-
ing the factor of trade which will es-
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Chapter TX.—Garth learns through
a letter from his brother that Quar-
rier has made the worst of Ninda's
pieserucc at .Elkwan, and the story .is
generally believed, though Ethel writ=
es him she is willing to forgive; In
contempt he tarns from both com-
munications to a letter from Joan,
Whom lie now knows he loves. She
tells hiitm, to his astonishrnent, she is
working in a school for homeless chil-
dren.
CH:\P'T;E:i2 X•• -•The furs brought to
Gartli arc easily worth $28,000, a won-
derful season's trade. At Albany he
learns McDonald is thought to be a
1.mmtao wanted. in Nova Scotia for the
murder of his wife's lover. ".1'o his int
111 11S st1 17risc he finds J07111 a nurse
at the mission school at. Albany. His
love for the girl deepens,
Chapter XL ---0n the way back to
Elkwan Garth learns from an Indian
that McDonald and all on the schoon-
er are dead. 'Elastening to the vessel,
he finds "McDonald"—the only man.
alive, the rest hav:ing,he believes, suc-
cumbed to influenza --is Craig Gal-
braith, his pal in Prance, and the plan
believed to be wanted in Halifax for
murder, He sends Etienne. with Gal-
braith, uneoiiscione, to , Rilkwair, white
he rctttnrs to Albany to get Joan to
go with hirci to nurse 'Galbraith
w,N•u,
SERVICE
E-T.IVI:ES.
roude-so.proud, toglove the woman
yli,o has been a hewer Of wounds,',
"Oh, but' you don't ttnderstand-
can't i see! And how a m Ito tell
"If, after what w:0e been through
.together," he said f)assionataely, "if,
crowing that you are all my world—
all I have left to cling to, to fight for,
you can't ' be frank with taie—
"You.tel.l me- that you care for me,"
she broke in bitterly,. "then why .is
she there -in yourroom, where •you
can see her?— 11.you've forgotten—
as yoga say.
He raised his mitten to his forhead
as if dazed, then turned a face tense,
with candor. "Is she still-t'here?"
":Still- there? Don't you know that
the. three likenesses are in your room
3P0'4V," '
He milled as one smiles at the
caprice of a child. "It is so long
since I'd noticed them, 1 had forgot-
ten." Then, dimly at first-, in a mo-
ment he saw—"Healer of Wounds!.'
he rnurinured. "Oh, you think there's
a sear, a •wound unhealed—the 'unem-
pry of her, that I . can't forget," he
cried. , "Ethel! You think you're
healing the wounds Ethel left—a sub-
stitute. Is. that it?"
She would not meet his smiling
eyes.
"Long. before I Met yon," he went
cn, "she had become a shadow. I had
come to see her as she was—the shal-
lowness, the hardness pf her. Then
there came sailing across the strait
a girl with eyes that never wavered,—
a,
avered:a heart all gold, and hair," he laugh-
ed at the anti -climax, "that the wind
loved to play with. Like the soldier
she was, she forgot self in the work
at hand. With those clear eyes,: saw
the truth. And when I left her that
night on the shore of the Albany -
1 loved her."
With a catch 'in the throat, Joan
Quarrier lifted her face to the moon
light, The sensitive mouth quivered
below clouded'eycs, fiercely question-
ing
"You cared for the, you say, but
each morning you looked at the love-
ly creature you had lost—and felt
just a bit sorry for her, for yourself,
ch, Major Guthrie?"
He hardly recognized the voice, so
hoarse, so bitter- was the note on.
which she finished.
Hopelessly he shook his head, As
if to himself, he Muttered in protest:
"They were there with those of the
family, untouched, because unthought
of. I Was away—hardly slept in the
room after leaving you at Albany, up
the -coast, inland after Souci, on the
island. Do you think I would have
turned to yott in my need—asked you
to come up here=with all it meant—
if I had not loved -you?" he pleaded.
"Let us walk," she said, mehanical-
ly, and started on. ,
• They walked a mile up the river
ttail, and turning, faced the pulsing
aurora. The stinging air had lured
the color to• her cheeks the shadows
left her somber eyes. They vied in
naming^ the colors in the intermittent
glow of the northern lights, identi-
fied stars, for the moment forgot
themselves in the stimulation of keen
air and leaping pulses.
As they neared the post, her moc-
casin slipped on the ice -hard trail,
With a swift movement he caught
her, felt for an instant the weight of
her in! his arms, straightened, still
holding 'her; then, as her hood fell
back and he caught the fragrance of,
her hair—crushed his lips 'to it.
Slowly her dark head turned, and
there on the ice of the Elkwan he held
her, trembling, meeting his wild mood
with a revelation of tenderness—of
passion :unr;uessed.
"Why, oh, why," he asked, "did you
torture rue so long?"
"Because, Oh. i.,ord, of Elkwan and
half of Akiuliski," she bantered, "you
tortured nae with those photographs."
"Do you believe -that 1 forgot
their existence?"'
"Yes -but oh, 1 couldn't be second
best—her substitute. I wanted to be
first—wanted to be 'everything to
you -all.' And'yet you needed me so
-T knew it that night at Albany,''
"That T loved your
"No, stupid, that you needed enc."
"And that is why yotl stayed at Al-
bany—because yott thought 1 needed
you?"
"No„ prince of blindnien, because 1
—.loved you." And she tenderly
kissed the cicatrix which crossed his
cheek, "You' niadc ale love you the'
night you told inc of, the conning of
Ninda, to Elkwan." :
"And T made your brother- bate
tae," he laughed.
"Have 1 atoned far his injtmries to
you?",
hitn, for':those injuries, .1-1.e
he
helped.
d!c1n t know how l3ut you
Mustn't 'stand here in the cold. with
your hodct 'off. You'll freeze , your
face!'.' Guthrie .suddenly became 'ser
•1005.
"Not with you, hungry man!" slat.
laughed.
"Good"night, oh much-needed lady"
he said in the living room,
"Good -night, Sir Philip Sydney.
All in a. few hours I have seen your
eyes told -as the ice out there—and
CHAPTER XII—Telling Joan Eti-
enne has been "hurt and needs her
help, Garth easily persuades Joan to
return with him to Elkwan. On the
way hp confesses the truth, and when
he tells her he, owes 'tis 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
With' a crash •Guthrie's •chair hit
the floor behind him. "i'lention`that
man over'there again—and you'll nev-
er leave-"
"Hold on here!" :,Roughly. pushing
his subordinate behind him, Farrell
faced the n'tan whose mouth curled
in contempt of the patent fear in the
eyes of the younger Policeman. "I
won't have a fight here, major! You're
nervous—„`et yourself in hand!"
"It's all right, Farrell.' He's safe
right,
enough here," sail! Guthrie quietly,
"but he'll have to watch his step. Un-
destand, Rawdon?"
Turning his back can the victim of
his over -raw nerves, Garth threw.
back a good -night to Inspector Far-
rel and returned to .the watchers.
Guthrie crossed the white clearing,
stung by regret at his loss of self-
control, his deliberate humiliation of
the roan whose manner with Joan
Quarrier at the supPer table was elo-
quent of the gossip at Albany. But,
harassed as he was by anxiety for
the safety of Galbraith, at the veiled
insult in the uncouth Rawdon's frank
admiration of the girl, who staunch-
ly stimulated interest, in his atter
tions, while her ears strained for the
dreaded sounds which would betray
them, Guthrie's command of himself.
had been too sorely taxed. The
strain over, his raw nerves had
sought the panacea offered. During
his short stay at Elkwan, Constable
Rawdon of the government police
was not apt to press his attentions
on Joan Quarrier.
CHAPTER XVI
What could be dune, Etienne and
Old. Anne, under the dictions of the
nurse, had done for the dead. In the
morning, protected by a cache of logs
he would be buried in the snow until
the spring would permiit of the dig, -
ging of a grave.
"You need air and change from
this place." Garth said to joan. "The
stars are out; put on your coat and
let's walk. I have much to say to
you.'
"it would be good, I think. 1'd like
to walk on the river ice," she agreed'
And with Shot as escort, they cross-
ed the clearing.
"How low the stars seen, almost
crowding down on tis, as you told'
ane that morning on our way to Al-
bany," •
"How long ago, it seems—so Much
has happened," he said.
"To you, lir. Exile—and to ere,"
she answered cryptically;
"You never told me why you stay -
cd at Albany," he began after a sil-
ence.
She did -not ,!meet his eyes, but
looked far to the east where the.
moon, sliced in half, like a. niamthotli
cheese, by the roof of Akitniski, bath-;
ed the indigo barrens with silver.
"15 it a secret?" he pressed, •
"1 was needed there."
"And now, because of:my bringing
you into this, you can't go back."
Ti hey will gladly have the back--
they need Inc.'
":Brit so do I, 'Healer of 'Wounds, 1
need you. Wun't veal listen—b.c:licve
whai l say? Flis voice broke with
enmoti ,rn he cottld pot control.
She stopped. 'i"hey hadreached the
river trail toad were alone—Mk of
sight of the post buildings:
"!'Lease, beg : of virus never call
ime that again 1"
"Why, I'm sorry --T didn't knot,"
.
he faltered, puzzled by her mood, "It
means So nmuch to ate,".. -•a badge of
honor, an accolade."
"Yes ,at first, but it has come to
mean to me--" she ohecked' herself,
He waited, watching the light
torte!, her sober face.
"It has 'come to me -an to me," she
went on, "soniethi ig hitnmilrxttitmg---
hateftil
"Why, my dear child!'' hegasped
rtm
astonishment. "Humiliating?" I'nt.
I've seen therm---Vel,'t, as .'the' look
now, dearest than -'.with -the scat" and
she kissed !riga a,n,d vent, to her room,:
The following' plot ming, when the
police do€ eteamn had left for Seal
cove, the nervons •Ungavas led by the
protesting Shot drew the rude coffin
of Craig Galbraith to the post veal
etery. There, beside the show -drifted
cross marking Ninda's grave, they
built a cache of logs; over the rough
box:' of spruce slabs, and against it,
rested the:.spruce cross which would
be set in the spring When the frost
left the ground.
As Garth and Etienne crossed to
the trade -house, the half-breed stop-
ped, shading bis eyes with a mitten,
"See something?"
"Ah -hall !"
';Can't be the police team' cotitin'g
beck?„
• "No eet ees long team.—seep, dog;
I think•".
"From Albany—a packet from,Cam
exon. I wonder what's happened."
`twenty minutes later Guthrie was
'opening the mail bag' which the dog
driver frons Albany had handed him.
"As soon as Etienne rounds' to,"
wrote Cameron, "you bring ,Miss jean
down the coast—she's needed. The
company is locating a permanent post
on the' island in the summer, and
want you to handle it. You have
made a big stroke with Moose and
Montreal, and if you care to stay in
the trade, . ought to go far, I trust'
by now you are open to congratu-
]at i ons.
But the dispatch of the Mail -team
to Elkwan was due to the special or-
ders from Montreal headquarters
which accompanied a letter addressed
in typewriting to Major Garth- Guth -
r ie. Curious of the reason prompt1ng
the Unknown writer to the haste and
expense of an express packet down
the Missinaibi .and up the coast in-
mid-winter,
nmid-winter, Garth opened. the .letter
in the handwriting of his brother
which' ran.:.
"Dear Old Garth:
"If you will accept my deep apolo-
gies, I will be a Happy man. I have
learped that Quarrier had personal
reasons for wishing to injure you.
At the time I believed him—thought,
you had cut loose from us, were un-
fair to Ethel. But 1 have received
a long letter from Fort Albany, from
Quarrier's' sister, which is corrobor-
ated by Cameron, the factor, which
clears the situation This Miss Quay-.
rier seems to be ,a' most unusual tiro
man, and Clara—you know Clara -
well, she has a surmise.
"The Hudson's Bay people have
told the of your marked success this
winter, for which my congratulations.
A Guthrie has a nose for business..
Best wishes, my boy, but if you come
back to us, greater opportunities a -
ak
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is furious. She sends her best -love.
"Affectionately,
""CHARLES."
Hurrying t0 his quarters with Shot
at his heels, Garth thrust the letter
into Joan's , hand. 'He watched her
color deepen as her dark eyes lit.
with' her joy .for him.
"Oh, I'm so glad—so glad!" she
cried. "They want you back, Garth,
want you with them.",.
"Shall I take Ethel flown bow?
They might not to be in there -•-her
photographs—a married woman," he
teased.
She shrugged her shoulders. "They
are decorative, and your walls are
bare. Why not leave theta there?"
"Bravo, Healer of Wounds! Spoken
like a soldier," and he took her in'
his arms, as the letter fluttered,, net;-.
lected to the floor.
"Cameron writes they are sending;
me next year to take the new post ou
the island. Is it Montreal in the
spring—or our honeymoon on Aki
iniski?"
She rose and Went to his 'open
'arms.
"The island—The Land across the
Water—in sight of which I met that
very black sheep, Garth Guthrie—Let's
spend the summer there, Mr. Exile—
alone.'
For a space man and girl stood, lost
in their happiness, then a wistful
whine, the protest of two hairy paws,
in silent demurrer to his heartless ex-
clusion, waked them.
On his hind feet, nose to hershoul
der, she inipulsively drew the clog to
her. "What would this family be
without ourShotty." Arid Garth's
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Bi -Lingual" Chanty''
Sea Discovered
RALPH CONNOR
Ralph Connor, the well known,:
Canadian novelist, collected recent-
ly from a half-breed voyageur in
the Canadian Northwest a highly
interesting folksong which will be-
sung at the Vancouver Sea Music
Festival next January by Ulysse-
Paquin, of Montreal.: This song
is half French, ,• half English, the-
first part being the story of a ha-
bitant Colin while the chorus is an:
English sea chanty, "Blow ye
winds of morning"., This bi-ling-
ual song appears - to have been pop-
ular many years ago at a time-
when
ithewhen white pine was exported in
largo quantities on the old sailing-
ships from Quebec which carried'
overseas the logs rafted down the.
St. Lawrence from the Ottawa
River. The word `chanty' is con-
sidered by some authorities as con-.
netted with the `shanties' of the-
Quebec lumberjacks who frequent-
ly were sailors as well as woods-
men and always sang at their
work. According to Ralph. Connor,
the half-breed er metis from whom
he recorded this song was a hand-
some chap with beautiful voice and
manners and was a,- first-class
canoeman. A number of purely
French. Canadian chanteys as well
will be sung by Ulysse Paquin, at..
Vancouver, as the intention is to
make this Sea Music Festival, as
Canadian as possible..
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