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BY- OTTWET.01. BINNS
(Continued from last week).
s he sat Sidoiking outside his lit-
tle tent, an absent, thoughtful look
unloh his face, his eyes fixed dreamily
en the river, his•Mind reverted Once
inore to the probleM of recent hap-
penlngs; and es he,, considered it,
there came to him the Pietare Of Mis-
100deca as he had seen her running
toward e him between the willows jest
before the blew which had knocked
him unietnesoious. She had cried to
him to put hi mi on his gruardn and the
apprehension in her face as he re-
membered it told him that she knew
of the ill that was to befall him. His
• mind dwelt on her for a moment as
he visioned her face with its bronze
beauty, her dark, wild eyes flashing
• with apprehension for hint, and as
he did so his own eyes sieftened a
little. He recalled the directness of
her speech in their first conversation
and smiled at the naivete a her esti-
mate of himself. Then the smile died
leaving the absent, thoughtful look
more pronounced, and in the same
moment the ;vision. of Miskodeed was
Obliterated by the vision of Helen
Yaaxlely woman of his own race;
fair and eoftlynotreng, arid , as dif-
ferent as well as could be from the
daughter of the wilde,.
Again as he, recalled the steady
scrutinizing glance of her grey eyes
he felt the !blood rioting in his heart,
and fora rmioment his eyes ,were a-
ight with dreams. Then. he laughed
n sudden bitterness. '
'""What a confounded fool I am!"
he said. "A discharged convict,-"
The utterance was suddenly check-
ed; and an interested look came on
his face. There was something cam -
ng down the river. He rose quick -
y to his feet in order to get a !better
view of the abject which had suddenly
floated into his line of vision. It
was a. canoe. It appeared to be emp-
ty, and thinking it was a derelict
drifting from some camp up river, he
threw himself dawn again, for ev-
en ill he salved it,, it could, be of no
possible use to ,him. Lying there. he
watched it as it drifted nearer in the
current, wonderingidly where it had
come. Nearer it came, swung this
way and -that by various eddies, and
drifting towards the further side of,
the river where about forty yards a-
bove his camp a mass of rock broke
the simioath surface of the water. He
wondered whether the current would
swing it clear; and now watched it
with interest since he had once heardl
a river -man declare that anything
that surrendered itself completely to
a current would clear obstructions.
He had not beliceed the theory at the
time, and now before his eyes it was
dispruveill; for the derelict swung
straight towards the rocks, then
twisted half -'way round as it was
caught by some swirl, and struck a
sharp piece of rock broadside on.
Then happened a totally unexpect-
ed thing. As,,the canoe struck, a girl
who had been lying at the bottcim
raised herself suddenly, and stared
at the water 'overside, one hand
clutching the gunwale. A :second
later the canoe drifted against an-
other rock and suddenly tilted, throw-
ing the ,girl into the broken water.
By this time, taken by surprise
though he was, Stane was on his feet
and runningdown the bank: He did
not stop to launch his canoe, but just
as he was flung himself into the wa-
ter, and started to swim across the
river, drifting a little with the cur-
rent, striving to reach a .point where
he could intercept the girl as she
drifted down. It was no light task
he 'had set himself, for the current
was strong, and carried him further
than he intended to go; but he was
in front of the .piece of human flot-
sam which the river was claiming for
its prey, and asit came nearer he
stretched a hand and grasped at it.
He caught a handful M chestnut hair
that floated like long weed in the
river's tide, and the next moment
!turned the ,girl over on her back.
She was uneonibious, but as he ,glim-
psed at her face his heart leaped,
for it was the face of that fair Eng-
lish girl of whom but a few minutes
before he had 'been dreaming. For. a
second he was overcame with amaze-
ment, then stark fear leapt in his
heart as he looked' at the closed eyes
and the white, unconscious face.
That fear shook him from his mom-
entary inactivity. He looked for
something else to hold by, and lnd-
ing twisted the long strand
of hair he had gripped into a rope
and held it with his teeth. Then he
glanced round. The current had car-
ried hira further than 'he hadrealiz-
ed and now quickened for it rush
between the roek ramparts, so that
there was some danger of their be-
ing caught and menet through. As
'he realized that he began to exert all
his strength, striking across the cur-
rent for the nearest bank, which was
the one furthest from his Came.
The struggle was severe, and the
girl's body drifting against him im-
peded his movements terribly. It
seemed impassible that he could mike
the beak and the ramparts frowned
ominously ahead. He was already
wondering what the chances were of
making ,the passage through in safe-
ty, and was half -inclined to surren-
der to the current and take the riaka
ahead, when his eye caught that
which spurred him to fresh efforts.
A hundred yards downstream a
huge tree, by some collapse of the
bank, had been flung from the posi-
tion where it had grown for perhaps
a hundred years, and now lay with
its crown and three-quarters of its
trunk in the river. Its roots, heavily
laden ,with earth, still clung to the
bank and 'fought with the river for
its prey. If he could reach that
Stane realized the bastions of rock
He redoubled his efforts against the
quickening earrent, and by supreme
•exertions pulled himself into a 'psi
tide where the current must carry
hien and the girl against the tree.
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In a monient, as it seetried, they quick questioning gaze,
had rellabed it, and' now holding the "I have seen you before, have I
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girl's hair Arnaly in one hand, 'gab °
the other he clutched at one'of the
branches. He caught it, andthe neig
moment was unenpectedly ducked Ov-
erhead in ,the icy water. He came
up !glitsplingi and Men understood.
The tree was what in the voyageur's
nomenclature is known as a "sweep..
!er." Still held by its roots it bobbed
up and down with the current and
theeextra -Strain' Of"his weight and
thel,gies. hand sunk it deeper in the
water. It still moved up and down,
and he had not finished spluttering
when a new danger asserted itself:
The suck of the current under the
tree was tremendous. It seemed to
Stine as if a thousand malevolent
hands were conspiring to drag him
under; and all the tirne he was afraid
lest the unconscious 'girl should be
entangled among the submerged
branchee.'
Lying on his •baelc holding the
bough that he had 'caught, at the
same time steadying himself with a
foot against another branch, he swift-
ly considered the situation.
!It Was impossiblethat he could pull
himself on. to the trunk from the up-
per side. Even had he been: unham-
pered by the unconscious girl that
would have been difficult, the suck of
the current under the tree being so
great 'He .would have to get to the
other side somehow. To do that there
were: new risks to be taken. He
would have to let loose the branch
which he held, drift through the other
interlacing branches, and get a hold
on the further side of the trunk.
It was risky, and beyond was the
Water swirling for its race between
the bastions. But he could do noth-
ing where he was and, setting his
teeth, he let go his hold'. In a sec-
ond, , as it seemed, the tree leaped
like a horse and the water swept him
and the •girl under the trunk. Scarce-
ly were they under when his free arm
sine out and flung itself round a fresh
bough !which floated level with the
water. Irrenediately the bough bob-
bed, under, but he was prepared for
that, and after a brief rest he set
the girl's hair between his teeth Once
more and with both hand § free be-
gan to, work from bough to. bough.
One • that he clutched gave an omin-
ous crack. It began to sag in a
dangerous way, and at the fork -where
it joined a larger branch a white slit
appeared and began to grow wider.
He watched'it growing, his eyes.quite
steady, his mind alert for the em-
ergency that it seemed must arrive,
but the branch held for the space of
time that he needed it; and it was
with heartfelt relief 'that he grasped
a larger bough and the next moment
touched bottom with his feet.
At that he shifted his hold on the'
girl„, tqwing her by a portion of her
dress, and two minutes later lifted
her beyond the water -line'' on the
high shelving bank. .Then, as he look-
ed in her white face and marked thi
ashen lips, a panic of fear fell on
him. Dropping to 'his knees, he took
her wrist in his hand and felt for her
pulse. At first he thought that she
was dead, then very taint and slow
he caught the beat of it. The next
moment he had her in his arms and
was scrambling up the bank.
,At the top he had the good fertune
to stumble on a trail that was evi-
dently used by Indians or other dwel-
lers in the wilderness, probably by
men portaging the length of bad Wi:
ter down the river. It was a rough
enough path, yet it made his task
immeasurably easier. But even with
its unexpected aid the journey was a
difficult one, and he staggered with
exhaustion when he laid the girl dawn
upon the rough grass at a point not
quite opposite his own camp.
Gasping he stood looking at her un-
til he had recovered his breath, the
girl unconscious of his gaze; then
when he felt equal to the task, he
plunged again into the river and
swam to his own camp. A few min-
utes later he returned in his canoe,
carrying with him a field water bot-
tle filled with medical brandy. '
The girl lay as he had left her,
and his first action was to pour a few
drops of brandy between her parted
lips, and that done he waited, chafing
her hands. A minute later the long -
lashed eyelids fluttered and opened,
and the grey eyes looked wildly round
without seeing him, then closed a-
gain, and a long sigh ca -me from her
as she lapsed into unconsciousness
anew. At that he wasted no more
time. Lifting her, he carried her
down to the canoe, and paddling a-
cross the river, bore her up to his
own camp, and laid her down where
the heat of the fire would reach her,
then he administered further brandy
and once more waited.
•••• Again the eyelids fluttered and op-
ened, and the girl looked round with
wild, uncomprehending gaze, then her
eyes grew steady, and a 'moment lat-
er fixed themselves upon Stane. He
waited, saw wonder light them, then;
in a voice that shook, the girl asked:
"How did -fl -come here?" '
'"That you know best yourself," an-
swered the young man cheerfully. "I
gat? You are the 'male:who was eit
Port Malll
aga, arent *u -the Waa
whom Mr. Ainley nsetinto know?"
"Yes," lie answered With sudden bit.
terness, “I am the man whom Ainley
used te lam*. M' name is • Hubert
Stan,e and,1-ami a discharged convict
as 1 dare say he told you.'
The sudden access, of colour in
Helen Yardelyls face,
and the look in
her eyes, told him that he had guess-
ed correctlY, but the girl did not an-
swer the implied quelleion. Instead,
she looked at the. river and shudder-
ed.
eyeenefished hue out," she said, her
eyes on the rocks aeras the river.
"Was it there the canoe overturned.?"
"Yes," he answered, "you struck
the rocks."
"Iemust have been dazing," she re-
plied. "I remember evaliciinn and see-
ing water pouring.,inte the canoe,
and the next mothent- was in the
river. You saw me, 1 suppose?"
rl
Seae nodded. "I was sitting here
and saw the canoe coming dew -n the
river, I thought it was empty until
it struck the rocks and you suddenly
net up."
"And then you came after me?"
"Yes," he 'answered lightly.
Her grey eyes lookedat him care-
fully, noted his dripping clothes and
dank hair,and then with sudden com-
prehension asked: '4"1 -low did you get
me? Did you de it with your canoe
or--•"
"The canoe wouldn't have been any
use," he interrupted brusquely. "It
would 'have upset if I had !tried to
get you out of the water into it."
"Then you swami fdn, me?" persist-
ed the girl.
"Had to," he answered carelessly,
"Couldn't let yeu drown before my
eyes -even if I am a convict!"
Helen Yardely flushed a little. "I
do not think you need mention that
again. I am 'very grateful to a brave
man."
• "0-11, as to' that--" he began; but
she interrupted him.
"Tell :me where you, got me? I. re-
member nothing about it"
'He looked down the •river.
'"As near as I can tell you, it was
by that clump of firs there; though
I' was not able to land for, quite a
long distance beyond. You were un-
conscious, and I 'carried you along
the opposite bank, then swam across
for my canoe and ferried you over.
There you have the whole story." He
brake' off sharply, then before she
could offer comment he spoke again:
"I .think it would be as well if you
could have a change of clothes. It
is not cold, but to let those you have
dry on you might bring on all sorts
of ills. There are samenehings. of
mine in the tent. LI will' put them
handy, and you can' slip them on
whilst 1 take a stroll. You can then
dry your own outfit."
He did nenwait for any reply, but
walked to the little fly -tent and three
or four ;minutes later emerged puff-
ing a pipe. He waved towards the
tent, and turning away began to
walk rapidly up river. Helen Yard-
ely sat where she was for a moment
looking after him. There was a very
thoughtful expression on her face.
• "The whole story!" she murmured
as she rose to her feel: "I wonder?
That man may have been a convict;
but he is no braggart."
Shennralked to the tent, and with
amused eyes leoked at the articles of
attire Obviously arranged for her in-
spection. A grey flannel shirt, a lea-
ther belt, a pair of Bedford cord
breechee, a pair of moccasins, miles
too large for her, and a mackinaw
jacket a little the worse for wear.
She broke into sudden laughter as
she considered them, and after a
;moment went to the tent -door and
shyly looked up the river. The fig-
ure of her rescuer was still receding
at a rapid rate. She nodded to her-
self, and then dropping the flap of
the tent, faced the problem of the
unaccustomed 'garments.
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'CHAPTER VI
A IMYSTERIOUiS SHOT
Twenty minutes later, as Hubert
Stane returned along the river bank,
he saw the girl emerge from the tent
and begin to arrange her own sodden
attire.where the heat of the fire would
dry it. The girl aompleted her task
just as he arrived at the camp and
stood upright, the rich blood, running
in her face. Then a flash of laughter
came in her grey eyes.
"Well?" she asked, challenging his
gaze.
"'You make a very proper man," he
anewered, laughing.
"Arid I am as hungry as tete!" she
retorted:. 4'1 have eaten nothing for
Many hour. I wonder
"What a fool I aim," he broke in
,brusquely. "I never thought of that.
I will do what I can at'.otice."
Without further delay he began to
fished you out of the river, that is
all I know." ,The girl made as if to
reply; (but ,Stane prevented her.
"Ne, don't try to talk for a little
while. Wait! __Take a little more of
this brandy."
He held it towards her in a tin
cup, and with his hand supporting
her head, the ,girl slowly sipped it.
Byethe,time she had finished, a little
blood, was running in her cheeks and
her ape were losing -their ashen col-'
our. :She moved and made as though
to sit up.
"Better wait a little longer," he
said. quietly.
"No," she said, "I. feel better."
She lifted herself into: a sitting pos-
ture and he thoughtfully rolled a
email seek of beans to support her
back, then she leaked at him with a
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roasted partridge on a spit, and
making eaffee, which, with biseuit,
he set before her.
'"It is not exactly a Savoy supper,
will' be .betiff," she broke in
gaily, "for I was never so hungry in
my life." •
"Then eat! There are one or two
little things I want to, attend to, if
you will excuse me."
"Certainly," she replied laughingly.
"It will :be less embarrassing if there
is no witness of my gluttony. '
Stane once :more left the camp,
taking with him a hatchet, and pres-
ently returned dragging with him
branches of young spruce with which
he formed a bed a little way frons
the tent, and within the radius of
the heat from the fire. On •this he
threw a blanket and his preparation
for the,night completed, turned to the
girl once Imore,
"I never enjoyed a meal so much
in my life," she deelared, as she liftedi
the tin plate from her lap. "And
this coffee is delicioue. Won't you
have some, Mr. Stane?"•
"Thank You, Mies
"Yardely is -my name," she said
quickly, "Helen Yarciely." He took
the coffee as she handed it to him in
an enamelled mug, then he said:
"How did you came to be adrift, Miss
Yardely?"
As he asked the question a thought-
ful look came on the girl's beautiful
face.
"I was trna,king a little trip by. my-
self," she said slowly, "to see a beav-
er dam in a creek a little.below our
encampment, and some one 'shot at
me l"
"Shot at You!" 'Stane stared at her
in amazement as he gave the ex-
clamation.
• "Yes, twice! The second shot
broke my paddle and as I had no
spare one, and' as I cannot swim, I
could do nothing but drift with the
current."
"But who can have done such a
thing?." cried the young man.
"I hairennotathe slightest idea, un-
less it .rwas, 'soine wandering Indian;
but I am quite sure it was not an ac-
cident. ' I saw the first shot strike
the water close to the canoe. It came
from some woods on the left bank,
and I cried out to warn the shooter
whom I could not see. It was about
four minutes after when the second
allot was fired, and the 'bullet hit the
shaft of the paddle, so that it broke
on my next stroke, and I was left at
the mercy of the river."
"And no more shots:were. fired?"
"None!"
Stane sat there with a very
thoughtful look upon his face; and
after a moment :Miss Yardely spoke
again.
'What' do you: think, Mr. Stane?"
!He shook his head. "I do not know
what to think, Mise Yardely," he said
slclwly, 491euti it looks as if the thing
had been done deliberately."
"You mean that some one tried to
kill me?"
"No, not that," was the reply. "You
would offer too fair a mark for any
one accustomed to handling a rifle to
miss. 1 mean, that there was de-
liberate attemptito set you adrift in
the canoe. The first shot, you say,
struck the water near you, the second
smashed your paddle, and after that
there wan no more firing. Why? The
only answer is that the shooter had
aceateplished his object,"
"It certainly has, the appearance,"
answered the girl. "But why should
any one do a thing like that?"
"That is quite beyond me. It was
so brutal a thing to do!"
"Some roaming Indian possibly,"
suggested 'Miss Yardely thoughtfully.
"But as you asked' just now, why?
Indians are not se rich 'in cartridges
that they can afford to waste them
on4a mere whim,"
"No, perhaps not," said the girl;
"but I can think of no one elec." She
'was, silent for a 'moment, then she
added: "Whoever did the vile thing
frightened me badly. It was not nice
to sit helpless in a mime drifting out
into such a Wilderness as this." She
"waved her hand round the landscape
as she spoke, and gave a littre shud-
der. "You ,see, I never knew what
was coming next. I passed some is-
lands and hoped that I might strike
one of them, but the current swept
me clear, and for hours I sat staring,
watching the banks go by, and won-
dering how long it would he before
I was missed; and then I suppose I
mast haveefallen asleep, because I
remember nothing more until just
before I was thrown into the watet."
"It was a very fortunate thing you
struck those rocks," said Stane.inedi-
tat.Fiy
eolrYtnnate, Mr. Stane? Why?"
"Because in all probalbility I should
not have seen you if you had not;
and a few miles ;below here, there
are some bad rapids, and below them
the river makes a leap downwards
of nearly a hundred feet."
"A fall?" cried the girl. her face
blanching a little, as she flashed a
glance downstream "Ola that would
have been terrible! It was fortunate
that you were here."
"Very," he agreed earnestly, "and
I aniebeginning to think that it was
providential; though all day I have
been cursing my luck that I should
have. been in this .neighbourhood' at
all. I have no business here."
"Then why--," she began and
stopped is if a little 'afraid that her
question was too frankly curious.'
It was so that Stane understood the
interrupted utterance. He laughed ,a
little, and then answered:
"You need not mind asking, Miss
Yardely.; 'because the truth is that
my 'presen,oe in this neighborhood is,
due to a tmystery that is elniost as
insoluble as the one that brought you
drifting downstream. On the night
after you arrived, at Fort Maleu,n, I
was waiting at my tent door for-er
-a man whom I expected a visit
from, when I was knocked on the
head by an Indian, and when I came
to, I found I was a prisoner, under
sentence of deportation. We travel-
led ,seme days, rather a roundatbout
journey, as I have since guessed, and
one morning I awoke to find my cap-
tors had disappeared, leaving me with
my canoe and stores and arms abso-
lutely untouched.
"That was a strange adventure, Mr.
Stane."
"So,I think," answered Ste -Tie with
•
conviction.
"What do you think was- the reason
for your deportation•?"
"I do not know," answered Stane
thoughtfully. "My chief captor said
it was an order, but that may have
been a lie; and such wildly possible
reasons that I can thiiik of are so
inherently improbable that it is dif-
ficult to entertain any of them. And
yetn_e_ery
He broke ar, and an absent look
came in his eyes. The girl waited,
hoping that he would continue, and
whilst she did so for one moment vis-
ioned,ddiskodeed in all her wild har-
baricqbeauty, and her mind, recalling
Ainley's 'Words upon the matter of
the girl's relation to the man before
her, wondered if there lay the reason.
Stane still remained -silent, showing
no disposition to complete his thought
and it was the girl who brake the
silence.
"You say you were waiting for a
man when you were seized, Mr.
Stane; tell me, was the man Gerald
Ainley?pheyoung
man was a little start-
led by her question, as his manner
showed; but he answered frankly:
"Yes! But how did you guess -that."
Helen Yardely smiled. "Oh, that
was quite easy. You were the topic
of conversation at the diriner-table on
the very night that you disappeared;
and I gathered that to the factor you
were something of a mystery, whilst
no oneexcept Mr. Ainley knew any•
thing whatever about you. As you
and he were old acquaintances, what
more natural than that you should
be waiting for him? I suppose he
did not come?"
"If he. did, I never saw him. ---and
I waited for hint two nights!"
"Two!" eried Helen. "Then he
could not have wanted to come."
"I 'rather fancy he did not," replied
• Stine with a bitter laugh.
•
"You wished to see him very
much?'" asked the girl quickly. "It
was important that you should?"'
`iI,wished to question him upon a
;matter that was important to !me."
Ah! said the girl in a tone that
was full of signifinance. IStane
ed at her sharply, and then asked a
question:
'What are you thireking, Mitis
Yardely?" •
"Oh, I was just thinking that I
had guessed one a your wildly pos-
sible reasons, Mr. Stane; and to tell
the truth, if Mr. Ainley was really
anxious to avoid' answering your
question, it does not seem to me so
inherently improbable as you appear
to think."
'What 'convinces you of that, Miss
Yardely?"
(Continued next week)
•
When to Plant Garden Seed.
A timely suggestion with respect
to the planting of the home vegetable
garden is that the hardy seed should
be sawn as early as weather and soil
conditions will permit 'Sinnoth or
dimpled peas, onion, radieh; lettuce
and .sipina'eh can be sawn as soon as
the sol Ills dried enough to perimit
working -without injury to the tex-
ture. 'Beet, carrot, parsnip and
wrinkled peas may follow, when beans.
and other tender crops sown or plant-
ed after the danger of . freezing, is
past, ,,
LONDON AND WINGHAM
South. •
Wingham
Belgrave
Blyth
Londesboro
Clinton
Brucefield
Kippen
Hensall
Exeter
Exeter
Hensall
Kippen
Brucefield
Clinton
Londesboro
Blyth
Belgrave
Wingham
North.
C. N. R.
East.
Goderich
Holmesville .
Clinton
Seaforth
St. Columban
Dublin .
Dublin
St. Columban
Seaforth
Clinton
frolmesville
Goderich
West.
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p.m.
2.05
2.22
2.33
2.40
3.08
3.28
3.33
3.39
3.53
10.59
11.12
11.18
11.2'7
11.58
12.16
12.23
12.33
12.47
a.m. p.m.
6.35 2.40
6.50 2.56
6.58 305
7.12 3.21
7.18 3,27
7.23 3.32
11.24 9.12
11.29
11.40
11.55 9.39
12.05 9.53
12.20 10.05
9.25
C. P. R. TIME TABLE
East.
-
Goderich . 5.50
Menset 5.55
McGaw
Auburn
Blyth
Walton
McNaught
Toronto
West
Toronto
McNaught
Walton
Blyth
Auburn 6 • Cm.
McGaw,,
Menset
Goderich
6.04
6.11
6.25 •
6.40
6.52
10.25
a.m.
7.40
11.48
12.01
12,12
12.23
12.84
12.41
12.46 ,
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4.4
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