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County of Huron.
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A ATING i
WILDS
BY OTTWELL BINNS
(Continued from last week)
He did ,not know that other ears
than those to which they were ad-
dressed caught those words of re-
pudiation. Helen Yardely, missing
his presence about the cabin, had
stepped out to look for him, and
catching a murhvur of voices in the
still air, had stood listening. The
words, coupled with the girl's name,
reached her quite clearly, and struck
her like a blow. -She did not wait to
hear more, but retreated to the cab-
in, (leer cheeks burning with chane,
her grey eyes bright with fierce
scorn. She did not know to what
the words referred, but, in her haste
and jealousy, she utterly rni•sinter •
preted the situation, and her scorn
was as much for herself as for Stane
as she thought how she had grown to
love a man who----
The
ho-The thought was an intolerable one.
She could not endure it, and she be-
gan fiercely to do a totally, unnece
,=ary task in the, hope of driving it
from her. Thet was impossible, and
after a minute or two she seated her-
nelf i'n front -cif -the -stove and stared
.'.to its glow with eyes that flashed
w,th mingled anger and pain, the
while she awaited- Stane's return.
.Meanwhile, the interview which_
had kindled such fires within her bad
already come to an abrupt conciu-
eion. For as Stane declined her sug-
gestion Miskgdeed lifted a warning
finger.
"Hark!" she whispered.
Stane listened, as did the girl.. -
Whatever sound had rude her speak
the word was hushed, and after a
sew seconds she spoke again. "Then
thou wilt die for this bright -faced wo-
man?"
"A thousand times!" he answered
with quiet vehemence.- "Understand,
Miskodeed---"
He got no further. In the recess-
es of the -wood a fox barked sharply
and a second later the sound was re-
peated in two different directions.
"Ah!" cried the 'Indian girl. "They
come, Thou art too late. Thou wilt
die for thyi
woman bright -faced ht faced g now
-once."
A second later she turned away,
and began to walk rapidly between
the trees. !Stane did not stand to
watch her go. Without an instant s
delay he made for the . cabin at a
run, and as' he -enteredit, breathing
rather heavily, he flung to the door
and dropped the wooden bar in place.
Then without 'a word he walked to
,the- window and barricaded it as he'
had done en.the previous night. Hel-
en still seated by the stove, looked at
1 .m in some wonder, and he offered
.vhat to him appeared a sufficient
E xplanation.
"Last., night when we returned :.
fix barked in the wood, and a utile
.after some one shot an arrow to kill
me. Just now three foxes barked, iu
quick succession in different dirc•:
lions, and as II have not seen a fax
since • we came here, I think it is as
well to take precautions."
To his surprise: Helen offered rio
comment, but sat there as if waiting
for further explanations. He offered!
tone. ' Being unaware of his com-
panion's knowledge of his interview
wan 'Miskodeed he had decided to
keep the incident to himself, and not
to alarm her more than was neces-
sary. .Seating himself, he lit a pipe.
and as. his companion showed no in-
: irnnr.ur to 'talk, fell into though.
Three was a rather strained, per-
plexed look on his face, and as the
g.rl glanced at him once she won-
aerea resentfully what' thoughts ac-
counted for it. This silence about the
'rimier girl told against him in her
.rind. if there had been nothing to
Le ashamed of in his relations with
udeed, why had he not spoken
orenly of the incident in the wood?
jealousy, it was recorded of old, is
as cruel es the grave, and as the hot
''erre of it grew in her heart, she
alnioet hated the ,girl who was the
occasion of it.
As a matter of saber fact, Stane
was thinking little of Miskodeed her-
self, but much of the information
she had brought. Whilst he kept kis
ears open for any unusual sounds ou:-
side the cabin, his mind was tryin r
tc 'probe the mystery• behind they at
tack that, as he was sure, was pre-
paring. Who was the inspirer of
and why should his death be design-
ed, whilst his companion must be
spared? Miskodeed had spoken of
the price that was to be paid for the
attack -rifles and spirit, tea, molas-
ses and blankets. The nature of the
bribe was such as would tempt an;,'
tribe in the North, and was also such
as implied a white man in- the back-
ground. But who was the white man
who s'o chose. his instruments 'for a
deed from which apparently he him-
self sli'rank? The question perplex-
ed him, and a deep furrow manifest-
ed itself 'between his eyes as he strove
to 'answer it. Ainley? He dallied
with the thought for a little time,
and then dismissed it. Ainley was
afraid of him and shrank from meet-
ing him, but he would hardly go to
such Lengths as Miskodeed's state=
ment implied; nor would he involve
Helen Yardely's life in the extreme
risk incidental to an attack in force
on the cabin. It was unthinkable!
His mind sought other eitplana
tions, Was there some other man,
some white man who had seen Helen
and by this means hoped to secuoe
her for himself? The thought was
preposterous. Thin a mew ,'thought
leaped up. The reward Sir James
was offering for his niec'e's recovery!
Had some nun his eye on that--
some
hat ..some unscrupulous adventurer, who
fearing poesibly that he himself
'm'ight claim a share in it, proposer.
to get ridel him that thehe might
be no diyiefen of the spoil? That
seemed barely feasible, and --
His thought suffered a sudden in
tert•uption, From outside came the
crunch of moceasined feet on the froze
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en snow. He started to his feet, and
tgg1 tip his rifle, glanci tg quickly
.at fhe girl as he did so. ' There was
a flush of excitement in her face, but
the eyes that met his chilled him
with their unresponsiveness. 'Ho
held out his machine pistol.
"You had better have this, for the
present, Miss Yardely, for I believe
the attack is coming., But don't use
it unless I tell you."
She took the pistol without a wort
and the austerity of her manner as
she did so. even in that moment, set
him wondering what was the cause
of it. But he had little time to
dwell upon the matter for more foot-
steps , were audible, and a voice
grunted words that he did not catch.
He picked up an axe, put it ready to
his hand close to the door, and then
extinguished the slush -lamp.
• The cabin was now full of sha-
dows, though he could still ,gee the
girl's face in the glare of the stove,
and marked with satisfaction that it
bore no sign of fear. The position
where she stood, however, was not
a safe one, and he was constrained
to bid her eharige`it:'
• "You had better come into the cor-
ner 'here, Miss Yardely. It is out of
range of any chance arrow through
the window. That barricade of mine
cannot last lopg, and' they are sure
to • try the window."
The girl did not answer, but she
changed her position, moving to the
corner he had indicated, and -just as
she did so, two or three blows of an
•axe (as he guessed) knocked out
rhe parchment. of the window, but the
barricade stood firm. The attack,
however, continued, and as the im-
provised shutter began to yield, 'Stave
raised his rifle.
"There is nothing else for it," ha
v^t hispered.'
The next moment the rifle cracked
and the sound was followed by a cry
of pain. '
"First ,blood!" he said, a little
grimly.
There was a short lull, then some-
thing heavy smashed against the
,shutter and it collapsed in the room.
As it did so a gun barrel was thrust
in• the opening, and a shot wasfired
apparently at random. The , bullet
struck the cabin .wail a full two
yards from where Helen was stand-
ing. Stave turned to her quickly.
"As close in the corner as you can
get, Miss Yardely; then there will
be no danger except from a ricochet."
Helen obeyed him. The excite-
ment of the moment banished her re-
sentmept, and as she watched him
standing there, cool and impertur-
bable as he waited events, a frank
admiration stirred within her. What-
ever his sins, hes leap a man!
Then came a new form of attack,
Arrows fired from different angles
began to fly through the open space,.
gnraking a vicious sound as they
struck various parts of the• cabin.
Stane calculated the possible angles
of their flight and gave a short laugh.
"They're wasting labor now. That
dodge won't work."
The flight of arrows, however, con-
tinued' for a little time, then follow-
ed that which Stane had begun to
fear. The space of the window sud-
denly grew plainer, outlined by a
glow outside, and the next moment
three blazing armfuls of combustible
material were heaved in at the win-
dow. Steele fired twice during the.
operation, but whether he hit or not
he did not know. ...One of the burn-
ing bundles fell in the 'bunk, which
was soon ablaze, and the cabin began''
to fill with smoke. At the same time.
the besieged became aware of a
fierce crackling outside, and. the out-
look in the snow-covered lake was
illumined by a growing glow. Stane
understood the meaning of the phen-
omenon at once, and looked at the
girl.
"They, are trying • to burn ' down
the cabin," he said. "I am afraid it
is a choice -,of evils, Miss Yardely.
We must either stay here, and die
of suffocation or fire, or face the
-music outside."
"Then let lie go outside," answered
the girl resolutely.
"I. do not 'believe they will injure
you. I believe that they have orders
to • the contrary, but-"
"Did Miskodeed tell you so?"
For the moment he was utterly
staggered by the question, then per-
ceiving that she knew of his recent
interview with the Indian girl, he
answered frankly:
"Yes! You are to be taken alive,
.but I am to die, according to the
programme as arranged!"
"Oh, no! no!" she cried in sudden
anguish. "You must not die. You
must fight! You must live! live! I
de not want you to die!" .
In the growing light in the burn-
ing cabin, he could see her face quite
plainly, and the anguished concern
in her eyes shook him as the dan-
gers around him never could have
done. Moved for a moment beyond
himself, he stretched a hand towards
her.
"My dear!" he stammered. "My
clear----"
"Oh then you k!nowat I am
that?" she cried.
"I have known it for months!"
She made a little movement that
brotilght her closer to him, and yield-
ing to the surging irrupulse in his
heart, he threw an arm round her.
"If you die---" she began and
broke off as a guest of smoke rolled
over them.
"But what shall I live for?" she
cried. "And why am I to be spared?
.Have youe thought of that?'" .
"Yes," he 'answered quickly, and
gave her a hurried account of its
own thought upon the matter. off
I am right no harm will .befall you
And we must go. It is time. Look.'
A little tongue of flame was creep-
ing through the joining of-' the logs
at one end of the cabin, and the logs
where' the bunk had been were be-
ginning to crackle and hiss ominous-
ly. The sm.okd had grown thicker,
and the atmosphere was pungent and
choking in its quality. He Ieft her
side for a moment, and returned witn
her ,furs,,
"You must put them :on," he said,
"or you" will freeze outside."
He himself had,slippedon his 'own
furs, and when he had, helped her
into hers, he took his rifle and nodded
towards the pistol -which she still
held.
"You need not use it -outside," he
said. "Keep it for -for eventualities
You understand?"
"I understand," she answered calm-
ly; -knowing-that in-tlhee last-resotrree-
.she was to do what many women of
her race had done before her.
"II will 'go first," he said. "And you.
must wait a full minute before em-
erging. 'I Shall try and make .for
the woods at the back, and 'if I get
clear you' shall follow me - you un-
derstand?" •
"Oh, my man! my man!" she
in a shaking voice, knowing
though he spoke lightly he had
hope of escape.
Not knowing- what to say, or how
to comfort her, Stane took her in
his arms again, and kissed her, then
for a moment he stood listening. Oute
side all was still, or whatever sounds
there were we're drowned by the in-
creasing roar and crackle of the lire.
"Now!" he said. "Nod'!"
He slipped down the, 'bar, threw
the door open suddenly, and plunged',
outside. A yell greeted his emerg-
ence, and he was aware of a small
group of men standing a little way
from the cabin. As he ran -he fired;
at 'them from ,.the hip; and turned
sharply to the left. Piro men .ap-
peared suddenly from behind the
trees to bar his way, so quickly that
he had not time to fire •the rifle be-
fore one of them grappled with him.
The rifle fell from his .hand, and for
a moment 'they struggled, thea.
whilst the second man was still run-
ning a shadowy figure slipped from
beh'i'nd a broad trunk close. .to where
the two men were locked together,
and Stane caught the sudden gleam
bf a -knife as the light from the fire
'glinted upon it. He was unable ti
help hieiself, and, held in hie antag-
onist's ernes, he waited for the hp -
.pending stroke. Twice the knife de-
scended, and' his opponent's grip s"id-
denly slackened and- the man slid
slowly to the ground. The running
man had now' reached the scene of
the struggle. He carried a hatchet
in his hand, and he struck first et the
unmown one who had killed his coir-
panions, and the unknown ane went
down like a log. Before Stane had
recovered from ,his surprise the .axo
was raised again. He leaped at the
roan- just as the axe descended. •.An
intervening bough turned the stroke,
twisting the axeso that it caught the
side of his head, knocking him sense-
less. •As he fell to the ground, the
Indian raised the axe once more. Be-
fore the blow could fall a rifle :rack
ed in the wood behind him, and the
attacker leaped in the air, and pitch-
ed forward upon his face. '
cried
.that
little
r •
Y't4eniethisa4N
"I think it is very likely," he an-
gswered. "But I em glad to have had
this moment." •
He stooped and kissed her, and a
lob came from her. '
"I shall die tool" she said. "We
will die together---1bu't it would have
teem fq lendid to live."
"But you will live," he said. "You
Must live. There is no freed that
you shot'lld die"
CHAPTER XVIII
A DEAD GIRL
"Ah! Dat better! By gar, but I
think it was New Jerusalem for you
dis time!" -
The words penetrated Stane's con-
sciousness as he opened his eyes, and
were followed by others which he
obeyed instinctively. "Tak' anod.■r
drink. Zee whisky Teel vake . you
proper."
He gulped from .the tin pann;kin
which was held to his lips, and cough-
ed as the rarw, potent spirit burned'
his. throat. Then he sat up and look-
ed at the nun who was befriending
him.
"Who •
asked weakly,.
"I am Jean Benard. I come 'i ^re
lak' an' hear shots an' I see my L-
in blaze like hall, 1, tink somethin'
ver'•' badly wrong, an' I turn to eet:
woods. Den I see you rush out, an'
I hear you shoots as you run. 1 see
date ;big man struggle with you, 1
see him keeled by anoder who go',
down aussi, and when zee man with
zee axe mak' for you I begin • to
shoot. I am in zee wood, en' zee div-
ils they do not see me, an' I pick off
un, deux, trois! Dey are dere •still,
after dey others grow afraid an' run
like caribou with zee wolves at dere
heels. It ees fine sport, an' I shoot
as dey run, an' presently I am left
alone. I shovel snow wit' a snow-
shoe on my burning cabin, for I love
date petite cabin like a child, an'
den I tink I take a look at you. You
not dead, so I pour hot whisky in
your mouth an' you return from zee
happy huntin' grounds. Dere you
have zee whole 'narrative."
"But Helen?" cried Stane, looking
round. "Where-"
"1 haf se -en not any meed" an-
swered the trapper. "I did not know
dat dere was----"
"Then they have taken her," ex-
claimed Stane, staggering to his feet
and looking rotfnd,
' Jean 'Benard also looked round, Ex
sept .for the figures lying prone in
the snow they were quite alone. "Dey
must hal' done," he said, "eef dera
was a mens!"
,HHe looked••at Shane as if he doghit-
who are you?" he
ed hie Sant a kaug sire •
him. ^4%n X have net ;ogle . road,
Benard There was a whitey girl' iwitl .
me ii epee a .biz,, Miss Yardely: Yea.,
must haee Ire ne•-.•.--•"
"Nees.
Ndataile1341 _..She.. _fid. here-
ci ed -tile trapper in teadden- .,shelter
Ment
"She was here!" eorreetet Starve.
"I think she has been carried olf.
We mlust follow!"
"Dui! Oui!" replied Benard. "I
haf heard of her. The factor at
Fort M,alsun, he tell :me to keep a
bright lookout. Dere ees a re-
ward---"
"We must get her!" interrupted
ne. hYou must help me and I
will double the reward. You under-
stied?"
nder-•stand?"
"Our, I understand,' m'sieu. Dis
girl she ees mooch to you?"
"She is all the world to me."
"Den we go, m'sieu., But first. we
feed an' rest zee dogs. We travel
queeck, after, vous comprenez? 1
will a meal `make, an' yeur head it
will .recover, den we travel lik' zee
wind." •
The • trapper made his way into
the still smlouldering hut, and •bega,;
to busy' himself with preparations,
whilst Stane 'poked round again. The
darkness and the figures lying in the
snow gave the scene an indescribable
air ,of desolation, and der a moment
she stood Ivithout moving; then; as
something occurred to him, he began
to walk towards, the place • where h
had been struck down. Three fig-
ures lay there huddled grotesquely in
the spow, arid to one of them he owed
his life. Which of them was it?
Two of the dead Iay with their faces
in the snow, but the third was on its
hack, face 'upward to'' the sky. He
stoaped.and_looked into-- the -face:- It
was that of the man whom he had
grappled, and who had been struck
down with the knife that he had ex-
pected to strike -himself. He looked
at the other two. An axe lay close
to the hand of one, and he had no
doubt that that one was thenar who -
would have slain him, The third one
was his saviour. He looked again,
and as he noted the dress a cold fear
gripped his heart, for it was the dress
of a woman. He fell on his knees
and turned the body • over, then 'he
bent over the face. As he did so he
started back, and 'a sharp cry came
from his lips; The cry brought Jeal
Benard from the hut at a run.
"What ees it, m'sieu?" he asked as
he reached 'Stane, who knelt there as
it turned to stone.
"It is a dead girI," answered Stane
brokenly -"a girl who gave her life
for mine."
The trapper bent over the .pros•
tr to form, then he also cried out.
e "Miskodeed!"
"Yes! Miskodeed. I did not know
it was she! 'She killed ane of them
with her knife, and she was slain by
the other."
"Whom I keel with the bul'etti"
For a moment Jean Benard said •.i
mere, but wheh he spoke. again there
was a choking sound in his voice. "I
am glad I keel dat man! eef I het
mot done so, I follow heem across v*,
world till it was done." Something
Iike a sob checked his utterance. "Ah,
m'sieu, I love eat girl. I say to my-
self all zee way from. Good Hope dat
I weel her, marry, an'"I haf the pri:r•
I pay her fader on zee sledge. I s•:o
her.las' winter; but I not know den
how it ees with me; but when ,I ;o
away my heart cry out for her an'
my mind it ees makeup. . . . An'
now she Tees dead! I never tink cf
dat! I tink only of zee happy years
dat we weel haf togeder!"
He dropped suddenly in the snow,
and bent overs the face in its frozen
beauty, sobbing as only a strong maty
can. He -bent lower and kissed the
ice-cold lips, whilst Stane staggered
to his feet, and Moved away. He
could not endure to look on. Jean
Benard's grief. As he stood staring
into the darkness of the wood, he
had a flashing memory of tha In-
dian girl's . face as she •had whisper-
ingly asked him if he could not leave
Helen, the very note in her voice
sounded in his ears, and he knew
what it was no harm for him to know
then, that this child of the wilder-
ness had given him her love, un-
sought. She had loved him, and sue
had died for him, whilst a man who
had loved her, now wept over her
poor body. The tragedy of it all
shook him, and the irony of Jean
Benard's grief was almost beyond en-
durance. A great humility filled his
heart, and whilst he acquitted hint -
self of blame, he regretted "'deeply
his vehemence of repuliation. All
her words came back' to him in a
flood. She must have guessed that
he' lobed Helen; yet in the greatness
of her love she had risked her life
without hope and died for him •vith-
out shirking.
He began to walk to and fro, in-
stinctively fighting the cold, with all
his mind absorbed in Miskodec=l's lit-
tle tragedy; but presently the th eight
of Helen came to him, and h': walk-
ed quickly to where Jean Benard ;,till
knelt in the snow. The trapper's
face was hidden in his niit:ailed
hands. For a moment Stane hesitat-
ed, then he placed a hand on the
man's shoulder.
"Jean Benard," he said qut:tiy,
"there, is work to clo.".
Benard rose slowly to his feet and
in the little light reflected from the
snow S'tane read the grief of the
man's heart, in his face.
"Our! m'sieu! We must her bury;
'm'e petite 'Miskodeed."
"That, yes! But there is other
work."
"I could not endure to tink dat zer
wolves get her-"
"I will help you, Jean.
you will help me."
12ITb
dlen aaP . se, .:
with a nif'r in: i ti
`'Ze ground,;'fi h'e a =.
`.eedtees-tren-fraSie
hal r Nis koefeed- in seer a;i a
zee slicing winds 1?lI?3i' a71' the g,`, ene4
grove soft again, 'I dig a grave
eef nesieu ees ready we wall °Ira(. See;
words of religion:"' • •
Stave, almost choked at the peigne
ant irony of the thing, then shappett
his lips to the great words that
would have been strange if not aa -
'meaning to the ,dead girl:
• "I am the resurrection' and the ' life.
He that believeth in Me, though he
were dead yet shall he • live . .
For the comfort of the man, who
stoodeby knife in:hand, he recited ev-
ery word that' he could remember',
and when he reached the words, "we
therefore commit her body to the
grave," the kedn knife severed the
moosehide thong, and the trees, re-
leased, • bent back, carrying the•
body to its windy sepulchre amid a
shower of •snow that, seattered • froth
the neighboring trees. Stane pro-
nounced the benediction, waited a few
moments, then again he put ,a hand
on the other's shoulder,
.'Benard,' we have done what u c
can for the dead; now we must think
of the living.",: -e5
"0gui, rn'sieu!" •A come and thee they will take--" ...
"`You. must eat! I have prepared "It is Chigmok, •my 'sister's sons y
a meal. And when you haveeaten who planned -"
and the dogs are ready • we ' must •'SBut it is thee they will take for
start .on the trail of Miss Yardely." punishment and Chigmok also. Now.
"Oui, m'sieu."
They returned to the hut together, Chief George waited for no second
and noting that some of the .outer bidding, but began to shamble off
.logs were still smou dering, the ,trap- .across the •snow towards his encamp-' a.
per 'shovelled snow a inst them wite alert, The two men watched him gr.'
his snow -shoes, n ey entered. •tn silence- for a Iirttle-time--and their
The .cabin was no so bad!y burned Stane spoke.
as Stane had expected to find it. The "This lake of the Little Moose,.
bunk had burned out, but the inner where is it?"
walls of the cabin had scarcely
caught and the place was still ten-
able. !Benard blocked the v'indow.
and they sat down to eat. For a
time the meal progressed in silence,
Stare deliberately • refraining. from
speech out of consideration tor the
feelings of his companion, though
from time to, time glancing at him
he caught an expression of perplex-
ity on the trapper's face. Suddenly
Benard spoke.
' "But, m'sieu, I do' not understand
eet. You haf no quarrel with zee
tribe?" '
"None," answered .Stane, and then
told him the facts communicated to
him by Miskodeed.
"Ah! then, m'sieu, dere ees a..
white man at zee back of. things.
Dat Chigmok, he ees no:..,good, he
what
you calla rotten but
n
he e of
dare to do thisting heemself."
"That is how 'I feel," answered
Stone. "But •how we are to get at
the truth of -the,matter, I • do -not
know."
"We weel go to zee encs mpment.
We weel mak' Chief George tell zee
truth."
"If we can!" ' commented Stane
d,u'bio•usiy: '':-1 •
"As you say, eef we can. But some
things we shall Learn, m'sieu, dat ees
certain."
"I hope so, Jean."
An hour afterwards they started,
following the trail up the rake left
by the fugitives, a broadly marked
trail, which revealed that a sledge
had been used, for there were the
marks of the runners both coming
and going. As they started, the
trapper pointed this out. Some .Surprising Facts: The cite
"You see, m'sieu, dey come pre- of -Reno, Nev., is 100 miles farther
pared. Dey know dat your Helen west than Cleveland, O. One travel;
she weel not walk; therefore, dei south from 'Detroit to reset: the
.bring zee sled, an' lash her thereto." nearest part of Canada. At ' Pan-
"Yes; that seems likely," agreed ama the sunrises in the .Pacific and
Stane, hisheart aflame with wrath sets in the" Atlantic. Ne* York
at the thought of the possible leelig- City lies• west of the Pacific -that
nities to which the girl might have part of it which touches Arica in
been subjected. In silence they tray- Chile.
elled up the lake, and after a time
reached the place where the moose -
hide tepees lifted their shadowy forme
against the background of snow and
thees. The camp was dark and sil-
ent as a place of the dead. For 'a South.
moment the thought that the whole p.m.
tribe had moved away, deserting their Wingham 2.05
tents, held Stone's mind; but it was Belgrave2.22
dispelled by the whisper of Jean Ben- Blyth 2.33
ard.Londesboro 2.40
"Do you stay here with zee dogs, CIintori 3.08
m''sieu, whillst I go drag out Chief Brucefield 3.28
George. Have zee rifle ready; an' Kipper ' 3.33
eef dere is trouble, be prompt at zee Hensall • 3.39
shootin'. Vous comprenez?"Exeter . r 3.53
"Yes," answered Stane, "if there
is trouble 1 will :not hesitate."
He stood with' the rifle ready,
watching Benard'a progress across.
the snow. He saw him reach the
chief's tepee, and throw open the
moose -hide flap, then disappear in-
side. He waited for what seenied a•.
intolerable time, and once heard a
rustle from the nearest tepee, and
divined that in spite of the stillness
of the camp, quick eyes were watch-
ing the doings of his companion and
himself. Then he caught a coughing
grunt, and out of the tepee which
the trapper had entered, emerged
two forms, the first bent and sham-
bling, the other that of Jean Benard.
They picked their way, walking close
together, between the moose4hide
tents, and as they drew near the
sledge Stane saw that the shambling
form was that of Chief George, and
that he walked with the muzzle of
the trapper's pistol in thesmall of
his back. Dublin
"'We weel go forwards up zee lak' St. Columban
a leetle way, m'si,eu, •out of arrow- Seaforth
shot. Den C'hief George he weel Clinton
talk or die." Holmesville
They marched up the lake five hun- Goderich
dred yards or more, the camp be-
hind them maintaining the silence of
the dead, then Bernard halted.
"Now," he said,. "we weel talk!"
Pointing his pistol at the Indian East.
and speaking in the patois of the a.m.
tribe, he addressed him. Goderich ..... 5.50
"What means the attack upon my Menset 5.51,
cabin ?"• McGaw 8.04
"I know nothing," mumbled the In- Auburn
dian, shaking with fear or cold. "It Blyth.
was Chiglnok-my sister's son -who Walton
led the young men away." McNaught
"Sol But thou hast seen the rifles Toronto
and the burning water, the blankets, '
the tea and the molasses which are
the price to be paid. I know that
thou hast seen them." At the wgrd§
the Chief started a little, then he
made a mumbling admission:
"Yes, 1 have seem them. They are
is great price,"
"But who pays?"
"I know not.' A white man, that
V'•!+-00 30 04'.
tit llltr• at;
'41f)%liogi lest:
"Wiligivtore she*
much; i already -4i0
interrupted the /Odea f,
weild be,' >< 000.4
seed and then! asieede-',Whiet0'
done teethe white girl by b;
who pays the lariat"
*1 know ,not; belike he will
her for his 'squaw,' or xWhorcf axe
should, - he pay so great a- ices?" , '
Benard looked at 'Stang. "Dere ees '• ` '
nothing: snore eat -- he-- eant--•teel!l.:
sure of dart, an' we waste time •
"Yes! Let him ge.a
The 'trapper nodded and then ad-
dressed the Indian once more. "Thou:
Wilt go back to thy --lodge, now, .but
this is not the end. For the evil.
that hath been done the price will,
have 'to be paid.. Later the rhea of
the law, the ridersdaf-the-plains, will • ,
And then
"About sixteen miles to zee East '
It ees known to me. A leetle lak'
desolate as hell,' in zee ,midst of bills•
We weel go there, an' find dis white
man en' Mees Yardely."
"We- mgtfst make speed' or the man
•mla.y be gone," responded 'Stine.
t`Oui, I know! We weel 'travel
through zee night. There be two
ways thither, the one through zee
woods an' zee oder between zee hills.
Zee way of zee woods ees zee os'
easy, but dat of zee hills ees .sh t-
er. We weel take dat, an' maybe we
give Chigmok and his -white Man one
surprise." • -
Under the light of the starts 'and
helped by the occasional flashing
light of the aurora; they travelled up
the lake for some distance, then leav-
ing.: its surface they turned abruptly
eastward, g fo!lowin an unbroken trail
through a country which began rap-
idly to alter in character. The, &eat
woods thinned out and the wathey
followed task an upward swing,
whilst a steady wind with the }wife -
edge cold of the North began to blow
in their faces. Stane at the, gee -pole
of the sledge;, bent his- head before
,the sharp particles of ice -like snow
that it brought with it, and gree;
anocirous lest they should be the van-
guard of a storm But looking up he
saw the stars clear overhead, and
guessing that the particles carne from
the trees and the high ground on
either side of them, his fears left -
him.
(Continued next week)
LONDON AND WINGHAM
"Non! m'sieu. Help, I do not need.
I weel myself do zee las' duty fo:
m.a paun•re Miskodeed. My hands
that would haf held an' fondled her,
de/ shall her prepare; an' I dat woutri
haf died for her --I shall her hurt.
You, m'sieu, shall say zee prayer,
for I haf not zee religion, bot---'
"Call m•c' when y-ou are ready!" in-
terrupted Stane, and turned away,
finding the situation intolerably poig-
nant. .
He went to the hut, and busied
himself with the meal which the trap-
per had been preparing, and pres-
ently Jean Benard called higna.
The man had swathed the dead girl
in a blanket and had bent the tops
of a couple of small spruce, growing
close together,. almost to the ground,,
North.
Exeter
Her}sail
Kippen
Brucefield
Clinton
'Londesboro
Blyth
Belgrave
Wingham
Goderich
Holmesville , .,
Clinton
Seaforth
St. Columban
7.23 3.32
C. N. R.
East.
a.m.
6.35
Dublin ....
10.59
11.12
11.18
11.27
11.58
12.16
12.23
12.33
12.47
m.
12,40
6.50 -2.56
6.58 3.05
7.12 3.21
7.18 3.27
West.
11.24 9.12
11.29
11.40 9.25
11.55 9.89
12.05 9.53
12.20 10.05
C. P. R. TIME TABLE
West.
Toronto
McNaught
Walton
Blyth
Auburn
McGaw
Menset
Goderich, ... , .
6.11 •
6.25
6.40
6.52
10.26
a•m.
7.40
11.4'3
12.01
12.12
12.2;3 •..
12:34,
12.41
12.46
et