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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1950-08-25, Page 7ti .w CHAPTER VIII Synopsis When Will MacLeod was un - Justly accused of .murder he, and his sister fled to White Rock. Their uncle, Alexander had Dick Bryne deliver a' mes- sage to Nipergosis who lived at White Rock. Dick was serious- ly wounded by Kinoceti. Mar- ion learned from Nipegosis that, some friend was dying an the trail. Bill and Marion found Dick and took him to their cottage. They learned that the Mounty would soon Highest Cash Prices for DEAD STOCK Horses, $5.00 ea. Cattle, $5.00 ea. Hogs, 50 per cwt. According to Size and Condition Call Collect SEAFORTH 15 DARLING & COMPANY OF CANADA, LIMITED be there and Bill left to hide in a cave. When the Mounty arrived he believed that the unconscious Dick was Bill, and stayed to watch him. - ,1lhe other room was clearly a man's. The clothes and other pos- sessions showed that. The clothes looked as if they would fit the man on the bed. So did the pair of worn hoots, and a pail- of shoe - pack moccasins, almost new. He picked them up to examine and ampere them more closely. They were not the same size. That might not mean much. A man could not buy the exact size he wanted in the wilderness and room ,was always allowed for am- ple heavy socks. One outfit of clothing was also nearly new though the trousers were damaged, cut and blood-stained. O'Rourke sat down on the bed to consider these and other things. He was sure there had been dogs here not more than forty-eigiht hours ago. Dogs that were not on a temporary visit. They had gone. A'sled would have gone with them and some one to drive it. That meant two men. It looked very much as if Will MacLeod had been wrrned. 'Then who was the man in bed? One who had brought the warn- ing? O'Rourke's deduction was hard- ly genius, but it came like a flash. "Alec MacLeod! I thought the old fox was too smug. 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Goderlcb (leave) 5.40 Seaforth 6.20 Stratford (arrive) 7.16 (Afternoon) Goderieh (leave) Seaforth Stratford (arrive) GOING WEST (Morning) Stratford (leave) Seaforth Goderieh (arrive) (Afternoon) Stratford (leave) Seaforth Goderfch (arrive) P.M. 3.00 3.46 4.40 A.M. 10.45 11.36 12.20 P.M. 9.85 10.21 11100 toe' Lu.9iM(s' x mvu.atm he get to know?" _ There was a trail to follow from the cabin. But the sick man could not stay unconscious! forever. And when he roused from his stupor, O'Rourke was resolved to make him talk. The girl, too, he deter- mined. • Will MacLeod and this other one generally resembled each other. In bed, drawn and pale under wea- ther tan, slight discrepancies would pass unnoticed Height and weight could not 4e well judged. The girl haft fooled him, delib- erately, tried to hold 'him to give her brother a tart. It would not be easy to get much out of 'her. And, after all, he had not lied. He heard he • voice, pitched in anger, then in alarm. O'Rourke charged across the passage, into the first room he had entered: In a cave that opened off a ledge above Stoney River, which was frozen hard and fast, five men squatted about a small fire where they had been brdiling meat, de- vouring it with their fingers, half raw. The places was warm though the fire had been kept down to offset smoke. There was a hot spring in the back that every now and then gurgled and gasped and threw off jets of steam from a geyser -like basin that caught its flow and re- turned it to the volcanic source. The water was highly charged with mineral, principally silicate of lime. Drippings from condens- ing spray and moisture hung down from the cave ceiling in the form of stalactites, stood up stumpily as stalagmites. Some of these were sootedt, with the cave about them, by the fires of many gen- erations. Primitive carvings on the walls showed that the tribes had used it since ancient times. Only one of the five men was fully -blooded, the others were breeds, though all were dressed as Indians dress for winter. The man who spoke had just returned from a trip that had elated him. He was the leader, known to bhem as Kinoceti-to white men as Peace River Jack. His face was evil, savage. It held cunning and evidence of dis- sipation. His skin was swarthy and one cheek was seamed by a scar that reached his upper lip, twisted it to a leer. He passed round a bottle that he had brought with him. It held "caribou," a mixture of native port wine and straight alcohol. Al- ready it inflamed them. They lis- tened eagerly to his 'talk. "This is the best thing of all. It lies on the same road, at the same place. The Mounted Man will be there by tomorrow to take this fool MacLeod. I shall be there to receive the reward for telling the police where to find him. One thousand dollars. • You shall share in that, my friends," he lied glibly-, "if you will help me I•: ith the other matter in which you will also •share and which will make us all rich. "But first the Mounted Man takes MacLeod, the nephew of the man who calls himself The Mac- Leod, who will be humbled when the nephew hangs. Then I am minded to talk with the sister, if the Mounted Man does not take her along. In that case it is wis- est not to interfere. if you kill one of those red -coated devils they send another, and yet another. • "So. although she would amuse me, we will not be foolish about that. In the school they sent me to they had a tale of .a dog who crossed a bridge and stopped to look •at this reflection. He had a bone in his mouth, a good bone, but he dropped it into the water and tried to get the other one. which, of course, had vanished. He lost the substance for the shadow-" "I, too, have heard that story," said one of the breeds tipsily, "Then you should know what I am talking about." it "What is this affair which will make us all rich?" asked another. "My friends," said Kinoceti, emptying the bottle.. "You know The Voice Of Temperance You have to go to the Ontario Liquor Act territory to hear this one. It is a common saying among hostesses there. The cynical word that is going the rounds is this- if you give your guests lots of drinks it doesn't matter what food you offer them. That seems to be one way to accomplish the depreda- tion of hospitality. The reflection is not on the hostesses, that they want to turn their table into a bar. The reflection is on the guests. After several drinks their taste for food has deteriorated, so have their eating manners. There is no telling how offensive her drinking guests may be to the sensitive hos- tess. This is the risk she takes if site serves cocktails. -(Adv.), THE McKILLOP MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE CO'Y. HEAD OFFICE-SEAFORTH, Ont. • OFFICERS: President - E. J. Trewartha, Clinton Vice -Pres. - J. L. Malone, Seaforth Manager and Sec.-Treas. - M. A. Reid, Seaforth.• DIRECTORS: E. J. Trewartha, Clinton; J. L. Malone, Seaforth; S. W. Whit- more, Seaforth; Chris. Leonhardt, Bornholm; Robert Archibald, Sea - forth; John H. McEwing, Blyth; Frank McGregor, Clinton; Wm. S. Alexander, Walton; Harvey Fuller, Godefich, ' AGENTS: J. E. Pepper, Brucetleld; R, F. McKercher, Dublin; George A. Watt, Blyth; J. F. Prueter, Brod- Jhagon; Seieryn Baker, Brussels.a that white miners found the gold at White Rol `Which the 'in Tana knew long ago ' .was •'there, We did not take it because it would have been taken away again immedlatee ly. So the white miners ,built the camp and got a lot of gold for a time. "Then there was no more gold The white rock reef had ended. "No one goes to White Rock for gold any more. No white man. But there is a man named Sigonay -you know him, my friends?" "An old fool who takes a young squaw," said one of them. "She would not have gone to, him if he had not tempted her," Kinoceti returned.- "She is very young and looks well to the eye." He spoke complacently, with a self-conscious smirk. His clothes were worn, but they were those of a dandy. "He has bought her many things from LaRoche, the trader at Thir- ty Mile. Dresses, shawls, ribbons, perfume, rings. And, because he was an old fool and she was a young wife, it was not hard for her to veheedle out of him how he paid for these things. With white rock that was heavy and speckled with gold, as a trout is speckled. "But he would not tell her where he got it' until he knew he was dying of lung fever. That was last week. He is dead now. He will buy her no more gifts. But he told her where the white rock came from. And she told me." "Where? At White Rock Camp? You said it was the same place where this young MacLeod stays." "At White Rock, yes. Just where„ I do not know. Sigonay told is squaw to ask Nipegosis. Sigonay was the son of a niece of Nipegosis. So maybe Nipe- gosis will tell his squaw, when she asks him, after she is through her month of mourning. In the meantime we will ask Nipegosis. I think it is likely that Nipegosis told Sigonay where to look for it, where to find the lode the white men lost. Such things happen in rock. They call them faults." "I know that," broke in the previous interrupter. "I know what faults are an rock. And I know al- so it is foolish to ask Nipegosis where it is. He might have told the son of ,his niece because of the blood between them, but he will not tell us." "He'll tell me." said Kinoceti. "I am not afraid of Nipegosis, He does not care for gold. He is too old. He has not long to live, yet, like all men, he treasures what he has left of life. He will barter that, with us, for the white rock. He.can still suffer." "Nipegosis is a wizard. You are crazy. He will cast a spell on -us," said Suni, the full -blood, energeti- cally. "They say he can change a man to stone, turn hint into a beast. kill him with cramps, make ,him blind." "They say?" laughed Kinoceti. "I have learned about wizards. They play tricks. But they feel pain like another pian. I tell you," he boasted, "Nipegosis will tell - and gladly, if you are not cowards. If you are, I will do this thing alone," They did not like it. And Kino- ceti did not want to handle it alone. He would have to be drunk when he did it and he had more bottles of caribou stowed away for such an occasion. The full -blood had walked to the mouth of the cave. Now he called to them, pointing across the river. They crouched, their sight like eagles, watching the progress of a sled on the far side of the river, beneath them, evidently making for the caves. They speculated on it, a little drunk, but sharp en- ough for observation. comparing notes and comments. "It is Will MacLeod," said Kino- ceti, finally. ''I do not know what has happened, but his sister is not with him. He travels alone - and he travels fast." "He saw the Mounted Man com- ing," said one of then!. "He had time to harness his dogs. The Mounted Man would .be on snow - hoes, no horse." Kinoceti did not agree. "The police are too smart," he said. "They lost sight of him af- ter the killing. Now they will have sent out one of their best. He would not be such a fool as to let young MacLeod see him first. No, something has frightened him. 'He may have been warned." "1 saw Red Deer trail to White Rock two days ago," a breed sug- gested. "That is not news," snarled Kinoceti. "Red Deer came from the north and west. He took moose meat to Nipegosis. It is that old fox. Alec MacLeod." Three men, now, had styled The MacLeod a fox. Two white men SOLUTION TO BOXWORD PUZZLE ACROSS DOWN 1. Guile 1. Gyrate 4, Lisle 2. Idiom 7. Buy 3. Eagle 8. Amaze 4. Lean 10. Ruing 5. SOS 11. Assist 6. Ens 15. Era 7. Bread 16. Lucent 9. Arc 19. Temper 12. Stroll 22. Ruler 13. Igloo 23. Deem 14. Tired 2. Pe 1 bo 17. Urbane 24. Penta 18. Eclat 27. Lloyd 20. Empire, 30. Tri 21. Panic 31. Nettle 24. Enter 34, Riches 28. Lecher 37. Cap 29. Yapon 38. Proem 32. Escort 40. Crush 33. Trump 41. Pinto 35. Impugn 42. Eons 36. Henna 45. Adieu 38. Pearl 46. Report 39. Odium 49. Grants 43. Otiose 52. Ice 44. Sweat 53. Lamina 47. Estop 56. Tango 48, Ounce 57. Taboo 50. Rate 58. Sot 51. Nib 59. Dance ' 54. Aid ij0: Piece 65. Inst r d:4;j;t' reed, Their agreeraeut orae 1iki l,T fro be correct. None of then!' `verb, r enols. Kinoceti's judgin.ent st `Yvan aTl�. as srwift as that of. O'}Loux"ke. Almost as true, But > ti. did -not stay to analyzeit very tar: ,flat:leave his sister behind," he repeated. "Perhaps to throw dust st1 a eyes of the Mounted Man. .I am going, to White Rock. Yoit- three of you -may come with me. One stays to watch young Mac- Leod. He conies 'to hole -in here at the caves. Rub out those ashes, get rid of the bones and meat. He knows ebhe trail. He must not' be made suspicious, He's worth a thousand dollars. You, Suni," he went on to the full -blood, remain bebind. Watch him. Trail him if he leaves. Do not let him go too far, The reward says 'Alive or dead,' but they would rather have him alive. And it is only I, Kin oceti, who may collect that re- ward." Does not the Mounted man get some of it?" 'They are not permitted. They work 'for the wage of a clerk, for glory and a medal," scoffed Kino- ceti. "Clean up the cave. Young MacLeod will be here inside of half an hour. We will not lose sight of him, but now we go to White Rock. Perhaps we may clear up the matter of the gold before the Mounted Man arrives. "Then we can tell him where to find young MacLeod, and; once on that scent, he will athinla of no other. They are good hounds, these Mounties; they stay on the trail they are started on." • He was idle while the others worked. He had in him the quali- ties of a leader, though his causes were evil. He hunkered down in the mouth of the cave, watching Will MacLeod's dogs, tiring now, laboring through slushy snow to- ward the river. He thought of Alexander Mac- Leod. who would have employed him to string snowshoes at a fifth of what MacLeod would sell them for Of the knowledge of the lost gold reef he would win from Nipe- gosis. Of the fools working back in the cave who thought he would share it with them, But, most of all, he thought of Marion MacLeod. He remembered the time when she had looked at him as if he were dirt -through him, as if he had been glass. Once in the store at Bison Crossing, he had swag- gered in, resplendent, barbaric. It had been the day before a Saint's Day, and bhe place was packed. He had gone deliberately to the counter where Marion was helping and bought thing after thing be did not need. He gathered the articles together at the last, paid for them. "Do not wrap them," he had said in his best school English. "They ere for you." If she had hit him across the face with a whip, if she had ,been the one who made the star he bort. he could not have felt it more plainly. He telt it now. He hail been (Irinking a little, "Do you think 1 am a squaw?" she had asked him• and turned away. She had not. told her broither, her uncle, nor any of the white trappers, who would have thrashed Kinoceti for his presump- tion, thrust him out of Bison Crossing forever. But her look rankled like a. festering wound. Now, he was going to play even. He had waited a long time for the chance, played desperately to get it. He was going to make the most or it, glut his Indian nature, warped by crossbreeding, with re- venge. As Will MacLeod crossed Stoney River, its ice already treacherous under the chinook, three men with Kinoceti, slid through the leaf- less brush like lizards, took the trail for White Rock. The blood ren5aiued behind. It suited him well enough. To keep an eye.on this fugitive from white man's justice was one thing. to beard Nipegosis in the Conjuror's own hpuse was quite another. He erased himself from the landscape. He had meat. It was getting warm. He would watch this thou- sand dollar refugee. Anti if Nipe- gosis destroyed the rest, as he, Stini, whom many of his tribe thought foolish, would collect the reward and live happily ever af- terward -at least. as long as the thousand dollars held out. (Continued Next Week) LOC N£WSPet :rte ;1 1. ` weir:`: BENEFIT BY THIS GOOD NEWS COMBINATION norm YOUR HOME TOWN PAPER gives you complete, dependable local news. You need to know all that is going on where you live. 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