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It has always been a mystery to me
why four rivals sent that brigade to
Athabasca by way of Lachine instead
of Hudson ;Bay, which :would have
fbeen tw,o thousand miles nearer. We
Noe-Westers went all the way to and
from Montreal, solely because tha.
was our only point of access to the
sea; beat the Hudson's Bay people had
their own Hudson By for a staeting
place. Why, in their slavish imitation
of the methods, which 'brought us
suocess, they also adopted our dised
erantages, I could never understand
Birth canoes and good tripmen .could
of course, as the Hudson's Bay men
say, he most easily obtained in Que-
bec; but with a good organizer, the
same 'could have been gathered up
two thousand miles nearer York Fac-
tory, on Hudson Bay. Indeed, I have
often thought the sole purpose of that
expedition was to gee Noe-Westers'
methods bx_en,TIJying discarded Nor'-
Westere as trappers and voyageurs.
Colin Robertson, the leader, had him-
self been a INor'sWester; and all the
men with him except Eric Hamilton
were renegades, "turncoat traders," as
we •called them. But I must not be un-
just; for neither company could Pos-
sibly exceed the other in its zeal to
entice away olel trappers, who would
reveal opponents' secrets, Acting on
my uncle's advice, a made shift to
pick up a few crumbs of valuable in-
formation. Had the Hudson's Bay
known, I suppose they would have
called me a spy. That was the name I
gave any of them who might try snch
tricks with rne. The General Aesem-
bly of the North-West partners was
to meet at Fort William, at the head
of Lake Superior. I learned that Rob-
ertson's brigade were anxious to slip
past our headquarters at Fart William
before the meeting and would set out
that very day. I also heard they had
sent forw-ard a messenger to notify
the Hudson's Bay governor at 'Fort
Douglas of their brigade's coming.
Almost before I realized it, we were
speeding fup the Ottawa, past a sec-
ond and third and fourth Ste. 'Anne's;
for she is the voyageurs' patron saint
and her name dots Canada's map like
ink -blots on a toy's copybook. Wher-
ever a Ste. Anne's is now found, there
has the voyageur of long ago passed
and repassed. In places the surface of
the river, gliding to meet us, became
oily, almost ,glassy, as if the wave -
current ran too fast to ripple out to
the 'banks. Then little eddies 'began
whirling in the corrugated water and
our paddlers with labored breath bent
heed to their task. By such Cigna I
learned to know when we were stem:
ming the tide of some raging water-
fall, or swift rapid. There would fol-
low quick disembarking, hurried port-
ages over land through a tangle of
forest, or up slippery, damp rocks, a
noisy launching far above the torrent
and swifter ,progress when the birch
canoes touched water again. Such was
the tireless pace, which made North-
West voyageurs famous. Such was
the work the great Bourgeois exacted
of their men. A liberal supply of aum,
wenn stoppages were made, and of
bread and meat for each meal—better
fare ellen was usually given 'by the
trading compantes—did much to en-
courage the tripmen. Each man was
doing his utinost to out -distance the
bold rivals 'following by our route.
The Bourgeois were to meet at Fort
William early in (June. Alt all haze
ards we were determined to notify our
oompany of the enemy's inva.eling flo-
tilla; and without margin for accid-
ents we had but a month to cross half
a 'continent.
quickly to ',his place in the canoes,
with that 'gliding Indian motion, which
scarcely rooked the liglat craft, There
came to my crew Little Fellow, a
short, thick -set man, with a grinning,
good-natured face, who—despite his
t size—would solemnly assure people he
was equal in force to the sun. With
him Was La Robe INoire, of ,grav.e as-
pect and few words, mighty in stature fi
and shoulder power. There were ve
or six others, vehose names in the
- clangor of voices ti did not hear. Of
. these, one was a tall, lithe, swift-
, moving man, whose cunning eyes
seemed to glearn with the malice of a
serpent This canoeman 'silently twist-
ed into sleeping posture directly be-
hind me.
The signal was given, and we were
in mid -stream again. Wrapping my
blan:ket about. me, half propped by a
bale of stuff and ibreathiag deep of
the clear air with 'frequent resinous
whiffs from the forest I drowsed off.
'The swish of waters rushing past and
the roar of torrents, which I had seen
and heard during the day, still sound-
ed in my ears. The sigh of the night -
wind through the forest 'came like the
lonely moan of a far -distant sea, and
I was sleepily half COASCiOlIS that ce-
dars, pines and cliffs were engaged
in a mad race past the sides of the ca-
noe. A deed in which one may •not
stretch at ranclam is not comfortable.
Certaiely nay cramped limbs muse
have caused .bad dreams. A dozen
times the 'Indian !behind me had turn-
ed into a snake end WAS winding
round my ceest in tight, smothering
toils. Starting ap, I wonld shake the
weight off. Once I suddenly opened
my eyes to find blanket thrown aside
and pistol 'belt unstrapped. Lying back
eased. was dozing again when I clis-
timely felt a hand crawl stealthily
round the pack on which was pil-
lowed and steal towards the dagger
laandle in the loosened belt. I struck
at it viciously only to .briase my fiat
on nay dagger. Now wide awake,
turned angrily towards the Indian.
Not a muecle of the still .figure had
changed from the attitude taken
when he tame into the canoe. The
man was not asleep, bait reclined in
stolid oblivion of my existence. His
head was thrown bads and the steely, fi
unflinching eyes were xed. an the
stars,
"It may not have been you, my
scowling sachem," said I to myself, H
abut snakes have fangs. enceforth
111 take goad care yreare not at my
back."
I slept no more that night. Next
day I asked the 'fellcrw his name and
he ,poured out such e jumbled mouth-
ful of •quiok-spoken, Indian syllables,
I was not a whit the wiser. T told bini
sharply he was to ,be Toni Janes on
my boat, at which he gave an evil
leer.
Wthora stay we still pushed for-
ward. The arrowy pace was merciless
to red men and white; but that was
the kind of service the great North-
West Coinpany always •demanded.
Some ten miles from the outlet of
Lake Nipissa•natie i(latipissing). foul
weather threatened delay. The Bour-
geois were for proceeding at any
risk; 'but as the thunder-cloads grew
blacker and the wind more violent, the
head steersman lost bis temper and
grounded his canoe on the sands at
Point a la Croix. Springing .ashore he
flun.g .d.own his pole and refused to go
on.
"Sacrediel" he screamed, .first point-
ing to the gathering storm and then'
to the •crosses that marked the fate of
other foolhardy voyageurs, "Allez si
vous voulez! !Pour A101 je lair& pas;
nt voyez pas le danger!"
A hurricane and wind, snapping the
great oaks as a chopper breaks 'kind-
ling wood, enforced his words. Can-
oes tvere at once 'beached. and tarpaul-
ins drawn over the 'bales of provi-
sions. The men struggled to hoist a
telt; but gusts of wind tossed the can-
vas above their heads, and !before the
pegs were 'deiven, a great wall of rain -
drift .drenched every One to the •skin.
By ,surrdown the storm had gone
At nightfall the fourth day from
the shrine, after a tiresome nine -mile th
traverse past e •Chaudiere Falls of
the 'Ottawa, glitterirsg .camp -fires on
the river bank ahead showed where a
fresh relay of canoemd u
en awaites.
They were immediately taken into the
different crews and night -shifts of
'paddlers put to work. It was quite
della when the new hands joined as;
but in the moonlight, as the ,chief
'steersman tola off the men by name,
I watched each tawny •figure step
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southeast and we funrighteously Con1- ainst me. 'Twas he of the pointed
soled ourselves that it would probably beards rey' th
suspect al e Hudson's
disorganize the Iluds'on's Bay brigade Bay Cempagy. Quicic as thought I
as much as it had ours. 'Plainly, we thrust oat my 'WM -an.d tripped ,him
were there for the night point a la full len.gth on the .gresuad. The light
Crabs is too dangerous a 'sprat for aa- fell •,an his .upturned face. It was LOttis
vigation alter dark. With much ati- Laplante, that past -master in the art
ence we kin.dled the 'Soaked under- of .diplornatic deception. He snarled
brush and finally 'got a pile of lags Out something angrily and •came„, to
roarirsa in the woods and gatheeed himself in sitting posture. Thee he
round the fire.
. • recognized me.
The glare in the sky attracted the "Mon Dieter he muttered beneath'
la.ke tribe's from taeir lodges: Indians, his leeeete, momentarily eariprieee in_
halfebreeas and shagtgyahaired whites to a !betrayal of astonishment. " You,
—degenerate traders, who had lost all Gillespie?" he called out, at 'once re -
taste for •civilieation and retired with gaining himself and assuming his us -
their native Wives after the fashion Of uai .nonchelance. "Pardon, my solemn -
the north 'countrycame from the ehaly! I took you for a tree."
Nipissangue !encampments and joined
%Tented, your impedance," said I,
mar motley throng, !Presently the na- ignoring the alight but ,paying him
tives drew off to a fire by themselves, back in kind. a was determined to fol -
Where there would be no 'whitegnan's
low my 'uncle's advice and play. the
restraint. They had either begged or rascal at his own game. "Help you
stolen traders' rum, and after the heed
up?" said I, as 'pleasantly as I could,
trip from Ste. Anne, were eager for
extending my head to give him a aft;
one of their .rnad fboissons—a drinking -
aid I telt his palm hot and his arm
bout interspersed with jigs, and figtae.
tremble. Then, I knew that iLotris was
Stretched 'before our oamp, I watch- drunk and this was the tool's joint in
ed the grotesque figures leaping and the knave's armor, on which Mr. jack
dancing between the •firelight and the MacKenzie bade me use My weapons,
dusky woods :like forest .demons.W tl
' i ' "Tra-lar lie aaswered with Mince
the leaves rustliag • overhead, the was
Mg Walt ' '`Trasla, Old tombstone!
ter laving the pebbles on the shore,
Good -by, my mauedleum! Au revoir,
and the washed pine air stimulating
old death's headl fAdieu, grave skull!"
one's blood like an intoxicant, I be- With an absurdly elaborate bow, he
gan wondering how many years of reeled hack among the dancers,
solitary life it 'would take to wear «Get up, 'comrade," 1 unged, rush-
throufgh civilization's veneer and leave Mg into the tent, where the old trader
one content in tbe lodges of.forest I had questioned about my can.oeman
Wilds. IGradually I became aware of. vras now snaring. IGet 'up, man," and
my sfulky .canoeman's presence on the I shook him. "There's a Hudson's
other side of 'the ,campfire, The man Bay slay!,
had not joined the revels df the other °Spy," he shouted, throwing aside
voyageurs but sat on his feet, oriental the mooseskin coverlet. "Spy! Who.?"
style, gazing as intently at the dames "It's Louis Laplante, of 'Quebec." •
as if epelebound by some fare -spirit. el../01.1iS Laplante!" reiterated the
"What's wrong with that fellow, trade, "A !Frenchman employed by
anyhow?" I asked a veteran trader, the •Hudson's laayl Laplante, .a trap -
who was taking pulls at a smoked -out per, with them! The scoundrel!" And
pipe. he ground out oaths that boded ill tor
"Sick—home-sick," was the laconic Lome,
reply. "Hold on!" 1 exiclairned, jerking
"You'd think he was near enough him back, He was for dashing on La -
nature to feel at home! Where's his plante with a •oudgel. "He's playing
tib ?"
r e
"It ain't his tribe he wants," ex-
plained the trader.
"What, then?" I inquired.
"His wife, he's mad after her," and
the trader took the pipe from his
teeth.
"Faughl" I laughed. "The idea of
an Indian sentimental and love-sick
over for fat lump of a squaw! Come!
Come! Am I to believe that?"
"Don't matter whether you do, or
not," returned the trader, "It's a fact.
His wife's a Sioux chief's daughter.
She went north with a gang of half..
breeds and hunters lest month; and
he's been fractious crazy ever sime."
"What, his name?" r called, as mY
informant vanished ;behind the tent
fl ap s.
Again that mouthful of Indian syl-
lables, unintelligible and unspeakable
for me was tumbled forth. Then 1
earned to the fantastic 'figures ,car-
ausing around the other camp Fire.
One form, in particular, 1 seemed to
distinguish from the others. He was
gathering the Indians in line for some
native dance and had an easy, rakish
sort of grace, quite different from the
serpentine motions of the redskins.
By a sudden turn, hie profile was
thrown against the fire and I saw that
he wore a pointed beard. He was no
Indian; and like a flash came one of
those strange, reasonless intuitions,
which precede, or proceed from, the
slow mations of the mind. Was thi$
the avant -courier of . the 'Hudson's
'Bay, delayed, like ourselves, by the
storm? I had hardly spelled out any
n suspicion, when to the measured
!beatings .of the itom-tom, gradually
'becoming faster, and with a low, weird
Thant, like the voices of the forest,
the Indians 'began to tread a mazy,
winding pace, which my slow eyes
could not follow, but which M a
strange way brought up memories of
snaky convolutions about the naked
body of some ,Egyptian serpent -
charmer. The drums heat faster. The
suppressed apices were breaking in
shrill, wild, exultant strains, and the
measured tread had quickened' from a
walk to a run .and from a swaying run
to a swift, labyrinthine pace, which
has AO name in English, and which I
can only liken to the wiggling of a
green thing ander leafy covert. The
coiling and circling and winding of
the •dancers became bewildering, and
in the centre, laughing, shooting, toss-
ing up his arias •and gestieulating like
a maniac, was the white n3en with the
Painted beard Then the ' performers
broke from their places and gave
themselves With utter abandon to the
wild impulses of wild natures in it
wild world; and there was s.uch a
icetie of ein•carbed, anigtal hilarity a:
never dreamed .po'sfsible. Savage
eirious, almost ferocious like th,
risking df a pack Of wolves, that a
ny time may fall upon and destroy ;
seeker one, the boisterous antics e
hese ,c.hildren' of the forest fascinate
ie. Pilled with the curiosity the
nes many a trader to bis undoing,
Ise and went across to the throne
g, .shouting, shadowy .figenes. A mi
Lifted out of the woods fell tult ai
the !trapper game with the lake
tribes."
"1,11 trapper him," vowed the trad-
er. 'Sow do you know he's a spy?"
"I don't know, really know." I be-
gan, clumsily •conscious that I had no
proof for my suspicions, 'bet it
strike, me we'd fbetter not examine
this sort of suspect et too long range.
If we're wrong, we can let him go."
"Bag him, eh?" queried the trader.
"That's it," I assented.
"He's a hard one to bag."
"But he's drunk."
"Drunk, Oh! Drunk is Ise?" ,laugh-
ed the MAIL "He'll be drunker," and
the trader began rummaging through
the bales of stuff with ta noise of 'bot-
tles knoc'king together. fie was .1111111.
ming in a low tone, like a grimalkin
purring atter a adl meal of rake—
"Rum for lndians, whets they come,
Rent for the beggars, When they go,
That's the trick nay grizzled lads
To catch the cash and snare the
foe,"
"What's your elan?" I asked with
a vague feeling the trader had •some
shady purpose in 'mind.
"Squeamish? th? You'll get over
that, boy. Pll trap your trapper and
spy your spy, aud• Nor' -Wester your
H. 13. iC.1 You come down do the sand
between the forest and the beach in
rtbout an hour and I'll have news for
you," end he bruehed past me with his
arms full of something I could not
see in the half-light.
Then, as a trader, began my firm
compromise with conscience, and the
enmity which I thereby aroused after-
wards punished me for that night's
work. I knew very well my oamrade,
with the raugh-and-ready methods of
traders, had gone out to do what was
not right; and I ;hung back in the tent,
balancing the end against the means,
caur deeds against 'Louis' perfidy, and
Nor' -Wasters' interests against those
of he Hudson's Bay. It is not plea-
sant to reeall what was done between
the cedars and the shore. I do not at-
tempt to justify our conduct Does
the physicianjustify medical experi-
ments on the criminal, or the sacrifi-
cial priest the .driviag of the scape-
goat into the wilderness? Suffice it to
say, when I 'went .down to the shore,
Louis Laplante .gulped doWn his rum,
becoming drunker and more commun-
icative, the tempter threw glass after
glass over his .shoulder and remained
saber. The Nor' -Wester motioned 'me
to keep behind. the Frenchman. and I
heard this drunken lips mumbling my
own name.
"Ruftish — prig — stuck-up prig—
serve litm tam right! Hamilton's—eh
--sha-prig loo—sho's 'hie wife. Serve
'ern all tam right!"
"Aelc hins where she is," sa whis-
pered over his head. '
"Wiiere's the gal?" aernan.ded the
trader, shoving more liquor to Louis.
"Shioux squaw—Deeil's yeife—bow
you say a inilEnglish? Leh IGeawnd
Deealable," andi he m.outhea over our
miepronancietion of his own tongue.
"Joke, isn't it?" he went on. 'That
wax -face prig—slave. to silicates Squaw.
Refush—a fool. Stuffed him ,to lash—
neck. 'Made him believe shinalapox
was •Hamilton's wife. I mean, [Hernia
ton'a wife was shmallepox. Calf bel-
lowed with fright ran hornecasne,
lhaelc—`tarnmea I say, 'there he tome
again' `ahniall-pox in that grave,' say
I. !Joke--aina it?" and he stopped to
drain off another pint .of rum.
"Biggest jolce out off jail," said ehe
Nor' -Wester dryly, with meaning
which Louis did not grasp.
, "Ask him where sbe is;".. I whisper-
ed, "quick! He's going to sleep." For
Louie wiped his beard on ;his Sleeve
and lay back hopelessly drunk.
"Here yau, waken up," .commanded
the Nor' -Wester, kicking 'hien and
shaking him roughly. "Where'sthe
'gal?"
"Sidoux—Paye d'En .Haut," drawl-
ed the . youth. 'Take off your boots!
Don't wear 'boots. Pays d'En Haut--
moceasins—safter," and he rolled over
in a sodden sleep, which defied .all our
neffosrts to shake him into .conscious-
es"Is that true?" asked the Nor' -
Wester, standing ab.ove the drunk
man ased .speaking across to me. "Is
that true about the Indian kidnapping
a woman?"
"True—itoo terribly true," I whis-
pered 'back.
"I'd like to boot him into the next
world," saidi the trader, looking .dowa
at Louis in a manner that might have
alarmed that youth for this safety.
"I've ,bagged H. R. dispatches any-
way," be added with satisfaction.
"Wbait'll we do with laim?"•I asked
aimlessly. "It he had anything to do
with the stealing of Hamilton's
He hadn't, interrupted the trader.
''Twas , Diable did that, so Laplante
says."
*Then what shall' we do with him?"
'Do—'with--lhisn," slowly repeated
the Nor' -Wester in a low, vibrating
voice, "DO—with—shim?" and again I
felt a vague shudder of 'apprehension
atfis•tInse.silent, uncomproMising man's
purpose.
The camp fires were dead. Not a
sound came from the men in the
woods and there was a gray light on
the water with a .eague 'stirring of
birds through the foliage overhead
'Now I would not have any mai;
judge us by the •canons of civilize
tion. lUnder the aircient rule of the fuer
companies over the wilds of the
north, awes 'bullets and !blades !put
the fear a the Lord in evil hearts. _ks
we stooped to gather up the tell-tale
flasks, the drunken knave, Who had
lightly allowed an innocent white wo-
maa to go into Indian 'captivity, lay
with bared chest not a hand's length
from a knife he had thrown down.
Did the Nor' -Wester and I hesitate,
and look from the man to the dagger,
and from the dagger to the men; or is
this an evil dream frons a bla'ck past?
Miriam, the 'guiltless, was suffering at
Isis hands; should not be, the guilty,
suffer at ours? Surely Sisera was not
more munistakably .delivered into the
power of his enemies by the Lord
than this man; and Sisera was disconi-
flted by Barak and bal. Heber's wife
—says the Booke-drove a tent nail—
through the templee—of the eleeping
man—and elew bins! Day was when 1
thought the-iOld Volume recorded too
many deeds ofebloodshed in the wild-
erness for the instruction of our re-
aned 'generation; but 1, too, have
since lived in the wilderness and
learned that soft speech is not the
weapon of strong men overmastering
sa vagery.
I know the •trader and I were think-
ing the' same thoughts and reading
each other's thettglits; for we stood
silent above the drunk man, neither
moving, nother etteeing a word.
"Weld?" I finally questioned in a
whisper.
"Well," said the, and Ise knelt down
and picked op the knife. "'Tw.ould
serve him jolly right," and he knelt
over Louis hesitating,
My eyes followed his slow, deliber-
ate nictions with horror. Terror seem-
ed to rab me of the power af speech.
I felt my fblood freeze with the fear of
some impending 'crime. There .was the
faintest perceptible ;fluttering of leav-
es; and we both started up as if we
'had been 'assassins, glancing fearfully
into the gloom of' the forest, tAell the
woods' seemed alive with horrified
eyes and whisperings.
"Stop!" I gasped, "This is mad-
ness of the murderer. Wh.at vvould you
do?" And I was trying to 'knock :the
knife. out of his hand, when among
the ehadowy green of the foliage, an
open space suddenly resolved itself.
into a human face and there looked
out epon us glearning eyes like those
of a crouching panther.
Squeamish fool!" muttered the
Noe -Wester, raising las arm.
"Stop!" T implored. "We are watch-
ed. See!" and I pointed to the face,
that as ' suddenly 'vanished into black-
ri.eW8Le bath leaped into the thicket, pis-
tol ie hand, to wreak ,punishment on
the interloper. There was only an in•
listiact sound as of something reced
tsigi,catot.1:: darkness.
`Don't 'fire," said I, "'twill alarrr
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Jai -mouth, Brodhagen; James Watt,
Blyth; C. F. Hewitt, Kincardine;
Wm, Yeo, Hohnesville.
DIRECTORS
Alex. Broadfoet, Seaforth No. 3;
James Sholdice, Walton; Wm. Knox,
Lan deaboro; George Leon hard t,
Bornhoilm No. 1; Frank 'McGregor,
!Clinton No. S; James Connolly, God-
erich; Alex iMeEveing, Blyth No. 1;
Thomas Moylan, Seafforth No. 5;
Wm. R. Archibald, Sealforth No, 4.
Parties desirous to effect insurance
or transact other 'business, will be
promptly attended to by applications
to any of the above named officers
addressed to their respective post -
offices.
At imminent risk to OUT own lives,
we puked sticks through the thicket
and felt for our unseen enemy, hut
found nothing.
"Let's go back and peg hist, auft on
the sand, where the iHtideon's By will
see him when they ,come this way,"
suggested the Nor' -Wester, referring
to ,Laplante.
"Yes, or hand -cuff him and lake
him along prisoner," I added, think -
Louis might have 'mare information.
But when we stepped back to the
beach, there was no Louis Laplante.
"He was too clnunk to go !himself,"
said 1, aglAst at the certainty, whiclh
now came home to me, that we had
been watched.
(To be continued)