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Plunging ecogni-tion..Plunging at a stake,:a huge aire dale- wriggled an ecstatic welcome to his goose-lad,en master. "Hello, Shot, old boy!" With an ex- clamation of relief the man stretcehd his arms, for his load had been heavy. He was rangy and well made, his lean, strongly modeled features bronzed by wind and sun. From the corner of the right eye a scar crossed the cheek bone to the ear. :Placing his gun in the tent, the goose -hunter freed the plunging dog. Throughout the long hours of the day a prisoner at his stake, nose tortured by the scent, eyes hungry with the sight of passing duckandgeese, the airedale went mad at his release. While the animal worked off his pent energy in thrashing. through the alders and long grass in the vicinity of the camp, his master started a fire and put on a kettle of goose to boil; then went in search of drift cedar, for a September norther on the ,vest coast. of James bay may blow for days, and. cedar kindlings kept dry in a tent are useful, In an hour the marshes were purple with dusk.. Then over the bay an un- brokenroar as of a thousand! guns, coupled with thrusts of light, signalled the turn of the tide, and the barrage of wind and rain opened. Along the wide beaches thundered the surf. A mile back in the rocking alders, in a low tent anchored' and propped against the pounding of the wind, a man lay with his dog. As Garth ,Guthrie listened to the clamor of the wind, the far drumbeat of the advancing tide, the drive of the rani like machine gun bursts on his tent, his thoughts followed the throb_ bing years through which he had just lived. 'Here, in this wild night on the gray coasts of the bay, how shadowy it seemed—that war which had caught hint up, a boy fresh from college, and dropped hint a man, scarred of body— disillusioned. Even Ethel seemed shaclbwy, although her last letter brought up the coast by canoe packet from Fort Albany hardly two weeks before, had flicked him with remorse- regret, almost, for his decision to win- ter again on the bay—Ethel, whom he had taken by storm (as he thought) at the time of his short leave' Home in Montreal, after, the tragic Somme, It had been a typical war wooin'g.. Enlisting as a private, he had gone overseas with the first Canadian di- vision, and returned,' late in 1916, a veteran , platoon: leader, wearing a wound stripe end the Military cross; fur one rt;,tt nin ,_ in his English hos- pital, Lieut. Garth Guthrie had re- ceived a double surprise -a decoration for gallantry and sixty days' home leavewhile his wounded left arni re- covered its strength, This last was patently the work of his oldter brother, Charles, : whose . 1lrntreal machine shops. were runt ng night and day on government shell contracts, for home leave was rare ainon:r the Canadians. Then' he had islet Ethel, With a boy of twenty-four, who two years before, had carried the dreams of a college senior into the shambles of Flanders, the hours spent with the lovely Tirlthel' Falconer could march to i on ulfiilntcnt, A member of the r corps organized by Clara Gu- t.trie, Garth's efficient sister-in-law, the girI had captured his imagination at their first tweeting, Youth; war, and Mrs. Guthrie had done the rest. So young Lieutenant Guthrie wounded dud • decorated for bravery, and: brother of the maker of muni,, tions and member of goverrin-ient boards, 'had, in those tense, dramatic days, found to his delight that: the course of true love often runs surpis- ingly, smooth. In a manner foreign'to earlier generations, Ethel Falconer had met the impetuosity of the ardent young soldier with a response equally frank. The days of his leave were too cruelly short to be wasted. In a week she Was wearing his ring. Then came the parting, andthe two ghastly years -nightmares of grime and slaughter, soul -harrowing months of alternate hope and despair, follow- ed by -victory! To the dian lying in the tent shaken by the storm re- turned the face of Ethel, vivid: as when on his return from overseas, he stood at the rail of his ship being warped to its pier. It had been a proud .rand' happy homecoming for Maj. Garth . Guthrie, D. S. 0., but. the three wound stripes on the sleeve of his tunic were not empty symbols. There remained to the man in the tent the clear-cut mem- ory of the moment when nis .yearn- ing arms had released her and Ethel had gasped, "Oh, Garth, how thin and old you've grown!" Then, as he, turned to hug Clara and his brother, the ill -concealed start—the look of pain when Ethel Falconer first sat'" the red scar furrowing his cheek from eye to ear. His letter had casually mentioned a scratch on the face, for it was gas which had: held hint weeks in the hospital. Until he suet Ethel that morning on pier he had for_ gotten -he was disfigured. So poignant was the memory that the man, stretched on his blankets in the dire candle light instinctively rais- ed his right hand- to trace 'with his fingers the course of the bullet which. had seared liis face. Then with much grunting a hairy body wriggled its, way to a place beside him, the moist nose of a massive, leonine;lead, was thrust into his face, while from a deep throat tante low voices. "Etienne is surely making a wet night of it in the bush, Shot," said the g man, as the wnid drove the rain in bursts aaginst the straining fly of the tent. Then with the hairy bulk of the contented dog sprawled against the length of his recumbent body, head propped on one hand while the other rubbed the airedale's ears, Guthrie's thoughts were again with his home- coming, two years before. The tense days following his land- ing marched past his dreaming eyes in a pageant of camp life and military duties preceding the discharge of his battery; swift hours with Ethel, din- ners with his family, reunionswith old friends. Again he rode through cheering thousands in the final review of his brigade. He chuckled at the memory of Shot marching with battalion headquarters in full field kit and wearing a blanke• with its wound' stripe. At the time of "his discharge the surgeons had shaken their heads over. his lungs. "You're not out of the woods yet," he had been told. "A long rest in the open air, or you'll have trouble with that chest." But a desk in the office of Charles Gutnrie wait- ed him and he had kept his own counsel. "You've lost five years, old man," his materialistic brother had/ deprecat- ed. "You're twenty-six and have a lot to learn." Hot blood had darkened Garth's face. "Lost five years? Where would you and your money be if millions of us hadn't lost five years?" he blurted, "Oh; you know 1 appreciate allthat old chap," .soothed the smug Charles, "It's unnecessary for me to repeat how proud I am of your record, but you know nothing about the business as yet; and I want to see you in 'a position to marry." True, Garth had acknowledged, he knew nothing of the Guthrie Steel cornpany, which, created and develop - ad by the energy and ability of Char_, les Guthrie, had, through war con- tracts made his brother a millionaire. And then there was Ethel, waiting. So, instead of the sttntiner in the open air on which the doctors had insisted, he had gone to work, ! The fingers of the -man lying in the tent shut convulsively on the thick inane of his dog as he remembered the pain which thrust through him when he had ..first realized that Ethel never voluntarily walkedor sat on his. W;~NGHAM ADV4NCE,TIIV1ES right side: ( ()ming from a world of broken then, where the blind{ and the maimed were commonplaces, he had almostforgotten the shock the sear an his cheek had given her the day of his homecoming. Unpleasant though it might be, this red 'gash, to look upon, it was nevertheless the symbol of his service, the measure of his manhood. Yet to the girl ,who loved hitn, it seemed a thing of aver- sion—repulsive,• Following the discov- ery, iscovery, he had, on meeting her ironically covered the cicatrix with his hand, or turned his head, but, the red shame and the passionate tears of protest, which it invariably induced, checked' him. Titat Ethel Falconer was not of the fiber of many of the women he knew, who patently ;cherished the scars of. their men—gloried seemingly in these proofs of their sacrifice for Canada and the empire, had forced itself upon the consciousness of Guthrie with a bitterness with which his philosophy vainly contended. Vehement as were her protests, her denials, when, in a 'moment of depression and disillusion, he had suggested that to hold her to a promise made in 1916 to a man whose face was presentable and body sound, Nightmares of Grime and Slaughter was grossly unfair, now that he lad returned to her the, flotsam of war, scarred, changed; he nevertheless. knew that Ethel, too, was having her bad half hours. But notwithstanding his.mdment of .doubt, his. gray moods, •due as much to physical condition as unhappiness, Garth Guthrie had val- iantly clung to the dreams of the fair girl he had taken back overseas with him after a golden fortnight in 1916. Then, after six months in the office and foundry of Charles Guthrie, the lungs • of the returned soldier had de- veloped' a condition which medical au- thorities diagnosed as alarming. A certain sanatorium in the foothills of the Laurentians was the imperative order, and the wedding in the spring, for which Ethel and Clara Guthrie had so meticulously planned, was in- definitely postponed. With pis clog, trained as a puppy be- hind the lines in 1918, Guthrie left Montreal to make the fight for host health—and happiness. And before the snows left the Quebec hills and the spruces dripped in April thaws, he was well on the road to the first, Six months in'the Laurentians had healed the lung lesions, and put back the hard weight he had lost, but is was under strict parole that the Garth Guthrie of old, burned to a deep tan by the sun_ glare from the March crust, one day walked in on Ethel and .his sister-in- law. That night at dinner, through the course of which the practical Charles dwelt at length on his plans for his brother's apprenticeship in a special branch of the growing busi- ness, the sober eyes of Garth lit with frank amusement—the hint of a :smile repeatedly lifted the corners of his mouth, At length the older brother abruptly ctenianded; "You don't seem to be taking me seriously, Garth?" "My dear Charlie," the man on par- ole rejoined, "I most cer•taiffly am 1 deeply grateful for this interest in my future—these plans of yours; but I have put off :telling you something-" He paused, avoiding' the startled .' look of Ethel, as he continued; "The big man at the hospital talked like a father to me this morning .before I left. "He said," deliberately continued Garth, "that it was a year in the open air for ine, or . well he wouldn't give nitrch for my chances." "Olt, Garth!" Slowly the blond head of the girl drooped to his shoulder, as the pained eyes of CIara /net her hus- band's shocked look, _ • "My poor boy! You—you mean he actually ordered you away -= for a year?" stammered the incredulous Charles. Garth's arm shepherded the quiver- ing shoulders of the girl, as he nodded to his brother over her golden head. "13ttt you look so fit—so rugged, Garth," protested Clara. "'!you've re- covered all yopr weight. I don't un- derstand." "Ancil the wedding?" Ethel's quest, ioning eyes lifted to his, "Poor dear! • I wouldn't have the heart to take you up there, It would be unthinkable." He gravely shoot his head, "Up where?" She turned on hip -- fear in her eyes, "You can live out of doors here?" . "1 can't loaf here -1 must do'sonte- thing. Ana a friend has offered me the chance; of air—and work,: too. -,Up On James bay. I've been offered: a job with the Hudson's Bay company. Had Guthrie's announced destina- tion /been Uiina, the shock could not have .-den more profound to his hear- ers. The plump face of his brother darkened in a scowl of frank disap- proval. Clara sat open-mouthed, in- credulous. Ethel probed Garth's level eyes, as if 'in doubt of his meaning then, chin in hand, stared dully at the table cloth. "You bound yourself," .she said at length, in a voice empty of emotion. "You planned all this—to go away for a• year without consulting me—I don't seem to count, then. Rising stiffly, she hwd.left the room, follow- ed by the sympathetic Clara. Yes, it had been brutally abrupt— unfeeling, admitted the man lying by his sleeping dog, as the storm drove past the tent in the alders. But the alternative would have been endless letters of protest, reproach, so he had not written. Through the slow months of the winter, with their lone- liness and introspection, he liad learn_ ed to doubt both himself and Ethel. Often in the intervals between her vis- its . with Clara—Charles had been too busy to appear more than once, Garth had desperately tried to analyze the, nature of her affection; often, in his doubt of her, fought to free himself from the magic of her hold over him; always, in the end to realize now he was missing her—how hungrily he waited 'for her corning. No. the sep aration had not broken the spell or lessened his need of her, but it had touched his enamored eyes with vision There in the white hills of his banish- ment, beyond the glamor of her phys- ical loveliness, he had -learned to see how utterly she had failed him. Hurt in body, disillusioned, he had returned from the holocaust of Flanders to the refuge of her arms—the solace of her Ilove—to find regret—a veiled shrink- ', from the change in hint.; to learn 1 that she still clung to her memories of 'the boy with unmarred face who had. carried away her heart into the Mael- strom of the final years of the war. . He pictured the scene of the. Vic- toria station. Old comrades—fellow officers, there with their Godspeed, Thursday, July 28th 1928, `seldom—that is what makes. chattingto a group, ,nearby, while he so se it so talked' with family. hard," Ethel was saying. "To think that I can hear from you (Continued next week) • WHAT A FFE RE CE EA CO ! FO RT 4 MAKE AVE' you ever tried sitting bolt -up- right in a hard, high-backed chair— and then noticedthe difference when you changed to the deep, soft, comfort- able arm -chair you love so well? This compar"ison gives you some idea of the enjoyment you'll get from Oldsmo- bile riding comfort. You'll notice it first when you settle yourself comfortably into the deep - cushioned, form -fitting seat and stretch . out your legs in its roomy interior. You'll be still more deeply impressed when you take a drive and discover how its four Lovejoy hydraulic shock absorbers' transform even the ' roughest roads into smooth -riding boulevards. 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