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FURNITURE DEALER and FUNERAL DIRECTOR Motor Equipment WI'NGHAM ONTARIO aktirkWito,rlrilairrllOrrkllik,lf"Yrll"lYti,"1„ IOtlYrll,totaWaRE "o' aP9een arooned Geor e Mars COPYRIGHT by The P1=NN PUBLISHING CO. SYNOPSIS CHAPTER 1.—Garth Guthrie, Ca- adian war veteran, having to live in the open on account of weakened lungs, is factor of a Hudson's Bay post at Elkwan.' He came back from the conflict with a permanently scar- red face, which he realizes cost him the love of his fiancee, Edith Fal- coner. Sir Charles Guthrie, his bro- ther, is a millionaire war profiteer. CHAPTER IL With Etienne .Say- anne, hafbreed, his firm friend, Garth meets Doctor Quarrier, geologist, nd his sisterJ oan. Their schooner as drifted ashore. Quarrier complains he has been robbed by a man known as "Laughing McDonaId" or to the Ind- ians as "McDonald Ha! Hal" because of a scar which gives him a perpet- ual grin. McDonald is Garth's com- petitor for the fur' trade. At Elkwan an Indian girl, Ninda, tuberculosis victim, whom Garth has befriended, is dying. Quarrier hints that Ninda is Garth's mistress, which is hotly re- sented. Joan, trained war nurse, cares for Ninda, but the girl dies. CHAPTER III.—Garth tells Joan part of the reasons forhis presence at Elkwan. He takes the Quarriers to Albany, from whence they can pro- ceed to Montreal. Charles. Guthrie writes reproaching his brother for not coming home. Charles' wife assures him Ethel still loves 'him, but Garth in his heart knows better. His scar- red face has separated them. CHAPTER IV -Three of McDon- ald's party visit Elkwan seeking to buy gun shells. From them Garth learns of evil talk among the Indians concerning him and Ninda, and real- izes Quarrier will spread his version of the affair. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER V 'The winter wood cut, the geese salt- ed and cached, the whitefish platform groaning with the spoils of the nets which would• not be lifted until the ice, Guthrie and Etienne sat in coun- cil of war. "How many of our people are win- tering on the island?" asked Garth. The half-breed closed his small eyes,his face contracted into a net- work of lines: as he counted the fam- ilies which had, through the summer, crossed the strait to hunt on the great island, instead of taking the river trail for the forest and muskegs of the El- kwan headwaters. "We go twelve—fifteen hunter dere. Attawapiskat and Kapiskau got more dan dat." "That means a lot of fox pelts if the mice and rabbits are plentiful, and the litters came through the summer." Etienne scowled. "We not get mooch of eet," he muttered. "Dem peopl' geeve de hunter beeg price." It was true. Cut off from the island until the ice set hard, as the post was, while the hunters could reach the schooner wintering at Sea Cove and get more for their fur, the outlook was indeed gloomy. But Garth had no idea of allowing these strangers to come into his territory and take the valuable fur trade of Akiiniski away from hire without a struggle. While he remained in the employ of the company, he would give the best that he had of loyalty and service. His. pride'was involved; and as he search- ed for a solution of the problem which the presence of this schooner pre- sented, the dc'irc to beat this free- trader in his bold try for the priceless silver and black fold of .Aleimiski ob- sessed his thoughts, From Graham at Attanapiskat and Boucher at Kapiskau,' he anticipated little aid or comfort, The former was an 'inactive, oldish man with a large tip -river trade, and Boucher, 'accord- ing te Cameron at Albany, already in par ' ' over the rumor of the mach- ,' guns aboard McDonald's schoon- er. So Garth had decided that he would ignore his colleagues on the coast south of him and play a . lone hand. For a space the two men nursed their pipes in Silence; then the face of the white man suddenly lighted. "Saul Soticil" he cried. "Why did- n't we think of him before? Etienne, we'll hunt up old Saul and send him to, winter on the island, Heys got two. W.N.U. SERVICE or three sons there, and besides being Treaty Chief of the Crees, is a sort of medicine man, shaman, isn't. he?" Blowing a cloud of smoke through his teeth, the half-breed grunted his 'disapproval. "He winter on de Little Elkwan—up een de Winisk countree. Eet weel talc' long tam to find heem." "Oh, 'I know it will be difficult to get him across the strait before the ice, but we'll put him over somehow." "We get frozen een wid our canoe. up riviere,"protested the hard-headed bushman, "What Do You Want?" "We'll take a birch canoe and leave it—carry the little toboggan to come out with—the dogs can follow the shore going up," urged the enthusi- astic Guthrie. Knowing the, country, Etienne real- ized only too well the :difficulty of travelling between seasons; breaking the young ice in the quiet reaches of the river 'until compelled to abandon the canoe; then the wait for the clos- ing of the stream and the snow. For weeks the thin ice of the Elkwan would be a trap for the unwary dog team. To the trail -wise Etienne, it was a foolish venture; to the man whose only thought was the salvage of the fox trade, a necessity. "How you get heem to de island?" "If the channel and strait are open, we'll take him in the York boat. We can wait for the wind and if there isn't too much flow ice, we'll get him across." Etienne knocked out his pipe. His bright eyes snapped as he looked at Guthrie. "Eef you say so, I go. But we are two clam' fool." "But we've got to give these people a fight for that fur—it's worth thou- sands to us." "All right, boss, we fight," But when the veteran voyager told his wife of the mad purpose of Guthrie, her dark face grayed with fear at the thought of the November journey ov- er the thin ice of the Elkwan. For a week, with his two best hus- kies, Castor and Pollux, and Shot fol- lowing opposite banks of the river to avoid fighting, Garth and •Etienne poled and paddled and tracked past black spruce and poplar grown shores from. an Indian that Souci's main. camp was two sleeps up the river, And thanks to the trained eyes of Etienne, the sled avoided the traps of shell ice over the swift water and the second night turned in to a winter At the challenge of his dogs, Saul Souci, Treaty Chief of the Elkwan Crees, lean, grizzled, taciturn, with bony features, over which leather -like skin lined with wrinkles was tightly drawn, pushed through the flap of his tipi, "Kequayl" he said, showing no sure prise at the strange appearance of the Elkwan people one hundred and fifty miles' inland at a time when no sane Indian travelled the river. The three shook hands and, first feeding and chaining the dogs to trees, entered the smoky tent where Saul's wife and two sons were eating from a copper kettle. Not until ' his guests had been -ser- ved with caribou stew and tea did Souci question them as to the purpose of their coming. Then he said .in Cree, which Etienne interpreted to Garth: "You take a hard moon to' travel up the Elkwan." "We could not wait, so started in the canoe," replied Etienne in the same language. "You . did not break through the ice." g „No» "The geese have passed: it will' not be long now until the big snow," vouchsafed the hunter, lighting his pipe. "How are the game signs since the snow?" • "There are plenty of mink' and ot- ter, but the lynx and fox seem to have left the valley." Etienne's eyes brightened at the re- mark. "There is much fox sign on Aid- miski." This, was hearsay over a month old,'but the half-breed knew he would need every possible argument to gain Souci's ear to his proposition. "My sons will be glad. . Three of them are there." "V.Te have come to talk to you about the island." Souci's bony face clouded as he met the frowning look of his wife. "I told you at the spring trade I would not go.,, "But there is much news since then," replied Etienne in the same colorless tones as the other. "News? What has happened?" Then the astute Savanne displayed his knowledge •of the Indian tempera- ment. Slowly, without emotion, he 'described the coming of McDonald, the free-trader, • to the west coast, with a ship full of cheap trade goods, and inferior flour, tea and sugar. It was sudden wealth he was after, and to get it he would bribe the hunters,' receive them with what looked like better prices in trade for their for skins. But in a year—two years—he would be through—would not return, and they would come to the company. again, begging for a "debt." But the company, who had taken care of their fathers and grandfathers through many lean years, would remember who had gone to the free-trader. There would be no "advance" for these in the years to come, and their women and children would whimper through the long snows. He, Saul Souci, a man held in great esteem by the company, could save these hunters from the cheap guns and trade goods of McDonald,, who cared nothing for the Crees. The company, who goods were honest, as. he knew, who sugar was not sanded, whose powder never failed, and whose tea soothed the stomachs of the Crees, was as ancient as the hills,: and as permanent. It would always remain on the bay to trade with the Indians with goods that never changed. He, Saul Souci, his father and his father's father had been the friend of the Hud- son's Bay—had never failed it. Would he fail it now when he was needed to turn the young hunters at Akimiski from their folly? For a long time the smoke-filled tipi was silent as the swart face of Souci from the latter of which the frost had, was grave with thought. Avoiding the stripped the leaves, At the mouth of the Little Elkwan the winter sudclenly.shirt down, lock- ing lakes and deedwaters with a shell too thick for their battering poles to break.. a channel through for their canoe, and the men in search of Saul Souci were prisoners. 'Somewhere up the little Elkwan ran the trap -lines of the man, to reach ''whom` they had slaved for days with ice -crusted poles and paddles, and freezing . hands, while their hot breaths rose in col- umns on the keen air; but until a fall of snow, or some bitter nights to bridge the river trail, they could not anxious eyes of his wife, he sat cross- legged staring into the small fire in the center of the wigwam. With eyes red and throat raw from the smoke of the tipi fire, Garth impatiently watched the old Indiart's stolid face. The wife of Saul, unable to stifle her fear, at length loosed upon him a torrent of reproach—only to be silen- ced by a stern command,,' At last, the Indian, evidently having come'. to a decision, turned to the half-breed who waited for his answer. "My trap -lines reach far into the four winds, My fish and meat cache is heavy. There are many caribou in move, However, there were five him- the muskeg; at Akimisk;i there are gry mouths to feed, so they hunted none—only rabbits and wolves and foxes.'' Ignorant of the drift of Souci's re- marks, Garth watched Etienne's im- passive face, Suddenly his ' heart quickened, as a faint gleam entered the slit-like eyes of his friend. Would old Sone; come, after all? "It is true," continued the Indian, "the company is my friend. It was back in the muskeg for caribou. At last, when sever frost had sealed the slower flowing reaches of the rivet with three-inch, ice, they hitched the huskies, and started., Shot, who the winterprevious had learned to draw Garth's trapping sled, ref'usi.ngto team with the larger dogs, ran loose, The second clay out they learned the, friend of my father, It is better that the young men trade with it than with these people who come and go, If I go, how shall I live, for I have no cache a Akimi.ski? How shall. I cross the water if the ice has not set? Etienne's dark face wrinkled with pleasure. Souci would go. "The com- pany will make you its man, if you will go," he said, "We will get you across the open water in the York boat and give you supplies for the winter, and your sons — what they need. And if you hold the young men, there will be new guns for you and your sons and a debt double the hunt your family brings in," Etienne ex- tended his hand to seal the bargain, "We may not cross the water before the Christmas trade - then wewill lose the fur, for ,the trade will go to their ,camps," suggested Saul, "We will cross you to the island at once; if you will f etturn with us now," The wife of Saul was already wail- ing in protest at his decision, but the dark faces of his sons betrayed no feeling. "My sons 'and my wife will stay here," said the Indian without ' a glan- ce at those interested. "I will go down the river with`ou, for the win- ter will not wait." Etienne turned to the smiling Guth- rie. "You see, he will go with us 'at• once. Now; we will mak' de troubi' for McDonal' Ha! Ha! to get all dose fox skin." And he repeated his con- versation with Saul. m _ * * * ,I, Through the stinging air of the blue dawn, two dog ;teams` hurried down. river. On the second night, arriving at the cache of caribou hung in a tree for the return trip, they found that wolverines had destroyed the meat. To feed seven dogs it was necessary to hunt, for Sauk had come with a light sled. 1 The following morning, as the east grayed, the men started for the nei- ghboring muskeg in search of the ear- ly feeding caribou. With Shot, whose rigid war training to absolute silence and obedience made it possible to take him on a still hunt, which was out of the question with the yelping and uncontrollable huskies. Garth` waited on the edge of a barren for the light. "Smell something, Shot?" he asked the dog, who stood beside him in the spruce scrub, dilating his nostrils as,. he sniffed the keen air. As yet the dusk hung over the white barren in a gray blur. 'If the blue -coated deer of the north were out there scraping with round -toed hoofs the snow from the moss, the light would soon betray them. Trtmbling with excitement, for the great airedale had served his nov itiate;the winter previous on the Raft, 358 Dark-skinned natives -glowing sunlight—cool± mountain tops—great ships ploughing through tropic seas --these things all come to mind when a cup of "SAL ADA" is steaming before you. Such flavour—such fragrance. Try "SAILADAO". and knew for what they waited, Shot when a low laugh sounded behind him.. tested the air. The man whose mit- tened hand rested on the shaggy back beside him wondered, as the tw9 crouched waiting for the daylight, if to the memory of the dog returned the ghosts of similar watches in the Flemish shellholes and listening posts. As his eyes strained to pierce the graying blanket which shrouded the muskeg, Guthrie found himself trac ing the' parapets of imagined trenches listening for suspicious sounds. Then the first light filtered over the barren, and he searched for the gray blue shapes 'against the snow. Suddenly the dog at his side stif- fened' on histoes, his iron dorsal mus- cles sets, and the tremor which swept the shaggy body, with the suppressed. whine, signaled the taint in the air. "Steady, Shot!!" The trained war dog crouched mute -athrill with the scent of game in his nostrils. Gradually the exploring eyes of the hunter made out dim shapes, a long rifle shot distant. Slow- ly, with his dog at his heels, Garth circled the barren up -wind underco- ver of the scrub, "until he had an easy'. shot at two cows and'"a' bull. "Steady; Shot!" he whispered, and took careful aim. At the flash of the Ross, the bull leaped forward, ran a few feet into the wind and crumpled on the snow. As the bewildered cows circled . up -wind, Guthrie fire again. A hurt cow plunged forward, seeking the scrub edging the barren,.and reach- ing it, disappeared. "Go get 'em, Shot!" Like a wraith, the airedale crossed the barren in pur- suit, as Guthrie followed¢upbraiding himself for his poor shooting. A .hun- dred yards inside the scrub he found the caribou pulled down and dispatch- ed by the dog. Replacing his rifle in its skin case and resting it against a spruce, Garth was hastily dressing out the meat be- fore the hide froze, while Shot ex- plored the game trails of the.vicinity, n .f'rP.iC!'.i J ,..,.^A;:F,v` w n..-' :sus.: )'fr r•,.,..i. , 4..J Looking up, he saw, watching hiin„ the Ojibwa, Joe Mokoman, who called; himself; the father of Ninda. Guthrie casually rose tohis feet,. skinning knife in hand, as he measur- ed the sinister face of the man who - faced him, fingering the action of his. gun. It was clear from the glint ine the small eyes that the Ojibwa stili] nursed the znemgry of his expulsion from the trade -house. How far would, he dare`; go? Garth: asked himself. "Bo'-jo'! The caribou are fat this, year," he said coolly, moving toward' the Indian" But ,the Ojibwa • pointed' the muzzle of his rifle at Garth's Chest as he stepped forward: "You move, I ,shoot!'" The threat of the despised Indian deeply flicked the pride of the Cana- dian anadian veteran, but he was helpless. It was ':inconceivable that Mokomari' meant to wreak personal vengeance of such a nature on a Hudson's Bay, factor --shoot ,him in cold blood. Yet, what was he after, then? With a great show of rage and sur-- prise, ur-prise, Garth -burst' out with. "What d'you mean .by throwing a gun on me? You know what you'll get for this? What d'you want?" The Ojibwa leered. "You tak' de woman. You; kick Joe, Mokoman. W'at: you do wid de woman?". "She is dead," said Garth, quietly. "You tak' de woman to Albanee. You geeve Joe Mokoman mooch debt?' The face of the speaker knotted with' hate of the man who was measuring- the distance which separated them,. and—wondering. (To be continued.) FRED DAVEY' Village Clerk Issuer of Marriage Licenses • The law now requires the license - be taken out three days before the ceremony. smismilarmonmemy Have You Any of These Things `Sell? 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