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The Wingham Advance Times, 1928-09-20, Page 6• q„y WING? -TAM ADVANCE -TIMES Thursday, September 20th, 1928' don' know, He, tell me he weel mak' de medicine -lodge on de islan'." "Well, I'll be d—d!" It had never entered Garth's mind that the reputa- tion of old Saul as one having intimate relations with spirits, good and evil, could be put to use on the island. But the wily old Cree had evidently taken it for granted that he was to set his powers as a conjurer against the odds• which confronted the factor of Elk- wan. "Etienne, it's a great idea! If he can bewitch that schooner, we'll lick 'em yet!" "Old Saul say he not know what he. do. Some hunter ovair dere are stran- ger. He tak' de dog an' go see dem; den he mak' medicine -lodge and. breeng 'all the Injun to hear de spirit talk,". The idea was masterful. If the old shaman could convince the hunters of Akimiski that the schooner was "ta- bu," forbidden ground, to tie Crees. —that is was the haunt of demons and. spirits who had taken this method to. lure the Crees to perdition, he could hold much of the trade for Elkwan. Nervously pacing the floor, Guthrie voiced . his enthusiasm for old Saul's plan. "Etienne, if he can bewitch the schooner, we'll make them work to get that fur. Why, we can use the very name against them—`The Ghost'_' Haunted with devils! The Devil Ship!' That's the idea! Laughing McDonald may not get the haul he figures on,. after all." Into the night, the two discussed the plan of the old Indian to undermine the operations of McDonald Ha! Ha!' against the fox pelts of'Alamiski. But when he sought his, bed, the thoughts of Garth Guthrie were of the short swift days when a girl with dark, straight -gazing eyes and a mass of unruly hair whose errant tendrills de- fied restraint, had noiselessly taken charge of the house and the stricken Ninda—who had, with such delicacy,. eased the sting of the tragedy which followed his homecoming. To the girl who, in her blond loveli- ness, smiled from his dresser, in the Wellington Mutual .Fire Insurance Co, Established 184o Head Office, Guelph, Ont. Risks taken on all Glasse of insur- ance at reasonable rates, ABNER COSENS, Agent, Wingham J. W. DODD Office in Chisholm Block FIRE, LIFE, ACCIDENT' AND - t•IEAL'.r''E ,INSURANCE -- AND REAL ESTATE 4. 0, Box ,36o Phone ago sit'INGHAM, — ONTARIO J. W. BUSHFIELD Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc. Money to Loan Office—Meyer Block, Wingham Guccessor to Dudley, Holmes R. VANSTONE BARRISTER, SOLICITOR, ETC. Money to Loan at Lowest Rates Wingham, Ontario J. A. MORTON BARRISTER, ETC. 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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 II.—With Etienne Sav- anne, hafbreed, his firm friend, Garth meets Doctor Quarrier, geologist, and his sister Joan. Their schooner has drifted ashore. Quarrier complains he has been robbed by a man known as "Laughing McDonald” or to the Ind- ians as "McDonald Ha! Ha!" because of a scar which gives hint 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 for his 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 "What do you want — how much trade goods?" temporized the white man as he covertly edged a foot for- ward in the snow: "You geeve sled -load; flour, tea, blanket, gun?" The face of the In- dian lighted with the thought of the spoil which awaited him at the post. "You want a four -dog sled -load? Garth scratched his knotted forehead, as if debating the value of the goods. It was twenty feet—he couldn't make it. He must get nearer somehow, he thought, The Indian nodded. "Four -dog team —flour, blanket, all de—" With a quick movement he brought the gun to, his shoulder as the white man slid a moccasin nearer. "Beka! Stop!" he cried, his swart face purple with rage. "You move, I keel you!" It was no use, There was no chance of getting close enough for a lunge. Garth changed his tactics as the evil eyes of the other narrowly watched him. Turning his back, Guthrie calm- ly proceeded to finish the dressing of the caribou. For a space the Ojibwa stood hold- ing the gun on the back of the white man, his face picturing amazement and doubt. Then he said: "You geeve. me dis stuff?' "Sure," replied the man, busy with. his knife, as lie mentally groped for a way out of his predicament—puzzled as to whether the Indian would shoot if .he rushed him. "You lie -I feex you!" warned Mo- koman. For a space there was no answer from the man using the skinning knife; then suddenly getting to his feet and facing the Indian who warily covered him with his rifle, Garth said good naturedly: "You'll get the sled - load," but the eyes of the man who smiled had seen something which had stinted his heart pounding inhis throat. His fingers, blue with cold, shut on the handle of his knife, turn- ing the knuckles white. "Oh, yes! I'll give you—the stuff," said 'Garth, jerk- ily, his muscles stiffening like clamped springs as he waited. "You come to Elkwan—and I'll give 'you—all, the scuff ---you can— "Get 'ern, an "Get'em, Shot!" roared Garth, lung- ing forward and to one side, while a blur of black and tan catapulted into the Indian's back, carrying him head- long to the snow, as the rifle exploded With a snap of powerful jaws, the hood of the Ojibwa was torn from his head—a lunge and the long fangs met W. N. U. SERVICE in the flesh of the shoulder; then Guthrie dragged the maddened dog from the. shrieking man who writhed in the snow, arms shielding his face. With ;a grip on the collar of the struggling dog, Garth picked ` up the rifle on the snow and regained his own, while the Indian whined over his lacerated shoulder. "Well, how about it now?" rasped Guthrie with a hard 'laugh, stroking the neck of the excited airedale. "Hold dat dog!" cried the Ojibwa, getting to his feet and backing away from the black and tan fury who strained toward him, hot with lust of battle. "I'll hold the dog. He won't bother you. And you stay where you are. You're going to tell your story to Saul Souci." The evil eyes of the Ojibwa widen- ed in surprise. "Souci?" he mutter- ed. "Yes! Souci is going to Akimiski to watch you people. He'll put devils into some of you before the winter is over. Now what did you throw that gun on me for? I ought to give you a good hammering." The Indian essayed a smile but his face showed his fear. "I not shoot— I—" Then he asked weakly: "You lie. w'en you say you geeve de trade good?" "I lied," was the dry reply. "Now we'll start for the lake. Mush!" When Etienne .and Saul returned from the Muskeg, Garth told his story. "By gar, dat good dog, Shot!" And Etienne rubbed the dog's ears. "Yes," and Guthrie took the hairy head in his hands as he smiled into the dog's worshipping eyes. "He did the trick for Garth, didn't he?" he said as he bent and rested his face against the airedale's neck. E' "Dis man, I t'ink cum up riviere for McDonald Ha.! Ha!" said. Saul. "You think he is working to get the up -river trade away from us, too?" Saul nodded. "He was here before de ice, some hunter tell me." Garth turned to Etienne, "So Mc- Donald is out to swamp us—hog all the fur this year? Well, we'll give him a fight for it, Etienne," he said, savagely smarting with stung pride at the cool attempt of the free-trader to steal the river trade from under his nose. "W'at you do wid dis skunk?" And Etienne nodded toward the prisoner, sitting dejectedly on the opposite side of the fire. Saul looked hard at the white man, who did not answer, then said in Cree to Etienne: "`This. weasel of an Ojib- wa only makes trouble. It is better to seed him back to McDonald Ha! Ha! under the ice," and the Cree drew a sinewy hand suggestively across his throat. At the words and gesture, Joe Mo- koman slowly: changed color. His hands shook with fear. Drops of sweat stood out on his forehead. The small eyes of Etienne twinkled with amusemuent as he repeated the re- mark to his chief. "It would serve him right, Saul, but I want him to take a message to Mc- Donald." That morning with sledsheavy with caribou '. neat, the three started for Elkwan with the agent of McDonald Ha! Ha! CHAPTER VI When the last ice -cap, which im- prisoned the north, receded, leaving in it's. wake the great inland sea of. Hudson's bay with its long arm pier- cing the hinterlands to the South, a- mong the many islands scattered in its track, by far the largest was Ak- imiski, And through the centuries Akimiski came to be known as a fav- rite haunt of the black, the black - cross, and the silver-gray foxes. And each winter, the Hudson's bay com- pany sent hunters there to seek the precious pelts. 'Then came the Rev - Ilion Freres, and they also sent men to winter on the island, for the spoil of its wind -harried tundra, which par- alleled the west coast for sixty miles, was priceless. And now to this land of the little foxes of the glossy back and silver pelts, for which fair women would pay fabulous price in the markets of the world, had sailed the schooner of a strangerseeking the loot of the Aki- miski barrens—a man of daring, who, had sailed straight to the course, and whose little schooner already lay locked in the shore' ice of Seal cpve. Here, while the tides, freighted with brokenice, still patroled the strait, barring the birehbarks of daring hup- ters, cutting of fthe shore posts from all trade, McDonald Ha! Hal was pre- pared to welcome the trappers of Ak- imiski with his flour and sugar and tea, his ',tobacco and:, cloth and gew- gaws. Garth Guthrie sat in his trade -room with old Saul and Etienne, in council of war. For days after their return from •up river, the wind had made the strait impassible to the York boat, which had been left at its summer an- chorage in the channel for this use. The tide had kept the lower rivet• open and with the right wind the thing could be done,. Garth had rims- soned. But the Indians .had shaker their heads. It was sure madness not to wait for the cold, which would get the ice far out from each. shore. Then they might hazard it 'was the canoe on the sled. As for Joe Mokoman he had ;pent the days in whimpering over the sud- den death which awaited him in the attempted crossing. But Guthrie had a message for McDonald, which Mok- oman was to carry. It was the pen- alty, Garth told him, with a twinkle of the eye, for throwing a gun on a Hudson's Bay, factor. But the severe frost might hang off for weeks, until after Christmas, in fact; and the hunters would take their. fur to the schooner, Guthrie argued and the man who had lived for four years with risk in each breath he in- sisted that the attempt be made to cross the strait at once. So one mor- ning they put out with a westerly wind and by much rowing and batter- ing and dodging of drifting ice, landed Saul with his dogs, and Mok'omae, on the shore ice of Akimiski, ten miles across the strait from Elkwan point. Saul set out with his dog team for the camp of his sons, while the Ojib- wa started down the coast with •Guth- rie's letter to McDonald, which ran: "Mr .McDonald, Schooner Ghost, Seal Cove, Akim- iski Island. Dear Sir.— "The bearer of this letter, Joe Mo- koman, the Indian you sent up river to steal the trade from me, is return- ed to you with thanks. He tried to ambush me at Elkwan lake, and it is solely owing to the fact that I could use him as a messenger, that you look upon his handsome face again. "The purpose of this communication is to announce that, as you intend to hog the trade of Akimiski from your strategic position at Seal Cove, I.shall use my position on the Elkwan to .in- sure that trade going to me alone, so you may spare yourself the ,trouble of sending any more Indians 'up river, for you'll never hear of them again. As to the Island trade, I was here first, and I'm going, to fight you for it. "GUTHRIE, ELEWA'N. Then the two men started back in the leaking York boat, and after a day of slavery at the sweeps,' with, the help' of. the northwest wind and the tide, reached Elkwan, and warped the craft up out of harm's way to her winter berth on the high shore, The fight was on, but the saving of their. share of the Christmas trade in foxes, when the pelts were prime, de- pended on the ice. Saul had:. a free hand 'to pick' up all the skins he could. get hold of for Guthrie at agood price the Indians would wait, but the lure of the schooner's trade -goods, within easy reach, would be• too much for the mercurial Crees, unless the strait froze and they could cross to Elkwan for the New Year's festivities,, The strait impassable, 'Garth and lit- tienne knew that the bulk of the val- uable fur would go to McDonald. That was the problem they faced as they sat in the trade -house on their return, and made their plans. "What makes you think that Saul can get them to hold their fur and keep away from the schooner?" Guth- rie asked. Since Etienne's' two even- ings of smoke talkwith old Saul, in his shack'at Elkwan, before the Trea- ty Chief was landed on the island, the head man had acquired an •optimism which somewhat puzzled his superior. 'The 'black eyes of the half-breed snapped. "I tink Saul weel mak' de medicin' fer dent. He ees beeg sha- man wid dose Elkwan 'an' Kapiskau Cree.,, "Can he control al lhis own people?" "Some ov dem—some not, mebbe." "What has medicine making got to do with getting our share of the trade anyway?" Again Etienne's leather -skinned face broke into a net -work of fine lines as his eyes lighted with amuse- dim candle light, Garth vouchsafed the ment. "You see, M'sieu' Guthrie, w'en acknowledgment of a, doubtful shake he start to work." of the head. "The sister-in-law of Garth was interested.• He had the great Sir Charles Guthrie," he thought only of Saul's influence as quoted from Clara's letter. "No, you Treaty Chief, The use of magic ,in haven't changed, my dear. You're the the defeat of McDonald's plants lent a same old Ethel" And he blew out new angle to the matter, the candle. But before he slept, he "`You mean that he's going to hold told himself that whatever Christmas a pow wow of some kind and declare might bring in the way of ill lu::k to that the schooner isbad medicine Elkwan, by evil spirits?" Elkwan, it would be compensated for by the arrival of the mail team front "Well, mebbe he have dream dat Albany with Joan Quarrier's promised schoonair breeng bad luck, yes. Meb- letter. , be he see devil on dat schoonair, I (To be continued.) Have You Any These Things To Sell ? Young Pigs Baby Chicks Z,ive Stock Poultry Cordwood Shrubs or Plants Honey Preserves Farm House and Lot Money to Loan. Hay Auto Parts Rabbits Pigeons. Pets Home-made Pickles Home-made jam Singing Birds Knitted Mats Used Piano Second-hand Article And a Hundred Other Articles Or Do You Want Any of These ? 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