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Phone : 15-68. 2866-52 BY OTTNiftTEL INNS CHAPTER I THE 'MAN FROM THE 'RIVEIR The man in the canoe was leaii and hardy, and wielded the paddle against the slow-moving current of the wide, river with a dexterity that proclaim- ed long practice. alis bronzed face was that of a quite young man, but his 'brown hair was interspersed with grey; and hia blue -eyes had a grav- ity incompatible with youth, as if al- ready he had experience ofthe ser- iousness of life, and had eaten of its bitter fruits. He was in a gala dress of tanned deerskin, fringed and work- ed by native hands, the which had quite probably cost him more than the most elegant suit by a Bond Street tailor, and the effect was as picturesque as the heart of a young male could desire. o be in keeping with such gay attire he should have worn, a smiling face, and sung some joyous chanson of the old voyageurs, 'but he neither sang nor smiled; pad- dling steadily on towards his destina- tion. ' ' This was a northern post of the Hudson Bay 'Company, built in the form of a hollow square with a wide frontage open to the river. The trad- ing store; the warehouse, and the factor's residence with its trim gar- den occupied'"the other three sides of the square, and along the river front was a small floating wharf. A tall flag -pole rose abelve the buildings, and the flag itself fluttered gaily in the summer breeze, taking the, eye at once with its brave colouring. The young man in the canoe noticed it whilst he 'was half a mile away, and for a moment, ceasing his pad- dling, he looked at it doubtfully, his brow puckering over his grave eye:;. The canoe began to drift backward in the current, 'but he made no ef- fort to check it; instead he sat there staring at the distant flag, with a musing look 'upon his face, as if he Were debating some question with. himself. At last he spoke aloud af- ter the habit of men who dwell much alone. "The steamer can't have come yet. It probably means nothing except that the factor is expecting its arrival. Anyway, I must have the grub, . ,and I can get away in the morning. He dipped hispaddle again. The canoe ceased to drift and- began to forge ahead tower* the post. Be- fore he drew level' ith it he started to steer across the current, but, in- stead of making for the wharf, beach- ed his -canoe on. the rather marshy bank to the north 'of the buildings; then, having lifted it out of the water, he steed to his.full height and stretch- ed himself, for he had been travelling in the ca{}1roe eleven days,. and was conscious bf bodystiffnessibwing to the cramped position 'he had so long maintained. Standing on the bank, he surveyed the river. carefully. Except for a drifting log there was nothing moving on its wide expanse. He listened in- tently. ,The, soft wind was blowing down river,,but it did'. not bring with it the throb of • a steamer's screw which he half expected to hear. He nodded to 'himself. "Time enough!" ' Then he 'became aware of sounds for which he had not listened - the voices of men somewhere in the post's enclosure, and, nearer at hand, that of some one singing in some soft In- dian dialect,, He turned swiftly, and coming along a half -defined path be • tween the willows, caught sight of the singer -a native •girl of amazing beauty. "Come with the family to barter the winter's fur catch."' For a moment he stood there with his eyes fixed on the,skin-tents. There was a reflective look upon his faee, and at the end of the moment he along whie,h the girl had fled. Then he stopped, laughed harshly at him• self, and with the old look back oa his face, turned again to his canoe, unloaded it, and began to pitch camp. At the end of halt an hour, having lit a pipe, he strolled towards the trading port Entering the Square of the enclosure he looked nonchal- antly about him. Two nien, half- breeds„ were sitting on a roughly - made bench outside tar: store, smok- ing and talking:a-Inside the store a tall Tridian was barteriag with a white man, whom, he easily guessed to be the factor, and as he looked round from the open door of the factora house, emerged a white woman, whom he divined was the factor's wife. She was followed by la rather dapper young man ef meditim height, and who, most incongruously in that wild, ,Northland, sported a siagle eyeglass. The man fell into step 1by the wo- Man's side and together they began to walk across the Square in the di- rection of the stere. The man from .the river watched them, idly, waiting where he was, puffing slowly at his pipe, until they drew almost level with him. Then he stiffened suddenly, and an alert look came in his eyes. At the same moment the other man apparently becoming aware of his presence for the first time, stared at him, almost insolently. Then he Started. The monocle dropped from his eye, and his face went suddenly white. He half -paused in his stride, then averting his geze from the other man, hurried ferward a little. The factor's, wife, who had observed the incident1,1 looked at him inquiringly. you know that man, Mr. Ain - The dapper young man laughed a shoit, discordant' laugh. "He certainly bears a resemblance to a man whom I knew some years ago." "He seemed to recognize you, Mr. Ainley. I saw that much in his eyes." "'Viten Probably he is the man wham I used to know, but I did not expect to meet him ua here." I"No?" She waited as if for fur- ther information which was not im- mediately forthcoming, then she con- tinued; 'There are many men up here whom one does not expect to meet, men who belong `to the legion of the lost ones, the cohort of the damned,' who have buried their old eelves for ever. I wonder if that man is one of them," Gerald Ainley's face had regained its natural colour. Again he laughed as he replied: "If he is the man I knew he is certainly of the lost leg- ion, for he aas been in prison.", "In prison?" echoed the woman quickly. . "He does not look like a gaol -bird. What was the crime?" "Forgery! The judge was merci- ful and gave him three years' penal servitude." "Stane-Hubert Stanel" replied the man shortly.' As he spoke he glanced back over his shoulder towards the man whom they were discUssing, then hastily averted his eyes. The man from the river had turned round and was looking at .him swith concentrated gaze. His face was working as if he had lost control of his facial muscles, and his hands were tightly clenched. It was clear that the meeting with Ainley 'had been something of a shock to him, and from his attitude it appeared that he resented the other man s aloofness. "The hound!" he whispered to him- self, "the contemptijole hound!" Then as Ainley and the factor's wife disappeared in the store, he laughed harshly and relit his pipe. As he did so, his efingers shook so that the -match bathed against the pipe -bowl, and it was very manifest that he was undergoing a great strain. He stood there staring at the store., Once he began to move towards it irresolutely, then changed his mind and came to a standstill again. "No!" he whispered below his breath. "I'll wait till the cad comes ou'a-dal force him to acknowledge But scarcely had he reached the 'decision, when on the quiet nir came the clear notes of a bugle sounding the alert and turning his thoughts in a new direction. The notes came from the river, and were so -alien to the northern land that he swung round to discover their origin. At the same moment the two half-areeds leapt from the bench and begun to run towards the wharf. John Rod - well, the factor, and his wife emerg- ed from the store and hurried in the same direction, followed by the In- dian who had been bartering. Two other men appeared at the warehouse door, and as the strains of the bugle wended again, also begat': to run to- wards the wharf, whilst from, the factor's house came a boy and girl, followed by a white woman and a couple af Indian aervants, all of whom followed in the wake of the others, The man in the ,Square did not move. Having turned towards. the river as the ;bugle -call floated clear and silvery, and being unable to s`ee upstream because of the fert build- ings, he remained where he was, keeping one ,eye on the store. The man who. had passed him in the Square had not emerged. 'Static stood there for two or three minutes watch- ing ,first the river and theee the door. lute look on his face he began to stride. towards the store. He wae half -way there when the sound of a thin cheer reached him from • the wharf. ate turned and looked round. His Change of; position had given him an enlarged vjew of the river, and distant perhaps a quarter of a mile or so away he saw a brigade of boats. He stood and stared' at them, wonder- ingly for a moment, then resumed his way towards the store. As he entered he looked round, and, standing near the parchment window, he caught sight of the man for whom he was looking. Ainley was rather white of face, but his eyeglass was in its .place, and .out- wardly he was collected, and cool. Hulbert Stane regarded him silently for a moment, thea he larighed mirth• lessly. "Well, Ainley,"' he ' said abruptly, "this is a' strange meeting -place.." "Ah!" said 'the other quickly. • "It is you, Stane, after all!" "Surely you knew that just now?" was the reply in a cutting voice. - "No, you wrong me there! I was not sure. You must remember that 1 was not expecting to see you up here. You had dropped out, and I had. never heard a word of you since -since--" • "Since I went to. Dartmoor," Stane laughed again his cold, mirthless laugh. "There' is no need tb mince matters, Ainley. All the world knows I went there, and you need not go to any trouble to spare myr feelings. When a man has been through hell nothing else matters, you know." Gerald Ainley did not reply, He, stood there with an embarrassed look on his face, obviously ill at ease, and the other continued: "You do not seem pleased to see mean old friend -you cut me just now. Why?" `"Welly-er=really, Stane, you -yar ought to-er-be able to guess!" "Terhaps I can," answered Stane ruthlessly. "Things are different now. 'I ama discharged convict, down• and put, and. ,.old • friendship counts for nbthing. Is that it?" "Well," replied Ainley, half -apolo- getically, "you can scarcely expect that It should be otherwise. I sup- pose that, really, that is why you left England. It would htve been impos- sible for you to resume your old life among the men you knew-" ' "You are the ;first of them that I have encountered -with one excep- tion." "Indeed," asked the other politely, "who was the exception?" ".It was Eingsley. You remember him? He came to see me just before I left Dartmoor. 'He believed in my' innpcence, and he wanted me to stay in England and. clear my name. He also told me something that set me thinking, and latterly I have been rather wanting to meet you,, because there is a question I.want answer - 1n The sound of the bugle playing a gay fanfare broke in on the silence that followed his words, and this was followed by a -'rather scattered cheer. Ainley started. "Really, .Stare, you must excuse Me just now; I must go down to the wharfe-it is my duty' to do so. At- er -a more fitting opportunity I shall be glad for the sake ,of old times to answer any question that you may wish to ask' me. But I really must go now. That is one of the gover- nors of the company arriving. He will be e,xpecting to see 'me!" He took a ' step towards the door, but the either blocked the way. "PM not going to be fobbled off with a mere excuse, Ainley.,I want to' talk with you; and if I can'te cave it now, 1 must know. when .I can." "Where are 'you staying?" asked the other shakily. 'My eamp is just outside the post here." "Then' I will come to you to -night, Stane. 'I shall be ]ate -midnight as like as not." "I shall wait for you," answered Stane, and stepped aside. Ainley made a hurried exit, and the man whom he had left moving to the door watched him running to- wards the wharf, where a' large Pet- erboro' canoe had just swung along- side.. There were several others making for the wharf, and as Stane watched, one by one they drew up and discharged their complement of passengers. From his vantage place on 'the rising ground the watcher saw a rather short man moving up from the wharf accompanied by the obse- quious factor, and behind him two other men and four ladies, with the factor's wife and Gerald Ainley. The sound of feminine laughter drifted up the Square and as it reached him Stane stepped out from the store and hurried away in the opposite direc- tion. elr4ru f hatlifitgn4l, g, "`Sha}ld Aro a4gu044tances tV f'ox'got Andp,e 4;ex rlrx~lit :to mrti?�t'? !Sheuld auld aegnairrtanee he forgot• And days o' 'attic! lang .sy'ne?" As 'the simple melodyessea a look of bitterness ea on $tah,e's face, for the song 1rgught hire Ment o0es of other times and s'Cenes which ha had .done his ;best to forget,. llle started to his feet, and stepprng out- side the tent began to walk restless- ly to and 'fro. The musie ended and he stood still to listen. • Now no sound except the ripple of the river broke the quiet, and after a moment he nodded to himself. "Now, he will come." The thin, pungent song of a mos- quito impinged upon the stillness, usolmething settled on his neck, and there followed a swift sting like the m etulre iof a hypodermic needle. Instantly he slapped •the .place with his hand, and retreated ..belfind his` smoke -smudge. There he threw him- self once more on the pack that serv- ed hien. for seat and waited, as it seemed, interminably. His fire died down; the. smoke ceased to hide the view, and through the adjacent'• willows came the sud- den sough of moving air: Ii' robin broke into song, and once more the wail of the, loon sounded from the wide. river. Away to the north the sky flushed with crimson glory, then the sun shot up red and golden. A new day had broken; and Stane had watched through the ..brief night of the Northland summer for a man who had not appeared and, he was now assured, would not come. Hie laughed, bitterly, and rising kicked the fire together, threw on fresh fuel, and after one look towards the still sleeping Post, returned, to the tent, wrapped himself in a 'blan- ket and shortly after fell asleep. Three hours later he was awaken- ed 'by a clatter of voices and the clamours of barking dogs, passing from sleep to full wakeness like a healthy child. Kicking the blanket from him he slipped on his moccas- ins and stepped outside, where the source of the clamour at once mani- fested itself. A party of Indians had just beached their canoes, and were exchanging greetings- with another party, evidently that whose tepees stood on the meadow outside the fort, for among the women he saw the In- dian girl who had fled through the willows after encountering him. He watched the scene with indifferent eyes for a 'moment or two, then se- curin'g' a canvas 'bucket went down ' to the river for water, and made his toilet. That done, he cooked his breakfast, ate it, tidied up his eainp and lighting a pipe strolled into the enclosure of the 'Post.Several In- dians were standing Outside the story and•,ineide the factor and -his clerk were already busy with others; bar- tering- for the peltries 'brought from the frozen north to serve the whims of fashion in warmer lands. In the Squame itself stood the plump gen- tleman 'who had landed the day be- fore, talking to a cringing half -;breed whilst a . couple of ladies 'with him watched the aboriginies outside the store with eurfous eyes. Stane glanc- ed further afield. Two men were busy outside the Warehouse, a second half-breed sprawled on the bench by the store, but the man for whom he had waited through the night •was not in sight. 'With a grimace of disappointment. he moved towards the store. As he did so a little burst of mellow laugh- ter sounded, and turning swiftly he saw • the elan 'whom he ,was looking for round the corner of the warehouse accompanied by a girl, who laughed heartily at some remark of her com- panion. Stane halted in his tracks and looked at the pair, who were per- haps a dozen yards or so away. The monocled Ainley could not but be aware of his presence, yet except that he kept his gaze resolutely e- verted, he gave no sign of being so. But tha girl looked at him frankly, and as she did so Hubert 1Stane look- ed 'back, and caught his breath, as he had reason to. She was fair as an English rose, moulded in spacious lines like a daughter of the gods, with an aur- eole of glorious chestnut hair, shot with warm tints of gold and massed in simplicity about a queenly head;. Her mouth was full, her chin was softly strong, her neck round and firm as that of a Grecian statue, and :her eyes were bluey-grey as the mist of the northern woods. Fair she was, and strong -a true type of those wo- men who, bred by the English mea- dows, halviei adventured with their men and made their homes in the waste places of the earth. Her grey eyes met Stane's quite frankly, without falling, then turned nonchalantly to her companion, . and Stane, watching, saw her speak; and as Ainley flashed a swift glance in her direction and then replied with a shrug of his shoulders, he easily div- ined that the girl had asked a ques- tion about himself. They passed him at half a dozen yards distance, Ain- ley with his face set like a flint, the girl with a scrutinizing sidelong glance that set the blood rioting in Stane's heart. He stood and watched there until they reached the wharf, saw them step into a canoe, and then, both of them paddling, they thrust out to the broad bosom of the river. Not til then did he avert his gaze and turn again to the shore. The great man of the. company was still talking to the half-breed, and the other half-breed had risen from his seat and was staring into the stare. He looked round as .Stane approached him. "By Gar," he said enthusiastical- ly, "dat one very fine squaw -girl dere." 'Stare looked forward through the open doorway, and standing near the long counter, watching a tall Indian bartering with the factor, saw the beaue'ful 'Indian girl from the neigh- boring camp. He nodded an affirma- tive, and seeing an opportunity to ob- tain information turned and spoke to the man. "Yea, hut that girl there with Mr. Ainley" "Oui, m'sieu. But she no squaw - girl. She grand person who mak' zei •tout�,with ze governor." "Oh, the governor makes the tour, does he?" "Oui, oui! In the old style, with a .0HAPTE'R II AN ATTACK AT MIDNIGHT It was near midnight, brit far from dark. In the northern heavens a rosy ' glow proeleimed the midnight sun. SonfeWliere in the willows a robin was chirping, and from the wide bosom of the river, like the thin howi of a wolf, came the mocking cry "of a loon still pursuing its finny prey. And in his little canvas tent, 411 itting just inside, So as to catch the smoke of the are that afforded protection from the -mosquitoes, Hubert Stane still watched and waited for the com- ing of -his promised visi He was smoking and from t look upon his face it was clear that he was absorb- ed in thoughts that were far from pleasant. His pipe went out and still he sat there, •thinking, thinking. Half an hour passed, and the eobin,1mak- ing the discovery That it was really bed-Itilme, ceased its ichiriping; the loon no longer mocked the wolf, hilt still the man sat behind his, smoke siniidge, tireless, .unsleeping, waiting. Another half-hour crept by With lead- en feet, then a new sound broke the stillness of "the wild, the tinkling of a piano, sadly out of tune; followed su��e PIM 1'lrn 1 { • t(Alr 4"F a4Ahp 11;I4°11 greatd2?e.', i;o prnaro--,on'e data I�` 7 rsoATX 1�Ei ze hpoats, sanri'll nns.4e "'ge iwat with' ze go �e nor nd , whoe. pxote 1St' "`1Tsat thais sot so?"' : i IiL is aq fa•YOl7.rite;: vous eom'prenez•?"' "I did not. 'know it" "Noxi? But ao it ees! And Lula andme, we go with hew, in ze canoe to serve heem,. Though, by.,,ga; I, like to mare stop here, an' talk to dat squaw -girl." .Stane made no vocal reply to this. He nodded carelessly and passed int) the store. Fastor Rodwell looked round as he entered,, andsurveyed him with a mieasuring ey'e, as if tak- ing 'stock of a new acquaintance, then gave hia' a curt nod and resum- ed 'his barter' with the Indian. His assistant being also busy for the moment, ,Stave turned towards the Indian girl whose liquid eyes were regarding him shyly, and addressed hen in her native dialect. "Little sister, why did you, run from; me yesterday?" The girl was covered with confus- ion at the directness of his question, and to help her over her embarrass- ment the young man laughed. "You did not mistake me for Moorsen'(the blackbear) or the bald face grizzly, did you?" At the question the girl laughed shyly, and shook her head without speaking. "I am but a man and not the griz- zled one. Wherefore should you run from me, little sister?" "I had •never seen such a man be- fore." The directness of the answer, given in a shy voice, astonished him. It was his turn to be embarrassed, and he strove toturn the edge of the compliment. "Never seen a white man before!" he cried in mock amazement. - "I did not say that I had never seen a white man before. I have seen many. The priest up at Fort of God, the doctor priest at the 'Last. Hope, the factor 'there, and M'sieu Ainley who "came' tie our camp yes- ternight. And there is also this fat man they call the governor -a great chief, it_ is said; thouglh he does not rook as such a great one should look. Yes, I have seen many white men, but none like thee before." Hubert Stane was routed once more by the girl's 'directness,' but strove to recover himself by a return of com- pliments. "-Well," he laughed, "for that mat- ter there are none so many like thy- self in the world. 'I wonder what thy name is?" The girl flushed with pleasure at the compliment, and answered .his question without reserve. "I an 'Miskodeed." "The Beauty of theSpring! Then thou are well -named, little sister!"' The girl flushed with pleasure. The flame that had• leapt in: her dark eyes at their first meeting burned once more, and where, but for an interrup- tion, the conversation would have drifted can only be conjectured. But. at that precise moment the tall In- dian called to her. "Miskodeed." The girl moved swiftly to him, and with a gesture that was almost royal the Indian painted to a pile of trade goods heaped upon the long counter. The girl gathered as much as was possible in her arms, and staggered wibh her load from the store, and as Factor Rodwell nodded to him Hub- ert uib-ert .Stane moved up the counter and began to give his order. The factor. wrote it down without comment, glancing at his customer from time ao time with shrewd apprising eyes, and when Stane had paid for the goodswhich were to be ready before noon, he askeda question. "New to the district, aren't) you?" "I wintered here," replied Stane briefly. "Then you did no trapping," said the factor with a laugh, "or you'd have brought your pelts in, I guess you must be prospecting?' "I have done a little," agreed Stane a touch of reserve in his manner. "A lonely job!" commented the factor. "`ee," was IStane's reply, then he nodded and turned towards the door. The. factor watched him go with frowning eyes, then turned to his as- sistant. "Not,,,, a very sociable sort,, hey,. Donaldl" The assistant grinned, and shook his head. "Tongue-tied, I guess." "I wonder where he has his loca- tion." "Somewhere North!" answered Donald. "He came upstream, I saw him." The factor said no more to him, but passed out of the store towards the warehouse. As he did so he caught sight of Stane standing in the Square watching a canoe far out on the river. The factorls eyes were good and he recognized the occupants of the craft quite easily, and as he saw Stane's interest in them the frown gathered about his eyes once more, and he muttered to himself: "I wonder what Mr. Ainley's little game means?" Then as he was unable to find any answer to his question he turned a- gain to his own affairs. As for Hubert Stane he stood in the Square for quite a long time watching for the retrirn of the canoe; determined to have speech with Ain- ley. Then, as it still lingered, he turned and made his way to hia own camp. (Continued next week) dedicate 'these few Words to All eat-aneals-prepare&by-Oook Plant The first bit of advice tO Oneli ia, to start looking for a -.Wife:" 11111St be some girl, someWhere! 55),) was meant to sit by your fereside,;, sew buttons on yeur shirte, preside at ..your table and jmrn herself on' your staves. Most men are single br, preference and consegnently, perapS1' they should suffer from menu mOtt„..• otony (a disease which is ;best nosed by symptoms of lack•of appe- tite and indigestion). But, if you still do not choose to marry, we Avail yourself of all literature pos- sible concerning food. It is se easy foil you to' dictate a letter from the office asking the various food com- panies for their literature and rea cipes. And you may be sure that all. information tilts obtained is good bea cause eaoh corapany is anxious that all recipes in which its products nre used are accurate. 'Some of these .booklets or pamphlets also contain. menu suggestiona. Present this material tactfully to the cook. (Watch her reaCtion!) Al- so give her a list of foods and dishes, which you lika and which you don't like. If you like tomatoes very well and would like to have them in var- ious ways two or three times a week,. indicate it on the list. If you like spinach way little and prefer it as, seldom as possible, indicate it. Only try to like it better! Surely yott--- have learned, in the business world, the value Of written instructi6hs infer - sus spoken ones. In general there are three classifi- cations of foods: regulating, building and fuel foods. Among the regulat- ing foods pre cereals, vegetables,. frUits and milk. Theibuildingi floods are cheese, eggs, fish, meats, milk and some vegetables like beans, peas and lentils. Fuel foods are the starchy, sweet...and fat tfoixls, like cereals,. fats, sugar and vegetables, such as pbtatoes, corn and beets. Fortified with the above knOwledge you can insist that your meals are planned according to the following - The ru 1. Sel each cla Advice to Men Who Would Be Nourished Though Single es for meal planning arer et at least one food from ifibation group for every - meal. 2. Use freely of foods which are laxative, such as bran and whole cer- eals. 3. Serve two or more, vegetables. (other than potatoes) every. day. Serve as many fresh vegetables and. salad plants as possible. 4. Serve fruit at least once a day. 5. Iinclude plenty of milk for botn. drinking and cooking purposes. ' 6. Plan for the day, or for several day§, rather than for each separate 7.. As you plan- tae meals, think haw they will look and taste When: ready to serve. 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