THE OMINECA HERALD, NEW HAZELTON, B. C., WEDNESDAY, MARCH, 11, 1936

Prince Rupert
Hotel

A real good hotel serving
the north land

Prince Rupert, B. C,

H. B. Rochester, manager

Rates—$1.50 per day and up

Orme’s, Ltd.
(The Pioneer Druggist)

The Mail Order Drug Store
of Northern B. C,

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Drugs Stationery
Fancy Goods Kodaks_
Pictures Developed and

Printed

Prince Rupert, B.C.

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Synopsis :-—Ellen Mackay on her way
from schocl at Winnipeg, to joi her
father at Fort Edsun, misses tbe boat
by which she wa: to travel Hearing
that anotuer boat is to start north in
the mornizz, Dller: goes to the owner,
Jehu Beibam, and’ bess hin to sive
her passage. -To her surprise he flat-
ly refuses, !
Angry and puzzled Ellen tells Pat
McClaichney, a kindly old storekeeper
of her difficulty, and Pat, with the
help of one of Benham’s crew, suc-
ceeds in getting Etlen on board as a
stowaway. When the vessel is well un
der way Ellen emerges from her hid-
ing place and faces John Benham, who
how cannot help taking her with him.
During the voyage Ellen begins to be
strongly attracted by Join, But when
she reaches Fort Edson she finds her
father broken, ill and disgraced, and,
leurns that his-troubles are due to one
mian—John! Benham. © °.:
Instantly Klien resolves that — she
will fight for her father. She will re-
istite. him with the company, his em-
ployers, und will show: up Jobn: Ben-
ham for what he-really is.

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SIXTH INSTALLMENT.

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; sihle for all this.
- 2 curlicr memories, submerged complete-
ly in. the tawdry horror of what she
had seen.
did she-vow implacable vengeance, and
by this.time she had virtually forgot-|
ten her own dilemma.* Her thoughts‘:
were only for those helpless, apathetic
children, bewildered, dumbly protest- |

A tremendous smoldering rage’ grew
in. her Leart against the man -respon-
Gone were all her

Over and over to herself |’

upon resi
dence, occupation ang improvement. ‘
Full mformation concerning Pre-amp.
given in Bulletin No, 1, Land

Beries, “How to Pre-empt Land,” copies of
which can be’ obtained free of charge by
addressing tha Department of Lands, Vic-
torla, B.C,: Bureav of Provincial Infarma«
tion, Victoria, of eny: Government Agent,
Records will be granted covering only
fand suitable for agricnitural purposes
within reasonable distance of Foad,. school .
and marketing focilities and which {gs not
timberland, fe, carrying over 5,000 board
feeb per acre east of the Coast Range and
6.000 fest per acre west of that Range. _
Anplications for pre-emptions are to be
addressed to the Land Commissioner of
the Lana Recording Division in which the,
land applied: -for "ig altuated, on printed

forms obtained from the Commissioner,

Pre-emptions must be occupied for five
years snd improvements made to value -of
$10 per rere, including clearing and cultis

- vating at least five acras, before a Crown

Grant can be received. °° ut

Preeemptions carrying part time condl.
Mons of accupation ara alsa granted.

PURCHASE OR LEASE _ . .
Applications are received for purchase .
of vacant and unreserved: Crown “lands, °
not belng timberland, for agricultural
purposes, Minimum prica of first-class
(atable} Innd is $5 per acre, and second-
class (grazing) land, $2.59 per acre. .
Further information is given ti Bulletin '
No. 10, Land Series, “Purchase: and Lease wv
of Crown Lands.” : :

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As 8 partial .celief medsure, raverted
fands mey be acquired by purchase in ten
equal instalments,;with the-first payment
suspended far two years, provided taxes
are pald when due and improvements are
made during the first two years of not
less than 10% of the appraised value.

“Mill, factory or industrial sites on
timber land, mot exceeding 40 ecras, may
be purchased or leased, tha? conditions
including payment of atumpage,

Onsurveyed «areas, .not’ exceeding. 20
acres, may be leased ag homesites, condi«
tional upon a dwelling being erected in
the first year, title being obtamed after
residence and improvement conditions are _
fultiled and land has been surveyed, _

Por aging and: thdustrial ‘ ‘purposes
areas aot exceeding, G40. acres. may be
lsased by one perzon or a company,

Wer the Grazing..Act tha Province is .
aivided into grusing districts and the
range administered under grazing “regula.
tlorig amended from tims. to time to meet
varying conditions, Annie] grazing per-
molts sre issued bastd on: certain: monthly .
rates per head of. stock, -.: Priority ln ‘graze, 7

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ing; doomed:to slow, terrible death in
the winter. And then, at noon one day
she-came upon a camp of
horder of. Mink Lake. - '
Bren as the prow of her cance slith--|-:
ered upon the shingle beach before the
cainp, she sensed the undereurrent of

being swayed. ‘There was a jumble of
movement about: the tepees, the shrift
aunnnering of squaws, the wailing of
children, und the hoarse, guttural: ex-'
chimations of the men,
where Ellen landed ‘there was 9 York
boat, piled high with cargo, pulled up-
on thie shore, oo ‘8

the centre of. the camp. In an open-
ing among the tepees she came upon a
strange scene, A knot.of Indians were
swaylnog backsand.forth:in fierce strug-

the tall -figure:of-John Benham!

calmed by a cold, triumphant satisfae-
tion, - At Just-she had run the dispoiler
to eurth.., She pushed close to the cen-

ham‘lash out with.one fist :-and drive

ground. Others closed in,-but-Benham
heat. -them:. back with short,: driving |.
bluws, knocking: many of the madden-
‘led bucks ‘senseless to the ground: Fin-
ally. the ,ring “about..-him’. broke, - He
lenned over and: Swept something fronr
the earth before him. . {When he stra-
ightened up again Hllen could see what

fle of whiskey... 1.
= Hardly;realizing. what l
Allen forced..her way through the jam

4:|+-you contemptable: hound!‘ 7’ve“bee
lowing. ‘evidences. «of :‘your—your; “1 +
'\trading. activities: for ‘early. a: month:
RoW, and at Jast I see you in all your) °. .
Hscusting -clory.”..; She :poliited! at. the |

rbottie: she: held....;*4

we ge oe a ae
creutires” pay you enfough in. furs for
thut poison?
' For-&:moment Benhain locked At her
incredulously, “Chis,” . he. .-muttered,
almost © stupidly, -“Chis?: Bo” you
menn to say you think I haye, been |.
trading whiskey to the Indians? *-
“I don't, think—-I know. I ‘have been;
in a dozen camps and I have géen them
and what you-have left. to-them, I
hope the ‘picttire will be with you al-
ways, John Benham. I” hope =: these
poor innocent babies and * children,
doomed to die of famine this’ coming
Winter, will haunt.-you' to your grave,
You—you—oh, you greedy, “treachér- '
ous dog.” — 7

Nile was white faced and. trembling

when she. ceased: her

fervor and light of a Crusader.: .,Ben-
ham was silent, his: face white,
miuseles of his jaw bulging like coils of

iron,
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scorn,

ibrutalize and stare your wai bloods
brethers,” my : :

“Stop!” ‘The word burst from Ben-
ham in a ‘tortured ery.” ‘The muscles
of his face seemed to writhe, and into|.
his eyes flamed sumething which caus-
ed Ellen to uneon
pace,
thought he was going to’ strike her.
Then suddenly he grew quiet. is
fave hardened, bis eyes grew cols,
curt harsh laugh broke from jis
lips, :
drive of his arni sent the whiskey hot:
| fle hurtling against the bole of a neay-
er tirade of necusa- hy
tion: and yet ‘her eyes ‘flamed (with the | pieces, ita contents running down the

[rough bark of the .tree in an amber
the flood. ‘

ilen spoke ‘aguin, with biting

“You—you hulf-breed! Ant you

sclously give back :
For a frictional moment she

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He tured: away, and with - a

spruce, where it crashed. to many

off, and" Ellen followed, carried awny
by her own scorn and. anger: ~For “he
had had’ his innings. Te had brought
her father to the verge of Tuin, and she
Was determined: that- he: should “know
what her method of ‘retribution would
he. He should Know in’ advance that
before the Season was ‘over the_Redl-
conta from Regina world be on his
trail. vee

She followed hin beyond a tepee.
then halted in surprise, “An old aquaw
had stoyiped Benham and was facing
him. ‘The squaw was ‘gnarled and
bent, a wrinkled, shrunken old crone,
“Thank you,” the old erone Wa&S sily--
ing, “The Great. Spirit: bless-you' my
son,” ; r vo an . eee,
~Henham patted the squaw on one
bowed, shronken shoulder. “It is no-
thing, mother,” -he-“sald slowly “And
the dog responsible for this shall an-
awer te me! 7. ea
Then, before Ellen could. face him
again, he had swtn off into the forest.
Ellen went: slowly back'to ‘her canar
where Mookae® awaited “her, ‘emotion-
less and stoic, Somehow the triumph
she had imagined would. be -hers bad
gont fiat—stale’ did’ iasteléss. ‘She
WiLs Weary, weary hody and soul. ‘Pwo
Words kept ringing in her ears, “Son”
the squw had entled him and “Mo-
ther” he had ‘answered; “And now, x
disquieting doubt, which she. could ndt
diseard, haunted ‘her “mind. Appar-
ently ‘he had fought with the Indians

Witliout a Imekward word he strode.

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Crees on the
xcitement with which the camp was

Not far from

Ner ‘senses stirring with a strange
‘onidation, Ellen made straight for

t. ad-in the centre-of them loomed

For @ moment. things...seemed to
hirt dbout Ellen, Then. she steadied

cof the conflict, -- She saw John Ben-

short, powerfully built buck to the

held. It was a fuil unopened bot-

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