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C. oe Give jewelry | SP., . Wm. Grant’s Agency REAL ESTATE ’ . Insurance Companies—,, _ Broaches, Cut Glass . ‘ Life © 4 Five} and Ivory Goods } Health , Accident p * , ( Just let us know you needs and § HAZELTON - B.C. 4 / (+ we will send on approval for your a ‘ . selection: wr Preach a aay ew] Insurance! District Agent for the leading . For Christmas This year we have the finest selection we ever had, ; Wrist Watches, Tie Pins All kinds of Silverware Diamond Set and all other kinds Gold Rings aha ‘enough then. BY GEORG ‘Mea Maroone J E MARSH “Not ‘until I have had it out with Laughing MeDonald,” he laughed, ° “But whatever do you do in winter here?.’ You'll admit that its forlorn Is it hard to keep warm in this terrible’ cold?” 1 “Cold? “Why its colder on the north shore of ‘Superior, and there's not as much snow. Of course when the wind blows its cold on the sen ice. Its cold: anywhere then.” “And so you’ re , actially not lonely,” she persisted, apy e henrd of men n going ‘| mad: wy “Oh, of course there are times” His wind-burneil face darkened as he avoided her look. “But there are com- pensations, you know. Shot !’The niredale left the rail and pushing be- tween Guihrie’s knees, lifted his whisk- ered muzzle with a throaty rumble,his eyes searching his master’s face. “Te worships you doesn’t he,” the girl, “We went through: the lest nionths together—comrndes. You see he found two of us gassed—and brought ‘help.’ The brewn hands of Guthrie rubbed the uiredaie’s small ears, Closing his eyes Shot grunted with ecstacy. : “No, but we tire of. pork, so when the goose is gone, go after caribou." “And that is what keeps you here this winter,” she hnzarded, “when it might be Montrenl, yout love af hunt- ing—the wilderness.” | She is thinking of the pictures of Ethel, Guthrie surmised, and wonders why I stay. As the York bent travel- led, pushed by the following breeze, his gaze swept the Shimmering waters of the grey strait to the sunlit barrens, of the islang. Phen be faced her| frankly. “Tm not sure what keeps me here, Tt pulls me—the country, this - life.|d After the war everything | Was changed. Montreal had ‘grown: callous. No one said Cw IS a John Bulger Limited Jeweller At the Clock on the Street | rest of it,” } felt, cared for anything but pleasure—and money. It seemed as;if- the’ whole work! had’ forgotten them—the ones who “went west” anid what they died for. I grew to hate it—the office. My nerves were a bit jumpy from, tha gas,” I suppose. I was off color, of wourse, but everybody who had been in it had a hard pull. to readjust—to settle the works, and I wished I was back with the battelion—with the mud and the She nodded. “*T know just how you There were times after I veturn- ed that I was simply homesick gor my wounded and the hospital life. I've Jici will ruin our fox trade. handy: to their traplines that they'll I've seen the ive set again three times Aud when you get there how are you fF FIRE LIFE. ACCIDENT AUTOMOBILE Only strong, reliable companies |: PRINCE RUPERT — | really dreamed of it, Fancy, drenui- Waken a Sallow Skin To Life and Loveliness -|ing of an evacuation hospital—yet ], dad." “It eets you, does’ t it? althongh yon Guthrie. to let vur share of the trade slip thre Guthrie calmed the excited doz. “You see, like the rest OF us, he has nat )forgotten.” “Good old Shot! and Joan: Quar- vier stroked the hend of: the dog who hud returned’ to them. But her thoughts Were of the girl in Montreal, and the riddle of Guthrie's exile, — | Through the September day the York boat followed the coast south. In In mid-afternoon Guthrie anchored off the Big Willow river and going ashorc in the canoe, made camp that Joan Quarrier might have hot tea and food aud sleep, while lie and Eftenne and the sullors, stayed with the boat. - The following afternoon on the high south shore of Albany island, they saw the quaint square roofs of the Oblate mission, and thet night three men sat iu the trade room of the historic Port Albany, where each autumn, for two centuries, men had watched the Inst wedges of the gray geese fade into the south ; Seen the coming of the long snows and the ice bridge the river chan nels; starved or feasted through’ the desolate days. of the seventeenth century, the old log fort, built by the Hnglish, was storm- ed, retaken and stormed again, in the bitter war with the French for the fur trade. Here, generations of men had lived and loved and died, Marooned in the James Bay silences. The -tulk of the three men in the traderoom centred on the meeting of the free-trnader with Quarrier and the |S news that McDonald was to winter on the- coast. “Major,” suid Hugh Cameron, "the factor, dubiously shaking a grigsled head, “this fellow wintering at Akimis- He'll be so dribble ; ‘in their pelts as fast as they get. them, for his trade goods and sTo- ceries.”” ““Bitenne counts on the loyalty of the older hunters. We Intend © ‘to keep. in touch with them.” “Keep in touch? How are. you £0- ing to cross that strait before January? It'll be full of drifting ice.” , “The ice won’t be set hard but we intend to make-it-with a canoe on our sled. We'll carry -the sled in the can- o¢ or the canoe on the sled, as the con- ditions change.” “Risky, that’s a bad piece « of Water. and brenk up before Janunry. going to keep them jawuy ‘from his schooner,” a “We'll nnke a try anyway,” said “Hitenne and I don’t. intend Here in the red years]. {pany could ran him out of the bay.” curse it while you are in it?” His vrey our fingers by hugging the fire at Blk- represented by us. Flato Boats—the great boon the fishermen, the duck hunter and the camper. See it-at 7 office now, WM. S. HENRY Flato Boats We are local agents. for the new Sallow or- oily skin ‘is sickly, Slug: #ish cells and tisspes are binderlng the natural processes that mnke for skin health,. Don’t try ‘to cover up this con- dition—correct it. 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Week that-he expected that the Domin- |: i fon government: would :at ‘the: present eyes lit, with memory. was hard, and awful—yet it dues get one, as you sny, ; strippet of the ' veneer—the: shams, That is the reason Iesuppose.” it, "He frowned and _ “He fights it ali. over again’ in his dreams, or sees no Writs. porcupine=-nll quills as he thrashes in ais sleep. thront :the war’ dog leaped back, stif- feniug from noso to -cécked tall. ears alr, fe the hair lifted on mane And back, session return ‘to this province all the fie atredats tenoret ae ht railway grant lands and *also the Peace | teen eyes questioning Guthrie i hel this: i0- which stivved wild sion and ww gers to elp. pro nights: shot, with 1 flaalie ‘of igh She smiled with understanding. “It It was life in, the mow I “Yes, stripped of the shams—that?s | 1 ‘then went on. ‘Shot here misses it terribly—the nolse ind the excitement und the men.” I know when he herrg'n sun He looks: like 1 maa "Eh, Shot? ‘Stand. tu!” With a low rumble in,. his hairy 1 wicked, quivering: nostrils * testing ‘the . “Bravo, ‘ghot!” ‘she: aald,, rexching ‘0. pat..the ‘tense head of the. dog, _ But “ smnall ace € River. block. . his /is a great. conces- for the reason for th orles. of, black wan.” old .truder, puny came to the Bry, from ‘starving. ’ i “Well, good Inck to you!” sighed the “Since the. Freneh cor. the Indians have forgotten the years we kept them They're out of hand now, Do. what you enn.” For. 2 ‘space Cameron seemed to drenm of the past glories of: the _com- Jpany he served, then suddenly asked : “You know what he did in August?” dangerous competitor. After dropping : “Nop a Why, he sailed tnto Charlton Island and tried’ to buy gas nnd. flour ut the depot, course; but that red-hended freebooter shell—There weren't any.” coolly umnouniced. that when he needed MeMann laughed at him, of t, he wonld come and take it—snid if. we wouldn't seli it to him, he had gov- ernment: authority. to seize it’? +. “He was right there; Ottawa’ 8 mae hat ruling, you knovw,"”: , Suggester Blaike, Cameron’ 8 clerk. 4 "¥es, they've made the ruling,” rasp- smail room assigned to’ him ‘by the fac- ed Cameron, “but, do you: think thot he | t rte, get supplies: from: ‘men when he's come |: into the Ba to’ ro us -of the trade? vaguely mare: that the senr me algh, aware. thot ‘the: ‘man he add , “Oh, by. the. way, Guthrie,” asked ‘| Blatke, with seeming innocence, “what was your trouble with this puffy .old boy, Quarrier, you. -hrought here today? _Alive.. to.the fact that the story of. | Ninda and ‘his summary handling of — the geologist had received due embel- shiment at the hands of Quarrier’ as - he met Cameron on the arrival of the York boat; Guthrie ‘suspected the mo- tive of the clerk, aud he hnd no inten- tion of discussing. the Quarrier episode or of subjecting the memory of: the dead. girl to ‘the comment of a. strang- er. ‘ ay ve mude my report to Mr. camer on,” he said with finality, “You heard Quarrier tell ‘his story this afternoon. . « What are you ufter.” Blaike choked with anger, but the Scarred cheek and the war record that had followed Guthrie to: James Bar in a letter from the headquarters of the company had made its marked im- Pression at Albany, The clerk retreat- ed behind b cloud of pipe smoke, ’ “Now, since that's settled,” sald Mr. Cameron, loudly, clearing ‘his - thront and mecting Guthries look with a wink “lets get back to business, Where do you suppose” “this MeDonald gets his backing?’ °° vee “There are ‘plenty of: people in New- foundland w ho, would back him after the haul ‘he made: ‘last year on the east coast:? “Tle's going to be a thorn in our side Guthrie. He's ‘io ordinary chap. He has nerve and ability. Queer thing happened when he came into Charlton Que of the half-breeds there stared at that face of hig and laughed. | MeDon- ald grabbed the Indlan by the throa and shook him like a rabbit, then ronr- ed, “Laugh dam you. Its funny is it? A thousand Canadians died the day I got that!’ Profoundly stirred, Guthrie's sym- | pathy Went out to this stranger with the twisted mouth. “What raw tor- ture, what secret agony must have his —facing the work] with i grimace! How well he senced the impotent fury —the bitterness of this man, doomed to. the pitiless stares—the ealious cur- iosity of the rabble... woos “A “I wonder what ‘day ‘that | Was?” are quiried Guthrie, aloud, unaware: that” his fingers touched. the clentrix on his cheek, “Tf he'd only do something illegal,” Cameron hastened’ to. say, “the ‘com- SSSA aan crm ar cl TS A EE ae a toon PT There was a glint, frankly combative in Garth. Guthrie’s eyes as he heard the future of a Canadian veteran se: eavalierly disposed of. - “That might not be so easy. Prom what the Indians say he carries Lewi: gins, Do you know any of our people who would relish meeting Laughing M- Donald at the batt end of a machine gun?’ “Tle wouldn't dare fight ns—shed blood on this bay!” . - “Cameron,” silid - Guthrie, and. the glitter returned to his eyes, “To am in- clined to: think that’ the company. had better avoid any attempt at force with Qh overseas man w ith -a mutilated mouth. He's apt to rm amuck—to for get that the war's over,” As. he. studied . Guthrie's brooding eyes Cameron knotted bis heavy browr on the the face of the sneaker bad bromptec the remark, “Well, however that may be, he’s +: ro that scared company Indinn like a ba of salt, uccording to MeMann, he askec if there were ‘any more slackers: who wanted to laugh at the kigs of a Hur Guthrie smiled, his thoughts cored by inemories, .. “Yas,” " contlatied: ‘Chméton With: q:. was not. -Ustening, “it: looks. “ba Kapiskau and Elkwan this ‘year. ‘Later by the Light of : a."cand. Garth ho Tot his brother dictatéd to is Beer ‘oke tha r nnd “+ written, cs the nieaguTe shock the failure ‘ofthe, : i Gontiniled on“ Page ae il CHU ane ame ak : faa ate eaten el SoK ARO RE TUG ean i en Lae he EROS Tr Ss ae al Sanne AES